Product Description: Alarmists argue that the United States urgently needs more and better-trained scientists to compete with the rest of the world. Their critics counter that, far from facing a shortage, we are producing a glut of young scientists with poor employment prospects...read more

Product Description: American Science and Modern China is an essay in comparative history, originally published in 1980. It focuses on the transmission of scientific ideas and organizations from the United States to China, a topic interesting primarily for what it reveals about the social history of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American science...read more

Argues that the explanations of issues such as global warming, stem cell research, and evolution that are presented to the public are actually formulated by liberals seeking to advance their own agenda and preserve their research funding.

Product Description: Over three hundred years ago, Galileo is reported to have said, "The laws of nature are written in the language of mathematics." Often mathematics and science go hand in hand, with one helping develop and improve the other. Discoveries in science, for example, open up new advances in statistics, computer science, operations research, and pure and applied mathematics which in turn enabled new practical technologies and advanced entirely new frontiers of science...read more

Product Description: Looking at what happens when science marries money, this book focuses on the interaction of finance with the key frontier technologies of today's era - television, microelectronics and computers, pharmaceuticals, wartime radar and biotechnology...read more