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    Can Scientists Succeed Where Politicians Fail?

    Johns Hopkins Wavelengths

    by Peter Agre ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Yen ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 8 min

    How can science prevail when policies fall short?Sometimes in secret, sometimes as official ambassadors for their governments, scientists trade their white coats for blazers, stepping out of the lab and directly into sensitive, often life-threatening global crises. Think of the Paris Climate Agreement or the Iran Nuclear Deal, the Manhattan Project, and the Antarctic Treaty of 1959. Scientists ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Can Scientists Succeed Where Politicians Fail?

    by Peter Agre ...
    Series series Johns Hopkins Wavelengths
    How can science prevail when policies fall short?Political, military, and intelligence professionals alone can't resolve all global threats. Sometimes, when other solutions have faltered, scientists step out of their classrooms, labs, and offices to help resolve these dangerous crises—often at considerable personal risk. Whether as official ambassadors for their governments or by less formal (or ... Read more

    $15.59 USD

  • Can Scientists Succeed Where Politicians Fail?

    by Peter Agre ...
    Series series Johns Hopkins Wavelengths
    How can science prevail when policies fall short?Political, military, and intelligence professionals alone can't resolve all global threats. Sometimes, when other solutions have faltered, scientists step out of their classrooms, labs, and offices to help resolve these dangerous crises—often at considerable personal risk. Whether as official ambassadors for their governments or by less formal (or ... Read more

    $15.59 USD

  • Red Blood Cell Membranes

    Structure: Function: Clinical Implications

    Edited by Peter Agre ...
    Series series Hematology
    This book is devoted to the red blood cell membrane, its structure and function, and abnormalities in disease states. It presents a well-documented and well-illustrated comprehensive picture of clinical manifestations of red blood cell disorders. ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

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  • Autocracy, Inc.

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  • Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

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    by Arthur Snell ...
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  • The Global Refugee Crisis

    Fleeing Conflict and Violence

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  • Shadow Masters

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    by Daniel Estulin ...
    This investigation examines how behind-the-scenes collaboration between governments, intelligence services and drug traffickers has lined the pockets of big business and Western banks. Beginning with a last-minute request from ex-governor Jesse Ventura, the narrative winds between the author's own story of covering "deep politics" and the facts he has uncovered. The ongoing campaign against Victor ... Read more

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  • Loving This Planet

    Leading Thinkers Talk About How to Make A Better World

    by Helen Caldicott, Maude Barlow, Bill McKibben, Lester Brown, Janette Sherman-Nevinger, Hugh Gusterson, Chris Hedges, Diane Curran, Vini Gautam Khurana, David Krieger, Carole Gallagher, Jonathan Schell, William Hartung, Michael T. Klare, Daniel Ellsberg, Antony Loewenstein, John Church, Rhett Butler, Martin Sheen, Arjun Makhijani, Lily Tomlin, Michael Madsen, Bob Herbert, Frances Fox Piven, Denis Hayes, Phil Radford ...
    Conversations on sustainability, renewable energy, and other pressing issues: "A level of intellectual discussion all too absent in our national discourse." — BooklistA co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, named one of the most influential women of the twentieth century by the Smithsonian Institute, Helen Caldicott presents a valuable collection of her interviews with prominent ... Read more

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    The catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has brought new attention to the huge costs of our oil dependence. In this stunning and revealing book, Peter Maass examines the social, political, and environmental impact of petroleum on the countries that produce it.Every unhappy oil-producing nation is unhappy in its own way, but all are touched by the “resource curse”—the power of oil to ... Read more

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