Bücher von University Of Nevada

In Scientists as Prophets, Lynda Walsh argues that our science advisors manufacture certainty for us in the face of the unknown. Through a series of cases reaching from the Delphic oracle to seventeenth-century London to Climategate, Walsh elucidates many of the problems with our current science-advising system.

This lively account of the Roaring 20s' in America embraces all the major personalities in jazz and popular music - singers, composers and instrumentalists - together with a detailed discography and lists of songs and films.