Stanley Feldman: 7 books
by Dr Stanley Feldman
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Professor Stanley Feldman decided to write his memoirs when, in 2008, he was pronounced dead. Fortunately, however, this was not by one of his fellow doctors but instead by an Australian medical journal - prompting much shock the next time he visited his friends down under! He has been a doctor with...
Going to War in Iraq
When Citizens and the Press Matter
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Conventional wisdom holds that the Bush administration was able to convince the American public to support a war in Iraq on the basis of specious claims and a shifting rationale because Democratic politicians decided not to voice opposition and the press simply failed to do its job.
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From Poison Arrows to Prozac
How Deadly Toxins Changed Our Lives Forever
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
In the 16th century, when explorers traveled deeper into the jungles of South America in search of gold and spices, they brought back many colorful tales of their adventures to amaze and impress their sponsors. None of these tales was more astonishing, or caused more concern, than that of the mystical...
by Dr. William D. Berry, Mr. Stanley Feldman
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1985
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1985
Berry and Feldman provide a systematic treatment of many of the major problems encountered in using regression analysis. The authors discuss: the consequences of violating the assumptions of the regression model; procedures for detecting when such violations occur; and strategies for dealing with...
Global Warming and Other Bollocks
The Truth About All Those Science Scare Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2009
The idea that we are one step from calamity is as old as history itself. Every step on the road of progress has always been countered by those who think that we should keep to a primitive lifestyle that they claim is more compatible with nature. But despite the fact that they've been proved wrong,...
Panic Nation
Unpicking the Myths We're Told About Food and Health
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
It seems as though every week there's another food or health scare. Whether it's British beef, the MMR vaccine, or just sunshine itself, there's always somebody to tell you that you are under threat from yet another everyday activity; or that the food we eat and the medicines we take are poisoning...
Administering Interpretation
Derrida, Agamben, and the Political Theology of Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
Features original pieces by an international group of major scholars, including such prominent figures as Stanley Fish and Bernhard Schlink (author of the bestselling novel The Reader, in addition to being a prominent legal scholar).