The End of Science: Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age, Paperback - John Horgan

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Challenging both the bureaucratic one-party regime and the Western neoliberal paradigm, China's leading critic shatters the myth of progress and re...

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The definitive history of the Opium War between Britain and China in the nineteenth century, shortlisted for the 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize.

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Reducere. This book describes some of the frontier problems of cosmology: our almost total ignorance of what the Universe is made up of, the mystery of its o...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressIllustration(s): 2 halftones, 5 tablesNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 151 x 230 x 2...

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This book describes some of the frontier problems of cosmology: our almost total ignorance of what the Universe is made up of, the mystery of its o...

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Reducere. Dirty Knowledge explores the failure of traditional conceptions of academic freedom in the age of neoliberalism. While examining and rejecting the ...

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