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Vital Minimum: Need, Science, and Politics in Modern France
VITAL MINIMUM
MPN: d836cefd5a6228c9bf89044882cf7f40
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Tigers of the World: The Science, Politics, and Conservation of Panthera Tigris
The second edition of "Tigers of the World" explores tiger biology, ecology, conservation, management, and the science and technology that make this possible. In 1988, when the first edition was published, tiger conservation was still in its infancy, and two decades later there has been a revolution not only in what is known, but how information about tigers is obtained and disseminated. In the fast changing world of conservation, there is a great need to summarize the vast and current state-of-the-art, to ...
MPN: a1a4170da61220ef57844c91d74fed1f
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Simple Statistics: A Course Book for the Social Sciences
Paperback, Cambridge Univ Pr, 1984, ISBN13 9780521288026, ISBN10 0521288029
MPN: f9203e64e64dab4bdb24efe9c4e9bb85
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American Government and Politics Today + Mindtap Political Science Access Code: The Essentials 2015-2016
Paperback, Cengage Learning, 2015, ISBN13 9781285853154, ISBN10 1285853156
MPN: 647e53347b57329dddc2b8d2af4695e6
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Seeds, Science, and Struggle: The Global Politics of Transgenic Crops
Genetic engineering has a wide range of cultural, economic, and ethical implications, yet it has become almost an article of faith that regulatory decisions about biotechnology be based only on evidence of specific quantifiable risks; to consider anyth...
MPN: ab4bf3f7817fc4da3f7ea39ac2d23dbe
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Space-Age Science and Stone-Age Politics
Discusses the tensions created by the rapid rate of scientific and technological change, contrasted with the slow rate of change of our political institutions. This book discusses the steps we must take to harmonize our social and political institutions w...
MPN: bcfa447ca2e5d40685f86e05bd84697d
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Analyzing Politics: An Introduction to Political Science
Brief, accessible, and sophisticated, ANALYZING POLITICS, Sixth Edition, presents a clear outline of the discipline of political science and helps students understand the practical and immediate uses of applying analytical approaches to the study of polit...
MPN: c8215a85604bcc42249c191cc20419b2
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Unhealthy Betrayal: How the Manipulation of Science and Politics by Corporate Interests Destroys Health and Threatens the Future of Humani
Unhealthy Betrayal explores the reasons for the collapse of health, the prevalence of chronic health conditions in the Western economies, and failure of modern medicine with its reliance on the use of drugs, chemotherapy and surgery to deal with the conse...
MPN: d59bfc9199ebc79225ca0125d95aaac2
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The Gene Wars: Science, Politics, and the Human Genome
The Human Genome Project, the most ambitious biological research program ever undertaken, was born in controversy. Heralded by its more enthusiastic proponents as a quest for the 'Holy Grail of biology' - and the key, ultimately, to the treatment of a var...
MPN: e57fe1e44c3cfea994eb9960e94656f9
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Swift and Science: The Satire, Politics, and Theology of Natural Knowledge, 1690-1730
It is thought that Swift was opposed to the new science that heralded the beginning of the modern age, but this book interrogates that assumption, tracing the theological, political, and socio-cultural resonances of scientific knowledge in the early eight...
MPN: b5878d5029caa81d9006fdcbc9d07b99
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The Death of Reality: How the Blending of Corrupt Politics with Linguistic Theory Have Threatened Science by Undermining Our Culture's Capac
The Death of Reality documents that a politically-inspired unreality has been imposed upon the American culture. The political left is making a successful assault upon reality-founded knowledge and substituting ideologically generated beliefs in in its pl...
MPN: 65746596fc72c373883489886a0a2146
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Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge
In the short, turbulent history of AIDS research and treatment, the boundaries between scientist insiders and lay outsiders have been crisscrossed to a degree never before seen in medical history. Steven Epstein's astute and readable investigation focuses...
MPN: 1809c17a7ac7743d32602d96bea6dcf3
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