wyszukanych pozycji: 11
Science on a Mission: How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don't Know about the Ocean
ISBN: 9780226824000 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 744 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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141,96 zł |
Science on a Mission: How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don't Know about the Ocean
ISBN: 9780226732381 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 744 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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196,56 zł |
The Rejection of Continental Drift
ISBN: 9780195117332 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the early twentieth century, American earth scientists were united in their opposition to the new--and highly radical--notion of continental drift, even going so far as to label the theory "unscientific." Some fifty years later, however, continental drift was heralded as a major scientific breakthrough and today it is accepted as scientific fact. Why did American geologists reject so adamantly an idea that is now considered a cornerstone of the discipline? And why were their European colleagues receptive to it so much earlier? This book, based on extensive archival research on three...
In the early twentieth century, American earth scientists were united in their opposition to the new--and highly radical--notion of continental drift,...
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239,66 zł |
The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market
ISBN: 9781635573572 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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151,78 zł |
Plate Tectonics: An Insider's History of the Modern Theory of the Earth
ISBN: 9780367317270 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Can anyone today imagine the earth without its puzzle-piece construction of plate tectonics? The very term, "plate tectonics," coined only thirty-five years ago, is now part of the vernacular, part of everyone's understanding of the way the earth works.The theory, research, data collection, and analysis that came together in the late 1960's to cons
Can anyone today imagine the earth without its puzzle-piece construction of plate tectonics? The very term, "plate tectonics," coined only thirty-five...
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700,25 zł |
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Climate Change
ISBN: 9781608193943 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Merchants of Doubt should finally put to rest the question of whether the science of climate change is settled. It is, and we ignore this message at our peril."-Elizabeth Kolbert "Brilliantly reported andwritten with brutal clarity."-Huffington Post Now a powerful documentary from the acclaimed director of Food Inc., Merchants of Doubt was one of the most talked-about climate change books of recent years, for reasons easy to understand: It tells the controversial story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers,... "Merchants of Doubt should finally put to rest the question of whether the science of climate change is settled. It is, and we ignore this messa... |
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82,39 zł |
The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future
ISBN: 9780231169547 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The year is 2393, and the world is almost unrecognizable. Clear warnings of climate catastrophe went ignored for decades, leading to soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, widespread drought and--finally--the disaster now known as the Great Collapse of 2093, when the disintegration of the West Antarctica Ice Sheet led to mass migration and a complete reshuffling of the global order. Writing from the Second People's Republic of China on the 300th anniversary of the Great Collapse, a senior scholar presents a gripping and deeply disturbing account of how the children of the...
The year is 2393, and the world is almost unrecognizable. Clear warnings of climate catastrophe went ignored for decades, leading to soaring temper...
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43,14 zł |
Plate Tectonics: An Insider's History Of The Modern Theory Of The Earth
ISBN: 9780813341323 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Can anyone today imagine the earth without its puzzle-piece construction of plate tectonics? The very term, "plate tectonics," coined only thirty-five years ago, is now part of the vernacular, part of everyone's understanding of the way the earth works.The theory, research, data collection, and analysis that came together in the late 1960's to constitute plate tectonics is one of the great scientific breakthroughs of the 20th century. Scholarly books have been written about tectonics, but none by the key scientists-players themselves. In Plate Tectonics, editor Naomi Oreskes has...
Can anyone today imagine the earth without its puzzle-piece construction of plate tectonics? The very term, "plate tectonics," coined only thir...
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305,98 zł |
Why Trust Science?
ISBN: 9780691212265 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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82,17 zł |
Discerning Experts: The Practices of Scientific Assessment for Environmental Policy
ISBN: 9780226602011 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Evaluates expert assessments used by governments for advice on the science, economics, and policy options available to confront large-scale environmental problems
Evaluates expert assessments used by governments for advice on the science, economics, and policy options available to confront large-scale environmen...
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147,42 zł |
Why Trust Science?
ISBN: 9780691179001 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Why the social character of scientific knowledge makes it trustworthyDo doctors really know what they are talking about when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when they warn us about the perils of global warming? Why should we trust science when our own politicians don't? In this landmark book, Naomi O
Why the social character of scientific knowledge makes it trustworthyDo doctors really know what they are talking about when they tell us vaccines are...
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109,20 zł |