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  1. Borrowed knowledge
    chaos theory and the challenge of learning across disciplines
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0226429784; 0226429806; 1282070363; 9780226429786; 9780226429809; 9781282070363
    Subjects: Science; SCIENCE / Chaotic Behavior in Systems; Chaotic behavior in systems; Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge; Science / Philosophy; Naturwissenschaft; Philosophie; Chaotic behavior in systems; Science; Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge; Wissenschaftsentwicklung; Chaostheorie; Interdisziplinarität
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 292 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    What was chaos theory, and why would people want to borrow it? -- Disciplinary pluralism -- The rhetorical functions of borrowing and the uses of disciplinary prestige -- Motivating methodological change -- Metaphorical chaos -- How to criticize a metaphor -- Facts, values, and intervention -- Beautiful chaos? -- Postmodern chaos and the challenge of pluralism

    What happens to scientific knowledge when researchers outside the natural sciences bring elements of the latest trend across disciplinary boundaries for their own purposes? Researchers in fields from anthropology to family therapy and traffic planning employ the concepts, methods, and results of chaos theory to harness the disciplinary prestige of the natural sciences, to motivate methodological change or conceptual reorganization within their home discipline, and to justify public policies and aesthetic judgments. Using the recent explosion in the use (and abuse) of chaos theory, Borrowed Know

  2. Borrowed knowledge
    chaos theory and the challenge of learning across disciplines
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0226429784; 9780226429786
    Subjects: Chaotic behavior in systems; Science; Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge; Wissenschaftsentwicklung; Interdisziplinarität; Chaostheorie
    Scope: x, 292 p
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index

  3. Borrowed knowledge
    chaos theory and the challenge of learning across disciplines
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0226429784; 9780226429786
    Subjects: Naturwissenschaft; Philosophie; Chaotic behavior in systems; Science; Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge; Wissenschaftsentwicklung; Chaostheorie; Interdisziplinarität
    Scope: x, 292 p
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index

  4. Borrowed knowledge
    chaos theory and the challenge of learning across disciplines
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago [u.a.]

    Universitätsbibliothek Bamberg
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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780226429786; 0226429784
    RVK Categories: SK 890
    Subjects: Naturwissenschaft; Philosophie; Chaotic behavior in systems; Science; Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge; Wissenschaftsentwicklung; Chaostheorie; Interdisziplinarität
    Scope: X, 292 S.
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index

  5. Borrowed knowledge
    chaos theory and the challenge of learning across disciplines
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago [u.a.]

    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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    TU Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780226429786; 0226429784
    RVK Categories: SK 890
    Subjects: Naturwissenschaft; Philosophie; Chaotic behavior in systems; Science; Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge; Wissenschaftsentwicklung; Chaostheorie; Interdisziplinarität
    Scope: X, 292 S.
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index

  6. Borrowed knowledge
    chaos theory and the challenge of learning across disciplines
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill. [u.a.]

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0226429784; 9780226429786
    RVK Categories: CC 3200 ; SK 890
    Subjects: Chaotic behavior in systems; Science; Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge
    Scope: X, 292 S., 23cm
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    Literaturverz. S. [259] - 281

  7. Borrowed knowledge
    chaos theory and the challenge of learning across disciplines
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago, [u.a.] ; University Presses Marketing, Bristol

    What was chaos theory, and why would people want to borrow it? -- Disciplinary pluralism -- The rhetorical functions of borrowing and the uses of disciplinary prestige -- Motivating methodological change -- Metaphorical chaos -- How to criticize a... more

    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
    1 A 735453
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan
    Bibliothek im KG IV, Bereich Anglistik und Amerikanistik
    Frei 24: EP 100/201
    No loan of volumes, only paper copies will be sent
    Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) / Leibniz-Informationszentrum Technik und Naturwissenschaften und Universitätsbibliothek
    T 09 B 3613
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    Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim
    2008 A 7091
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    Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim
    2009 A 4682
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    Universität Stuttgart, Historisches Institut, Bibliothek
    Wa 60/10
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    What was chaos theory, and why would people want to borrow it? -- Disciplinary pluralism -- The rhetorical functions of borrowing and the uses of disciplinary prestige -- Motivating methodological change -- Metaphorical chaos -- How to criticize a metaphor -- Facts, values, and intervention -- Beautiful chaos? -- Postmodern chaos and the challenge of pluralism

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0226429784; 9780226429786
    Other identifier:
    9780226429786
    2008011080
    RVK Categories: SK 890
    Subjects: Chaotic behavior in systems; Science; Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge; Chaotic behavior in systems; Science; Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge
    Scope: X, 292 S., 24 cm
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-281) and index

    What was chaos theory, and why would people want to borrow it? -- Disciplinary pluralism -- The rhetorical functions of borrowing and the uses of disciplinary prestige -- Motivating methodological change -- Metaphorical chaos -- How to criticize a metaphor -- Facts, values, and intervention -- Beautiful chaos? -- Postmodern chaos and the challenge of pluralism.