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  • The People's Network

    The Political Economy of the Telephone in the Gilded Age

    by Robert MacDougall ...
    Series series American Business, Politics, and Society
    The Bell System dominated telecommunications in the United States and Canada for most of the twentieth century, but its monopoly was not inevitable. In the decades around 1900, ordinary citizens—farmers, doctors, small-town entrepreneurs—established tens of thousands of independent telephone systems, stringing their own wires to bring this new technology to the people. Managed by opportunists and ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Leaders in Dangerous Times

    Douglas Macarthur and Dwight D. Eisenhower

    by ROBERT MACDOUGALL ...
    Douglas MacArthur and Dwight D. Eisenhower brought World War II to a close in decidedly different ways. Was MacArthur a vainglorious actor, as some who observed his triumphant ceremony aboard the Missouri concluded? Was Eisenhower as dry and colorless as the ceremony at Reims suggests? In MacArthur and Eisenhower, author Robert McDougall describes how these two very different leaders came to be ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The People's Network

    The Political Economy of the Telephone in the Gilded Age

    by Robert MacDougall ...
    Series series American Business, Politics, and Society
    The Bell System dominated telecommunications in the United States and Canada for most of the twentieth century, but its monopoly was not inevitable. In the decades around 1900, ordinary citizens—farmers, doctors, small-town entrepreneurs—established tens of thousands of independent telephone systems, stringing their own wires to bring this new technology to the people. Managed by opportunists and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Righting Health Policy

    Bioethics, Political Philosophy, and the Normative Justification of Health Law and Policy

    by D. Robert MacDougall ...
    Series series Revolutionary Bioethics
    In Righting Health Policy, D. Robert MacDougall argues that bioethics needs but does not have adequate tools for justifying law and policy. Bioethics’ tools are mostly theories about what we owe each other. But justifying laws and policies requires more; at a minimum, it requires tools for explaining the legitimacy of actions intended to control or influence others. It consequently requires ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Evolution of Hands and Feet

    by Robert Macdougall, Henry Bernard ...
    In the great family of the animals, to which we ourselves belong, many different kinds of feet and hands are to be found. This book deals with the evolution of our feet and hands. “The succession of organic modifications which resulted in the formation of the human hand is part of the general process of evolution by which in the animal series the means of progression and of the taking of food were ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Communication and Control

    Tools, Systems, and New Dimensions

    by Robert MacDougall, Kevin Cummings, Vincenzo DeFlorio, Ryan Eanes, Robert Gehl, Zeke Kimball, Cameron Kunzelman, Karla Loya, Benjamin Morton, Kathleen Oswald0, Rachel Plotnick1, Madhusudan Raman2, Jim Thatcher3, Brett Lunceford4, R.E. Burnett5, Matthew Pittman6 ...
    Communication and Control: Tools, Systems, and New Dimensions advocates a systems view of human communication in a time of intelligent, learning machines. This edited collection sheds new light on things as mundane yet still profoundly consequential (and seemingly “low-tech”) as push buttons, pagers, and telemarketing systems. Contributors also investigate aspects of “remote control” related to ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1.

    Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory

    by Hugo Münsterberg, Edwin B. Holt, Harvey A. Peterson, Robert Macdougall, Robert M. Yerkes, Gurry E. Huggins ...
    Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 offers an expansive exploration of early 20th-century psychological theory and experimentation. This anthology presents a medley of essays and research articles that traverse a wide array of psychological phenomena, from sensory perception to cognitive processes, capturing the zeitgeist of a pivotal era in psychology. The collection underscores the ... Read more

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  • Harvard Psychological Studies (Vol. 1&2)

    Experimental Investigations from the Prestigious Laboratory

    by Charles S. Moore, Edwin B. Holt, Charles H. Rieber, Knight Dunlap, Robert MacDougall, Harvey A. Peterson, Hugo Münsterberg, John A. H. Keith, Frances H. Rousmaniere, Louis A. Turley, G. V. Hamilton, Bird T. Baldwin ...
    Harvard Psychological Studies is a two-volume anthology edited by Hugo Münsterberg, German-American psychologist who was one of the pioneers in applied psychology. It contains records of experimental investigations by numerous psycholigists from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. Table of Contents: Volume 1: Studies in perception: Eye-movement and central anæsthesia (E.B. Holt) Tactual ... Read more

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  • Digination

    Identity, Organization, and Public Life in the Age of Small Digital Devices and Big Digital Domains

    by Robert C. MacDougall ...
    Series series The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Communication Studies
    The shift from orality to literacy that began with the invention of the phonetic alphabet, and which went into high-gear with Gutenberg’s printing press more than 500 years ago, helped make the modern world. Some commentators have argued that this shift from orality to literacy marked a much broader, cultural shift of cataclysmic proportions. Today, with everything from e-mail to blogs, iPods and ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Drugs & Media

    New Perspectives on Communication, Consumption, and Consciousness

    Edited by Dr. Robert C. MacDougall ...
    We have developed into a culture that is over-reliant upon pharmaceutical and recreational drugs; where drugs are incessantly advertised and promoted to us via our mass media. Like drugs, communication media alter the way we interact with the world; they direct our attention in various ways, sometimes enabling certain behaviors and experiences, and prohibiting others.The contributors to this ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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  • How to Solve It

    A New Aspect of Mathematical Method

    by G. Polya ...
    Series series Princeton Science Library
    A perennial bestseller by eminent mathematician G. Polya, How to Solve It will show anyone in any field how to think straight.In lucid and appealing prose, Polya reveals how the mathematical method of demonstrating a proof or finding an unknown can be of help in attacking any problem that can be "reasoned" out--from building a bridge to winning a game of anagrams. Generations of readers have ... Read more

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