For better or for worse : the marriage of science and government in the United States /

This history of the growth of government-funded science in the United States since World War II reveals the accomplishments and disappointments that grew out of the potent and fruitful alliance between science and government: from the Manhattan Project to the first Apollo mission, from the Atomic En...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mann, Alfred K.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2000.
Colección:Columbia international affairs online. Books.
Temas:
USA > Government
1900-1999
Science and state > United States > History > 20th century.
Science > history
Public Policy > history
Politique scientifique et technique > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
SCIENCE > History.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > General.
Science and state
Staat
Wissenschaft
Naturwissenschaften
Sciences > Aspect politique > États-Unis > 20ème siècle.
Politique scientifique > Etats-Unis > 1945-.
United States
USA
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations and Acronyms
  • Foreword
  • PROLOGUE. What Is the Hockey Stick?
  • Chapter 1. Born in a War
  • Chapter 2. Climate Science Comes of Age
  • Chapter 3. Signals in the Noise
  • Chapter 4. The Making of the Hockey Stick
  • Chapter 5. The Origins of Denial
  • Chapter 6. A Candle in the Dark
  • Chapter 7. In the Line of Fire
  • Chapter 8. Hockey Stick Goes to Washington
  • Chapter 9. When You Get Your Picture on the Cover of ...
  • Chapter 10. Say It Ain't So, (Smokey) Joe!
  • Chapter 11. A Tale of Two Reports
  • Chapter 12. Heads of the Hydra
  • Chapter 13. The Battle of the Bulge
  • Chapter 14. Climategate: The Real Story
  • Chapter 15. Fighting Back
  • Epilogue
  • POSTSCRIPT
  • Glossary
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index.

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