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  • Freedom's Laboratory

    The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science

    by Audra J. Wolfe ...
    The Cold War ended long ago, but the language of science and freedom continues to shape public debates over the relationship between science and politics in the United States.Scientists like to proclaim that science knows no borders. Scientific researchers follow the evidence where it leads, their conclusions free of prejudice or ideology. But is that really the case? In Freedom's Laboratory, ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • Competing with the Soviets

    Science, Technology, and the State in Cold War America

    by Audra J. Wolfe ...
    Series series Hopkins Introductions to the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
    A synthetic account of how science became a central weapon in the ideological Cold War.Honorable Mention for the Forum for the History of Science in America Book Prize of the Forum for the History of Science in AmericaFor most of the second half of the twentieth century, the United States and its allies competed with a hostile Soviet Union in almost every way imaginable except open military ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Freedom's Laboratory

    The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science

    by Audra J. Wolfe ...
    The Cold War ended long ago, but the language of science and freedom continues to shape public debates over the relationship between science and politics in the United States.Scientists like to proclaim that science knows no borders. Scientific researchers follow the evidence where it leads, their conclusions free of prejudice or ideology. But is that really the case? In Freedom's Laboratory, ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • Audiobook

    American History Tellers: “The Cold War” and “Prohibition”

    by Christine Sismondo, Lindsay Graham, Audra J. Wolfe ...
    Narrated by Lindsay Graham ...
    Series series The American History Tellers Series

    Unabridged

    7 hours 4 min

    Every part of your life—the words you speak, the ideas you share—can be traced to our history, but how well do you really know the stories that made America? We’ll take you to the events, the times, and the people that shaped our nation. First, we travel back to the story that loomed over twentieth-century America more than any other: the Cold War. How do you fight a war with just ideas? Then, we ... Read more

    $19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Tragedy of American Science

    From Truman to Trump

    by Clifford D. Conner ...
    A look at the destructive history of science-for-profit, including its toll on the US pandemic response, by the author of A People's History of Science.Despite a facade of brilliant technological advances, American science has led humanity to the brink of interrelated disasters. In The Tragedy of American Science, historian of science Clifford D. Conner describes the dual processes by which this ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Science of Coercion

    Communication Research & Psychological Warfare, 1945–1960

    by Christopher Simpson ...
    Series Book 13 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    A provocative and eye-opening study of the essential role the US military and the Central Intelligence Agency played in the advancement of communication studies during the Cold War era, now with a new introduction by Robert W. McChesney and a new preface by the authorSince the mid-twentieth century, the great advances in our knowledge about the most effective methods of mass communication and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Weapons in Space

    by Karl Grossman ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    Weapons in Space examines how the United States is forcing forward—in violation of international treaties—to militarize space. Based on excerpts from U.S. government documents, award-winning investigative journalist Karl Grossman outlines the U.S. military's space doctrine, its similarity with the original Stars Wars scheme of Ronald Reagan and Edward Teller, and the space-based lasers, ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?

    by Gabriel Rockhill ...
    Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? offers a crash course in the history of imperialist propaganda, as well as in the Marxist method for analyzing culture and ideology. Author Gabriel Rockhill demonstrates the explanatory and transformative superiority of a dialectical and historical materialist approach, while elucidating how the world of ideas is a crucial site of class struggle. He then ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe

    by Noam Chomksy, Laray Polk ...
    “There are two problems for our species’ survival—nuclear war and environmental catastrophe, ” says Noam Chomsky in this new book on the two existential threats of our time and their points of intersection since World War II.While a nuclear strike would require action, environmental catastrophe is partially defined by willful inaction in response to human-induced climate change. Denial of the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States

    by Alex Wellerstein ...
    "Groundbreaking . . . Wellerstein peels back the layers of the nuclear onion to reveal a rich debate about what should be kept secret and why." — NatureThe first full history of US nuclear secrecy, from its origins in the late 1930s to our post–Cold War present.The American atomic bomb was born in secrecy. From the moment scientists first conceived of its possibility to the bombings of Hiroshima ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Rescuing Prometheus

    Four Monumental Projects that Changed Our World

    by Thomas P. Hughes ...
    "A rare insight into industrial planning on a huge scale...Excellent." --The EconomistRescuing Prometheus is an eye-opening and marvelously informative look at some of the technological projects that helped shape the modern world. Thomas P. Hughes focuses on four postwar projects whose vastness and complexity inspired new technology, new organizations, and new management styles. The first use of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Case Against Socialism

    by Rand Paul ...
    A recent poll showed 43% of Americans think more socialism would be a good thing. What do these people not know?Socialism has killed millions, but it's now the ideology du jour on American college campuses and among many leftists. Reintroduced by leaders such as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the ideology manifests itself in starry-eyed calls for free-spending policies like Medicare ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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