Author: Harvard University. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Theodore Roosevelt Collection; Dictionary Catalogue and Shelflist
Author: Harvard University. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Trust in Numbers
Author: Theodore M. PorterPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691210543
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A foundational work on historical and social studies of quantification What accounts for the prestige of quantitative methods? The usual answer is that quantification is desirable in social investigation as a result of its successes in science. Trust in Numbers questions whether such success in the study of stars, molecules, or cells should be an attractive model for research on human societies, and examines why the natural sciences are highly quantitative in the first place. Theodore Porter argues that a better understanding of the attractions of quantification in business, government, and social research brings a fresh perspective to its role in psychology, physics, and medicine. Quantitative rigor is not inherent in science but arises from political and social pressures, and objectivity derives its impetus from cultural contexts. In a new preface, the author sheds light on the current infatuation with quantitative methods, particularly at the intersection of science and bureaucracy.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph
Author: comte Th Du MoncelPublisher:
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Category : Microphone
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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The Making of a Social Disease
Author: David S. BarnesPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520915178
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
In this first English-language study of popular and scientific responses to tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France, David Barnes provides a much-needed historical perspective on a disease that is making an alarming comeback in the United States and Europe. Barnes argues that French perceptions of the disease—ranging from the early romantic image of a consumptive woman to the later view of a scourge spread by the poor—owed more to the power structures of nineteenth-century society than to medical science. By 1900, the war against tuberculosis had become a war against the dirty habits of the working class. Lucid and original, Barnes's study broadens our understanding of how and why societies assign moral meanings to deadly diseases.
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
Author: Theodore RooseveltPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amazon River
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Through the Dark Continent
Author: Henry Morton StanleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 694
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Through South America's Southland
Author: John Augustine ZahmPublisher:
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Category : Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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European Constitutionalism
Author: Kaarlo TuoriPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107087090
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
This book provides a new understanding of the European constitution as a multidimensional process of constitutionalization, constantly interacting with Member State constitutions.
The Jungle
Author: Upton SinclairPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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