A short, provocative book about why "useless" science often leads to humanity's greatest technological breakthroughs A forty-year tightening of funding for scie

For the past fifty years anxiety over naturalism has driven debates in social theory. One side sees social science as another kind of natural science, while the

This book examines the role of knowledge in policy, showing how policymakers use research to establish authority in contentious areas of policy.

There are many reasons to be curious about the way people learn, and the past several decades have seen an explosion of research that has important implications