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  • New Life for Old Ideas

    Chinese Philosophy in the Contemporary World: A Festschrift in Honour of Donald J. Munro

    Edited by Yanming An, Brian J. Bruya ...
    Over five decades, Donald J. Munro has been one of the most important voices in sinological philosophy. Among other accomplishments, his seminal book The Concept of Man in Early China influenced a generation of scholars. His rapprochement with contemporary cognitive and evolutionary science helped bolster the insights of Chinese philosophers and set the standard for similar explorations today.In ... Read more

    $35.82 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Engineering, Development and Philosophy

    American, Chinese and European Perspectives

    Edited by Yanming An, Bocong Li, Carl Mitcham, Steen Hyldgaard Christensen ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This inclusive, cross-cultural study rethinks the nexus between engineering, development, and culture. It offers diverse commentary from a range of disciplinary perspectives on how the philosophies of today’s cultural triumvirate—American, European and Chinese—are shaped and given nuance by the cross-fertilization of engineering and development. Scholars from the humanities and social sciences as ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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  • Advanced AutoCAD® 2016 Exercise Workbook

    by Cheryl R. Shrock, Steve Heather ...
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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

  • 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

  • Product Lifecycle Management

    21st Century Paradigm for Product Realisation

    by John Stark ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Product Lifecycle Management (2nd edition) explains what Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is, and why it's needed. It describes the environment in which products are developed, realised and supported, before looking at the basic components of PLM, such as the product, processes, applications, and people. The final part addresses the implementation of PLM, showing the steps of a project or ... Read more

    $116.09 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

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  • 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

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  • The In-Discipline of Design

    Bridging the Gap Between Humanities and Engineering

    by Annie Gentes ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Design is a conceptive activity which is usually presented as a sensible, sequential process and action. This book claims that design cannot be reduced to the rational, effective planning and organization that most models (such as design thinking) present. The author suggests another type of rationality which is based on what the humanities call aesthetics, writing, composition, and style: a ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Trimming, Miniaturization and Ideality via Convolution Technique of TRIZ

    A Guide to Lean and High-level Inventive Design

    by Saurabh Kwatra, Yuri Salamatov ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    The book is a valuable research tool-kit for innovators, amateur & professionals alike. Additionally, College & University faculties on Engineering, who organize yearly workshops internationally will find hundreds of novel themes to choose from. Some teachers might just secretly buy this book to introduce out-of-box brain-teasers in classroom to add fizz to normal (at times boring) lecturing.The ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Artefact Kinds

    Ontology and the Human-Made World

    Edited by Maarten Franssen, Peter Kroes, Thomas A.C. Reydon, Pieter E. Vermaas ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book is concerned with two intimately related topics of metaphysics: the identity of entities and the foundations of classification. What it adds to previous discussions of these topics is that it addresses them with respect to human-made entities, that is, artefacts. As the chapters in the book show, questions of identity and classification require other treatments and lead to other answers ... Read more

    $107.09 USD