The science of polymer molecules: R. H. Boyd and P. J. Phillips (Cambridge University Press, New York, 1996) 410+ pages, $94.95 (hardcover), $32.95 (paperback)

Book review: The science of polymer mole

Book review: The science of polymer molecules R. H. Boyd and P. J. Phillips Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996 (hardback edition 1993 ) pp. xiii+410, price £24.95, US$32.95. ISBN 0-521-56508-1

✍ Jenkins, A. D. 📂 Article 📅 1997 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 83 KB 👁 1 views

The science of polymer molecules. By R.

The science of polymer molecules. By R. H. Boyd and P. J. Phillips, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1993, XVII, 410pp., hardcover, E 60, ISBN 0-52 1-32076-3

✍ Alan Windle 📂 Article 📅 1995 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 246 KB

Jerome Kagan. The Three Cultures: Natura

Jerome Kagan. The Three Cultures: Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and the Humanities in the 21st Century. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 324 pp. $21.99 (paperback). ISBN-13: 978-0521732307. Nancy J. Nersessian. Creating Scientific Concepts. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008. 272 pp. $32.00 (hardcover). ISBN-13: 978-0262141055. Ute Schönpflug (Ed.). Cultural Transmission: Psychological, Developmental, Social, and Methodological Aspects. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 510 pp. $36.99 (paperback). ISBN-13: 978-0521706575. Edward Shorter. Before Prozac: The Troubled History of Mood Disorders in Psychiatry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. 320 pp. $29.95 (hardcover). ISBN-13: 978-0195368741. Gabriel Tarde. Sur le sommeil ou plutôt sur les rêves: Et autres textes inédits [On sleep, or rather on dreams: And other unpublished texts] (Jacqueline Carroy and Louise Salmon, Eds.). Lausanne, France: BHMS, 2009. viii, 227 pp. $25.00. (paperback). ISBN-13: 978-2-9700536-8-2

📂 Article 📅 2010 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 39 KB

Sparked by his rereading of C. P. Snow's (1959) The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, Kagan's new book surveys the current status of the "two cultures" Snow described-the arts and humanities, on the one hand, and the natural sciences, on the otheras well as a third, the social sciences, wh