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  • A Field Guide to Climate Change

    Understanding the Problems

    by Adam Briggle ...
    This book is a guide for understanding climate change. It takes an interdisciplinary approach because climate change is simultaneously a matter of science, engineering, economics, politics, culture, ethics, and more. A Field Guide to Climate Change thus follows the contours of climate change as it appears in the world—as a tangle of problems. Briggle presents climate literacy as a form of problem ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • A Field Philosopher's Guide to Fracking

    How One Texas Town Stood Up to Big Oil and Gas

    by Adam Briggle ...
    Winner of the Writers' League of Texas Book AwardsFinalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Book PrizeFrom the front lines of the fracking debate, a “field philosopher” explores one of our most divisive technologies.When philosophy professor Adam Briggle moved to Denton, Texas, he had never heard of fracking. Only five years later he would successfully lead a citizens' initiative to ban hydraulic ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Ethics and Science

    An Introduction

    by Adam Briggle, Carl Mitcham ...
    Series series Cambridge Applied Ethics
    Who owns your genes? What does climate science imply for policy? Do corporations conduct honest research? Should we teach intelligent design? Humans are creating a new world through science. The kind of world we are creating will not simply be decided by expanding scientific knowledge, but will depend on views about good and bad, right and wrong. These visions, in turn, depend on critical thinking ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Field Philosophy

    Different Places, Different Cultures

    Edited by Robert Frodeman, Adam Briggle ...
    Philosophical issues often lie at the heart of societal problems, yet it is rare for philosophers to be actively engaged in the search for solutions. Conventionally, philosophy prioritizes the written word and the seminar room while living at a remove from everyday life. In contrast, field philosophy, the approach invoked by the chapters in this book, emphasizes the immediacy of the spoken word ... Read more

    $225.99 USD

  • Thinking Through Climate Change

    A Philosophy of Energy in the Anthropocene

    by Adam Briggle ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    In this creative exploration of climate change and the big questions confronting our high-energy civilization, Adam Briggle connects the history of philosophy with current events to shed light on the Anthropocene (the age of humanity).Briggle offers a framework to help us understand the many perspectives and policies on climate change. He does so through the idea that energy is a paradox: changing ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Socrates Tenured

    The Institutions of 21st-Century Philosophy

    by Robert Frodeman, Adam Briggle ...
    Series series Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society
    Professional philosophy has strayed so far from its roots that Socrates wouldn’t stand a chance of landing tenure in most departments today. After all, he spent his time talking with people from all walks of life rather than being buried in the secondary literature and polishing arguments for peer-reviewed journals. Yet somehow this hypertrophy styles itself ‘real’ philosophy.Socrates Tenured ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • The Good Life in a Technological Age

    Edited by Philip Brey, Adam Briggle, Edward Spence ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
    Modern technology has changed the way we live, work, play, communicate, fight, love, and die. Yet few works have systematically explored these changes in light of their implications for individual and social welfare. How can we conceptualize and evaluate the influence of technology on human well-being? Bringing together scholars from a cross-section of disciplines, this volume combines an ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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    A Field Philosopher's Guide to Fracking

    How One Texas Town Stood Up to Big Oil and Gas

    by Adam Briggle ...
    Narrated by Steven Menasche ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 33 min

    From the front lines of the fracking debate, a “field philosopher” explores one of our most divisive technologies.When philosophy professor Adam Briggle moved to Denton, Texas, he had never heard of fracking. Only five years later he would successfully lead a citizens' initiative to ban hydraulic fracturing in Denton-the first Texas town to challenge the oil and gas industry. On his journey to ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    New Openings for the Left

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  • Sustainable Knowledge

    A Theory of Interdisciplinarity

    by R. Frodeman ...
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    Sustainable Knowledge rethinks the nature of interdisciplinary research and the place of philosophy and the humanities in society and offers a new account of what is at stake in talk about 'interdisciplinarity'. ... Read more

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  • Sociology Study Guide: Society, Culture, Socialization, Groups , Deviance And Norms, Sexuality, Organizational Behavior, Inequality, Institutions And Mass Media, Famous Sociologists (Mobi Study Guides)

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  • Organizations

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Mary Jo Hatch ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
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