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  • Teaching in Transnational Higher Education

    Enhancing Learning for Offshore International Students

    Edited by Michelle Wallace, Lee Dunn ...
    Teaching in Transnational Higher Education examines current trends and challenges that face students, teachers and institutions of higher education around the globe. This book comes at a pivotal moment where many universities are offering their courses in offshore locations. Students who could once not access an international qualification can now do so without leaving their home country.The book ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Barry Commoner's Contribution to the Environmental Movement

    Science and Social Action

    by Mary Lee Dunn ...
    Series series Work, Health and Environment Series
    Few people have made greater contributions to protecting and improving the environment than the scientist, teacher, activist Dr. Barry Commoner. For half a century, Dr. Commoner has been an international leader in the environmental movement. On the occasion of his eightieth birthday, a symposium was held at which invited speakers discussed his contributions to a wide range of environmental issues. ... Read more

    Was $55.99 USD Now $47.99 USD

  • The Cotton Dust Papers

    Science, Politics, and Power in the "Discovery" of Byssinosis in the U.S

    by Charles Levenstein, Mary Lee Dunn, Gregory Delaurier ...
    Series series Work, Health and Environment Series
    "The Cotton Dust Papers" is the story of the 50-year struggle for recognition in the U.S. of this pernicious occupational disease. The authors contend that byssinosis could have and should have been recognized much sooner, as a great deal was known about the disease as early as the 1930s. Using mostly primary sources, the authors explore three instances from the 1930s to the 1960s in which ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • The Student Assessment Handbook

    New Directions in Traditional and Online Assessment

    by Lee Dunn, Chris Morgan, Meg O'Reilly, Sharon Parry ...
    A guide to current practice in assessment, particularly for those professionals coming to terms with new pressures on their traditional teaching practices. Increased use of IT, flexible assessment methods and quality assurance all affect assessment, and the need to diversify and adapt traditional assessment practices to suit new modes of learning is clearer than ever.The Student Assessment ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

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    by Bjorn Lomborg ...
    An “essential” (Times UK) and “meticulously researched” (Forbes) book by “the skeptical environmentalist” argues that panic over climate change is causing more harm than goodHurricanes batter our coasts. Wildfires rage across the American West. Glaciers collapse in the Arctic. Politicians, activists, and the media espouse a common message: climate change is destroying the planet, and we must take ... Read more

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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 Collapse of Western Civilization

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    by Naomi Oreskes, Erik Conway ...
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  • The Wizard and the Prophet

    Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World

    by Charles C. Mann ...
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    Measuring the Real State of the World

    by Bjørn Lomborg ...
    The Skeptical Environmentalist challenges widely held beliefs that the environmental situation is getting worse and worse. The author, himself a former member of Greenpeace, is critical of the way in which many environmental organisations make selective and misleading use of the scientific evidence. Using the best available statistical information from internationally recognised research ... Read more

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  • The Bad Science and Bad Policy of Obama?s Global Warming Agenda

    by Roy W. Spencer ...
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    As the U.N. moves closer to a new global warming treaty, it is time to examine the calls for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The health and welfare of humanity has benefited from access to fossil fuels, and any drastic move to limit that access must have extraordinary evidence to support it.While alternative energy technologies will increasingly be relied upon in the face of dwindling ... Read more

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  • The Ethics of Invention

    Technology and the Human Future

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    We live in a world increasingly governed by technology—but to what end?Technology rules us as much as laws do. It shapes the legal, social, and ethical environments in which we act. Every time we cross a street, drive a car, or go to the doctor, we submit to the silent power of technology. Yet, much of the time, the influence of technology on our lives goes unchallenged by citizens and our elected ... Read more

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