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  • A Player’s Guide to the Post-Truth Condition
    Steve Fuller
    This book is a shorter, more accessible and updated follow-up to Post-Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game, which remains the only book that sheds a largely hopeful light on our post-truth condition across a wide range of intellectual fields and public affairs, including Brexit, Trump and the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
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    173,34 €

  • A Player’s Guide to the Post-Truth Condition
    Steve Fuller
    This book is a shorter, more accessible and updated follow-up to Post-Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game, which remains the only book that sheds a largely hopeful light on our post-truth condition across a wide range of intellectual fields and public affairs, including Brexit, Trump and the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
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    40,28 €

  • The Campaign
    Olof Hallonsten
    The European Spallation Source (ESS) is by far the largest Big Science facility ever built in Sweden. First proposed in the early 1990s, it took until 2015 before construction could start, and when it did, it was at an unlikely place. Lund, Sweden, a small village in the outskirts of Europe, is neither a neutron stronghold or among the usual suspects for hosting European Big Sc...
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    27,51 €

  • Man and Technics
    Oswald Spengler / Charles Francis Atkinson
    2020 Reprint of the 1932 Edition.  Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life is a short book by Oswald Spengler, in which the author presents a harsh critique of technology and industrialism, especially in Western Society during Spengler’s era.  The principal idea in the work is that many of the Western world’s great achievements may soon become spectacles for ou...
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    12,59 €

  • A sonnet to science
    Sam Illingworth
    In A sonnet to science, leading science communicator Dr Sam Illingworth presents a selection of poetry written by well-known scientists, contextualising it with their work and research, in an effort to better understand how poetry might today be used as an effective tool in both the advancement of science and the way it is communicated. ...
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    22,31 €

  • Common Sense and Science from Aristotle to Reid
    Benjamin W Redekop / Benjamin W. Redekop
    Common Sense and Science from Aristotle to Reid brings to light the dynamic and evolving relationship between common sense and scientific thinking that stretches from Aristotle to the present day. ...
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    180,28 €

  • Spectacular Posthumanism
    Drew Ayers
    Spectacular Posthumanismexamines the ways in which VFX imagery fantasizes about digital disembodiment while simultaneously reasserting the importance of the lived body. Analyzing a wide range of case studies-including the films of David Cronenberg and Stanley Kubrick, image technologies such as performance capture and crowd simulation, Game of Thrones, Terminator: Genisys, Plan...
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    54,94 €

  • Climate Chaos and its Origins in Slavery and Capitalism
    Judith Blau / Reva Blau
    Climate Chaos argues powerfully that unless global citizens come together to change the infrastructure and value system of capitalist greed and consumption, human society will not survive past this century. ...
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    42,04 €

  • Hans Jonas
    Lewis Coyne
    Hans Jonas (1903-1993) was one of the most important German-Jewish philosophers of the 20th century. A student of Martin Heidegger and close friend of Hannah Arendt, Jonas advanced the fields of phenomenology and practical ethics in ways that are just beginning to be appreciated in the English-speaking world. Drawing here on unpublished and newly translated material, Lewis Coyn...
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    160,84 €

  • Engineering a Better Future
    Eswaran Subrahmanian / Jeffrey Y Tsao / Toluwalogo Odumosu
    This open access book examines how the social sciences can be integrated into the praxis of engineering and science, presenting unique perspectives on the interplay between engineering and social science. Motivated by the report by the Commission on Humanities and Social Sciences of the American Association of Arts and Sciences, which emphasizes the importance of social science...
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    77,58 €

  • Engineering a Better Future
    Eswaran Subrahmanian / Jeffrey Y Tsao / Toluwalogo Odumosu
    This open access book examines how the social sciences can be integrated into the praxis of engineering and science, presenting unique perspectives on the interplay between engineering and social science. Motivated by the report by the Commission on Humanities and Social Sciences of the American Association of Arts and Sciences, which emphasizes the importance of social science...
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    63,22 €

  • Science as Social Existence
    Jeff Kochan
    In this bold and original study, Jeff Kochan constructively combines the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) with Martin Heidegger’s early existential conception of science. Kochan shows convincingly that these apparently quite different approaches to science are, in fact, largely compatible, even mutually reinforcing. By combining Heidegger with SSK, Kochan argues, we can ...
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    83,56 €

  • Science as Social Existence
    Jeff Kochan
    In this bold and original study, Jeff Kochan constructively combines the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) with Martin Heidegger’s early existential conception of science. Kochan shows convincingly that these apparently quite different approaches to science are, in fact, largely compatible, even mutually reinforcing. By combining Heidegger with SSK, Kochan argues, we can ...
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    68,05 €

  • Hanging on to the Edges
    Daniel (Author) / Nettle
    What does it mean to be a scientist working today; specifically, a scientist whose subject matter is human life? Scientists often overstate their claim to certainty, sorting the world into categorical distinctions that obstruct rather than clarify its complexities. In this book Daniel Nettle urges the reader to unpick such distinctions-biological versus social sciences, mind ve...
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    53,14 €

  • Hanging on to the Edges
    Daniel (Author) / Nettle
    What does it mean to be a scientist working today; specifically, a scientist whose subject matter is human life? Scientists often overstate their claim to certainty, sorting the world into categorical distinctions that obstruct rather than clarify its complexities. In this book Daniel Nettle urges the reader to unpick such distinctions-biological versus social sciences, mind ve...
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    67,51 €

  • Deliberative Public Engagement With Science
    Lisa M PytlikZillig / Myiah J Hutchens / Peter Muhlberger
    This compact open access reference delves beyond popular concepts of educated consumers and an informed public by examining the science behind deliberative engagement. Using data from four longitudinal studies, the authors assess public engagement methods in deliberative discussions of ethical, legal, and social issues concerning innovations in nanotechnology. Coverage includes...
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    54,12 €

  • Earth Observation Open Science and Innovation
    Christoph Aubrecht / Pierre-Philippe Mathieu
    Over the past decades, rapid developments in digital and sensing technologies, such as the Cloud, Web and Internet of Things, have dramatically changed the way we live and work. The digital transformation is revolutionizing our ability to monitor our planet and transforming the way we access, process and exploit Earth Observation data from satellites.This book reviews these meg...
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    72,94 €

  • Earth Observation Open Science and Innovation
    Christoph Aubrecht / Pierre-Philippe Mathieu
    Over the past decades, rapid developments in digital and sensing technologies, such as the Cloud, Web and Internet of Things, have dramatically changed the way we live and work. The digital transformation is revolutionizing our ability to monitor our planet and transforming the way we access, process and exploit Earth Observation data from satellites.This book reviews these meg...
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    87,30 €

  • Deliberative Public Engagement With Science
    Lisa M PytlikZillig / Myiah J Hutchens / Peter Muhlberger
    This compact open access reference delves beyond popular concepts of educated consumers and an informed public by examining the science behind deliberative engagement. Using data from four longitudinal studies, the authors assess public engagement methods in deliberative discussions of ethical, legal, and social issues concerning innovations in nanotechnology. Coverage includes...
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    68,48 €

  • The Banquet (Il Convito)
    Dante Alighieri / Elizabeth Price Sayer
    The Banquet (Il Convito): Translated By Elizabeth Price Sayer With An Introduction By Henry MorelyThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work h...
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    18,84 €

  • Science Communication
    A concise, coherent and easily readable textbook about the field of science communication, connecting the practice of science communicators with theory. In the book, recent trends and shifts in the field resonate, such as the transition from telling about science to interacting with the public and the importance of science communication in health and environmental communication...
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    35,41 €

  • Cultura, Sociedade, Religião O Mal-Estar na cultura e outros escritos
    Sigmund Freud
    'O mal-estar na cultura' não é apenas o ensaio mais célebre de Freud, mas uma das obras seminais do século XX. Sem a categoria de 'mal-estar' não é possível pensar os destinos do sujeito na atualidade. Por que sentimos que a felicidade é incompatível com as exigências da vida social? Existem formas de vida em que restrições culturais e expectativas de realização pessoal possam ...
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    33,82 €

  • How to Construct Your Intellectual Pedigree
    Elof Axel Carlson
    This is a handbook that shows the reader how to construct an intellectual pedigree. It is also a history of science monograph because the completed intellectual pedigrees can be used individually or collectively to trace the influences of mentoring in the life sciences. The author uses Hermann Joseph Muller (1890–1967) (which includes his own intellectual pedigree) to show how ...
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    120,38 €

  • Un Ovium Mori
    Quinten Serna
    Words do naught to function without meaning or expression providing a foundation, and despite the benevolence, grace, or malign intention that backs them up, often enough do we find that these variables mean nothing in a written state—too often are false affections and prejudices ascribed to our words and sewn into our lips; if it is the duty of the author—or of the speaker—to ...
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    9,96 €

  • What is Real Love? Researched and Answered!
    Harry Flannery
    Relationships/Self-Help'Love and marriage are central to the lives of many of us. Yet, human beings typically treat the subject in intuitive ways without delving into the reasons for feelings of love for another. What is REAL Love? brings us to the brink of understanding without giving away the secret. Flannery recognizes the mystery of it all, making great use of personal lett...
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    17,66 €

  • Uso transformador de tecnologías digitales en educación superior
    Autores Varios
    Este libro deja a consideración de la comunidad académica una colección de trabajos hechos en elmarco de la Red Universitaria para la Educación con Tecnología (RedUnete), colaborativo en el queparticipan instituciones de educación superior de Colombia y de España. El eje vertebrador del esfuerzoes el uso transformador de tecnologías digitales en educación superior, el cual se e...
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    15,64 €

  • Deterritorializing the Future
    Colin Sterling / Rodney Harrison
    Understanding how pasts resource presents is a fundamental first step towards building alternative futures in the Anthropocene. This collection brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to explore concepts of care, vulnerability, time, extinction, loss and inheritance across more-than-human worlds, connecting contemporary developments in the posthumanities with the f...
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    24,59 €

  • The Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind
    Martina Zimmermann
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded byThe Wellcome Trust.The Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind charts changing cultural understandings of dementia and alzheimer’s disease in scientific and cultural texts across the 20th Century. Reading a range of texts from the US, UK, Eur...
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    160,67 €

  • Control
    Lance Packer
    Why do I have friends, family members, a job, a place to live, and things to put in it—but also have those pesky people who frequently disturb my sense of comfort and satisfaction with life?  And, it isn’t just people that are a problem. It is also bacteria that cause diseases, bugs that bite, the neighbor’s dogs that won’t stop barking, weeds that keep growing in my garden, tr...
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    9,52 €

  • Wild and Unsubstantiated Rantings
    Philip Salfield
    a book of pessimistic and comic reflections on the world including .. The Octopus Beam Me Up Scotty The Biggest Mystery in the Universe White Couple Making Love The Case from Hell Do We Really Exist? My Final Comments on this Fucking Corona Virus ...
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    15,38 €


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