Metric Society on the Quantification of the Social, Paperback - Steffen Mau

The number emphasis of new forms of social life - from likes and retweets to star ratings and scores at work - is considered in terms of its pernic...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 7 Line drawings, black and white; 28 Halftones, black and white; 35 Illustrations, black and whiteN...

Providing a radical new approach to labour migration, this book challenges the prevailing legal and political construction of the figure of the irr...

How new techniques of quantification shaped the New Deal and American democracy.When the Great Depression struck, the US government lacked tools to...

Technologies of the New Real explores the human impact of technology in the twenty-first century.Publisher: University of Toronto PressAuthor(s): M...

The book brings together contributions from curriculum history, cultural studies, visual cultures, and science and technology studies to explore th...

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A distinguished international group of scholars traces the history of the social sciences, describes the recent debates surrounding them, and discu...

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Indicators simplify complex issues and produce numeric evidence to guide and justify decision-making. However, we know little about the social proc...

The study Reimagining the Library of the Future investigates the various models of public buildings and civic space through the lens of the library...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressIllustration(s): 2 halftones, 5 tablesNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 151 x 230 x 2...

"The innovative essays in this volume . . . demonstrat e] the potential of the perspective of the affects in a wide range of fields and with a vari...

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As financial markets expand and continue to refashion the world in their own image, the wealth of capitalist societies no longer presents itself, a...

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Publisher: Wirklichkeit BooksAuthor(s): Steffen ZilligPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 215 x 284 x 6Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera fa...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressIllustration(s): 2 halftones, 5 tablesNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 158 x 237 x 2...

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is an established methodology used to quantify the environmental impacts of products, processes and services. Circular ...

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The book combines case studies with diverse groups across the country that are using different media - including mural arts, dance, and video - wit...

In Tales of the Metric System, Coovadia explores a turbulent South Africa from 1970 into the present. He takes his home country's transition from i...

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Explores several classic works of social and political thought, examining how the history of their publication materially affected their meaning an...

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A far-reaching deconstruction of neoliberalism's economic agenda, political imposition and mystifying techniques Exploring the genesis of neolibera...

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Contributor(s): Author: Amitai EtzioniThis book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This timely book addresses the conflict between globalism ...

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Presents 213 documents on the theory, planning, and execution of, and reaction and resistance to, the Nazi plan to exterminate European Jews, from ...

As democracy shows signs of decay, how do we not only arrest its decline but build something better - a state which is democratic in the fullest se...

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Paths to Prison aims to expand the ways the built environment's relationship to and participation in the carceral state is understood in architectu...

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