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17 produkter
Merchants of Doubt
How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
Av Erik M. Conway, Naomi Oreskes
Häftad, 2012
191 kr
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The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life. Our scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming. But at the same time, a …
Big Myth
With a New Afterword by the Authors
Av Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway
Häftad, 2025
303 kr
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“[A] scorching indictment of free market fundamentalism . . . and how we can change, before it’s too late.”— Esquire The bestselling authors of Merchants of Doubt offer a profound, startling history of one of America’s most tenacious—and destructive—false ideas: the myth of the "free market." In …
Merchants of Doubt
How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
Av Erik M. Conway, Naomi Oreskes
E-bok, 2011
184 kr
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The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life. These scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming. But at the same time, a …
Blind Landings
Low-Visibility Operations in American Aviation, 1918–1958
Inbunden, 2006
622 kr
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When darkness falls, storms rage, fog settles, or lights fail, pilots are forced to make "instrument landings," relying on technology and training to guide them through typically the most dangerous part of any flight. In this original study, Erik M. Conway recounts one of the most important stories …
High-Speed Dreams
NASA and the Technopolitics of Supersonic Transportation, 1945–1999
Häftad, 2008
463 kr
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In High-Speed Dreams, Erik M. Conway constructs an insightful history that focuses primarily on the political and commercial factors responsible for the rise and fall of American supersonic transport research programs. Conway charts commercial supersonic research efforts through the changing …
Exploration and Engineering
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Quest for Mars
Häftad, 2016
420 kr
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Although the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has become synonymous with the United States' planetary exploration during the past half century, its most recent focus has been on Mars. Beginning in the 1990s and continuing through the Mars Phoenix mission of 2007, JPL led the way …
Exploration and Science
Social Impact and Interaction
Av Michael Sean Reidy, Gary Kroll m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
993 kr
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This comprehensive volume explores the intricate, mutually dependent relationship between science and exploration—how each has repeatedly built on the discoveries of the other and, in the process, opened new frontiers.A simple question: Which came first, advances in navigation or successful voyages …
Exploration and Science
Social Impact and Interaction
Av Michael Sean Reidy, Gary Kroll m. fl.
E-bok, 2006
1091 kr
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This comprehensive volume explores the intricate, mutually dependent relationship between science and exploration—how each has repeatedly built on the discoveries of the other and, in the process, opened new frontiers. A simple question: Which came first, advances in navigation or successful …
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Climate Change
Av Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway
Häftad, 2011
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232 kr
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Big Myth
How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market
Av Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway
E-bok, 2023
323 kr
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“[A] scorching indictment of free market fundamentalism . . . and how we can change, before it''s too late.”- Esquire The bestselling authors of Merchants of Doubt offer a profound, startling history of one of America''s most tenacious-and destructive-false ideas: the myth of the "free market." In …
Electrical Conquest
New Approaches to the History of Electrification
Av W. Bernard Carlson, Erik M Conway
Inbunden, 2024
1422 kr
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This book, drawing on fresh scholarship, investigates electrification in new places and across different time periods. While much of our understanding of electrification as a historical process is based on the seminal work done by Thomas P. Hughes in Networks of Power (1983), the scholars in this …
Electrical Conquest
New Approaches to the History of Electrification
Av Erik M Conway, W. Bernard Carlson
E-bok, 2024
1785 kr
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This book, drawing on fresh scholarship, investigates electrification in new places and across different time periods. While much of our understanding of electrification as a historical process is based on the seminal work done by Thomas P. Hughes in Networks of Power (1983), the scholars in this …
Electrical Conquest
New Approaches to the History of Electrification
Av W. Bernard Carlson, Erik M Conway
Häftad, 2025
1422 kr
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This book, drawing on fresh scholarship, investigates electrification in new places and across different time periods. While much of our understanding of electrification as a historical process is based on the seminal work done by Thomas P. Hughes in Networks of Power (1983), the scholars in this …
Mercaderes de la duda
Cómo un puñado de científicos ocultaron la verdad sobre el calentamiento global
Av Erik M. Conway, Naomi Oreskes
E-bok, 2020
140 kr
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Naomi Oreskes y Erik M. Conway cuentan la historia de cómo un grupo de científicos y asesores científicos de alto nivel, con profundas conexiones en el mundo de la política y de la industria, realizaron campañas efectivas para engañar al público y negar verdades científicas comprobadas a lo largo …
El gran mito
Cómo las empresas nos enseñaron a aborrecer el Gobierno y amar el libre mercado
Av Erik M. Conway, Naomi Oreskes
E-bok, 2024
166 kr
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En ''Mercaderes de la duda'', Naomi Oreskes y Erik M. Conway revelaron los orígenes del negacionismo del cambio climático. Ahora, desvelan la verdad sobre otro dogma desastroso: la "magia del mercado".A principios del siglo XX, las élites empresariales, las asociaciones comerciales, los poderosos …
Atmospheric Science at NASA
A History
Inbunden, 2009
587 kr
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This book offers an informed and revealing account of NASA's involvement in the scientific understanding of the Earth's atmosphere. Since the nineteenth century, scientists have attempted to understand the complex processes of the Earth's atmosphere and the weather created within it. This effort …
Exploration and Engineering
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Quest for Mars
Inbunden, 2015
346 kr
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Although the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has become synonymous with the United States' planetary exploration during the past half century, its most recent focus has been on Mars. Beginning in the 1990s and continuing through the Mars Phoenix mission of 2007, JPL led the way …
