TEXT A:

Complex, vast, and multidisciplinary, chemical propulsion has been the subject of
extensive investigation over the past few decades. Under the leadership of Gabriel Roy,
this has been particularly true at the Office of Naval Research (ONR), where his team
has focused on the three primary goals of combustion research improving the efficiency,
increasing the range and speed, and reducing the emissions and signatures of
combustion systems.

Advances in Chemical Propulsion: Science to Technology reports on the progress

achieved by the outstanding team of scientists and engineers participating in the ONR
Propulsion Program. Its chapters, each written by the scientists who performed the
research, cover all aspects of the combustion process, from chemical synthesis to
reaction pathways of the fuel, from combustor performance to the reduction of
emissions, from the sooting to thrust vectoring, and from diagnostics to control. They
discuss the relevant issues, describe the approach used and the results obtained, and
show how the findings can be extended to practical applications.

Richly illustrated and carefully edited for clarity, uniformity and readability, Advances
in Chemical Propulsion offers a comprehensive survey of the field, from the pre-to
post-combustion. It suggests directions for new research efforts and reflects the state-of-
the-art technologies and issues that have a direct impact on combustion systems, both
present and future.

TEXT B:

Philosophy of Social Sciences provides a lightly argued yet accessible introduction to

the philosophical foundations of the human sciences, including economics,
anthropology, sociology, political science, psychology, history and the disciplines
emerging at the intersections of these subjects with biology. Philosophy is unavoidable
for social scientists because the choices they make in answering questions in their
disciplines force them to take sides on philosophical matters. Conversely, the social
behavior sciences must inform philosophers´ understanding of human action, norms and
social institutions.

The third edition retains from previous editions an illuminating interpretation of the
enduring relations between the conduct of inquiry in the social sciences and the
fundamental problems of philosophy, with accessible considerations of positivism,
European philosophy of history, education, statistical laws, quantitative models, and
postempiricist social science.

Features new to this edition include an overview of the eclipse of behaviourism in

psychology and the rise of the game theory in economics, considerations of problems
for functionalism in social science that must be addressed by an appeal to biology and
especially Darwinian thinking, analysis of the debate between ´´ nativists´´ and
exponents of the ´´ standard social science model´´ that emphasizes nurture over nature
as the source of significant human traits; and expanded discussion of feminism in the
human sciences.