This book examines the future prospects for research in the natural sciences. Are the days of scientific discovery numbered? Is there good reason to think that natural science is approaching the completion of its work? Professor Rescher&prime;s thesis is that the latter-day prophets of doom are wrong, and that we actually confront not the termination of scientific progress but merely its slowing down. The author argues that if an exponentially increasing effort is required to maintain a relatively stable pace of scientific progress (as it has over the past century or so), then science is bound to enter a period of deceleration. It is argued that despite these somewhat harsh realities, the prospects of scientific progress remain literally limitless in principle. However, the facts indicate that the cost of scientific inquiry rises faster than the significant returns that it can yield, and hence a deceleration in scientific innovation will come about not only because of the ending of the frintier, but because of the increased difficulties of pushing it further out. The book concludes by providing an explanation of the reasons for the cost-escalation of scientific work.

Scientific Progress: A Philosophical Essay on the Economics of Research in Natural Science

Science & Math

RESCHER, NICHOLAS

Research

University of Pittsburgh

Bound in the publisher's original dark grey cloth, spine stamped in gilt. Fontispiece illustration of a Kansas City Star assignment sheet showing Hemingway's daily routine, and a fold-out facsimile of a Star style sheet from 1925.

Ernest Hemingway, cub reporter;: Kansas City Star stories

Bruccoli, Matthew J. (editor)

71pp. Signed by author on title pg. Very Good w/ minute tanning &amp; minute corner wears. Author's first book of poetry.

Disguises (Pitt Poetry Series)

Scott, Herbert

Express (Pitt poetry series)

Literature & Fiction

REISS, James

Poetry

This monograph provides a range of materials on subsistence gardening practices in different parts of the highlands region of Papua New Guinea.  It consists of one main case study executed in considerable depth of detail on a single people, the Wola, by Sillitoe; followed by a comparative sketch on gardening patterns in three areas, inhabited by the Duna, Pangia, and Hagen peoples, by Stewart and Strathern.  This comparative sketch is intended to illustrate similarities in overall practices between different parts of the Highlands, showing that the Wola gardening system is characteristic of a wider regimen found throughout the region.  The sketch is also intended to introduce some broad suggestions on how gardening patterns may have developed and diffused over time in particular parts of the Highlands.  We do not deal with questions of change resulting from cash-cropping of coffee, tea, and vegetables, although these changes have greatly impacted gardening arrangements since the 1950s in most parts of the Highlands.  The monograph as a whole contributes significantly to debates on the history of argricultural practices in the Highlands, where Jack Golson’s work has established a considerable time depth for agriculture at Kuk in the Hagen area; on the relative efficiency of stone versus steel tools; and on the precise details of subsistence practices in terms of inputs and crop production among the Wola.

Horticulture in Papua New Guinea: Case Studies from the Southern and Western Highlands (Ethnology Monograph Series No. 18)

Strathern, Andrew

Sillitoe, Paul

Stewart, Pamela J.

Agricultural Sciences

Cases and Comments on Criminal Procedure

David S. Cercone

Introduction to Engineering Analysis

Dan Budny

From Spanish to English: Reading and writing for English language learners kindergarten through third grade

August, Diane

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