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  • 1
    ISBN: 9780309161459
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (76 pages)
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 304.25
    Schlagwort(e): Electronic books ; local ; Climatic changes ; Research ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: FrontMatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Needs for Socioeconomic Scenarios -- 3 Evolving Methods and Approaches -- 4 Driving Forces and Critical Uncertainties in Adaptation, Vulnerability, and Mitigation -- 5 Representative Concentration Pathways and Socioeconomic Scenarios and Narratives -- 6 Lessons from Experience -- 7 Reports from Breakout Groups -- 8 Concluding Comments -- References -- Appendix A: Workshop Agenda and List of Participants -- Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff.
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  • 2
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    Cambridge : Harvard University Press
    ISBN: 9780674043022
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (256 pages)
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.30941
    Schlagwort(e): Sex differences ; Sex role-History-19th century ; Women's studies-History-19th century ; Electronic books ; local ; Sex differences ; Sex role ; History ; 19th century ; Women's studies ; History ; 19th century ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 How to Tell the Girls from the Boys -- 2 Up and Down the Phyletic Ladder -- 3 Hairy Men and Beautiful Women -- 4 The Machinery of the Body -- 5 The Physiological Division of Labor -- 6 The Victorian Paradigm Erodes -- 7 Women and the Cosmic Nightmare -- Notes -- Index.
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    Cambridge : Harvard University Press
    ISBN: 9780674038875
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (304 pages)
    Ausgabe: 2nd ed.
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer, 1946 - The woman that never evolved
    DDC: 599.8138
    Schlagwort(e): Primates-Evolution ; Women-Evolution ; Feminism ; Sociobiology ; Sex role ; Electronic books ; local ; Feminism ; Primates ; Evolution ; Sex role ; Sociobiology ; Women ; Evolution ; Electronic books ; Primates ; Evolution.;Women ; Evolution.;Feminism.;Sociobiology.;Sex role ; Primaten ; Weibchen ; Evolution ; Soziobiologie
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Contents -- Preface, 1999: On Raising Darwin's Consciousness -- 1. Some Women That Never Evolved -- 2. An Initial Inequality -- 3. Monogamous Primates: A Special Case -- 4. A Climate for Dominant Females -- 5. The Pros and Cons of Males -- 6. Competition and Bonding among Females -- 7. The Primate Origins of Female Sexuality -- 8. A Disputed Legacy -- Afterword -- Taxonomy of the Primate Order -- Notes -- Bibliographical Updates, 1999 -- Index.
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9781607503989
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (188 pages)
    Serie: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series - E: Human and Societal Dynamics v.50
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    Paralleltitel: Print version Constructal Human Dynamics, Security and Sustainability
    DDC: 304.2
    Schlagwort(e): Physics Congresses Social aspects ; Social ecology Congresses ; Electronic books ; local ; Physics ; Social aspects ; Congresses ; Social ecology ; Congresses ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Globalization, security infrastructure and energy sustainability can be designed based on a scientific principle. In this book, these objectives are approached based on constructal theory, which means to design such projects as global 'flow' architectures that are 'alive' with movement of personnel, equipment, information, education, etc. Constructal Human Dynamics, Security and Sustainability highlights the progress made during the NATO Advanced Research Workshop held in Évora, Portugal in May 2008. This workshop brought together social scientists with physicists, engineers and biologists. Together they addressed main topics such as human dynamics viewed as natural phenomena of design generation, flow networks for distribution and collection, large-scale construction projects (e.g., airports, waste storage), logistics, decontamination, energy supply routes, distributed energy systems, water resources management, environmental security sustainability and globalization. The chapters selected for this book represent the interdisciplinary approach and team atmosphere that emerged in Évora.
    Kurzfassung: Title page -- Preface -- Contents -- Constructal Theory and Design -- Constructal View of City Flow Structure and People Safety -- Flow Systems, Catastrophes, and Public Policy -- Developing Constructal Theory as a Tool for Global Security and Sustainability -- Pattern Formation and Self-Organization in Living Systems: a Unified View of Coral Colonies and Crowd Dynam ics -- Constructal Placement of Decontamination on Nuclear W aste Areas -- Some Transfer Phenomena Regarding the Safety of Deep Geological Repositories of Radioactive Wa stes. -- Constructal Patterns in Air Traffic Flows and in Sustainable Information Systems -- Constructal Flow of Education and Research -- Subject Index -- Author Index.
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    Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press
    ISBN: 9780801898419
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (353 pages)
    Paralleltitel: Print version Would Trotsky Wear a Bluetooth? : Technological Utopianism under Socialism, 1917-1989
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Josephson, Paul R., 1954 - Would Trotsky wear a Bluetooth?
    DDC: 303.4830947
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    Schlagwort(e): Technology-Social aspects ; Technology-Political aspects ; Technology and civilization ; Utopian socialism-History-20th century ; Electronic books ; local ; Technology ; Political aspects ; Technology ; Social aspects ; Technology and civilization ; Utopian socialism ; History ; 20th century ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Technik ; Sozialverhalten ; Frühsozialismus ; Geschichte
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Tractors, Steel Mills, Concrete, and Other Joys of Socialism -- 1 Would Trotsky Wear a Bluetooth? Technological Utopianism in the Soviet Union in the 1920s -- 2 Proletarian Aesthetics: Technology and Socialism in Eastern Europe -- 3 From Kimchi to Concrete: The North Korean Experiment -- 4 Floating Reactors: Nuclear Hubris after the Fall of Communism -- 5 Industrial Deserts: Technology and Environmental Degradation under Socialism -- 6 No Hard Hats, No Steel-toed Shoes Required: Worker Safety in the Proletarian Paradise -- 7 The Gendered Tractor -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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  • 6
    ISBN: 9780309160339
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (175 pages)
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    DDC: 304.25
    Schlagwort(e): Electronic books ; local ; Climate change mitigation ; Climatic changes ; Research ; Climatic changes ; Social aspects ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: FrontMatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Public Understanding and Mitigation of Climate Change -- 1 Public Understanding of Climate Change -- 2 The Potential for Limiting Climate Change Through Household Action -- 3 Public Acceptance of Energy Technologies -- 4 Organizational Change and the Greening of Business -- Part II: Adapting to Climate Change -- 5 Climate Change Adaptation: The State of the Science -- 6 Federal Climate Change Adaptation Planning -- 7 Place-Based Adaptation Cases -- 8 Adaptation and Natural Resource Management -- 9 Cross-Cutting Issues in Adaptation -- 10 Synthesis of Key Questions for the Workshop -- References -- Appendix A: December 2009 Workshop Agenda and List of Participants -- Appendix B: April 2010 Workshop Agenda and List of Participants -- Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff.
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    London : Taylor and Francis
    ISBN: 9780754686958
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (288 pages)
    Suppl.: Rezensiert in Kruger, Matthew C. [Rezension von: Nelstrop, Louise, Christian Mysticism: An Introduction to Contemporary Theoretical Approaches] 2012
    Paralleltitel: Print version Nelstrop, Louise Christian Mysticism : An Introduction to Contemporary Theoretical Approaches
    DDC: 301.01
    Schlagwort(e): Philosophy and religion ; Mysticism ; Electronic books ; local ; Mysticism ; Philosophy and religion ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: This book introduces students to Christian mysticism and modern critical responses to it. Christianity has a rich tradition of mystical theology that first emerged in the writings of the early church fathers, and flourished during the Middle Ages. Today Christian mysticism is increasingly recognised as an important Christian heritage relevant to today's spiritual seekers.The book sets out to provide students and other interested readers with access to the main theoretical approaches to Christian mysticism - including those propounded by William James, Steven Katz, Bernard McGinn, Michael Sells, Denys Turner and Caroline Walker-Bynum. It also explores postmodern re-readings of Christian mysticism by authors such as Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Marion and Jean-Francois Lyotard. The book first introduces students to the main themes that underpin Christian mysticism. It then reflects on how modern critics have understood each of them, demonstrating that stark delineation between the different theoretical approaches eventually collapses under the weight of the complex interaction between experience and knowledge that lies at the heart of Christian mysticism. In doing so, the book presents a deliberate challenge to a strictly perennialist readings of Christian mysticism.Anyone even remotely familiar with Christian mysticism will know that renewed interest in Christian mystical writers has created a huge array of scholarship with which students of mysticism need to familiarise themselves. This book outlines the various modern theoretical approaches in a manner easily accessible to a reader with little or no previous knowledge of this area, and offers a philosophical/theological introduction to Christian mystical writers beyond the patristic period important for the Latin Western Tradition.
    Kurzfassung: Cover -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Contemporary Theoretical Approaches -- Part I Key Themes and Motifs -- 1 Platonism and Christian Mysticism -- 2 Negative or Apophatic Language -- 3 Selfhood and Interiority -- 4 Erotic Imagery -- 5 Hierarchy -- 6 Symbolism and Scripture's 'Mystical Sense' -- Part II Later Developments in Christian Mysticism -- 7 Female Mysticism -- 8 Visionary Mysticism -- 9 Imaginative Mysticism, Meditation and Experience -- 10 Mysticism and Heresy -- III Postmodern Re-Readings of Pseudo-Denys and Augustine -- 11 Exploring Negative Language through Pseudo-Denys: Derrida and Marion -- 12 Exploring Selfhood through Augustine: Marion, Derrida and Lyotard -- Conclusion: What is Christian Mysticism? -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Cover; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction: Contemporary Theoretical Approaches; Part I Key Themes and Motifs; 1 Platonism and Christian Mysticism; 2 Negative or Apophatic Language; 3 Selfhood and Interiority; 4 Erotic Imagery; 5 Hierarchy; 6 Symbolism and Scripture's 'Mystical Sense'; Part II Later Developments in Christian Mysticism; 7 Female Mysticism; 8 Visionary Mysticism; 9 Imaginative Mysticism, Meditation and Experience; 10 Mysticism and Heresy; III Postmodern Re-Readings of Pseudo-Denys and Augustine
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 11 Exploring Negative Language through Pseudo-Denys: Derrida and Marion12 Exploring Selfhood through Augustine: Marion, Derrida and Lyotard; Conclusion: What is Christian Mysticism?; Bibliography; Index;
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    New York : Routledge
    ISBN: 0805864261 , 0415995361 , 041599537X , 0805864253 , 1410618595 , 9780805864267 , 9780415995368 , 9780415995375 , 9780805864250 , 9781410618597
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (xvii, 540 p) , ill
    Ausgabe: 3rd ed
    Ausgabe: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Serie: Electronic media criticism : communication series
    Paralleltitel: Print version Electronic Media Criticism : Applied Perspectives
    DDC: 302.23
    Schlagwort(e): Mass media criticism ; Criticism ; Electronic books ; local ; Criticism ; Mass media criticism ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Introduces readers to a variety of critical approaches to audio and video discourse on radio, television and the Internet. This book applies key aesthetic, sociological, philosophical, psychological, structural and economic principles to arrive at a comprehensive evaluation of both programming and advertising content
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Critiques; Preface; 1 The Essence of Criticism; 2 Critical Functions; 3 Criticism and the Communication Process; 4 Knowledge Processing; 5 Tonal and Talent Ingredients; 6 Stage-Molding Ingredients; 7 Business Gratifications; 8 Audience Gratifications; 9 Depiction Analysis; 10 Structural Analysis; 11 Probing Ethics and Values; 12 Aesthetics and Art; 13 The Logic of Aesthetic Form; 14 Reality Programming; 15 Composite Criticism; Appendix A: Specimen Scripts; Appendix B: Suggested Exercises; Notes; Index
    Anmerkung: Includes bibliographical references (p. [501]-530) and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    Cary : Oxford University Press USA - OSO
    ISBN: 9780199741892
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (252 pages)
    Paralleltitel: Print version Naked City : The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places
    Paralleltitel: Zukin, Sharon Naked city
    DDC: 307.14164097471
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    Schlagwort(e): Urbanization ; Community development, Urban ; City and town life ; Electronic books ; local ; City and town life ; New York (State) ; New York ; Community development, Urban ; New York (State) ; New York ; Urbanization ; New York (State) ; New York ; Electronic books ; New York, NY ; Stadtforschung ; Gentrifizierung
    Kurzfassung: Sharon Zukin argues that the rapid and pervasive demand for authenticity--and the consequent escalating real estate prices--has helped drive out the very people who first lent a neighborhood its authentic aura: immigrants, the working class, and artists. Zukin traces this economic and social evolution in six archetypal New York areas--Williamsburg, Harlem, the East Village, Union Square, Red Hook, and the city's community gardens--and shows that for followers of Jane Jacobs, this transformation is a perversion of what was supposed to happen.
    Kurzfassung: Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction The City That Lost Its Soul -- Uncommon Spaces -- 1 How Brooklyn Became Cool -- 2 Why Harlem Is Not a Ghetto -- 3 Living Local in the East Village -- Common Spaces -- 4 Union Square and the Paradox of Public Space -- 5 A Tale of Two Globals: Pupusas and IKEA in Red Hook -- 6 The Billboard and the Garden: A Struggle for Roots -- Conclusion Destination Culture and the Crisis of Authenticity -- Notes -- Index.
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents; Preface; Introduction: The City That Lost Its Soul; Uncommon Spaces; Common Spaces; Conclusion Destination Culture and the Crisis of Authenticity; Notes; Index;
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    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press
    ISBN: 9789048511037 , 9789089641595
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (231 pages)
    Serie: IMISCOE Dissertations
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Broeders, Dennis, 1974 - Breaking down anonymity
    DDC: 301
    Schlagwort(e): Electronic surveillance ; Immigrants Government policy ; Immigrants Government policy ; Electronic surveillance ; Immigrants -- Government policy -- Germany ; Immigrants -- Government policy -- Netherlands ; Electronic surveillance -- Germany ; Electronic surveillance -- Netherlands ; Germany -- Emigration and immigration -- 21st century ; Netherlands -- Emigration and immigration -- 21st century ; Electronic books ; local ; Electronic surveillance ; Germany ; Electronic surveillance ; Netherlands ; Germany ; Emigration and immigration ; 21st century ; Immigrants ; Government policy ; Germany ; Immigrants ; Government policy ; Netherlands ; Netherlands ; Emigration and immigration ; 21st century ; Electronic books ; Netherlands Emigration and immigration 21st century ; Germany Emigration and immigration 21st century
    Kurzfassung: Because borders alone cannot stop irregular migration, the European Union is turning more and more to internal control measures. Through surveillance, member states aim to exclude irregular migrants from societal institutions, thereby discouraging their s.
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 1. Introduction and research questions -- 2. The state, surveillance and irregular migrants: theoretical perspectives -- 3. Guarding the access to the labour market -- 4. Police surveillance, detention and expulsion -- 5. European tools for domestic problems -- 6. Conclusion: breaking down anonymity -- Dutch summary/Nederlandse samenvatting -- Bibliography -- Notes.
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction and research questions; 2. The state, surveillance and irregular migrants: theoretical perspectives; 3. Guarding the access to the labour market; 4. Police surveillance, detention and expulsion; 5. European tools for domestic problems; 6. Conclusion: breaking down anonymity; Dutch summary/Nederlandse samenvatting; Bibliography; Notes;
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    Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi
    ISBN: 9789042029064
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (293 pages)
    Serie: Studia Imagologica, 14 v.14
    Serie: Studia Imagologica Ser. v.14
    Paralleltitel: Print version Images of the North : Histories - Identities - Ideas
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Images of the North. Histories - Identities - Ideas (Veranstaltung : 2006 : Reykjavik) Images of the North
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    Schlagwort(e): National characteristics History ; Electronic books ; local ; Arctic regions ; History ; Arctic regions ; In literature ; Arctic regions ; Social life and customs ; National characteristics ; History ; Electronic books ; Nordeuropa ; Identität ; Kongress ; Reykjavik ; Arctic regions Social life and customs ; Arctic regions History ; Arctic regions In literature ; Konferenzschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Konferenzschrift 2006 ; Nordeuropa ; Identität ; Skandinavienbild
    Kurzfassung: This interdisciplinary volume seeks to examine and explore the various issues surrounding image construction, identity making and representations of the North, as well as the interconnectedness between those issues. The aim is to elucidate the multiple aspects of the idea of the North, both as a mythological space and a discursive system created and shaped by cultures outside the North as well as from within.The objective of the research project Iceland and Images of the North is to elucidate several aspects of images of the North and to explore their functions in the present, focusing especially on Iceland. What effect have Iceland and its people had on images of the North, and how do those images influence the Icelanders and other nations? The project will be a cooperative, interdisciplinary undertaking by researchers in the humanities and social sciences.
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- Foreword -- Images of the North: Address by the President of Iceland -- The Theory of Climate and the North in Anglophone Literatures -- Canada and its Images of North -- Food and the North-Icelandic Identity in 13th century Iceland and Norway -- People and Place in the Far North: A Vision of Life, Community and Change -- Of Whales and Men: Images of Iceland and the North Atlantic in Contemporary Whaling Politics -- Images of Thule: Maps and Metaphors in Polar Exploration -- Geared for the Sublime: Mobile Images of the North -- From Hell to Homeland: Eggert Ólafsson's Reise igiennem Island and the Construction of Icelandic Identity -- The Natural Resource Industry Visual Impact Paradox: A Perspective on Alaskan Imagery and Art -- Icelandic National Images in the 19th and 20th Centuries -- Images of the North from a Distance -- Inuit Symbols and Canadian Nationhood in the Imagined North -- Alaska's Eternal Frontier: Rural Masculinity and Landscape Nostalgia -- Cultivating Culture? Images of Iceland, Globalization and Multicultural Society -- The Use of Images in Aniconic Societies: Occultism, Protestantism and Imagination in Iceland -- Performances of Scale: Visual Culture and Site-Specifi c Art in the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Era -- The Wild Wild North: The Narrative Cultures of Image Construction in Media and Everyday Life -- Welcome to Anaktuvuk Pass! -- Remote, Rough and Romantic: Contemporary Images of Iceland in Visual, Oral and Textual Narrations -- Index.
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780191570636
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (820 pages)
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    DDC: 302.23
    Schlagwort(e): Mass media -- Social aspects ; Communication -- Social aspects ; Globalization ; Electronic books ; local ; Communication ; Social aspects ; Globalization ; Mass media ; Social aspects ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: We live in the midst of a revolution in communication technologies that affects the way in which people feel, think, and behave. The media have become the space where power strategies are played out. In the current technological context mass communication goes beyond traditional media and includes the Internet and mobile communication. In this wide-ranging and powerful book, Manuel Castells analyses the transformation of the global media industry by this revolution in communication technologies. He argues that a new communication system, mass self-communication, has emerged, and power relationships have been profoundly modified by the emergence of this new communication environment. Created in the commons of the Internet this communication can be locally based, but globally connected. It is built through messaging, socialnetworks sites, and blogging, and is now being used by the millions around the world who have access to the Internet.Drawing on a wide range of social and psychological theories, Castells presents original research on political processes and social movements, including the misinformation of the American public on the Iraq War, the global environmental movement to prevent climate change, the control of information in China and Russia, and Internet-based political campaigns, such as the Obama campaign in the United States. On the basis of these case studies he proposes a new theory of power in the informationage based on the management of communication networksJustly celebrated for his analysis of the network society, Castells here builds on that work, offering a well grounded and immensely challenging picture of communication and power in the 21st century. This is a book for anyone who wants to understand the dynamics and character of the modern world.
    Kurzfassung: Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Opening -- 1 Power in the Network Society -- What is Power? -- State and Power in the Global Age -- Networks -- The Global Network Society -- The Network State -- Power in the Networks -- Power and Counterpower in the Network Society -- Conclusion: Understanding Power Relationships in the Global Network Society -- 2 Communication in the Digital Age -- A Communication Revolution? -- Technological Convergence and the New Multimedia System: From Mass Communication to Mass Self-communication -- The Organization and Management of Communication: Global Multimedia Business Networks -- The Politics of Regulatory Policies -- Cultural Change in a Globalized World -- The Creative Audience -- Communication in the Global Digital Age -- 3 Networks of Mind and Power -- The Windmills of the Mind -- Emotion, Cognition, and Politics -- Emotion and Cognition in Political Campaigns -- The Politics of Beliefs -- The Framing of the Mind -- Conquering the Minds, Conquering Iraq, Conquering Washington: From Misinformation to Mystification -- The Power of the Frame -- 4 Programming Communication Networks: Media Politics, Scandal Politics, and the Crisis of Democracy -- Power-making by Image-making -- The Killing (Semantic) Fields: Media Politics at Work -- The Politics of Scandal -- The State and Media Politics: Propaganda and Control -- The Demise of Public Trust and the Crisis of Political Legitimacy -- Crisis of Democracy? -- 5 Reprogramming Communication Networks: Social Movements, Insurgent Politics, and the New Public Space -- Warming Up to Global Warming: The Environmental Movement and the New Culture of Nature -- The Network is the Message: Global Movements against Corporate Globalization.
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    ISBN: 9780262255073
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (321 pages)
    Serie: Information Revolution and Global Politics Ser.
    Serie: Information revolution and global politics
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Qiu, Linchuan, 1973 - Working-class network society
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    Schlagwort(e): Diffusion of innovations -- China ; Information technology -- China ; Telecommunication -- China ; Electronic books ; local ; Electronic books ; Diffusion of innovations ; China ; Information technology ; China ; Telecommunication ; China ; China ; Informationstechnik
    Kurzfassung: An examination of how the availability of low-end information and communication technology has provided a basis for the emergence of a working-class network society in China.
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- I Networks Materialized -- 2 Internet Cafés -- 3 Going Wireless -- II The People of Have-Less -- 4 Migrants -- 5 Young and Old -- III A New Working Class in the Making -- 6 Places and Community -- 7 Life and Death -- 8 Reflections -- Afterword -- Methodological Appendix -- Internet Resources -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press
    ISBN: 9780816668052
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (316 pages)
    Serie: Posthumanities
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Shukin, Nicole Animal capital
    Paralleltitel: Print version Animal Capital : Rendering Life in Biopolitical Times
    DDC: 304.2
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    Schlagwort(e): Animals Symbolic aspects ; Animals Economic aspects ; Human-animal relationships ; Wildlife utilization ; Animals Political aspects ; Ciencias sociales -- Artículos -- Publicaciones periódicas ; Social sciences -- Periodicals ; Articulos -- Publicaciones periodicas ; Libros electronicos ; Electronic books ; local ; Animals ; Economic aspects ; Animals ; Political aspects ; Animals ; Symbolic aspects ; Human-animal relationships ; Wildlife utilization ; Electronic books ; Animals ; Symbolic aspects ; Animals ; Economic aspects ; Animals ; Political aspects ; Human-animal relationships ; Wildlife utilization ; Tiere ; Biopolitik ; Kapitalismus
    Kurzfassung: The juxtaposition of biopolitical critique and animal studies-two subjects seldom theorized together-signals the double-edged intervention of Animal Capital. Nicole Shukin pursues a resolutely materialist engagement with the "question of the animal," challenging the philosophical idealism that has dogged the question by tracing how the politics of capital and of animal life impinge on one another in market cultures of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: New Life Forms and Functions of Animal Fetishism -- Chapter 1 Rendering's Modern Logics -- Chapter 2 Automobility: The Animal Capital of Cars, Films, and Abattoirs -- Chapter 3 Telemobility: Telecommunication's Animal Currencies -- Chapter 4 Biomobility: Calculating Kinship in an Era of Pandemic Speculation -- Postscript: Animal Cannibalism in the Capitalist Globe-Mobile -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
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    ISBN: 9781841502168
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (258 pages)
    Ausgabe: 1st ed.
    Serie: Changing Media, Changing Europe
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Convergence and fragmentation
    Paralleltitel: Print version Ludes, Peter Convergence and Fragmentation : Media Technology and the Information Society. Changing Media Changing Europe Series, Volume 5
    DDC: 302.23
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    Schlagwort(e): Electronic books. -- local ; Information society ; Mass media and culture ; Mass media and technology ; Electronic books ; local ; Information society ; Mass media and culture ; Mass media and technology ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Medientechnik
    Kurzfassung: Convergence under pressure leads to fragmentation. Therefore, the role of the newest information and communication technologies and formats in a changing Europe must be analysed not only in terms of optimistic market projections but also in terms of realistic trends toward complementary fragmentations.
    Kurzfassung: Front Cover -- Preliminary Pages -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: Unity in Diversity -- Section 1: Culture and Technology -- Global and European Information Society -- ePolicies in Europe: A Human-Centric and Culturally Biased Approach -- Section 2: Techno-pleasure -- The Cultural Value of Games: Computer Games and Cultural Policy in Europe -- Learning and Entertainment in Museums: A Case Study -- Section 3: ICT and Learning -- For a Communications Approach to the Use of ICT in Education -- E-learning - A Knowledge Theoretical Approach -- 'Virtual' and 'Flexible' University Learning -- Section 4: Power, Technology and Policies -- Media Governance: Valuable Instrument of Risk Discourse for Media Ownership Concentration -- Telecom Liberalization: Distributive Challenges and National Differences -- Public Service Television's Mission in France: An Analysis of Media-Policy Instruments - Including the Use of the Internet as a New Distribution Channel -- About the Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.
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    ISBN: 9781932595697
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (150 pages)
    Paralleltitel: Print version Twilight of the Machines
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Zerzan, John Twilight of the machines
    DDC: 363.7
    Schlagwort(e): Environmentalism ; Social movements ; Electronic books ; local ; Environmentalism ; Social movements ; Electronic books ; Soziale Bewegung ; Ökologische Bewegung
    Kurzfassung: The leader of the green anarchist movement analyzes our technocratic collapse and offers transcendent alternatives.
    Kurzfassung: CONTENTS -- Preface -- Part I: Origins of the Crisis -- 1. Too Marvelous for Words: Language Briefly Revisited -- 2. Patriarchy, Civilization, and the Origins of Gender -- 3. On the Origins of War -- 4. The Iron Grip of Civilization: the Axial Age -- 5. Alone Together: the City and its Inmates -- 6. Future Primitive Notes -- 7. Beyond Symbolic Thought: an interview with Kevin Tucker -- Part II: The Crisis of Civilization -- 8. Twilight of the Machines -- 9. Exiled from Presence -- 10. The Modern Anti-World -- 11. Globalization and Its Apologists: An Abolitionist Perspective -- 12. Overman and Unabomber -- 13. Why Primitivism? -- 14. Second-Best Life: Real Virtuality -- 15. Breaking Point? -- 16. Finding Our Way Back Home.
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    Leuven : Leuven University Press
    ISBN: 9789461660428
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (233 pages)
    Serie: Lessen Voor de Eenentwintigste Eeuw Ser v.2
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.483
    Schlagwort(e): Science -- Social aspects ; Twenty-first century ; Electronic books ; local ; Science ; Social aspects ; Twenty-first century ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: The university is a nerve centre of society. This glimpse behind the scenes of the laboratories, workshops and classrooms of KU Leuven reveal what preoccupies scientists today, and how their ideas and discoveries impact our world. This second annual series of lectures in English includes such highlights as J.J. Cassiman on Genetics and Genomics, R. Merckx on Food in Africa, G. Verbeeck on The Future of History, and a great deal more.
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- LECTURES FOR THE XXIst CENTURY -- CONTENTS -- Lectures for the 21st century. Perspectives on Society and Science -- Genetics and genomics: from testing to treatment -- The human genome -- Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms -- Epigenetics: a major cause of variations on the same theme -- Mendelian diseases -- Multifactorial diseases -- Genetic testing -- Is genetic testing by internet meaningful? -- Genetic counseling and information for the patients -- Rare Diseases -- References and further reading -- The Historic and the Current Political Development in Belgium: for King and Lasagne -- Introduction -- The Belgian challenge -- A coat of two different fabrics with one button -- A history of changing concepts -- The current situation in Belgium -- Culture and public debate -- No Belgian parties -- The present day federal model -- A unique system -- The federal entities -- No hierarchy -- Federal or confederal? -- The Lasagne Model -- The lack of a common story -- One debate, one country? -- The common story -- Not just incidents … -- The future of Belgium -- And the European Union? -- Living off the Land in Africa:myths and reality -- Introduction -- Focusing on Sub-Saharan Africa -- Why no green revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa? -- Agro-ecologically, the land is less favoured -- Socio-economic and political conditions are extreme -- Little use of fertilizers: a matter of price only -- The controversy between organic and inorganic fertilizers -- The inadequacy of fertilizer recommendations -- Towards solutions -- Changes can be made -- Soil fertility is crucial and organic matter is the key -- Legumes or legumes? -- Conclusions -- References -- Human Rights, after 60 years. A philosophical reflection -- Human Rights, moral right -- Human Rights, a modern concept -- Middle Ages -- Declarations -- Declarations of Human Rights -- Treatises.
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    Abingdon : Routledge
    ISBN: 9780754693567
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (199 pages)
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.48/33
    Schlagwort(e): Digital media -- Social aspects ; Information society -- Social aspects ; Information technology -- Social aspects ; Technological innovations -- Social aspects ; Technology -- Social aspects ; Electronic books ; local ; Digital media ; Social aspects ; Information society ; Social aspects ; Information technology ; Social aspects ; Technological innovations ; Social aspects ; Technology ; Social aspects ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Many people in the West or global North now live in a culture of 24/7 instant messaging, iPods and MP3s, streamed content, blogs, ubiquitous digital images and Facebook. But they are also surrounded by even more paper, books, telephone calls and material objects of one kind or another. The juxtaposition and proliferation of older and newer technologies is striking. Making Digital Cultures brings together recent theorizing of the 'digital age' with empirical studies of how institutions embrace these technologies in relation to older established technological objects, processes and practices. It asks how relations between 'analogue' and 'digital' are conceptualized and configured both in theory and inside the public library, the business organization and the archive. With its direct engagement with new media theory, science and technology studies, and cultural sociology, this volume will be of interest to scholars and students in the areas of media and communication and science and technology studies.
    Kurzfassung: Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Making Digital Cultures: An Introduction -- 2 Hardware to Everyware: Narratives of Promise and Threat -- 3 On the Materials of Digital Culture -- 4 A People's Network: Access and the Indefiniteness of Learning -- 5 Becoming Direct: Interactivity and the Digital Product -- 6 Lost in Translation: Authenticity and the Ontology of the Archive -- 7 Conclusion: Loss and Recovery in the Digital Era -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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    ISBN: 9781607503835
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (144 pages)
    Serie: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series E: Human and Societal Dynamics, v. 49 v.v. 49
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Identity, security and democracy
    DDC: 005.8
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    Schlagwort(e): Computer security-Congresses ; Data integrity-Congresses ; Data protection-Congresses ; Electronic books ; local ; Computer security ; Congresses ; Data integrity ; Congresses ; Data protection ; Congresses ; Electronic books ; Konferenzschrift ; Datenschutz ; Automatische Identifikation ; Privatsphäre ; Biometrie ; Computersicherheit
    Kurzfassung: Deals with the relations between identity, security and democracy. This book shows how full of nuances the process of human identification is.
    Kurzfassung: Title page -- Preface: Life in a Jar -- Acknowledgment -- Biographies of Contributors -- Contents -- Introduction -- Human Rights, Identity and Anonymity: Digital Identity and Its Management in e-Society -- Towards a Governance of Identity Security Systems -- Children's Identity and Security -- Privacy and Security -- Biometric Recognition: An Overview -- Biometrics: Security vs Privacy. A Scientific and Bioethical Point of View -- Biometrics, Identification and Practical Ethics -- Machine-Readable Bodies Biometrics, Informatization and Surveillance -- The Biometric Society - Risks and Opportunities -- Ethical and Legal Aspects of Biometrics (Convention 108) -- Subject Index -- Author Index.
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    ISBN: 9780816669684
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (304 pages)
    Serie: Mechademia, v. 3 v.v. 3
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Limits of the human
    DDC: 306.095;741.5952
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    Schlagwort(e): Animated films -- Japan -- History and criticism ; Graphic arts -- Japan ; Human beings -- Variation ; Popular culture -- Japanese influences ; Popular culture -- Japan ; Electronic books ; local ; Animated films ; Japan ; History and criticism ; Graphic arts ; Japan ; Human beings ; Variation ; Popular culture ; Japan ; Popular culture ; Japanese influences ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Manga ; Geschichte ; Japan ; Zeichentrickfilm ; Geschichte
    Kurzfassung: Dramatic advances in genetics, cloning, robotics, and nanotechnology have given rise to both hopes and fears about how technology might transform humanity. As the possibility of a posthuman future becomes increasingly likely, debates about how to interpret or shape this future abound. In Japan, anime and manga artists have for decades been imagining the contours of posthumanity, creating dazzling and sometimes disturbing works of art that envision a variety of human/nonhuman hybrids: biological/mechanical, human/animal, and human/monster. Anime and manga offer a constellation of posthuman prototypes whose hybrid natures require a shift in our perception of what it means to be human. Limits of the Human-the third volume in the Mechademia series-maps the terrain of posthumanity using manga and anime as guides and signposts to understand how to think about humanity's new potentialities and limits. Through a wide range of texts-the folklore-inspired monsters that populate Mizuki Shigeru's manga; Japan's Gothic Lolita subculture; Tezuka Osamu's original cyborg hero, Atom, and his manga version of Fritz Lang's Metropolis (along with Ôtomo Katsuhiro's 2001 anime film adaptation); the robot anime, Gundam; and the notion of the uncanny in Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, among others-the essays in this volume reject simple human/nonhuman dichotomies and instead encourage a provocative rethinking of the definitions of humanity along entirely unexpected frontiers. Contributors: William L. Benzon, Lawrence Bird, Christopher Bolton, Steven T. Brown, Joshua Paul Dale, Michael Dylan Foster, Crispin Freeman, Marc Hairston, Paul Jackson, Thomas LaMarre, Antonia Levi, Margherita Long, Laura Miller, Hajime Nakatani, Susan Napier, Natsume Fusanosuke, Sharalyn Orbaugh, Ôtsuka Eiji, Adèle-Elise Prévost and MUSEbasement; Teri Silvio, Takayuki Tatsumi, Mark C. Taylor,
    Kurzfassung: Cover -- Contents -- Preface: The Limits of the Human -- Introduction: The Limits of "The Limits of the Human -- Contours: Around the Human -- Refiguring the Human -- The Otherworlds of Mizuki Shigeru -- Extreme Makeover for a Heian-Era Wizard -- Undressing and Dressing Loli: A Search for the Identity of the Japanese Lolita -- Manga: Komatopia -- Companions: With the Human -- Speciesism, Part I: Translating Races into Animals in Wartime Animation -- Stigmata in Tezuka Osamu's Works -- Disarming Atom: Tezuka Osamu's Manga at War and Peace -- States of Emergency: Urban Space and the Robotic Body in the Metropolis Tales -- Emotional Infectivity: Cyborg Affect and the Limits of the Human -- Manga: The Signal of Noise -- Compossibles: Of the Human -- Gundam and the Future of Japanoid Art -- Pop Culture Icons: Religious Inflections of the Character Toy in Taiwan -- Machinic Desires: Hans Bellmer's Dolls and the Technological Uncanny in Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence -- Postscript: On "The Living -- Review and Commentary -- A Healing Gentle Apocalypse: Yokohama Kaidashi kiko -- Lost in Transition: Train Men and Dolls in Millennial Japan -- Howl's Moving Castle -- Playing Outside the Box with Mind Game -- From Transnationalization to Globalization: The Experience of Hong Kong -- Always Exoticize!" Cyborg Identities and the Challenge of the Nonhuman in Full Metal Apache -- Postmodern Is Old Hat: Samurai Champloo -- Torendo -- Giant Robots and Superheroes: Manifestations of Divine Power, East and West An Interview with Crispin Freeman -- Contributors -- Call for Papers.
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    Bradford : Emerald Publishing Limited
    ISBN: 9781848552999
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (317 pages)
    Serie: Research in Social Problems and Public Policy, 16 v.v. 16
    Serie: Research in Social Problems and Public Policy Ser. v.16
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.45
    Schlagwort(e): Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge ; Electronic books ; local ; Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge ; Science ; Social aspects ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Many people think of 'social problems' as involving poor and powerless individuals in society. This work seeks to improve the balance by adding a focus on important and powerful institutions. It discusses policy sciences, public policy analysis and public.
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Integrating the Sciences and Society: Challenges, Practices, and Potentials -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Part I: Introduction -- Introduction: The importance and challenge of integrating scientific and societal perspectives -- The academic setting -- Research -- Policy-making and public discourse -- This volume -- References -- Part II: Challenges -- Chapter 1. Collaboration between science and social science: Issues, challenges, and opportunities -- Introduction: Focus and aims -- Issues and challenges -- Opportunities -- Summary -- Note -- References -- Chapter 2. Knowing a Hawk from a Handsaw: Interdisciplinarity and STEM education research -- Introduction -- Conceptualizing gender -- Building interdisciplinary bridges -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3. Engineering ethics and STS subcultures -- STS subcultures -- Engineering ethics subcultures -- Microethics and macroethics in engineering -- Engineering ethics education -- Connecting the subcultures -- STS and engineering ethics -- Conclusions -- References -- Part III. Practices -- Chapter 4. Understanding earth resources: What's sociology got to do with itquest -- Merging geoscience and social science -- The citizenship literacies: Case studies for global citizenship -- Citizenship literacies in social context -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 5. Teaching sociology to science and engineering students: some experiences from an introductory science and technology studies course -- Notes -- References -- Appendix. 2008 syllabus -- Chapter 6. Why sociology courses combined with a required STS project are mutually enhancing: The WPI experience -- Introduction -- The student-advisor relationship as a collaboration -- The WPI project's program's context and structure -- Conclusions -- References.
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    ISBN: 9780821381717 , 9780821381694
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (105 pages)
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.4833
    Schlagwort(e): Information technology ; Telecommunication ; Electronic books ; local ; Electronic books ; Information technology ; Telecommunication
    Kurzfassung: Growth in the information and technology (ICT) sector has exploded over the past 20 years. Dynamic market and technology developments have led to a phenomenon known as convergence, defined in this volume as the erosion of boundaries between previously separate ICT services, networks, and business practices. Examples include cable television networks that offer phone service, Internet television, and mergers between media and telecommunications firms. The results are exciting and hold significant promise for developing countries, which can benefit from expanded access, greater competition, and increased investments. However, convergence in ICT is challenging traditional policy and regulatory frameworks. With convergence occurring in countries across the spectrum of economic development, it is critical that policy makers and regulators understand it and respond in ways that maximize the benefits while mitigating the risks.This volume analyzes the strategic and regulatory dimensions of convergence. It offers policy makers and regulators examples from countries around the world as they address this phenomenon. The authors suggest that countries that enable convergence are likely to reap the greater rewards. But the precise nature of the response will differ by country. Hence, this book offers global principles that should be tailored to local circumstances as regulatory frameworks evolve to address convergence.
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Convergence Continues to Gain Momentum Worldwide -- Responding to Convergence -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Thinking Strategically about ICT Convergence -- Understanding Convergence -- Convergence Is Reality -- Opportunities and Challenges of Convergence for the ICT Sector -- Options for Policy Responses -- Nothing Endures but Change -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Emerging Regulatory Responses to Multiple Play -- Supply of and Demand for Multiple-Play Services Are Growing -- Multiple-Play Challenges in Legacy Regulatory Frameworks -- What Role Should Regulatory Frameworks Play? -- Implementing the Regulatory Response -- Crucial Principles for an Enabling Regulatory Environment -- Authorizations -- Spectrum Management -- Interconnection and Access -- Universal Service -- Regulatory Agencies -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References and Other Resources -- Index -- Back cover.
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Thinking Strategically about ICT Convergence; Tables; Boxes; 3 Emerging Regulatory Responses to Multiple Play; Figures; References and Other Resources; Index
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    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press
    ISBN: 9780816656578 , 9780816649587 , 0816649596 , 0816649588 , 9780816649594
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (364 pages)
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Gidwani, Vinay K., 1965 - Capital, interrupted
    DDC: 338.1095475
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    Schlagwort(e): Landwirtschaftliche Entwicklung ; Agrarsoziologie ; Ethnologie ; Soziale Lage ; Kapitalismus ; Agrarpolitik ; Gujarat ; Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Canada ; Food industy and trade -- Canada ; Farm produce -- Canada -- Marketing ; Local foods -- Canada ; Patidars Social conditions ; Patidars Economic conditions ; Capitalism Philosophy ; Agriculture Economic aspects ; Capitalism History ; Electronic books ; local ; Electronic books ; Agriculture ; Economic aspects ; India ; Gujarat ; Capitalism ; India ; Gujarat ; History ; Capitalism ; Philosophy ; Patidars ; Economic conditions ; Patidars ; Social conditions ; Gujarat ; Landwirtschaft ; Geschichte 1800- ; Patidars ; Geschichte 1800-
    Kurzfassung: The central Gujarat region of western India is home to the entrepreneurial landowning Patel caste who have leveraged their rural dominance to become a powerful global diaspora of merchants, industrialists, and professionals. Investigating the Patels intriguing ascent, Vinay Gidwani analyzes its broad implications for the nature of labor and capital worldwide. With the Patels as his central case, Gidwani interrogates established concepts of value, development, and the relationship between capital and history. Capitalism, he argues, is not a frame of economic organization based on the smooth, consistent operation of a series of laws, but rather an assemblage of contingent and interrupted logics stitched together into the appearance of a deus ex machina. Following this line of thinking, Gidwani points to ways in which political economy might be freed of its lingering Eurocentrism, raises questions about the adequacy of postcolonial studies critique of Marx and capitalism, and opens the possibility of situating capitalism as a geographically uneven social formation in which different normative or value-creating practices are imperfectly sutured together in ways that can equally impair and enable profit and accumulation.Both theoretically astute and empirically informed, Capital, Interrupted unsettles encrusted understandings of staple concepts within the human sciences such as hegemony, governmentality, caste, and agency and, ultimately, does nothing less than rethink the very constitution of capitalism.
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Sutures -- ONE: Waste -- TWO: Birth -- THREE: Machine -- FOUR: Distinction -- FIVE: Interruption -- Afterword: Aporia -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents; Introduction: Sutures; ONE: Waste; TWO: Birth; THREE: Machine; FOUR: Distinction; FIVE: Interruption; Afterword: Aporia; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index
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    ISBN: 9780080559957 , 0080559956
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (xxiii, 536 p.) , ill.
    Serie: Handbooks in finance
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    Schlagwort(e): Sports betting ; Lotteries ; Gambling systems ; Electronic books ; local ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Its basic empirical research and investigation of pure theories of investment in the sports and lottery markets make this volume a winner. These markets are simpler to study than traditional financial markets, and their expected values and outcomes are uncomplicated. By means of new overviews of scholarship on the industry side of racetrack and other betting markets to betting exchanges and market efficiencies, contributors consider a variety of sports in countries around the world. The result is not only superior information about market forecasting, but macro- and micro-analyses that are relevant to other markets. * Easily studied sports markets reveal features relevant for more complex traditional financial markets * Significant coverage of sports from racing to jai alai * New studies of betting exchanges and Internet wagering markets
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    ISBN: 9789401206419
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (273 pages)
    Serie: Faux Titre, 322 v.322
    Serie: Faux Titre Ser. v.322
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Histoires de la terre
    DDC: 303.4830944
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    Schlagwort(e): Science and civilization-Congresses ; Science-Social aspects-France-Congresses ; Earth sciences-France-History-Congresses ; Science in literature-Congresses ; Science-Philosophy-Congresses ; Electronic books ; local ; Earth sciences ; France ; History ; Congresses ; Science ; Philosophy ; Congresses ; Science ; Social aspects ; France ; Congresses ; Science and civilization ; Congresses ; Science in literature ; Congresses ; Electronic books ; Konferenzschrift ; Frankreich ; Geowissenschaften ; Rezeption ; Literatur ; Kultur ; Geschichte 1740-1940
    Kurzfassung: This collection of essays explores how Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment developments in the earth sciences and related fields (paleontology, mining, archeology, seismology, oceanography, evolution, etc.) impacted on contemporary French culture. They reveal that geological ideas were a much more pervasive and influential cultural force than has hitherto been supposed. From the mid-eighteenth century, with the publication of Buffon's seminal Théorie de la Terre (1749), until the early twentieth century, concepts and figures drawn from the earth sciences inspired some of the most important French philosophers, novelists, political theorists, historians and popularizers of science of the time. This book charts the original and influential ways in which French writers and thinkers, such as Buffon, d'Holbach, Balzac, Sand, Verne, Gide and Malraux, exploited the earth sciences for very different ends. This volume will be of interest to students, researchers and scholars of French literature in the modern period, cultural historians of modern France, scholars of European studies, of French political history, of the History of Ideas or the History of Science as well as researchers in landscape and physical geography.
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- SECTION 1 THE ENLIGHTENMENT -- Natural Catastrophe in Buffon's Histoire naturelle: Earth, Science, Aesthetics, Anthropology -- When Geology Encounters a Real Catastrophe: From Theoretical Earthquakes to the Lisbon Disaster -- Images of the Earth, Images of Man: The Mineralogical Plates of the Encyclopédie -- Peat Bogs, Marshes and Fen as Disputed Landscapes in Late Eighteenth-Century France and England -- SECTION 2 EARLY TO MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY -- "Nous avons enlacé le globe de nos réseaux…": Spatial Structure in Saint-Simonian Poetics -- Pierre Leroux and the Circulus: Soil, Socialism and Salvation in Nineteenth-Century France -- Mind as Ruin: Balzac's "Sarrasine" and the Archaeology of Self -- Archaeology - A Passion of George Sand -- SECTION 3 LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- Jules Verne and the Discovery of the Natural World -- Jules Verne's Transylvania: Cartographic Omissions -- Undermining Body and Mind? The Impact of the Underground in Nineteenth-Century Children's Literature -- Alfred Jarry's Neo-Science: Liquidizing Paris and Debunking Verne -- SECTION 4 EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY -- Reading Environmental Apocalypse in J.-H. Rosny Aîné's Terrestrial Texts -- André Gide, Eugène Rouart and le retour à la terre -- Down to Earth: André Malraux's Political Itinerary and the Natural World -- Index of Names.
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    ISBN: 9780262285247
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (219 pages)
    Serie: The MIT Press Ser
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als The inner history of devices
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    Schlagwort(e): Electronic books ; local ; Computers ; Psychological aspects ; Internet ; Psychological aspects ; Medical technology ; Psychological aspects ; Technology ; Psychological aspects ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Technologie ; Informationsgesellschaft ; Selbst
    Kurzfassung: Memoir, clinical writings, and ethnography inform new perspectives on the experience of technology; personal stories illuminate how technology enters the inner life.
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Reading the Inner History of Devices -- Inner History -- Through Memoir -- The Prosthetic Eye -- Cell Phones -- The Patterning Table -- Television -- Through Clinical Practice -- The World Wide Web -- Computer Games -- Cyberplaces -- Through Fieldwork -- The Internal Cardiac Debfibrillator -- The Visible Human -- Slashdot.org -- The Dialysis Machine -- Video Poker -- Notes -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9780262285483
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (187 pages)
    Serie: The MIT Press Ser
    Paralleltitel: Print version Networked Publics
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    DDC: 303.48330973
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    Schlagwort(e): Internet -- Social aspects -- United States ; Internet -- Political aspects -- United States ; Online social networks -- United States ; Convergence (Telecommunication) ; Electronic books ; local ; Convergence (Telecommunication) ; Internet ; Political aspects ; United States ; Internet ; Social aspects ; United States ; Online social networks ; United States ; Electronic books ; USA ; Onlinecommunity ; Politische Beteiligung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Internet ; Social aspects ; United States ; Internet ; Political aspects ; United States ; Online social networks ; United States ; Convergence (Telecommunication) ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; USA ; Social Media ; Politische Beteiligung
    Kurzfassung: How maturing digital media and network technologies are transforming place, culture, politics, and infrastructure in our everyday life.
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Place: The Networking of Public Space -- 2 Culture: Media Convergence and Networked Participation -- 3 Politics: Deliberation, Mobilization, and Networked Practices of Agitation -- 4 Infrastructure: Network Neutrality and Network Futures -- Conclusion: The Meaning of Network Culture -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9780262273237
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (601 pages)
    Serie: The MIT Press Ser
    Paralleltitel: Print version Friedel, Robert D Culture of Improvement : Technology and the Western Millennium
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Friedel, Robert D. A culture of improvement
    DDC: 303.483
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    Schlagwort(e): Technological innovations History ; Technology and civilization ; Civilization, Western ; Intellectual life ; Technological innovations -- History ; Electronic books ; local ; Civilization, Western ; Intellectual life ; Technological innovations ; History ; Technology and civilization ; Electronic books ; Westliche Welt ; Technologie ; Innovation ; Weltgeschichte ; Westliche Welt ; Technologie ; Innovation ; Weltgeschichte ; Westliche Welt ; Technologie ; Innovation ; Weltgeschichte
    Kurzfassung: How technological change in the West has been driven by the pursuit of improvement: a history of technology, from plows and printing presses to penicillin, the atomic bomb, and the computer.
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Technology and Improvement -- 2 Plows and Horses -- 3 Power -- 4 Buildings for God and Man -- 5 Transforming Matter -- 6 Light and Time -- 7 Types of Change -- 8 Earth, Fire, Water, and Air -- 9 Improving Knowledge -- 10 Improvers and Engineers -- 11 Raising Fire -- 12 Fabrics of Change -- 13 Artisans, Philosophes, and Entrepreneurs -- 14 Airs and Lightning -- 15 Mobility -- 16 Messages -- 17 Engineering Emerges -- 18 Stuff, Reality, and Dreams -- 19 The Improvement of Violence -- 20 Learning -- 21 Dynamics -- 22 Land and Life -- 23 Scale -- 24 The Corruption of Improvement -- 25 Networks -- 26 Improvement's End -- Notes -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9780335229581
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (191 pages)
    Serie: Sociology and Social Change
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Cavanagh, Allison Sociology in the age of the Internet
    DDC: 303.4834
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    Schlagwort(e): Internet -- Social aspects ; Information society ; Computers and civilization ; Electronic books ; local ; Computers and civilization ; Information society ; Internet ; Social aspects ; Electronic books ; Internet ; Soziologie ; Informationsgesellschaft ; Internet ; Sozialer Wandel
    Kurzfassung: There has been a diverse body of writing from scholars in the social sciences who have been studying changes brought about by communication technologies in general and the Internet in particular. This title evaluates the work in this area and is suitable for academics and students interested in the relationship between the internet and society.
    Kurzfassung: Front cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series editor's preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part One The rise of the network metaphor -- Chapter 1 Approaches to networks -- Chapter 2 Network methodologies -- Chapter 3 The network society -- Chapter 4 The internet as a network -- Part Two The internet as a medium -- Introduction to Part Two -- Chapter 5 Elements of a public sphere -- Chapter 6 Interactivity: it's got to be jelly 'cos jam don't shake like that -- Chapter 7 The global public sphere and forms of power -- Part Three The internet as a social space -- Introduction to Part Three -- Chapter 8 Community -- Chapter 9 Online identity -- Conclusion to Part Three -- Part Four The internet as a technology -- Introduction to Part Four -- Chapter 10 Sociologies oftechnology -- Chapter 11 The sociology of technology and the internet emergent perspectives -- References -- Index -- Back cover.
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    Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi
    ISBN: 9789401204743
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (289 pages)
    Serie: Cross/Cultures - Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English, 92 v.v. 92
    Serie: Cross/Cultures Ser. v.v. 92
    Paralleltitel: Print version Five Emus to the King of Siam : Environment and Empire
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Five Emus to the King of Siam
    DDC: 303.482401724
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    Schlagwort(e): Postcolonialism in literature ; Colonies Environmental conditions ; Imperialism in literature ; Imperialism Environmental aspects ; Electronic books ; local ; Colonies ; Environmental conditions ; Imperialism ; Environmental aspects ; Imperialism in literature ; Postcolonialism in literature ; Electronic books ; Colonies Environmental conditions ; Imperialism in literature ; Imperialism Environmental aspects ; Postcolonialism in literature ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Kolonialismus ; Umweltveränderung ; Imperialismus ; Umwelt ; Literatur ; Umwelt
    Kurzfassung: Western exploitation of other peoples is inseparable from attitudes and practices relating to other species and the extra-human environment generally. Colonial depredations turn on such terms as 'human', 'savage', 'civilised', 'natural', 'progressive', and on the legitimacies governing apprehension and control of space and landscape. Environmental impacts were reinforced, in patterns of unequal 'exchange', by the transport of animals, plants and peoples throughout the European empires, instigating widespread ecosystem change under unequal power regimes (a harbinger of today's 'globalization').This book considers these imperial 'exchanges' and charts some contemporary legacies of those inequitable imports and exports, transportations and transmutations. Sheep farming in Australia, transforming the land as it dispossessed the native inhabitants, became a symbol of (new, white) nationhood. The transportation of plants (and animals) into and across the Pacific, even where benign or nostalgic, had widespread environmental effects, despite the hopes of the acclimatisation societies involved, and, by extension, of missionary societies "planting the seeds of Christianity." In the Caribbean, plantation slavery pushed back the "jungle" (itself an imported word) and erased the indigenous occupants - one example of the righteous, biblically justified cultivation of the wilderness. In Australia, artistic depictions of landscape, often driven by romantic and 'gothic' aesthetics, encoded contradictory settler mindsets, and literary representations of colonial Kenya mask the erasure of ecosystems. Chapters on the early twentieth century (in Canada, Kenya, and Queensland) indicate increased awareness of the value of species-preservation, conservation, and disease control. The tension between traditional and 'Euroscientific' attitudes towards conservation is
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Five Emus to the King of Siam: Environment and Empire -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- Empire's Proxy: Sheep and the Colonial Environment -- Representations of Landscape and Nature in Anthony Trollope's The West Indies and the Spanish Main and James Anthony Froude's The English in the West Indies -- Polluted River or Goddess and Saviour? The Ganga in the Discourses of Modernity and Hinduism -- Ecotourism A Colonial Legacy? -- Colonial Nature-Inscription On Haunted Landscapes -- "Transported Landscapes "Reflections on Empire and Environment in the Pacific -- The "I" in Beaver Sympathetic Identification and Self-Representation in Grey Owl's Pilgrims of the Wild -- The Sandline Mercenaries Affair Postcoloniality, Globalization and the Nation-State* -- Planting the Seeds of Christianity Ecological Reform in Nineteenth-Century Polynesian London Missionary Society Stations -- Five Emus to the King of Siam Acclimatization and Colonialism -- "Back to the World "Reading Ecocriticism in a Postcolonial Context -- Views from Van Diemen's Land Space, Place and the Colonial Settler Subject in John Glover's Landscapes -- Colonial Cordon Sanitaire Fixing the Boundaries of the Disease Environment -- "The Animals Are Innocent" Latter-Day Women Travellers in Africa* -- Contributors -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9780774855853
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (580 pages)
    Serie: Nature | History | Society
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Pyne, Stephen J., 1949 - Awful splendour
    DDC: 304.2
    Schlagwort(e): Wildfires -- Canada -- History ; Fires -- Canada -- History ; Fire ecology -- Canada -- History ; Electronic books ; local ; Fire ecology ; Canada ; History ; Fires ; Canada ; History ; Wildfires ; Canada ; History ; Electronic books ; Kanada ; Waldbrand ; Brandbekämpfung ; Feuerökologie ; Geschichte ; Kanada ; Brandkatastrophe ; Wildnis ; Feuerökologie ; Umweltpolitik ; Geschichte
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Foreword: Mon pays c'est le feu -- Author's Note: A Boreal Burning Bush -- Prologue: White Canada -- Book 1: Torch -- Kindling -- Fire Rings of Indigenous Canada -- Fire and Frost: Tundra -- Fire and Water: Boreal Forest -- Fire and Grass, Fire and Leaf: Great Plains Prairies and Great Lakes Forests -- Fire on the Hills, Fire on the Mountains: Acadian Woods and Cordilleran Forests -- Fire and Fog: The Incombustible Fringe -- Tongues of Fire: Black Spruce and High Plains -- Conflagration and Complex -- Book 2: Axe -- Creating Fuel -- Fire Frontiers of Imperial Canada -- New Found Land -- Acadia -- The Canadas -- Far Countries -- With Fire in Their Eyes: Gabriel Sagard and Henry Hind -- Burning Most Furiously" -- Book 3: Engine -- Containing Combustion -- Reconnaissance by Fire: Robert Bell and Bernhard Fernow -- Fire Provinces of Industrial Canada -- Dominion of Fire: Canada's Quest for Fire Conservancy -- Sea and Shield: Fire Provinces of Eastern Canada -- Fire's Lesser Dominion -- Tracer Index: James G. Wright and Herbert W. Beall -- Plain and Mountain: Fire Provinces of Western Canada -- Prosperity and Peril -- Two Solitudes: C.E. Van Wagner and Donald Stedman -- Revanchism and Federalism -- Fire's Outer Limits: Fire Provinces on the Fringe -- Internal Combustions -- Epilogue: Green Canada -- Continental Drift and Global Warming -- Fire Geography of Green Canada -- Slow Burns, Fast Flames -- Fire and Ice -- Notes -- Bibliographic Essay -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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    ISBN: 9781847883322
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (326 pages)
    Ausgabe: 1st ed.
    Serie: Wenner-Gren International Symposium Ser
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Wenner-Gren International Symposium (133. : 2004 : Tucson, Ariz.) Where the wild things are now
    DDC: 304.5
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    Schlagwort(e): Domestication -- Congresses ; Domestic animals -- Congresses ; Plants, Cultivated -- Congresses ; Human-animal relationships -- Congresses ; Human-plant relationships -- Congresses ; Electronic books ; local ; Domestic animals ; Congresses ; Domestication ; Congresses ; Human-animal relationships ; Congresses ; Human-plant relationships ; Congresses ; Plants, Cultivated ; Congresses ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Domestication has often seemed a matter of the distant past, a series of distinct events involving humans and other species that took place long ago. Today, as genetic manipulation continues to break new barriers in scientific and medical research, we appear to be entering an age of biological control. Are we also writing a new chapter in the history of domestication? Where the Wild Things Are Now explores the relevance of domestication for anthropologists and scholars in related fields who are concerned with understanding ongoing change in processes affecting humans as well as other species. From the pet food industry and its critics to salmon farming in Tasmania, the protection of endangered species in Vietnam and the pigeon fanciers who influenced Darwin, Where the Wild Things Are Now provides an urgently needed re-examination of the concept of domestication against the shifting background of relationships between humans, animals and plants.
    Kurzfassung: Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- Participants at the Wenner-GrenFoundation International Symposium"Where the Wild Things Are Now" -- Introduction: Domestication Reconsidered -- 1 The Domestication of Anthropology -- 2 Animal Interface: The Generosity of Domestication -- 3 Selection and the Unforeseen Consequences of Domestication -- 4 Agriculture or Architecture? The Beginnings of Domestication -- 5 Monkey and Human Interconnections: The Wild, the Captive, and the In-between -- 6 "An Experiment on a Gigantic Scale": Darwin and the Domestication of Pigeons -- 7 The Metaphor of Domestication in Genetics -- 8 Domestication "Downunder": Atlantic Salmon Farming in Tasmania -- 9 Putting the Lion out at Night: Domestication and the Taming of the Wild -- 10 Of Rice, Mammals, and Men: The Politics of "Wild" and "Domesticated" Species in Vietnam -- 11 Feeding the Animals -- Index.
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    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press
    ISBN: 9780816653973
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (206 pages)
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    Schlagwort(e): Bioinformatics -- Philosophy ; Computer network protocols ; Computer networks ; Social networks ; Sovereignty ; Electronic books ; local ; Bioinformatics ; Philosophy ; Computer network protocols ; Computer networks ; Social networks ; Sovereignty ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Alexander R. Galloway and Eugene Thacker challenge the widespread assumption that networks are inherently egalitarian. Instead, they contend that there exist new modes of control entirely native to networks, modes that are at once highly centralized and dispersed, corporate and subversive. In this provocative book, they argue that a whole new topology must be invented to resist and reshape the network form.
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Contents -- On Reading This Book -- Prolegomenon: "We're Tired of Trees" -- Provisional Response 1: Political Atomism (the Nietzschean Argument) -- Provisional Response 2: Unilateralism versus Multilateralism (the Foucauldian Argument) -- Provisional Response 3: Ubiquity and Universality (the Determinist Argument) -- Provisional Response 4: Occultism and Cryptography (the Nominalist Argument) -- Part I. Nodes -- Technology (or Theory) -- Theory (or Technology) -- Protocol in Computer Networks -- Protocol in Biological Networks -- An Encoded Life -- Toward a Political Ontology of Networks -- The Defacement of Enmity -- Biopolitics and Protocol -- Life-Resistance -- The Exploit -- Counterprotocol -- Part II. Edges -- The Datum of Cura I -- The Datum of Cura II -- Sovereignty and Biology I -- Sovereignty and Biology II -- Abandoning the Body Politic -- The Ghost in the Network -- Birth of the Algorithm -- Political Animals -- Sovereignty and the State of Emergency -- Fork Bomb I -- Epidemic and Endemic -- Network Being -- Good Viruses (SimSARS I) -- Medical Surveillance (SimSARS II) -- Feedback versus Interaction I -- Feedback versus Interaction II -- Rhetorics of Freedom -- A Google Search for My Body -- Divine Metabolism -- Fork Bomb II -- The Paranormal and the Pathological I -- The Paranormal and the Pathological II -- Universals of Identification -- RFC001b: BmTP -- Fork Bomb III -- Unknown Unknowns -- Codification, Not Reification -- Tactics of Nonexistence -- Disappearance -- or, I've Seen It All Before -- Stop Motion -- Pure Metal -- The Hypertrophy of Matter (Four Definitions and One Axiom) -- The User and the Programmer -- Fork Bomb IV -- Interface -- There Is No Content -- Trash, Junk, Spam -- Coda: Bits and Atoms -- Appendix: Notes for a Liberated Computer Language -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I.
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    Herndon : World Bank Publications
    ISBN: 9780821371688 , 0821371681 , 0821371673 , 9780821371671
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (62 pages)
    Serie: World Bank working paper no. 120
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    DDC: 303.48/33
    Schlagwort(e): Communication in economic development -- Research ; Communication in economic development ; Communication in economic development Research ; Electronic books ; local ; Electronic books ; Communication in economic development ; Research ; Communication in economic development
    Kurzfassung: This book addresses the issue of the impact of development communication in a number of development projects and programs.
    Kurzfassung: Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- Growing Interest in Communication for Development and the Challenges Facing Communication Initiatives -- Demonstrating the Impacts of Communication for Development: A Domain of Self-Reporting by Organizations -- 2. Theoretical Models in Communication for Development -- 3. Trends in Recent Research -- Paradigmatic and Theoretical Underpinnings of Empirical Research -- Trends in Communication Approaches and Techniques -- 4. Evidence of the Impacts of Communication for Development -- Impacts of Communication by the Types of Outcome -- Impacts of Integrated Communication Strategies -- 5. Discussion -- Evidence at Hand -- Blind Spots in Recent Research -- 6. Conclusion -- Communicating the Impact of Communication for Development -- Attention to Structural Problems -- Methodological Integration -- References -- List of Tables -- 1. Theoretical Models Used in Development Communication Projects/Empirical Evaluations -- 2. Levels of Participation Reported in Empirical Studies Analyzing Participatory Communication Intervention -- 3. Communication Intervention Projects Employing Interpersonal Communication -- 4. Communication Intervention Projects Employing Entertainment Education and Social Marketing -- 5. Communication Channels Employed in Entertainment Education and Social Marketing Campaigns -- 6. Group Communication Strategies Implemented in Participatory Communication Projects -- 7. Types of Communication Intervention Outcomes -- 8. The Use of Multiple Communication Methods in Development Communication Projects -- List of Figures -- 1. Development Communication Strategies Reviewed in Recent Empirical Studies.
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Theoretical Models in Communication for Development; 3. Trends in Recent Research; List of Tables; List of Figures; 4. Evidence of the Impacts of Communication for Development; 5. Discussion; 6. Conclusion; References
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    ISBN: 9780754680109 , 0754646564 , 9780754646563
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (253 pages)
    Ausgabe: 1st ed.
    Serie: Ethnoscapes Ser
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Doing things with things
    DDC: 306.46
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    Schlagwort(e): Material culture -- Philosophy ; Technology -- Social aspects ; Knowledge, Theory of ; Knowledge, Theory of, in children ; Material culture Philosophy ; Technology Social aspects ; Electronic books ; local ; Knowledge, Theory of, in children ; Knowledge, Theory of ; Material culture ; Philosophy ; Technology ; Social aspects ; Electronic books ; Alltagsgegenstand ; Verwendung ; Kind ; Soziokultur ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Sachkultur ; Archäologie ; Geschichte
    Kurzfassung: It has been claimed that the natural sciences have abstracted for themselves a 'material world' set apart from human concerns, and social sciences, in their turn, constructed 'a world of actors devoid of things'. While a subject such as archaeology, by its very nature, takes objects into account, other disciplines, such as psychology, emphasize internal mental structures and other non-material issues. This book brings together a team of contributors from across the social sciences who have been taking 'things' more seriously to examine how people relate to objects. The contributors focus on every day objects and how these objects enter into our activities over the course of time. Using a combination of different theoretical approaches, including actor network theory, ecological psychology, cognitive linguistics and science and technology studies, the book argues against the standard notion of objects and their properties as inert and meaningless and argues for the need to understand the relations between people and objects in terms of process and change.
    Kurzfassung: Cover -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures and Tables -- Introduction -- Part I: Intentionality and the Functionality of Things -- 1. The Case of the Recalcitrant Prototype -- 2. Use Plans and Artefact Functions: An Intentionalist Approach to Artefacts and their Use -- Part II: Things in the World of the Child -- 3. Autism and Object Use: The Mutuality of the Social and Material in Children's Developing Understanding and Use of Everyday Objects -- 4. Object Use in Pretend Play: Symbolic or Functional? -- 5. Culture, Language and Canonicality: Differences in the Use of Containers between Zapotec (Mexican Indigenous) and Danish Children -- Part III: Transformation and Things -- 6. The Cognitive Biographies of Things -- 7. The Woman who used her Walking Stick as a Telephone: The Use of Utilities in Praxis -- 8. Politics of Things: The Interplay of Design and Practice in a Design Workshop with Children -- Part IV: Organisation and Things -- 9. Working with Material Things: From Essentialism to Material-Semiotic Analysis of Sociotechnical Practice -- 10. Words and Things: Discursive and Non-Discursive Ordering in a Networked Organisation -- 11. Learning to Do Things with Things: Apprenticeship Learning in Bakery as Economy and Social Practice -- 12. Urban Makings and the Formalisation of Informal Settlements -- Name Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Z.
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Cover; Contents; List of Contributors; List of Figures and Tables; Introduction; Part I: Intentionality and the Functionality of Things; Part II: Things in the World of the Child; Part III: Transformation and Things; Part IV: Organisation and Things; Name Index; Subject Index
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    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
    ISBN: 9780226066226 , 9780226066233
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (286 pages)
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    Schlagwort(e): Communication -- Philosophy ; Information theory ; Reality ; Electronic books ; local ; Communication ; Philosophy ; Information theory ; Reality ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Holding On to Reality is a brilliant history of information, from its inception in the natural world to its role in the transformation of culture to the current Internet mania and is attendant assets and liabilities. Drawing on the history of ideas, the details of information technology, and the boundaries of the human condition, Borgmann illuminates the relationship between things and signs, between reality and information. "[Borgmann] has offered a stunningly clear definition of information in Holding On to Reality. . . . He leaves room for little argument, unless one wants to pose the now vogue objection: I guess it depends on what you mean by nothing."-Paul Bennett, Wired "A superb anecdotal analysis of information for a hype-addled age."-New Scientist "This insightful and poetic reflection on the changing nature of information is a wonderful antidote to much of the current hype about the 'information revolution.' Borgmann reminds us that whatever the reality of our time, we need 'a balance of signs and things' in our lives."-Margaret Wertheim, LA Weekly.
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Holding On to Reality -- Contents -- Introduction: Information vs. Reality -- Part One Natural Information: Information about Reality -- 1. The Decline of Meaning and the Rise of Information -- 2. The Nature of Information -- 3. Ancestral Information -- 4. From Landmarks to Letters -- 5. The Rise of Literacy -- Part Two Cultural Information: Information for Reality -- 6. Producing Information: Writing and Structure -- 7. Producing Information: Measures and Grids -- 8. Realizing Information: Reading -- 9. Realizing Information: Playing -- 10. Realizing Information: Building -- Part Three Technological Information: Information as Reality -- 11. Elementary Measures -- 12. Basic Structures -- 13. Transparency and Control -- 14. Virtuality and Ambiguity -- 15. Fragility and Noise -- Conclusion: Information and Reality -- Notes -- Index.
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Holding On to Reality; Contents; Introduction: Information vs. Reality; Part One Natural Information: Information about Reality; 1. The Decline of Meaning and the Rise of Information; 2. The Nature of Information; 3. Ancestral Information; 4. From Landmarks to Letters; 5. The Rise of Literacy; Part Two Cultural Information: Information for Reality; 6. Producing Information: Writing and Structure; 7. Producing Information: Measures and Grids; 8. Realizing Information: Reading; 9. Realizing Information: Playing; 10. Realizing Information: Building
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Part Three Technological Information: Information as Reality11. Elementary Measures; 12. Basic Structures; 13. Transparency and Control; 14. Virtuality and Ambiguity; 15. Fragility and Noise; Conclusion: Information and Reality; Notes; Index;
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    ISBN: 9780191515132
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (249 pages)
    Serie: Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies Ser
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Whitehead, Mark, 1975 - The nature of the state
    Paralleltitel: Print version The Nature of the State : Excavating the Political Ecologies of the Modern State
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    Schlagwort(e): Human ecology Political aspects ; Human geography Political aspects ; Human geography -- Political aspects ; Human ecology -- Political aspects ; Electronic books ; local ; Human ecology ; Political aspects ; Human geography ; Political aspects ; Electronic books ; Politische Ökologie ; Umweltbezogenes Management ; Politische Ökologie ; Umweltbezogenes Management
    Kurzfassung: The complex relationships between the state and nature remain under-theorized and relatively unexplored. Combining original research and theoretical insights The Nature of the State challenges the ways in which social scientists approach questions of socio-environmental power and offers new insights into the history of state-nature relations.
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. States and Natures: An Introduction -- 2. Seeing Double: Thinking about Natures and States -- 3. The Moments of Nature-State Relations -- 4. Mapping the Land: Spatializing State Nature -- 5. Nature and the State Apparatus -- 6. Between Laboratory and Leviathan: Technological Development and the Cyborg State -- 7. Exploring Post-National Natures: Nature in the Shadow of the State -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
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    New York : Columbia University Press
    ISBN: 9780231507943
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (351 pages)
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    DDC: 305.896/073/0711
    Schlagwort(e): African Americans Study and teaching (Higher) ; Blacks Study and teaching (Higher) ; African Americans -- Study and teaching (Higher) ; Blacks -- Study and teaching (Higher) ; United States -- Race relations -- Study and teaching (Higher) ; United States -- Ethnic relations -- Study and teaching (Higher) ; Electronic books ; local ; African Americans ; Study and teaching (Higher) ; Blacks ; Study and teaching (Higher) ; United States ; Ethnic relations ; Study and teaching (Higher) ; United States ; Race relations ; Study and teaching (Higher) ; Electronic books ; United States Race relations ; Study and teaching (Higher) ; United States Ethnic relations ; Study and teaching (Higher)
    Kurzfassung: What constitutes black studies and where does this discipline stand at the end of the twentieth century? In this wide-ranging and original volume, Manning Marable -- one of the leading scholars of African American history -- gathers key materials from contemporary thinkers who interrogate the richly diverse content and multiple meanings of the collective experiences of black folk.
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Black Studies and the Racial Mountain -- PART ONE Theorizing the Black World: Race in the Postcolonial, Post-Civil Rights Era -- Chapter 1 Toward an Effective Antiracism -- Chapter 2 The Political Moment in Jamaica: The Dimensions of Hegemonic Dissolution -- Chapter 3 Sandoms and Other Exotic Women: Prostitution and Race in the Caribbean -- Chapter 4 Race and Revolution in Cuba: African American Perspectives -- Chapter 5 The Fire This Time: Harlem and Its Discontents at the Turn of the Century -- Chapter 6 Crack Cocaine and Harlem's Health -- PART TWO Mapping African American Studies -- Chapter 7 African American Studies and the "Warring Ideals": The Color Line Meets the Borderlands -- Chapter 8 The Future of Black Studies: Political Communities and the "Talented Tenth" -- Chapter 9 Black Studies and the Question of Class -- Chapter 10 Black Studies: A Critical Reassessment -- Chapter 11 Black Studies Revisited -- Chapter 12 Theorizing Black Studies: The Continuing Role of Community Service in the Study of Race and Class -- Chapter 13 A Debate on Activism in Black Studies -- PART THREE Afrocentricity and Its Critics -- Chapter 14 Afrocentricity, Race, and Reason -- Chapter 15 Afrocentrics, Afro-elitists, and Afro-eccentrics: The Polarization of Black Studies Since the Student Struggles of the Sixties -- Chapter 16 Reclaiming Culture: The Dialectics of Identity -- Chapter 17 Afrocentrism, Cultural Nationalism, and the Problem with Essentialist Definitions of Race, Gender, and Sexuality -- Chapter 18 Afrocentricity and the American Dream -- Chapter 19 Multinational, Multicultural America Versus White Supremacy -- PART FOUR Race and Ethnicity in American Life -- Chapter 20 The Problematics of Ethnic Studies -- Chapter 21 Prophetic Alternatives: A Conversation with Cornel West.
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    ISBN: 9781598747454
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (409 pages)
    Paralleltitel: Print version The World System and the Earth System : GLOBAL SOCIOENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AND SUSTAINABILITY SINCE THE NEOLITHIC
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als The world system and the earth system
    DDC: 304.2
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    Schlagwort(e): Ecology ; Climatic changes ; Environmental sciences ; Human ecology ; Social ecology ; Electronic books ; local ; Climatic changes ; Ecology ; Environmental sciences ; Human ecology ; Social ecology ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift 2003 ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift 2003 ; Weltgeschichte ; Sozialökologie ; Vor- und Frühgeschichte ; Sozialökologie ; Wandel
    Kurzfassung: In this benchmark volume top scholars come together to present state-of-the-art research and pursue a more rigorous framework for understanding and studying the linkages between social and ecological systems. Contributors from a wide spectrum of disciplines, including archaeology, anthropology, geography, ecology, palaeo-science, geology, sociology, and history, present and assess both the evolution of our thinking and current, state-of-the-art theory and research. Covering ancient through modern periods, they discuss the complex ways in which human culture, economy, and demographics interact with ecology and climate change. The World System and the Earth System is critical reading for all scholars and students working at the interface of nature and society.Contributors: Thomas Abel, Björn Berglund, Chris Chase-Dunn, Alfred Crosby, Carole L. Crumley, John Dearing, Bert de Vries, Nina Eisenmenger, Andre Gunder Frank, Jonathan Friedman, Stefan Giljum, Thomas Hall, Karin Holmgren, Alf Hornborg, Kristian Kristiansen, Thomas Malm, Daniel Mandell, Betty Meggers, George Modelski, Emilio Moran, Helena Öberg, Frank Oldfield, Susan Stonich, William Thompson, Peter Turchin.
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- Introduction: Conceptualizing Socioecological Systems -- Part I Modeling Socioecological Systems: General Perspectives -- 1 Historical Ecology: Integrated Thinking at Multiple Temporaland Spatial Scales -- 2 Toward Developing Synergistic Linkages betweenthe Biophysical and the Cultural: A PalaoenvironmentalPerspective -- 3 Integration of World and Earth Systems:Heritage and Foresight -- 4 World-Systems as Complex Human Ecosystems -- 5 Lessons from Population Ecology for World-SystemsAnalyses of Long-Distance Synchrony -- 6 Sustainable Unsustainability: Toward a Comparative Study of Hegemonic Decline in Global Systems -- Part II Case Studies of Socioenvironmental Change in Prehistory -- 7 Agrarian Landscape Development in Northwestern Europesince the Neolithic: Cultural and Climatic Factors behind a Regional/Continental Pattern -- 8 Climate Change in Southern and Eastern Africa during the Past Millennium and Its Implicationsfor Societal Development -- 9 World-Systems in the Biogeosphere: Urbanization, State Formation, and Climate Change Since the Iron Age -- 10 E urasian Transformations: Mobility, Ecological Change, and the Transmission of Social Institutions in the Third Millennium and the Early Second Millennium b.c.e. -- 11 Climate, Water, and Political-Economic Crises inAncient Mesopotamia and Egypt -- 12 Ages of Reorganization -- 13 Sustainable Intensive Exploitation of Amazonia:Cultural, Environmental, and Geopolitical Perspectives -- 14 Regional Integration and Ecology in Prehistoric Amazonia:Toward a System Perspective -- Part III Is the World System Sustainable? Attempts toward anIntegrated Socioecological Perspective -- 15 The Human-Environment Nexus: Progress in the Past Decade in the Integrated Analysis of Human and Biophysical Factors.
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    ISBN: 9780309652537
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (152 pages)
    Paralleltitel: Print version Terrorism and the Chemical Infrastructure : Protecting People and Reducing Vulnerabilities
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    DDC: 303.625
    Schlagwort(e): Chemical plants -- Security measures -- United States ; Chemical plants -- Risk assessment ; Chemical industry -- Security measures -- United States ; Chemical industry -- Risk assessment ; Branche ; Chemische Industrie ; Chemisches Produkt ; Chemische Verbindungen ; Gefahrstoff ; Katastrophe ; Unfall ; Unfallverhütung ; Kriegsziel ; Schutzvorrichtung ; Attentat ; Terrorismus ; Katastrophenschutz ; Zivilschutz ; Electronic books ; local ; Chemical industry ; Risk assessment ; Chemical industry ; Security measures ; United States ; Chemical plants ; Risk assessment ; Chemical plants ; Security measures ; United States ; Electronic books ; USA ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: FrontMatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgment of Reviewers -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Chemical Sector -- 3 Methodological Approach to Determining Vulnerabilities -- 4 Realistic Chemical Incident Scenarios -- 5 Managing Risk -- 6 Science and Technology Investment to Protect the Nation's Chemical Infrastructure: Findings and Recommendations -- Appendixes -- Appendix A Historical Scenarios -- Appendix B Statement of Task -- Appendix C Committee Membership -- Appendix D Meetings and Presentations -- Appendix E Acronyms -- Appendix F Glossary.
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    ISBN: 9780309654517
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (244 pages)
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    DDC: 305.43
    Schlagwort(e): Electronic books ; local ; Women engineers ; Social aspects ; Congresses ; Women in engineering ; Social aspects ; Congresses ; Women in science ; Social aspects ; Congresses ; Women scientists ; Social aspects ; Congresses ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: FrontMatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Section 1--Summaries of Convocation Sessions -- PANEL 1--COGNITIVE AND BIOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTIONS -- PANEL 2--SOCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS -- PANEL 3--ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES -- PANEL 4--IMPLEMENTING POLICIES -- Section 2--Selected Workshop Papers -- THE ECONOMICS OF GENDER DIFFERENCES IN EMPLOYMENT OUTCOMES IN ACADEMIA--Donna K. Ginther -- BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE--Diane F. Halpern -- WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS: GENDER SIMILARITIES IN ABILITIES AND SOCIOCULTURAL FORCES--Janet Shibley Hyde -- CREATING AN INCLUSIVE WORK ENVIRONMENT--Sue V. Rosser -- LONG TIME NO SEE: WHY ARE THERE STILL SO FEW WOMEN IN ACADEMIC SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING?--Joan C. Williams -- SOCIAL INFLUENCES ON SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING CAREER DECISIONS--Yu Xie -- Section 3--Poster Abstracts -- SOCIOLOGY -- ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE -- INSTITUTIONAL POLICY -- Section 4--Appendixes -- APPENDIX A--Workshop Agenda -- APPENDIX B--Speaker Biographical Information -- APPENDIX C--Committee Biographical Information -- APPENDIX D--Statement of Task.
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    ISBN: 9789401202701
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (203 pages)
    Serie: Consciousness, Literature and the Arts, 2 v.v. 2
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Haney, William S., 1947 - Cyberculture, cyborgs and science fiction
    DDC: 303.483
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    Schlagwort(e): Electronic books ; local ; Biotechnology ; Social aspects ; Biotechnology in literature ; Consciousness ; Social aspects ; Cyborgs in literature ; Mind and body ; Science fiction ; Social aspects ; Electronic books ; Biotechnology in literature ; Biotechnology Social aspects ; Consciousness Social aspects ; Cyborgs in literature ; Mind and body ; Science fiction Social aspects ; Cyberspace ; Virtuelle Realität ; Informationstechnik ; Science-Fiction-Literatur
    Kurzfassung: Addressing a key issue related to human nature, this book argues that the first-person experience of pure consciousness may soon be under threat from posthuman biotechnology. In exploiting the mind's capacity for instrumental behavior, posthumanists seek to extend human experience by physically projecting the mind outward through the continuity of thought and the material world, as through telepresence and other forms of prosthetic enhancements. Posthumanism envisions a biology/machine symbiosis that will promote this extension, arguably at the expense of the natural tendency of the mind to move toward pure consciousness. As each chapter of this book contends, by forcibly overextending and thus jeopardizing the neurophysiology of consciousness, the posthuman condition could in the long term undermine human nature, defined as the effortless capacity for transcending the mind's conceptual content. Presented here for the first time, the essential argument of this book is more than a warning; it gives a direction: far better to practice patience and develop pure consciousness and evolve into a higher human being than to fall prey to the Faustian temptations of biotechnological power. As argued throughout the book, each person must choose for him or herself between the technological extension of physical experience through mind, body and world on the one hand, and the natural powers of human consciousness on the other as a means to realize their ultimate vision.
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Consciousness and the Posthuman -- Chapter 2: The Latent Powers of Consciousness vs. Bionic Humans -- Chapter 3: Derrida's Indian Literary Subtext -- Chapter 4: Consciousness and the Posthuman in Short Fiction -- Chapter 5: Frankenstein: The Monster's Constructedness and the Narrativity of Consciousness -- Chapter 6: William Gibson's Neuromancer: Technological Ambiguity -- Chapter 7: Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash: Humans are not Computers -- Chapter 8: Haruki Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: Unicorns, Elephants and Immortality -- Chapter 9: Cyborg Revelations: Marge Piercy's He, She and It -- Chapter 10: Conclusion: The Survival of Human Nature -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (633 pages)
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    DDC: 303.48/3
    Schlagwort(e): Technology -- Social aspects ; Technological forecasting ; Artificial intelligence ; Artificial intelligence ; Electronic books ; local ; Technological forecasting ; Technology ; Social aspects ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF FIGURES -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PRELUDE PESSIMISTS FROM YEARS PAST -- CHAPTER 1 THE COMING CONVERGENCE -- CHAPTER 2 NEURAL NETS AND ARTIFICIAL BRAINS -- CHAPTER 3 THE CHALLENGE OF REAL AI1 -- CHAPTER 4 NANOTECHNOLOGY GETS REAL -- CHAPTER 5 UPLOADING: LIBERATING MINDS FROM BRAINS -- CHAPTER 6 THE CYBORGIZATION OF HUMANITY -- CHAPTER 7 THE NEW GENETICS -- CHAPTER 8 THE QUEST FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL IMMORTALITY -- CHAPTER 9 CRYONICS COMES OF AGE -- CHAPTER 10 IN SEARCH OF THE UNIVERSAL EQUATION -- CHAPTER 11 CURING POVERTY WITH COMPUTING? -- CHAPTER 12 EXTROPIAN ELITISM AND HUMANIST POSTHUMANISM -- CHAPTER 13 SONG FROM THE DIGITAL FOREST -- CHAPTER 14 MINDPLEXES -- CHAPTER 15 CREATING A POSITIVE TRANSCENSION -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
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    Bristol : Intellect Books Ltd
    ISBN: 9781841502939
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (346 pages)
    Ausgabe: 2nd ed.
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Hargrave, Andrea Millwood Harm and offence in media content
    Paralleltitel: Print version Millwood, Andrea Harm and Offence in Media Content: A Review of the Evidence
    DDC: 302.23
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    Schlagwort(e): Electronic books. -- local ; Mass media -- Influence ; Mass media and children ; Electronic books ; local ; Mass media ; Influence ; Mass media and children ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: In today's media and communications environment, pressing questions arise regarding the media's potential for harm, especially in relation to children. This fully revised edition offers a unique and comprehensive analysis of the latest research on content-related media harm and offence. For the first time, a balanced, critical account brings together findings on both established and newer, interactive media. Arguing against asking simple questions about media effects, the case is made for contextualising media content and use within a multi-factor, risk-based framework in order to guide future research and policy formation.
    Kurzfassung: Front Cover -- Preliminary Pages -- Contents -- Preface -- Executive Summary -- 1 The Policy Context -- 2 Researching Media Effects -- 3 Television -- 4 Film, Video and DVD -- 5 Electronic Games -- 6 Internet -- 7 Telephony -- 8 Radio and Music -- 9 Print -- 10 Advertising -- 11 Regulation in the Home -- 12 Conclusions -- Annex I Methodological Considerations in Researching Harm and Offence -- Annex II The Legal Framework of English Law Regulating Media Content -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.
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    ISBN: 9781592133314 , 1592133290 , 1592133312 , 1592133304
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (372 pages)
    Ausgabe: 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    Paralleltitel: Print version Challenging the Chip : Labor Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry
    DDC: 306.36
    Schlagwort(e): Electronic industries ; Employee rights ; Globalization ; Environmental justice ; Electronic books ; local ; Electronic books ; Electronic industries ; Employee rights ; Environmental justice ; Globalization
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Contents -- Foreword: Technology Happens -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Quest for Sustainability and Justice in a High-Tech World -- I. GLOBAL ELECTRONICS -- 2 The Changing Map of Global Electronics: Networks of Mass Production in the New Economy -- 3 Occupational Health in the Semiconductor Industry -- 4 Double Jeopardy: Gender and Migration in Electronics Manufacturing -- 5 "Made in China": Electronics Workers in the World's Fastest Growing Economy -- 6 Corporate Social Responsibility in Thailand's Electronics Industry -- 7 Electronics Workers in India -- 8 Out of the Shadows and into the Gloom? Worker and Community Health in and around Central and Eastern Europe's Semiconductor Plants -- II. ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND LABOR RIGHTS -- 9 From Grassroots to Global: The Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition's Milestones in Building a Movement for Corporate Accountability and Sustainability in the High-Tech Industry -- 10 The Struggle for Occupational Health in Silicon Valley: A Conversation with Amanda Hawes -- 11 Immigrant Workers in Two Eras: Struggles and Successes in Silicon Valley -- 12 Worker Health at National Semiconductor, Greenock (Scotland): Freedom to Kill? -- 13 Community-Based Organizing for Labor Rights, Health, and the Environment: Television Manufacturing on the Mexico-U.S. Border -- 14 Labor Rights and Occupational Health in Jalisco's Electronics Industry (Mexico) -- 15 Breaking the Silicon Silence: Voicing Health and Environmental Impacts within Taiwan's Hsinchu Science Park -- 16 Human Lives Valued Less Than Dirt: Former RCA Workers Contaminated by Pollution Fighting Worldwide for Justice (Taiwan) -- 17 Unionizing Electronics: The Need for New Strategies -- III. ELECTRONIC WASTE AND EXTENDED PRODUCER RESPONSIBILITY -- 18 The Electronics Production Life Cycle: From Toxics to Sustainability: Getting Off the Toxic Treadmill.
    Kurzfassung: From Silicon Valley in California to Silicon Glen in Scotland, from Silicon Island in Taiwan to Silicon Paddy in China, the social, economic, and ecological effects of the international electronics industry are widespread. The production of electronic and computer components contaminates air, land, and water around the globe. As this eye-opening book reveals, the people who suffer the consequences are largely poor, female, immigrant, and minority. Challenging the Chip is the first comprehensive examination of the impacts of electronics manufacturing on workers and local environments across the planet. Contributors to this pioneering volume include many of the world's most articulate, passionate and progressive visionaries, scholars and advocates. Here they not only document the unsustainable and often devastating practices of the global electronics industry but also chronicle creative ways in which activists, government agencies, and others have attempted to reform the industry-through resistance, persuasion, and regulation.
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    Herndon : World Bank Publications
    ISBN: 9780821368671 , 9780821368664 , 0821368672 , 0821368664
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (246 pages)
    Serie: Directions in Development
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    DDC: 303.48/33095493
    Schlagwort(e): Information technology -- Economic aspects -- Sri Lanka ; Communication in economic development -- Sri Lanka ; Telecommunication -- Sri Lanka ; Sri Lanka -- Economic policy ; Communication in economic development ; Information technology Economic aspects ; Telecommunication ; Electronic books ; local ; Electronic books ; Communication in economic development ; Sri Lanka ; Information technology ; Economic aspects ; Sri Lanka ; Sri Lanka ; Economic policy ; Telecommunication ; Sri Lanka ; Sri Lanka Economic policy
    Kurzfassung: From Envisioning to Designing e-Development presents a concrete case in bridging the gap between vision and actionable programs. It captures how Sri Lankans worked with local stakeholders and aid agency counterparts in moving from developing a shared vision of comprehensive e-development to designing a multiyear investment program, creating a national ICT agency, and piloting, implementing, and adapting the strategy.
    Kurzfassung: Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Challenges Facing Developing Countries -- Learning from e-Sri Lanka -- Focus of the Book -- PART 1 Designing the Program and Managing the Process -- Chapter 2 Designing e-Sri Lanka: Process, Principles, Lessons -- Origins of e-Sri Lanka -- Guiding Principles -- Lessons Learned -- Chapter 3 The e-Sri Lanka Program Design -- Strategic Context: Sri Lanka's e-Readiness -- The Vision and Program of e-Sri Lanka -- An Evolving Program Design -- PART 2 Developing the ICT Industry and Human Resources -- Chapter 4 A Strategy for the Software and Information Services Industry -- Potential for Growth -- The Industry and Its Environment: Constraints and Opportunities -- Prospects for the Industry -- A Strategy for Developing the Industry -- An Agenda for Action -- Annex 4.1 SWOT Analysis: Strengths,Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats -- Chapter 5 A Fund for Building Capacity and Promoting the Industry -- Rationale for the Funding Mechanism -- The Four Programs of the Fund -- Implementation of the Fund -- PART 3 Extending an Affordable Information Infrastructure to All -- Chapter 6 Extending Access to Services: Policy and Regulatory Reforms and Smart Subsidies -- Gaps in Rural Services-and Ways to Close Them -- Reforms to Bridge the Market Efficiency Gap -- Smart Subsidies to Bridge the Access Gap -- Tools for Reinforcing Demand -- A Changing Environment -- Chapter 7 Designing the Telecenter Program for Poverty Reduction -- Basic Design of the Telecenter Program -- Analysis of the Issues and Options -- Principles Guiding Program Design for Poverty Reduction -- Annex 7.1 Poverty in Sri Lanka -- Chapter 8 Designing the Telecenter Program for Impact and Sustainability -- Thinking through Impact and Sustainability -- Opportunities for Maximizing Impact.
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction; PART 1 Designing the Program and Managing the Process; Figures; Tables; Boxes; PART 2 Developing the ICT Industry and Human Resources; PART 3 Extending an Affordable Information Infrastructure to All; Bibliography; Index
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    Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press
    ISBN: 9780773572607
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (209 pages)
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Downes, Daniel M., 1960 - Interactive realism
    DDC: 303.4833
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    Schlagwort(e): Cyberspace-Social aspects ; Digital media-Social aspects ; Human-computer interaction ; Electronic books ; local ; Cyberspace ; Social aspects ; Digital media ; Social aspects ; Human-computer interaction ; Electronic books ; Cyberspace ; Semantischer Raum ; Medienphilosophie ; Internet ; Kommunikationssystem ; Gesellschaft
    Kurzfassung: It is commonplace in our digitized world to think that technology is the primary agent of psychological and social change. In Interactive Realism Daniel Downes argues that it continues to be people who construct social reality through their interactions, critiquing the tranformative turn in media studies.
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Inventio Fortunata -- 1 The Dual Specificity of Cyberspace -- 2 The Magic Mirror: Technology and the Transformative Turn -- 3 Media Ecology, the Prosthetic Other, and the Artifactual Self -- 4 Virtuality and the Bit Republic -- 5 The Iconic Landscapes of Cyberspace -- 6 From Public Image to Public Memory: Building Heterotopia -- Conclusion: The Fortunes of Invention -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
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    ISBN: 9780674039247
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (278 pages)
    Serie: New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine Ser
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    DDC: 333.7
    Schlagwort(e): Electronic books ; local ; Environmental policy ; History ; 20th century ; Science and state ; History ; 20th century ; Technology and state ; History ; 20th century ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Nature, Technology, and Worldview -- 1. The Modern State, Industry, and the Transformation of Nature -- 2. The Coercive Appeal to Order: Authoritarian Approaches to Resource Management -- 3. Development, Colonialism, and the Environment -- 4. Biodiversity, Sustainability, and Technology in the Twenty-first Century -- Notes -- Index.
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    Maidenhead : McGraw-Hill Education
    ISBN: 9780335225897
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (191 pages)
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Irwin, Alan Science, social theory and public knowledge
    DDC: 306.45
    Schlagwort(e): Electronic books ; local ; Science ; Social aspects ; Social sciences ; Philosophy ; Electronic books ; Wissenschaft ; Forschung ; Öffentlichkeit ; Soziologische Theorie
    Kurzfassung: How might social theory, public understanding of science and science policy best inform one another?. What have been the key features of science-society relations in the modern world?. How are we to re-think science-society relations in the context of globalization, hybridity and changing patterns of governance?. This topical and unique book draws together the three key perspectives on science-society relations: public understanding of science, scientific and public governance, and social theory. The book presents a series of case studies (including the debates on genetically modified foods and the AIDS movement in the USA) to discuss critically the ways in which social theorists, social scientists, and science policy makers deal with science-society relations. 'Science' and 'society' combine in many complex ways. Concepts such as citizenship, expertise, governance, democracy and the public need to be re-thought in the context of contemporary concerns with globalization and hybridity. A radical new approach is developed and the notion of ethno-epistemic assemblage is used to articulate a new series of questions for the theorization, empirical study and politics of science-society relations.
    Kurzfassung: Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 01 -- Chapter 02 -- Chapter 03 -- Chapter 04 -- Chapter 05 -- Chapter 06 -- Chapter 07 -- Chapter 08 -- References -- Index.
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    Vancouver : UBC Press
    ISBN: 9780774851534
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (207 pages)
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Biotechnology unglued
    DDC: 303.48/3
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    Schlagwort(e): Biotechnology -- Social aspects ; Science -- Social aspects ; Electronic books ; local ; Biotechnology ; Social aspects ; Science ; Social aspects ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Biotechnology Unglued -- 1 Introduction: The Impact of Innovations in Biotechnology on Social Cohesion -- 2 The Impact of Agricultural Biotechnology on Social Cohesion -- 3 Agricultural Biotechnology and Developing Countries: Issues of Poverty Alleviation, Food Security, and Sustainable Development -- 4 Legitimation Crisis: Food Safety and Genetically Modified Organisms -- 5 Genetically Modified Foods in Norway: A Consumer Perspective -- 6 Commercializing Iceland: Biotechnology, Culture, and the Information Society -- 7 Biotechnology and Social Control: The Canadian DNA Data Bank -- 8 Biotechnology as Modern Museums of Civilization -- 9 The Production, Diffusion, and Use of Knowledge in Biotechnology: The Discovery of BRCA1 and BRCA2 Genes -- Contributors -- Index.
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    Beijing ; : O'Reilly | Boston, MA :Safari,
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: xviii, 299 p. ; , 23 cm
    Ausgabe: 1st ed.
    DDC: 302.23/0973
    Schlagwort(e): Facts and Comparisons electronic resources ; Digital media ; United States ; Internet ; Political aspects ; United States ; Internet ; Social aspects ; United States ; Mass media and technology ; United States ; Online journalism ; United States ; Web publishing ; United States ; Electronic books ; local
    Kurzfassung: " We the Media , has become something of a bible for those who believe the online medium will change journalism for the better." -Financial Times Big Media has lost its monopoly on the news, thanks to the Internet. Now that it's possible to publish in real time to a worldwide audience, a new breed of grassroots journalists are taking the news into their own hands. Armed with laptops, cell phones, and digital cameras, these readers-turned-reporters are transforming the news from a lecture into a conversation. In We the Media , nationally acclaimed newspaper columnist and blogger Dan Gillmor tells the story of this emerging phenomenon and sheds light on this deep shift in how we make--and consume--the news. Gillmor shows how anyone can produce the news, using personal blogs, Internet chat groups, email, and a host of other tools. He sends a wake-up call tonewsmakers-politicians, business executives, celebrities-and the marketers and PR flacks who promote them. He explains how to successfully play by the rules of this new era and shift from "control" to "engagement." And he makes a strong case to his fell journalists that, in the face of a plethora of Internet-fueled news vehicles, they must change or become irrelevant. Journalism in the 21st century will be fundamentally different from the Big Media oligarchy that prevails today. We the Media casts light on the future of journalism, and invites us all to be part of it. Dan Gillmor is founder of Grassroots Media Inc., a project aimed at enabling grassroots journalism and expanding its reach. The company's first launch is Bayosphere.com, a site "of, by, and for the San Francisco Bay Area." Dan Gillmor is the founder of the Center for Citizen Media, a project to enable and expand reach of grassroots media. From 1994-2004, Gillmor was a columnist at the San Jose Mercury News , Silicon Valley's daily newspaper, and wrote a weblog for SiliconValley.com. He joined the Mercury News after six years with the Detroit Free Press . Before that, he was with the Kansas City Times and several newspapers in Vermont. He has won or shared in several regional and national journalism awards. Before becoming a journalist he played music professionally for seven years.
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: xviii, 206 p. ; , 24 cm
    DDC: 303.48/273
    Schlagwort(e): Advertising ; Moral and ethical aspects ; United States ; Anti-Americanism ; Export marketing ; Moral and ethical aspects ; United States ; Export marketing ; Political aspects ; United States ; Electronic books ; local
    Kurzfassung: Globalization, commercialization and Americanization are changing the lives of almost everybody on the planet. The uniqueness of this book is that it tackles these trends together, and head-on. The balance of knowledge and feeling makes it an important book in a field plagued by one-sided pro- and anti- pieces.-David Arnold, author of The Mirage of Global Markets Millions of people around the world have come to despise the United States. One of the biggest reasons is American "in-your-face" marketing, which treats people everywhere as 24 × 7 consumers, drives U.S. free market materialism at the expense of local values, and seeks to "McDonaldize" the entire globe. In this book, one of the world's leading experts on global marketing steps back to see its true impact. Johny K. Johansson looks at American marketing from the perspective of the non-U.S. consumer: as the first wave of a cultural assault by an arrogant, wasteful society of overfed, gas-guzzling, SUV-driving bullies. Johansson considers the Bush administration's "repositioning" of America and the post-9/11 collapse of American popularity from the perspective of a professional global marketer. He then offers practical guidance for marketers who wish to succeed in global markets without becoming "ugly Americans." Meet the new "ugly American"-American marketers abroad: loud, short-sighted, and ineffective Live by the brand, die by the brand-Why American brands are the #1 targets of the anti-globalization movement One size does not fit all-No matter how much global marketers say it does After 9/11: The disastrous "repositioning" of America-Bush unilateralism versus traditional American values Toward a more humane global marketing-Local awareness and respect and the long-term route to sustainable profit The new global rebellion against American marketing "In-your-face" American marketing-the not-so-hidden cause of global anti-Americanism. The "repositioning" of America and why American popularity overseas has collapsed How to profitably market internationally, without promoting anti-Americanism A desperately needed wake-up call for American companies in global markets In Your Face reveals the new worldwide rebellion that's brewing against American marketing. Renowned international marketing expert Johny K. Johansson explains why global customers will no longer put up with the traditional tactics of western companies. Most important, he offers a new path to sustainable profits-a path based o...
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    Florence : Taylor & Francis Group
    ISBN: 9780203356623
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (201 pages)
    Ausgabe: 2nd ed.
    Serie: New Accents
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.2345;791.45/75;791.4575
    Schlagwort(e): Television criticism ; Television broadcasting -- Social aspects ; Books and reading ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local ; Books and reading ; Television broadcasting ; Social aspects ; Television criticism ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
    Kurzfassung: Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE -- FOREWORD: 'READING' TELEVISION STUDIES -- 'Reading' television -- Content analysis -- The signs of television -- The codes of television -- The functions of television -- Bardic television -- Audiences -- The modes of television -- Dance -- Competition -- Television realism -- A policeman's lot -- CONCLUSION: SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT? -- REFERENCES -- FURTHER READING -- INDEX.
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    ISBN: 9780309531047
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (110 pages)
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    DDC: 305.435
    Schlagwort(e): Electronic books ; local ; Professional associations ; Congresses ; Women in science ; Congresses ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: FrontMatter -- Preface -- Contents -- SESSION I Welcoming Remarks and Opening Keynote Address -- Welcoming Remarks -- Opening Keynote Address -- SESSION II Presentations and Panel Discussion -- Opening Remarks -- Keynote Address--Women in Science and Medicine -- From AXXS '99 to AXXS 2002 -- A Pathways Model for Career Progression in Science -- Advancing Women in Academic Medicine -- PANEL Differences Between Basic and Clinical Disciplines -- Women in Leadership -- SESSION III Reports of Breakout Sessions -- Reports of Breakout Sessions -- SESSION IV Closing Plenary -- Achieving XXcellence -- Closing Remarks -- Appendixes -- Appendix A Workshop Agenda -- Appendix B Workshop Participants and Speakers.
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    Herndon : World Bank Publications
    ISBN: 9781280090851
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (114 pages)
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Heaver, Richard, 1952 - Strengthening country commitment to human development
    DDC: 363.8
    Schlagwort(e): Unterernährung ; Ernährungspolitik ; Entwicklungsländer ; Nutrition policy ; Malnutrition ; Electronic books ; local ; Malnutrition ; Nutrition policy ; Electronic books ; Ernährungspolitik
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Executive Summary -- Why Strengthening Commitment Is Important -- What Commitment Building Involves -- What We Know and What We Don't -- Missed Opportunities -- Action Required -- What the Development Assistance Community Can Do -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Why Is Commitment a Special Problem in Nutrition? -- 3. Thinking about Commitment -- Useful Terms -- Some Relevant Concepts -- 4. Assessing Commitment to Policies and Programs -- Who Should Assess Commitment and How? -- Identifying Key Players -- Assessing Perspectives -- Assessing Behavior -- Putting It Together -- 5. Commitment and Strategic Choices -- Broad or Narrow? -- Program or Project? -- Trial or Scale? -- Investment or Analysis and Partnership Building? -- 6. Strengthening Commitment to Investment -- Champions, Policy Entrepreneurs, and Supporters -- Building Partnerships for Nutrition -- Using the MDGs to Make Nutrition Everybody's Business -- Repositioning Nutrition in PRSPs, PRSCs, and CDD -- Using NGO-Civil Society Partnerships to Lobby Governments -- 7. Sustaining Commitment through Implementation -- Lessons from Success: Keeping Stakeholders Motivated -- When Things Go Wrong: Lessons from Faltering Commitment in Tamil Nadu and Tanzania -- A Final Lesson -- 8. Capacity Building for Commitment Building -- Strengthening Country Capacity for Commitment Building -- Deploying and Strengthening the International Nutrition Community's Capacity for Country Commitment Building -- 9. Conclusions and Recommendations -- Appendixes -- A Forms of Rationality Underlying Public Policy -- B Potential Stakeholders in Nutrition Programs -- C A Client-Centered Formative Research Approach: Trials of Impr oved Practices (TIPS) -- D Using PROFILES Simulations as an Advocacy Tool to Promote Investment in Nutrition.
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    Berkshire : McGraw-Hill Education
    ISBN: 9780335226511
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (187 pages)
    Serie: UK Higher Education OUP Humanities and Social Sciences Education OUP Ser.
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.2/244
    Schlagwort(e): Literacy -- Computer-assisted instruction.. ; Literacy -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- Data processing ; Electronic books ; local ; Literacy ; Computer-assisted instruction ; Literacy ; Study and teaching (Secondary) ; Data processing ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Considers the application of ICT in raising and widening literacy achievements within the classroom, and explores ways that ICT can be harnessed to help students develop their literacy skills. This book provides commentary and research into what adolescent students are doing, both in formal education and socially, with regard to ICT and literacy.
    Kurzfassung: Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Introduction to chap-9 -- Chapter 9 -- Index.
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    Oakland : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Incorporated
    ISBN: 9781576755372
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (119 pages)
    Ausgabe: 2nd ed.
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Kahane, Adam Solving tough problems
    DDC: 303.6/9
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    Schlagwort(e): Conflict management ; Problem solving ; Communication ; Meinung ; Austausch ; Internationale Politik ; Strategie ; Diskussion ; Forderung ; Ziel ; Problemlösen ; Weltordnung ; Konfliktlösung ; Electronic books ; local ; Communication ; Conflict management ; Problem solving ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Adam Kahane has worked on some of the toughest, most complex problems in the world. He started out as an expert analyst and advisor to corporations and governments, convinced of the need to calculate "the one right answer." After an unexpected experience in South Africa during the transition away from apartheid, he got involved in facilitating a series of extraordinary high-conflict, high-stakes problem-solving efforts: in Colombia during the civil war, in Argentina during the collapse, in Guatemala after the genocide, in Israel, Northern Ireland, Cyprus, and the Basque Country. Through these experiences, he learned to create environments that enable new ideas and creative solutions to emerge even in the most stuck, polarized contexts. Here Kahane tells his stories and distills from them an approach all of us can use to solve our own toughest problems-at home, at work, in our communities, and in national and international affairs.
    Kurzfassung: Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Problem with Tough Problems -- Part I: Tough Problems -- "There Is One Right Answer" -- Seeing the World -- The Miraculous Option -- Part II: Talking -- Being Stuck -- Dictating -- Talking Politely -- Speaking Up -- Only Talking -- Part III: Listening -- Opennes -- Reflectiveness -- Empathy -- Part IV: Creating New Realities -- Cracking Through the Egg Shell -- Closed Fist, Open Palm -- The Wound That Wants to Be Whole -- Conclusion: An Open Way -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (272 pages)
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    Paralleltitel: Print version Learning Toward an Ecological Consciousness
    DDC: 304.2
    Schlagwort(e): Environmental psychology ; Environmental education ; Electronic books ; local ; Environmental education ; Environmental psychology ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: In their latest book, Edmund O'Sullivan and Marilyn Taylor highlight the pedagogical practices that foster transformation from our current way of thinking about our place in the world to an underlying ecological way of seeing and acting.Learning Towards Ecological Consciousness offers the reader a selection of transformative practices that demonstrate, in specific contexts, the complex journey and contextual conditions that move us forward towards a deeper realization that we are part of the world around us, holding a greater promise for deeper ecological awareness. To this end, thirteen chapters offer a rich array of practices in diverse life settings - educational environments, communities and workplaces and personal relationships. Contributors and their material represent a range of cultures, work setting and professions. The aspect of O'Sullivan and Taylor's new book that distinguishes it from other books in the field is its exploration of how consciousness can be transformed through practices, experience and action.
    Kurzfassung: Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Conundrum, Challenge, and Choice -- Chapter 1 Glimpses of an Ecological Consciousness -- Part 1 Educational Forms and Processes Toward Ecological Consciousness -- Chapter 2 Transformative Learning for Bioregional Citizenship -- Chapter 3 Learning Ecology. A New Approach to Learning and Transforming Ecological Consciousness -- Chapter 4 Graduate Leadership Education in a Socio-Ecological Perspective: Working at the Paradigmatic Interface -- Chapter 5 The Ecology of Learning and Work: Learning for Transformative Work Practices -- Part 2 Learning Through Engagement in the Life World -- Chapter 6 A Pueblo Story for Transformation -- Chapter 7 Midwifing Transformative Change -- Chapter 8 Nurturing the Internal Flame: Sustained Commitment to Environmental Work -- Chapter 9 A Transformation Model for Passion in the Workplace -- Part 3 The Dynamic Relation of Personal Agency in Community Context -- Chapter 10 Personal and Social Transformation: A Complementary Process Toward Ecological Consciousness -- Chapter 11 Holding Flames: Women Illuminating Knowledge of s/Self-Transformation -- Chapter 12 From Intersubjective Psychotherapy to Esprit Networking: Mapping a Social Practice -- Chapter 13 Fostering Ways-of-Giving Within Communities -- Chapter 14 Transformative Rungs on Wisdom's Ladder -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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    Rockland : William Andrew
    ISBN: 9780080480701
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (358 pages)
    Ausgabe: 1st ed.
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Thieme, Richard Islands in the clickstream
    DDC: 005.8
    Schlagwort(e): Human-computer interaction ; Computers -- Social aspects ; Electronic books ; local ; Computers ; Social aspects ; Human-computer interaction ; Electronic books ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Psychologie ; Computer ; Zivilisation
    Kurzfassung: CNN called Richard Thieme "a member of the cyber avant-garde". Digital Delirium named him "one of the most creative minds of the digital generation". Now Richard Thieme's wisdom on the social and cultural dimensions of technology is available in a single volume. "Islands in the Clickstream" ranges beyond the impact of technology to spirituality, psychological insight, and social commentary. Now that people are used to living in virtual worlds and move easily between online and offline worlds, they want to connect that experience to the deeper issues of our lives, including spiritual issues. Some examples include "Dreams Engineers Have", "The Crazy Lady on the Treadmill", and "Whistleblowers and Team Players". These essays raise serious questions for thoughtful readers. They have attracted favorable commentary from around the world and a fanatic, almost rabid fan base. * This author has become an extremely popular and highly visible talking head. He is a rare "personality" in the otherwise bland world of technology commentators. * The book leverages the loyalty of his audience in the same way Bill O'Reilly's "The O'Reilly Factor" and Al Franken's "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them" do. * The book is an easy read intended to provoke thought, discussion and disagreement.
    Kurzfassung: Cover -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- About the Author -- Contents -- Foreword -- Chapter 1 Introduction: This is the Way the Internet Works -- Ferg's Law -- Chapter 2 Computer-Mediated Living: The Digital Filter -- Games Engineers Play -- Dreams Engineers Have -- Fractals, Hammers, and Other Tools -- Not a Book -- Darling -- Sneaking Up On Ourselves -- The Air We Breathe -- Voyagers -- Densities -- Waiting for the Bard Group -- Humanity Morphing -- Necessary Fictions -- Building the Matrix -- History and Myth -- Modules and Metaphors -- Beyond Belief -- The Crazy Lady on the Treadmill -- Chapter 3 Doing Business Digitally -- Failing into Success -- Generating Power -- Digital Civility -- The Pattern of Community -- Beanie Babies and the Source of All Things -- Why the Soft Stuff is Hard -- Professional Communicators -- Straight Talk -- Time for Yoda - and Yodette -- Whistleblowers and Team Players -- Chapter 4 Hacking and the Passion for Knowledge -- Fear and Trembling in Las Vegas -- The Enemy is... WHO? -- A Moment of Clarity -- If Truth Be Told -- Life in Space -- Don Quixote Goes Digital -- Knowledge, Obsession, Daring -- In Defense of Hacking -- Hactivism and Soul Power -- Hacking Chinatown -- Hacker Generations -- Chapter 5 Digital Spirituality -- A Silent Retreat -- A Nightmare in Daylight -- Mutuality, Feedback, and Accountability -- The Illusion of Control -- The Day the Computer Prayed -- Climbing Down the Iceberg -- A Digital Fable -- Digital Religion -- What the Platypus Dreamed -- What Is, Is -- Showing Up -- Millenium's End -- An Owl in Winter: Millenium's End II -- Night Light -- Breaking the Code -- Invitation to a Seance -- Getting Real -- A Dry Run -- Words, Words, Words -- What Works? -- Two Ways of Looking at a Network -- Christmas 2001 - The Base -- Looking for Paradise -- Chapter 6 Mostly True Predictions.
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    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press
    ISBN: 9789048504602
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (118 pages)
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    Paralleltitel: Print version Parenting in Planned Lesbian Families
    DDC: 306.7663
    Schlagwort(e): Gay and lesbian studies ; Gay parents ; Electronic books ; local ; Gay and lesbian studies ; Gay parents ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: PhD thesis on research on lesbian families in which the children were born to the lesbian relationship (planned lesbian families).
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Table of Contents -- I Parenting in Planned Lesbian Families - Introduction -- II Lesbian families and family functioning: An overview -- III Planned lesbian families: Their desire and motivation to have children -- IV Experiences of parenthood, couple relationship, social support, and child rearing goals in planned lesbian families -- V Family characteristics, child rearing and child adjustment in planned lesbian families -- VI Minority stress, experience of parenthood, and child adjustment -- VII Discussion -- References -- Summary -- Curriculum Vitae -- List of publications.
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    San Francisco : Encounter Books
    ISBN: 9781594034268
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (235 pages)
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.4/61
    Schlagwort(e): Biotechnology -- Social aspects ; Genetic engineering -- Social aspects ; Electronic books ; local ; Biotechnology ; Social aspects ; Genetic engineering ; Social aspects ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: " Scare headlines about the first human clones appear in our newspapers. Biotech companies brag about manufacturing human embryos as "products" for use in medical treatments. Events are moving so fast-and biotechnology seems so complicated-that many of us worry we can't keep up. But now, Wesley J. Smith provides us with a guide to the brave new world that is no longer a figment of our imagination, but a reality just around the corner of our lives. Smith unravels the mystery of stem cells and shows what's at stake in the controversy over using them for research. He describes the emerging science of human cloning-the most radical technology in history-and shows how it moves forward inexorably against the moral consensus of the world. But at the core of this highly readable and carefully researched book is a report on the gargantuan "Big Biotech" industry and its supporters in the universities and the science and bioethics establishments. Smith reveals how the lure of huge riches, mixed with the ideology of "scientism," threatens to impose on society a "new eugenics" that would dismantle ethical norms and call into question the uniqueness and importance of all human life. "At stake," he warns, "is whether science will continue to serve society, or instead dominate it." In Consumer's Guide to a Brave New World, Smith presents a clear-eyed vision of two potential futures. In one, we will use biotechnology as a powerful tool to treat disease and improve the quality of our lives. But in another, darker scenario, we will be steered onto the antihuman path that Aldous Huxley and other prophetic writers warned against half a century ago. ".
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Biotech New World -- The Great Stem Cell Debate of 2001 -- Reproduction as Replication -- The Foot in the Door to Brave New World -- Political Science -- Will Humans Remain Human? -- Food for Thought -- Glossary -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.
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    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press
    ISBN: 9780816697151
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (306 pages)
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Witt, Doris Black hunger
    Paralleltitel: Print version Black Hunger : Soul Food and America
    DDC: 305.896073
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    Schlagwort(e): Racism History 20th century ; African American women Social conditions ; Food Social aspects 20th century ; History ; African American women Race identity ; African American women Ethnic identity ; African American women -- Race identity ; African American women -- Ethnic identity ; African American women -- Social conditions ; Food -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century ; Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century ; Electronic books ; local ; African American women ; Ethnic identity ; African American women ; Race identity ; African American women ; Social conditions ; Food ; Social aspects ; United States ; History ; 20th century ; Racism ; United States ; History ; 20th century ; Electronic books ; USA ; Schwarze Frau ; Ernährung ; Ethnische Identität
    Kurzfassung: Black Hunger focuses on debates over soul food since the 1960s to illuminate a complex web of political, economic, religious, sexual, and racial tensions between whites and blacks and within the black community itself. Doris Witt draws on vaudeville, literature, film, visual art, and cookbooks to explore how food has been used both to perpetuate and to challenge racial stereotypes.
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Part I: Servant Problems -- One: "Look Ma, the Real Aunt Jemima!" Consuming Identities under Capitalism -- Two: Biscuits Are Being Beaten: Craig Claiborne and the Epistemology of the Kitchen Dominatrix -- Part II: Soul Food and Black masculinity -- Three: "Eating Chitterlings Is Like Going Slumming": Soul Food and Its Discontents -- Four: "Pork or Women": Purity and Danger in the Nation of Islam -- Five: Of Watermelon and Men: Dick Gregory's Cloacal Continuum -- Part III: Black Female Hunger -- Six: "My Kitchen Was the World": Vertamae Smart Grosvenor's Geechee Diaspora -- Seven: "How Mama Started to Get Large": Eating Disorders, Fetal Rights, and Black Female Appetite -- Epilogue -- Appendix: African American Cookbooks -- Chronological Bibliography of Cookbooks by African Americans -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
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    Upper Saddle River, N.J. : FT Prentice Hall | Boston, MA :Safari,
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: xvii, 185 p. ; , 24 cm
    DDC: 302.35
    Schlagwort(e): Arthur Andersen & Co ; Corporate culture ; Electronic books ; local
    Kurzfassung: " Inside Arthur Andersen provides a perceptive analysis of the changes in cultural values that took Andersen from the top of the accounting profession to its doom.The authors do a superb job of analyzing the historical Andersen culture and the varied forces that led to dramatic changes in that culture in recent years. In addition, the authors display great insight into what made Andersen great and the changes that led it to fail, while also raising serious questions about the remaining accounting firms and whether they understand how they must change to survive. In the struggle between public interest and private profit, private profit won out only to cause Andersen to fail."-Arthur R. Wyatt, Retired Partner, Arthur Andersen, former member, FASB, and past Chairman, IASC "This book provides a thought-provoking account of how the firm's culture changed over time. It is balanced and helped me make sense of what happened to our once-great firm."-James Brennan, former Associate Partner, Andersen Consulting "This author team is the best to provide insider insights and credible explanations of what happened at Arthur Andersen and why it happened. The story they tell contains valuable lessons for all companies and leaders and is a must-read for anyone interested in the health and well-being of companies today."-D.Quinn Mills, Harvard Business School, and author of Wheel, Deal, and Steal . "The wave of corporate financial scandals has served to emphasize the critical role of the external auditor in maintaining a market economy. Arthur Andersen had a distinguished history of being the 'gold standard' of the profession. How this highly respected firm lost its bearings is the subject of a superb, serious study by former Andersen employees. Inside Arthur Andersen is and will remain the definitive explanation of the downward spiral to Enron."-Leonard R. Sayles, Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University " Inside Arthur Andersen provides a lively excursion through the conflicting goals and values that permeate organizations in general and the public accounting profession in particular. The story of the birth and death of the Arthur Andersen firm is loaded with lessons for us all. This book should appeal especially to readers who want an overview of the dramatic consequences of Andersen's changing values through the years."-Charles T. Horngren, Stanford Graduate School of Business " Inside Arthur Andersen provides an outstanding chro...
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    Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Financial Times Prentice Hall | Boston, MA :Safari,
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: xix, 245 p. , ill. ; , 24 cm
    DDC: 306.3
    Schlagwort(e): Globalization ; Money ; Wealth ; Electronic books ; local
    Kurzfassung: The debate on globalization is over. Globalization has won, and it's working. In Money Changes Everything , Peter Marber offers incontrovertible proof that new prosperity is spreading worldwide and transforming everything it touches: culture, religion, families, politics, education, leisure, and much more. Marber reveals what to expect in your own life, business, and investments--and how to profit from the deepest and most rapid changes in human history.
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA
    ISBN: 9780195135831
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (271 p.)
    Ausgabe: Online-Ausg.
    Paralleltitel: Print version The Engines of Our Ingenuity : An Engineer Looks at Technology and Culture
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Lienhard, John H., 1930 - The engines of our ingenuity
    DDC: 303.48/3
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    Schlagwort(e): Technology -- Social aspects ; Creative ability in technology ; Electronic books ; local ; Creative ability in technology ; Technology ; Social aspects ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Technik ; Geschichte ; Ingenieurwissenschaften ; Kreativität
    Kurzfassung: Millions of people have listened to John H. Lienhard's radio program "The Engines of Our Ingenuity." In this fascinating book, Lienhard gathers his reflections on the nature of technology, culture, and human inventiveness. The book brims with insightful observations. Lienhard writes that the history of technology is a history of us--we are the machines we create. Thus farming dramatically changed the rhythms of human life and redirected history. War seldom fuels invention--radar, jets, and the digital computer all emerged before World War II began. And the medieval Church was a drivi
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents; Preface; 1 Mirrored by Our Machines; 2 God, the Master Craftsman; 3 Looking Inside the Inventive Mind; 4 The Common Place; 5 Science Marries into the Family; 6 Industrial Revolution; 7 Inventing America; 8 Taking Flight; 9 Attitudes and Technological Change; 10 War and Other Ways to Kill People; 11 Major Landmarks; 12 Systems, Design, and Production; 13 Heroic Materialism; 14 Who Got There First; 15 Ever-Present Dangers; 16 Technology and Literature; 17 Being There; Correlation of the Text with the Radio Program; Notes; Index;
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    Buckingham : McGraw-Hill Education
    ISBN: 9780335230044
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (194 pages)
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Michael, Mike Technoscience and everyday life
    DDC: 303.483
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    Schlagwort(e): Electronic books ; local ; Science ; Social aspects ; Technology ; Social aspects ; Electronic books ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Gesellschaft ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Alltag
    Kurzfassung: Examines the complex relations between technoscience and everyday life. This book on numerous examples, including both mundane technologies such as Velcro, Post-it notes, mobile phones and surveillance cameras, and the esoterica of xenotransplantation, new genetics, nanotechnology and posthuman society.
    Kurzfassung: Front cover -- Half title -- Tilte -- Copy right -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Between technoscience and everyday life -- Chapter 2 Versions of everyday life and technoscience -- Chapter 3 Technoscientific bodies: making the corporeal in everyday life -- Chapter 4 Technoscientific citizenship: the micropolitics of everyday life -- Chapter 5 Technoscience and the making of society in everyday life -- Chapter 6 Technoscience and the enactment of everyday spatiality -- Chapter 7 Technoscience, dis/ordering and temporality in everyday life -- Chapter 8 Conclusion: questions of technoscience, everyday life and identity -- References -- Index -- Back cover.
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    Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall | Boston, MA :Safari,
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: xxiv, 469 p. ; , 24 cm
    DDC: 303.48/33
    Schlagwort(e): Information society ; United States ; Information technology ; Economic aspects ; United States ; Information technology ; Social aspects ; United States ; Electronic books ; local
    Kurzfassung: Making the Information Society illuminates the complex chain of experiences,consequences, and possibilities that launched the information age in theU.S., and drive it onward today. Dr. James Cortada shows how Americans haveleveraged information technology in every area of their lives -- and offersa provocative look at the next phase of this new American revolution.
    Anmerkung: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Cary : Oxford University Press USA - OSO
    ISBN: 9780198033400
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (178 pages)
    Ausgabe: 2nd ed.
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Feenberg, Andrew, 1943 - Transforming technology
    Paralleltitel: Print version Transforming Technology : A Critical Theory Revisited
    DDC: 306.46
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    Schlagwort(e): Critical theory ; Technology -- Philosophy ; Technology -- Social aspects ; Electronic books ; local ; Critical theory ; Technology ; Philosophy ; Technology ; Social aspects ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Technikphilosophie ; Techniksoziologie
    Kurzfassung: Thoroughly revised, this new edition of Critical Theory of Technology rethinks the relationships between technology, rationality, and democracy, arguing that the degradation of labor--as well as of many environmental, educational, and political systems--is rooted in the social values that preside over technological development. It contains materials on political theory, but the emphasis has shifted to reflect a growing interest in the fields of technology and cultural studies.
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. Introduction: The Varieties of Theory -- Part I : From Marxism to Radical Critique -- 2. Technology and Transition -- 3. The Bias of Technology -- Part II : The Ambivalence of the Computer -- 4. Postindustrial Discourses -- 5. The Factory or the City : Which Model for Online Education? -- Part III : The Dialectics of Technology -- 6. Beyond the Dilemma of Development -- 7. The Critical Theory of Technology -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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    Indianapolis, Ind. : New Riders | Boston, MA :Safari,
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: xxvii, 307 p. , ill. ; , 23 cm
    DDC: 303.48/33
    Schlagwort(e): Community ; Electronic discussion groups ; Internet ; Social aspects ; Online chat groups ; Web sites ; Design ; World Wide Web ; Social aspects ; Electronic books ; local
    Kurzfassung: This book is available as an Adobe Reader eBook on the publisher's website:  newriders.com Communities are part of all successful web sites in one way or another. It looks at the different stages that must be understood: Philosophy: Why does your site need community? What are your measures of success? Architecture: How do you set up a site to createpositive experience? How do you coax people out of their shells and get them to share their experiences online? Design: From color choice to HTML, how do you design the look of a community area? Maintenance: This section will contain stories of failed web communities, and what they could have done to stay on track, as well as general maintenance tips and tricks for keeping your community "garden" growing.
    Anmerkung: Includes index
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  • 70
    ISBN: 9780826425539
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (135 pages)
    Ausgabe: 1st ed.
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.2/244/0285
    Schlagwort(e): Literacy -- Study and teaching -- Technological innovations ; Computer-assisted instruction ; Educational innovations ; Information technology ; Computers and literacy ; Electronic books ; local ; Computer-assisted instruction ; Computers and literacy ; Educational innovations ; Information technology ; Literacy ; Study and teaching ; Technological innovations ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction: New Literacies, New Technologies? -- Part One: Theoretical Perspectives -- 1 ICT and Literacy -- 2 Communicating Meaning - Reading and Writing in a Multimedia World -- 3 Skills for Life: New Meanings and Values for Literacies -- Part Two: Applications -- 4 A New Relationship with Media? -- 5 Electronic Communication in the Twenty-first-century Classroom -- 6 Bitesize Learning: An Evaluation of Four History-based CD-ROMs -- 7 Reader Development in Libraries -- Part Three: Professional Issues -- 8 E-mail: The New Way to Write a Phone Call - Perspectives of an ICT Novice -- 9 Special Educational Needs and New Literacies -- 10 Curriculum Development and Implications for the Future -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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    ISBN: 9781592138098 , 9781566397971
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (295 pages)
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als The critical study of work
    DDC: 331
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    Schlagwort(e): Working class-History-20th century ; Work environment-History-20th century ; Technological innovations-History-20th century ; Electronic books ; local ; Electronic books ; Technological innovations ; History ; 20th century ; Work environment ; History ; 20th century ; Working class ; History ; 20th century ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Arbeitswelt ; Technische Innovation ; Arbeitssoziologie
    Kurzfassung: Two broad developments reshaped work at the end of the twentieth century. The first was the implosion of the Soviet Union and the worldwide triumph of market capitalism. The second was the increasing use of computer-based production technologies and management command-and-control systems. How do we make sense of these important developments. The editors have assembled a collection of provocative, original essays on work and workplaces throughout the world that challenge the current celebration of globalization and new technologies. Building on labor process analysis, individual case studies venture beyond factory and office to examine "virtual" workplaces, computer-era cottage work, and emotional and household labor. The settings range from Indian and Irish software factories to Brazilian supermarkets, Los Angeles sweatshops, and Taiwanese department stores. Other essays seek to make theoretical sense of increasingly de-centered production chains, fluid work relations, and uncertain employment. Individually and collectively the authors construct a new critical study of work, highlighting the connections between geography, technology, gender, race, and class. They offer an accessible and flexible approach to the study of workplace relations and production organization -- and even the notion of work itself.
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Making Sense of Work in the Twenty-First Century -- Part I: Continuity and Change -- 1. Dwelling in Capitalism, Traveling Through Socialism -- 2. Do Capitalists Matter in the Capitalist Labor Process? Collective Capacities, Group Interests, and Management Prerogatives, c. 1886-1904 -- Part II: Service and Service Sector Workers -- 3. Gender, Race, and the Organization of Reproductive Labor -- 4. The Body as a Contested Terrain for Labor Control: Cosmetics Retailers in Department Stores and Direct Selling -- 5. Silent Rebellions in the Capitalist Paradise: A Brazil-Quebec Comparison -- Part III: Production and Industrial Workers -- 6. Flexible Despotism: The Intensification of Insecurity and Uncertainty in the Lives of Silicon Valley's High-Tech Assembly Workers -- 7. The Challenge of Organizing in a Globalized/Flexible Industry: The Case of the Apparel Industry in Los Angeles -- 8. Transcending Taylorism and Fordism? Three Decades of Work Restructuring -- 9. Manufacturing Compromise: The Dynamics of Race and Class Among South African Shop Stewards in the 1990s -- Part IV: Professional and Technical Workers -- 10. "Globalization": The Next Tactic in the Fifty Year Struggle of Labor and Capital in Software Production -- 11. Controlling Technical Workers in Alternative Work Arrangements: Rethinking the Work Contract -- 12. Net-Working for a Living: Irish Software Developers in the Global Workplace -- About the Contributors.
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Making Sense of Work in the Twenty-First Century; Part I: Continuity and Change; 1. Dwelling in Capitalism, Traveling Through Socialism; 2. Do Capitalists Matter in the Capitalist Labor Process? Collective Capacities, Group Interests, and Management Prerogatives, c. 1886-1904; Part II: Service and Service Sector Workers; 3. Gender, Race, and the Organization of Reproductive Labor; 4. The Body as a Contested Terrain for Labor Control: Cosmetics Retailers in Department Stores and Direct Selling
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 5. Silent Rebellions in the Capitalist Paradise: A Brazil-Quebec ComparisonPart III: Production and Industrial Workers; 6. Flexible Despotism: The Intensification of Insecurity and Uncertainty in the Lives of Silicon Valley's High-Tech Assembly Workers; 7. The Challenge of Organizing in a Globalized/Flexible Industry: The Case of the Apparel Industry in Los Angeles; 8. Transcending Taylorism and Fordism? Three Decades of Work Restructuring; 9. Manufacturing Compromise: The Dynamics of Race and Class Among South African Shop Stewards in the 1990s; Part IV: Professional and Technical Workers
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 10. "Globalization": The Next Tactic in the Fifty Year Struggle of Labor and Capital in Software Production11. Controlling Technical Workers in Alternative Work Arrangements: Rethinking the Work Contract; 12. Net-Working for a Living: Irish Software Developers in the Global Workplace; About the Contributors;
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    ISBN: 9780874213973 , 9780874214048
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (234 pages)
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 304.2/09762/59
    Schlagwort(e): Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- San Juan River Valley (Colo.-Utah) -- Human ecology -- San Juan River Valley (Colo.-Utah) -- History ; Electronic books ; local ; Human ecology ; San Juan River Valley (Colo.-Utah) ; History ; Nature ; Effect of human beings on ; San Juan River Valley (Colo.-Utah) ; San Juan River Valley (Colo.-Utah) ; Environmental conditions ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Twelve Millennia on the San Juan -- I Prehistory: From Clovis Hunters to Corn Farmers -- II Navajos, Paiutes, and Utes: Views of a Sacred Land -- III Exploration and Science: Defining Terra Incognita -- IV Livestock: Cows, Feed, and Floods -- V Agriculture: Ditches, Droughts, and Disasters -- VI City Building: Farming the Triad -- VII Mining: Black and Yellow Gold in Redrock Country -- VIII The Federal Government: Dams, Tamarisk, and Pikeminnows -- IX San Juan of the Imagination: Local and National Values -- EPILOGUE Visions: Flowing from the Sunrise or a Water Spigot? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    Ottawa : International Development Research Centre
    ISBN: 9781552502822
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (266 pages)
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Gender and the information revolution in Africa
    Paralleltitel: Print version Gender and the Information Revolution in Africa
    DDC: 303.48/33/096
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    Schlagwort(e): Mass media and women Congresses ; Women in development Congresses ; Information technology Congresses ; Women in development -- Africa -- Congresses ; Information technology -- Africa -- Congresses ; Electronic books ; local ; Information technology ; Africa ; Congresses ; Women in development ; Africa ; Congresses ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Konferenzschrift ; Electronic books ; Konferenzschrift ; Afrika ; Internet ; Frau ; Informationstechnik
    Kurzfassung: Information is universally acknowledged to be a lynchpin of sustainable and equitable development. In Africa, however, access to information is limited, and especially so for rural women. The new information and communication technologies (ICTs), centred mostly on the Internet, provide potential to redress this imbalance. The essays in this book examine the current and potential impact of the ICT explosion in Africa. They focus specifically on gender issues and analyze the extent to which women's needs and preferences are being served. The authors underscore the need for information to be made directly relevant to the needs of rural women, whether in the areas of agriculture, health, microenterprise, or education. They argue that it is not enough for women simply to be passive participants in the development of ICTs in Africa. Women must also be decision-makers and actors in the process of using the new ICTs to accelerate African economic, social, and political development.
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Executive Summary -- Chapter 1 Convergence of Concepts: Gender and ICTs in Africa -- Chapter 2 Women, Men, and ICTs in Africa: Why Gender Is an Issue -- Chapter 3 Getting Gender into African ICT Policy: A Strategic View -- Chapter 4 Application of ICTs in Africa's Agricultural Sector: A Gender Perspective -- Chapter 5 Rethinking Education for the Production, Use, and Management of ICTs -- Chapter 6 Expanding Women's Access to ICTs in Africa -- Chapter 7 ICTs as Tools of Democratization: African Women Speak Out -- Chapter 8 Enhancing Women's Participation in Governance: The Case of Kakamega and Makueni Districts, Kenya -- Appendix 1 Contributing Authors -- Appendix 2 Acronyms and Abbreviations.
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    ISBN: 9780309516426
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (138 pages)
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 620
    Schlagwort(e): Engineering-Research-United States-Congresses ; Engineering-Technological innovations-United States-Congresses ; Electronic books ; local ; Engineering ; Research ; United States ; Congresses ; Engineering ; Technological innovations ; United States ; Congresses ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Front Matter -- Preface -- Contents -- Magnetic Recording: Winner of the Data Storage Technology Race -- Evolution of Large Multiprocessor Servers -- Network Survivability and Information Warfare -- Moving up the Information Food Chain: The Future of Web Search -- Genes, Chips, and the Human Genome -- Colloidal-Scale Engineering -- Design of Biomimetic Polymeric Materials -- Deregulating the Electric Grid: Engineering Challenges -- The Future of Nuclear Energy -- Renewable Energy Technologies: Today and Tomorrow -- Issues Associated with the Volume Manufacturing of Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers -- Optical Applications of Microelectromechanical Systems -- Career Flexibility in Rapidly Changing Times -- Break-out Session Outcomes -- Contributors -- Program -- Participants.
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    New York : Springer Publishing Company
    ISBN: 9780826116765
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (360 pages)
    Serie: Springer Series on the Societal Impact on Aging
    Serie: Societal impact on aging series
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Mobility and transportation in the elderly
    DDC: 305.26
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    Schlagwort(e): Older people -- Transportation ; Older automobile drivers ; Traffic accidents ; Electronic books ; local ; Older automobile drivers ; Older people ; Transportation ; Traffic accidents ; Electronic books ; Alter ; Verkehr ; Alter ; Kraftfahrer ; Verkehrsunfall
    Kurzfassung: This comprehensive volume examines the gradual reduction of mobility in the elderly. The authors first review the physiological and psychological changes that occur as we age, and go on to illustrate how this gradual decrease in adequate mobility can lead to an increase in automotive accidents. They also review the limitations that mass transportation systems and driving individual vehicles present for the elderly, and discuss different assistive devices that have been and should be implemented to help improve mobility. Each chapter ends with insightful commentaries by specialists in the gerontology field. This book is a must read for gerontologists as well as policy makers and educators on courses in organizational structures of social policy.
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1 Sensory and Cognitive Changes with Age -- Commentary: The Place of Ambient Vision in Understanding Problems of Mobility and Aging -- Commentary: Countering Mobility Losses Due to Functional Impairments in Normally Aging Individuals: Applying Fozard's Framework to Everyday Driving Situations -- 2 Effects of Exercise on Body Composition and Functional Capacity of Elderly Persons -- Commentary: Exercise, Activity, and Aging: Encouraging Words -- 3 Limitations of Mass Transportation and Individual Vehicle Systems for Older Persons -- Commentary: Social Structures and Processes in Public and Private Transportation -- Commentary: Into the Transportation Future -- 4 Characteristics of Motor Vehicle Crashes Related to Aging -- Commentary: What Do Driving Accident Patterns Reveal about Age-related Changes in Visual Information Processing? -- 5 Increasing Mobility and Reducing Accidents of Older Drivers -- Commentary: The Role of Concordance Between Perceived and Real Competence for Mobility Outcomes -- Commentary: Driving Competence: The Person X Environment Fit -- 6 Will Intelligent Transportation Systems Improve Older Driver Mobility? -- Commentary: Intelligent Transportation Systems and the Older Driver: An Auto Industry Perspective -- Commentary: Intelligent Transportation Systems and the Older Traveler: Prospects for Mobility Enhancement -- Author Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
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