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Book Gentlemen of Science

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  • Author : Jack Morrell
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1981
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 592 pages

Download or read book Gentlemen of Science written by Jack Morrell and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gentlemen of Science

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  • Author : Jack Morrell
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 1981
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 644 pages

Download or read book Gentlemen of Science written by Jack Morrell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1981 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book True Gentlemen

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  • Author : John Hechinger
  • Publisher : PublicAffairs
  • Release : 2017-09-26
  • ISBN : 1610396839
  • Pages : 270 pages

Download or read book True Gentlemen written by John Hechinger and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exclusive look inside the power and politics of college fraternities in America as they struggle to survive despite growing waves of criticism and outrage. College fraternity culture has never been more embattled. Once a mainstay of campus life, fraternities are now subject to withering criticism for reinforcing white male privilege and undermining the lasting social and economic value of a college education. No fraternity embodies this problem more than Sigma Alpha Epsilon, a national organization with more than 15,000 undergraduate brothers spread over 230 chapters nationwide. While SAE enrollment is still strong, it has been pilloried for what John Hechinger calls "the unholy trinity of fraternity life": racism, deadly drinking, and misogyny. Hazing rituals have killed ten undergraduates in its chapters since 2005, and, in 2015, a video of a racist chant breaking out among its Oklahoma University members went viral. That same year, SAE was singled out by a documentary on campus rape, The Hunting Ground. Yet despite these problems and others, SAE remains a large institution with strong ties to Wall Street and significant political reach. In True Gentlemen, Hechinger embarks on a deep investigation of SAE and fraternity culture generally, exposing the vast gulf between its founding ideals and the realities of its impact on colleges and the world at large. He shows how national fraternities are reacting to a slowly dawning new reality, and asks what the rest of us should do about it. Should we ban them outright, or will they only be driven underground? Can an institution this broken be saved? With rare access and skillful storytelling, Hechinger draws a fascinating and necessary portrait of an institution in deep need of reform, and makes a case for how it can happen.

Book Gentlemen Talk of Science

Download or read book Gentlemen Talk of Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Social History of Truth

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  • Author : Steven Shapin
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2011-11-18
  • ISBN : 022614884X
  • Pages : 516 pages

Download or read book A Social History of Truth written by Steven Shapin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-11-18 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we come to trust our knowledge of the world? What are the means by which we distinguish true from false accounts? Why do we credit one observational statement over another? In A Social History of Truth, Shapin engages these universal questions through an elegant recreation of a crucial period in the history of early modern science: the social world of gentlemen-philosophers in seventeenth-century England. Steven Shapin paints a vivid picture of the relations between gentlemanly culture and scientific practice. He argues that problems of credibility in science were practically solved through the codes and conventions of genteel conduct: trust, civility, honor, and integrity. These codes formed, and arguably still form, an important basis for securing reliable knowledge about the natural world. Shapin uses detailed historical narrative to argue about the establishment of factual knowledge both in science and in everyday practice. Accounts of the mores and manners of gentlemen-philosophers are used to illustrate Shapin's broad claim that trust is imperative for constituting every kind of knowledge. Knowledge-making is always a collective enterprise: people have to know whom to trust in order to know something about the natural world.

Book Gentlemen s Disagreement

Download or read book Gentlemen s Disagreement written by Peter Hegarty and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the relationship between intelligence and sex? In recent decades, studies of the controversial histories of both intelligence testing and of human sexuality in the United States have been increasingly common—and hotly debated. But rarely have the intersections of these histories been examined. In Gentlemen’s Disagreement, Peter Hegarty enters this historical debate by recalling the debate between Lewis Terman—the intellect who championed the testing of intelligence— and pioneering sex researcher Alfred Kinsey, and shows how intelligence and sexuality have interacted in American psychology. Through a fluent discussion of intellectually gifted onanists, unhappily married men, queer geniuses, lonely frontiersmen, religious ascetics, and the two scholars themselves, Hegarty traces the origins of Terman’s complaints about Kinsey’s work to show how the intelligence testing movement was much more concerned with sexuality than we might remember. And, drawing on Foucault, Hegarty reconciles these legendary figures by showing how intelligence and sexuality in early American psychology and sexology were intertwined then and remain so to this day.

Book O ye Gentlemen  Arabic Studies on Science and Literary Culture

Download or read book O ye Gentlemen Arabic Studies on Science and Literary Culture written by Arnoud Vrolijk and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-10-31 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: O ye Gentlemen explores two vital strands in Arabic culture: the Greek tradition in science and philosophy and the literary tradition. They are permanent and, though drawing on Islam as a dominant religion, they are by no means dependent on it. That the strands freely interweave within the broader scope of Schrifttum is shown by more than thirty essays on subjects as varied as the social organisation of bees, spontaneous generation in the Shiʿite tradition, astronomy in the Arabian nights, the benefits of sex, precious stones in a literary text, the virtue of women in Judaeo-Arabic stories, animals in Middle Eastern music and the transmission of Arabic science and philosophy to the medieval West.

Book Gentlemen Scientists and Revolutionaries

Download or read book Gentlemen Scientists and Revolutionaries written by Tom Shachtman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh exploration of the scientific pursuits of the Founding Fathers that reveals their science as critical to the great political "experiment" of the day

Book English Men of Science  Their Nature and Nurture

Download or read book English Men of Science Their Nature and Nurture written by Francis Galton and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gentlemen  Scientists  and Doctors

Download or read book Gentlemen Scientists and Doctors written by Mark Weatherall and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of the Cambridge medical school, set in the context of the history of medicine, science, and education.

Book Men of Science Series

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  • Author : MEN OF SCIENCE SERIES.
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1961
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Men of Science Series written by MEN OF SCIENCE SERIES. and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Famous Men of Science

Download or read book Famous Men of Science written by Sarah Knowles Bolton and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Science

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  • Author : John Michels (Journalist)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1909
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 996 pages

Download or read book Science written by John Michels (Journalist) and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Geographic Citizen Science Design

Download or read book Geographic Citizen Science Design written by Artemis Skarlatidou and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little did Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and other ‘gentlemen scientists’ know, when they were making their scientific discoveries, that some centuries later they would inspire a new field of scientific practice and innovation, called citizen science. The current growth and availability of citizen science projects and relevant applications to support citizen involvement is massive; every citizen has an opportunity to become a scientist and contribute to a scientific discipline, without having any professional qualifications. With geographic interfaces being the common approach to support collection, analysis and dissemination of data contributed by participants, ‘geographic citizen science’ is being approached from different angles. Geographic Citizen Science Design takes an anthropological and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) stance to provide the theoretical and methodological foundations to support the design, development and evaluation of citizen science projects and their user-friendly applications. Through a careful selection of case studies in the urban and non-urban contexts of the Global North and South, the chapters provide insights into the design and interaction barriers, as well as on the lessons learned from the engagement of a diverse set of participants; for example, literate and non-literate people with a range of technical skills, and with different cultural backgrounds. Looking at the field through the lenses of specific case studies, the book captures the current state of the art in research and development of geographic citizen science and provides critical insight to inform technological innovation and future research in this area.

Book English Men of Science

Download or read book English Men of Science written by Francis Galton and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Companion to the History of Science

Download or read book A Companion to the History of Science written by Bernard Lightman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the History of Science is a single volume companion that discusses the history of science as it is done today, providing a survey of the debates and issues that dominate current scholarly discussion, with contributions from leading international scholars. Provides a single-volume overview of current scholarship in the history of science edited by one of the leading figures in the field Features forty essays by leading international scholars providing an overview of the key debates and developments in the history of science Reflects the shift towards deeper historical contextualization within the field Helps communicate and integrate perspectives from the history of science with other areas of historical inquiry Includes discussion of non-Western themes which are integrated throughout the chapters Divided into four sections based on key analytic categories that reflect new approaches in the field

Book Proceedings

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  • Author : International Railway Congress Association
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1906
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1452 pages

Download or read book Proceedings written by International Railway Congress Association and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: