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  • Change in Language

    Whitney, Bréal, and Wegener

    by Brigitte Nerlich ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1990, Change in Language provides a fresh view of the history of nineteenth-century language study by focusing on the writings of three linguists—Whitney, Bréal and Wegener in three countries—the United States, France, and Germany. The standard histories of linguistics portray the period between the 1840s and the 1890s as comprising a steady increase in philological knowledge, ... Read more

    $59.08 CAD

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  • Climate Change Communication and the Internet

    Edited by Nelya Koteyko, Brigitte Nerlich, Iina Hellsten ...
    The volume provides a timely, state of the art collection of studies examining climate change communication in the era of digital media. The chapters focus on a broad range of topics covering various aspects of both practice and research in climate change communication, ranging from the use of online platforms, to blogs, and social networking sites. Climate change communication has increasingly ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Communicating Biological Sciences

    Ethical and Metaphorical Dimensions

    by Richard Elliott ...
    Recent scandals in the biosciences have highlighted the perils of communicating science leading many observers to ask questions about the pressures on scientists and the media to hype-up claims of scientific breakthroughs. Journalists, science writers and scientists themselves have to report complex and rapidly-developing scientific issues to society, yet work within conceptual and temporal ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • On Language Change

    The Invisible Hand in Language

    by Rudi Keller ...
    Translated by Brigitte Nerlich ...
    In the twentieth century paradigms of linguistics have largely left language change to one side. Rudi Keller's book is an exciting contribution to linguistic philosophy becuase it puts language change back on the linguistics agenda and demonstrates that, far from being a remote mystery, it can and should be explained. ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • Mixing Methods in Psychology

    The Integration of Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Theory and Practice

    Edited by Zazie Todd, Brigitte Nerlich, Suzanne McKeown, David D. Clarke ...
    Can qualitative and quantitative methods be combined effectively in psychology? What are the practical and theoretical issues involved? Should different criteria be used to judge qualitative and quantitative research?The acceptance of qualitative research methods in psychology has lead to a split between qualitative and quantitative methods and has raised questions about how best to assess the ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

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  • Good Work

    When Excellence and Ethics Meet

    by William Damon, Howard Gardner, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ...
    What does it mean to carry out "good work"? What strategies allow people to maintain moral and ethical standards at a time when market forces have unprecedented power and work life is being radically altered by technological innovation? These questions lie at the heart of this eagerly awaited new book. Focusing on genetics and journalism-two fields that generate and manipulate information and thus ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • German Philosophy

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Andrew Bowie ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    German philosophy remains the core of modern philosophy. Without Kant, Frege, Wittgenstein, and Husserl there would be no Anglo-American 'analytical' style of philosophy. Moreover, without Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, the 'Continental Philosophy' of Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Badiou, and Zizek, which has had major effects on humanities subjects in recent years, is incomprehensible ... Read more

    $7.59 CAD

  • Ethics and Science

    An Introduction

    by Adam Briggle, Carl Mitcham ...
    Series series Cambridge Applied Ethics
    Who owns your genes? What does climate science imply for policy? Do corporations conduct honest research? Should we teach intelligent design? Humans are creating a new world through science. The kind of world we are creating will not simply be decided by expanding scientific knowledge, but will depend on views about good and bad, right and wrong. These visions, in turn, depend on critical thinking ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Ethical Imagination

    by Margaret Somerville ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    Science and technology force us to ask some of the most challenging and unprecedented ethical questions in the world today. These issues encompass what it means to be human, how we relate to others and our world, and how we find meaning in life. How we can find a shared ethics for an interdependent world? In her 2006 CBC Massey Lectures, ethicist and McGill University professor Margaret Somerville ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Designs on Nature

    Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States

    by Sheila Jasanoff ...
    Biology and politics have converged today across much of the industrialized world. Debates about genetically modified organisms, cloning, stem cells, animal patenting, and new reproductive technologies crowd media headlines and policy agendas. Less noticed, but no less important, are the rifts that have appeared among leading Western nations about the right way to govern innovation in genetics and ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Theory of Society, Volume 1

    by Niklas Luhmann ...
    Translated by Rhodes Barrett ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    This first volume of Niklas Luhmann's two-part final work was initially published in German in 1997. The culmination of his thirty-year theoretical project to reconceptualize sociology, it offers a comprehensive description of modern society on a scale not attempted since Talcott Parsons. Beginning with an account of the fluidity of meaning and the accordingly high improbability of successful ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Body

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Chris Shilling ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The human body is thought of conventionally as a biological entity, with its longevity, morbidity, size and even appearance determined by genetic factors immune to the influence of society or culture. Since the mid-1980s, however, there has been a rising awareness of how our bodies, and our perception of them, are influenced by the social, cultural and material contexts in which humans live. ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD