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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Lawrence Badash |
| ISBN: | 9780262012720 0262012723 |
| OCLC Number: | 690531133 |
| Description: | 1 vol. (XIII-403 p.) ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Background -- Science, Politics, and Carl Sagan: Through 1983 -- A Cold Day in Hell: Activites and Antagonisms, 1984-85 -- Smoldering Issues: 1986 and Afterward. |
| Series Title: | Transformations (Cambridge, Mass.) |
| Responsibility: | Lawrence Badash. |
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"Badash's work is very well documented, and readers will appreciate the clarity of his explanations; advanced undergraduates may benefit from some of the chapters as a means of understanding the importance of healthy scientific debate and the dangers of one-sided political ones." -- Guillaume de Syon, Canadian Journals of History "This remarkable book is as well informed and as objective as one can be when discussing events that occurred within living memory...Anyone interested in the relations between science and society would do well to read it and ponder its implications for today." -- William R. Shea, Nuncius Read more...
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