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  • Ratings and Rankings in Higher Education

    A New-Materialist Exploration of How They Control Society

    by Jonas Thiel ...
    Series series Concepts for Critical Psychology
    This important work critically investigates the use of rating and ranking systems in higher education to show how they govern the academic population through the creation of competition and antagonism.From social media to PISA and Rotten Tomatoes, ratings and rankings exist everywhere in our daily lives. Seemingly benign in practice, they can structure and govern important parts of society, ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • Organizations

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Mary Jo Hatch ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Most of us recognize that organizations are everywhere. You meet them on every street corner in the form of families and shops, study in them, work for them, buy from them, pay taxes to them. But have you given much thought to where they came from, what they are today, and what they might become in the future? How and why do they have so much influence over us, and what influences them? How do ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Ethics, Technology, and Engineering

    An Introduction

    by Ibo van de Poel, Lamber Royakkers ...
    Featuring a wide range of international case studies, Ethics, Technology, and Engineering presents a unique and systematic approach for engineering students to deal with the ethical issues that are increasingly inherent in engineering practice.Utilizes a systematic approach to ethical case analysis -- the ethical cycle -- which features a wide range of real-life international case studies ... Read more

    $119.00 USD

  • Paradoxes of Media and Information Literacy

    The Crisis of Information

    by Jutta Haider, Olof Sundin ...
    Paradoxes of Media and Information Literacy contributes to ongoing conversations about control of knowledge and different ways of knowing. It does so by analysing why media and information literacy (MIL) is proposed as a solution for addressing the current information crisis.Questioning why MIL is commonly believed to wield such power, the book throws into sharp relief several paradoxes that are ... Read more

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  • Philosophy of Technology

    An Introduction for Technology and Business Students

    by Jan Hoogland, Jan van der Stoep, Maarten Verkerk, Marc de Vries ...
    Philosophy of Technology: An introduction for technology and business students is an accessible guide to technology’s changes , their ubiquitousness, and the many questions these raise. Designed for those with no philosophical background in mind, it is ideal for technology and engineering students or specialists who want to learn to think critically about how their work influences society and our ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Managing Complex Governance Systems

    Edited by Geert Teisman, Arwin van Buuren, Lasse M. Gerrits ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
    Advances in public management sciences have long indicated the empirical finding that the normal state of public management systems is complex and that its dynamics are non-linear. Complex systems are subject to system pressures, system shocks, chance events, path-dependency and self-organisation. Arguing that complexity is an ever-present characteristic of our developed societies and governance ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Re-Thinking Science

    Knowledge and the Public in an Age of Uncertainty

    by Helga Nowotny, Michael T. Gibbons, Peter B. Scott ...
    Re-Thinking Science presents an account of the dynamic relationship between society and science. Despite the mounting evidence of a much closer, interactive relationship between society and science, current debate still seems to turn on the need to maintain a 'line' to demarcate them. The view persists that there is a one-way communication flow from science to society - with scant attention given ... Read more

    $29.00 USD

  • International Encyclopedia of Human Geography

    by Rob Kitchin, Nigel Thrift ...
    The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography provides an authoritative and comprehensive source of information on the discipline of human geography and its constituent, and related, subject areas. The encyclopedia includes over 1,000 detailed entries on philosophy and theory, key concepts, methods and practices, biographies of notable geographers, and geographical thought and praxis in ... Read more

    $4,864.99 USD

  • Our War on Ourselves

    Rethinking Science, Technology, and Economic Growth

    by Willem H. Vanderburg ...
    Our approach to knowing and doing is based on delegating physical phenomena to physicists, biological phenomena to biologists, social phenomena to sociologists, economic phenomena to economists, and so on. This approach to knowledge and practice works very well when one category of phenomena dominates (as in mechanical and technical systems), but does not work when many categories of phenomena ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Knowledge Management Foundations

    by Steve Fuller ...
    'Knowledge Management Foundations' is just what it claims, the first attempt to provide a secure intellectual footing for the myriad of practices called "knowledge management." A breath of fresh air from the usual KM gurus, Fuller openly admits that the advent of KM is a mixed blessing that often amounts to the conduct of traditional management by subtler means. However, Fuller's deep ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Philosophy and Engineering: An Emerging Agenda

    Edited by Ibo van de Poel, David E. Goldberg ...
    Series Book 2 - Philosophy of Engineering and Technology
    Whereas science, technology, and medicine have all called forth dedicated philosophical investigations, a fourth major contributor to the technoscientific world in which we all live - that is, engineering - has been accorded almost none of the philosophical attention it deserves. This volume thus offers a first characterisation of this important new field, by some of the primary philosophers and ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • The Network Society

    A New Context for Planning

    Edited by Louis Albrechts, Seymour Mandelbaum ...
    Series series Networked Cities Series
    In a clear and rewarding style, Albrechts and Mandelbaum consider the challenges that the new paradigm of the Network Society creates for Urban and Regional Planning. Chapters grouped into five themes discuss theoretical and practical perspectives on the contemporary organization of social, economic, cultural, political and physical spaces. These sections are:models of the Network Societythe ... Read more

    $72.99 USD