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History and public policy / by Mock, David B.(CARDINAL)271864;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Commissioning the future / Edward Berkowitz -- Public history's past, present and prospects / W. Andrew Achenbaum -- The past in service to the future / Seymour Mandelbaum -- Models and historical data in public policy analysis / Robert Stakenas and Paul Soifer -- History requited : historians and toxic waste / Shelley Bookspan -- Applied history and the problems of social security / Peter N. Stearns -- The politics of social security expansion : social security disability insurance, 1935-1986 / Edward Berkowitz and Daniel M. Fox -- Vocational education planning in Florida since 1917 / David B. Mock -- The uses and misuses of history in the debate over immigration reform / Otis L. Graham, Jr. -- Shared spheres : the public policy of contemporary feminism and civil rights / Irvin D. Solomon.
Subjects: Social sciences and history.; Policy sciences.;
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The seven deadly sins : society and evil / by Lyman, Stanford M.(CARDINAL)130049;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Sin and sociology -- Sloth -- Lust -- Anger -- Pride -- Envy -- Gluttony -- Greed -- Society and evil.
Subjects: Deadly sins.; Ethics; Social sciences and ethics.;
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Get ready! for social studies. World history / by Otfinoski, Steven.;
Subjects: History; Social sciences;
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The science of liberty / by Ferris, Timothy.(CARDINAL)151336;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Science & liberty -- Science & liberalism -- The rise of science -- The science of enlightenment -- American independence -- The terror -- Power -- Progress -- The science of wealth -- Totalitarian antiscience -- Academic antiscience -- One world.
Subjects: Democracy and science.; Science; Science;
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The science of liberty : democracy, reason, and the laws of nature / by Ferris, Timothy.(CARDINAL)151336;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-353) and index.Science & liberty -- Science & liberalism -- The rise of science -- The science of enlightenment -- American independence -- The terror -- Power -- Progress -- The science of wealth -- Totalitarian antiscience -- Academic antiscience -- One world.In this sweeping intellectual history, science writer Timothy Ferris transcends the concepts of left and right to make a passionate case for science as the inspiration behind the rise of liberalism and democracy. Ferris argues that just as the scientific revolution rescued billions from poverty, fear, hunger, and disease, the Enlightenment values it inspired has swelled the number of persons living in free and democratic societies from less than one percent of the world population four centuries ago to more than a third today. Ferris investigates the evolution of these scientific and political revolutions, demonstrating that they are inextricably bound. He shows how science was integral to the American Revolution but misinterpreted in the French Revolution; reflects on the history of liberalism, stressing its widely underestimated and mutually beneficial relationship with science; and surveys the forces that have opposed science and liberalism--from communism and fascism to postmodernism and Islamic fundamentalism.--From publisher description.
Subjects: Democracy and science.; Science; Science;
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A people's history of science : miners, midwives, and "low mechanicks" / by Conner, Clifford D.,1941-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.What science? What history? What people? -- Prehistory: were hunter-gatherers stupid? -- What "Greek miracle"? -- Blue-water sailors and the navigational sciences -- Who were the revolutionaries in the scientific revolution? -- Who were the winners in the scientific revolution? -- The "union of capital and science" -- The scientific-industrial complex.
Subjects: Science; Science and civilization.; Science;
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The grand contraption : the world as myth, number, and chance / by Park, David,1919-2012.(CARDINAL)724374;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Science and civilization.; Science; Science;
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The moral arc: how science and reason lead humanity toward truth, justice, and freedom / by Shermer, Michael.(CARDINAL)350275;
Subjects: Science; Science;
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The moral arc : how science makes us better people / by Shermer, Michael,author.(CARDINAL)350275;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 497-526) and index.Bending the moral arc -- The moral arc explained. Toward a science of morality ; The morality of war, terror, and deterrence ; Why science and reason are the drivers of moral progress ; Why religion is not the source of moral progress -- The moral arc applied. Slavery and a moral science of freedom ; A moral science of women's rights ; A moral science of gay rights ; A moral science of animal rights -- The moral arc amended. Moral regress and pathways to evil ; Moral freedom and responsibility ; Moral justice: retribution and restoration ; Protopia : the future of moral progress."From Galileo and Newton to Thomas Hobbes and Martin Luther King, Jr., thinkers throughout history have consciously employed scientific techniques to better understand the non-physical world. The Age of Reason and the Enlightenment led theorists to apply scientific reasoning to the non-scientific disciplines of politics, economics, and moral philosophy. Instead of relying on the woodcuts of dissected bodies in old medical texts, physicians opened bodies themselves to see what was there; instead of divining truth through the authority of an ancient holy book or philosophical treatise, people began to explore the book of nature for themselves through travel and exploration; instead of the supernatural belief in the divine right of kings, people employed a natural belief in the right of democracy. In this provocative and compelling book, Shermer will explain how abstract reasoning, rationality, empiricism, skepticism--scientific ways of thinking--have profoundly changed the way we perceive morality and, indeed, move us ever closer to a more just world"--
Subjects: Science; Science;
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Prentice Hall world history : connections to today / by Ellis, Elisabeth Gaynor(CARDINAL)537376; Beers, Burton F(CARDINAL)122686; Esler, Anthony(CARDINAL)507285; Prentice-Hall, inc(CARDINAL)138159;
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Subjects: Social sciences; World history;
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