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  • Engineers and the Making of the Francoist Regime

    by Lino Camprubi ...
    Series series Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
    How engineers and agricultural scientists became key actors inFranco's regime and Spain's forced modernization.**In this book, Lino Camprubí argues that science and technology were at the very center of the building of Franco's Spain. Previous histories of early Francoist science and technology have described scientists and engineers as working “under” Francoism, subject to censorship and bound by ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Science and Apocalypse in Bertrand Russell

    A Cultural Sociology

    by Javier Pérez-Jara, Lino Camprubí ...
    Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) was a logician, a philosopher, and one of the twentieth century’s most visible public intellectuals. Science and Apocalypse in Bertrand Russell: A Cultural Sociology brings those three aspects together to trace Russell’s changing views on the role of science and technology in society throughout his long intellectual career.Drawing from cultural sociology, history of ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • The Planning Moment

    Colonial and Postcolonial Histories

    by Sarah Blacker, Emily Brownell, Anindita Nag, Martina Schlünder, Sarah Van Beurden, Dagmar Schäfer1, Itty Abraham2, Benjamin Allen3, Lino Camprubi4, John DiMoia5, Mona Fawaz6, Lilly Irani7, Chihyung Jeon8, Robert Kett9, Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach0, Karen McAllister1, Laura Mitchell2, Gregg Mitman3, Aaron Moore4, Nada Moumtaz5, Tahani Nadim6, Raul Necochea López7, Tamar Novick8, Juno Salazar Parreñas9, Benjamin Peters0, Ana Carolina Vimiero1, Alexandra Widmer2, Alden Young3 ...
    Empires and their aftermaths were massive planning institutions; in the past two hundred years, the natural and social sciences emerged—at least in part—as modes of knowledge production for imperial planning. Yet these connections are frequently under-emphasized in the history of science and its corollary fields.The Planning Moment explores the myriad ways plans and planning practices pervade ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Contemporary Materialism: Its Ontology and Epistemology

    Edited by Gustavo E. Romero, Javier Pérez-Jara, Lino Camprubí ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book provides an up-to-date revision of materialism’s central tenets, its main varieties, and the place of materialistic philosophy vis a vis scientific knowledge.Materialism has been the subject of extensive and rich controversies since Robert Boyle introduced the term for the first time in the 17th century. But what is materialism and what can it offer today? The term is usually defined as the ... Read more

    $192.99 CAD

  • Technology and Globalisation

    Networks of Experts in World History

    Edited by David Pretel, Lino Camprubí ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book examines the role of experts and expertise in the dynamics of globalisation since the mid-nineteenth century. It shows how engineers, scientists and other experts have acted as globalising agents, providing many of the materials and institutional means for world economic and technical integration. Focusing on the study of international connections, Technology and Globalisation ... Read more

    $268.99 CAD

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    by Karl Popper ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
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  • Global Economic History

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Robert C. Allen ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Why are some countries rich and others poor? In 1500, the income differences were small, but they have grown dramatically since Columbus reached America. Since then, the interplay between geography, globalization, technological change, and economic policy has determined the wealth and poverty of nations. The industrial revolution was Britain's path breaking response to the challenge of ... Read more

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    El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World

    by Mike Davis ...
    Series series Essential Mike Davis
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  • The Wholeness of Nature

    Goethe’s Way toward a Science of Conscious Participation in Nature

    by Henri Bortoft ...
    Whereas most readers are familiar with Goethe as a poet and dramatist, few are familiar with his scientific work. In this brilliant book, Henri Bortoft (who began his studies of Goethean science with J. G. Bennett and David Bohm) introduces the fascinating scientific theories of Goethe. He succeeds in showing that Goethe's way of doing science was not a poet's folly but a genuine alternative to ... Read more

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    Series series Essential Mike Davis
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  • A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time

    by Adrian Bardon ...
    Adrian Bardon's A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time is a short introduction to the history, philosophy, and science of the study of time-from the pre-Socratic philosophers through Einstein and beyond. A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time covers subjects such as time and change, the experience of time, physical and metaphysical approaches to the nature of time, the direction of time, ... Read more

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  • Aristotle's Revenge

    The Metaphysical Foundations of Physical and Biological Science

    by Edward Feser ...
    Actuality and potentiality, substantial form and prime matter, efficient causality and teleology are among the fundamental concepts of Aristotelian philosophy of nature. Aristotle's Revenge argues that these concepts are not only compatible with modern science, but are implicitly presupposed by modern science. Among the many topics covered are the metaphysical presuppositions of scientific method; ... Read more

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