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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as science-studies)
avg rating 4.02 — 30,930 ratings — published 1962
Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as science-studies)
avg rating 3.98 — 551 ratings — published 1985
We Have Never Been Modern (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as science-studies)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,730 ratings — published 1991
Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as science-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 669 ratings — published 1987
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as science-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 825,289 ratings — published 2010
Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as science-studies)
avg rating 3.91 — 581 ratings — published 1979
Objectivity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as science-studies)
avg rating 4.29 — 431 ratings — published 2007
Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as science-studies)
avg rating 4.24 — 294 ratings — published 1935
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as science-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,935 ratings — published 1990
Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as science-studies)
avg rating 3.64 — 89 ratings — published 1999
Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as science-studies)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,181 ratings — published 2005
Pollution Is Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as science-studies)
avg rating 4.46 — 841 ratings — published 2021
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as science-studies)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,552 ratings — published 2019
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as science-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 56,963 ratings — published 1962
A Foray Into the Worlds of Animals and Humans: With a Theory of Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as science-studies)
avg rating 4.07 — 295 ratings — published 1934
The Taming Of Chance (Ideas in Context)
by (shelved 4 times as science-studies)
avg rating 3.89 — 270 ratings — published 1990
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as science-studies)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,346 ratings — published 2010
Sciences from Below: Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities (Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies)
by (shelved 4 times as science-studies)
avg rating 3.70 — 43 ratings — published 2008
How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as science-studies)
avg rating 4.07 — 923 ratings — published 1999
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as science-studies)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,746 ratings — published 1966
The Invention of Modern Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as science-studies)
avg rating 3.75 — 51 ratings — published 1993
The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as science-studies)
avg rating 3.58 — 66 ratings — published 2008
Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as science-studies)
avg rating 3.70 — 341 ratings — published 1999
Science in a Free Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as science-studies)
avg rating 3.99 — 187 ratings — published 1978
The Two Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as science-studies)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,553 ratings — published 1959
The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as science-studies)
avg rating 4.09 — 290 ratings — published 1986
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as science-studies)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,692 ratings — published 2015
Undoing Monogamy: The Politics of Science and the Possibilities of Biology (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as science-studies)
avg rating 4.12 — 91 ratings — published 2016
Facing Gaia: A New Inquiry into Natural Religion (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as science-studies)
avg rating 3.80 — 403 ratings — published 2013
An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets (Inside Technology)
by (shelved 3 times as science-studies)
avg rating 4.29 — 171 ratings — published 2006
The Ghost Map (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as science-studies)
avg rating 3.89 — 57,541 ratings — published 2006
The Mismeasure of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as science-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 9,429 ratings — published 1982
Science and the Modern World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as science-studies)
avg rating 3.99 — 621 ratings — published 1926
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as science-studies)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,939 ratings — published 2011
Philosophy of Science: The Central Issues (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as science-studies)
avg rating 4.24 — 388 ratings — published 1998
Designs on Nature: Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as science-studies)
avg rating 4.14 — 44 ratings — published 2005
Science, Policy, and the Value-Free Ideal (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as science-studies)
avg rating 3.88 — 84 ratings — published 2009
Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as science-studies)
avg rating 4.08 — 236 ratings — published 1989
Shaping Science with Rhetoric: The Cases of Dobzhansky, Schrodinger, and Wilson (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as science-studies)
avg rating 3.93 — 15 ratings — published 2001
Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as science-studies)
avg rating 4.33 — 752 ratings — published 2006
Pandora’s Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as science-studies)
avg rating 4.01 — 332 ratings — published 1999
The Disorder of Things: Metaphysical Foundations of the Disunity of Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as science-studies)
avg rating 3.96 — 52 ratings — published 1993
What Is Life? (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-studies)
avg rating 4.34 — 276 ratings — published 1995
Why Trust Science? (The University Center for Human Values Series)
by (shelved 2 times as science-studies)
avg rating 3.85 — 791 ratings — published 2019
Drugs for Life: How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health (Experimental Futures)
by (shelved 2 times as science-studies)
avg rating 4.15 — 172 ratings — published 2012
The Ghost of the Executed Engineer: Technology and the Fall of the Soviet Union (Russian Research Center Studies)
by (shelved 2 times as science-studies)
avg rating 3.84 — 197 ratings — published 1993
The Dialectical Biologist (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-studies)
avg rating 4.41 — 216 ratings — published 1985
Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 42)
by (shelved 2 times as science-studies)
avg rating 4.25 — 351 ratings — published 1973
Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-studies)
avg rating 4.00 — 38 ratings — published 2002
Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-studies)
avg rating 3.77 — 329 ratings — published 1999
“From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persuade relevant social actors that one's manufactured knowledge is a route to a desired form of very objective power.”
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