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  • Ignorance Unmasked

    Essays in the New Science of Agnotology

    Edited by Robert N. Proctor, Londa Schiebinger ...
    We live in an age of ignorance. This book offers a guide to how we got here—and how we might escape.From obfuscations of climate science to the myriad deceptions inhering in language, Ignorance Unmasked explores how agnotology—the study of ignorance—can help us better grasp: Why don't we know what we don't know? What are the obstacles to knowledge, and how might those be overcome?Ignorance has ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Poisonous Pandas

    Chinese Cigarette Manufacturing in Critical Historical Perspectives

    Edited by Matthew Kohrman, Gan Quan, Liu Wennan, Robert N. Proctor ...
    Series series Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
    A favorite icon for cigarette manufacturers across China since the mid-twentieth century has been the panda, with factories from Shanghai to Sichuan using cuddly cliché to market tobacco products. The proliferation of panda-branded cigarettes coincides with profound, yet poorly appreciated, shifts in the worldwide tobacco trade. Over the last fifty years, transnational tobacco companies and their ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Packaged Pleasures

    How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire

    by Gary S. Cross, Robert N. Proctor ...
    From the candy bar to the cigarette, records to roller coasters, a technological revolution during the last quarter of the nineteenth century precipitated a colossal shift in human consumption and sensual experience. Food, drink, and many other consumer goods came to be mass-produced, bottled, canned, condensed, and distilled, unleashing new and intensified surges of pleasure, delight, thrill—and ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Golden Holocaust

    Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition

    by Robert N. Proctor ...
    The cigarette is the deadliest artifact in the history of human civilization. It is also one of the most beguiling, thanks to more than a century of manipulation at the hands of tobacco industry chemists. In Golden Holocaust, Robert N. Proctor draws on reams of formerly-secret industry documents to explore how the cigarette came to be the most widely-used drug on the planet, with six trillion ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Chinese Cigarette Manufacturing in Critical Historical Perspectives

    (Chinese Edition)

    Edited by Matthew Kohrman, Gan Quan, Liu Wennan, Robert N. Proctor ...
    Series series Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
    Please note that this is a Chinese language edition.A favorite icon for cigarette manufacturers across China since the mid-twentieth century has been the panda, with factories from Shanghai to Sichuan using cuddly cliché to market tobacco products. The proliferation of panda-branded cigarettes coincides with profound, yet poorly appreciated, shifts in the worldwide tobacco trade. Over the last ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

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