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Social science for what? :battles over public funding for the "other sciences…
How the NSF became an important yet controversial patron for the social sciences, influencing debates over their scientific status and social relevance. In the early Cold War years, the U.S. government established the National Science Foundation (NSF), a civilian agency that soon became widely known for its dedication to supporting first-rate science. The agency's 1950 enabling legislation made…
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Women and climate change :examining discourses from the Global North
"This book investigates how women have been cast with regard to climate change science and policy-making, such as roles as victims, drivers of change, laborers, and saviors"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Retirement income :risks and strategies
With 'Retirement Income', Warshawsky offers not abstract theory or highly technical methodology but practical ideas based on the results of empirical investigations and analyses, which can be applied to household decision making by retirees and their financial planners and to the design of insurance products and public policy.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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The demonstration society
"An analysis of the "demonstration"-from protests to tech product demos and everything in between-to draw out their peculiarities and common features"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Phenomenology
"A short, reader-friendly introduction to perhaps the most influential philosophical school of the 20th century -- phenomenology"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Conflicted American landscapes
"Traces six contradictory American ideologies of nature from their emergence in the late eighteenth century to the present to explore how inconsistent conceptions of nature lead to conflict"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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The householders :Robert Duncan and Jess
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Bridging the silos :collaborating for environment, health, and justice in urb…
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- 1 online resource (376 pages) :illustrations.
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Systems, Experts, and Computers: The Systems Approach in Management and Engin…
This study charts the origins and spread of the systems movement. It describes the major players - including RAND, MITRE, Ramo-Wooldrige (later TRW), and the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis - and examines applications in a wide variety of military, government, civil, and engineering settings. The book is international in scope, describing the spread of systems thinking in Fr…
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Girls coming to tech! :a history of American engineering education for women
"Engineering education in the United States was long regarded as masculine territory. For decades, women who studied or worked in engineering were popularly perceived as oddities, outcasts, unfeminine (or inappropriately feminine in a male world). In Girls Coming to Tech!, Amy Bix tells the story of how women gained entrance to the traditionally male field of engineering in American higher educ…
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