The Atlantic Alliance and the Middle East: Security Outside N.A.T.O.

Politics & Social Sciences

Coffey & Bonvicini Eds

Politics & Government

University of Pittsburgh Press

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

This is the only complete historical account of the rise and fall of the political party known in Germany as the infamous NSDAP (National Socialist German Worker, s Party). It covers the entire period of the Nazi Party, s existence, from its humble, desperate beginnings in 1919 to the catastrophe of 1945 and its banishment as a criminal organization bent on genocide and war as a result of the Nuremberg Trials. The Nazi Party was a model of fanatical political efficiency in furthering the goals of Adolf Hitler, s dictatorship and at the same time one that attracted many careerists and undesirable elements of society.

The History of the Nazi Party [2 volumes 1919-1933 and 1933-1945]

Orlow, Dietrich

Essays in musicology,: In honor of Dragan Plamenac on his 70th birthday

REESE, Gustave

Book by Robinson, Richard Alan Hodgson

The origins of Franco's Spain;: The Right, the Republic and revolution, 1931-1936 (Library of politics and society)

Robinson, Richard Alan Hodgson

Milton's minor poems

Leishman, J. B

This 259-page hardcover was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 1971.

Letters to Paula

Biographies & Memoirs

BEN-GURION, David

Community & Culture

The Philosophical Traditions of India

P. T. Raju

Handicap;: A study of physically handicapped children and their families (Contemporary community health series)

McMichael, Joan K

Sociology

Biography of Walther Nernst, one of Germany's leading scientists, a Nobel Laureate know for his third law of thermodynamics. He was opposed to Hitler's attack on German academia. A leading thinker of his time.

The world of Walther Nernst;: The rise and fall of German science, 1864-1941

Mendelssohn, Kurt

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