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When we read that scientists have come close to pinpointing the "origin of the universe" by means of a Big Bang cosmology, can we doubt that such inquiries or their results inevitably raise important philosophical questions This book attempts to answer such questions by examining scientific theories of cosmology in a philosophical context.

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Charles Darwin is a crucial figure in nineteenth-century science. This title covers Darwin's reception across Europe and his influence on European science and culture. It conveys the many-sidedness of Darwin's reception and exhibits his far-reaching impact on our self-understanding as human beings.

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In the 1870s English canary breeders caused a scandal by feeding their Norwich canaries with red peppers to turn them orange. A German bird enthusiast, Hans Duncker tried to breed, rather than feed, to produce a red canary. This is the story of early attempts at genetic manipulation.

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The New York Times bestseller that exposes the conservative agenda to put politics ahead of scientific truth

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Throughout the 19th century, women inventors developed significant technologies, yet, because of complex cultural barriers and the pervasive image of the inventor as male, their technological contributions have until now been ignored and undervalued.

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This volume examines scientific practice through studies of research tools in an array of twentieth-century life sciences. The contributors draw upon and extend the multidisciplinary perspectives in current science studies to understand the processes through which scientific researchers constructed the right--and, in some cases, the wrong--tools fo

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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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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.