About this title: "Evidence of a flight from reason is as old as human record-keeping: the 'fact' of it certainly goes back an even longer way. Flight from science specifically, among the forms of rational inquiry, goes back as far as science itself...But rejection of reason is now a pattern to be found in most branches of scholarship and in all the learned professions."--from the introduction In the widely acclaimed 'Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science,' Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt offered a spirited response to the "science bashers", raising serious questions about the ...
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: Illustrated.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: New York Academy of Sciences
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780801856761ISBN:0801856760
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 604 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New York Academy of Sciences
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780801856761ISBN:0801856760
Description: Very Good. Clean, tight book. Brings together a diverse and distinguished group of scholars, scientists, and experts to engage science and reason from a number of perspectives. Contributors include (among others) Gerald Weissmann, Mary Lefkowitz, Christina Hoff Sommers, Paul Kurtz, James Trefil, and Gerlad Holton. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: New York Academy of Sciences, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780801856761ISBN:0801856760
Description: Very Good. Text is pristine, no marks, covers clean, glossy, bright, binding square and tight, stamp on endpaper, reliable shipper(shelf#11) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New York Academy of Sciences, NY
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9781573310031ISBN:1573310034
Description: VG. Not Latest Edition. Minor edge wear. Pages clean, binding solid.; Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, V. 775; 9.25 x 1.25 x 6.25 Inches; 593 pages. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: The NY Academy of Sciences, distributed by The Johns Hopkins Univ. Press,, NY:
Date Published: 1996.
ISBN-13:9780801856761ISBN:0801856760
Description: Very Good+ condition. 593pp. read more
"A reaction to current educational theory from what seems to be the scientific right wing. Interesting points, but trods a bit heavily on the humanities."
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