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Science remaking the world
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- edited by Otis W. Caldwell ... and Edwin E. Slosson ..
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- English
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- Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923
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- x, 292 pages : frontispiece (folded tables) illustrations (including maps) plates, portrait, diagrams ; 22 cm
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- ocm01398355
- Lectures delivered during the summer of 1922 at Teachers College, Columbia University.
- "Guide to further reading" at the end of most of the chapters.
- Achievements and obligations of modern science, by O.W. Caldwell.--Gasoline as a world power, by E.E. Slosson.--The influence of coal-tar on civilization, by E.E. Slosson.--Electrons and how we use them, by J. Mills.--An investigation on epidemic influenza, by P.K. Olitsky and F.L. Gates.--Our present knowledge of tuberculosis, by L.R. Williams.--Louis Pasteur and lengthened human life, by O.W. Caldwell.--International public health, by G.E. Vincent.--Educational value of modern botanical gardens, by G.T. Moore.--The meaning of evolution, by J.M. Coulter.--Our fight against insects, by L.O. Howard.--Insect sociology, by V. Kellogg.--How the forests feed the clouds, by R. Zon.--The modern potato problem, by C.O. Appleman.--Chemistry and economy of food, by H.C. Sherman.--Our daily bread and vitamins, by W.H. Eddy