Emanuel Piore (13 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Book.

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Bright, crisp dust jacket. Tight binding, solid black boards with sharp corners, bright silver lettering to spine strip, clean, unmarked pages throughout. Review copy, publisher's slip laid in.

268 x 200 mm. Pages 6-9. [Entire issue: 36 pp.] Pictorial wrappers. Abraham Pais ownership signature on top cover. Very good.

Softcover. First Edition, First Printing. Book condition is Very Good, bound in wraps. Some rubbing and edgewear to exterior. Text is clean and unmarked. ; 4to. 11"h x 8 1/2"w. Contents: Special Section on Presidential Science Advice : "President's Science Advisory Committee Revisited" by William T. Golden, Robert F. Bacher, Andrew Goodpaster, Emanuel R. Piore, I. I. Rabi, James R. Killian, Ir., Hans A. Bethe, Jerome B. Wiesner, Nathan Reingold, Gerald Holton, William O. Baker Articles : "Pricing Human Life" by Barbara MacKinnon "Assessing Environmental Risk" by Frances M. Lynn "NOAA's Role and the National Interest" by Robert Fleagle "Conference Report: 4th Biennial Student Pugwash International" by David Hart "The Academic as Expert Witness" by Michael Ruse "Commentary on "The Academic as Expert Witness" by Harold Green. …

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very good hardcover with very good text. Exterior and dust jacket have light shelfwear; otherwise very good. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Oct 01, 1990. Condition: gebraucht; wie neu. Minimalste Standspuren, wie ungebraucht.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Few issues cause academics to disagree more than gender and race, especially when topics are addressed in terms of biological differences. To conduct research in these areas or comment favorably on research can subject one to scorn.When these topics are addressed, they generally take the form of philosophical debates. Anthony Walsh focuses upon such debates and supporting research. He divides parties into biologists and social constructionists, arguing that biologists remain focused on laboratory work, while constructionists are acutely aware of the impact of biologists in contested territories.Science Wars introduces the ideas motivating the parties and examines social constructionism and its issues with science. He explores arguments over conceptual tools scientists love and constructionists abhor, and he provides a solid discussion of the co-evolution of genes and culture. Walsh then focuses his attention on gender, how constructionists view it, and the neuroscience explanation of gender differences. Moving to race, Walsh looks at how some have tried to bury the concept of race, while others emphasize it. He considers definitions of race-essentialist, taxonomic, population, and lineage-as they have evolved from the time of the Enlightenment to the present. And finally, he attempts to bring the opposing sides together by pointing out what each can bring to a meaningful discussion. …