Studies in Modern Science, Technology, and the Environment – serie
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13 produkter
Enduring Roots
Encounters with Trees, History, and the American Landscape
Häftad, 2005
309 kr
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Trees are the grandest and most beautiful plant creations on earth. From their shade-giving, arching branches and strikingly diverse bark to their complex root systems, trees represent shelter, stability, place, and community as few other living objects can.Enduring Roots tells the stories of …
Gender and the Science of Difference
Cultural Politics of Contemporary Science and Medicine
Inbunden, 2011
1506 kr
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How does contemporary science contribute to our understanding about what it means to be women or men? What are the social implications of scientific claims about differences between "male" and "female" brains, hormones, and genes? How does culture influence scientific and medical research and its …
Gender and the Science of Difference
Cultural Politics of Contemporary Science and Medicine
Häftad, 2011
426 kr
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How does contemporary science contribute to our understanding about what it means to be women or men? What are the social implications of scientific claims about differences between "male" and "female" brains, hormones, and genes? How does culture influence scientific and medical research and its …
Overpotential
Fuel Cells, Futurism, and the Making of a Power Panacea
Inbunden, 2012
851 kr
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It sounds so simple. Just combine oxygen and hydrogen in an electrochemical reaction that produces water and electricity, and you’ll have a clean, efficient power source. But scientists have spent decades-and billions of dollars in government and industry funding-developing the fuel cell. There …
Malthusian Moment
Global Population Growth and the Birth of American Environmentalism
Inbunden, 2012
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Although Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) is often cited as the founding text of the U.S. environmental movement, in The Malthusian Moment Thomas Robertson locates the origins of modern American environmentalism in twentieth-century adaptations of Thomas Malthus’s concerns about population …
Malthusian Moment
Global Population Growth and the Birth of American Environmentalism
Häftad, 2012
417 kr
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Although Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) is often cited as the founding text of the U.S. environmental movement, in The Malthusian Moment Thomas Robertson locates the origins of modern American environmentalism in twentieth-century adaptations of Thomas Malthus’s concerns about population …
Shaky Foundations
The Politics-Patronage-Social Science Nexus in Cold War America
Av Mark Solovey
Häftad, 2015
443 kr
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“Solovey’s social scientists are neither naÏve researchers exploited by the military-industrial complex nor greedy masterminds eagerly anticipating their patrons’ needs. Instead, he presents us with a series of encounters between program managers, disciplinary spokesmen, and political partisans, …
Knowing Global Environments
New Historical Perspectives on the Field Sciences
Inbunden, 2010
837 kr
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Knowing Global Environments brings together nine leading scholars whose work spans a variety of environmental and field sciences, including archaeology, agriculture, botany, climatology, ecology, evolutionary biology, oceanography, ornithology, and tidology.Collectively their essays explore the …
Making a Green Machine
The Infrastructure of Beverage Container Recycling
Inbunden, 2011
668 kr
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Consider an empty bottle or can, one of the hundreds of billions of beverage containers that are discarded worldwide every year. Empty containers have been at the center of intense political controversies, technological innovation processes, and the modern environmental movement. Making a Green …
Story of N
A Social History of the Nitrogen Cycle and the Challenge of Sustainability
Inbunden, 2013
804 kr
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In The Story of N, Hugh S. Gorman analyzes the notion of sustainability from a fresh perspective-the integration of human activities with the biogeochemical cycling of nitrogen-and provides a supportive alternative to studying sustainability through the lens of climate change and the cycling of …
Shaky Foundations
The Politics-Patronage-Social Science Nexus in Cold War America
Av Mark Solovey
Inbunden, 2013
1695 kr
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Numerous popular and scholarly accounts have exposed the deep impact of patrons on the production of scientific knowledge and its applications. Shaky Foundations provides the first extensive examination of a new patronage system for the social sciences that emerged in the early Cold War years and …
Hormones, Heredity, and Race
Spectacular Failure in Interwar Vienna
Inbunden, 2013
992 kr
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Early in the twentieth century, arguments about “nature” and “nurture” pitted a rigid genetic determinism against the idea that genes were flexible and open to environmental change. This book tells the story of three Viennese biologists-Paul Kammerer, Julius Tandler, and Eugen Steinach-who sought …
Growing American Rubber
Strategic Plants and the Politics of National Security
Häftad, 2013
514 kr
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Growing American Rubber explores America's quest during tense decades of the twentieth century to identify a viable source of domestic rubber. Straddling international revolutions and world wars, this unique and well-researched history chronicles efforts of leaders in business, science, and …
