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  • Bird Observatories of Britain and Ireland

    by Mike Archer, Mark Grantham, Peter Howlett, Steven Stansfield, Bird Observatories Council ...
    Series series Poyser Monographs
    A comprehensive survey of the valuable work undertaken by Britain's network of bird observatories, with summaries and tables of noteworthy events and much historical background.Bird observatories are research stations established mainly for the study of migration, particularly by means of ringing. There are now 18 scattered around the Britain and Ireland at key points on migration routes, on ... Read more

    $66.99 CAD

  • How Well Do Facts Travel?

    The Dissemination of Reliable Knowledge

    Edited by Peter Howlett, Mary S. Morgan ...
    This book discusses how facts travel, and when and why they sometimes travel well enough to acquire a life of their own. Whether or not facts travel in this manner depends not only on their character and ability to play useful roles elsewhere, but also on the labels, packaging, vehicles and company that take them across difficult terrains and over disciplinary boundaries. These diverse stories of ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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  • Key Concepts in Geography

    Edited by Professor Nicholas Clifford, Dr Sarah L Holloway, Dr Stephen P Rice, Professor Gill Valentine ...
    Including ten new chapters on nature, globalization, development and risk, and a new section on practicing geography, this is a completely revised and updated edition of the best-selling, standard student resource.Key Concepts in Geography explains the key terms - space, time, place, scale, landscape - that define the language of geography. It is unique in the reference literature as it provides - ... Read more

    $125.59 CAD

  • Science in an Age of Unreason

    by John Staddon ...
    Science is undergoing an identity crisis! A renown psychologist and biologist diagnoses our age of wishful, magical thinking and blasts out a clarion call for a return to reason and the search for objective knowledge and truth. Fans of Matt Ridley and Nicholas Wade will adore this trenchant meditation and call to action.Science is in trouble. Real questions in desperate need of answers—especially ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Controversy Mapping

    A Field Guide

    by Tommaso Venturini, Anders Kristian Munk ...
    As disputes concerning the environment, the economy, and pandemics occupy public debate, we need to learn to navigate matters of public concern when facts are in doubt and expertise is contested.Controversy Mapping is the first book to introduce readers to the observation and representation of contested issues on digital media. Drawing on actor-network theory and digital methods, Venturini and ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

  • The Social Construction of Technological Systems, anniversary edition

    New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology

    Edited by Wiebe E. Bijker, Thomas Parke Hughes, Trevor Pinch ...
    An anniversary edition of an influential book that introduced a groundbreaking approach to the study of science, technology, and society.This pioneering book, first published in 1987, launched the new field of social studies of technology. It introduced a method of inquiry—social construction of technology, or SCOT—that became a key part of the wider discipline of science and technology studies. ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Posthuman Glossary

    Edited by Maria Hlavajova, Professor Rosi Braidotti ...
    Series series Theory in the New Humanities
    If art, science, and the humanities have shared one thing, it was their common engagement with constructions and representations of the human. Under the pressure of new contemporary concerns, however, we are experiencing a “posthuman condition”; the combination of new developments-such as the neoliberal economics of global capitalism, migration, technological advances, environmental destruction on ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Science In Society

    An Introduction to Social Studies of Science

    by Massimiano Bucchi ...
    Series series Key Concepts
    The world around us is continually being shaped by science, and by society’s relationship to it. In recent years sociologists have been increasingly preoccupied with the latter, and now in this fascinating book, Massimiano Bucchi provides a brief introduction to this topical issue.Bucchi provides clear and unassuming summaries of all the major theoretical positions within the sociology of science, ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • The Philosophy of Human Evolution

    by Michael Ruse ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Biology
    This book provides a unique discussion of human evolution from a philosophical viewpoint, looking at the facts and interpretations since Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man. Michael Ruse explores such topics as the nature of scientific theories, the relationships between culture and biology, the problem of progress and the extent to which evolutionary issues pose problems for religious beliefs. He ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Weathered

    Cultures of Climate

    by Mike Hulme ...
    Climate is an enduring idea of the human mind and also a powerful one. Today, the idea of climate is most commonly associated with the discourse of climate-change and its scientific, political, economic, social, religious and ethical dimensions. However, to understand adequately the cultural politics of climate-change it is important to establish the different origins of the idea of climate itself ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Exploring the Boundaries of Landscape Architecture

    Edited by Simon Bell, Richard Stiles, Ingrid Herlin ...
    What have cultural anthropologists, historical geographers, landscape ecologists and environmental artists got in common? Along with eight other disciplines, from domains as diverse as planning and design, the arts and humanities as well as the social and natural sciences, they are all fields of importance to the theory and practice of landscape architecture.In the context of the EU funded LE ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

  • Routledge Handbook of Public Communication of Science and Technology

    Edited by Massimiano Bucchi, Brian Trench ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Communicating science and technology is a high priority of many research and policy institutions, a concern of many other private and public bodies, and an established subject of training and education. In the past few decades, the field has developed and expanded significantly, both in terms of professional practice, and in terms of research and reflection. At the same time, particularly in ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD