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- Hopwood, Nick author.
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2015]
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- Book — vii, 388 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
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- Icons of knowledge
- Two small embryos in spirits of wine
- Like flies on the parlor ceiling
- Drawing and Darwinism
- Illustrating the magic word
- Professors and progress
- Visual strategies
- Schematics, forgery, and the so-called educated
- Imperial grids
- Setting standards
- Forbidden fruit
- Creative copying
- Trials and tributes
- Scandal for the people
- A hundred Haeckels
- The textbook illustration
- Iconoclasm
- The shock of the copy.
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- Samuels, L. K.
- Apple Valley, CA : Cobden Press, 2013.
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- Book — viii, 411 p. ; 23 cm.
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3. Zadachnik : (Rus) [2012]
- Задачник : (Рус)
- Potemkin, Dmitriĭ, editor.
- Потемкин, Дмитрий, editor.
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2012]
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- Book — 19 pages ; 21 cm
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4. Rekam i li͡udi͡am--chistui͡u vodu [2007]
- Рекам и людям--чистую воду
- Kolpakova, Elena, author.
- Колпакова, Елена, author.
- Moskva : Lesnai͡a strana, 2007. Москва : Лесная страна, 2007.
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- Book — 189 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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- Andreĭ Sakharov. English
- Gorelik, G. E. (Gennadiĭ Efimovich)
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
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- Book — xviii, 406 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
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How did Andrei Sakharov, a theoretical physicist and the acknowledged father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, become a human rights activist and the first Russian to win the Nobel Peace Prize? In his later years, Sakharov noted in his diary that he was "simply a man with an unusual fate." To understand this deceptively straightforward statement by an extraordinary man, The World of Andrei Sakharov, the first authoritative study of Andrei Sakharov as a scientist as well as a public figure, relies on previously inaccessible documents, recently declassified archives, and personal accounts by Sakharov's friends and colleagues to examine the real context of Sakharov's life. In the course of doing so, Gennady Gorelik answers a fascinating question, whether the Soviet hydrogen bomb was really fathered by Sakharov, or whether it was based on stolen American secrets. Gorelik concludes that while espionage did initiate the Soviet effort, the Russian hydrogen bomb was invented independently. Gorelik also elucidates the reasons that brought about the seemingly sudden transformation of the top-secret physicist into a public figure in 1968, when Sakharov's famous essay "Progress, Peaceful Coexistence, and Intellectual Freedom" was distributed in samizdat in the USSR and smuggled out to the West. Recently declassified documents show that Sakharov's metamorphosis was caused by professional concerns, particularly regarding the development of an anti-ballistic missile defense. An insider's view of how the upper echelons of the Soviet regime functioned had led Sakharov to the conclusion that the goals of peace, progress, and human rights were inextricably linked. His free thinking and free feeling were manifested in his hope that scientific thought and religious perception would find a profound synthesis in the future.
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6. Andreĭ Sakharov : nauka i svoboda [2004]
- Gorelik, G. E. (Gennadiĭ Efimovich)
- Moskva : Vagrius, 2004.
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- Book — 605 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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- Castro Díaz-Balart, Fidel, author.
- Segunda edición. - La Habana : Editorial Científico-Técnica, 2004.
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- Book — 283 pages : color illustrations, charts ; 23 cm
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- Sergiev Posad : [Izd-vo "Vesʹ Sergiev Posad"], 2004.
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- Book — 525 p. : ill., ports. ; 26 cm.
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9. Freiheit und Verantwortung in Forschung, Lehre und Studium : die ethische Dimension der Wissenschaft [2004]
- Berlin-Mitte : Bund Freiheit der Wiss., 2004.
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- Book — 140 p. ; 21 cm.
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- Vorobʹev, A. A. (Anatoliĭ Andreevich)
- Moskva : Medit͡sinskoe informat͡sionnoe agentstvo, 2003.
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- Book — 415 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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- Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press ; Washington, D.C. : George C. Marshall Institute, c2003.
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- Book — xxi, 313 p. ; 23 cm.
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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 selectively interpreting facts to shape outcomes. In science, facts are reality. This collection examines the conflicts that arise when politics and science converge. In Politicizing Science: The Alchemy of Policymaking, eleven leading scientists describe the politicization - through misapplication or overemphasis of results that favor a political decision or through outright manipulation - of scientific findings and deliberations to advance policy agendas. They show how the consequences of politicization are inflicted on the public, including the diversion of money and research efforts from worthwhile scientific endeavors, the costs of unnecessary regulations, and the losses of useful products - while increased power and prestige flow to those who manipulate science. The authors of three essays describe government diversions of scientific research and the interpretation of scientific findings away from where the evidence leads and toward directions deemed politically desirable. Three more contributions analyze the expensive and extensive efforts devoted to altering images of risk in order to establish linkages in the public's mind between deleterious human health effects and various areas of scientific research. Two essays examine the workings and results of consensus advisory panels and conclude that their recommendations are often based on far-from-certain science and driven by social and political dynamics that substitute group cohesion in favor of independent, critical thinking. Authors of two essays describe the unfortunate results of application of the 'precautionary principle, ' which generally requires proof of no risk before a new product is introduced or an existing product can be continued in use. A concluding essay describes the personal costs of opposing the politicization of science.
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- Herken, Gregg, 1947-
- 1st ed. - New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2002.
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- Book — xiv, 448 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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- Temples of the future: Cyclotron republic
- Practical philosopher's stone
- Useful adviser
- Adventurous time
- Inside the wire: Enormoz
- Question of divided loyalties
- Break, blow, burn
- Stone's throw from despair
- Scientists in gray flannel suits: World in which war will not occur
- Character, association, and loyalty
- Rather puzzled horror
- Desperate urgency here
- Sorcerer's apprentice: Nuclear plenty
- Bad business now threatening
- Descent into the maelstrom
- Not much more than a kangaroo court
- All the evil of the times: Good deed a man has done before
- Like going to a new country
- Cross of atoms.
In this vital slice of American history, told authoritatively--and grippingly--for the first time, Herken relates the tangled lives and localities of the men who founded the nuclear age: Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller.
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- Segunda edición. - La Habana, Cuba : Editorial Científico-Técnica, [2002]
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- Book — 414 pages : portraits ; 23 cm
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- "Фабрики мысли" и центры публичной политики : международный и первый российский опыт : сборник статей
- Sankt-Peterburg : Norma, 2002. Санкт-Петербург : Норма, 2002.
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- Book — 173 p. ; 21 cm.
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- Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, c2002.
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- Book — xx, 124 p. ; 23 cm.
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- Introduction: Some skeptical reflections on research and development / Tibor R. Machan
- Arguments concerning government's investment in research / Oliver Mayo
- The limits of government-funded research: what should they be? / R. Paul Drake
- Federal support of research and development in science and engineering / Michael W. Blasgen
- Scientific research in a free society: some reflections / Eleftheria Maratos-Flier.
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- Зоопарк : "мои любимые животные или ... это политика!"
- Egorov, Sergeĭ, author.
- Егоров, Сергей, author.
- Sankt-Peterburg : [publisher not identified], 2002 Санкт-Петербург : [publisher not identified], 2002
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- Book — 95 pages : illustrations (some color), tables, portrait, facsimiles ; 20 cm
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- Singer, S. Fred (Siegfried Fred), 1924-
- Stanford, CA : Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, ©2000.
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- Book — 49 pages ; 23 cm.
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"Within the United States, global warming and related policy issues are becoming increasingly contentious, surfacing in the presidential contests of the year 2000 and beyond. They enter into controversies involving international trade agreements, questions of national sovereignty versus global governance, and ideological debates about the nature of future economic growth and development. On a more detailed level, determined efforts are under way by environmental groups and their sympathizers in foundations and in the federal government to restrict and phase out the use of fossil fuels (and even nuclear reactors) as sources of energy. Such measures would reduce greenhouse-gas emissions into the atmosphere but also effectively deindustrialize the United States." "International climate policy is based on the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which calls on industrialized nations to carry out, within one decade, drastic cuts in the emission of greenhouse gases (GHG) that stem mainly from the burning of fossil fuels. The Protocol is ultimately based on the 1996 Scientific Assessment Report issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a U.N. advisory body." "The essay attempts to trace the various motivations that led to the Kyoto Protocol. It concludes that U.S. domestic politics rather than science or economics will decide the fate of the Protocol; in particular, the presidential elections of 2000 will determine whether the United States ultimately ratifies the Protocol, which would be essential for its global enactment. Conversely, informed debate about the Protocol can influence the outcome of the elections."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Williamson, Graham, 1932-
- Hatfield, South Africa : Umdaus Press, 2000.
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- Book — 258 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 31 cm.
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19. Atlas : nauka Rossii [1999]
- Gokhberg, L. M.
- Moskva : T͡Sentr issledovaniĭ i statistiki nauki, 1999.
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- Book — 121 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
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- Hamburg : Institut für Asienkunde, 1999.
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- Book — 257 p. ; 21 cm.
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