Author: Daniella Kuzmanovic File Type: pdf Exploring the relationship between fiction and nation formation in the Muslim world through 12 unique studies from Azerbaijan, Libya, Iran, Algeria, and Yemen, amongst others, this book shows how fiction reflects and relates the complex entanglements of nation, religion, and modernity in the process of political and cultural identity formation.

Author: David Michaels File Type: pdf ReviewIn Doubt Is Their Product, David Michaels gives a lively and convincing history of how clever public relations has blocked one public health protection after another. The techniques first used to reassure us about tobacco were adapted to reassure us about asbestos, lead, vinyl chloride-and risks to nuclear facilities workers, where Dr. Michaels experience as the relevant Assistant Secretary of Energy gave him an inside view. And if youre worried about climate change, keep worrying, because the same program is underway there.--Donald Kennedy, Editor-in-Chief, ScienceWe live in an age of unprecedented disinformation, misinformation, and outright lying by those in power. This important book shows who profits by misleading the public-and who ultimately pays with their health.--Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food NationThis well-researched book by someone who truly knows the system is a must read for anyone who wants to understand the cozy relationship between industry and regulatory agencies on matters that affect the health and safety of our families and neighbors. The cited examples illustrate how, with the help of irresponsible members of Congress and other public officials, corporate greed can trump any sense of ethics, morality, and human compassion.--Neal Lane, former Science Advisor to President Bill Clinton and former Director of the National Science FoundationThis brave, shocking book exposes the abuse of science by government and industry in ways that endanger the workplace, the home, the water supply, the air quality-in fact, our planet as a whole. David Michaels speaks authoritatively from his firsthand experience as a champion of occupational safety and health. He tells a terrific story.--Dava Sobel, author of Longitude and Galileos DaughterIn Doubt Is Their Product, David Michaels calls out the corporations youll recognize them that bankroll lobbyists and unethical scientists to attack factual evidence that their products, such as asbestos, lead, and tobacco, are deadly.--Vanity Fair, Green Issue, May 2008In Doubt Is Their Product, David Michaels calls out the corporations youll recognize them that bankroll lobbyists and unethical scientists to attack factual evidence that their products, such as asbestos, lead, and tobacco, are deadly.--Vanity Fair, Green Issue, May 2008David Michaels has written a powerful, thorough indictment of the way big business has ignored, suppressed or distorted vital scientific evidence to the detriment of the publics health.--NatureFrom Newsweek, 51208 _ That science can be bought is hardly news to anyone who knows about tobacco scientists. But how pervasive, effective and stealthy this science-for-hire is-as masterfully documented by David Michaels of George Washington University in his new book, Doubt Is Their Product How Industrys Assault on Science Threatens Your Health-will shock anyone who still believes that science and integrity are soulmates. In studies of how toxic chemicals affect human health, Michaels told me, Its quite easy to take a positive result [showing harmful effects] and turn it falsely negative. This epidemiological alchemy is used widely. -Sharon BegleyFrom Nature, 61208 _ David Michaels has written a powerful, thorough indictment of the way big business has ignored, suppressed or distorted vital scientific evidence to the detriment of the publics health. Doubt Is Their Product catalogues numerous corporate misdemeanours, especially in the United States, from the criminal neglect of the dangerous nature of asbestos and the lies told by the tobacco industry, to the suppression of adverse findings of deaths caused by the anti-inflammatory drug Vioxx and the increased risk of suicide among teenagers taking selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors for depression. The book concludes with a list of prescriptions for securing better regulation and greater protection for the public, mainly through increased public disclosure of vested interests. -Dick TaverneThe book is a shocking portrayal of the tactics used by corporate America to delay public health and environmental regulation of their products for the sake of profit...It is a must read for anyone interested in public health and environmental protection.--Chemical & Engineering News...Doubt Is Their Product reminds one of deeper risks that threaten scientific fields and democratic deliberation. ...The scientific community and the public need to be on guard against such abuses Michaelss history of these events sounds an alert that must not be ignored.--DurrantsOne of Library Journals top 10 sci-tech books of 2008!Received an Honorable Mention in the Society for Environmental Journalisms 2009 Awards for Reporting on the Environment for the category Rachel Carson Environment Book Award.About the AuthorDavid Michaels is a scientist, former government regulator, and the current appointed head of OSHA. During the Clinton Administration, he served as Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environment, Safety and Health, responsible for protecting the health and safety of the workers, neighboring communities, and the environment surrounding the nations nuclear weapons factories. He currently directs the Project on Scientific Knowledge and Public Policy at The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services. In 2006, he received the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award for his work on behalf of nuclear weapons workers and for advocacy for scientific integrity.