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  • Albert Murray and the Aesthetic Imagination of a Nation

    by Louis A Rabb, Roberta S. Maguire, Lauren Walsh, John F Callahan, Carol Friedman, Albert Murray, Greg Thomas, Anne-Katrin Gramberg, Caroline Gebhard, Don Noble, Maurice Pogue, Bert Hitchcock, Sidney Offit, Sanford Pinsker, Paul Devlin, Eugene Holley, Robin DuBlanc, Dr. Barbara A. Baker, PhD, Ms. Jay Lamar, Mr. Gail Buckley, Mr. Elizabeth Mayer Fiedorek ...
    The first book-length study of the writings, work, and life of Renaissance man and Alabama native Albert MurrayThis collection consists of essays written by prominent African American literature, jazz, and Albert Murray scholars, reminiscences from Murray protégés and associates, and interviews with Murray himself. It illustrates Murray’s place as a central figure in African American arts and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Taking Stock

    Cultures of Enumeration in Contemporary Jewish Life

    by Josh Friedman, Carol A. Kidron, Oren Stier, Yael Zerubavel, Mitchell B. Hart, Anat Leibler, Vanessa L. Ochs ...
    Series series The Modern Jewish Experience
    Taking Stock is a collection of lively, original essays that explore the cultures of enumeration that permeate contemporary and modern Jewish life. Speaking to the profound cultural investment in quantified forms of knowledge and representation—whether discussing the Holocaust or counting the numbers of Israeli and American Jews—these essays reveal a social life of Jewish numbers. As they trace ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Communicating Uncertainty

    Media Coverage of New and Controversial Science

    Edited by Sharon M. Friedman, Sharon Dunwoody, Carol L. Rogers ...
    Series series Routledge Communication Series
    Exploring the interactions that swirl around scientific uncertainty and its coverage by the mass media, this volume breaks new ground by looking at these issues from three different perspectives: that of communication scholars who have studied uncertainty in a number of ways; that of science journalists who have covered these issues; and that of scientists who have been actively involved in ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Ethics and Science

    An Introduction

    by Adam Briggle, Carl Mitcham ...
    Series series Cambridge Applied Ethics
    Who owns your genes? What does climate science imply for policy? Do corporations conduct honest research? Should we teach intelligent design? Humans are creating a new world through science. The kind of world we are creating will not simply be decided by expanding scientific knowledge, but will depend on views about good and bad, right and wrong. These visions, in turn, depend on critical thinking ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Why Trust Science?

    by Naomi Oreskes ...
    Series series The University Center for Human Values Series
    Why the social character of scientific knowledge makes it trustworthyAre doctors right 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 so many of our political leaders don't? Naomi Oreskes offers a bold and compelling defense of science, revealing why the social character of ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

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  • Rethinking Who We Are

    Critical Reflections on Human Diversity in Canada

    by Paul U. Angelini ...
    Rethinking Who We Are takes a non-conventional approach to understanding human difference in Canada. Contributors to this volume critically re-examine Canadian identity by rethinking who we are and what we are becoming by scrutinizing the “totality” of difference. Included are analyses on the macro differences among Canadians, such as the disparities produced from unequal treatment under Canadian ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Is That True?

    Critical Thinking for Sociologists

    by Joel Best ...
    Across disciplines, critical thinking is praised, taught, and put into practice. But what does it actually mean to think critically? In this brief volume, sociologist Joel Best examines how to evaluate arguments and the evidence used to support them as he hones in on how to think in the field of sociology and beyond.With inimitable style that melds ethnographic verve with dry humor, Best examines ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Vaccine Hesitancy

    Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science

    by Maya Goldenberg ...
    Winner, 2022 PSA Women's Caucus Prize in Feminist Philosophy of Science AwardThe public has voiced concern over the adverse effects of vaccines from the moment Dr. Edward Jenner introduced the first smallpox vaccine in 1796. The controversy over childhood immunization intensified in 1998, when Dr. Andrew Wakefield linked the MMR vaccine to autism. Although Wakefield’s findings were later ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Science Denial

    Why It Happens and What to Do About It

    by Gale M. Sinatra, Barbara K. Hofer ...
    How do individuals decide whether to accept human causes of climate change, vaccinate their children against childhood diseases, or practice social distancing during a pandemic? Democracies depend on educated citizens who can make informed decisions for the benefit of their health and well-being, as well as their communities, nations, and planet. Understanding key psychological explanations for ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Tapestry of Values

    An Introduction to Values in Science

    by Kevin C. Elliott ...
    The role of values in scientific research has become an important topic of discussion in both scholarly and popular debates. Pundits across the political spectrum worry that research on topics like climate change, evolutionary theory, vaccine safety, and genetically modified foods has become overly politicized. At the same time, it is clear that values play an important role in science by limiting ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • In Defense of Disciplines

    Interdisciplinarity and Specialization in the Research University

    by Jerry A. Jacobs ...
    Calls for closer connections among disciplines can be heard throughout the world of scholarly research, from major universities to the National Institutes of Health. In Defense of Disciplines presents a fresh and daring analysis of the argument surrounding interdisciplinarity. Challenging the belief that blurring the boundaries between traditional academic fields promotes more integrated research ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Environmental Crisis

    Working for Sustainable Knowledge and Environmental Justice

    by Bunyan Bryant ...
    Over the years, we have witness unprecedented growth and development that threatens our planet earth as evidenced by environmental degradation, world poverty all of which will be exacerbated by climate change. "Environmental Crisis or Crisis of Epistemology?" explores the ideas that environmental destruction and injustice is integrally related to unsustainable knowledge and the role that knowledge ... Read more

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