By Brand
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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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Anthropology Unmasked: Museums, Science, and Politics in New York City
Paperback, Orange Frazer Pr Inc, 2011, ISBN13 9781933197838, ISBN10 1933197838
MPN: 017091c432a171a4022af11dc5c2a7c0
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Protecting Yellowstone: Science and the Politics of National Park Management
Yellowstone National Park looks like a pristine western landscape populated by its wild inhabitants: bison, grizzly bears, and wolves. But the bison do not always range freely, snowmobile noise intrudes upon the park's profound winter silence, and some tourist villages are located in prime grizzly bear habitat. Despite these problems, the National Park Service has succeeded in reintroducing wolves, allowing wildfires to play their natural role in park forests, and prohibiting a gold mine that would be prese...
MPN: 12e70d37b216ee79c7413de6f58c12a6
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Mortal Gods: Science, Politics, and the Humanist Ambitions of Thomas Hobbes
According to the commonly accepted view, Thomas Hobbes began his intellectual career as a humanist, but his discovery, in midlife, of the wonders of geometry initiated a critical transition from humanism to the scientific study of politics. In Mortal G...
MPN: ae5010a7c26e2c09a6eac6f5298b4f9d
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Science After the Practice Turn in the Philosophy, History, and Social Studies of Science
In the 1980s, philosophical, historical and social studies of science underwent a change which later evolved into a turn to practice. Analysts of science were asked to pay attention to scientific practices in meticulous detail and along multiple dimensions, including the material, social and psychological. Following this turn, the interest in scientific practices continued to increase and had an indelible influence in the various fields of science studies. No doubt, the practice turn changed our conceptions...
MPN: c5154a93894c2c11dc3478f841877f33
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Science as a Process: An Evolutionary Account of the Social and Conceptual Development of Science
Legend is overdue for replacement, and an adequate replacement must attend to the process of science as carefully as Hull has done. I share his vision of a serious account of the social and intellectual dynamics of science that will avoid both the rosy b...
MPN: d80a8d52821520d2dbfa951e8a2b7e7d
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Politics, Sociology, and Social Theory: Encounters with Classical and Contemporary Social Thought
Paperback, Stanford Univ Pr, 1995, ISBN13 9780804726245, ISBN10 0804726248
MPN: d5f2a29d882169b0a0e7e88d57a0f2b6
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Social Statistics for a Diverse Society, 7th Ed. + Using IBM SPSS Statistics for Research Methods and Social Science Statistics, 5th Ed.
Paperback, Sage Pubns, 2014, ISBN13 9781483358642, ISBN10 148335864X
MPN: 13e80dcaf6b20ecc1d540e9bef682a6e
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