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Book Description: Earn College Credit with REA's Test Prep for CLEP* Natural Sciences. Everything you need to pass the exam and get the college credit you deserve. CLEP* is the most popular credit-by-examination program in the country, accepted by more than 2,900 colleges and universities. For over 15 years, REA has helped students pass the CLEP* exam and earn college credit while reducing their tuition costs. Our CLEP* test preps are perfect for...
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Wohlleben takes readers on a thought-provoking exploration of the vast natural systems that make life on Earth possible. The author describes the interplay between animals and plants and answers such questions as: How do they influence each other? Do lifeforms communicate across species boundaries? And what happens when this finely tuned system gets out of sync? By introducing us to the latest scientific discoveries and recounting his own insights...
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What distinguishes science from other human endeavors? How does scientific knowledge develop? What differentiates pseudo-science from science? This program attempts to answer these questions and give an account of the characteristics of scientific activity. The show deals with the importance of scientific instruments in the exploration of the universe and our view of the world. It also shows the progression of those scientific processes that allow...
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For more than a century, nature lovers have held fast to the belief that preserving the wild means keeping people out. Today, policies that dictate everything from the regulation of ocean fisheries to the protection of endangered species are founded on an almost religious conviction that nature is constant, eternal, self-regulating - "in balance"--Save only when man intrudes. But as Stephen Budiansky dramatically illustrates, these credos of modern...
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Women have long participated in the dissemination of science, a part of the history of science that until recently has been undervalued and little explored. By practicing the arts of science writing, lecturing, and scientific illustration, women popularizers of science have played a significant role in creating scientific culture. Natural Eloquence, a collection of essays examining the work of both lesser-known women of science from the nineteenth...
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This program introduces the major philosophical categories of the philosophy of natural science: ontology, epistemology, methodology, logic, and politics/morality. It gives a brief history of the origins of Rationalism and Empiricism and examines the work of the Vienna School of Logical Positivism and the sympathetic critique of Karl Popper and Karl Hempel. It considers the “problem of induction” and their “falsificationism” solution to it....
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