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Galileo's Revenge

Junk Science in ihe Courtroom

By: Peter W. Huber

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Galileo's Revenge

Junk Science in ihe Courtroom

By: Peter W. Huber

A scathing indictment of the growing role of junk science in our courtrooms. Peter W. Huber shows how time and again lawyers have used—and the courts have accepted—spurious claims by so-called expert witnesses to win astronomical judgments that have bankrupted companies, driven doctors out of practice, and deprived us all of superior technologies and effective, life-saving therapies.

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Basic Books

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0465026249

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The Bottomless Well

The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy

By: Peter W Huber,Mark P. Mills

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The Bottomless Well

The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy

By: Peter W Huber,Mark P. Mills

The sheer volume of talk about energy, energy prices, and energy policy on both sides of the political aisle suggests that we must know something about energy. But according to Peter Huber and Mark Mills, the things we "know" are mostly myths. In The Bottomless Well , Huber and Mills debunk the myths and show how a better understanding of energy will radically change our views and policies on a number of very controversial issues. They explain why demand will never go down, why most of what we think of as "energy waste" actually benefits us; why greater efficiency will never lead to energy conservation; and why the energy supply is infinite-it's quality of energy that's scarce and expensive. The Bottomless Well will also revolutionize our thinking about the automotive industry (gas prices don't matter and the hybrid engine is irrelevant), coal and uranium, the much-maligned power grid (it's the worst system we could have except for all the others), what energy supplies mean for jobs and GDP, and many other hotly debated subjects.

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Basic Books

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0465003915

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9780465003914

Federal Telecommunications Law

By: Peter William Huber,Peter W. Huber,Michael K. Kellogg,John Thorne

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Federal Telecommunications Law

By: Peter William Huber,Peter W. Huber,Michael K. Kellogg,John Thorne

This definitive legal guide to the new world of telecommunications provides you with thorough, authoritative analysis you need to understand and comply with the complex regulatory landscape in the industry. You'll find timely review of key legislation, FCC rules, regulations and orders, and court decisions with extensive citations and cross-references for such essential topics as the economics of interconnection and detailed discussions of pricing methodologies of offering services for resale; interconnection rules for wire line networks, including the specific rules imposed on incumbent LECs; antitrust litigation in the wake of the 1996 Act, with comprehensive analysis of the cases brought against incumbent local telephone companies; significant changes to universal services requirements; regulations and policies involving horizontal and vertical mergers and acquisitions; the FCC's rule-making and other powers; rights and duties arising from the laws of privacy, intellectual property and free speech; and much more. Federal Telecommunications Law, Second Edition provides all the laws and rules -- including those for price regulation, common carriage, universal service, regulations and court decisions -- are analyzed in detail to provide you with a thorough understanding of the environment within which you must work. Trends in competition, industry structures and technology are explored -- offering you a total picture of the telecommunications industry, in areas such as telecommunications equipment; long distance services; wireless services; the Internet and data services; information services; video services; and more.

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Wolters Kluwer

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0735506477

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9780735506473

Introduction to Heterocyclic Chemistry

By: Peter A. Jacobi

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Introduction to Heterocyclic Chemistry

By: Peter A. Jacobi

A unique approach to a core topic in organic chemistry presented by an experienced teacher to students and professionals Heterocyclic rings are present in the majority of known natural products, contributing to enormous structural diversity. In addition, they often possess significant biological activity. Medicinal chemists have embraced this last property in designing most of the small molecule drugs in use today. This book offers readers a fundamental understanding of the basics of heterocyclic chemistry and their occurrence in natural products such as amino acids, DNA, vitamins, and antibiotics. Based on class lectures that the author has developed over more than 40 years of teaching, it focuses on the chemistry of such heterocyclic substances and how they differ from carbocyclic systems. Introductory Heterocyclic Chemistry offers in-depth chapters covering naturally occurring heterocycles; properties of aromatic heterocycles; π-deficient heterocycles; π-excessive heterocycles; and ring transformations of heterocycles. It then offers an overview of 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions before finishing up with a back-to-basics section on nitriles and amidines. Presents a conversational approach to a fundamental topic in organic chemistry teaching Offers a unique look at this core organic chemistry topic via important naturally occurring and/or biologically active heterocycles Based on the author's many years of class lectures for teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level as well as pharmaceutical-industry courses Clear, concise, and accessible for advanced students of chemistry to gain a fundamental understanding of the basics of heterocyclic chemistry Introductory Heterocyclic Chemistry is an excellent text for undergraduate and graduate students as well as chemists in industrial environments in chemistry, pharmacy, medicinal chemistry, and biology.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119417686

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9781119417682

Judging Science

Scientific Knowledge and the Federal Courts

By: Kenneth R. Foster,Peter W. Huber

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Judging Science

Scientific Knowledge and the Federal Courts

By: Kenneth R. Foster,Peter W. Huber

Attempting to reconcile the law's need for workable rules of evidence with the views of scientific validity and reliability. What is scientific knowledge and when is it reliable? These deceptively simple questions have been the source of endless controversy. In 1993, the Supreme Court handed down a landmark ruling on the use of scientific evidence in federal courts. Federal judges may admit expert scientific evidence only if it merits the label scientific knowledge. The testimony must be scientifically reliable and valid. This book is organized around the criteria set out in the 1993 ruling. Following a general overview, the authors look at issues of fit--whether a plausible theory relates specific facts to the larger factual issues in contention; philosophical concepts such as the falsifiability of scientific claims; scientific error; reliability in science, particularly in fields such as epidemiology and toxicology; the meaning of scientific validity; peer review and the problem of boundary setting; and the risks of confusion and prejudice when presenting science to a jury. The book's conclusion attempts to reconcile the law's need for workable rules of evidence with the views of scientific validity and reliability that emerge from science and other disciplines.

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MIT Press

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0262561204

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POF Handbook

Optical Short Range Transmission Systems

By: Olaf Ziemann,Jürgen Krauser,Peter E. Zamzow,Werner Daum

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POF Handbook

Optical Short Range Transmission Systems

By: Olaf Ziemann,Jürgen Krauser,Peter E. Zamzow,Werner Daum

Written by some of the best known POF experts from Germany, one of the leading countries in POF technology, this is the most comprehensive introduction and survey of POF data communication systems currently available. Half a decade after it was first published, this second edition has been completely revised and updated; it has doubled in size. It features recent experimental results, and more than 1000 figures, 600 references and numerous tables complete the text.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540766294

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Subjectivity and Identity

Between Modernity and Postmodernity

By: Peter V. Zima

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Subjectivity and Identity

Between Modernity and Postmodernity

By: Peter V. Zima

Subjectivity and Identity is a philosophical and interdisciplinary study that critically evaluates critically the most important philosophical, sociological, psychological and literary debates on subjectivity and the subject. Starting from a history of the concept of the subject from modernity to postmodernity - from Descartes and Kant to Adorno and Lyotard - Peter V. Zima distinguishes between individual, collective, mythical and other subjects. Most texts on subjectivity and the subject present the topic from the point of view of a single discipline: philosophy, sociology, psychology or theory of literature. In Subjectivity and Identity Zima links philosophical approaches to those of sociology, psychology and literary criticism. The link between philosophy and sociology is social philosophy (e.g. Althusser, Marcuse, Habermas), the link between philosophy and literary criticism is aesthetics (e.g. Adorno, Lyotard, Vattimo). Philosophy and psychology can be related thanks to the psychological implications of several philosophical concepts of subjectivity (Hobbes, Stirner, Sartre).

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1780938276

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9781780938271

Hard Green

Saving The Environment From The Environmentalists: A Conservative Manifesto

By: Peter W Huber

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Hard Green

Saving The Environment From The Environmentalists: A Conservative Manifesto

By: Peter W Huber

This book sets out the case for Hard Green, a conservative environmental agenda. Modern environmentalism, Peter Huber argues, destroys the environment. Captured as it has been by the Soft Green oligarchy of scientists, regulators, and lawyers, modern environmentalism does not conserve forests, oceans, lakes, and streams - it hastens their destruction. For all its scientific pretension, Soft Green is not green at all. Its effects are the opposites of green. This book lays out the alternative: a return to Yellowstone and the National Forests, the original environmentalism of Theodore Roosevelt and the conservation movement. Chapter by chapter, Hard Green takes on the big issues of environmental discourse from scarcity and pollution to efficiency and waste disposal. This is the Hard Green manifesto: Rediscover TAR. Reaffirm the conservationist ethic. Expose the Soft Green fallacy. Reverse the Soft Green agenda. Save the environment from the environmentalists.

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Basic Books

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0786723432

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9780786723430

The Cure in the Code

How 20th Century Law is Undermining 21st Century Medicine

By: Peter Huber

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The Cure in the Code

How 20th Century Law is Undermining 21st Century Medicine

By: Peter Huber

Never before have two revolutions with so much potential to save and prolong human life occurred simultaneously. The converging, synergistic power of the biochemical and digital revolutions now allows us to read every letter of life’s code, create precisely targeted drugs to control it, and tailor their use to individual patients. Cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s and countless other killers can be vanquished—if we make full use of the tools of modern drug design and allow doctors the use of modern data gathering and analytical tools when prescribing drugs to their patients. But Washington stands in the way, clinging to outdated drug-approval protocols developed decades ago during medicine’s long battle with the infectious epidemics of the past. Peter Huber, an expert in science, technology, and public policy, demonstrates why Washington’s one-size-fits-all drug policies can’t deal with diseases rooted in the complex molecular diversity of human bodies. Washington is ill-equipped to handle the torrents of data that now propel the advance of molecular medicine and is reluctant to embrace the statistical methods of the digital age that can. Obsolete economic policies, often rationalized as cost-saving measures, stifle innovation and suppress investment in the medicine that can provide the best cures at the lowest cost. In the 1980s, an AIDS diagnosis was a death sentence, until the FDA loosened its throttling grip and began streamlining and accelerating approval of life-saving drugs. The Cure in the Code shows patients, doctors, investors, and policy makers what we must now do to capture the full life-saving and cost-saving potential of the revolution in molecular medicine. America has to choose. At stake for America is the power to lead the world in mastering the most free, fecund, competitive, dynamic, and intelligent natural resource on the planet—the molecular code that spawns human life and controls our health.

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Constellation

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0465050689

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9780465050680

Emerging Technologies in Protein and Genomic Material Analysis

By: Gyorgy Marko-Varga,Peter Oroszlan

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Emerging Technologies in Protein and Genomic Material Analysis

By: Gyorgy Marko-Varga,Peter Oroszlan

It is widely recognized that analytical technologies and techniques are playing a pioneering role in a range of today's foremost challenging scientific endeavours, including especially biological and biomedical research. Worthy of mention, for example, are the role that high performance separation techniques played in mapping the human genome and the pioneering work done within mass spectrometry. It is also apparent that state-of-the-art pharmaceutical and biomedical research is the major driving force of the development of new analytical techniques. Advancements in genomics research has provided the opportunity for a call for new drug targets for new technologies, which has speeded up drug discovery and helped to counteract the trend towards inflation of R&D costs.This book has been designed to be a reference covering a wide range of protein and genomic material analysis techniques. Emerging developments are presented with applications where relevant, and biological examples are included. It was developed to meet the ever growing need for a comprehensive and balanced text on an analytical technique which has generated a tremendous amount of interest in recent years.In addition, this book also serves as a modern textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in various disciplines including chemistry, biology and pharmacy.Authors of the individual chapters are recognized champions of their individual research disciplines and also represent contemporary major research centres in this field.·Contains state-of-the-art knowledge of the field and detailed descriptions of new technologies·Provides examples of relevant applications and case studies·Contributing authors are leading scientists in their own respective research fields

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Elsevier

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0080530842

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9780080530840

Freshwater Field Tests for Hazard Assessment of Chemicals

By: Ian R. Hill,Fred Heimbach,Peter Leeuwangh,Peter Matthiessen

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Freshwater Field Tests for Hazard Assessment of Chemicals

By: Ian R. Hill,Fred Heimbach,Peter Leeuwangh,Peter Matthiessen

Freshwater field tests are an integral part of the process of hazard assessment of pesticides and other chemicals in the environment. This book brings together international experts on microcosms and mesocosms for a critical appraisal of theory and practice on the subject of freshwater field tests for hazard assessment. It is an authoritative and comprehensive summary of knowledge about freshwater field tests, with particular emphasis on their optimization for scientific and regulatory purposes. This valuable reference covers both lotic and lentic outdoor systems and addresses the choice of endpoints and test methodology. Instructive case histories show how to extrapolate test results to the real world.

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CRC Press

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135144705X

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Field-Programmable Logic and Applications

13th International Conference, FPL 2003, Lisbon, Portugal, September 1-3, 2003, Proceedings

By: Peter Y.K. Cheung,Georg A. Constantinides

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Field-Programmable Logic and Applications

13th International Conference, FPL 2003, Lisbon, Portugal, September 1-3, 2003, Proceedings

By: Peter Y.K. Cheung,Georg A. Constantinides

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications, FPL 2003, held in Lisbon, Portugal in September 2003. The 90 revised full papers and 56 revised poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 216 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on technologies and trends, communications applications, high level design tools, reconfigurable architecture, cryptographic applications, multi-context FPGAs, low-power issues, run-time reconfiguration, compilation tools, asynchronous techniques, bio-related applications, codesign, reconfigurable fabrics, image processing applications, SAT techniques, application-specific architectures, DSP applications, dynamic reconfiguration, SoC architectures, emulation, cache design, arithmetic, bio-inspired design, SoC design, cellular applications, fault analysis, and network applications.

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3540408223

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The Bottomless Well

The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy

By: Peter William Huber,Mark P. Mills

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The Bottomless Well

The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy

By: Peter William Huber,Mark P. Mills

The sheer volume of talk about energy, energy prices, and energy policy on both sides of the political aisle suggests that we must know something about these subjects. But according to Peter W. Huber and Mark P. Mills, the things we think we know are mostly myths. A better understanding of energy will radically change our views and policies on a number of very controversial issues. In The Bottomless Well, Huber and Mills show why energy is not scarce, why the price of energy doesn't matter very much, and why "waste" of energy is both necessary and desirable. Across the board, energy isn't the problem; energy is the solution.

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The Cure in the Code

How 20th Century Law is Undermining 21st Century Medicine

By: Peter W Huber

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The Cure in the Code

How 20th Century Law is Undermining 21st Century Medicine

By: Peter W Huber

Never before have two revolutions with so much potential to save and prolong human life occurred simultaneously. The converging, synergistic power of the biochemical and digital revolutions now allows us to read every letter of life's code, create precisely targeted drugs to control it, and tailor their use to individual patients. Cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's and countless other killers can be vanquished -- if we make full use of the tools of modern drug design and allow doctors the use of modern data gathering and analytical tools when prescribing drugs to their patients. But Washington stands in the way, clinging to outdated drug-approval protocols developed decades ago during medicine's long battle with the infectious epidemics of the past. Peter Huber, an expert in science, technology, and public policy, demonstrates why Washington's one-size-fits-all drug policies can't deal with diseases rooted in the complex molecular diversity of human bodies. Washington is ill-equipped to handle the torrents of data that now propel the advance of molecular medicine and is reluctant to embrace the statistical methods of the digital age that can. Obsolete economic policies, often rationalized as cost-saving measures, stifle innovation and suppress investment in the medicine that can provide the best cures at the lowest cost. In the 1980s, an AIDS diagnosis was a death sentence, until the FDA loosened its throttling grip and began streamlining and accelerating approval of life-saving drugs. The Cure in the Code shows patients, doctors, investors, and policy makers what we must now do to capture the full life-saving and cost-saving potential of the revolution in molecular medicine. America has to choose. At stake for America is the power to lead the world in mastering the most free, fecund, competitive, dynamic, and intelligent natural resource on the planet -- the molecular code that spawns human life and controls our health.

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Basic Books

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0465069819

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Judging Science

Scientific Knowledge and the Federal Courts

By: Kenneth R. Foster,Peter W. Huber

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Scientific Knowledge and the Federal Courts

By: Kenneth R. Foster,Peter W. Huber

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Book's by Peter W. Huber

Galileo's Revenge

Galileo's Revenge

The Bottomless Well

The Bottomless Well

Federal Telecommunications Law

Federal Telecommunications Law

Introduction to Heterocyclic Chemistry

Introduction to Heterocyclic Chemistry

Judging Science

Judging Science

POF Handbook

POF Handbook

Subjectivity and Identity

Subjectivity and Identity

Hard Green

Hard Green

The Cure in the Code

The Cure in the Code

Emerging Technologies in Protein and Genomic Material Analysis

Emerging Technologies in Protein and Genomic Material Analysis

Freshwater Field Tests for Hazard Assessment of Chemicals

Freshwater Field Tests for Hazard Assessment of Chemicals

Field-Programmable Logic and Applications

Field-Programmable Logic and Applications

The Bottomless Well

The Bottomless Well

The Cure in the Code

The Cure in the Code

Judging Science

Judging Science

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