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  • Music and Social Movements

    Mobilizing Traditions in the Twentieth Century

    by Ron Eyerman, Andrew Jamison ...
    Series series Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
    Building on their studies of sixties culture and theory of cognitive praxis, Ron Eyerman and Andrew Jamison examine the mobilization of cultural traditions and formulation of new collective identities through the music of activism. They combine a sophisticated theoretical argument with historical-empirical studies of nineteenth-century populists and twentieth-century labour and ethnic movements, ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Hubris and Hybrids

    A Cultural History of Technology and Science

    by Mikael Hård, Andrew Jamison ...
    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, ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • International Perspectives on Engineering Education

    Engineering Education and Practice in Context, Volume 1

    Edited by Steen Hyldgaard Christensen, Christelle Didier, Andrew Jamison, Martin Meganck, Carl Mitcham, Byron Newberry ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This inclusive cross-cultural study rethinks the nexus between engineering education and context. In so doing the book offers a reflection on contextual boundaries with an overall boundary crossing ambition and juxtaposes important cases of critical participation within engineering education with sophisticated scholarly reflection on both opportunities and discontents.Whether and in what way ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Engineering Identities, Epistemologies and Values

    Engineering Education and Practice in Context, Volume 2

    Edited by Steen Hyldgaard Christensen, Christelle Didier, Andrew Jamison, Martin Meganck, Carl Mitcham, Byron Newberry ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This second companion volume on engineering studies considers engineering practice including contextual analyses of engineering identity, epistemologies and values. Key overlapping questions examine such issues as an engineering identity, engineering self-understandings enacted in the professional world, distinctive characters of engineering knowledge and how engineering science and engineering ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • 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

    $98.09 USD

  • The House That Race Built

    Original Essays by Toni Morrison, Angela Y. Davis, Cornel West, and Others on Black Americans and Politics in America Today

    Edited by Wahneema Lubiano ...
    In these essays, brought together by the scholar Wahneema Lubiano, some of today's most respected intellectuals share their ideas on race, power, gender, and society.The authors, including Cornel West, Angela Y. Davis, and Toni Morrison, argue that we have reached a crisis of democracy represented by an ominous shift toward a renewed white nationalism in which racism is operating in coded, quasi ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • An Analysis of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique

    by Elizabeth Whitaker ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Betty Friedan's book The Feminine Mystique is possibly the best-selling of all the titles analysed in the Macat library, and arguably one of the most important. Yet it was the product of an apparently minor, meaningless assignment. Undertaking to approach former classmates who had attended Smith College with her, 10 years after their graduation, the high-achieving Friedan was astonished to ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • Banding Together

    How Communities Create Genres in Popular Music

    by Jennifer C. Lena ...
    Why do some music styles gain mass popularity while others thrive in small niches? Banding Together explores this question and reveals the attributes that together explain the growth of twentieth-century American popular music. Drawing on a vast array of examples from sixty musical styles--ranging from rap and bluegrass to death metal and South Texas polka, and including several created outside ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Technical Artefacts: Creations of Mind and Matter

    A Philosophy of Engineering Design

    by Peter Kroes ...
    Series Book 6 - Philosophy of Engineering and Technology
    This book presents an attempt to understand the nature of technical artefacts and the way they come into being. Its primary focus is the kind of technical artefacts designed and produced by modern engineering. In spite of their pervasive influence on human thinking and doing, and therefore on the modern human condition, a philosophical analysis of technical artefacts and engineering design is ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Open Mike

    by Michael Eric Dyson ...
    Here, collected for the first time, are interviews and essays representing Michael Eric Dyson's most important thinking on race and identity. Exploring such topics as "whiteness" as seen through a black man's eye, modernism and postmodernism in black culture, and the emancipating role of black music from the plantation to the ghetto, Open Mike is a perfect introduction to Dyson's work and a must ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Engineering Ethics for a Globalized World

    Edited by Colleen Murphy, Paolo Gardoni, Hassan Bashir, Charles E. Harris, Jr., Eyad Masad ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume identifies, discusses and addresses the wide array of ethical issues that have emerged for engineers due to the rise of a global economy. To date, there has been no systematic treatment of the particular challenges globalization poses for engineering ethics standards and education. This volume concentrates on precisely this challenge. Scholars and practitioners from diverse national ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Jazz Matters

    Sound, Place, and Time since Bebop

    by David Ake ...
    What, where, and when is jazz? To most of us jazz means small combos, made up mostly of men, performing improvisationally in urban club venues. But jazz has been through many changes in the decades since World War II, emerging in unexpected places and incorporating a wide range of new styles. In this engrossing new book, David Ake expands on the discussion he began in Jazz Cultures, lending his ... Read more

    $31.49 USD