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ISBN: 9780198507796 - Electrons and Phonons Electrons and Phonons
John Ziman

ISBN10: 0198507798  ISBN13: 9780198507796
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Feb 2001
This study of the theory of electrical and thermal conduction in metals, semiconductors, and insulators is written at a level appropriate to graduate students and research workers and assumes some knowledge of wave mechanics in its reader. More

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ISBN: 9780521893107 - Real Science Real Science
John Ziman

ISBN10: 0521893100  ISBN13: 9780521893107
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 24 Jun 2002
Unlike most other similar books, this systematic, carefully reasoned, non-technical analysis of the nature and significance of scientific knowledge opens the way to reconciliation in the 'science wars'. By describing how academic scientists... More

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ISBN: 9780521542173 - Technological Innovation as an Evolutionary Process Technological Innovation as an Evolutionary Process
John Ziman

ISBN10: 0521542170  ISBN13: 9780521542173
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 18 Sep 2003
Ground-breaking yet non-technical analysis of the analogy that technological artefacts 'evolve' like biological organisms. Technological artefacts and biological organisms 'evolve' by very similar processes of blind variation and selective retention. More

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ISBN: 9780521772297 - Real Science Real Science
John Ziman

ISBN10: 052177229X  ISBN13: 9780521772297
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 27 Apr 2000
Scientists and 'anti-scientists' alike need a more realistic image of science. The traditional mode of research, academic science, is not just a 'method': it is a distinctive culture, whose members win esteem and employment by making public their... More

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ISBN: 9781563960659 - Of One Mind Of One Mind
John Ziman

ISBN10: 1563960656  ISBN13: 9781563960659
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 Mar 1995
About the Series Preface What Exactly Did He Discover? 5 Portrait of a Disappointed Scientific Soul 13 Landau and His School 17 Separation: On the Refusenik Mark Azbel 23 The Dark Side of Science 29 Resolving Little Local Difficulties... More

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ISBN: 9780521095198 - Public Knowledge Public Knowledge
John Ziman

ISBN10: 0521095190  ISBN13: 9780521095198
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Mar 1968
Professor Ziman argues that the goal of all scientific research is to contribute to the consensus of universally accepted knowledge. In this 1974 book a practising scientist and gifted expositor sets forth an exciting point of view on the nature... More

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ISBN: 9781845400828 - Science in Civil Society Science in Civil Society
John Ziman

ISBN10: 1845400828  ISBN13: 9781845400828
Publisher: Imprint Academic
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 04 Feb 2008
In Science In Civil Society, John Ziman - himself a distinguished scientist and fellow of the Royal Society - asks what science is for, how it relates to the academic world, to politics, and in particular how it should be understood and used by... More

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ISBN: 9780521082860 - Teaching and Learning About Science and Society Teaching and Learning About Science and Society
John Ziman

ISBN10: 0521082862  ISBN13: 9780521082860
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 14 Oct 2008
'Science, Technology, and Society' - STS - has become a major educational theme. 'Science, Technology, and Society' - STS - has become a major educational theme. There are many courses in schools, universities and other institutions... More

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ISBN: 9780521434300 - Prometheus Bound Prometheus Bound
Ziman, J M John Ziman

ISBN10: 0521434300  ISBN13: 9780521434300
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 25 Mar 1994
After expanding for centuries, science is reaching its limits to growth. We can no longer afford the ever-increasing cost of exploring ever-wider research opportunities. In the competition for resources, science is becoming much more tightly... More

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ISBN: 9780197262627 - The Evolution of Cultural Entities The Evolution of Cultural Entities
Michael Wheeler, John Ziman, Margaret A Boden

ISBN10: 0197262627  ISBN13: 9780197262627
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 03 Oct 2002
Ever since Darwin, scholars have noted that cultural entities such as languages, laws, firms and theories seem to "evolve" through sequences of variation, selection and replication, in many ways just like living organisms. These essays consider... More