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In the Unlikely Event of a Water Landing: Lessons from Landing in the Hudson River
ISBN: 9781939267405 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The image on the book cover to the right is one of the top news images of our time. Immediately upon seeing it, we asked ourselves, "How could that happen? It would take a miracle " In the providence of God, one of the passengers on board was a Christian fourth-year medical student who got on the flight home to Charlotte, SC, standby, because his residency interviews in New York City, January 15, 2009 were concluded sooner than expected. From the book: "As I took my seat, I pulled out two books I had been reading on the interview trail. One, The Sovereignty of God, by Arthur W. Pink, was a...
The image on the book cover to the right is one of the top news images of our time. Immediately upon seeing it, we asked ourselves, "How could that ha...
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40,95 zł |
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The Making of Green Knowledge: Environmental Politics and Cultural Transformation
ISBN: 9780521792523 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Making of Green Knowledge provides a wide ranging introduction to the politics of the environment and the development of environmental knowledge. Focusing in particular on the quest in recent years for more sustainable forms of socio-economic development, it attempts to place environmental politics within a broad historical perspective, and examines the different political strategies and cultural practices that have emerged. The Making of Green Knowledge is a uniquely personal exploration of the relationship between sustainable development, public participation, and cultural...
The Making of Green Knowledge provides a wide ranging introduction to the politics of the environment and the development of environmental knowledge. ...
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448,56 zł |
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Technology Policy Meets the Public
ISBN: 9788773076118 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The second collection of papers written within the research project, Public Participation and Environmental Science and Technology Options (PESTO). The aim is to compare the reconstitution of environmental science and technology policy in eight European countries. The contention is that the involvement of the general public is crucial for the successful implemantation of policies for "sustainable development" and that, in this regard, the countries of Europe have a great deal to learn from each other's experiences.
The second collection of papers written within the research project, Public Participation and Environmental Science and Technology Options (PESTO). Th...
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76,44 zł |
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The Making of Green Knowledge: Environmental Politics and Cultural Transformation
ISBN: 9780521796873 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Making of Green Knowledge provides a wide ranging introduction to the politics of the environment and the development of environmental knowledge. Focusing in particular on the quest in recent years for more sustainable forms of socio-economic development, it attempts to place environmental politics within a broad historical perspective, and examines the different political strategies and cultural practices that have emerged. The Making of Green Knowledge is a uniquely personal exploration of the relationship between sustainable development, public participation, and cultural...
The Making of Green Knowledge provides a wide ranging introduction to the politics of the environment and the development of environmental knowledge. ...
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192,98 zł |
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The Making of Green Engineers: Sustainable Development and the Hybrid Imagination
ISBN: 9783031793530 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book discusses the ways in which engineering educators are responding to the challenges that confront their profession. On the one hand, there is an overarching sustainability challenge: the need for engineers to relate to the problems brought to light in the debates about environmental protection, resource depletion, and climate change. There are also a range of societal challenges that are due to the permeation of science and technology into ever more areas of our societies and everyday lives, and finally, there are the intrinsic scientific and technological challenges stemming from...
This book discusses the ways in which engineering educators are responding to the challenges that confront their profession. On the one hand, there is...
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107,67 zł |
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Seeds of the Sixties
ISBN: 9780520203419 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "The Sixties." The powerful images conveyed by those two words have become an enduring part of American cultural and political history. But where did Sixties radicalism come from? Who planted the intellectual seeds that brought it into being? These questions are answered with striking clarity in Andrew Jamison and Ron Eyerman's book. The result is a combination of history and biography that vividly portrays an entire culture in transition. The authors focus on specific individuals, each of whom in his or her distinctive way carried the ideas of the 1930s into the decades after World War...
"The Sixties." The powerful images conveyed by those two words have become an enduring part of American cultural and political history. But where did ...
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213,41 zł |
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Hubris and Hybrids : A Cultural History of Technology and Science
ISBN: 9780415949385 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Human societies have not always taken on new technology in appropriate ways. Innovations are double-edged swords that transform relationships among people, as well as between human societies and the natural world. Only through successful cultural appropriation can we manage to control the hubris that is fundamental to the innovative, enterprising human spirit; and only by becoming hybrids, combining the human and the technological, will we be able to make effective use of our scientific and technological achievements.
This broad cultural history of technology and science provides a range... Human societies have not always taken on new technology in appropriate ways. Innovations are double-edged swords that transform relationships among pe...
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700,25 zł |
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A Hybrid Imagination: Technology in Historical Perspective
ISBN: 9783031799730 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book presents a cultural perspective on scientific and technological development. As opposed to the "story-lines" of economic innovation and social construction that tend to dominate both the popular and scholarly literature on science, technology and society (or STS), the authors offer an alternative approach, devoting special attention to the role played by social and cultural movements in the making of science and technology. They show how social and cultural movements, from the Renaissance of the late 15th century to the environmental and global justice movements of our time, have...
This book presents a cultural perspective on scientific and technological development. As opposed to the "story-lines" of economic innovation and soci...
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107,67 zł |
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The Intellectual Appropriation of Technology: Discourses on Modernity, 1900-1939
ISBN: 9780262581660 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Starting around 1900, technology became a lively subject for debate among intellectuals, writers, and other opinion leaders. The expansion of the machine into ever more areas of social and economic life had led to a need to interpret its meanings in a more comprehensive way than in the past. World War I and its aftermath shifted the terms of this ongoing debate by underlining both the potential dangers of technology and its centrality to modern life.This book examines the broad range of social and intellectual responses to technology in the first four decades of this century, and suggests... Starting around 1900, technology became a lively subject for debate among intellectuals, writers, and other opinion leaders. The expansion of the m... |
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250,32 zł |
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