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Merchants of Doubt (10 Edition) by Naomi Oreskes Publisher Comments "Merchants of Doubt should finally put to rest the question of whether the science of climate change is settled. It is, and we ignore this message at our peril."-Elizabeth Kolbert "Brilliantly reported andwritten with brutal clarity."... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Legal Alchemy: The Use & Misuse of Science in the Law by David L Faigman Synopsis More than ever before, lawyers and politicians must wrestle with scientific research and employ scientific thinking, and the results are often less-than-enlightened. Faigman explores ways American legal systems incorporate this far-reaching knowledge... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future by Chris Mooney Publisher Comments Climate change, the energy crisis, nuclear proliferation—many of the most urgent problems of the twenty-first century require scientific solutions, yet America is paying less and less attention to scientists. For every five hours of cable news, less... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Bending Science: How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research by Thomas O Mcgarity Publisher Comments What do we know about the possible poisons that industrial technologies leave in our air and water? How reliable is the science that federal regulators and legislators use to protect the public from dangerous products? As this disturbing book shows... (read more) Your price: $26.75 New - Trade Paper
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Our Biometric Future: Facial Recognition Technology and the Culture of Surveillance by Kelly Gates Publisher Comments Throughout American history, Christianity has shaped public opinion, guided leaders in their decision making, and stood at the center of countless issues. To gain complete knowledge of an era, historians must investigate the religious context of what... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Trade Paper
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Crafting a Cloning Policy: From Dolly to Stem Cells by Andrea L Bonnicksen Publisher Comments Ever since Dolly, the Scottish lamb, tottered on wobbly legs into our consciousness -- followed swiftly by other animals: first, mice; then pigs that may provide human transplants, and even an ordinary house cat -- thoughts have flown to the cloning of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Junk Science: An Overdue Indictment of Government, Industry, and Faith Groups That Twist Science for Their Own Gain by Dan Agin Publisher Comments “A passionate, minutely informed, and scrupulously fair analysis of all the abuses and misuses of science that are rampant today—a clarion call to action that concerns us all.”—Oliver Sacks, M.D., author of Awakenings and... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $4.25 Used - Trade Paper
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Technology and privacy : the new landscape by Philip Agre Publisher Comments Privacy is the capacity to negotiate social relationships by controlling access to personal information. As laws, policies, and technological design increasingly structure people's relationships with social institutions, individual privacy faces new... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Who Rules in Science?: An Opinionated Guide to the Wars by James Brown Publisher Comments Brown takes us through the various engagements in the science wars--from the infamous "Sokal affair" to angry confrontations over the nature of evidence, the possibility of objectivity, and the methods of science--to show how the contested terrain may be... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Digital Phoenix: Why the Information Economy Collapsed and How It Will Rise Again by Bruce Abramson Publisher Comments While we were waiting for the Internet to make us rich--back when we thought all we had to do was to buy lottery tickets called dotcom shares--we missed the real story of the information economy. That story, says Bruce Abramson... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell You about Global Warming by Roger Pielke Publisher Comments The worlds response to climate change has been deeply flawed. The Climate Fix is where we begin to get it back on track, as science policy expert Roger Pielke, Jr. dissects the disastrous climate debate and offers a solution: expanding energy access and... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $11.38 New - Trade Paper
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Theories of the Information Society by Frank Webster Publisher Comments Information has come to be regarded as a symbol of the age in which we live. Talk nowadays is of an information technology' revolution, even of an information society'. But just what does this mean? In Theories of the Information Society Frank Webster... (read more) Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Future of the Internet--and How To Stop It (08 Edition) by Jonathan Zittrain Publisher Comments This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity—and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Racial Economy of Science: Toward a Democratic Future (Race, Gender, & Science) by Sandra Harding Publisher Comments Sandra Harding is an intellectually fearless scholar. She assembled a bold, impressive collection of essays to make a volume of illuminating power. This brilliantly edited book is essential reading for all who seek understanding of the multicultural... (read more) List Price $34.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Politicizing Science: the Alchemy of Policymaking by Michael Gough Publisher Comments Politics and science make strange bedfellows. In politics, perceptions are reality and facts are negotiable. The competing interests, conflicting objectives, and trade-offs of political negotiations often lend themselves to bending the truth and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pieta by George Klein Publisher Comments As Albert Camus's famous dictum has it, the only truly important philosophical question is suicide, or whether life is worth living. Now... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Culture Clash: Law and Sciene in America by Steven Goldberg Publisher Comments Cosa Nostra. Organized crime. The Mob. Call it what you like, no other crime group has infiltrated labor unions and manipulated legitimate industries like Italian organized crime families. One cannot understand the history and political economy of New... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything by Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell Publisher Comments "A marvelous job of exploring first hand the implications of storing our entire lives digitally." -Guy L. Tribble, Apple, Inc. Tech luminary, Gordon Bell, and Jim Gemmell unveil a guide to the next digital revolution. Our daily life started becoming... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $11.95 Sale - Hardcover
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What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable by John Brockman Publisher Comments The history of science is replete with discoveries that were considered socially, morally, or emotionally dangerous in their time; the Copernican and Darwinian revolutions are the most obvious examples. Here, leading thinkers discuss ideas - whether they... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Science, Money, and Politics: Political Triumph and Ethical Erosion by Daniel S Greenberg Publisher Comments Each year, Congress appropriates billions of dollars for scientific research. In this book, veteran science reporter Daniel S. Greenberg takes us behind closed doors to show us who gets it, and why. What he reveals is startling: an overlooked world of... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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