Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Bending science Bending science Wendy E. Wagner,Thomas O. McGarity viii, 384 p. : 24 cm OL18705656W
Free radicals Free radicals Michael Brooks Reveals the extreme lengths to which scientists have gone to make discoveries, sharing colorful stories of drug use, mystical visions, and cheating by famous figures from Newton and Einstein to Watso… OL19956005W
Cold, Cold Heart Cold, Cold Heart Christine Poulson 1 online resource OL21158826W
The non-authentic nature of Freud's observations The non-authentic nature of Freud's observations Max Scharnberg First main theme. 369 pages are devoted to the analysis of Freud's third seduction paper (1896) of 35 pages, which was for a century praised of wealth of observations and its careful reporting of the… OL2471830W
The economics of science The economics of science James R. Wible Science is difficult and costly to do well. This study systematically creates an economics of science. Many aspects of science are explored from an economic point of view. The scientist is treated as… OL2661677W
The Sun and the moon The Sun and the moon Matthew Goodman A study of a nineteenth-century journalistic hoax describes how a series of articles appearing in the "New York Sun" in 1835 purported to reveal lunar discoveries made by a noted British astronomer c… OL274358W
Science Fictions Science Fictions John Crewdson Describes the competition between scientists--including Robert Gallo of the National Cancer Institute--over credit for the discovery of the HIV virus in a study that offers a revealing look at how sc… OL4651931W