Politische und ökonomische Rahmenbedingungen des Sozial- und Gesundheitswese…

Das Buch bietet eine kompakte Einführung in die zentralen politischen und ökonomischen Begriffe, Konzepte und Diskurse des schweizerischen Sozial- und Gesundheitswesens. Es spannt den Bogen von den demokratischen Grundsätzen und Eigenheiten des politischen Systems, über die Sozialhilfe, Sozialversicherungen sowie ökonomischen Strukturmerkmale des Gesundheits- und Sozialwesens, bis hin zu F…

American autographs, historical and literary

1. ADAIR, General John. Governor of Kentucky. Served in the Revolutionary War, under St. Clair and Wilkinson against the Indians and defeated by the Miamis. Aid to Shelby at the Battle of the Thames 1813. Fine War A. L. S. to Governor Isaac Shelby. "Altho I have been necessarily absent for some time from the State 1 have lost none of the feeling of a Kentuckian, every disaster our brave men …

Lenin's Laureate: Zhores Alferov's Life in Communist Science

"In 2000, the Russian scientist Zhores Alferov shared the Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery of the heterojunction, a semiconductor device the practical applications of which include light-emitting diodes, rapid transistors, and the microchip. Alferov's Nobel Prize was the culmination of a career that spanned the eras of Stalin, Khrushchev, and Gorbachev--and continues today in the post-…

A Nuclear Winter's Tale: Science and Politics in the 1980s

Lawrence Badash traces the rise & fall of the concept of 'nuclear winter', played out in research activity, public relations & Reagan-era politics.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Science in Environmental Policy: The Politics of Objective Advice

An analysis of the role & influence of scientists at the agenda-setting, legislative & implementation stages of environmental policy making, Keller draws on political theory & on empirical evidence from scientific reports, news coverage Congressional hearings & interviews.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Beyond Red and Blue: How Twelve Political Philosophies Shape American Debates

Why Americans do not divide neatly into red and blue or right and left but form coalitions across party lines on hot-button issues ranging from immigration to same-sex marriage.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Science in Democracy: Expertise, Institutions, and Representation

Mark Brown draws on canonical & contemporary political & scientific theory, from Machiavelli to Latour, to throw light on how scientific expertise may be brought into a representative democracy.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Cornell's lives of clergymen, physicians and eminent business men of the nine…

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Race, Incarceration, and American Values

"Based on the 2007 Tanner lectures on human values at Stanford."Why stigmatizing and confining a large segment of our population should be unacceptable to all Americans.The United States, home to five percent of the world's population, now houses twenty-five percent of the world's prison inmates. Our incarceration rate--at 714 per 100,000 residents and rising--is almost forty percent greater th…

The church in politics--Americans, beware!

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