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Excerpt from Reprint and Circular Series of the National Research Council It may be objected that, while the analytic and other good content indexes are clearly more useful than any title indexes, they are too long and too difficult and laborious to prepare. But a comparison of the analytic index, here reprinted, with the correunclassified title indexes, though containing three times as many references, which are, moreover, precisely and thoroughly classi fied. Also, the preparation does not require remarkable ability nor should it take an undue amount of the editor's time if the work is well organized. After deciding as to the classification to be adopted, the editor's task is merely to indicate on the abstracts the titles to be used to index the articles (heads and subheads being designated in some convenient way) and later to go carefully through the entries which have been typewritten on slips and arranged alphabetically. The clerical work can be greatly simpli fied by the use of methods developed by such indexing agencies as Chemical Abstracts, the H. W. Wilson Company, and the New York Times. The subject-indexes now serving the various sciences vary widely in type and usefulness, as stated above. Some are very poor, some very good; but none is as complete and precise as it should be if it is to give maximum service to research. In its field. It is only a question of time, however, when the workers in each science will come to realize the incalculable value of an efficient abstract journal combined with a complete, precise, and thoroughly classified subject - index, and they will arrange to make the small sacrifices of time and money necessary to secure such uniquely important tools. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Reprint and Circular Series of the National Research Council, Vol. 12: Industrial Research 6. Finally, a most important point, not to be lost sight of in the organization of a successful industrial research department, is the fact that many very capable men trained for industrial research are essentially devoid of certain commercial attributes. Many of them, for instance, fail to realize that on a large number of their problems time is an essential element in the work, while others fail to give due weight to that phase of the work which lies between the completion of the research activity and the introduction of the results into commercial manufacture or employment under modern conditions where the day-byoday control must, of necessity, be largely in the hands of those who are not highly trained skilled workers. For this reason it is essential that whoever is responsible for the direction and success of the industrial research under taking should be a man with a broad outlook, a full appreciation of all of the factors of the business problem and a man who can sympathize with and appreciate the varying points of view which he encounters and who can harmonize all of the activities into a smooth-working machine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Reprint and Circular Series of the National Research Council, Vol. 2: Refractory Materials as a Field for Research With this explanation therefore we shall assume that our hypothetical research association or corporation finds it convenient to organize itself into divisions for handling the different parts of its work. These divi sions might be somewhat as follows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Steven Shapin argues that science, for all its immense authority and power, is and always has been a human endeavor, subject to human capacities and limits. Put simply, science has never been pure. To be human is to err, and we understand science better when we recognize it as the laborious achievement of fallible, imperfect, and historically situated human beings. Shapin’s essays collected here include reflections on the historical relationships between science and common sense, between science and modernity, and between science and the moral order. They explore the relevance of physical and social settings in the making of scientific knowledge, the methods appropriate to understanding science historically, dietetics as a compelling site for historical inquiry, the identity of those who have made scientific knowledge, and the means by which science has acquired credibility and authority. This wide-ranging and intensely interdisciplinary collection by one of the most distinguished historians and sociologists of science represents some of the leading edges of change in the scholarly understanding of science over the past several decades.

Investigating a theme first pioneered by Barry Barnes in the early 1970s, this volume explores the relationship between social order and legitimate knowledge and is intended as a tribute to Barnes' seminal role in the development of the discipline of science and technology studies (STS). The contributors highlight the way in which Barnes' work has shaped their way of conceptualizing the basic relation between knowledge and society. In doing this they explore the original sociological underpinnings of STS while pointing to the way in which Barnes' interdisciplinary work has been developed to tackle current concerns in the field as well as in social theory. They also address the concerns of social scientists who are investigating the nature of power and agency and the problem of social order, emphasizing the essential role played by scientific knowledge and technological machinery in the construction of social life. Contributors to the volume include Martin Kusch, Steven Loyal, Mark Haugaard, David Bloor, Trevor Pinch, John Dupre, Donald MacKenzie, Harry Collins, Steven Shapin and Karin Knorr Cetina.

A historical rediscovery of one of the heroic founders of the conservation movement who was also one of the most infamous racists in American history