Sentences with phrase «books on basic science»

Whereas, liberals were more likely to buy books on basic science, that is science that is motivated by empirical puzzles or by theoretical curiosity.

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What most of us think of today as modern medicine is heavily dependent on an understanding of genetics, but certainly the term «modern» is relative and those who still think a book of myths beats science might consider pasteurization and basic sanitation the height of modernity.

I don't mean high school, I don't mean science magazines, I don't mean recreational literature like Richard Dawkins books, I mean if you actually ever sit dow for a few months, got the basic bibliography on its history, gathered the basic bibliography on the astrophysics and cosmology its based, and understood where it came from and what problem it proposes to solve?

[BOX 3: Grants and Contracts] Financial Statements, 1957 - 1959 Financial Reports, 1957 - 1959 Financial Statements, 1958 Financial Reports 1960-1961 1962 1963 1964-1965 1966-1967 Report on Review of Source Data Preparation for Accounting Purposes, Oct. 1961 AAAS Budgets, 1968 - 1969 Financial Reports, 1968 - 1969 Financial Statements and Accountant's Opinion, 1969 Financial Statements and Accountant's Opinion, 1970 Financial Reports, 1970 - 1971 Financial Reports, 1972 Financial Reports from Operations, 1979 Budget Proposal for Fiscal Year 1974 and Projections to 1963 Report for Examination of Financial Statements and Additional Information, 1983 - 1984 Closed out Funds and Stocks AAAS Grants Committee, 1955 AID Audit - Mexico City, 1974 Asia Foundation, 1955 - 1975 Boston Concerts Carnegie Corp. - Grant to AAAS for Science Teaching Improvement Program Graham Chedd - Contract [3 folders], 1973 - 1977 DOS - AID Irene Tinker, 1973 - 1977 RISM Research for the Study of Man, 1973 - 1977 Smithsonian, 1971 - 1977 Audit, 1973 - 1977 Close Out, 1976 - 1978 GE Grant - Regional Consultants on Science Teaching, 1956 Gordon Marshall, Exhibits Contract, 1952 National Endowment of the Arts, 1973 NSF Grant - Soviet Science, 1952 Training Talented Students, 1955 Travelling High School Library, 1956 Gordon Conference on Teacher Education, 1956 Junior Academies Workshop, 1957 Proposal to NSF for Development of Science Teaching Materials for Elementary and Junior High Schools, 1961 Progress Report to the NSF on the Holiday Science Lecture Program, 1963 Proposal to the NSF for 1964 Visiting Foreign Staff Project, 1963 NSF - US - Japan Comparative Science Program, 1963 NSF - US - Japan Cooperative Science Program, 1964 WGBH, 1972 Willis Shapley, Contract Agreement, Oct. 1978 DHEW - Barrier Free Meetings, Oct. 1977 CBS News - Conquest Program Series, 1959 MISCO Contract - original, 1972 Basic Books Publishing - New Roads to Yesterday, 1963 - 1966

The basic premise of the book is seductive: in order to evolve and survive as a species, while protecting the Earth, we have to reorganize and lead ourselves based on principles that respect caring, nurturing, compassion, connectivity, peaceful coexistence, harmonization, adaptability, and rebalance (science with wisdom, awe and wonder).

Responding to an Eisenhower National Clearinghouse Poll, 26 percent of teachers said they spent money on such supplemental materials as videos, software, learning kits, and activity books; 25 percent bought basic needs such as pencils, paper, bandages, facial tissue, and food for hungry children; 22 percent purchased art supplies or science materials; 21 percent bought trade books to enrich their lessons and classroom activities.

A Los Angeles book launch event on Dec. 2 featured four Teach Plus Teaching Policy Fellows and contributing writers: Sujata Bhatt, founder of the Incubator School; Kyle Hunsberger, a mathematics teacher at Johnnie L. Cochrain, Jr., Middle School who developed and successfully implemented a 6th - grade basic - skills intervention program; Jeannette Marrone, a founding teacher at Environmental Science and Technology High School; and Stephanie Widmer, a Teach for America Learning Team Leader and humanities teacher at Camino Nuevo Charter Academy.

Kids ages 10 to 14, though adults who want to brush up on their knowledge of logical fallacies and basic science may also enjoy the book.

Their basic premise of corruption is an inversion, pure and simple, they are the ones corrupting science with malicious claims, along with this action they make money, appear on Fox news or some British tabloid to further book sales.

[3] Two excellent examples: Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. M. Conway, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, Bloomsbury Press, 2011, Chris Mooney, The Republican War on Science, Basic Books, 2006.

Diana Fosha is the author of The Transforming Power of Affect: A Model for Accelerated Change (Basic Books, 2000), and of numerous articles and chapters on healing transformational processes in experiential psychotherapy and trauma treatment, which integrate neuroplasticity, recognition science, affective neuroscience and developmental dyadic research into AEDP.