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The Science Communication Challenge explores and discusses the whys as distinct from the hows of science communication. Arguing that the dominant science communication paradigm is didactic, and tracing the origins of that paradigm, it makes the case for a political category of science communication, aimed at furthering discussions of science-related public affairs.

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Designed as an introduction to the age of the scientific revolution, this book offers readers and researchers an appealing mix of narrative chapters, biographical sketches of key figures, and annotated primary documents.

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An encyclopedic collection of key scientists and the tools and concepts they developed that transformed our understanding of the physical world.

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Presents an account of how the War on Cancer campaign has been distorted by economic interests. This book tells that even before its official launch, the War on Cancer was fighting many of the wrong battles, with the wrong weapons and the wrong leaders.

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But it is only by understanding what has gone wrong, that everyone - politicians, business people and us as consumers - can create a new and better material world.

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From the author of the widely acclaimed Y: THE DESCENT OF MEN

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This is a quirky, amusing, information-packed book for all lovers of sleep. It's the book to curl up with before falling asleep.

It looks at the history, culture, folklore, language and science of sleep. The book examines how a lack of sleep is increasingly seen as a health risk.

Sleep is also the place of dreams and nightmares.

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Why have island ecosystems always suffered such high rates of extinction Over the past eight years, David Quammen has followed the threads of island biogeography on a globe-encircling journey of discovery.

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No other research organization dominates the field of science in its country to the degree that the Soviet Academy of Sciences does. The coming to power of the Bolsheviks in 1917 presented Russian science with a new governmental attitude toward the place of science in national life. The Soviet Union's first five-year plan, the period of this study,

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Assuming power in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party was soon faced with a crucial problem: how to construct the socialist 'New Man' Using Foucault's theory of 'technologies of the self', Lynteris examines the conflict between self-cultivation and the abolition of the self in the biopolitically neuralgic field of 'socialist medicine'.

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A handbook on how comprehensive statistical information on how technology affects all areas of our lives.

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From the tiniest microchip to the information superhighway, the modern world is dominated by and dependent upon science. This title examines the relationship between science and religion across time, beginning with the primitive worship of early ancestors and concluding with a vivid portrait of faith in the modern world.

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Learning the basic laws of physics - mechanics, thermodynamics, relativity, quantum mechanics - can be a struggle. This title presents Holmes, Dr Watson, Professor Challenger of "Lost World" fame, and other favourite Conan Doyle characters to solve a Baker Street dozen baffling science mysteries.

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Traditionally a scientific theory is viewed as based on universal laws of nature that serve as axioms for logical deduction. In analyzing the logical structure of evolutionary biology, Elisabeth Lloyd argues that the semantic account is more appropriate and powerful. This book will be of interest to biologists and philosophers alike.

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A wide-ranging summer science beach read describing the sun's profound effects on our lives, our history and our future.

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Therefore, this volume puts forth a new descriptive and normative model of technological choice and offers a critical analysis of efforts to improve decision making through technological assessment or risk analysis.

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In this eye-opening book, author Lloyd J. Dumas argues that our capacity for developing ever more powerful technologies and the unavoidable fallibility of both machine and man will lead us towards a disaster of an unprecedented scale.