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World as Laboratory

by Rebecca Lemov

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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... Read more
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. Less

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Publication date November 28, 2006
Languageeng
ISBN9780374707293
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Rebecca Lemov
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Rebecca Lemov teaches history and anthropology at the University of Washington. World as Laboratory is her first book....

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