“…The correspondence theory of truth is a precise and innovative account of how the truth of a proposition depends upon that proposition's connection to a piece of reality. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Half-lives, half-truths, and other radioactive legacies of the Cold War / "More like us than mice" : radiation experiments with indigenous peoples / Earle Reynolds : scientist, citizen, and Cold War dissident / There are no peripheries to humanity : Northern Alaska nuclear dumping and the Iñupiat's search for redress / Uranium mining and milling : Navajo experiences in the American Southwest / Uranium mine workers, atomic downwinders, and the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) : the nuclear legacy / Hanford, tribal risks, and public health in an era of forced federalism / From Cold War complex to nature preserve : diagnosing the breakdown of a multi-stakeholder decision process and its consequences for Rocky Flats / Health assessment downwind : past abuses shadow future indicators / From analysis to action : efforts to address the nuclear legacy in the Marshall Islands / Russia's radiation victims of Cold War weapons production surviving in a culture of secrecy and denial / Unraveling the secrets of the past : contested versions of nuclear testing in the Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan / Nuclear legacies : arrogance, secrecy, ignorance, lies, silence, suffering, action…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction : myth, truth, and narrative in Herodotus' Histories / Emily Baragwanath and Mathieu de Bakker -- Myth and legend in Herodotus' first book / Carolyn Dewald -- Herodotus and the 'myth' of the Trojan War / Suzanne Said -- Herodotus' Proteus : myth, history, enquiry and storytelling / Mathieu de Bakker -- The Helen logos and Herodotus' fingerprint / Irene de Jong -- 'Strangers are from Zeus ': Homeric xenia at the courts of Proteus and Croesus / Elizabeth Vandiver -- Herodotus on Melampus / Vivienne J. …”

“…"An examination of the frameworks of science and religion that provides a multi-cultural view of how they affect our perception of the truth"--Provided by publisher…”
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