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  • The Power of Scientific Knowledge

    From Research to Public Policy

    by Reiner Grundmann, Nico Stehr ...
    It is often said that knowledge is power, but more often than not relevant knowledge is not used when political decisions are made. This book examines how political decisions relate to scientific knowledge and what factors determine the success of scientific research in influencing policy. The authors take a comparative and historical perspective and refer to well-known theoretical frameworks, but ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • Transnational Environmental Policy

    Reconstructing Ozone

    by Reiner Grundmann ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
    Transnational Environmental Policy analyses a surprising success story in the field of international environmental policy making: the threat to the ozone layer posed by industrial chemicals, and how it has been averted. The book also raises the more general question about the problem-solving capacities of industrialised countries and the world society as a whole. Reiner Grundmann investigates the ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Making Sense of Expertise

    Cases from Law, Medicine, Journalism, Covid-19, and Climate Change

    by Reiner Grundmann ...
    Current debates about experts are often polarized and based on mistaken assumptions, with expertise either defended or denigrated. Making Sense of Expertise instead proposes a conceptual framework for the study of expertise in order to facilitate a more nuanced understanding of the role of expertise in contemporary society.Too often different meanings of experts and expertise are implied without ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • The Global Social Sciences

    —Under and Beyond European Universalism

    by Michael Kuhn, Michael Kuhn, Hebe Vessuri, Hebe Vessuri, Shujiro Yazawa, Kazumi Okamoto, Rajagopal Kumaran, Pal Tamas, Igor Yegorov0, Sujata Patel1, Rainer Grundmann2, Carmen Bueno3, Mauricio Nieto Olarte4, Doris Weidemann5, Huri Islamoglu6, Kwang-Yeong Shin7 ...
    Series Book 3 - Beyond the Social Sciences
    The European social sciences tend to absorb criticism that has been passed on the European approach and re-label it as a part of what the critique opposes; criticism of European social sciences by “subaltern” social sciences, their “talking back”, has become a frequent line of reflection in European social sciences. The re-labelling of the critique of the European approach to social sciences ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Thoracic Surgery

    Surgical Procedures on the Chest and Thoracic Cavity

    by David B. Skinner, U. Demmel, H. Pichlmaier, R. Grundmann, F.W. Schildberg, H. Hamelmann, H. Hofmann, T. Junginger0, E. Kiffner1, J.M. Müller2, M.H. Schoenberg3, M. Thermann4, R. Thoma5, M.M. Wanke6, K. Zilles7 ...
    Translated by Terry C. Telger ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    It is a great pleasure and honor to be asked to participate in the translation of this important and historical volume on thoracic surgery and to provide this foreword. Martin Kirschner of Mannheim/Heidelberg was an early pioneer in thoracic and esophageal surgery. His operation for bypass of the esophagus using the entire stomach remains a standard of the surgical armamentarium to this date. The ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Let My People Go Handbook

    Equipping Your Church to Love Those Most Vulnerable

    by Raleigh Sadler, Hannah Grundmann ...
    The Let My People Go handbook is a practical guide to equip churches to love their most vulnerable neighbors. The name, Let My People Go, recalls the words of Moses as he spoke to those who had enslaved his people. Moses called for holistic freedom, freedom from physical and spiritual bondage. It's the authors' prayer that this guide would help you and your church take up this mantle of liberty in ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Christian Global Health in Perspective

    A Guide to Healing and Wholeness in Missions

    by Rebecca Meyer, Arnold Gorske, Christoffer H. Grundmann, Paul Hudson, Perry Jansen, Daniel O’Neill, Mike Soderling, Grace Tazelaar ...
    Healing the Nations. Restoring Shalom.The world is grappling with complex health challenges and disparities, forcing us to confront many pressing questions. How do Christians understand and practice healthcare? What is the biblical view of health and healing? This workbook unravels these queries, offering deep insights into the Christian approach to global health issues.Christian Global Health in ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Expert Authority and the Limits of Critical Thinking

    by Thomas Grundmann ...
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. There is no doubt that experts play a prominent but controversial role in modern societies. While they constitute an invaluable source of knowledge and represent the gold ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • European Contract Law in a Changed Banking and Financial Architecture

    Stability Design, the Common Good and Private Party Participation

    by Stefan Grundmann, Pietro Sirena ...
    The European Banking Union forms the answer of the EU to the global financial crisis, strongly increasing own funds basis for more robust credit institutions, installing a recovery and resolution regime with strong planning and preventive measures and opting for the supervisory with the broadest reach, the European Central Bank. The first part of the book – after the design of the overall ... Read more

    $164.99 USD

  • Structural Dynamics - Eurodyn

    by Harry Grundmann ...
    The proceedings contain contributions presented by authors from more than 30 countries at EURODYN 2002. The proceedings show recent scientific developments as well as practical applications, they cover the fields of theory of vibrations, nonlinear vibrations, stochastic dynamics, vibrations of structured elements, wave propagation and structure-borne sound, including questions of fatigue and ... Read more

    $345.00 USD

  • The Epistemology of Fake News

    Edited by Sven Bernecker, Amy K. Flowerree, Thomas Grundmann ...
    Series series Engaging Philosophy
    News is vital for a healthy democracy. Collective decision-making requires accurate, reliable information. Nevertheless, much of the information we encounter is inadequate for this task. And some--peddled by politicians, profiteers, bots and algorithms--is fake. Social media platforms and emerging technologies allow fake news to dominate our information landscape. An adequate understanding our ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • Theories of Choice

    The Social Science and the Law of Decision Making

    Edited by Stefan Grundmann, Philipp Hacker ...
    Choice is a key concept of our time. It is a foundational mechanism for every legal order in societies that are, politically, constituted as democracies and, economically, built on the market mechanism. Thus, choice can be understood as an atomic structure that grounds core societal processes. In recent years, however, the debate over the right way to theorize choice - for example, as a rational ... Read more

    $100.79 USD