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  • The Tragedy of American Science

    From Truman to Trump

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A People's History of Science

    Miners, Midwives, and Low Mechanicks

    de Clifford D Conner ...
    We all know the history of science that we learned from grade school textbooks: How Galileo used his telescope to show that the earth was not the center of the universe; how Newton divined gravity from the falling apple; how Einstein unlocked the mysteries of time and space with a simple equation. This history is made up of long periods of ignorance and confusion, punctuated once an age by a ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Jean Paul Marat

    Tribune of the French Revolution

    de Clifford D. Conner ...
    Series series Revolutionary Lives
    Jean-Paul Marat’s role in the French Revolution has long been a matter of controversy among historians. Often he is portrayed as a violent, sociopathic demagogue. This biography challenges that interpretation and argues that without Marat’s contributions as an agitator, tactician, and strategist, the pivotal social transformation that the revolution accomplished would not have occurred.Clifford D. ... Leer más

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  • Joan. Marush. A Biography.

    de Clifford D. Conner ...
    This is the story of Joan, a teenage American girl whose life was almost derailed by ballet obsession and eating disorders. By moving to Paris in 1959 and hitchhiking all over Europe throughout most of the 1960s, Joan succeeded in “finding herself ” and discovering abilities and competencies she hadn’t previously been aware of. She chronicled her odyssey of self-realization in hundreds of letters ... Leer más

    $1.99 USD

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  • Zero-Sum Victory

    What We're Getting Wrong About War

    de Christopher D. Kolenda ...
    2021 Foreword INDIES Gold Winner for War & HistoryWhy have the major post-9/11 US military interventions turned into quagmires? Despite huge power imbalances in the United States' favor, significant capacity-building efforts, and repeated tactical victories by what many observers call the world's best military, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq turned intractable. The US government's fixation on ... Leer más

    $26.69 USD

  • The Finance Curse

    How Global Finance Is Making Us All Poorer

    de Nicholas Shaxson ...
    An "artfully presented [and] engaging" look at the insidious effects of financialization on our lives and politics by the author of Treasure Islands ( The Boston Globe).How did the banking sector grow from a supporter of business to the biggest business in the world? Financial journalist Nicholas Shaxson takes us on a terrifying journey through the world economy, exposing tax havens, monopolists, ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Vanishing Acts

    de Daniel Abraham, M. Shayne Bell, Michael Cadnum, Ted Chiang, Avram Davidson, Karen Joy Fowler, Joe Haldeman, Paul McAuley, Ian McDowell, A. R. Morlan, David J. Schow, William Shunn, Brian M. Stableford, Mark W. Tiedemann, Bruce McAllister, Suzy McKee Charnas ...
    "A diverse and thoughtful array of 16 stories written around the theme of endangered species—be they human or animal, mythical or alien." — Publishers WeeklyIn this poignant yet uplifting anthology about extinction, science fiction stories draw you into compelling, adventurous, and even humorous tales that will make you think about the future of animals, humanity, and the world around us. You'll ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Of Sound Mind

    How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World

    de Nina Kraus ...
    **An NPR “Book of the Day”A “deeply scientific yet often poetic” study that will forever change the way you think about everyday sounds—with fun illustrations that make complex processes easier to understand (Wall Street Journal).How sound leaves a fundamental imprint on who we are . . .**Making sense of sound is one of the hardest jobs we ask our brains to do. In Of Sound Mind, Nina Kraus ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Quantum Legacies

    Dispatches from an Uncertain World

    de David Kaiser ...
    "Engrossing . . . Leave[s] us with a richer picture of physics as a lived activity." — Los Angeles Review of BooksIn Quantum Legacies, David Kaiser introduces readers to iconic episodes in physicists' still-unfolding quest to understand space, time, and matter at their most fundamental. In a series of vibrant essays, Kaiser takes us inside moments of discovery and debate among the great minds of ... Leer más

    $18.79 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Force of Nonviolence

    An Ethico-Political Bind

    de Judith Butler ...
    “The most creative and courageous social theorist working today” examines the ethical binds that emerge within the force field of violence (Cornel West).“ . . . nonviolence is often seen as passive and resolutely individual. Butler’s philosophical inquiry argues that it is in fact a shrewd and even aggressive collective political tactic.” —New York TimesJudith Butler shows how an ethic of ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

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  • Close to Midnight

    Edición de Mark Morris ...
    Series series The Flame Tree Book of Horror
    An exceptional third book in the horror anthology series which Publishers Weekly highlighted as “Beautifully written pieces that lean into the intuitive and fantastic.”Close to Midnight is the third volume in an annual, non-themed horror series of entirely original stories, showcasing the very best short fiction that the genre has to offer, and edited by Mark Morris. This new anthology contains 20 ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • The Spoils of War

    Power, Profit and the American War Machine

    de Andrew Cockburn ...
    Why does the United States go to war? A leading Harper’s commentator on U.S. foreign affairs offers a withering exposé of runaway military spending and the profit-driven U.S. war machine.America has a long tradition of justifying war as the defense of democracy. The War on Terror was waged to protect the West from the dangers of Islamists. The US soldiers stationed in over 800 locations across the ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro