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State Capitalism, Contentious Politics and Large-Scale Social Change
State capitalism is a normal form of capitalist development. Its extremes vary but it has been, and remains, central to understanding modern capitalism. This is especially the case in the so called Communist worlds of Russia and China, and for alternative...
MPN: 714fcef60e04ed6a46fa8d76c0c33081
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From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe
I read Peter Y. Paik s lucid, graceful, ruthless book in one single astonished sitting. I scarred it all over with arrows and exclamation points, so I can read it again as soon as possible." Bruce SterlingRevolutionary narratives in recent science fictio...
MPN: 7b158dd25ce406a16d910fb6179bd149
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The Globalisation of Modern Architecture: The Impact of Politics, Economics and Social Change on Architecture and Urban Design Since 1990
Taking the break-up of the Soviet Union and the entry of Russia, China and India into the global market as the start of a new era of globalisation, Robert Adam compares new developments in architecture and urban design with major shifts in the balance of...
MPN: 94667cde90023ba5bfed1e6e2773c0d7
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Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences
This book is an expanded and revised edition of the author's critically acclaimed volume Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences. In twenty-six succinct chapters, Jon Elster provides an account of the nature of explanation in the social sciences. He offers...
MPN: 362b7b27aea122d369e3a6bd208ac50f
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The Genealogical Science: The Search for Jewish Origins and the Politics of Epistemology
The Genealogical Science"analyzes the scientific work and social implications of the flourishing field of genetic history.A biological discipline that relies on genetic data in order to reconstruct the geographic origins of contemporary populations their...
MPN: a1aa2a9a1bc702fe8d94f42f87bf8731
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Political Culture, Political Science, and Identity Politics: An Uneasy Alliance
Hardcover, Ashgate Pub Co, 2014, ISBN13 9781472442284, ISBN10 1472442288
MPN: 6aa76c91e4e9053411636042bf5a9dcf
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The Art and Politics of Science
Jeffrey Sachs has called Harold Varmus a global scientist-statesman who bridges science and society to solve the weightiest global challenges. But as readers will learn in this engaging memoir chronicling one man s series of remarkable careers, as well as some of the central health-policy issues of our time, Varmus didn t decide that he was drawn to medicine until he was one year into a PhD in English literature Changing course in characteristically adventurous fashion, Varmus dove headfirst into medical sc...
MPN: faaf3bbeca7262faf400a5fb19de3bbd
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The Untold Story of Milk: The History, Politics and Science of Nature's Perfect Food: Raw Milk from Pasture-Fed Cows
The role of raw milk in the rise of civilization, the milk problem that led to compulsory pasteurization, the politics of the dairy industry. Revised and updated with the latest scientific studies documenting the safety and health benefits of raw milk. Raw milk is a movement whose time has come. This book will serve as a catalyst for that movement, providing consumers with the facts and inspiration they need to embrace Nature's perfect food....
MPN: 0eed6ee34eede18e8786d47308ada3f3
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Biohackers: The Politics of Open Science
Biohackers explores fundamental changes occurring in the circulation and ownership of scientific information. Alessandro Delfanti argues that the combination of the ethos of 20th century science, the hacker movement and the free software movement is producing an open science culture which redefines the relationship between researchers, scientific institutions and commercial companies. Biohackers looks at the emergence of the citizen biology community "DIYbio," the shift to open access by the American biolog...
MPN: b80f92f55befa87b8b19e703330b9273
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Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century
Paperback, Perseus Distribution Services, 2012, ISBN13 9781595588340, ISBN10 1595588345
MPN: f947d857d852fa52c6ee7ce6a3cb64ad
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Nutritionism: The Science and Politics of Dietary Advice
Popularized by Michael Pollan in his best-selling "In Defense of Food," Gyorgy Scrinis's concept of nutritionism refers to the reductive understanding of nutrients as the key indicators of healthy food - an approach that has dominated nutrition science, dietary advice, and food marketing. Scrinis argues this ideology has narrowed and in some cases distorted our appreciation of food quality, such that even highly processed foods may be perceived as healthful depending on their content of "good" or "bad" nutr...
MPN: 50089b977bfe3ee69a4a443b524ebb1d
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The Honest Broker: Making Sense for Science in Policy and Politics
For scientists seeking to play a positive role in policy and politics and contribute to the sustainability of the scientific enterprise, scientists have choices in what role they play. This book is about understanding this choice. Rather than prescribing what course of action each scientist ought to take, the book aims to identify a range of options. Using examples from a range of scientific controversies, The Honest Broker challenges us all - scientists, politicians and citizens - to think carefully about ...
MPN: 4b297911f55c78eb715ec6958edfad1b
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