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Scientific Freedom under Attack Political Oppression, Structural Challenges, and Intellectual Resistance in Modern and Contemporary History
ISBN: PB: 9783593513119, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2021
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Recent years have seen an alarming rise in antiintellectual outbursts by politicians, documented threats against radical scholars across continents, and serious blows to the fundamental right of scientific freedom. Scientific Freedom under Attack is...
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£40,00
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Weak Knowledge Forms, Functions, and Dynamics
ISBN: HB: 9783593509778, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2020
620 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
Many of us view the world of science as a firm bastion of knowledge, with each new discovery and further illumination adding to an unshakable foundation of natural truths. "Weak Knowledge" aims to rattle our faith, not in core certainties of scientif...
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£44,00
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Legitimizing Science National and Global Public (1800-2010)
ISBN: PB: 9783593504872, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2016
300 pp., 20.3x13.9 cm, 8 halftones and 8 line drawings
Since the founding in 1660 of the Royal Society, London, scientists engaging in experimental research have sought to establish a base for exploratory work in communities and their political institutions. This connection between science and the nation...
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£44,50
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Global Communication Electric Business, News and Politics in the World of Telegraphy
ISBN: PB: 9783593399539, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2014
386 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 10 halftones
As catalysts of our present global condition, telegraphs are emblems of modernity. The establishment of a worldwide network of landline and submarine cable connections in the mid-nineteenth century fostered the emergence of new structures and pattern...
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£48,00
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Managing Natural Catastrophies Viable Systems to Prevent Human Tragedy – the Hawai'ian Example
ISBN: PB: 9783593396217, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2013
288 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 77 halftones
Natural disasters appear to be on the rise worldwide, their increasing frequency and far-reaching devastation demand the attention of society. But do natural disasters really occur more often than before? Globalization has led to more direct linkages...
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£56,00
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