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RECORD NUMBER: 23 OF 32| Main Title | Science, nonscience, and nonsense : approaching environmental literacy / | |||||||||||
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| Author | Zimmerman, Michael | |||||||||||
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press, | |||||||||||
| Year Published | 1997 | |||||||||||
| OCLC Number | 38001073 | |||||||||||
| ISBN | 0801857740 (pbk.) | |||||||||||
| Subjects | Science--Popular works ; Science--Social aspects--Popular works ; Environmental education--Popular works | |||||||||||
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| Edition | Johns Hopkins Paperbacks ed. | |||||||||||
| Collation | xvi, 220 p. ; 23 cm. | |||||||||||
| Notes | Includes index. |
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| Contents Notes | A personal reflection -- Scientific illiteracy : from "creation science" to graphology -- Anecdote, coincidence and pattern : understanding the language of science -- Political science : the role of government in the scientific process -- Global environmental problems : a small look at the big picture -- Endandered species -- Better living through chemistry -- You are what you eat -- Land of many abuses -- Myths of the technological fix -- Prospects. |