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Theoretical Knowledge in the Mohist Canon - Matthias Schemmel - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Theoretical Knowledge in the Mohist Canon - Matthias Schemmel - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

This open access book presents a new translation, interpretation and analysis of selected passages from the so-called Mohist Canon , a Chinese text from ca. 300 BCE, and discusses the role of the text in the world history of science, arguing that it represents an early emergence of theoretical, systematized knowledge that is independent from parallel developments in ancient Greece. It is aimed at historians of science, of knowledge and of philosophy, and generally at readers interested in these topics from an intercultural perspective and particularly with respect to China.

DKK 434.00
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Theoretical Knowledge in the Mohist Canon - Matthias Schemmel - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Theoretical Knowledge in the Mohist Canon - Matthias Schemmel - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

This open access book presents a new translation, interpretation and analysis of selected passages from the so-called Mohist Canon , a Chinese text from ca. 300 BCE, and discusses the role of the text in the world history of science, arguing that it represents an early emergence of theoretical, systematized knowledge that is independent from parallel developments in ancient Greece. It is aimed at historians of science, of knowledge and of philosophy, and generally at readers interested in these topics from an intercultural perspective and particularly with respect to China.

DKK 349.00
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Queering Polishness in Polish Theatre Since 2005 - Jonas Vanderschueren - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Queering Polishness in Polish Theatre Since 2005 - Jonas Vanderschueren - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Theatre has long been an art form at the centre of public life in Poland. Whether it is the self-professed poet-prophets of the Romantic era, or the dissident theatre makers working under the strictures of state socialism, the art form has played a vital role in the development of Polish culture and politics in the context of shifting foreign occupations. This book explores the relationship between contemporary Polish theatre makers and contemporary notions of Polishness and argues that queer theory, and specifically a Polish appropriation of queer theory, can be a crucial element to better understand the politicality of the contemporary Polish theatre field. It does this by focusing on critical theatre productions which are produced at the margins of the Polish theatre field, a choice which has been made as the field is dominated by traditional drama theatres which reproduce a Polish variation on the Western canon. This makes smaller, atypical, and independent theatre productions all the more significant, as they signify a refusal to continue the traditional role of the Polish theatre field in reproducing the canon of Polish Romanticism. As such, the book argues that contemporary Polish theatre has been marked by a struggle between those building performances and state authorities that see those creations as a threat to their authority.

DKK 967.00
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Robert Burns and the United States of America - Arun Sood - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Robert Burns and the United States of America - Arun Sood - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

This book provides a critical study of the relationship between Robert Burns and the United States of America, c.1786-1866. Though Burns is commonly referred to as Scotland''s "National Poet", his works were frequently reprinted in New York and Philadelphia; his verse mimicked by an emerging canon of American poets; and his songs appropriated by both abolitionists and Confederate soldiers during the Civil War era. Adopting a transnational, Atlantic Studies perspective that shifts emphasis from Burns as national poet to transnational icon, this book charts the reception, dissemination and cultural memory of Burns and his works in the United States up to 1866.

DKK 634.00
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Uncharted Constellations - John C. Barentine - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Uncharted Constellations - John C. Barentine - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

This book compiles an array of interesting constellations that fell by the wayside before the IAU established the modern canon of constellations. That decision left out lesser known ones whose history is nevertheless interesting, but at last author John Barentine is giving them their due. This book is a companion to "The Lost Constellations", highlighting the more obscure configurations. The 16 constellations found in this volume fall into one or more of three broad categories: asterims, such as the Big Dipper in Ursa Major; single-sourced constellations introduced on surviving charts by a cartographer perhaps currying the favor of sponsors; and re-brands, new figures meant to displace existing constellations, often for an ideological reason. All of them reveal something unique about the development of humanity''s map of the sky.

DKK 319.00
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Philosophy of Race - Naomi Zack - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Philosophy of Race - Naomi Zack - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Philosophy of Race: An Introduction provides plainly written access to a new subfield that has been in the background of philosophy since Plato and Aristotle. The second edition is updated to include contemporary developments such as digital racisms, metaphysical othering and metaphysical racism, and the rise of populist movements. Its focus has also been expanded to address non-white racial groups in the Americas, Europe, and beyond, such as the Roma and Uighur people. Part I provides an overview of ideas of race and ethnicity in the philosophical canon, egalitarian traditions, race in biology, and race in American and Continental Philosophy. Part II addresses race as it operates in life through colonialism and development, social constructions and institutions, racism, political philosophy, gender, and populist movements. This book constructs an outline that will serve as a resource for students, nonspecialists, and general readers in thinking, talking, and writing about philosophy of race.

DKK 593.00
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Utopia Between East and West in Hungarian Literature - Zsolt Cziganyik - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Utopia Between East and West in Hungarian Literature - Zsolt Cziganyik - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

This book focuses on the most important utopian and dystopian literary texts in nineteenth and twentieth-century Hungarian literature, and therefore widens the scope of the traditionally Anglophone canon. Utopian studies is becoming increasingly interdisciplinary, and this research integrates literary hermeneutics with ideas and methods from political science and the history of ideas. In doing so, it argues that Hungarian utopianism was influenced by the region''s (and Hungarian culture''s) position of permanent liminality between Western and Eastern European patterns of power structures, social and political order. After a thorough methodological introduction, some early modern texts written in Hungary are discussed, while the detailed analyses focus on nineteenth-century texts, written by Bessenyei, Madách, and Jókai, whereas the twentieth century is represented by Karinthy, Babits and Szathmári. In the interpretations the results of contemporary scholarship is applied, particularly the works of Lyman Tower Sargent, Gregory Claeys and Fátima Vieira.

DKK 967.00
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Living Mantra - Mani Rao - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Living Mantra - Mani Rao - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Living Mantra is an anthropology of mantra-experience among Hindu-tantric practitioners. In ancient Indian doctrine and legends, mantras perceived by rishis (seers) invoke deities and have transformative powers. Adopting a methodology that combines scholarship and practice, Mani Rao discovers a continuing tradition of visionaries ( rishis /seers) and revelations in south India''s Andhra-Telangana. Both deeply researched and replete with fascinating narratives, the book reformulates the poetics of mantra-practice as it probes practical questions. Can one know if a vision is real or imagined? Is vision visual? Are deity-visions mediated by culture? If mantras are effective, what is the role of devotion? Are mantras language? Living Mantra interrogates not only theoretical questions, but also those a practitioner would ask: how does one choose a deity, for example, or what might bind one to a guru? Rao breaks fresh ground in redirecting attention to the moments that precede systematization and canon-formation, showing how authoritative sources are formed.

DKK 646.00
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Algorithms with JULIA - Clemens Heitzinger - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Algorithms with JULIA - Clemens Heitzinger - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

This book provides an introduction to modern topics in scientific computing and machine learning, using JULIA to illustrate the efficient implementation of algorithms. In addition to covering fundamental topics, such as optimization and solving systems of equations, it adds to the usual canon of computational science by including more advanced topics of practical importance. In particular, there is a focus on partial differential equations and systems thereof, which form the basis of many engineering applications. Several chapters also include material on machine learning (artificial neural networks and Bayesian estimation). JULIA is a relatively new programming language which has been developed with scientific and technical computing in mind. Its syntax is similar to other languages in this area, but it has been designed to embrace modern programming concepts. It is open source, and it comes with a compiler and an easy-to-use package system. Aimed at students of applied mathematics, computer science, engineering and bioinformatics, the book assumes only a basic knowledge of linear algebra and programming.

DKK 551.00
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Contemporary Mathematical Thinking - Frederic Patras - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Contemporary Mathematical Thinking - Frederic Patras - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

This book deals with the evolution of mathematical thought during the 20th century. Representing a unique point of view combining mathematics, philosophy and history on this issue, it presents an original analysis of key authors, for example Bourbaki, Grothendieck and Husserl. As a product of 19th and early 20th century science, a canon of knowledge or a scientific ideology, mathematical structuralism had to give way. The succession is difficult, still in progress, and uncertain. To understand contemporary mathematics, its progressive liberation from the slogans of "modern mathematics" and the paths that remain open today, it is first necessary to deconstruct the history of this long dominant current. Another conception of mathematical thought emerged in the work of mathematicians such as Hilbert or Weyl, which went beyond the narrow epistemological paths of science in the making. In this tradition, mathematical thought was accompanied by a philosophical requirement. Modernity teaches us to revive it. The book is intended for a varied public: mathematicians concerned with understanding their discipline, philosophers of science, and the erudite public curious about the progress of mathematics.

DKK 986.00
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Ultralogic as Universal? - Richard Routley - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Ultralogic as Universal? - Richard Routley - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Ultralogic as Universal? is a seminal text in non-classcial logic. Richard Routley (Sylvan) presents a hugely ambitious program: to use an ''ultramodal'' logic as a universal key, which opens, if rightly operated, all locks. It provides a canon for reasoning in every situation, including illogical, inconsistent and paradoxical ones, realized or not, possible or not. A universal logic, Routley argues, enables us to go where no other logic—especially not classical logic—can. Routley provides an expansive and singular vision of how a universal logic might one day solve major problems in set theory, arithmetic, linguistics, physics, and more. It circulated in typescript in the late 1970s before appearing as the Appendix to Exploring Meinong''s Jungle and Beyond. With engaging, forceful prose, unsparing criticism of entrenched institutions, and many tantalizing proof sketches (is the Axiom of Choice a theorem of naive set theory?), Ultralogic? has had a major influence on the development of paraconsistent and relevant logic. This new edition makes this work available for a modern audience, newly typeset and corrected, along with extensive notes, and new commentary essays.

DKK 676.00
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The Bebop Scene in London's Soho, 1945-1950 - Ray Kinsella - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

The Bebop Scene in London's Soho, 1945-1950 - Ray Kinsella - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

This is the first book to tell the story of the bebop subculture in London''s Soho, a subculture that emerged in 1945 and reached its pinnacle in 1950. In an exploration via the intersections of race, class and gender, it shows how bebop identities were constructed and articulated. Combining a wide range of archival research and theory, the book evocatively demonstrates how the scene evolved in Soho''s clubs, the fashion that formed around the music, drug usage amongst a contingent of the group, and the moral panic which led to the police raids on the clubs between 1947 and 1950. Thereafter it maps the changes in popular culture in Soho during the 1950s, and argues that the bebop story is an important precedent to the institutional harassment of black-related spaces and culture that continued in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book therefore rewrites the first chapter of the ''classic'' subcultural canon, and resets the subcultural clock; requiring us to rethink the periodization and social make-up of British post-war youth subcultures.

DKK 986.00
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Queering Normativity and South Asian Public Culture - J. Daniel Luther - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Queering Normativity and South Asian Public Culture - J. Daniel Luther - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

This book develops a queer methodology to analyse a queer archive for the impact of normativity on subjecthood and the ways in which it shapes and curtails gender and sexuality. Chapters demonstrate how normativity functions to mask its own operation, is internalised by subjects, and is continually reproduced through discourse and in material ways. In seeking to make visible the functioning of normativity, the book performs a task of queering normativity by querying that which appears as natural in South Asian public culture. The book engages with both the consolidation and the unsettling of normativity through artefacts of South Asian public culture including canonical figures such as Rabindranath Tagore, literary and cinematic texts, Bollywood films, advertisements, social media posts, and ubiquitous ephemera in South Asia and beyond. Through these texts, the author unpacks the construct of canon, the nation, woman as a post-colonial subject, the home and the child, marriage, same-sex sexuality and identity. This book will be of interest to scholars and students studying and researching Queer Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, South Asian Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Film Studies, and Media Studies.

DKK 986.00
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Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Wizard of Earthsea" - Timothy S. Miller - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Wizard of Earthsea" - Timothy S. Miller - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Written not so long after "Tolkien mania" first gripped the United States in the 1960s, Ursula K. Le Guin''s novel A Wizard of Earthsea (1968) has long been recognized as a classic of the fantasy genre, and the series of Earthsea books that followed on it over the next several decades earned its author both considerable sales and critical accolades. This new introduction to the text will closely contextualize the original novel in relation to its heady decade of composition and publication - a momentous time for genre publishing - and also survey the half century and more of scholarship on Earthsea, which has shifted in direction and emphasis many times over the decades, just as surely as Le Guin frequently adjusted her own sails when composing later works set in the fantasy world. Above all, this book positions A Wizard of Earthsea as perhaps an "old text" that nevertheless belongs in a "new canon," a key novel in the author''s career and the genre in which it participates, and one that at once looks back to Tolkien and his own antecedents in masculinist early fantasy; looks forward to Le Guin''s own continuing feminist and progressive education; and anticipates and indeed helped to shape young adult literature in its contemporary form.

DKK 426.00
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Ninth Art. Bande dessinee, Books and the Gentrification of Mass Culture, 1964-1975 - Sylvain Lesage - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG -

Ninth Art. Bande dessinee, Books and the Gentrification of Mass Culture, 1964-1975 - Sylvain Lesage - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG -

In France, comics are commonly referred to as the "ninth art". What does it mean to see comics as art? This book looks at the singular status of comics in the French cultural landscape. Bandes dessinées have long been published in French newspapers and magazines. In the early 1960s, a new standard format emerged: large hardback books, called albums. Albums played a key role in the emergence of the ninth art and its acceptance among other forms of literary narrative. From Barbarella in 1964 to La Ballade de la mer salée in 1975, from Astérix and its million copies to Tintin and its screen versions, within the space of just a few years the comics landscape underwent a deep transformation. The album opened up new ways of creating, distributing, and reading bandes dessinées . This shift upended the market, transformed readership, initiated new transmedia adaptations, generated critical discourse, and gave birth to new kinds of comics fandom. These transformations are analysed through a series of case studies, each focusing on a noteworthy album. By retracing the publishing and critical history of these classic bandes dessinées , this book questions the blind spots of a canon based on the album format and uncovers the legitimisation processes that turned bande dessinée into the ninth art.

DKK 349.00
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Frances Burney’s “Evelina” - Svetlana Kochkina - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Frances Burney’s “Evelina” - Svetlana Kochkina - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Evelina, the first novel by Frances Burney, published in 1778, enjoys lasting popularity among the reading public. Tracing its publication history through 174 editions, adaptations, and reprints, many of them newly discovered and identified, this book demonstrates how the novel’s material embodiment in the form of the printed book has been reshaped by its publishers, recasting its content for new generations of readers. Four main chapters vividly describe how during 240 years, Evelina, a popular novel of manners, metamorphosed without any significant alterations to its text into a Regency “rambling” text, a romantic novel for “lecteurs délicats,” a cheap imprint for circulating libraries, a yellow-back, a book with a certain aesthetic cachet, a Christmas gift-book, finally becoming an integral part of the established literary canon in annotated scholarly editions. This book also focuses on the remodelling and transformation of the paratext in this novel, writtenby a woman author, by the heavily male-dominated publishing industry. Shorter Entr’acte sections discuss and describe alterations in the forms of Burney’s name and the title of her work, the omission and renaming of her authorial prefaces, and the redeployment of the publisher’s prefatorial apparatus to support particular editions throughout almost two-and-a-half centuries of the novel’s existence. Illustrated with reproductions of covers, frontispieces, and title pages, the book also provides an illuminating insight into the role of Evelina’s visual representation in its history as a marketable commodity, highlighting the existence of editions targeting various segments of the book market: from the upper-middle-class to mass-readership. The first comprehensive and fully updated bibliography of English and translated editions, adaptations, and reprints of Evelina published in 13 languages and scripts appears in an appendix.

DKK 967.00
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Frances Burney’s “Evelina” - Svetlana Kochkina - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Frances Burney’s “Evelina” - Svetlana Kochkina - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Evelina , the first novel by Frances Burney, published in 1778, enjoys lasting popularity among the reading public. Tracing its publication history through 174 editions, adaptations, and reprints, many of them newly discovered and identified, this book demonstrates how the novel''s material embodiment in the form of the printed book has been reshaped by its publishers, recasting its content for new generations of readers. Four main chapters vividly describe how during 240 years, Evelina , a popular novel of manners, metamorphosed without any significant alterations to its text into a Regency "rambling" text, a romantic novel for " lecteurs délicats," a cheap imprint for circulating libraries, a yellow-back, a book with a certain aesthetic cachet, a Christmas gift-book, finally becoming an integral part of the established literary canon in annotated scholarly editions. This book also focuses on the remodelling and transformation of the paratext in this novel, written by a woman author, by the heavily male-dominated publishing industry. Shorter Entr''acte sections discuss and describe alterations in the forms of Burney''s name and the title of her work, the omission and renaming of her authorial prefaces, and the redeployment of the publisher''s prefatorial apparatus to support particular editions throughout almost two-and-a-half centuries of the novel''s existence. Illustrated with reproductions of covers, frontispieces, and title pages, the book also provides an illuminating insight into the role of Evelina ''s visual representation in its history as a marketable commodity, highlighting the existence of editions targeting various segments of the book market: from the upper-middle-class to mass-readership. The first comprehensive and fully updated bibliography of English and translated editions, adaptations, and reprints of Evelina published in 13 languages and scripts appears in an appendix.

DKK 967.00
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Dream Missions - Michel Van Pelt - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Dream Missions - Michel Van Pelt - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

This book takes the reader on a journey through the history of extremely ambitious, large and complex space missions that never happened. What were the dreams and expectations of the visionaries behind these plans, and why were they not successful in bringing their projects to reality thus far? As spaceflight development progressed, new technologies and ideas led to pushing the boundaries of engineering and technology though still grounded in real scientific possibilities. Examples are space colonies, nuclear-propelled interplanetary spacecraft, space telescopes consisting of multiple satellites and canon launch systems. Each of these enormous projects was both technically and socially linked to the time it was conceived. The large O’Neill space colonies for instance made sense in the 1970s, when people started to try and find solutions for the limitations the Earth’s resources were starting to put on human expansion. They would also enable free environments for various social community experiments, a hot topic in that decade. The idea of launching an interplanetary spacecraft from Earth using nuclear power could only have been developed in the 1950s: before then it would technically not have been possible, while afterwards environmental concerns inhibited such dangerous and polluting projects. Similarly, giant space stations for weather observation and relaying communications signals made sense in the 1950’s and early 1960’s, but were then quickly rendered obsolete by advances in electronics and satellites. Large multi-spacecraft astronomical observatories are only now seriously considered, because advances in micro-propulsion and attitude control have recently made them technically possible, and because economic realities inhibit the development of giant single-element space telescopes. As such, each project described in this book says something about the dreams and expectations of their time, and their demise was often linked to an important change in the cultural, political and social state of the world.For each mission or spacecraft concept, the following will be covered: • Description of the design.• Overview of the history of the concept and the people involved.• Why it was never developed and flowno Analysis related to current technologyo What it would take/cost today o Validity of pro- and con- arguments, both at the time of the project was proposed, today and in the future (i.e., whether the idea is now obsolete, economically not viable and/or technically unfeasible). These analyses will be performed with help from various international experts on the subject.o Lessons learned and technologies obtained from the design and partial development of the concept concerned, and possible smaller derivatives that were further developed.• What if the mission was actually carried out – consequences, further developments, etc.

DKK 326.00
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Getting to Good - - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Getting to Good - - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Research in the biomedical sciences is in crisis. Challenges to integrity resulting from fraud, plagiarism, misconduct, mishandling of research subjects and predatory publishing are everywhere. In order to meet its social mission the biomedical sciences are urgently in need of a unified concept of research integrity, defined as the trustworthiness of scientific quality and the ethical justifiability of research practices. Encompassing regulated areas -- subject protection, research misconduct and conflict of interest as well as newly quantified concerns about research bias and non-reproducibility, this book brings together the full range of practices and policies that should support research honestly produced and disseminated. It also specifically incorporates those topics noted by the NIH as essential and required for training in the responsible conduct of research (RCR). We have enclosed emails from two teachers of RCR attesting to the fact that there currently is no standard text or canon of readings that meet the demand that exists for teaching materials in this area. The Book The reader first frames the concept of research integrity and whether its performance is heading toward institutional corruption in the biomedical sciences. It then reviews evidence of the effectiveness of current governmental and self-regulation by the scientific community, from public participation and from meta-science studies, all of which are venues for intervention that will improve research integrity. The bulk of the Reader consists of the best classic publications and case examples in each of several areas: policy, methods, research subjects protection, conflicts of interest, research misconduct, plagiarism, reproducibility and whistleblowing as well as additional topics required for RCR instruction: mentor/mentee responsibilities and relationships, responsible authorship, peer review, and trustworthy data acquisition and management. Competition There is no other book that addresses this range of topics. Recent scholarship has illuminated the extent of unethical but unregulated practices that have wasted resources, misinformed the public, and caused harm. Previous books have examined a particular section of the regulated landscape: Cohen & Lynch (eds), Human subjects research regulation: perspectives on the future, MIT Press, 2014; and Barbara K. Redman’s Research misconduct policy in biomedicine; beyond the bad apple approach, MIT Press, 2013. Most recently, the Interacademy Partnership has released Doing global science: A guide to responsible conduct in the global research enterprise, Princeton University Press, 2016. This slim volume reviews perspectives from national academies of science across the globe, reflecting their involvement in addressing issues of responsible conduct of research. Its emphasis is on the need for internationally harmonized standards, briefly enumerating research practices that should and should not be adopted. Discussion is very general whereas Getting to Good presents in-depth consideration of the full range of issues in research integrity and subject protection. Currently, courses, both the many required and elective in research integrity are using individual readings, frequently narrow in scope, often reflecting only the four NIH-required areas of instruction in responsible conduct of research. They neglect the broader set of issues and the overarching framework for research integrity because there is no single source that covers the entire spectrum of topic areas contained in this reader. At this time, there is a no competition for any comparable reader. Pressures for countries to meet international standards create a built-in market for this book. We anticipate a worldwide, broad and growing market for Getting to Good. The National Science Foundation records more than 54,000 research doctorates awarded by US institutions in 2014. China now outpaces that number and is still growing. The number of science doctorates awarded in OECD member countries stands at 34,000, a growth of 40% since 2009. By 2020 India expects to be graduating 20,000 PhDs per year. These examples reflect a significant expansion of individuals and institutions that require effective and in-depth education in research ethics and integrity. Instruction at the undergraduate and masters level expands the potential market even further. Audience Getting to Good will have two major audiences: those receiving mandatory graduate and undergraduate research training around the world; and government regulators and institutions, again around the world, that are promoting economic and social development through biomedical science. These nations including China, India and Russia, face competition from other countries in producing reliable and ethical science. The United States, through the NIH Fogarty and other progra

DKK 343.00
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