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  • Institutions of Global Governance

    Shifting Dynamics in a Turbulent World

    Edited by Jacint Jordana, Axel Marx, Marie Vandendriessche, Jan Wouters ...
    Series series Leuven Global Governance series
    This forward-thinking book provides a comprehensive overview of the expanding and fragmented landscape of global governance. Analyzing the shifting role of international organizations within this framework, it demonstrates the implications of growing uncertainty for global coordination and orchestration.Expert authors explore diverse global governance institutions and their interactions against ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Dream, Dare, Do. (ENG)

    by Conny Vandendriessche ...
    When lockdown first hit, I felt prompted to go on a world tour... a virtual journey through thirteen stories about dreaming, daring, and doing. My tour guides? Women entrepreneurs and leaders I hadn't met yet. They live and work on four of the world's five inhabited continents. We differ in how old we are, where we come from, and what we do. But there's a surprising amount we have in common: We ... Read more

    $24.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Indigenous Knowledge and Ethnomathematics

    Edited by Eric Vandendriessche, Rik Pinxten ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    The book presents a series of ethnographic studies, which illustrate issues of wider importance, such as the role of cultural traditions, concepts and learning procedures in the development of formal (or mathematical) thinking outside of the western tradition. It focuses on research at the crossroads of anthropology and ethnomathematics to document indigenous mathematical knowledge and its ... Read more

    $192.99 CAD

  • Scientists' Expertise as Performance

    Between State and Society, 1860–1960

    Edited by Joris Vandendriessche, Evert Peeters, Kaat Wils ...
    Series series History and Philosophy of Technoscience
    The essays in this collection explore our reliance on experts within a historical context and across a wide range of fields, including agriculture, engineering, health sciences and labour management. Contributors argue that experts were highly aware of their audiences and used performance to gain both scientific and popular support. ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • String Figures as Mathematics?

    An Anthropological Approach to String Figure-making in Oral Tradition Societies

    by Eric Vandendriessche ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book addresses the mathematical rationality contained in the making of string figures. It does so by using interdisciplinary methods borrowed from anthropology, mathematics, history and philosophy of mathematics. The practice of string figure-making has long been carried out in many societies, and particularly in those of oral tradition. It consists in applying a succession of operations to a ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Medical societies and scientific culture in nineteenth-century Belgium

    by Joris Vandendriessche ...
    Series Book 22 - Social Histories of Medicine
    This bookoffers the first comprehensive study of nineteenth-century medical societies as scientific institutions. It analyses how physicians gathered to share, discuss, evaluate, publish and even celebrate their studies, uncovering the codes of conduct that underpinned these activities. The book discusses the publishing procedures of medical journals, the tradition of oratory in academies, the ... Read more

    $142.99 CAD

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    by W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne ...
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    $21.99 CAD

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  • A Social History of Knowledge II

    From the Encyclopaedia to Wikipedia

    by Peter Burke ...
    Peter Burke follows up his magisterial Social History of Knowledge, picking up where the first volume left off around 1750 at the publication of the French Encyclopédie and following the story through to Wikipedia. Like the previous volume, it offers a social history (or a retrospective sociology of knowledge) in the sense that it focuses not on individuals but on groups, institutions, collective ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Humanocracy

    Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them

    by Gary Hamel, Michele Zanini ...
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    $33.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    by Gisela Kaplan ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory
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