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  • - Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power
    af Sheila Jasanoff & Sang Hyun Kim
    422,95 kr.

  • - Why Science Needs Story
    af Randy Olson
    198,95 - 681,95 kr.

  • - The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism
    af Judy Wajcman
    267,95 kr.

    The technologically tethered, iPhone-addicted figure is an image we can easily conjure. Isn't technology supposed to make our lives easier? In this title, the author lets technology off the hook, arguing that it does not simply cause time pressure or the inexorable acceleration of everyday life.

  • - Theorizing Qualitative Research
    af Iddo Tavory & Stefan Timmermans
    202,95 kr.

    Provides a new navigational map for constructing empirically based generalizations in qualitative research. The authors outline an accessible way to think about observations, methods, and theories that nurtures theory-formation without locking it into predefined conceptual boxes.

  • - A Manual for Research and Writing with Library and Internet Materials
    af Andrew Abbott
    222,95 - 975,95 kr.

    Tells what every senior researcher knows: that research is not a mechanical, linear process, but a thoughtful and adventurous journey through a nonlinear world. The author breaks library research into seven basic and simultaneous tasks: design, search, scanning/browsing, reading, analyzing, filing, and writing.

  • - Marriage Reform in the Progressive Era
    af Clare Virginia Eby
    314,95 - 1.097,95 kr.

    For centuries, people have been thinking and writing - and fiercely debating - about the meaning of marriage. This book offers a fresh account of marriage as it appeared in fiction, journalism, legal decisions, scholarly work, and private correspondence at the start of the twentieth century.

  • - The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome
    af Sarah S. Richardson
    345,95 - 975,95 kr.

    Tracking the emergence of a new and distinctive way of thinking about sex represented by the unalterable, simple, and visually compelling binary of the X and Y chromosomes, this title examines the interaction between cultural gender norms and genetic theories of sex from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present, postgenomic age.

  • - How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent it from Happening Again
    af Atif Mian & Amir Sufi
    162,95 kr.

    Is it a coincidence that the US witnessed a dramatic rise in household debt in the years before the recession - that the total amount of debt for American households doubled between 2000 and 2007 to $14 trillion? Definitely not. The authors reveal that excessive household debt leads to foreclosures and makes people spend less and save more.

  • - How Evolution Shapes Our Loves and Fears
    af Gordon H. Orians
    265,95 - 290,95 kr.

    Our breath catches and we jump in fear at the sight of a snake. We pause and marvel at the sublime beauty of a sunrise. These reactions are no accident; in fact, many of our human responses to nature are steeped in our deep evolutionary past. The author explores the role of evolution in human responses to the environment.

  • af Philippe Descola
    352,95 - 975,95 kr.

    Drawing on ethnographic examples from around the world and theoretical understandings from cognitive science, structural analysis, and phenomenology, the author formulates a sophisticated new framework, the "four ontologies" - animism, totemism, naturalism, and analogism - to account for all the ways we relate ourselves to nature.

  • af María de Zayas y Sotomayor
    434,95 - 987,95 kr.

    At the height of Maria de Zayas' popularity in the mid-eighteenth century, the number of editions in print of her work was exceeded only by the novels of Cervantes. This book gathers a representative sample of seven stories, featuring Zayas' signature topics - gender equality and domestic violence.

  • - Wealth, Poverty, and the Threat to Global Stability
    af William W. Lewis
    140,95 kr.

    The disparity between rich and poor countries is the most serious, intractable problem facing the world. The author in this book draws on extensive microeconomic studies of thirteen nations - conducted over twelve years by the Institute itself - to counter virtually all prevailing wisdom about how best to ameliorate economic disparity.

  • - Refashioning the Slave Trade in Ghana
    af Bayo Holsey
    290,95 kr.

    Why do Ghanaians suppress the history of enslavement? And why is this history expressed so differently on the other side of the Atlantic? This book tackles these questions by analyzing the slave trade's absence from public versions of coastal Ghanaian family and community histories, and its troubled presentation in the country's classrooms.

  • - The Two Discourses and the Social Contract
    af Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    264,95 - 409,95 kr.

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau is among the most important and influential thinkers in the history of political philosophy. This edition brings together translations of three of Rousseau's works: the "Discourse on the Sciences and Arts", the "Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men", and "On the Social Contract".

  • - The Function of Avowal in Justice
    af Michel Foucault
    349,95 - 354,95 kr.

    Three years before his death, Michel Foucault delivered a series of lectures at the Catholic University of Louvain. These lectures provide the missing link between Foucault's early work on madness, delinquency, and sexuality and his later explorations of subjectivity in Greek and Roman antiquity. This book presents these lectures.

  • af Jacques Derrida
    386,95 kr.

    This volume gathers together letters of condolence, memorial essays, eulogies and funeral orations, written by French philosopher Jacques Derrida, written as colleagues and friends passed away before him. It captures his thoughts on some important themes - mourning, memory and friendship.

  • - Understanding and Designing the Morality of Things
    af Peter-Paul Verbeek
    416,95 kr.

    A study of the ethical dilemmas and moral issues surrounding the interaction of humans and technology. Drawing from Heidegger and Foucault, as well as from philosophers of technology such as Don Ihde and Bruno Latour, it locates morality not just in the human users of technology but in the interaction between us and our machines.

  • - Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World
    af Deirdre McCloskey
    287,95 - 661,95 kr.

    The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attributed a sense of dignity and liberty to the bourgeoisie they had denied for so long. This book discusses seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe to reconsider the birth of the Industrial Revolution.

  • - The Beginnings of Biotech
    af Sally Smith Hughes
    162,95 - 320,95 kr.

    In the fall of 1980, Genentech, Inc, a little-known California genetic engineering company, became the overnight darling of Wall Street, raising over $38 million in its initial public stock offering. This title offers portraits of the people significant to Genentech's science and business, including co-founders Herbert Boyer and Robert Swanson.

  • - The History and Science of Plant Breeding
    af Noel Kingsbury
    227,95 - 375,95 kr.

    Drawing on historical and scientific accounts, as well as a rich trove of anecdotes, this title shows how scientists, amateur breeders, and countless anonymous farmers and gardeners slowly caused the evolutionary pressures of nature to be supplanted by those of human needs.

  • - How to Tell Science from Bunk
    af Massimo Pigliucci
    253,95 kr.

    Polls suggest that fewer than 40 percent of Americans believe in Darwin's theory of evolution, despite it being one of science's best-established findings. This book sets out to separate the fact from the fantasy in this exploration of the nature of science, the borderlands of fringe science.

  • - Fuzzy Sets and Beyond
    af Charles C. Ragin
    317,95 - 975,95 kr.

    Offers a critique of the standard approach to social research - namely, assessing the relative importance of causal variables drawn from competing theories. This book proposes the use of set-theoretic methods to find a middle path between quantitative and qualitative research.

  • - The Moral Lives of Animals
    af Marc Bekoff & Jessica Pierce
    252,95 - 567,95 kr.

    Scientists have long counseled against interpreting animal behavior in terms of human emotions, warning that such anthropomorphizing limits our ability to understand animals as they really are. This book challenges this long-held view. It reveals that animals exhibit a range of moral behaviors, including fairness, empathy, trust, and reciprocity.

  • - From Devil's Dust to the Renaissance of Rags
    af Hanna Rose Shell
    265,95 kr.

    "This is a book about waste transformed, and reuse, repurposing, and recycling -- and how we consume the products of our industry. Through the story of shoddy, Hanna Rose Shell takes up these provocative topics and offers a new way for us to think critically about them. Shoddy is a global potpourri of textile waste manufactured into a saleable commodity: for example, wool that has been sorted, scoured, stuffed into rag-grinding machines, and remade into new clothes and textile and upholstery products. Both of-the-moment and truly historical, the book sends us back to West Yorkshire, 1812 and the birth of the commodification of waste through processing, before pushing us forward again with interviews and images from shoddy towns, waste dumps, textile labs, and rag shredding factories in the US and UK. Along the way we see exposed the political, ethical, environmental, and other ways shoddy has transformed lives and landscapes"--

  • - Dispatches from an Uncertain World
    af David Kaiser
    180,95 - 327,95 kr.

  • af Peter J Bowler
    367,95 kr.

    "Making Modern Science: A Historical Survey is a top selling coursebook designed for entry-level college classes in the history of science and as a single-volume introduction for the general reader. Exploring both the history of science and its influence on modern thought, this general survey chronicles all major developments in scientific thinking, from the revolutionary ideas of the seventeenth century to contemporary issues in genetics, physics, and more. First published fifteen years ago, this revised edition is not only updated to reflect the latest scholarship, it also contains two entirely new chapters: on computing, and empire"--

  • - Essays Toward Materiality
     
    375,95 kr.

    Papers of the international conference "A Voice as Something More," held at the University of Chicago in November 2015.

  • af Michel Foucault
    312,95 kr.

    This volume collects a series of lectures given by the renowned French thinker Michel Foucault late in his career. The book is composed of two parts: a talk, Parrēsia, delivered at the University of Grenoble in 1982, and a series of lectures entitled "Discourse and Truth," given at the University of California, Berkeley in 1983, which appears here for the first time in its full and correct form. Together, they provide an unprecedented account of Foucault's reading of the Greek concept of parrēsia, often translated as "truth-telling" or "frank speech." The lectures trace the transformation of this concept across Greek, Roman, and early Christian thought, from its origins in pre-Socratic Greece to its role as a central element of the relationship between teacher and student. In mapping the concept's history, Foucault's concern is not to advocate for free speech; rather, his aim is to explore the moral and political position one must occupy in order to take the risk to speak truthfully. These lectures--carefully edited and including notes and introductory material to fully illuminate Foucault's insights--are a major addition to Foucault's English language corpus.

  • - Digital Evidence and Literary Change
    af Ted Underwood
    290,95 kr.

  • - A Guide to Academic Publishing Success
    af Wendy Laura Belcher
    612,95 kr.

    "Wow. No one ever told me this!" Wendy Laura Belcher has heard this countless times throughout her years of teaching and advising academics on how to write journal articles. Scholars know they must publish, but few have been told how to do so. So Belcher made it her mission to demystify the writing process. The result was Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks, which takes this overwhelming task and breaks it into small, manageable steps. For the past decade, this guide has been the go-to source for those creating articles for peer-reviewed journals. It has enabled thousands to overcome their anxieties and produce the publications that are essential to succeeding in their fields. With this new edition, Belcher expands her advice to reach beginning scholars in even more disciplines. She builds on feedback from professors and graduate students who have successfully used the workbook to complete their articles. A new chapter addresses scholars who are writing from scratch. This edition also includes more targeted exercises and checklists, as well as the latest research on productivity and scholarly writing. Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks is the only reference to combine expert guidance with a step-by-step workbook. Each week, readers learn a feature of strong articles and work on revising theirs accordingly. Every day is mapped out, taking the guesswork and worry out of writing. There are tasks, templates, and reminders. At the end of twelve weeks, graduate students, recent PhDs, postdoctoral fellows, adjunct instructors, junior faculty, and international faculty will feel confident they know that the rules of academic publishing and have the tools they need to succeed.

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