Science Reorganized
Author: James Edward McClellan
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780231059961
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Comte: Early Political Writings
Author: Auguste Comte
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-11-05
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780521469234
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides translations of Auguste Comte's early writings, with scholarly apparatus placing Comte in his historical context.
Reorganized Religion
Author: Bob Smietana
Publisher: Worthy Books
Published: 2023-08-29
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781546001621
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A superb examination of the future of Christian institutions.... A must-read for anyone invested in the fate of the American church." -Publishers Weekly (starred review) Uncover the ways the Christian church has changed in recent years--from the decline of the mainline denominations to the mega-churchification of American culture to the rise of the Nones and Exvaneglicals--and a hopeful reimagining of what the church might look like going forward. The United States is in the middle of an unprecedented spiritual, technological, demographic, political and social transformation-- moving from an older, mostly white, mostly Protestant, religion-friendly society to a younger diverse, multiethnic, pluralistic culture, where no one faith group will have the advantage. At the same time, millions of Americans are abandoning organized religion altogether in favor of disorganized disbelief. Reorganized Religion is an in-depth and critical look at why people are leaving American churches and what we lose as a society as it continues. But it also accepts the dismantling of what has come before and try to help readers reinvent the path forward. This book looks at the future of organized religion in America and outline the options facing churches and other faith groups. Will they retreat? Will they become irrelevant? Or will they find a new path forward? Written by veteran religion reporter Bob Smietana, Reorganized Religion is a journalistic look at the state of the American church and its future. It draws on polling data, interviews with experts, and reporting on how faith communities old and new are coping with the changing religious landscape, along with personal stories about how faith is lived in everyday life. It also profiles faith communities and leaders who are finding interesting ways to reimagine what church might look like in the future and discuss various ways we can reinvent this organization so it survives and thrives. The book also reflects the hope that perhaps people of faith can learn to become, if not friends with the larger culture, then at least better neighbors.
Denationalizing Science
Author: E. Crawford
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-06-29
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9401712212
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresent trends indicate that in the years to come transnational science, whether basic or applied and involving persons, equipment or funding, will grow considerably. The main purpose of this volume is to try to understand the reasons for this denationalization of science, its historical contexts and its social forms. The Introduction to the volume sets out the socio-political, intellectual, and economic contexts for the nationalization and denationalization of the sciences, processes that have extended over four centuries. The articles examine the specific conditions that have given rise to the growth of transnational science in the 20th century. Among these are: the need for cognitive and technical standardization of scientific knowledge-products, pressure toward cost-sharing of large installations such as CERN, the voluntary and involuntary migration of scientists, and the global market for R&D products that has emerged at the end of the century. The volume raises many new questions for research by historians and sociologists of science and poses problems that are of concern both to scientists and science policy-makers.
Science and the State
Author: John Gascoigne
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-03-21
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1107155673
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first historical overview of the partnership between science and the state from the Scientific Revolution to World War II.
A History of Scientific Journals
Author: Aileen Fyfe
Publisher: UCL Press
Published: 2022-10-03
Total Pages: 666
ISBN-13: 1800082320
DOWNLOAD EBOOKModern scientific research has changed so much since Isaac Newton’s day: it is more professional, collaborative and international, with more complicated equipment and a more diverse community of researchers. Yet the use of scientific journals to report, share and store results is a thread that runs through the history of science from Newton’s day to ours. Scientific journals are now central to academic research and careers. Their editorial and peer-review processes act as a check on new claims and findings, and researchers build their careers on the list of journal articles they have published. The journal that reported Newton’s optical experiments still exists. First published in 1665, and now fully digital, the Philosophical Transactions has carried papers by Charles Darwin, Dorothy Hodgkin and Stephen Hawking. It is now one of eleven journals published by the Royal Society of London. Unrivalled insights from the Royal Society’s comprehensive archives have enabled the authors to investigate more than 350 years of scientific journal publishing. The editorial management, business practices and financial difficulties of the Philosophical Transactions and its sibling Proceedings reveal the meaning and purpose of journals in a changing scientific community. At a time when we are surrounded by calls to reform the academic publishing system, it has never been more urgent that we understand its history.
Resources in Education
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Published: 1968-10
Total Pages: 968
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTransfiguring the Arts and Sciences
Author: Jon Klancher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-08
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1107029104
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book discusses how Romantic-age writers and new cultural institutions transformed ideas of knowledge inherited from the early-modern period.
The Scientific Journal
Author: Alex Csiszar
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2018-06-25
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 022655337X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNot since the printing press has a media object been as celebrated for its role in the advancement of knowledge as the scientific journal. From open communication to peer review, the scientific journal has long been central both to the identity of academic scientists and to the public legitimacy of scientific knowledge. But that was not always the case. At the dawn of the nineteenth century, academies and societies dominated elite study of the natural world. Journals were a relatively marginal feature of this world, and sometimes even an object of outright suspicion. The Scientific Journal tells the story of how that changed. Alex Csiszar takes readers deep into nineteenth-century London and Paris, where savants struggled to reshape scientific life in the light of rapidly changing political mores and the growing importance of the press in public life. The scientific journal did not arise as a natural solution to the problem of communicating scientific discoveries. Rather, as Csiszar shows, its dominance was a hard-won compromise born of political exigencies, shifting epistemic values, intellectual property debates, and the demands of commerce. Many of the tensions and problems that plague scholarly publishing today are rooted in these tangled beginnings. As we seek to make sense of our own moment of intense experimentation in publishing platforms, peer review, and information curation, Csiszar argues powerfully that a better understanding of the journal’s past will be crucial to imagining future forms for the expression and organization of knowledge.
