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    The Big Myth

    Naomi Oreskes, Erik M Conway

    With a New Afterword by the Authors.

    The 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…

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    Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Climate Change

    Naomi Oreskes,Erik M. Conway

    Anyone concerned about the state of democracy in America should read this book. -Al Gore

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    Plate Tectonics: An Insider’s History Of The Modern Theory Of The Earth

    Naomi Oreskes

    This book provides an overview of the history of plate tectonics, including in-context definitions of the key terms. It explains how the forerunners of the theory and how scientists working…

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    Plate Tectonics: An Insider’s History Of The Modern Theory Of The Earth

    Naomi Oreskes

    The term plate tectonics , coined only thirty-five years ago, is now part of everyone’s understanding of the way the earth works. The theory, research, data collection, and analysis that…

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    Science on a Mission: How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don’t Know about the Ocean

    Naomi Oreskes

    What difference does it make who pays for science?

    Some might say none. If scientists seek to discover fundamental truths about the world, and they do so in an objective…

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    Science on a Mission: How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don’t Know about the Ocean

    Naomi Oreskes

    A vivid portrait of how Naval oversight shaped American oceanography, revealing what difference it makes who pays for science.

    What difference does it make who pays for science?

    Some might…

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    Why Trust Science?

    Naomi Oreskes

    Why the social character of scientific knowledge makes it trustworthy

    Are doctors right when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when they…

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    The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future

    Naomi Oreskes,Erik Conway

    In this haunting, provocative work of science-based fiction, the authors imagine a world devastated by climate change in a startling and all-too-plausible historyE in the spirit of George Orwell and…

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

    Erik M. Conway,Naomi Oreskes

    The troubling story of how a cadre of influential scientists have clouded public understanding of scientific facts to advance a political and economic agenda.

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    The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market

    Naomi Oreskes,Erik M. Conway

    The bestselling authors of Merchants of Doubt offer a profound, startling history of one of America's most tenacious--and destructive--false ideas: the "magic of the marketplace."

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    The Rejection of Continental Drift: Theory and Method in American Earth Science

    Naomi Oreskes (Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University)

    In 1915, when Wegener proposed his theory of continental drift, American scientists considered it radical. British scientists viewed the theory as a confirmation. This book compares the different reactions, proposing…

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    Discerning Experts: The Practices of Scientific Assessment for Environmental Policy

    Michael Oppenheimer,Naomi Oreskes,Dale Jamieson,Keynyn Brysse,Jessica O'Reilly

    Evaluates expert assessments used by governments for advice on the science, economics, and policy options available to confront large-scale environmental problems

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    Why Trust Science?

    Naomi Oreskes

    Why the social character of scientific knowledge makes it trustworthy Do doctors really know what they are talking about when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate…

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    Science and Technology in the Global Cold War

    Investigations of how the global Cold War shaped national scientific and technological practices in fields from biomedicine to rocket science.

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