Who Is Knowledgeable Is Strong

University of California Press, 2009-03-31. Hardcover. Good. 9x6x1. Dust jacket has light wear and small taped nick on top edge. Name marked out on top page ends. Text unmarked, pages clean and bright, binding tight. Ships Next Business Day.

Hardback. New. Tells two intertwined stories: how, in early twentieth-century Iran, an emerging middle class used scientific knowledge as its cultural and economic capital, and how, along with the state, it employed biomedical sciences to tackle presumably modern problems like the stress of everyday life, people's defective willpower and demographic stagnation.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.