An Ungovernable Foe

Author : Natalie B. Aviles
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231551770
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Ungovernable Foe written by Natalie B. Aviles and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In American politics, medical innovation is often considered the domain of the private sector. Yet some of the most significant scientific and health breakthroughs of the past century have emerged from government research institutes. The U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) is tasked with both understanding and eradicating cancer—and its researchers have developed a surprising expertise in virus research and vaccine development. An Ungovernable Foe examines seventy years of federally funded scientific breakthroughs in the laboratories of the NCI to shed new light on how bureaucratic organizations nurture innovation. Natalie B. Aviles analyzes research and policy efforts around the search for a viral cause of leukemia in the 1960s, the discovery of HIV and the development of AIDS drugs in the 1980s, and the invention of the HPV vaccine in the 1990s. She argues that the NCI transformed generations of researchers into innovative public servants who have learned to balance their scientific and bureaucratic missions. These “scientist-bureaucrats” are simultaneously committed to conducting cutting-edge research and stewarding the nation’s investment in cancer research, and as a result they have developed an unparalleled expertise. Aviles demonstrates how the interplay of science, politics, and administration shaped the NCI into a mission-oriented agency that enabled significant breakthroughs in cancer research—and in the process, she shows how organizational cultures indelibly stamp scientific work.

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1024 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The works of Daniel De Foe [ed.] by W. Hazlitt written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Otokunefor, Henrietta 0. C.
Publisher : Malthouse Press
ISBN 13 : 9785193217
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nigerian Petroleum Industry, Policies and Conflict Relations Vol I written by Otokunefor, Henrietta 0. C. and published by Malthouse Press. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volumes 1 and Volume 2 of Nigerian Petroleum Industry, Policies and Conflict Relations contain the following on the oil and gas industry in Nigeria: basic production statistics; nature and activities of operators; official oil and gas policies; relevant laws and regulations; regulatory agencies; pricing of refined petroleum products; marketers and their challenges; consumer and community relations and reactions; crimes and vandalisation of pipelines and other infrastructure; refineries and refining issues; role of law enforcement and intelligence agencies; involvement of the National Assembly and its relevant committees; strategic issues and other impacts of local and international politics. A comprehensive and exhaustive discussion of each and everything thing about the Nigerian petroleum industry by experts in and outside academia research institutes and think tanks, top functionaries in relevant ministries, government departments and agencies, past and current heads of state/presidents, past and current ministers, prominent and knowledgeable legislators, politicians of all descriptions and at all levels, top newspaper columnists, discerning local and foreign critics,interviews and transcribed broadcasts and press releases by same, officials of non-governmental organisations and a host of those loosely referred to as civil society organisations, civil and political activists of all hues, so-called international development agencies, some diplomatic missions,and the dead-panned apologists for successive governments. An immensely invaluable documentary source-book, more especially to regulators, the NNPC group, policy makers, researchers and social scientists in tertiary institutions and public and private sector think tanks, local and foreign operators, observers and those with interest in the oil and gas industry in Nigeria.

Author : Thomas Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The antiquities of the town of Halifax. Repr. for [and ed. by] J.H. Turner written by Thomas Wright and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Crissman
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595329500
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Did the Royal Stuarts Ever Do for the U.S.A.? written by Richard Crissman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if the ousted kings of England, the Stuarts, had claimed the North American colonies? We might have been free of the English a century earlier--no revolution needed! What set up this possibility? How did it happen that those foolish, brave, and unlucky Stuarts did everything wrong to ensure that their Scottish subjects migrated to North America as soon as there were any ships going in that direction? This amusing book is full of lost causes, wrongheaded kings, and sheer incompetence. Prince Charlie wasn't bonny at all, and Mary, Queen of Scots wasn't innocent. Read all about these feckless kings of Scotland and England, and about how they gave so much to the USA.

Author : Randall G. Shelden
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478630140
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crime and Criminal Justice in American Society written by Randall G. Shelden and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2015-06-22 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today’s headlines vividly illustrate the importance of understanding aspects of the criminal justice system too often ignored. While the second edition of Crime and Criminal Justice in American Society includes the most recent statistics on the police, courts, and corrections, its provocative, current examples also spur critical thinking about justice in the United States. The authors offer an alternative interpretation of criminal justice rarely presented in traditional textbooks or by the media. They encourage readers to examine their beliefs about crime, punishment, and the law. Discussions in the chapters about how African Americans, Hispanics, whites, women, juveniles, the rich, and the poor experience crime and the criminal justice system contribute context for understanding different viewpoints. The poor and minorities are the most likely to be caught in the net of criminal justice—but inequities have consequences for everyone. Reflection on various perspectives provides helpful input for assessing attitudes and for becoming actively involved with issues that have significant consequences. Eighteen thoroughly revised chapters present historical backgrounds, theories, and emerging issues. New to the second edition is a chapter on veterans involved in the criminal justice system. Affordable, succinct, and engaging, this textbook presents the key concepts of the criminal justice system at less than half the cost of many competing textbooks.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Implementation of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1614 pages
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Download or read book Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles J. Esdaile
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317899172
Total Pages : 337 pages
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Download or read book The Wars of Napoleon written by Charles J. Esdaile and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of the Napoleonic Wars. The central theme is the scale of French military power and its impact on other European states from Portugal to Russia and from Scandinavia to Sicily.

Author : Simón Bolívar
Publisher : Library of Latin America
ISBN 13 : 9780195144819
Total Pages : 292 pages
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Download or read book El Libertador written by Simón Bolívar and published by Library of Latin America. This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General Simón Bolívar (1783-1830), called El Liberator, and sometimes the "George Washington" of Latin America, was the leading hero of the Latin American independence movement. His victories over Spain won independence for Bolivia, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Bolívar became Columbia's first president in 1819. In 1822, he became dictator of Peru. Upper Peru became a separate state, which was named Bolivia in Bolívar's honor, in 1825. The constitution, which he drew up for Bolivia, is one of his most important political pronouncements. Today he is remembered throughout South America, and in Venezuela and Bolivia his birthday is a national holiday. Although Bolívar never prepared a systematic treatise, his essays, proclamations, and letters constitute some of the most eloquent writing not of the independence period alone, but of any period in Latin American history. His analysis of the region's fundamental problems, ideas on political organization and proposals for Latin American integration are relevant and widely read today, even among Latin Americans of all countries and of all political persuasions. The "Cartagena Letter," the "Jamaica Letter," and the "Angostura Address," are widely cited and reprinted.