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9781138909519 | Routledge, March 24, 2016, cover price $150.00
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9781138909526 | Routledge, March 23, 2016, cover price $49.95
Hardcover:
9781402793219 | Sterling Pub Co Inc, October 6, 2015, cover price $24.95
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9780773539891 | McGill Queens Univ Pr, March 9, 2012, cover price $29.95
Product Description: The U.S. Preventative Services Task Force issued new guidelines for mammograms in 2009. What does this mean for someone with a family history of breast cancer? Congress periodically votes on a piece of legislation called the Farm Bill...read more
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9781936137145 | Natl Science Teachers Assn, January 12, 2012, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: The U.
Controversies over issues such as genetically engineered food, foot-and-mouth disease and the failure of risk models in the global financial crisis have raised concerns about the quality of expert scientific advice. The legitimacy of experts, and of the political decision-makers and policy-makers whom they advise, essentially depends on the quality of the advice. But what does quality mean in this context, and how can it be achieved? This volume argues that the quality of scientific advice can be ensured by an appropriate institutional design of advisory organisations. Using examples from a wide range of international case studies, including think tanks, governmental research institutes, agencies and academies, the authors provide a systematic guide to the major problems and pitfalls encountered in scientific advice and the means by which organisations around the world have solved these problems.
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9781107003705 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 11, 2011, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: Controversies over issues such as genetically engineered food, foot-and-mouth disease and the failure of risk models in the global financial crisis have raised concerns about the quality of expert scientific advice.
Paperback:
9780521177153 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 11, 2011, cover price $54.99
Hardcover:
9780230573857 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 15, 2009, cover price $120.00
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9781118570692 | 2 edition (Blackwell Pub, June 4, 2013), cover price $134.00
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9781118570708 | 2 edition (Blackwell Pub, June 4, 2013), cover price $30.95
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9780023797514 | Macmillan Pub Co, February 1, 1989, cover price $55.01 | also contains Expository Science: Forms and Functions of Popularization
9780023797514 | Macmillan Pub Co, February 1, 1989, cover price $55.01 | also contains Expository Science: Forms and Functions of Popularization
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9780023279010 | 2 sub edition (Macmillan Coll Div, January 1, 1994), cover price $60.00
The prevailing view of scientific popularization, both within academic circles and beyond, affirms that its objectives and procedures are unrelated to tasks of cognitive development and that its pertinence is by and large restricted to the lay public. Consistent with this view, popularization is frequently portrayed as a logical and hence inescapable consequence of a culture dominated by science-based products and procedures and by a scientistic ideology. On another level, it is depicted as a quasi-political device for chan nelling the energies of the general public along predetermined paths; examples of this are the nineteenth-century Industrial Revolution and the U. S. -Soviet space race. Alternatively, scientific popularization is described as a carefully contrived plan which enables scientists or their spokesmen to allege that scientific learn ing is equitably shared by scientists and non-scientists alike. This manoeuvre is intended to weaken the claims of anti-scientific protesters that scientists monopolize knowledge as a means of sustaining their social privileges. Pop ularization is also sometimes presented as a psychological crutch. This, in an era of increasing scientific specialisation, permits the researchers involved to believe that by transcending the boundaries of their narrow fields, their endeavours assume a degree of general cognitive importance and even extra scientific relevance. Regardless of the particular thrust of these different analyses it is important to point out that all are predicated on the tacit presupposition that scientific popularization belongs essentially to the realm of non-science, or only concerns the periphery of scientific activity.
Hardcover:
9780023797514, titled "Reading and the Writing Process" | Macmillan Pub Co, February 1, 1989, cover price $55.01 | also contains Reading and the Writing Process
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9789027718327 | Kluwer Academic Pub, July 1, 1985, cover price $169.00 | About this edition: The prevailing view of scientific popularization, both within academic circles and beyond, affirms that its objectives and procedures are unrelated to tasks of cognitive development and that its pertinence is by and large restricted to the lay public.
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