Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields

Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields

Author: Donna Jeanne Haraway

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 9781556434747

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Acclaimed theorist and social scientist Donna Jeanne Haraway uses the work of pioneering developmental biologists Ross G. Harrison, Joseph Needham, and Paul Weiss as a springboard for a discussion about a shift in developmental biology from a vitalism-mechanism framework to organicism. The book deftly interweaves Thomas Kuhn's concept of paradigm change into this wide-ranging analysis, emphasizing the role of model, analogy, and metaphor in the paradigm and arguing that any truly useful theoretical system in biology must have a central metaphor.


Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields

Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields

Author: Donna Jeanne Haraway

Publisher: North Atlantic Books

Published: 2004-02-12

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 155643474X

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Acclaimed theorist and social scientist Donna Jeanne Haraway uses the work of pioneering developmental biologists Ross G. Harrison, Joseph Needham, and Paul Weiss as a springboard for a discussion about a shift in developmental biology from a vitalism-mechanism framework to organicism. The book deftly interweaves Thomas Kuhn's concept of paradigm change into this wide-ranging analysis, emphasizing the role of model, analogy, and metaphor in the paradigm and arguing that any truly useful theoretical system in biology must have a central metaphor.


How Like a Leaf

How Like a Leaf

Author: Donna Haraway

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-11

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 113668669X

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The author of four seminal works on science and culture, Donna Haraway here speaks for the first time in a direct and non-academic voice. How Like a Leaf will be a welcome inside view of the author's thought.


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Author: Donna J. Haraway

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-06-27

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1351399233

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One of the founders of the posthumanities, Donna J. Haraway is professor in the History of Consciousness program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Author of many books and widely read essays, including the now-classic essay "The Cyborg Manifesto," she received the J.D. Bernal Prize in 2000, a lifetime achievement award from the Society for Social Studies in Science. Thyrza Nicholas Goodeve is a professor of Art History at the School of Visual Arts.


The Life Organic

The Life Organic

Author: Erik Peterson

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Published: 2016-12-23

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 082298198X

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As scientists debated the nature of life in the nineteenth century, two theories predominated: vitalism, which suggested that living things contained a "vital spark," and mechanism, the idea that animals and humans differed from nonliving things only in their degree of complexity. Erik Peterson tells the forgotten story of the pursuit of a Third Way in biology, known by many names, including "the organic philosophy," which gave rise to C. H. Waddington's work in the subfield of epigenetics: an alternative to standard genetics and evolutionary biology that captured the attention of notable scientists from Francis Crick to Stephen Jay Gould. The Life Organic chronicles the influential biologists, mathematicians, philosophers, and biochemists from both sides of the Atlantic who formed Joseph Needham's Theoretical Biology Club, defined and refined Third-Way thinking through the 1930s, and laid the groundwork for some of the most cutting-edge achievements in biology today. By tracing the persistence of organicism into the twenty-first century, this book also raises significant questions about how we should model the development of the discipline of biology going forward.


Handbook of Antimicrobial Coatings

Handbook of Antimicrobial Coatings

Author: Atul Tiwari

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2017-09-22

Total Pages: 598

ISBN-13: 0128119837

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Handbook of Antimicrobial Coatings is the first comprehensive work on the developments being made in the emerging field of antimicrobial coatings. Crucial aspects associated with coating research are presented in the form of individual chapters. Particular close attention has been given to essential aspects necessary to understand the properties of novel materials. The book introduces the reader to progress being made in the field, followed by an outline of applications in different areas. Various methods and techniques of synthesis and characterization are detailed as individual chapters. Chapters provide insight into the ongoing research, current trends and technical challenges in this rapidly progressing field. The covered topics were chosen so that they can be easily understood by new scholars as well as advanced learners. No book has been written on this topic thus far with so much crucial information for materials scientists, engineers and technologists. - Offers the first comprehensive work on developments being made in the emerging field of antimicrobial coatings - Features updates written by leading experts in the field of anti-microbial coatings - Includes discussions of coatings for novel materials - Provides various methods and techniques of synthesis and characterization detailed in individual chapters


Sciences of Modernism

Sciences of Modernism

Author: Paul Peppis

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-02-28

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 110704264X

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Sciences of Modernism charts the numerous collaborations and competitions occurring between early modernist literature and early twentieth-century science.


Essentials of Paleomagnetism

Essentials of Paleomagnetism

Author: Lisa Tauxe

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2010-03-19

Total Pages: 505

ISBN-13: 0520260317

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"This book by Lisa Tauxe and others is a marvelous tool for education and research in Paleomagnetism. Many students in the U.S. and around the world will welcome this publication, which was previously only available via the Internet. Professor Tauxe has performed a service for teaching and research that is utterly unique."—Neil D. Opdyke, University of Florida