Paradigm Shift : (Record no. 105728)
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| control field | EBC4393934 |
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| control field | MiAaPQ |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20240729130250.0 |
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| fixed length control field | 240724s2015 xx o ||||0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781845408572 |
| Qualifying information | (electronic bk.) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 9781845407940 |
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| System control number | (MiAaPQ)EBC4393934 |
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| System control number | (Au-PeEL)EBL4393934 |
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| System control number | (CaPaEBR)ebr11154962 |
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| System control number | (CaONFJC)MIL874462 |
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| System control number | (OCoLC)941700234 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | MiAaPQ |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Description conventions | rda |
| -- | pn |
| Transcribing agency | MiAaPQ |
| Modifying agency | MiAaPQ |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | BD225 -- .C64 2015eb |
| 082 0# - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 121 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Cohen, Martin. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Paradigm Shift : |
| Remainder of title | How Expert Opinions Keep Changing on Life, the Universe, and Everything. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st ed. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Luton, Bedfordshire : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Andrews UK Ltd., |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2015. |
| 264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | ©2015. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (273 pages) |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Cover -- Contents -- Front matter -- Title page -- Publisher information -- Introduction -- How to use this book -- Body matter -- Part I -- 1. Tales of Mice and Men -- 2. Discarding Fossilized Theories -- 3. The Brain Doctors -- 4. Inexplicable Diseases -- 5. Inexplicable Cures -- Part II -- 6. Physics' Guilty Secrets -- 7. Black Holes, God Particles, and Bombast -- 8. Spooky Coincidences and Amazing Insights -- Part III -- 9. Bubbles, Black Swans, and Banking Disasters -- 10. Climate Science and the Profits of Doom -- 11. The Risk Factor -- 12. African Art or High Street Kitsch? -- Afterword: Paradigm Shifts -- Back matter -- Notes and Key Sources -- About the Author -- Also available. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Why do giraffes have long necks? It can't really be for reaching tasty leaves since their main food is ground level bushes, tidy though that explanation would be. And how does relativity theory cope with the fact that the observable universe defies prediction by being far too small and anything but homogeneous? By inventing a vastly larger, but invisible, universe. And what exactly should we make of the scientists who claim to be witnessing thought itself, when the changes of blood flow in the brain that they observe are a thousand times slower than the neuronal activity it is supposed to reveal? A little scepticism is in order. Yet if philosophers of science, from Thomas Kuhn to Paul Feyerabend, have argued that science is a more haphazard process, driven by political fashion and short-term economic self-interest, today almost everyone seems to assume it is a vast jigsaw of interlocking facts pieced slowly but steadily together by expert practitioners. In this witty but profound 2. |
| 588 ## - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE | |
| Source of description note | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. |
| 590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) | |
| Local note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Paradigm (Theory of knowledge). |
| 655 #4 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Electronic books. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Relationship information | Print version: |
| Main entry heading | Cohen, Martin |
| Title | Paradigm Shift |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | Luton, Bedfordshire : Andrews UK Ltd.,c2015 |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781845407940 |
| 797 2# - LOCAL ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME (RLIN) | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | ProQuest (Firm) |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4393934">https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4393934</a> |
| Public note | Click to View |
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