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Ethics of Scientific Research

Ethics of Scientific Research

Dr. Kristin Shrader-Frechette

Challenging long-held theories of scientific rationality and remoteness, Kristin Shrader-Frechette argues that research cannot be 'value free.
Taking Action, Saving Lives: Our Duties to Protect ...

Taking Action, Saving Lives: Our Duties to Protect ...

Kristin Shrader-Frechette

In this book, at once brilliant and accessible, Shrader-Frechette reveals how politicians, campaign contributors, and lobbyists--and their power over media, advertising, and public relations--have conspired to cover up environmental disease ...
Risk and Rationality: Philosophical Foundations for Populist ...

Risk and Rationality: Philosophical Foundations for Populist ...

K. S. Shrader-Frechette

Who is right? In Risk and Rationality, Kristin Shrader-Frechette argues that neither charges of irresponsible endangerment nor countercharges of scientific illiteracy frame the issues properly.
Environmental Justice: Creating Equality, Reclaiming Democracy

Environmental Justice: Creating Equality, Reclaiming Democracy

Kristin Shrader-Frechette

Shrader-Frechette offers a rigorous philosophical discussion of environmental justice.
Science Policy, Ethics, and Economic Methodology: Some ...

Science Policy, Ethics, and Economic Methodology: Some ...

Kristin Shrader-Frechette

Not so, as Chapter Two of this volume should make eminently clear.
Method in Ecology: Strategies for Conservation

Method in Ecology: Strategies for Conservation

Kristin S. Shrader-Frechette

Therefore, we believe that pessimistic conclusions about the importance and utility of current ecology are not warranted. First, we examine the arguments of two prominent pessimists, biologist Robert Henry Peters and philosopher Mark Sagoff.
Technology and Values: Essential Readings

Technology and Values: Essential Readings

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Kristin Shrader-Frechette has been since 1998 the O'Neill Family Professor of Philosophy and Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame. This selection is one of the best-regarded accounts of the ethical evaluation of technology, and ...
Tainted: How Philosophy of Science Can Expose Bad Science

Tainted: How Philosophy of Science Can Expose Bad Science

Kristin Shrader-Frechette

This book is both an in-depth look at the unreliable scientific findings at the root of contemporary debates in biochemistry, ecology, economics, hydrogeology, physics, and zoology -- and a call to action for scientists, philosophers of ...
Risk Analysis and Scientific Method: Methodological and ...

Risk Analysis and Scientific Method: Methodological and ...

Kristin Shrader-Frechette

Much of the work in this volume was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant SES82-05112 from the Program in History and Philosophy of Science and the Division of Policy Research and Analysis. (Any opinions, findings, ...
What Will Work: Fighting Climate Change with Renewable ...

What Will Work: Fighting Climate Change with Renewable ...

Kristin Shrader-Frechette

What Will Work makes a rigorous and compelling case that energy efficiencies and renewable energy-and not nuclear fission or "clean coal"-are the most effective, cheapest, and equitable solutions to the pressing problem of climate change.
The Kristin Book: Update 2013

The Kristin Book: Update 2013

Robert Nichols

(And Kristin needs the work—I have hired her as my mail order department.) I said that Kristin would never drive. Wrong. Last June, on her sixteenth birthday, Carol and I took her up near the Wyoming border where roads are forever and traffic ...
The Adam Waggoner family of Tazewell and Montgomery ...

The Adam Waggoner family of Tazewell and Montgomery ...

Thomas C. Hatcher

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Balancing in Heels: My Journey to Health, Happiness, and ...

Balancing in Heels: My Journey to Health, Happiness, and ...

Kristin Cavallari

Kristin shares the family's favorite recipes and even reveals how her food philosophy has drastically improved Jay's type 1 diabetes. Balancing in Heels is a behind-the-scenes, in-depth look at who the real Kristin Cavallari is--unscripted.
Cameras

Cameras

Kristin Petrie

26 Series Coordinator: Megan M. Gunderson Editors: Megan M. Gunderson, BreAnn Rumsch Art Direction & Cover Design: Neil Klinepier Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Petrie, Kristin, 1970Cameras / Kristin Petrie. p. cm .
Kristin Lavransdatter: The Bridal Wreath

Kristin Lavransdatter: The Bridal Wreath

Sigrid Undset

Volume one of the trilogy; Kristin's girlhood.
Leading When There’s Too Much Change:

Leading When There’s Too Much Change:

Kristin Cullen-Lester

... Kristin Cullen-Lester Kristin Cullen-Lester, PhD, is a senior research scientist at theCenterforCreativeLeadership. Herresearchexamineshowleadersusenetworkstofostercollectiveleadership, complex collaboration, and change across ...
Kristin's Wilderness: A Braided Trail

Kristin's Wilderness: A Braided Trail

Garrett Conover

And we really needed him because he was the one with the most English, so he could let us know what was going on and fix our mix-ups and mistakes. After a winter with my special trip name of Amber, I would have to learn to be Kristin again.
The Paper Cowboy

The Paper Cowboy

Kristin Levine

Poignantly written, Kristin Levine proves herself a master of gripping and affecting historical fiction.
Kristin Lavransdatter - The Cross

Kristin Lavransdatter - The Cross

Sigrid Undset,

Then came the time, Kristin—I had the fortune to show the folk yonder, north of the fells, that wholly unworthy of my forefathers I was not——No, I tell you! Here, on this little croft, I am a free man—none gape after my doings or talk behind my ...
Night Road

Night Road

Kristin Hannah

This is Kristin Hannah at her very best, telling an unforgettable story about the longing for family, the resilience of the human heart, and the courage it takes to forgive the people we love.
The Cambridge Companion to Philosophical Methodology

The Cambridge Companion to Philosophical Methodology

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Sweet Dreams, Kristin

Sweet Dreams, Kristin

Michelle Brown

Before Kristin knew it, she was having another night terror. She woke up screaming and thrashing, not remembering that she was back at home. She hadn 't realized that she was asleep in her mother's arms. Ella awoke, immediately alarmed.
Southwest Border Violence: Issues in Identifying and ...

Southwest Border Violence: Issues in Identifying and ...

Jennifer E. Lake

... 7-0620 Kristin M. Finklea, Coordinator Analyst in Domestic Security ... Drug Trafficking Organizations Kristin Finklea 7-6259 ...
Layout Workbook: A Real-World Guide to Building Pages in ...

Layout Workbook: A Real-World Guide to Building Pages in ...

Kristin Cullen

In this edition, author Kristin Cullen tackles the often perplexing job of nailing down a layout that works.
Gadamer and the Legacy of German Idealism

Gadamer and the Legacy of German Idealism

Kristin Gjesdal

Kristin Gjesdal uses a close analysis and critical investigation of Gadamer's Truth and Method (1960) to show that his engagement with Kant, Hegel, and Schleiermacher is integral to his conception of hermeneutics.
Federal Crime Control Issues in the 111th Congress

Federal Crime Control Issues in the 111th Congress

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... Gangs Kristin M. Finklea 7-6259 ... Crack/Powder Cocaine Sentencing Disparities Kristin M. Finklea Lisa M. Seghetti 7-6259 7-4669 ...
Kristin: A Reading

Kristin: A Reading

Andrew Nelson Lytle

Distinguished novelist, critic, and teacher Andrew Lytle turns his creative insight to a much overlooked literary classic, Nobel Prize winner Sigrid Undset's Saga of Kristin Lavransdatter.
This Is Not How I Thought It Would Be: Remodeling Motherhood ...

This Is Not How I Thought It Would Be: Remodeling Motherhood ...

Kristin Maschka

Kristin Maschka, past president of Mothers & More, a national organization with more than 140 chapters across the country, shines a spotlight on the complex issues mothers face?at work, in their homes, their lives, and with their partners? ...
The Bush Is Sweet: Identity, Power and Development Among ...

The Bush Is Sweet: Identity, Power and Development Among ...

Kristín Loftsdóttir

Spending nearly two years as a Wodaabe, within a Wodaabe extended family and alternating between their nomadic and urbanised lifestyles, Kristín Loftsdottír gives the reader a personal insight into the lives of the Wodaabe nomads of Niger ...

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