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The Collapse of Western Civilization

A View from the Future

by Naomi Oreskes, Erik Conway ...

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 ... Read more

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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
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Merchants of Doubt

How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

by Naomi Oreskes, Mr Erik M. Conway ...

The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life. Our scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming. But at the same time, a small yet potent subset of this community leads the world in vehement denial of these dangers.Merchants ... Read more

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The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life. Our scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming. But at the same time, a small yet potent subset of this community leads the world in vehement denial of these dangers.Merchants
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The Big Myth

How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market

by Naomi Oreskes, Mr Erik M. Conway ...

“[A] scorching indictment of free market fundamentalism . . . and how we can change, before it's too late.”-EsquireThe bestselling authors of Merchants of Doubt offer a profound, startling history of one of America's most tenacious-and destructive-false ideas: the myth of the "free market."In their landmark book Merchants of Doubt, Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway revealed the ori... ... Read more

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“[A] scorching indictment of free market fundamentalism . . . and how we can change, before it's too late.”-EsquireThe bestselling authors of Merchants of Doubt offer a profound, startling history of one of America's most tenacious-and destructive-false ideas: the myth of the "free market."In their landmark book Merchants of Doubt, Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway revealed the ori...
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High-Speed Dreams

NASA and the Technopolitics of Supersonic Transportation, 1945–1999

by Erik M. Conway ...

Series series New Series in NASA History
In High-Speed Dreams, Erik M. Conway constructs an insightful history that focuses primarily on the political and commercial factors responsible for the rise and fall of American supersonic transport research programs. Conway charts commercial supersonic research efforts through the changing relationships between international and domestic politicians, military/NASA contractors, private investors, ... Read more

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In High-Speed Dreams, Erik M. Conway constructs an insightful history that focuses primarily on the political and commercial factors responsible for the rise and fall of American supersonic transport research programs. Conway charts commercial supersonic research efforts through the changing relationships between international and domestic politicians, military/NASA contractors, private investors,
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Merchants of Doubt

How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

by Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway ...

Narrated by Liza Seneca ...

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14 hours 23 min

Bloomsbury presents Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway, read by Liza Seneca.Featuring a new Foreword by former Vice President Al GoreFinalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize"Important and timely. We ignore this message at our peril."—Elizabeth KolbertMerchants of Doubt has been praised—and attacked—around the world, for reasons easy to understand. This book tells, with ... Read more

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Bloomsbury presents Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway, read by Liza Seneca.Featuring a new Foreword by former Vice President Al GoreFinalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize"Important and timely. We ignore this message at our peril."—Elizabeth KolbertMerchants of Doubt has been praised—and attacked—around the world, for reasons easy to understand. This book tells, with
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Atmospheric Science at NASA

A History

by Erik M. Conway ...

Series series New Series in NASA History
Honorable Mention, 2008 ASLI Choice Awards. Atmospheric Science Librarians InternationalThis book offers an informed and revealing account of NASA’s involvement in the scientific understanding of the Earth’s atmosphere.Since the nineteenth century, scientists have attempted to understand the complex processes of the Earth’s atmosphere and the weather created within it. This effort has evolved with ... Read more

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Honorable Mention, 2008 ASLI Choice Awards. Atmospheric Science Librarians InternationalThis book offers an informed and revealing account of NASA’s involvement in the scientific understanding of the Earth’s atmosphere.Since the nineteenth century, scientists have attempted to understand the complex processes of the Earth’s atmosphere and the weather created within it. This effort has evolved with
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Exploration and Engineering

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Quest for Mars

by Erik M. Conway ...

Series series New Series in NASA History
Getting to Mars required engineering genius, scientific strategy, and the drive to persevere in the face of failure.Although the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has become synonymous with the United States’ planetary exploration during the past half century, its most recent focus has been on Mars. Beginning in the 1990s and continuing through the Mars Phoenix mission of 2007, ... Read more

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Getting to Mars required engineering genius, scientific strategy, and the drive to persevere in the face of failure.Although the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has become synonymous with the United States’ planetary exploration during the past half century, its most recent focus has been on Mars. Beginning in the 1990s and continuing through the Mars Phoenix mission of 2007,
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The Big Myth

How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market

by Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway ...

Narrated by Liza Seneca ...

Unabridged

21 hours 27 min

Bloomsbury presents The Big Myth by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, read by Liza Seneca.“An immense scholarly feat.”—New Yorker * “[A] scorching indictment of free market fundamentalism . . . and how we can change, before it’s too late.”—EsquireThe bestselling authors of Merchants of Doubt offer a profound, startling history of one of America’s most tenacious—an... ... Read more

$35.00 USD

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Bloomsbury presents The Big Myth by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, read by Liza Seneca.“An immense scholarly feat.”—New Yorker * “[A] scorching indictment of free market fundamentalism . . . and how we can change, before it’s too late.”—EsquireThe bestselling authors of Merchants of Doubt offer a profound, startling history of one of America’s most tenacious—an...
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Blind Landings

Low-Visibility Operations in American Aviation, 1918–1958

by Erik M. Conway ...

When darkness falls, storms rage, fog settles, or lights fail, pilots are forced to make "instrument landings," relying on technology and training to guide them through typically the most dangerous part of any flight. In this original study, Erik M. Conway recounts one of the most important stories in aviation history: the evolution of aircraft landing aids that make landing safe and routine in ... Read more

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When darkness falls, storms rage, fog settles, or lights fail, pilots are forced to make "instrument landings," relying on technology and training to guide them through typically the most dangerous part of any flight. In this original study, Erik M. Conway recounts one of the most important stories in aviation history: the evolution of aircraft landing aids that make landing safe and routine in
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The Collapse of Western Civilization

A View from the Future

by Erik M. Conway, Naomi Oreskes ...

Narrated by Lesa Lockford ...

Unabridged

2 hours 3 min

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 Antarctic Ice Sheet led to mass migration and a complete reshuffling of the global order. Writing from ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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 Antarctic Ice Sheet led to mass migration and a complete reshuffling of the global order. Writing from
... Read more
Electrical Conquest

New Approaches to the History of Electrification

Edited by W. Bernard Carlson, Erik M Conway ...

Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
This book, drawing on fresh scholarship, investigates electrification in new places and across different time periods. While much of our understanding of electrification as a historical process is based on the seminal work done by Thomas P. Hughes in Networks of Power (1983), the scholars in this volume expand and revise Hughes’ systems approach to suggest that electrification is a heterogeneous ... Read more

$116.09 USD

This book, drawing on fresh scholarship, investigates electrification in new places and across different time periods. While much of our understanding of electrification as a historical process is based on the seminal work done by Thomas P. Hughes in Networks of Power (1983), the scholars in this volume expand and revise Hughes’ systems approach to suggest that electrification is a heterogeneous
... Read more

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The Capital Order

How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism

by Clara E. Mattei ...

Narrated by Susan Ericksen ...

Unabridged

15 hours 26 min

For more than a century, governments facing financial crisis have resorted to the economic policies of austerity—cuts to wages, fiscal spending, and public benefits—as a path to solvency. Today, an important question remains: What if solvency was never the goal?In The Capital Order, political economist Clara E. Mattei explores the intellectual origins of austerity to uncover its originating ... Read more

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For more than a century, governments facing financial crisis have resorted to the economic policies of austerity—cuts to wages, fiscal spending, and public benefits—as a path to solvency. Today, an important question remains: What if solvency was never the goal?In The Capital Order, political economist Clara E. Mattei explores the intellectual origins of austerity to uncover its originating
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