Science and Society

Name: Science and Society
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ISBN: 9780321318114

ISBN-10: 0321318110

ISBN-13: 9780321318114

Edition: 2007

Authors: Richard W. Grinnell

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Part of Longman's successful Topic's Reader series, "Science and Society" is a brief thematic reader that touches on the nature of science and various scientific issues and controversies. Provides information and discussion on the nature of science and various scientific issues and controversies. The evolutionary basis of ethics, the scientific explanation for love; the physics of time travel; the need for an armed defense of the environment; cloning and human genetics; and the connection between science, funding, and the falsification of data. General Interest

Book details

List price: $33.32
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/27/2019
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Preface



What Is Science?


What Is Science?



Alchemy



Why We Need to Understand Science



Revolutionary New Insoles Combine Five Forms of Pseudoscience


Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs



Science, Lies, and the Ultimate Truth



Why Science Must Adapt to Women



School Boards Want to 'Teach the Controversy.' What Controversy?



Ethics Statement


What Is Science?: Exploring Connections



Science and Human Behavior


Of Altruism, Heroism and Nature's Gifts in the Face of Terror



The Strategies of Human Mating



You Dirty Vole



Apes of Wrath



Whose Life Would You Save?



Science and Human Behavior: Exploring Connections



Bodies and Genes


DNA as Destiny



My Little Brother on Drugs



Designer Babies



The Year of the Clone?



Stripped for Parts



Bodies and Genes: Making Connections



Science and the Environment


Thinking Like a Mountain



Ice Memory



Warm, Warmer, Warmest



Will Frankenfood Save the Planet?



Easter Island's End



Earth Without People



Science and the Environment: Making Connections



Frontiers


The Man Who Mistook His Girlfriend for a Robot



The Next Brainiacs



Will Drugs Make Us Smarter and Happier?



Launching the Right Stuff



How to Build a Time Machine



Pondering the Future's Future



Frontiers: Making Connections


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