A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society, Paperback - Mary Poovey

How did the fact become modernity's most favored unit of knowledge? How did description come to seem separable from theory in the precursors of eco...

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

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Warren TreadgoldThis is the first comprehensive and up-to-date history of Byzantium to appear in almost sixty years, and th...

Documents reflects on the new challenges to humanistic social science in a world in which the subjects of research increasingly share the professio...

Argues that gender relations have been a particular casualty of unexamined assumptions held by Western anthropologists and feminist scholars alike....

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

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 75 bw illusNumber of pages: 256Collection: The Cultural Histories SeriesPublication date: 2022...

Reducere. If You're Curious About NLP, This Book Will Help You Get Started What if you woke up with the mindset of a self-made millionaire?What if you could ...

Knowledge and the Early Modern City uses case studies from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries to examine the relationships between knowledge...

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. Do you know who - and what - you are? Do you know who you're meant to be? Do you know how to find the answers to questions like these? Knowledge of...

Reducere. Fascinating in its own right, new growth theory helps to explain dominant first-mover firms like IBM or Microsoft, underscores the value of intelle...

Publisher: SAGE Publications IncAuthor(s): David LuddenNumber of pages: 488Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 218 x 281 x 19Cover type: Paperback / ...

What is the history of knowledge? This engaging and accessible introduction explains what is distinctive about the new field of the history of know...

Knowledge Worlds reconceives the university as a media complex through which knowledge is made, conveyed, and withheld. Reinhold Martin argues that...

Publisher: Cornell University PressAuthor(s): Mary C. NeuburgerIllustration(s): 18 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 246Publication date: ...

Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of ...

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Reducere. Ancient Wisdom, Modern Science is a collection of essays examining the experiences of Native American tribally controlled colleges and universities...

Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes from family and friends, experts...

Like Foucault's earlier works, The History of Sexuality (1976) is ground-breaking and controversial. His claim that sexuality is more a social conc...

DescriptionHerbert Simon's classic work on artificial intelligence in the expanded and updated third edition from 1996, with a new introduction by ...

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

This is an innovative and accessible study of how decolonization is engaged with, subverted, and transformed as a curriculum change project in univ...

The scholarly culture of Ming dynasty China is often seen as prioritizing philosophy over concrete textual study. Nathan Vedal uncovers the preoccu...

Reducere. Dirty Knowledge explores the failure of traditional conceptions of academic freedom in the age of neoliberalism. While examining and rejecting the ...

'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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Presents US History from 1900 to 1945. This work features a historical narrative that looks at the period from the 1890s to 1945. It is a synthesis...

In a letter of 1932, Karl Popper described Die beiden Grundprobleme der Erkenntnistheorie – The Two Fundamental Problems of the Theory of Knowledge...

Reducere. It is the tragedy of Queen Mary that today, 450 years after her death, she remains the most hated, least understood monarch in English history--rem...

Publisher: James Clarke & Co LtdNumber of pages: 215Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 154 x 233 x 18Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera far...