From the author of the hugely popular "Embryology: An Illustrated Text"! A concise text, packed with high-quality illustrations, focusing on essential features - if you're on a course where basic sciences emphasize the principle points of relevance to you, this is the perfect book for you.[...]

In "Unsimple Truths", Sandra D. Mitchell argues that the long-standing scientific and philosophical deference to reductive explanations founded on simple universal laws, linear causal models, and predict-and-act strategies fails to accommodate the kinds of knowledge that many contemporary sciences a[...]

This fine collection of essays by a leading philosopher of science presents a defence of integrative pluralism as the best description for the complexity of scientific inquiry today. The tendency of some scientists to unify science by reducing all theories to a few fundamental laws of the most basic[...]