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    Groovy science : knowledge, innovation, and American counterculture /

    Published 2016
    Table of Contents: “…Gordin -- Timothy Leary's transhumanist smile / W. Patrick McCray -- Science of the sexy beast: biological masculinities and the Playboy lifestyle / Erika Lorraine Milam -- Legacies -- Alloyed: countercultural bricoleurs and the design science revival / Andrew Kirk -- How the industrial scientist got his groove: entrepreneurial journalism and the fashioning of technoscientific innovators / Matthew Wisnioski -- When chèvre was weird: hippie taste, technoscience, and the revival of American artisanal food making / Heather Paxson -- Afterword: the counterculture's looking glass / David Farber and Beth Bailey.…”
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    Leaving science : occupational exit from scientific careers / by Preston, Anne Elizabeth

    Published 2004
    Table of Contents: “…Science : the period and the people -- The magnitude and character of exit -- Leaving science for income and opportunity -- Family responsibilities and their effects on a scientific career -- Mentoring -- Leaving science because of discontent with science itself -- Does the rapidly changing knowledge within science affect exit? …”
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    Science and spectacle : the work of Jodrell Bank in post-war British culture / by Agar, Jon

    Published 1998
    Table of Contents: “…Ch. 1. Science in Post-war Britain -- Ch. 2. Funding the Spectacle of Science -- Ch. 3. …”
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    Frontier science : Northern Canada, military research, and the Cold War, 1945-1970 / by Wiseman, Matthew S., 1986-

    Published 2024
    Table of Contents: “…Fort Churchill and Defence Research Northern Laboratory -- Acclimatization, Cold Tolerance, and Biochemical Experimentation -- Entomology, Insect Control, and Biological Warfare -- The Changing Science of Arctic Warfare -- Operation Hazen and the International Geophysical Year -- Nuclear Fallout and the Northern Radiation Study.…”
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    Disrupting science : social movements, American scientists, and the politics of the military, 1945-1975 / by Moore, Kelly, 1962-

    Published 2008
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The expansion and critiques of science-military ties, 1945-1970 -- Scientists as moral individuals : Quakerism and the Society for Social Responsibility in Science -- Information and political neutrality : liberal science activism and the St. …”
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    Storytelling and science : rewriting Oppenheimer in the nuclear age / by Hecht, David K., 1972-

    Published 2015
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Telling stories about science -- The atomic hero -- Coming of age in science -- Alternate histories -- The making and unmaking of Faust -- The modern subject -- Conclusion: Speaking of science.…”
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    Selling science : polio and the promise of gamma globulin / by Mawdsley, Stephen E.

    Published 2016
    Table of Contents: “…Forging momentum -- Building consent for a clinical trial -- Marketing and mobilization -- Selling science -- Operation marbles and lollipops -- The national experiment.…”
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    Science and ideology : a comparative history /

    Published 2003
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction : science and ideology /…”
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    Cathedrals of science : the personalities and rivalries that made modern chemistry / by Coffey, Patrick

    Published 2008
    Table of Contents: “…The ionists: Arrhenius and Nernst -- Physical chemistry in America: Lewis and Langmuir -- The third law and nitrogen: Haber and Nernst -- Chemists at war: Haber, Nernst, Langmuir, and Harkins -- Science and the Nazis: Nernst and Haber -- Nobel prizes: Lewis and Langmuir -- Nuclear chemistry: Lewis, Urey, and Seaborg -- Secret of life: Pauling, Wrinch, and Langmuir -- Pathological science: Langmuir -- Lewis's last days.…”
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    Candid science : conversations with famous chemists / by Hargittai, István

    Published 2000
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    Science for the masses : the Bolshevik state, public science, and the popular imagination in Soviet Russia, 1917-1934 / by Andrews, James T., 1961-

    Published 2003
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Russian science, public culture, and the Bolsheviks -- The birth of popular publishing and public science in Tsarist Russia -- Scientific societies and the public sphere in late imperial Russia -- Patronizing science : Glavnauka and scientific societies, 1917-27 -- Forging the new world : scientific print culture and the Russian reader in the 1920s -- Imagining science : land, air, and space for the new Soviet citizen of the 1920s -- Transforming the spirit with science : evolution, antireligion, and the Soviet state in the 1920s -- Technology solves everything : science popularization and the Stalinist great break, 1928-32 -- Cultural conveyor belts : public science on the retreat, 1928-32 -- Technology for the masses : technical societies, Stalinist culture, and Soviet labor, 1928-34 -- Conclusion: the shop floor as the temple of science.…”
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    Science for the People : Documents from America's Movement of Radical Scientists /

    Published 2018
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction : science for the people, the 1970s and today -- Science, power, and ideology / Ben Allen and Sigrid Schmalzer -- Disrupting the "AAA$" / Colin Garvey and Daniel S. …”
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    The Wellborn science : eugenics in Germany, France, Brazil, and Russia /

    Published 1990
    Table of Contents: “…Eugenics in the history of science / Mark B. Adams -- The race hygiene movement in Germany 1904-1945 / Sheila Faith Weiss -- The eugenics movement in France 1890-1940 / William H. …”
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    Science for the empire : scientific nationalism in modern Japan / by Mizuno, Hiromi, 1969-

    Published 2009
    Table of Contents: “…Incomplete modernity and the problem of science -- Mapping Marxism onto the politics of the scientific -- Constructing the scientific Japanese tradition -- Popular science. …”
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    Stalinist science / by Krement︠s︡ov, N. L.

    Published 1997
    Table of Contents: “…PART I: THE MAKING OF STALINIST SCIENCE --…”
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    Redefining Science : Scientists, the National Security State, and Nuclear Weapons in Cold War America / by Rubinson, Paul, 1977-

    Published 2016
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction: a tale of two hearings -- From "highly unreliable" to "patriotic and prompt": scientists confront the national security state, 1945/1957 -- Linus Pauling's "science of morality": challenging nuclear weapons, 1950/1963 -- Edward Teller's flexible response: defending nuclear weapons, 1954/1963 -- "Crucified on a cross of atoms": scientists and the Test Ban Treaty, 1957/1963 -- To "sail before the wind of time": scientists and disarmament after the Test Ban Treaty, 1963/1972 -- The dilemmas of Herbert York: opposition in the mainstream, 1952/1981 -- "An elaborate way of committing national suicide": Carl Sagan and nuclear winter, 1980/1989 -- "An emotional grassroots offensive": scientists, SDI, and the moral challenge to nuclear weapons, 1980/1991 -- Conclusion: the future of nuclear weapons.…”
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    Science on stage : from Doctor Faustus to Copenhagen / by Shepherd-Barr, Kirsten

    Published 2006
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