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  • The New Breadline

    Hunger and Hope in the Twenty-First Century

    by Jean-Martin Bauer ...
    **THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • WINNER OF THE 2025 ZÓCALO BOOK PRIZEA humanitarian leader with more than two decades of experience working for the United Nations takes aim at the global food crisis—revealing how hunger anywhere affects lives everywhere and what steps we can take to change course."This book should be required reading for the entire human race."—Jonathan Safran ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Managing eZ Publish Web Content Management Projects

    Strategies, best practices, and techniques for implementing eZ publish open-source CMS projects to delight your clients

    by Martin Bauer ...
    Strategies, best practices, and techniques for implementing eZ publish open-source CMS projects to delight your clientsKey FeaturesTips and expert advice for the whole eZ publish web CMS project lifecycleLearn about the requirements and success factors of an eZ projectImplement eZ publish projects successfully, efficiently, and effectivelyBook Descriptionopen-source CMS (content management system) ... Read more

    $37.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Yet Another Introduction to Dark Matter

    The Particle Physics Approach

    by Martin Bauer, Tilman Plehn ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Dark matter is a frequently discussed topic in contemporary particle physics. Written strictly in the language of particle physics and quantum field theory, these course-based lecture notes focus on a set of standard calculations that students need in order to understand weakly interacting dark matter candidates.After introducing some general features of these dark matter agents and their main ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Public Communication of Research Universities

    ‘Arms Race’ for Visibility or Science Substance?

    Edited by Marta Entradas, Martin W. Bauer ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
    This book analyses communication of university research institutes, with a focus on science communication. Advancing the ‘decentralisation hypothesis’, it asserts that communication structures are increasingly built also at ‘subordinate unit’ levels of research universities.The book presents a cross-country systematic comparison of institutes’ communication activities showing ongoing ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • AI and Common Sense

    Ambitions and Frictions

    Edited by Martin W. Bauer, Bernard Schiele ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
    Common sense is the endless frontier in the development of artificial intelligence, but what exactly is common sense, can we replicate it in algorithmic form, and if we can – should we?Bauer, Schiele and their contributors from a range of disciplines analyse the nature of common sense, and the consequent challenges of incorporating into artificial intelligence models. They look at different ways ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Qualitative Researching with Text, Image and Sound

    A Practical Handbook for Social Research

    Edited by Martin W Bauer, George D. Gaskell ...
    `This excellent text will introduce advanced students - and remind senior researchers - of the availability of a broad range of techniques available for the systematic analysis of social data that is not numeric. It makes the key point that neither quantitative nor qualitative methods are interpretive and at the same time demonstrates once and for all that neither a constructivist perspective nor ... Read more

    $94.49 USD

  • Atoms, Bytes and Genes

    Public Resistance and Techno-Scientific Responses

    by Martin W. Bauer ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    "Atom," "byte" and "gene" are metonymies for techno-scientific developments of the 20th century: nuclear power, computing and genetic engineering. Resistance continues to challenge these developments in public opinion. This book traces historical debates over atoms, bytes and genes which raised controversy with consequences, and argues that public opinion is a factor of the development of modern ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Cultural Authority of Science

    Comparing across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas

    Edited by Petra Pansegrau, Rajesh Shukla, Martin Bauer ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
    The cultural authority of science is the authority that is granted to science in any particular context. This authority is as much a matter of image and perceived legitimacy as of statutory guarantee. However, while authority can be charismatic, based on tradition or based on competence, we would assume that science aims to be an authority of competence. To what extent does science have the last ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Journalism, Science and Society

    Science Communication between News and Public Relations

    Edited by Martin W. Bauer, Massimiano Bucchi ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
    Analyzing the role of journalists in science communication, this book presents a perspective on how this is going to evolve in the twenty-first century.The book takes three distinct perspectives on this interesting subject. Firstly, science journalists reflect on their ‘operating rules’ (science news values and news making routines). Secondly, a brief history of science journalism puts things into ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Culture of Science

    How the Public Relates to Science Across the Globe

    Edited by Martin W. Bauer, Rajesh Shukla, Nick Allum ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
    This book offers the first comparative account of the changes and stabilities of public perceptions of science within the US, France, China, Japan, and across Europe over the past few decades. The contributors address the influence of cultural factors; the question of science and religion and its influence on particular developments (e.g. stem cell research); and the demarcation of science from ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Genomics and Society

    Legal, Ethical and Social Dimensions

    Edited by George Gaskell, Martin W Bauer ...
    Series series The Earthscan Science in Society Series
    The impact of genomics on society has been the focus of debate and conflict across the world. Contrasting views of risks and benefits, trust in science and regulation, the understanding of science, media coverage and mobilization of the public by civil society groups all have been cited as drivers of public opinion. The long running controversy is a signal that the public's view cannot be ignored ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Science Cultures in a Diverse World: Knowing, Sharing, Caring

    Edited by Bernard Schiele, Xuan Liu, Martin W. Bauer ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Science and technology culture is now more than ever at the very heart of the social project, and all countries, to varying degrees, participate in it: raising scientific literacy, improving the image of the sciences, involving the public in debates and encouraging the young to pursue careers in the sciences. Thus, the very destiny of any society is now entwined with its ability to develop a ... Read more

    $116.09 USD