By Laura Kay, Stacy Palen
Teaches scholars to imagine like scientists.
Authors Laura Kay and Stacy Palen have constructed pedagogy that is helping scholars comprehend the method of technology, and the way actual ideas are used to find the origins of the universe. The authors emphasize how we all know what we all know within the figures, textual content, and end-of-chapter fabric.
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