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Golden Holocaust
Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition
Inbunden, 2012
359 kr
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The cigarette is the deadliest artifact in the history of human civilization. It is also one of the most beguiling, thanks to more than a century of manipulation at the hands of tobacco industry chemists. In "Golden Holocaust", Robert N. Proctor draws on reams of formerly-secret industry documents …
Ignorance Unmasked
Essays in the New Science of Agnotology
Av Robert N. Proctor, Londa Schiebinger m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
294 kr
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We live in an age of ignorance. This book offers a guide to how we got here—and how we might escape.From obfuscations of climate science to the myriad deceptions inhering in language, Ignorance Unmasked explores how agnotology—the study of ignorance—can help us better grasp: Why don't we know what …
Golden Holocaust
Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition
E-bok, 2012
428 kr
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The cigarette is the deadliest artifact in the history of human civilization. It is also one of the most beguiling, thanks to more than a century of manipulation at the hands of tobacco industry chemists. In Golden Holocaust , Robert N. Proctor draws on reams of formerly-secret industry documents …
Racial Hygiene
Medicine under the Nazis
Häftad, 1990
360 kr
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Scholars exploring the history of science under the Nazis have generally concentrated on the Nazi destruction of science or the corruption of intellectual and liberal values. Racial Hygiene focuses on how scientists themselves participated in the construction of Nazi racial policy. Robert Proctor …
Value-Free Science?
Purity and Power in Modern Knowledge
Inbunden, 1991
976 kr
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Why have scientists shied away from politics, or defended their work as value free? How has the ideal of neutrality come to dominate the world of science? These are some of the central questions that Robert Proctor addresses in his study of the politics of modern science.Value-Free Science? …
Agnotology
The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance
Av Robert N. Proctor, Londa Schiebinger
Häftad, 2008
333 kr
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What don't we know, and why don't we know it? What keeps ignorance alive, or allows it to be used as a political instrument? Agnotology—the study of ignorance—provides a new theoretical perspective to broaden traditional questions about "how we know" to ask: Why don't we know what we don't know? …
Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum ...; [Pt. 1] v. 2 1898
Av Robert N. Proctor, Frank Nr Isaac m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
311 kr
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Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum ...; Pt. 2, s. 1 1903
Av Robert N. Proctor, Frank Nr Isaac m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
282 kr
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Poisonous Pandas
Chinese Cigarette Manufacturing in Critical Historical Perspectives
Av Matthew Kohrman, Gan Quan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
1390 kr
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A favorite icon for cigarette manufacturers across China since the mid-twentieth century has been the panda, with factories from Shanghai to Sichuan using cuddly cliché to market tobacco products. The proliferation of panda-branded cigarettes coincides with profound, yet poorly appreciated, shifts …
Poisonous Pandas
Chinese Cigarette Manufacturing in Critical Historical Perspectives
Av Matthew Kohrman, Gan Quan m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
338 kr
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A favorite icon for cigarette manufacturers across China since the mid-twentieth century has been the panda, with factories from Shanghai to Sichuan using cuddly cliché to market tobacco products. The proliferation of panda-branded cigarettes coincides with profound, yet poorly appreciated, shifts …
Poisonous Pandas
Chinese Cigarette Manufacturing in Critical Historical Perspectives
Av Matthew Kohrman, Gan Quan m. fl.
E-bok, 2018
397 kr
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A favorite icon for cigarette manufacturers across China since the mid-twentieth century has been the panda, with factories from Shanghai to Sichuan using cuddly cliché to market tobacco products. The proliferation of panda-branded cigarettes coincides with profound, yet poorly appreciated, shifts …
Ignorance Unmasked
Essays in the New Science of Agnotology
Av Robert N. Proctor, Londa Schiebinger
Inbunden, 2025
1217 kr
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We live in an age of ignorance. This book offers a guide to how we got here—and how we might escape.From obfuscations of climate science to the myriad deceptions inhering in language, Ignorance Unmasked explores how agnotology—the study of ignorance—can help us better grasp: Why don't we know what …
Ignorance Unmasked
Essays in the New Science of Agnotology
Av Robert N. Proctor, Londa Schiebinger
E-bok, 2025
357 kr
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We live in an age of ignorance. This book offers a guide to how we got here—and how we might escape.From obfuscations of climate science to the myriad deceptions inhering in language, Ignorance Unmasked explores how agnotology - the study of ignorance - can help us better grasp: Why don't we know …
Packaged Pleasures
How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire
Av Gary S. Cross, Robert N. Proctor
Inbunden, 2014
332 kr
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From the candy bar to the cigarette, records to roller coasters, a technological revolution during the last quarter of the nineteenth century precipitated a colossal shift in human consumption and sensual experience. Food, drink, and many other consumer goods came to be mass-produced, bottled, …