Environmental Studies

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The Woman Who Knew Too Much, Revised Ed.

Alice Stewart and the Secrets of Radiation

2nd Edition

By Gayle Greene
Subjects: Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Gender Studies, Health & Medicine

The life story of the epidemiologist who discovered the harmful effects of fetal X rays and other radiation exposure

The Xavante in Transition

Health, Ecology, and Bioanthropology in Central Brazil

By Carlos E. A. Coimbra, Nancy M. Flowers, Francisco M. Salzano, and Ricardo V. Santos
Subjects: Anthropology, Latin American Studies, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Health & Medicine
Series: Human-Environment Interactions

Illuminates the experience of a small-scale culture with large-scale change

The Cult of Statistical Significance

How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives

By Deirdre Nansen McCloskey & Steve Ziliak
Subjects: Economics, History of Economic Thought, Economic Theory, Political Science, Political Methodology, Sociology, History, Intellectual History, Health & Medicine, European History, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Philosophy
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

How the most important statistical method used in many of the sciences doesn't pass the test for basic common sense

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