The Death of Expertise
The Death of Expertise

Author: Tom Nichols

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0197763839

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"In the early 1990s, a small group of "AIDS denialists," including a University of California professor named Peter Duesberg, argued against virtually the entire medical establishment's consensus that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was the cause of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Science thrives on such counterintuitive challenges, but there was no evidence for Duesberg's beliefs, which turned out to be baseless. Once researchers found HIV, doctors and public health officials were able to save countless lives through measures aimed at preventing its transmission"--

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Corcoran Gallery of Art

Author: Corcoran Gallery of Art

Publisher: Lucia Marquand

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781555953614

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This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.

Fast Food Nation
Fast Food Nation

Author: Eric Schlosser

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 387

ISBN-13: 0547750331

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An exploration of the fast food industry in the United States, from its roots to its long-term consequences.

Taylor's Legislative History and Souvenir of Connecticut
Taylor's Legislative History and Souvenir of Connecticut

Author: William Harrison Taylor

Publisher:

Published: 1899

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13:

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"Portraits and sketches of state officials, senators, representatives, etc. ... List of committees. Portraits and roll of delegates to Constitutional convention of 1902." The proposed constitution and the vote