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You Can't See in the Dark with the Lights On

Author(s): Kevin Krisciunas

You Can't See in the Dark with the Lights On is a story of a boy who has a sudden and growing interest in astronomy and outer space, but he's not sure where to begin.  He finds that book learning and a visit to the local planetarium are OK, but what he really wants is a view of the night sky as good...

A Primer in the Philosophy of Science: A Guide to Thinking Like a Scientist for Social Scientists

Author(s): STEPHANIE KELLY, David Keith Westerman

New Publication Now Available!For social sciences to flourish as fields of science, those who are in these fields must act like scientists. In order to be effective scientists, they must understand what it means to be scientists. That is why scholars in many social science fields, such as communicat...

Science and Society: The Influence of Genetics on Human Life and Society

Author(s): Joseph Francis

The genetic revolution in biology we are experiencing today began early in the last century as biologists noted that dead bacteria could be resurrected by a “transforming principle.”  The structure of the transforming principle was determined to be DNA, in the middle of the last century, and within ...

Traffic Crash Investigation

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Traffic Crash Investigation is recognized today as fundamental to a sound program of traffic control and accident prevention. This manual is designed to facilitate proper training in this field by serving both as a textbook and an instructional guide. Unique in the field of police publications, it o...