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| ISBN: | 0226429806
9780226429809
1282070363
9781282070363
0226429784
9780226429786
9786612070365
6612070366
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | 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.
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| Other form: | Print version: Kellert, Stephen H. Borrowed knowledge. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008
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