By Brand
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The Untold Story of Milk: The History, Politics and Science of Nature's Perfect Food: Raw Milk from Pasture-Fed Cows
The role of raw milk in the rise of civilization, the milk problem that led to compulsory pasteurization, the politics of the dairy industry. Revised and updated with the latest scientific studies documenting the safety and health benefits of raw milk. Raw milk is a movement whose time has come. This book will serve as a catalyst for that movement, providing consumers with the facts and inspiration they need to embrace Nature's perfect food....
MPN: 0eed6ee34eede18e8786d47308ada3f3
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Biohackers: The Politics of Open Science
Biohackers explores fundamental changes occurring in the circulation and ownership of scientific information. Alessandro Delfanti argues that the combination of the ethos of 20th century science, the hacker movement and the free software movement is producing an open science culture which redefines the relationship between researchers, scientific institutions and commercial companies. Biohackers looks at the emergence of the citizen biology community "DIYbio," the shift to open access by the American biolog...
MPN: b80f92f55befa87b8b19e703330b9273
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Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century
Paperback, Perseus Distribution Services, 2012, ISBN13 9781595588340, ISBN10 1595588345
MPN: f947d857d852fa52c6ee7ce6a3cb64ad
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Nutritionism: The Science and Politics of Dietary Advice
Popularized by Michael Pollan in his best-selling "In Defense of Food," Gyorgy Scrinis's concept of nutritionism refers to the reductive understanding of nutrients as the key indicators of healthy food - an approach that has dominated nutrition science, dietary advice, and food marketing. Scrinis argues this ideology has narrowed and in some cases distorted our appreciation of food quality, such that even highly processed foods may be perceived as healthful depending on their content of "good" or "bad" nutr...
MPN: 50089b977bfe3ee69a4a443b524ebb1d
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The Honest Broker: Making Sense for Science in Policy and Politics
For scientists seeking to play a positive role in policy and politics and contribute to the sustainability of the scientific enterprise, scientists have choices in what role they play. This book is about understanding this choice. Rather than prescribing what course of action each scientist ought to take, the book aims to identify a range of options. Using examples from a range of scientific controversies, The Honest Broker challenges us all - scientists, politicians and citizens - to think carefully about ...
MPN: 4b297911f55c78eb715ec6958edfad1b
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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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