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  • City of Intellect

    The Uses and Abuses of the University

    by Nicholas B. Dirks ...
    During his four years as the tenth Chancellor of Berkeley (2013–17), Nicholas B. Dirks was confronted by crises arguably more challenging than those faced by any other college administrator in the contemporary period. This thoughtfully candid book, emerging from deep reflection on his turbulent time in office, offers not just a gripping insider's account of the febrile politics of his time as ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Castes of Mind

    Colonialism and the Making of Modern India

    by Nicholas Dirks ...
    When thinking of India, it is hard not to think of caste. In academic and common parlance alike, caste has become a central symbol for India, marking it as fundamentally different from other places while expressing its essence. Nicholas Dirks argues that caste is, in fact, neither an unchanged survival of ancient India nor a single system that reflects a core cultural value. Rather than a basic ... Read more

    $60.49 CAD

  • Autobiography of an Archive

    A Scholar's Passage to India

    by Nicholas Dirks ...
    Series series Cultures of History
    The decades between 1970 and the end of the twentieth century saw the disciplines of history and anthropology draw closer together, with historians paying more attention to social and cultural factors and the significance of everyday experience in the study of the past. The people, rather than elite actors, became the focus of their inquiry, and anthropological insights into agriculture, kinship, ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Scandal of Empire

    India and the Creation of Imperial Britain

    by Nicholas B. Dirks ...
    Many have told of the East India Company’s extraordinary excesses in eighteenth-century India, of the plunder that made its directors fabulously wealthy and able to buy British land and titles, but this is only a fraction of the story. When one of these men—Warren Hastings—was put on trial by Edmund Burke, it brought the Company’s exploits to the attention of the public. Through the trial and ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • From the Margins

    Historical Anthropology and Its Futures

    by Nicholas B. Dirks, Talal Asad, Irene Silverblatt, Paul A. Silverstein, Brian Keith Axel ...
    Historical anthropology: critical exchange between two decidedly distinct disciplines or innovative mode of knowledge production? As this volume’s title suggests, the essays Brian Keith Axel has gathered in From the Margins seek to challenge the limits of discrete disciplinary epistemologies and conventions, gesturing instead toward a transdisciplinary understanding of the emerging relations ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Challenges of Technology and Economic Catch-up in Emerging Economies

    Edited by Jeong-Dong Lee, Keun Lee, Dirk Meissner, Slavo Radosevic, Nicholas Vonortas ...
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Innovation is a pivotal driving force behind economic growth. Technological capability deepens and diversifies industrial activity, which fundamentally enhances growth ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • Colonialism and Culture

    Edited by Nicholas B. Dirks ...
    Series series The Comparative Studies in Society and History Book Series
    Colonialism and Culture, edited by Nicholas B. Dirks, is an insightful exploration of the intricate relationship between colonialism and cultural transformation. The book features contributions that reflect how colonialism reshaped cultural identities and expressions across the globe, and how it remains a potent force defining both historical and contemporary landscapes. Drawing on cases from ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • Philosophy and Sociology: 1960

    by Theodor W. Adorno ...
    Translated by Nicholas Walker ...
    In summer 1960, Adorno gave the first of a series of lectures devoted to the relation between sociology and philosophy. One of his central concerns was to dispel the notion, erroneous in his view, that these were two incompatible disciplines, radically opposed in their methods and aims, a notion that was shared by many. While some sociologists were inclined to dismiss philosophy as obsolete and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Digital Fabrication with Cement-Based Materials

    State-of-the-Art Report of the RILEM TC 276-DFC

    Edited by Nicolas Roussel, Dirk Lowke ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book presents the work of the RILEM Technical Committee 276-DFC: Digital fabrication with cement-based materials. The most important outcomes of the technical committee are presented. First, a unified process classification for digital fabrication with concrete is proposed, discussed and illustrated. Then, a state of the art of the testing methods (both at a material and structural level and ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Culture/Power/History

    A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory

    Edited by Sherry B. Ortner, Geoffrey H. Eley, Nicholas Dirks ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
    The intellectual radicalism of the 1960s spawned a new set of questions about the role and nature of "the political" in social life, questions that have since revolutionized nearly every field of thought, from literary criticism through anthropology to the philosophy of science. Michel Foucault in particular made us aware that whatever our functionally defined "roles" in society, we are constantly ... Read more

    $72.59 CAD

  • AI Enabled Business

    A Smart Decision Kit

    by Melodena Stephens, Himanshu Vashishtha, Dirk Nicolas Wagner ...
    As the use of AI becomes more and more ubiquitous in companies around the world, managers charged with taking key decisions require resources to enable them to evaluate new projects effectively. The business case for AI projects is not necessarily clear cut and part of the reason for this is the lack of understanding on key decision criteria. AI touches on many ethical concepts - data privacy, ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

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  • Moral Relativism

    by Professor Steven Lukes ...
    Series series BIG IDEAS//small books
    Moral relativism attracts and repels. What is defensible in it and what is to be rejected? Do we as human beings have no shared standards by which we can understand one another? Can we abstain from judging one another's practices? Do we truly have divergent views about what constitutes good and evil, virtue and vice, harm and welfare, dignity and humiliation, or is there some underlying ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD