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“milena wazeck”

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  • Einstein's Opponents

    The Public Controversy about the Theory of Relativity in the 1920s

    by Milena Wazeck ...
    Translated by Geoffrey S. Koby ...
    This detailed account of the controversy surrounding the publication of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity explores the ferocious popular and academic opposition which at one time encircled one of the most important scientific breakthroughs of the twentieth century. Based on extensive archival research, this fascinating discourse includes a compelling and entertaining examination of the ... Read more

    $184.99 CAD

  • Discerning Experts

    The Practices of Scientific Assessment for Environmental Policy

    by Michael Oppenheimer, Naomi Oreskes, Dale Jamieson, Keynyn Brysse, Jessica O'Reilly, Matthew Shindell, Milena Wazeck ...
    This groundbreaking study of environmental assessment "provides an essential examination of the factors that shape and dictate our climate policy" ( Choice).Discerning Experts reexamines the assessments that many governments rely on to help guide environmental policy and action. Through their close look at reports involving acid rain, ozone depletion, and sea level rise, the authors explore how ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Climate Change

    The Facts

    by Alan Moran (editor), Dr Richard S. Lindzen ~ Dr Jennifer Marohasy ~ Dr Ross McKitrick ~ Dr Patrick J. Michaels ~ Dr Alan Moran ~ Jo Nova ~ Dr Garth W. Paltridge ~ Dr Ian Plimer ~ Dr Willie Soon ~ Mark Steyn~Anthony Watts, Dr John Abbot ~ Dr J. Scott Armstrong ~ Andrew Bolt ~ Dr Robert M. Carter ~ Rupert Darwall ~ James Delingpole ~ Dr Christopher Essex ~ Dr Stewart W. Franks ~ Dr Kesten C. Green ~ Donna Laframboise ~ Nigel Lawson ~ Bernard Lewin ~ ...
    Stockade Books and The Institute of Public Affairs are proud to publish Climate Change: The Facts, featuring 22 essays on the science, politics and economics of the climate change debate. Climate Change: The Facts features the world’s leading experts and commentators on climate change.Highlights of Climate Change: The Facts include:Ian Plimer draws on the geological record to dismiss the possibili ... Read more

    $9.96 CAD

  • Exact Thinking in Demented Times

    The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science

    by Karl Sigmund, Douglas R Hofstadter ...
    A dazzling group biography of the early twentieth-century thinkers who transformed the way the world thought about math and scienceInspired by Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and Bertrand Russell and David Hilbert's pursuit of the fundamental rules of mathematics, some of the most brilliant minds of the generation came together in post-World War I Vienna to present the latest theories in ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Merchants of Doubt

    How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

    by Naomi Oreskes, Mr Erik M. Conway ...
    The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life. Our scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming. But at the same time, a small yet potent subset of this community leads the world in vehement denial of these dangers.Merchants ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Human Caused Global Warming

    by Tim Ball PhD ...
    This book examines the claims of human induced global warming made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) using proper journalistic and investigative techniques. It explains how it was a premeditated, orchestrated deception, using science to impose a political agenda. It fooled a majority including most scientists. They assumed that other scientists would not produce science for a ... Read more

    $7.00 CAD

  • The Fourth Dimension

    Sacred Geometry, Alchemy & Mathematics (CW 324a)

    by Rudolf Steiner ...
    Translated by Catherine E. Creeger ...
    6 lectures, Berlin, March 24-June 7, 1905;2 lectures, Nov. 7, 1905 & Oct. 22, 1908;Questions & Answers, 1904-1922 (CW 324)The point, line, plane and solid objects represent the first three dimensions, but a kind of reversal of space is involved in the ascent to a fourth dimension. Steiner leads us to the brink of this new perspective--as nearly as it can be done with words, diagrams, analogies, ... Read more

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  • Beyond Uncertainty

    Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and The Bomb

    by David C. Cassidy ...
    "Exhaustively detailed yet eminently readable, this is an important book."Publishers Weekly, starred review"Cassidy does not so much exculpate Heisenberg as explain him, with a transparency that makes this biography a pleasure to read."Los Angeles Times"Well crafted and readable . . . [Cassidy] provides a nuanced and compelling account of Heisenberg's life."The Harvard Book ReviewIn 1992, David C. ... Read more

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  • Cool It

    by Bjorn Lomborg ...
    Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and staggeringly expensive actions now being considered to meet the challenges of global warming ultimately will have little impact on the world’s temperature. He suggests that rather than focusing on ineffective solutions that will cost us trillions of dollars over the coming decades, we should be looking for smarter, more cost-effective approaches ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Climate Change: The Facts 2017

    by Jennifer Marohasy ...
    There are certain things best not discussed with neighbours over the fence, at barbeques and at gatherings of the extended family; these topics used to include sex and politics, but more recently climate change has become a sensitive issue and has, consequently, crept onto the best-to-avoid list. At the same time as climate change has assumed this status, it has become a topic more likely to be ... Read more

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  • Unended Quest

    An Intellectual Autobiography

    by Karl Popper ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    At the age of eight, Karl Popper was puzzling over the idea of infinity and by fifteen was beginning to take a keen interest in his father's well-stocked library of books. Unended Quest recounts these moments and many others in the life of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, providing an indispensable account of the ideas that influenced him most. As an introduction to ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Physicist and the Philosopher

    Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time

    by Jimena Canales ...
    The explosive debate that transformed our views about time and scientific truthOn April 6, 1922, in Paris, Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson publicly debated the nature of time. Einstein considered Bergson's theory of time to be a soft, psychological notion, irreconcilable with the quantitative realities of physics. Bergson, who gained fame as a philosopher by arguing that time should not be ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD