"In the wake of the highly fractious Culture Wars, conservatives in science have launched a backlash against feminist, multiculturalist, and social critics in science studies. Paul Gross and Norman Levitt's book "Higher Superstition," presented as a wake-up call to scientists unaware of the dangers posed by the "science-bashers," set the shrill tone of this reaction and led to the appearance of a growing number of scare stories about an ..."
"In the wake of the highly fractious Culture Wars, conservatives in science have launched a backlash against feminist, multiculturalist, and social critics in science studies. Paul Gross and Norman Levitt s book "Higher Superstition," presented as a wake-up call to scientists unaware of the dangers posed by the science-bashers, set the shrill tone of this reaction and led to the appearance of a growing number of scare stories about an an ..."
"In the wake of the highly fractious Culture Wars, conservatives in science have launched a backlash against feminist, multiculturalist, and social critics in science studies. Paul Gross and Norman Levitt’s book Higher Superstition, presented as a wake-up call to scientists unaware of the dangers posed by the “science-bashers,” set the shrill tone of this reaction and led to the appearance of a growing number of scare stories about an “a ..."
"A Plea for Bold Organizational Experimentation The eighth book in the Collaborative Metagovernance series is an irreverent challenge to administrative conservatorship, and a case for bold organizational experimentation. It makes the case for effective new actors, new structural forms and new social technologies, while showing the perils of ill-conceived contraptions like super-bureaucracies, single-purpose agencies and failure to pay du ..."
"This book explores the thinking of Canadian federal public service senior executives through conversations.
The transformation of the environment and of the institutional order has created quite a challenge: maintaining some sort of adequacy between these evolving realities and the frames of reference in use by public sector executives. Complexity is often nothing more than a name for a new order calling for a new frame of reference, an ..."
"This book is the first in a series of books is designed to define cumulatively the contours of collaborative decentred metagovernance. At this time, there is still no canonical version of this paradigm: it is en émergence. This series intends to be one of many construction sites to experiment with various dimensions of an effective and practical version of this new approach. Metagovernance is the art of combining different forms or styl ..."
"La gouvernance communautaire, comme la gouvernance publique et privée, doit innover, et apprendre de manière continue à faire mieux en faisant autrement. Or, cela ne peut se faire que grâce à la collaboration, et celle-ci va prendre des formes diverses selon le milieu. L'innovation sociale adopte aussi des formes différentes en divers points d un pays comme le Canada fait de sociétés distinctes par la langue, la culture et les arrangeme ..."
"Public administration in Canada needs to change. A handful of scholars across Canada have been sounding the alarm for years but to no avail. Talented young bureaucrats have been joining the public service with fresh ideas capable of creating real change, but the black hole consumes all. In The Black Hole of Public Administration, experienced public servant Ruth Hubbard and public administration iconoclast Gilles Paquet sound a wake-up c ..."
"If science is neither cookery, nor angelic virtuosity, then what is it? Modern societies have tended to take science for granted as a way of knowing, ordering, and controlling the world, where everything was subject to science, but science itself has largely escaped scrutiny. In this fascinating collection of interviews, CBC Radio's "Ideas" producer David Cayley talks to some of the world's most provocative thinkers about how the ideas ..."
"Rights and Liberties in the Biotech Age is the first book reaching broadly into biotechnology that imbeds the issues into a rights framework for the social management of technology. The contributors to the volume comprise prominent university scientists, civil rights lawyers, and public interest activists who bring their perspectives to issues where science and civil liberties meet head on. This book explores the impact of new genetic t ..."
Profitable Promises(1st Edition) Essays on Women, Science & Health by RuthHubbard Paperback, 150 Pages, Published 2002 by Common Courage Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56751-040-9, ISBN: 1-56751-040-X
"Rare book"
Lang Dev(2nd Edition) Reader for Tchrs & ESOL Strat Pkg by Brenda Miller Power, RuthHubbard, Jodi Reiss Paperback, Published 2002 by Addison Wesley Longman ISBN-13: 978-0-13-176259-6, ISBN: 0-13-176259-1
Exploding the Gene Myth(Updated) How Genetic Information Is Produced and Manipulated by Scientists, Physicians, Employers, Insurance Companies, Educators , and Law Enforders by Elijah Wald, RuthHubbard Paperback, 225 Pages, Published 1997 by Beacon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-0429-6, ISBN: 0-8070-0429-4
"225 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout. A Pursuasive Indictment Of Genetic Determinism-with A New Afterword On The Latest Genetic Discoveries, Including The Breast Cancer Gene' And Their Social Consequences."
"Maths & Stats educators have long believed that students learn by working (often standard) exercises, and getting the 'right' answer. This book encourages the teacher to help students reflect and 'construct' in their learning rather than merely trying to memorise.
Chapters:
• State a definition
• Substitute data into a formula
• Apply/carry out an algorithm
• Prove something
• Extend a concept"
Profitable Promises Essays on Women, Science and Health by RuthHubbard Hardcover, Published 1995 by Common Courage Press 1/1/1995 ISBN-13: 978-1-56751-041-6, ISBN: 1-56751-041-8