Bending Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bending Science write by Thomas O. McGarity. This book was released on 2010. Bending Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With alarming stories drawn from the public record, McGarity and Wagner describe how advocates attempt to bend science or 'spin' findings. They reveal an immense range of tools available to shrewd partisans determined to manipulate research.
Brainworks
Brainworks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Brainworks write by Michael S. Sweeney. This book was released on 2011. Brainworks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A companion book to the National Geographic TV series uses brain teasers and optical illusions to shed light on the workings of the human brain.
Bending the Rules
Bending the Rules - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bending the Rules write by Rachel Augustine Potter. This book was released on 2019-06-15. Bending the Rules available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Who determines the fuel standards for our cars? What about whether Plan B, the morning-after pill, is sold at the local pharmacy? Many people assume such important and controversial policy decisions originate in the halls of Congress. But the choreographed actions of Congress and the president account for only a small portion of the laws created in the United States. By some estimates, more than ninety percent of law is created by administrative rules issued by federal agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Health and Human Services, where unelected bureaucrats with particular policy goals and preferences respond to the incentives created by a complex, procedure-bound rulemaking process. With Bending the Rules, Rachel Augustine Potter shows that rulemaking is not the rote administrative activity it is commonly imagined to be but rather an intensely political activity in its own right. Because rulemaking occurs in a separation of powers system, bureaucrats are not free to implement their preferred policies unimpeded: the president, Congress, and the courts can all get involved in the process, often at the bidding of affected interest groups. However, rather than capitulating to demands, bureaucrats routinely employ “procedural politicking,” using their deep knowledge of the process to strategically insulate their proposals from political scrutiny and interference. Tracing the rulemaking process from when an agency first begins working on a rule to when it completes that regulatory action, Potter shows how bureaucrats use procedures to resist interference from Congress, the President, and the courts at each stage of the process. This exercise reveals that unelected bureaucrats wield considerable influence over the direction of public policy in the United States.
Happiness
Happiness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Happiness write by Richard Layard. This book was released on 2006-06-27. Happiness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. We all want more money, but as societies become richer, they do not become happier. This is not speculation: It's the story told by countless pieces of scientific research. We now have sophisticated ways of measuring how happy people are, and all the evidence shows that on average people have grown no happier in the last fifty years, even as average incomes have more than doubled. The central question the great economist Richard Layard asks in Happiness is this: If we really wanted to be happier, what would we do differently? First we'd have to see clearly what conditions generate happiness and then bend all our efforts toward producing them. That is what this book is about-the causes of happiness and the means we have to effect it. Until recently there was too little evidence to give a good answer to this essential question, but, Layard shows us, thanks to the integrated insights of psychology, sociology, applied economics, and other fields, we can now reach some firm conclusions, conclusions that will surprise you. Happiness is an illuminating road map, grounded in hard research, to a better, happier life for us all.
World as Laboratory
World as Laboratory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook World as Laboratory write by Rebecca Lemov. This book was released on 2006-11-28. World as Laboratory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Deeply researched, World as Laboratory tells a secret history that's not really a secret. The fruits of human engineering are all around us: advertising, polls, focus groups, the ubiquitous habit of "spin" practiced by marketers and politicians. What Rebecca Lemov cleverly traces for the first time is how the absurd, the practical, and the dangerous experiments of the human engineers of the first half of the twentieth century left their laboratories to become our day-to-day reality.
