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  • Engaging the Atom

    The History of Nuclear Energy and Society in Europe from the 1950s to the Present

    Edición de Arne Kaijser, Markku Lehtonen, Jan-Henrik Meyer, Mar Rubio-Varas ...
    Series series Energy and Society
    Transnational perspectives on the relationship between nuclear energy and society.With the aim of overcoming the disciplinary and national fragmentation that characterizes much research on nuclear energy, Engaging the Atom brings together specialists from a variety of fields to analyze comparative case studies across Europe and the United States. It explores evolving relationships between society ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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  • Merchants of Doubt

    How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

    de Naomi Oreskes, Mr Erik M. Conway ...
    The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life. Our scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming. But at the same time, a small yet potent subset of this community leads the world in vehement denial of these dangers.Merchants ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

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  • Reason in a Dark Time

    Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed -- and What It Means for Our Future

    de Dale Jamieson ...
    From the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference there was a concerted international effort to stop climate change. Yet greenhouse gas emissions increased, atmospheric concentrations grew, and global warming became an observable fact of life. In this book, philosopher Dale Jamieson explains what climate change is, why we have failed to stop it, and why it still matters what ... Leer más

    $25.69 USD

  • Rare Earth Frontiers

    From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes

    de Julie M. Klinger ...
    "Rare Earth Frontiers is a timely text. As Klinger notes, rare earths are neither rare nor technically earths, but they are still widely believed to be both. Although her approach focuses on the human, or cultural, geography of rare earths mining, she does not ignore the geological occurrence of these mineral types, both on Earth and on the moon.... This volume is excellently organized, ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Leftism Reinvented

    Western Parties from Socialism to Neoliberalism

    de Stephanie L. Mudge ...
    Left-leaning political parties play an important role as representatives of the poor and disempowered. They once did so by promising protections from the forces of capital and the market’s tendencies to produce inequality. But in the 1990s they gave up on protection, asking voters to adapt to a market-driven world. Meanwhile, new, extreme parties began to promise economic protections of their own ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Competing with the Soviets

    Science, Technology, and the State in Cold War America

    de Audra J. Wolfe ...
    Series series Hopkins Introductions to the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
    A synthetic account of how science became a central weapon in the ideological Cold War.Honorable Mention for the Forum for the History of Science in America Book Prize of the Forum for the History of Science in AmericaFor most of the second half of the twentieth century, the United States and its allies competed with a hostile Soviet Union in almost every way imaginable except open military ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • The Inquisition of Climate Science

    de James Powell ...
    Modern science is under the greatest and most successful attack in recent history. An industry of denial, abetted by news media and "info-tainment" broadcasters more interested in selling controversy than presenting facts, has duped half the American public into rejecting the facts of climate science—an overwhelming body of rigorously vetted scientific evidence showing that human-caused, carbon ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • The Mismeasure of Progress

    Economic Growth and Its Critics

    de Stephen J. Macekura ...
    Few ideas in the past century have had wider financial, political, and governmental impact than that of economic growth. The common belief that endless economic growth, as measured by Gross Domestic Product, is not only possible but actually essential for the flourishing of civilization remains a powerful policy goal and aspiration for many. In The Mismeasure of Progress, Stephen J. Macekura ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A Green and Global Europe

    de Nathalie Tocci ...
    After years of existential crisis, Europe has found a new raison d’être: the European Green Deal and the energy transition that lies at its core. This green Europe represents a normative vision, an economic growth strategy, as well as a route to a political Union that would enhance EU integration and legitimacy. But it can only be realized if it addresses head-on the social, economic, political ... Leer más

    $18.00 USD

  • The Great American University

    Its Rise to Preeminence, Its Indispensable National Role, Why It Must Be Protected

    de Jonathan R Cole ...
    Although America's universities have become the envy of the world for their creative energy and their production of transformative knowledge, few understand how and why they have become preeminent. This groundbreaking book traces the origins and the evolution of our great universities. It shows how they grew out of sleepy colleges at the turn of the twentieth century into powerful institutions ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • The National Politics of Nuclear Power

    Economics, Security, and Governance

    de Benjamin K. Sovacool, Scott Victor Valentine ...
    Series series Routledge Global Security Studies
    This book offers a comprehensive assessment of the dynamics driving, and constraining, nuclear power development in Asia, Europe and North America, providing detailed comparative analysis.The book formulates a theory of nuclear socio-political economy which highlights six factors necessary for embarking on nuclear power programs: (1) national security and secrecy, (2) technocratic ideology, (3) ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Being Nuclear

    Africans and the Global Uranium Trade

    de Gabrielle Hecht ...
    The hidden history of African uranium and what it means—for a state, an object, an industry, a workplace—to be “nuclear.”Uranium from Africa has long been a major source of fuel for nuclear power and atomic weapons, including the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. In 2003, after the infamous “yellow cake from Niger,” Africa suddenly became notorious as a source of uranium, a component of nuclear weapons. ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD