Essays on Free Knowledge: The Origins of Wikipedia and the New Politics of Knowledge, Paperback - Larry Sanger

Reducere. For his long-awaited first book, Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger has revised some of his best essays on Wikipedia, intellectual autonomy, knowled...

As we interact online, we create new kinds of community and knowledge. How are these communities formed? How do we know whether to trust them as so...

Libraries need not see Wikipedia as competition; rather, failing to leverage its omnipresence in the online world constitutes a missed opportunity....

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): Peter BurkeNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 227 x 155 x 27Cover type: Paperback / softbackRe...

The first ethnography of Wikipedia's organization, governance, and power structure, Common Knowledge argues that many criticisms of Wikipedia have ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury AcademicAuthor(s): Seyed Hadi (University of Tehran, Iran) BorhaniNumber of pages: 264Collection: Unsettling Colonialism in o...

Pieter Bruegel the Elder - Fall of the Rebel Angels is the first comprehensive book on one of the most cherished masterpieces of the Royal Museums ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Power of Knowledge reveals the reality of "Knowledge, " the deeper spiritual mind within you which holds the key to finding your gre...

Foucault - The Key Ideas is a concise introduction to the ideas of arguably the most practically relevant philosopher today.

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Hannah Star RogersIllustration(s): 42 figuresNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 228 x 3...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Claudia LosiIllustration(s): 72 black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 152Publication date: 2021Dimension...

Reducere. The New World reveals a warning of the great change coming to our world and a prophetic vision of a future world for which we must prepare.The New ...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): WacquantNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 177 x 216 x 23Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedes...

Reducere. Why do we know so much more than we have evidence for in certain areas, and so much less in others? In tackling these questions--Plato's and Orwell...

Reducere. James F. Sulzby Book AwardCombining biography with regional and national history, Dan T. Carter chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of George Wal...

DescriptionBetween the early seventeenth and the mid-nineteenth century, the field of natural history in Japan separated itself from the discipline...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 232Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 234 x 157 x 25Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): ...

Reducere. This is a book by Shaykh al-Islam of Africa, al-Hajj Ibrahim Niasse. It concerns the prevelance of knowledge and thos endowed with knowledge over a...

Referencing Deleuzian philosophy, Azumi Tamura provides a different epistemological and ontological approach to the Social Movement Studies. She in...

DescriptionShortly after the giant bronze statue of Cecil John Rhodes came down at the University of Cape Town, student protestors called for the d...

Reducere. Winner of the 2014 Division of Women and Crime Distinguished Scholar Award presented by the American Society of Criminology Finalist for the 2013 C...

Reducere. Madness, sexuality, power, knowledge--are these facts of life or simply parts of speech? In a series of works of astonishing brilliance, historian ...

Not since the printing press has a media object been as celebrated for its role in the advancement of knowledge as the scientific journal. From ope...

Publisher: Gingko LibraryAuthor(s): Melanie GibsonNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 204 x 269 x 24Cover type: HardbackRedescope...

'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects' Steven PinkerIn very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the...

'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects' Steven PinkerIn very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the...

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Major changes have taken place in the organization and management of professional academic work within British universities in recent years. The au...

Publisher: Gingko LibraryAuthor(s): Ali M. AnsariNumber of pages: 340Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 204 x 269 x 31Cover type: HardbackRedescoper...

Publisher: Darton, Longman & Todd LtdAuthor(s): Rowan WilliamsNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 198 x 125 x 14Cover type: Paper...

Examines the opportunities for and constraints on advancing food sovereignty in the 17 de Abril settlement, a community born out of a massacre of l...

Leading historians, anthropologists, educators and designers explore the role of materiality in medical education. With a broad focus, internationa...

Reducere. This volume rejects the notion that Islam's sacred text is error free and cannot be critically evaluated. The study of the Koran must develop and m...

Reducere. DescriptionHe is a king, a druid, a war chieftain, a lover, and a worker of the land. He nourishes and he kills, he loves and he fights, in equal m...

Reducere. For generations the Rio Embudo watershed in northern New Mexico has been the home of Juan Estevan Arellano and his ancestors. From this unique pers...

Reducere. At the intersection of indigenous studies, science studies, and legal studies lies a tense web of political issues of vital concern for the surviva...

Reducere. Arming Americans to defend the truth from today's war on facts"In what could be the timeliest book of the year, Rauch aims to arm his readers to en...

Reducere. This book rediscovers a traditional mode of knowledge that remains viable today. Contrasted to the academic and cultural fads often based on the sc...

Marketing theory is often developed in isolation not collaboration; theoretical perspectives sometimes are ignorant of the diversity of marketing p...

Reducere. This book examines contemporary changes in labor market institutions in the United States, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands, focusing ...

Sets out for the first time the ancient views and debates about productive knowledge or techne through the whole period of antiquity, covering all ...

Reducere. In The Lettered Barriada, Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo tells the story of how a cluster of self-educated workers burst into Puerto Rico's world of le...

Reducere. In The Story of America, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore investigates American origin stories--from John Smith's account ...

In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not ...

Reducere. The Allies of Humanity are a group of individuals from several different worlds who came to the vicinity of the Earth to observe the alien Interven...

This book explores the intricate relationship between becoming an individual person and knowing oneself as such by studying Kant's distinctive acco...

Reducere. A trailblazing anthropologist and an indigenous Amazonian healer explore the convergence of science and shamanism "The dose makes the poison, " say...

DescriptionMany human beings have considered the powers and the limits of human knowledge, but few have wondered about the power that the idea of k...

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