Books written by John P. Herron

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  Science and the Social Good: Nature, Culture, and Community, 1865-1965

  ... and biologist Rachel Carson (1907–1964). These three are not the lone representatives of the period; other equally viable scientists—John Muir, Frederick Clemens, and Barry Commoner or John Wesley Powell,

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  Science and the Social Good: Nature, Culture, and Community, 1865-1965

  It was at this moment, as she searched for evidence to support her understanding of science and society, that she encountered the work of Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith.82 In The Affluent Society (1958), Galbraith debunked ...

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  Navigating a Life: Henry Bloch in World War II

  This book shows how Bloch's war challenges and training, and his studies in Michigan and Kansas City, molded his character and prepared him to launch H&R Block, Inc."--Provided by publisher.

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  Science and the Social Good: Nature, Culture, and Community, 1865-1965

  See also Cohen, “Some Reflections on the State of Science in America During the Nineteenth Century,” Proceedings of ... science and religion in the early century, consider Herbert Hovenkamp, Science and Religion in America, 1800–1860 ...

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  Wide-open Town: Kansas City in the Pendergast Era

  Kansas City during the Pendergast Era (1920 - 1939); a city of possibilities in a time of economic stress, hard lines of race and class, and cultural innovation.

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  Human/nature: Biology, Culture, and Environmental History

  Provocative essays explore how ideas about human nature inform or shape human understanding of nature and the environment.