The Science of Empire

Zaheer Baber

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Science, Technology, and Society
• Investigates the complex social processes involved in the introduction and institutionalization of Western science in colonial India. In Science, Civi... Lees meer

Controversial Science

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Science, Technology, and Society
• This book represents emerging alternative perspectives to the "constructivist" orthodoxy that currently dominates the field of science and technology ... Lees meer

The ABC of Armageddon

Peter H Denton

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Science, Technology, and Society
• An exploration of Bertrand Russell's writings during the interwar years, a period when he advocated "the scientific outlook" to insure the survival of... Lees meer

Knowledge Without Expertise

Raphael Sassower

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Science, Technology, and Society
• This book critically examines the reliance of society on experts, specifically attacking the notion of the privilege of scientific expertise and defin... Lees meer

Science, Paradox, and the Moebius Principle

Steven M Rosen

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Science, Technology, and Society
• Science, Paradox, and the Moebius Principle confronts basic anomalies in the foundations of contemporary knowledge. Steven M. Rosen deals with paradox... Lees meer

Peerless Science

Daryl E Chubin, Edward J Hackett

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Science, Technology, and Society
• This book examines the structure and operation of peer review as a family of quality control mechanisms and looks at the burdens placed on the various... Lees meer

Math Worlds

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Science, Technology, and Society
• An international group of distinguished scholars brings a variety of resources to bear on the major issues in the study and teaching of mathematics, a... Lees meer

The Science of Empire

Zaheer Baber

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Science, Technology, and Society
• Investigates the complex social processes involved in the introduction and institutionalization of Western science in colonial India. In Science, Civi... Lees meer

Energy Possibilities

Jesse S Tatum

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Science, Technology, and Society
• Examines the current and prospective energy sources and choices from the perspectives of science, technology, and social studies. Using the perspectiv... Lees meer

In Measure, Number, and Weight

Jens Hoyrup

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Science, Technology, and Society
• Jens Hoyrup, recognized as the leading authority in social studies of pre-modern mathematics, here provides a social study of the changing mode of mat... Lees meer

Degrees of Compromise

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Science, Technology, and Society
• Analyzes value changes arising from new university-industry research relationships. Degrees of Compromise probes the convergence of for-profit busines... Lees meer

In and about the World

Hans Radder

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Science, Technology, and Society
• Hans Radder is in the Philosophy Department at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He has also written The Material Realization of Science... Lees meer

Human Sciences

Jens Hoyrup

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Science, Technology, and Society
• Offers historical and philosophical arguments for treating the humanities as sciences. Human Sciences assesses the importance and value of the humanit... Lees meer

Science Without Myth

Sergio Sismondo

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Science, Technology, and Society
• This philosophical introduction to and discussion of social and political studies of science argues that scientific knowledge is socially constructed.... Lees meer

Women in Engineering

Judith S McIlwee, J Gregg Robinson

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Science, Technology, and Society
• Who are the women who became engineers in the 1970s and 1980s? How have they fared in the most male-dominated profession in America? This is the first... Lees meer

On the Shoulders of Merchants

Richard W Hadden

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Science, Technology, and Society
• This book shows how the universal quantification of science resulted from the routinization of commercial practices that were familiar in scientist's ... Lees meer

Beyond the Science Wars

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Science, Technology, and Society
• Contextualizes the "Science Wars" from interdisciplinary sociological, historical, scientific, political, and cultural perspectives. Beyond the Scienc... Lees meer

Galileo's Pendulum

Dusan I Bjelic

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Science, Technology, and Society
• Examines the history of science in light of recent theories of sexuality and the body. Drawing on the theories of Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, and ... Lees meer

Human Posture

John A Schumacher

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Science, Technology, and Society
• Schumacher has written a provocative work in the philosophy of science. In presenting posture as the most important aspect of life, Schumacher examine... Lees meer

Science, Technology, and Democracy

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Science, Technology, and Society
• Examines restrictions and potentialities for public access to science and technology decision making. Activists, scientists, and scholars in the socia... Lees meer

Ecologies of Knowledge

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Science, Technology, and Society
• This collection of articles provides a comprehensive overview of personal and public issues related to social change and how they shape scientific and... Lees meer

Visions of Sts

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Science, Technology, and Society
• Maps interconnections between science, technology, and society in order to understand both benefits and costs. Visions of STS brings together the view... Lees meer

Galileo's Pendulum

Dusan I Bjelic

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Science, Technology, and Society
• Examines the history of science in light of recent theories of sexuality and the body. Drawing on the theories of Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, and ... Lees meer

Visions of Sts

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Science, Technology, and Society
• Maps interconnections between science, technology, and society in order to understand both benefits and costs. Visions of STS brings together the view... Lees meer