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Perennial classic volume P 3095
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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towering classic of dystopian satire, BRAVE NEW WORLD is a brilliant and terrifying vision of a soulless society⁰́₄and of one man who discovers the human costs of mindless conformity. Hundreds of years in the future, the World Controllers have created an ideal civilization. Its members, shaped by genetic engineering and behavioral conditioning, are productive and content in roles they have been assigned at conception. Government-sanctioned drugs...
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
In Hitler's Scientists, British historian John Cornwell explores German scientific genius in the first half of the twentieth century and shows how Germany's early lead in the new physics led to the discovery of atomic fission, which in turn led the way to the atom bomb, and how the ideas of Darwinism were hijacked to create the lethal doctrine of racial cleansing.
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Publisher
The University of Arizona Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Science Be Dammed is an alarming reminder of the high stakes in the management--and perils in the mismanagement--of water in the western United States. It offers important lessons in the age of climate change and underscores the necessity of seeking out the best science to support the decisions we make"--
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Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"In this polemic, Dr. Michael Stebbins reveals what most biologists and politicians are afraid to, about what research can and, perhaps more importantly, cannot deliver. He leaves no can of worms unopened. He shows how truly novel and necessary work is being hobbled in the USA, currently the world's scientific goliath, and hence calls for wide-reaching changes in education, funding, legislation, publishing and promulgation."--BOOK JACKET.
10) Un mundo feliz
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Publisher
plaza & Janés Editores/De Bolsillo
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
Español
Description
Huxley's classic prophetic novel describes the socialized horrors of a futuristic utopia devoid of individual freedom.
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Series
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Called "one of our best science popularizers" by Publishers Weekly, Amir Aczel now tackles the cause of one of last century's most destructive events - the scientific discovery of nuclear power. Drawing on his rich storytelling skills, Aczel presents the fascinating and suspenseful story of the scientists who first uncovered the potential of uranium. Uranium Wars takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of 1920s Europe where the scientific elite of the...
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Regnery Publishing, a division of Salem Media Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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The product of relentless investigation and research, Pandemia explains how an illness that many people will never even know they had became the occasion for economically ruinous lockdowns and the suppression of personal freedom on a previously unimaginable scale. Dispassionate, factual, and untainted by any agenda other than telling the truth, this is the account that pandemic-weary Americans desperately need.
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