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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-392) and index.
• Planetary observers, Mars observer — Politics and engineering on the Martian frontier — Attack of the great galactic ghoul! — Engineering for uncertainty — Mars mania! — The faster, better, cheaper future — Revenge of the great galactic ghoul — Recovery and reform — Margins on the final frontier — Sending a spy satellite to Mars — Robotic geologists on Mars — Mars phoenix : re-engineering the Polar Lander.

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• Space flight to Mars.
• Mars (Planet) — Exploration.
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.)
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• Mars (Planet) fast (OCoLC)fst01243063
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• Gas well drilling — Environmental aspects.
• Hydraulic fracturing — Environmental aspects.
• Shale gas industry — Environmental aspects.

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• Just add water — Ottis Grimes — Everyone comes for the money — Dominion over the rocks — Wise County — Ice doesn’t freeze anymore — Larry was the brake — The rise of Aubrey McClendon — The fall of Aubrey McClendon — Celestia — Blessings of the Pope — Ghost Ridin’ Grandpa — Pandora’s frack.
• Fracking has vociferous critics and fervent defenders, but the debate between these camps has obscured the actual story: Fracking has become a fixture of the American landscape and the global economy. It has upended the business models of energy companies around the globe, and it has started to change geopolitics and global energy markets in profound ways. Here the author tells the story of this once-obscure oilfield technology, a story with an incredible cast of tycoons and geologists, dreamers and drillers, speculators and skeptics, a story that answers a critical question of our time: Where will the energy come from to power our world, and what price will we have to pay for it? — From publisher’s web site.
• Presents an unstinting exploration of controversial fracking technologies to consider the arguments of its supporters and detractors, profiling key contributors while explaining how the practice is changing the way energy is used.

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• Petroleum industry and trade — Environmental aspects — United States.
• Oil wells — Hydraulic fracturing.
• Energy policy — United States.
• Energy consumption — United States.

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-268) and index.
• During the summer of 1969-the summer Americans first walked on the moon-musician and poet Patti Smith recalled strolling down the Coney Island Boardwalk to a refreshment stand, where pictures of Jesus, President Kennedy, and the astronauts were taped to the wall behind the register. Such was the zeitgeist in the year of the moon. Yet this holy trinity of 1960s America would quickly fall apart. Although Jesus and John F. Kennedy remained iconic, by the time the Apollo Program came to a premature end just three years later few Americans mourned its passing. Why did support for the space program decrease so sharply by the early 1970s? Rooted in profound scientific and technological leaps, rational technocratic management, and an ambitious view of the universe as a realm susceptible to human mastery, the Apollo moon landings were the grandest manifestation of postwar American progress and seemed to prove that the United States could accomplish anything to which it committed its energies and resources. To the great dismay of its many proponents, however, NASA found the ground shifting beneath its feet as a fierce wave of anti-rationalism arose throughout American society, fostering a cultural environment in which growing numbers of Americans began to contest rather than embrace the rationalist values and vision of progress that Apollo embodied. Shifting the conversation of Apollo from its Cold War origins to larger trends in American culture and society, and probing an eclectic mix of voices from the era, including intellectuals, religious leaders, rock musicians, politicians, and a variety of everyday Americans, Matthew Tribbe paints an electrifying portrait of a nation in the midst of questioning the very values that had guided it through the postwar years as it began to develop new conceptions of progress that had little to do with blasting ever more men to the moon. No Requiem for the Space Age offers a narrative of the 1960s and 1970s unlike any told before, with the story of Apollo as the story of America it
• Part One: On Talking about Apollo — 1. The Message of the Spirit of Apollo : Commonplace Reactions — 2. The Nihilism of the WASPs: Norman Mailer in NASA-Land — Part Two: On Mastering the Universe — 3. Apollo and the Human Condition — 4. The Thunder of Apollo: A Benevolent Endeavor in a Century of Brutality — Part Three: On Rationalism and Neo-Romanticism — 5. Turning a Miracle into a Bummer: Squareland, Potland, and the Psychedelic Moon — 6. God is Alive, Magic is Afoot : Moon Voyaging in the Neo-Romantic 1970s — Conclusion: In the Wake of Apollo.

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• Project Apollo (U.S.) — Public opinion — History — 20th century.
• Astronautics — Social aspects — United States — History — 20th century.
• Space flight to the moon — History — 20th century.
• Popular culture — United States.
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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-239) and index.
• Introduction : California welcomes the world — Lessons of valuable experience : what California learned from India — A great mission for the race : lessons and experiences from California — The California model and the Australian awakening — Home is not so very far away : civilizing the South African frontier — Nothing but commercial feudalism : California’s Hawaiian empire — Palestine’s peculiar social experiments — Conclusion : the common world destiny.

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• Water resources development — United States — History.
• Mining engineering — United States — History.
• Water resources development — History.
• Mining engineering — History.
• United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155
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• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-394)and index.
• Basic elements. Fundamentals Assumptions Conventions and definitions Radiocarbon cycle Prominent applications scientific and historic — Major anomalies. Assumption anomalies Systemic elements : secular variation effects Systemic elements : reservoir effects Contamination and fractionation effects Recent and anthropogenic anomalies — Samples and sample pretreatment. Major issues Standard samples Nonstandard samples Problematic samples Sample pretreatment strategies Sample amounts and associated data — Measurement of natural radiocarbon. Radioactivity Radioactivity measurement instruments Measuring natural radiocarbon Decay/Beta counting systems Direct/ion counting systems : accelerator mass spectometry Radiocarbon age calculations Statistical constraints — Critical evaluation of radiocarbon data. General principles Sample provenience factors Sample composition factors Statistical and experimental factors Systemic factors Radiocarbon age estimates : critical evaluations Case study I: Shroud of Turin — Radiocarbon dating in Old World archaeology. The demise of the Neanderthals and early modern humans The colonization of Sahul (New Guinea and Australia) The emergence of pottery in hunting and gathering societies in East Asia The origins of agriculture in Western Asia The impact of the 8200 cal BP Cold Event on prehistoric societies in the Near East Case Study II: Santorini eruption and its archaeological implications Case Study III: King David and the Iron Age chronological debate — Radiocarbon dating in New World archaeology. Orbe Novo Pre-14C chronologies Paleoamerican Eastern North America Western North America Case study IV: Kennewick skeleton (USA) Southwestern United States Mesoamerica South America Case study V: Monte Verde (Chile) — Radiocarbon dating : origin and evolution. Discovery of radiocarbon Libby at Berkeley : 1927-1941 Libby at the Manhattan Project : 1941-1945 Libby at Chicago : 1945-1954 Critical expe
• This volume is a major revision and expansion of Taylor’s seminal book Radiocarbon Dating: An Archaeological Perspective. It covers the major advances and accomplishments of the 14C method in archaeology and analyzes factors that affect the accuracy and precision of 14C-based age estimates. In addition to reviewing the basic principles of the method, it examines 14C dating anomalies and means to resolve them, and considers the critical application of 14C data as a dating isotope with special emphasis on issues in Old and New World archaeology and late Quaternary paleoanthropology. This volume, again a benchmark for 14C dating, critically reflects on the method and data that underpins, in so many cases, the validity of the chronologies used to understand the prehistoric archaeological record. –Back cover.

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• Archaeological dating.
• Radiocarbon dating.

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• English translations of primary documents.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Sunspot Letters : the cause of most of the trouble — Formal proceedings begin — The Inquisition and the Index take action — Publication to Dialogue on the two chief world systems and the beginning of the trial’s second phase — Summons to Rome and Galileo’s resistance — Galileo arrives in Rome — Formal proceedings resume — Sentence and abjuration.
• Examines Galileo’s trial as a legal event. Includes correspondence, legal documents, transcripts and excerpts from Galileo’s work for critical analysis of primary sources. Includes an introduction detailing Galileo’s life and work, the Council of Trent, the role of the papacy and the Roman Inquisition and gives a clear explanation of how a trial before the Inquisition would have been conducted. Each primary source begins with a headnote, questions to guide students through each source and suggested readings.
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• Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642 — Trials, litigation, etc.
• Trials (Heresy) — Italy — Rome — History — 17th century — Sources.
• Inquisition — Italy — Rome — History — 17th century — Sources.
• Religion and science — History — 17th century — Sources.
• Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642 — Procès, instances, etc. — Ouvrages avant 1800 — Sources.
• Procès (Hérésie) — Italie — Rome — Histoire — Ouvrages avant 1800 — Sources.
• Inquisition — Italie — Rome — Ouvrages avant 1800 — Sources.
• Église catholique — Doctrines — Histoire — Ouvrages avant 1800 — Sources.
• Religion et sciences — Histoire — Ouvrages avant 1800 — Sources.
• Astronomes — Italie — Biographies — Ouvrages avant 1800 — Sources.

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-259) and index.
• Prelude: scientists as prophets and the rhetoric of prophecy — The Delphic oracle and ancient prophetic ethos — The natural magician and the prophet: Francis Bacon’s ethical alchemy — Confirming signs: the prophetic ethos of the early Royal Society — Interlude: competing ethical models and a catch-22 — J. Robert Oppenheimer: cultic prophet — Rachel Carson, kairotic prophet — Media, metaphor, and the oracles of science — Climate change and the technologies of prophecy — Postlude: problems and solutions.
• Why did an atheist like Carl Sagan talk so much about God? Why does NASA climatologist James Hansen plead with us in his recent book not to waste Our Last Chance to Save Humanity ? Because science advisors are our new prophets, Lynda Walsh argues in Scientists as Prophets: A Rhetorical Genealogy. She does not claim, as some scholars have, that these public scientists push scientism as a replacement for religion. Rather, she puts forth the provocative argument that prophetic ethos is a flexible type of charismatic authority whose function is to manufacture certainty. Scientists aren’t our only prophets, Walsh contends, but science advisors predictably perform prophetic ethos whenever they need to persuade their publics to take action or fund basic research. Walsh first charts the genealogy of this hybrid scientific-prophetic ethos back to its roots in ancient oracles before exploring its flourishing in 17th century Europe. She then tracks its performances and mutations through several important late-modern events in America: Robert Oppenheimer’s role in the opening of the atomic age Rachel Carson’s interventions in pesticide use the mass-media polemics of science popularizers such as Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, and Stephen Jay Gould and finally the UN’s climate change panel and their role in Climategate. Along the way, Walsh highlights the special ethical and political defects embedded in the genealogy of the scientist-prophet, and she finishes by evaluating proposed remedies. She concludes that without a radical shift in our style of deliberative policy-making, there is little chance of remedying the dysfunctions in our current science-advising system. A cogent rhetorical analysis of over 1,000 archival documents from 10 historic cases, Scientists as Prophets engages scholars of scientific rhetoric, history, and literacy, but is also accessible to readers interested in the roots of current political debates about the environment, nuclear energy, and science education — Publisher’s description.

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• Science — Social aspects — Forecasting.
• Scientists — Moral and ethical aspects.

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• 1. Introduction — 2. The nature of the problem : The development of climate science Climate change as a public issue The age of climate diplomacy — 3. Obstacles to action : Scientific ignorance Politicizing science Facts and values The science/policy interface Organized denial Partisanship Political institutions The hardest problem — 4. The limits of economics : Economics and climate change The Stern Review and its critics Discounting Further problems State of the discussion — 5. The frontiers of ethics : The domain of concern Responsibility and harm Fault liability Human rights and domination Differences that matter Revising morality — 6. Living with climate change : Life in the anthropocene It doesn’t matter what I do It’s not the meat, it’s the motion Ethics for the anthropocene Respect for nature Global justice — 7. Politics, policy, and the road ahead : The rectification of names Adaptation: the neglected option? Why we need more than adaptation The category formerly known as geoengineering The way forward.
• From the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference there was a concerted international effort to stop climate change. Yet greenhouse gas emissions increased, atmospheric concentrations grew, and global warming became an observable fact of life. In this book, the author explains what climate change is, why we have failed to stop it, and why it still matters what we do. Centered in philosophy, the volume also treats the scientific, historical, economic, and political dimensions of climate change. Our failure to prevent or even to respond significantly to climate change, the author argues, reflects the impoverishment of our systems of practical reason, the paralysis of our politics, and the limits of our cognitive and affective capacities. The climate change that is underway is remaking the world in such a way that familiar comforts, places, and ways of life will disappear in years or decades rather than centuries. Climate change also threatens our sense of meaning, since it is difficult to believe that our individual actions matter. The challenges that climate change presents go beyond the resources of common sense morality it can be hard to view such everyday acts as driving and flying as presenting moral problems. Yet there is much that we can do to slow climate change, to adapt to it and restore a sense of agency while living meaningful lives in a changing world.–From publisher’s website.

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• Environmental sciences.
• Environmental ethics.
• Human ecology.

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• Language paradoxes — Philosophical conundrums — Infinity puzzles — Computing complexities — Computing impossibilities — Scientific limitations — Metascientific perplexities — Mathematical obstructions — Beyond reason.
• Many books explain what is known about the universe. This book investigates what cannot be known. Rather than exploring the amazing facts that science, mathematics, and reason have revealed to us, this work studies what science, mathematics, and reason tell us cannot be revealed. In The Outer Limits of Reason, Noson Yanofsky considers what cannot be predicted, described, or known, and what will never be understood. He discusses the limitations of computers, physics, logic, and our own thought processes. Yanofsky describes simple tasks that would take computers trillions of centuries to complete and other problems that computers can never solve perfectly formed English sentences that make no sense different levels of infinity the bizarre world of the quantum the relevance of relativity theory the causes of chaos theory math problems that cannot be solved by normal means and statements that are true but cannot be proven. He explains the limitations of our intuitions about the world — our ideas about space, time, and motion, and the complex relationship between the knower and the known. Moving from the concrete to the abstract, from problems of everyday language to straightforward philosophical questions to the formalities of physics and mathematics, Yanofsky demonstrates a myriad of unsolvable problems and paradoxes. Exploring the various limitations of our knowledge, he shows that many of these limitations have a similar pattern and that by investigating these patterns, we can better understand the structure and limitations of reason itself. Yanofsky even attempts to look beyond the borders of reason to see what, if anything, is out there.

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• Knowledge, Theory of.
• Science — Philosophy.
• Mathematics — Philosophy.

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