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  • The Eighth Day

    Social Evolution as the Self-Organization of Energy

    de Richard Newbold Adams ...
    Can human social evolution be described in terms common to other sciences, most specifically, as an energy process? The Eighth Day reflects a conviction that the human trajectory, for all its uniqueness and indeterminism, will never be satisfactorily understood until it is framed in dynamics that are common to all of nature. The problem in doing this, however, lies in ourselves. The major social ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Energy and Structure

    A Theory of Social Power

    de Richard Newbold Adams ...
    All social structures are essentially power structures dependent on energy. The concept of power and the role of energy in social organization are crucial and timely concerns, especially in light of the current apprehension about future energy resources. In Energy and Structure, Richard N. Adams argues that social power affects humanity's approach to ecological, economic, and political problems, ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Quiché Rebelde

    Religious Conversion, Politics, and Ethnic Identity in Guatemala

    de Ricardo Falla ...
    Traducido por Phillip Berryman ...
    Series series LLILAS Translations from Latin America Series
    Since the arrival of the Spanish in the sixteenth century, the Maya population of Guatemala has been forced to adapt to extraordinary challenges. Under colonial rule, the Indians had to adapt enough to satisfy the Spanish while resisting those changes not necessary for survival, applying their understanding of the world to the realities they confronted daily. Despite the major changes wrought in ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Practical Applications in Digital Signal Processing

    de Richard Newbold ...
    The Only DSP Book 100% Focused on Step-by-Step Design and Implementation of Real Devices and Systems in Hardware and SoftwarePractical Applications in Digital Signal Processing is the first DSP title to address the area that even the excellent engineering textbooks of today tend to omit. This book fills a large portion of that omission by addressing circuits and system applications that most ... Leer más

    $113.39 USD

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  • States of Knowledge

    The Co-production of Science and the Social Order

    Edición de Sheila Jasanoff ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    Notes on contributors Acknowledgements 1. The Idiom of Co-production Sheila Jasanoff 2. Ordering Knowledge, Ordering Society Sheila Jasanoff 3. Climate Science and the Making of a Global Political Order Clark A. Miller 4. Co-producing CITES and the African Elephant Charis Thompson 5. Knowledge and Political Order in the European Environment Agency Claire Waterton and Brian Wynne 6. Plants, Power ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Political Matter

    Technoscience, Democracy, and Public Life

    de Isabelle Stengers, Jane Bennett ...
    Taking seriously the argument that things have politics, Political Matter seeks to develop a fully materialist theory of politics, one that opens new possibilities for imagining the relationship between scientific and political practices. The contributors assert that without such a theory the profusion of complex materials with and through which we live-plastic bags, smart cars, and long-life ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology

    de Stig Andur Pedersen, Vincent F. Hendricks, Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
    Drawing on essays from leading international and multi-disciplinary scholars, A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology is the first comprehensive and authoritative reference source to cover the key issues of technology’s impact on society and our lives.Presents the first complete, authoritative reference work in the fieldOrganized thematically for use both as a full introduction to the field or ... Leer más

    $46.00 USD

  • Information Space (RLE: Organizations)

    de Max Boisot ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Organizations
    In this book the author lays the foundations for a new political economy of information. The information space, or I-Space is the conceptual framework in which organizations, institutions and cultures are being transformed by new information and communication technologies. In the penultimate chapter, the I-Space’s usefulness as an explanatory framework is illustrated with an application: a case ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Ethics and Science

    An Introduction

    de Adam Briggle, Carl Mitcham ...
    Series series Cambridge Applied Ethics
    Who owns your genes? What does climate science imply for policy? Do corporations conduct honest research? Should we teach intelligent design? Humans are creating a new world through science. The kind of world we are creating will not simply be decided by expanding scientific knowledge, but will depend on views about good and bad, right and wrong. These visions, in turn, depend on critical thinking ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom

    de David Harvey ...
    Series series The Wellek Library Lectures
    Liberty and freedom are frequently invoked to justify political action. Presidents as diverse as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush have built their policies on some version of these noble values. Yet in practice, idealist agendas often turn sour as they confront specific circumstances on the ground. Demonstrated by incidents at Abu Ghraib ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • The Penguin History Of Latin America

    New Edition

    de Edwin Williamson ...
    Now fully updated to 2009, this acclaimed history of Latin America tells its turbulent story from Columbus to Chavez. Beginning with the Spanish and Portugese conquests of the New World, it takes in centuries of upheaval, revolution and modernization up to the present day, looking in detail at Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Cuba, and gives an overview of the cultural developments that have ... Leer más

    $18.79 USD

  • Reason in a Dark Time

    Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed -- and What It Means for Our Future

    de Dale Jamieson ...
    From the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference there was a concerted international effort to stop climate change. Yet greenhouse gas emissions increased, atmospheric concentrations grew, and global warming became an observable fact of life. In this book, philosopher Dale Jamieson explains what climate change is, why we have failed to stop it, and why it still matters what ... Leer más

    $25.69 USD