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The Social Sciences Go to Washington: The Politics of Knowledge in the Postmodern Age
ISBN: 9780813533414 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. What happens when the allegedly value-free social sciences enter the national political arena? In The Social Sciences Go to Washington, scholars examine the effects of the massive influx of sociologists, demographers, economists, educators, and others to the federal advisory process in the postwar period. Essays look at how these social scientists sought to change existing policies in welfare, public health, urban policy, national defense, environmental policy, and science and technology policy, and the ways they tried to influence future policies.Policymakers have been troubled...
What happens when the allegedly value-free social sciences enter the national political arena? In The Social Sciences Go to Washington, scholar...
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155,56 zł |
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Great Depression: People and Perspectives
ISBN: 9781598840933 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Who were the people waiting in the bread lines and living in Hoovervilles? Who were the migrants heading North and West? Did anyone survive the Depression relatively unscathed? Giving a voice to stories often untold, "Great Depression: People and Perspectives" covers the full spectrum of American life, portraying the experiences of ordinary citizens during the worst economic crisis in the nation's history. "Great Depression" shows how specific groups coped with the traumatic upheaval of the times, including rural Americans, women, children, African Americans, and immigrants. In... Who were the people waiting in the bread lines and living in Hoovervilles? Who were the migrants heading North and West? Did anyone survive the Dep... |
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409,50 zł |
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Before Head Start: The Iowa Station and America's Children
ISBN: 9780807854327 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Between the 1920s and the 1950s, the child welfare movement that had originated as a moral reform effort in the Progressive era evolved into the science of child development. In Before Head Start, Hamilton Cravens chronicles this transformation, both on the national level and from the perspective of the field's best-known research center, the University of Iowa's Child Welfare Research Station. Addressing the changing role played by women and the importance of Rockefeller philanthropy, he shows how a women's reform movement became a male-dominated, conservative profession and...
Between the 1920s and the 1950s, the child welfare movement that had originated as a moral reform effort in the Progressive era evolved into the scien...
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300,52 zł |
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Technical Knowledge in American Culture: Science, Technology, and Medicine Since the Early 1800s
ISBN: 9780817307936 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This text addresses the relationship between what modern-day experts say to each other and to their constituencies and whether what they say and do relates to the larger culture and society. It challenges the social impact model by looking at science and technology as intellectual activities.
This text addresses the relationship between what modern-day experts say to each other and to their constituencies and whether what they say and do re...
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161,21 zł |
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The Triumph of Evolution: American Scientists and the Heredity-Environment Controversy, 19-1941
ISBN: 9780812277449 / Angielski / Twarda / 1978 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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Health Care Policy in Contemporary America
ISBN: 9780271017402 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Americans have benefited from substantial improvements in health since the end of World War II. They live longer and grow taller; they have the safest and cheapest food supply on the planet; they have seen virtually all childhood diseases brought under control. Yet concerns about health remain widespread today. Cancer seems to be everywhere; autoimmune, nervous, and environmental diseases have reached pandemic proportions; medical malpractice suits have proliferated. How can we have received so many benefits while still being as worried as ever about our health and the health care... Americans have benefited from substantial improvements in health since the end of World War II. They live longer and grow taller; they have the saf... |
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194,20 zł |
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