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12 produkter
Health Care Policy in Contemporary America
Av Alan I. Marcus, Hamilton Cravens
Häftad, 1997
543 kr
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Americans have benefited from substantial improvements in health since the end of World War II. They live longer and grow taller; they have the safest and cheapest food supply on the planet; they have seen virtually all childhood diseases brought under control. Yet concerns about health remain …
Land of Milk and Money
The Creation of the Southern Dairy Industry
Inbunden, 2021
589 kr
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In Land of Milk and Money, Alan I Marcus examines the establishment of the dairy industry in the United States South during the 1920s. Looking specifically at the internal history of the Borden Company—the world's largest dairy firm—as well as small-town efforts to lure industry and manufacturing …
Technical Knowledge in American Culture
Science, Technology and Medicine Since the Early 1800s
Av Hamilton Cravens, David M. Katzman m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
385 kr
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This text addresses the relationship between what modern-day experts say to each other and to their constituencies and whether what they say and do relates to the larger culture and society. It challenges the social impact model by looking at science and technology as intellectual activities.
Service As Mandate
How American Land-Grant Universities Shaped the Modern World, 1920–2015
Inbunden, 2015
660 kr
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Established by the Morrill Land-Grant College Act of 1862, America’s land-grant universities have had far-reaching influences on the United States and the world. Service as Mandate, Alan I Marcus’s second edited collection of insightful essays about land-grant universities, explores how these …
Science as Service
Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930
Av Alan I Marcus, Alan I Marcus
E-bok, 2015
1170 kr
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Science as Service : Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930 is the first of a two-volume study that traces the foundation and evolution of America’s land-grant institutions. In this expertly curated collection of essays, Alan I Marcus has assembled a tough-minded …
Service as Mandate
How American Land-Grant Universities Shaped the Modern World, 1920–2015
E-bok, 2016
1170 kr
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Established by the Morrill Land-Grant College Act of 1862, America’s land-grant universities have had far-reaching influences on the United States and the world. Service as Mandate , Alan I Marcus’s second edited collection of insightful essays about land-grant universities, explores how these …
Malignant Growth
Creating the Modern Cancer Research Establishment, 1875–1915
E-bok, 2018
1170 kr
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An examination of the first attempt to conquer cancer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In Malignant Growth: Creating the Modern Cancer Research Establishment, 1875–1915 , Alan I Marcus explores a relatively understudied period in the history of cancer by providing a careful …
Technology in America
A Brief History
Av Alan I. Marcus, Howard P. Segal
Häftad, 2018
473 kr
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Now in a thoroughly updated new edition, this successful textbook surveys the history of technology in America from the 1600s to the 21st century. Alan I Marcus and Howard P. Segal explore the effect society, culture, politics and economics have had upon technological advances, and place the …
Technology in America
A Brief History
Av Alan I. Marcus, Howard P. Segal
Inbunden, 2018
1462 kr
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Now in a thoroughly updated new edition, this successful textbook surveys the history of technology in America from the 1600s to the 21st century. Alan I Marcus and Howard P. Segal explore the effect society, culture, politics and economics have had upon technological advances, and place the …
Technology in America
A Brief History
Av Alan I. Marcus, Howard P. Segal
E-bok, 2018
514 kr
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Now in a thoroughly updated new edition, this successful textbook surveys the history of technology in America from the 1600s to the 21st century. Alan I Marcus and Howard P. Segal explore the effect society, culture, politics and economics have had upon technological advances, and place the …
Technology in America
A Brief History
Av Alan I. Marcus, Howard P. Segal
E-bok, 2018
499 kr
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Now in a thoroughly updated new edition, this successful textbook surveys the history of technology in America from the 1600s to the 21st century. Alan I Marcus and Howard P. Segal explore the effect society, culture, politics and economics have had upon technological advances, and place the …
Agricultural Scientists
A Cultural History
Inbunden, 2026
935 kr
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Tracing the history of agricultural scientists in the United States from the colonial period to the present, Agricultural Scientists: A Cultural History explores the premise that culture has dictated and constrained how agricultural scientists approach their work through the centuries.Beginning in …
