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Heavens On Earth - Observatories And Astronomy In Nineteenth-Century Science And Culture

52,93€ + 10% CARD

 A collection exploring the place of the observatory in nineteenth-century science, culture.
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Emergence And Embodiment - New Essays On Second-Order Systems Theory

46,31€ + 10% CARD

 Explores the cultural legacy of cybernetics and neocybernetics that offers new insight on the role of the human in an era of the posthuman.
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Growing Explanations - Historical Perspectives On Recent Science

52,93€ + 10% CARD

 Addresses a shift in the hierarchy of scientific explanations
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Tissue Economies - Blood, Organs, And Cell Lines In Late Capitalism

by Catherine Waldby e Robert Mitchell

42,33€ + 10% CARD

 Surveys the economies of exchange in human blood, tissues, and organs. This book compares tissue economies in the United Kingdom and United States. It features a series of case studies based on particular forms of tissue exchange and also considers the impact of different models of biotechnology patents on tissue economies.
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Genes In Development - Re-Reading The Molecular Paradigm

52,93€ + 10% CARD

 Explores the debate on the biological significance and cultural meaning of genes in the development of organisms - the molecular paradigm
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Complexities - Social Studies Of Knowledge Practices

46,31€ + 10% CARD

 Asks what is meant by complexity and how it might be handled within knowledge practices without generating a chaos of further complexities.
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Provocative Joan Robinson - The Making Of A Cambridge Economist

by Aslanbeigui Nahid Aslanbeigui e Oakes Guy Oakes

3,96€ + 10% CARD

 One of the most original and prolific economists of the twentieth century, Joan Robinson (1903-83) is widely regarded as the most important woman in the history of economic thought. Robinson studied economics at Cambridge University, where she made a career that lasted some fifty years. She was an unlikely candidate for success at Cambridge. A young woman in 1930 in a university dominated by men, she succeeded despite not having a remarkable academic record, a college fellowship, significant publications, or a powerful patron. In The Provocative Joan Robinson, Nahid Aslanbeigui and Guy Oakes trace the strategies and tactics Robinson used to create her professional identity as a Cambridge economist in the 1930s, examining how she recruited mentors and advocates, carefully defined her objectives, and deftly pursued and exploited opportunities.Aslanbeigui and Oakes demonstrate that Robinson's professional identity was thoroughly embedded in a local scientific culture in which the Cambridge economists A. C. Pigou, John Maynard Keynes, Dennis Robertson, Piero Sraffa, Richard Kahn (Robinson's closest friend on the Cambridge faculty), and her husband Austin Robinson were important figures. Although the economists Joan Robinson most admired-Pigou, Keynes, and their mentor Alfred Marshall-had discovered ideas of singular greatness, she was convinced that each had failed to grasp the essential theoretical significance of his own work. She made it her mission to recast their work both to illuminate their major contributions and to redefine a Cambridge tradition of economic thought. Based on the extensive correspondence of Robinson and her colleagues, The Provocative Joan Robinson is the story of a remarkable woman, the intellectual and social world of a legendary group of economists, and the interplay between ideas, ambitions, and disciplinary communities.
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Science Without Laws - Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives

46,31€ + 10% CARD

 A comparison of the use of model systems and exemplary cases across fields in the natural and social sciences.
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Mangle In Practice - Science, Society, And Becoming

46,31€ + 10% CARD

 Offering an introduction to the mangle, this book presents empirical studies that demonstrate the mangle's applicability to topics as diverse as pig farming, Chinese medicine, economic theory and domestic-violence policing.
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Body Multiple - Ontology In Medical Practice

by Annemarie Mol

34,38€ + 10% CARD

 Drawing on fieldwork in a Dutch university hospital, this title looks at the day-to-day diagnosis and treatment of atherosclerosis. It focuses on medical anthropology, sociology, feminist theory, philosophy, and science and technology studies to reframe such issues as the disease-illness distinction, subject-object relations, and boundaries.
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How Economics Became A Mathematical Science

by E. Roy Weintraub

46,31€ + 10% CARD

 Discusses the history of 20th century economics, and how it has become dominated by mathematical approaches.
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Chinese Medicine In Contemporary China - Plurality And Synthesis

by Volker Scheid

52,93€ + 10% CARD

 If Chinese medicine is "traditional," why has it not disappeared with the rest of traditional Chinese society? What is the secret to Chinese medicine's remarkable adaptability that has allowed it to prosper for more than 2000 years? This title deals with these questions.
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Aircraft Stories - Decentering The Object In Technoscience

by John Law

46,31€ + 10% CARD

 Tells "stories" about a British attempt to build a military aircraft - the TSR2. Offering numerous insights into the way we theorise the working of systems, this title explores the overlaps between singularity and multiplicity and reveals rich new meaning in such concepts as oscillation, interference, fractionality, and rhizomatic networks.
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Ontogeny Of Information - Developmental Systems And Evolution

by Susan Oyama

41,01€ + 10% CARD

 The Ontogeny of Information is a critical intervention into the ongoing and perpetually troubling nature-nurture debates surrounding human development. Originally published in 1985, this was a foundational text in what is now the substantial field of developmental systems theory. In this revised edition Susan Oyama argues compellingly that nature and nurture are not alternative influences on human development but, rather, developmental products and the developmental processes that produce them.Information, says Oyama, is thought to reside in molecules, cells, tissues, and the environment. When something wondrous occurs in the world, we tend to question whether the information guiding the transformation was pre-encoded in the organism or installed through experience or instruction. Oyama looks beyond this either-or question to focus on the history of such developments. She shows that what developmental "information" does depends on what is already in place and what alternatives are available. She terms this process "constructive interactionism," whereby each combination of genes and environmental influences simultaneously interacts to produce a unique result. Ontogeny, then, is the result of dynamic and complex interactions in multileveled developmental systems.The Ontogeny of Information challenges specialists in the fields of developmental biology, philosophy of biology, psychology, and sociology, and even nonspecialists, to reexamine the existing nature-nurture dichotomy as it relates to the history and formation of organisms.
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Evolution'S Eye - A Systems View Of The Biology-Culture Divide

by Susan Oyama

46,31€ + 10% CARD

 Elaborates on author's pioneering work on developmental systems by spelling out that work's implications for the fields of evolutionary theory, developmental and social psychology, feminism, and epistemology.
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Imre Lakatos And The Guises Of Reason

by John Kadvany

52,93€ + 10% CARD

 The Hungarian emigre Imre Lakatos (1922-1974) earned a worldwide reputation through the influential philosophy of science debates involving Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, and Sir Karl Popper. In Imre Lakatos and the Guises of Reason John Kadvany shows that embedded in Lakatos's English-language work is a remarkable historical philosophy rooted in his Hungarian past. Below the surface of his life as an Anglo-American philosopher of science and mathematics, Lakatos covertly introduced novel transformations of Hegelian and Marxist ideas about historiography, skepticism, criticism, and rationality.Lakatos escaped Hungary following the failed 1956 Revolution. Before then, he had been an influential Communist intellectual and was imprisoned for years by the Stalinist regime. He also wrote a lost doctoral thesis in the philosophy of science and participated in what was criminal behavior in all but a legal sense. Kadvany argues that this intellectual and political past animates Lakatos's English-language philosophy, and that, whether intended or not, Lakatos integrated a penetrating vision of Hegelian ideas with rigorous analysis of mathematical proofs and controversial histories of science.Including new applications of Lakatos's ideas to the histories of mathematical logic and economics and providing lucid exegesis of many of Hegel's basic ideas, Imre Lakatos and the Guises of Reason is an exciting reconstruction of ideas and episodes from the history of philosophy, science, mathematics, and modern political history.
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Effortless Economy Of Science?

by Philip Mirowski

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 A leading scholar of the history and philosophy of economic thought, Philip Mirowski argues that there has been a top-to-bottom transformation in how scientific research is organized and funded in Western countries over the past two decades and that these changes necessitate a reexamination of the ways that science and economics interact. Mirowski insists on the need to bring together the insights of economics, science studies, and the philosophy of science in order to understand how and why particular research programs get stabilized through interdisciplinary appropriation, controlled attributions of error, and funding restrictions.Mirowski contends that neoclassical economists have persistently presumed and advanced an "effortless economy of science," a misleading model of a self-sufficient and conceptually self-referential social structure that transcends market operations in pursuit of absolute truth. In the stunning essays collected here, he presents a radical critique of the ways that neoclassical economics is used to support, explain, and legitimate the current social practices underlying the funding and selection of "successful" science projects. He questions a host of theories, including the portraits of science put forth by Karl Popper, Michael Polanyi, and Thomas Kuhn. Among the many topics he examines are the social stabilization of quantitative measurement, the repressed history of econometrics, and the social construction of the laws of supply and demand and their putative opposite, the gift economy. In The Effortless Economy of Science? Mirowski moves beyond grand abstractions about science, truth, and democracy in order to begin to talk about the way science is lived and practiced today.
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The Body Multiple - Ontology In Medical Practice

by Annemarie Mol

108,15€ + 10% CARD

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 Suitable for those in medical anthropology, philosophy, and the social study of science, technology, and medicine, this book looks at the day-to-day diagnosis and treatment of atherosclerosis.
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The Body Multiple - Ontology In Medical Practice

by Annemarie Mol

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 Drawing on fieldwork in a Dutch university hospital, this title looks at the day-to-day diagnosis and treatment of atherosclerosis. It focuses on medical anthropology, sociology, feminist theory, philosophy, and science and technology studies to reframe such issues as the disease-illness distinction, subject-object relations, and boundaries.
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On The Modern Cult Of The Factish Gods

by Bruno Latour

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 Building on his earlier book We Have Never Been Modern, Bruno Latour develops his argument about the Modern fetishization of facts, or the creation of factishes.
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Aircraft Stories - Decentering The Object In Technoscience

by John Law

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 Tells "stories" about a British attempt to build a military aircraft - the TSR2. Offering numerous insights into the way we theorise the working of systems, this title explores the overlaps between singularity and multiplicity and reveals rich new meaning in such concepts as oscillation, interference, fractionality, and rhizomatic networks.
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Complexities - Social Studies Of Knowledge Practices

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 Asks what is meant by complexity and how it might be handled within knowledge practices without generating a chaos of further complexities.
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Three Faces Of Beauty - Casablanca, Paris, Cairo

by Susan Ossman

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 A trans-national study of female beauty based in an ethnographic study of beauty salons in Cairo, Casablanca, and Paris.
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Osler'S A Way Of Life And Other Addresses, With Commentary And Annotations

by William Osler

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 Sir William Osler (1849-1919) had a long and distinguished career as a physician and professor at McGill University, the University of Pennsylvania, the Johns Hopkins University, and finally, as the Regius Chair in Medicine at Oxford University.
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