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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “philippe renault”
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  • Site-directed insertion of transgenes

    Edited by Sylvaine Renault, Philippe Duchateau ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The post-genomic era has brought new challenges and opportunities in all fields of the biology. In this context, several genome engineering technologies have emerged that will help deciphering genes function by as well as improve gene therapy strategies. Genomic modifications such as knock-in, knock-out, knock-down, sequence replacement or modification can today be routinely performed. However, in ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • An Overview of the SIGMA Research Project

    A European Approach to Seismic Hazard Analysis

    by Alain Pecker, Ezio Faccioli, Aybars Gurpinar, Christophe Martin, Philippe Renault ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book presents a summary of the important outcomes of the SIGMA project related to all aspects of Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment: source characterization, rock motion characterization, site response characterization, and hazard calculations, with for all of them emphasis on the treatment of uncertainties.In recent years, attempts have been made to identify and quantify uncertainties ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • The Philosophy of Recognition

    Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

    by Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch, Frederick Neuhouser, Michael Quante, Ludwig Siep, Terry Pinkard, Daniel Brudney, Andreas Wildt, Nancy Fraser, Jay M. Bernstein, HeikkiI käheimo0, Axel Honneth1, Emmanuel Renault2, Jean-Philippe Deranty3, Arto Laitinen4 ...
    The theory of recognition is now a well-established and mature research paradigm in philosophy, and it is both influential in and influenced by developments in other fields of the humanities and social sciences. From debates in moral philosophy about the fundamental roots of obligation, to debates in political philosophy about the character of multicultural societies, to debates in legal theory ... Read more

    $183.99 CAD

  • The Return of Work in Critical Theory

    Self, Society, Politics

    by Jean-Philippe Deranty, Emmanuel Renault, Nicholas H. Smith, Christophe Dejours ...
    Series Book 56 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    From John Maynard Keynes’s prediction of a fifteen-hour workweek to present-day speculation about automation, we have not stopped forecasting the end of work. Critical theory and political philosophy have turned their attention away from the workplace to focus on other realms of domination and emancipation. But far from coming to an end, work continues to occupy a central place in our lives. This ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • The Return of Work in Critical Theory

    Self, Society, Politics

    by Christophe Dejours, Jean-Philippe Deranty, Emmanuel Renault, Nicholas H. Smith ...
    Series Book 56 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    From John Maynard Keynes’s prediction of a fifteen-hour workweek to present-day speculation about automation, we have not stopped forecasting the end of work. Critical theory and political philosophy have turned their attention away from the workplace to focus on other realms of domination and emancipation. But far from coming to an end, work continues to occupy a central place in our lives. This ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

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  • The Social Construction of Reality

    A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge

    by Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann ...
    A watershed event in the field of sociology, this text introduced "a major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge and sociological theory generally" (George Simpson, American Sociological Review ).In this seminal book, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann examine how knowledge forms and how it is preserved and altered within a society. Unlike earlier theorists and philosophers, Berger and ... Read more

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  • The Malaise of Modernity

    by Charles Taylor ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    In Malaise of Modernity, Charles Taylor focuses on the key modern concept of self-fulfillment, often attacked as the central support of what Christopher Lasch has called the culture of narcissism. To Taylor, self-fulfillment, although often expressed in self-centered ways, isn't necessarily a rejection of traditional values and social commitment; it also reflects something authentic and valuable ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • One-Dimensional Man

    Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

    by Herbert Marcuse ...
    Originally published in 1964, One-Dimensional Man quickly became one of the most important texts in the ensuing decade of radical political change. This second edition, newly introduced by Marcuse scholar Douglas Kellner, presents Marcuse's best-selling work to another generation of readers in the context of contemporary events. ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • The Social Construction of Reality

    A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge

    by Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann ...
    A general and systematic account of the role of knowledge in society aimed to stimulate both critical discussion and empirical investigations.This book is concerned with the sociology of ‘everything that passes for knowledge in society’. It focuses particularly on that ‘common-sense knowledge’ which constitutes the reality of everyday life for the ordinary member of society.The authors are ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Beautiful Risk of Education

    by Gert J. J. Biesta ...
    This is a book about what many teachers know but are increasingly being prevented from talking about: that real education always involves a risk. The risk is there because, as W. B. Yeats has put it, education is not about filling a bucket but about lighting a fire. It is there because students are not to be seen as objects to be moulded and disciplined, but as subjects of action and ... Read more

    $92.99 CAD

  • One-Dimensional Man

    Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

    by Herbert Marcuse ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    One of the most important texts of modern times, Herbert Marcuse's analysis and image of a one-dimensional man in a one-dimensional society has shaped many young radicals' way of seeing and experiencing life. Published in 1964, it fast became an ideological bible for the emergent New Left. As Douglas Kellner notes in his introduction, Marcuse's greatest work was a 'damning indictment of ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • The Theory of Communicative Action

    Lifeworld and Systems, a Critique of Functionalist Reason, Volume 2

    Translated by Thomas McCarthy ...
    by Jürgen Habermas ...
    This study offers a systematic reconstruction of the theoretical foundations and framework of critical social theory. It is Habermas' "magnum opus", and it is regarded as one of the most important works of modern social thought. In this second and final volume of the work, Habermas examines the relations between action concepts and systems theory and elaborates a framework for analyzing the ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD