1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450321403321

Autore

Jenkins Stephen H

Titolo

How science works [[electronic resource] ] : evaluating evidence in biology and medicine / / Stephen H. Jenkins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004

ISBN

1-280-50291-6

1-282-36743-9

0-19-803604-3

9786612367434

9786610502912

1-60256-706-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 227 p. ) : ill

Disciplina

570/.28

Soggetti

Biology - Methodology

Medicine - Methodology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-217) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This work teaches readers about the scientific process, showing how one frames questions and designs experiments to test hypotheses, how one assesses evidence to elucidate multiple or complex causes, the different forms of explanations, elementary meta-analysis and more.



2.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN0014101

Autore

Molinari, Bastiat de

Titolo

Contro lo statalismo / Bastiat de Molinari; introduzione di Sergio Ricossa ;cura e postfazione di Carlo Lottieri

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Macerata, : Liberilibri, 1996

ISBN

88-85140-14-9

Descrizione fisica

127 p. ; 20 cm.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910821207503321

Autore

Schmidt-Nowara Christopher <1966->

Titolo

The conquest of history : Spanish colonialism and national histories in the nineteenth century / / Christopher Schmidt-Nowara

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , [2006]

©2006

ISBN

0-8229-7109-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 pages)

Collana

Pitt Latin American series

Disciplina

980.03/1

Soggetti

Nationalism - Latin America - History - 19th century

Latin America Civilization Spanish influences

Latin America Historiography

Spain Civilization Latin American influences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Spain between decolonizations : history against the currents of history -- Columbus's remains, Columbus in chains : commemoration and its discontents in late nineteenth-century Spain and Cuba -- The problem



of prehistory in Puerto Rico and Cuba -- The specter of Las Casas -- Spain in the Philippines : archive and authority circa 1898 -- The return of Ponce de León.

Sommario/riassunto

As Spain rebuilt its colonial regime in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines after the Spanish American revolutions, it turned to history to justify continued dominance. The metropolitan vision of history, however, always met with opposition in the colonies.  The Conquest of History examines how historians, officials, and civic groups in Spain and its colonies forged national histories out of the ruins and relics of the imperial past. By exploring controversies over the veracity of the Black Legend, the location of Christopher Columbus's mortal remains, and the survival of indigenous culture