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Book SynopsisThe Instant New York Times Bestseller!Was an advanced civilization lost to history in the global cataclysm that ended the last Ice Age? Graham Hancock, the internationally bestselling author, has made it his life''s work to find out--and in America Before, he draws on the latest archaeological and DNA evidence to bring his quest to a stunning conclusion.We've been taught that North and South America were empty of humans until around 13,000 years ago amongst the last great landmasses on earth to have been settled by our ancestors. But new discoveries have radically reshaped this long-established picture and we know now that the Americas were first peopled more than 130,000 years ago many tens of thousands of years before human settlements became established elsewhere.Hancock''s research takes us on a series of journeys and encounters with the scientists responsible for the recent extraordinary breakthroughs. In the process, from the Miss

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Left Spinozism and the Metaphysics of Democracy.- Chapter 2: The Orphan of History, the Left Hermeneutic and Self-Relating Substance. - Chapter 3: Something Has Happened to Ontology: Contingency, Immanence and Conatus. - Chapter 4: The New (New) Materialism: Materialism with a Green Aroma.- Chapter 5: The Vibrating Pixel: Negri, Potentia and the Commonbeing of Biomaterialism.

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Book SynopsisAike P. Rots is Associate Professor of Contemporary Japanese Culture at the University of Oslo, Norway.Trade ReviewA nuanced study that is historically informed while remaining timely ... Rots’ prose is clear, his attention to detail, history, and nuance replete, and his interventions timely. Shinto, Nature and Ideology in Contemporary Japan is a trans-disciplinary work that sheds light on subject matter often mischaracterized by scholars without the proper background. * Journal of Religion in Japan *A significant and valuable contribution to the fields of religious studies, Japanese studies, Shinto studies, and Asian studies generally ... [It] provides the kind of thorough, fair, and at times sharply critical exposé of contentious issues pulsing through current shrine Shinto and Japanese nationalism. * Contemporary Japan *Provides an insightful approach to understanding Shinto’s discursive profile in contemporary Japan ... Effectively combining discourse analysis with ethnographic field work, Rots argues that Shinto has shed its strong association with prewar militarism by embracing conceptions of “nature” and “environmental sustainability.” * Journal of Japanese Studies *[T]his book does full justice to its title and succeeds in presenting the first systematic and exhaustive study not only to discuss the Shinto environmentalist paradigm as an intellectual object but also to trace its concrete development in contemporary Japan. Through his focus on sacred shrine forests, Rots provides a finely nuanced portrait of the ecological discourses and practices produced by a wide range of individuals and organizations related to the Shinto world. * Monumenta Nipponica *[W]ell researched, highly informative, and thought provoking. * Asian Ethnology *A comprehensive overview … [Aike P. Rots] focuses not only on what these paradigms say but also what they leave out, and how they relate to actual practices and campaigns at the local and national levels. He is generous with his sources but pays attention to the distance between their rhetoric and reality. * Reading Religion *The book does a great service for acknowledging religion’s crucial role in our thinking and caring about the environment. Warmly recommended. * Religious Studies Review *Shinto’s latest iteration as a “green religion” is critically examined in this timely volume. Is the new environmental paradigm a rebranding strategy aimed at gaining legitimacy? Can Shinto activism expand beyond local preservation activities to engage national and global issues? How is it related to the imperial-ethnic paradigms, which define the Shinto establishment’s neonationalistic political agenda? These questions and more are seriously engaged here. * Mark R. Mullins, Professor of Japanese Studies, University of Auckland, New Zealand *In this illuminating book, Aike Rots critically analyses the much-vaunted image of Shinto as a 'nature religion' promoting environmentalism, showing that Shinto environmentalism is infused with themes of nationalism and full of ambiguities. As he demonstrates, Shinto 'sacred forests' that are depicted as manifestations of the natural world may be highly manufactured, while the shrines that promote them may take sponsorship from businesses involved in environmentally-damaging activities. * Ian Reader, Professor Emeritus, The University of Manchester, UK *This well-researched analysis of the “Shinto environmentalist paradigm” centred on “sacred forests” (chinju no mori) makes an important and timely contribution to the study of religion in Japan and to current debates regarding Shinto ideology. * Erica Baffelli, Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies, University of Manchester, UK *Table of ContentsPreface List of figures Note on style 1. Introduction 2. Defining Shinto 3. Love of nature 4. The Shinto environmentalist paradigm 5. Chinju no mori 6. Landscapes of the past 7. Forests for the future 8. Acorns for Tohoku 9. Going green, going global Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIntroduction* Ethnographic Method& Context * American Individualism& Social Class Revisited * Queens Ethnoconceptions of the Child's Self * Queenston Hard Protective Individualism vs. Kelley Hard Projective Individualism * Individualism& Ethnoconceptions of the Child's Self in Parkside * Queenston& Kelley Preschools * Parkside Preschools * Balancing Psychologized Individualism with Societal Constraints& Uncovering the True SelfTrade Review"American Individualisms is ethnography in the best sense. It delineates a phenomenon of enormous theoretical import, through one of the most discerning eyes in cultural anthropology today. We see how, in the classroom as in parents and teachers values and their ideas about pedagogy, American individualism adapts itself to class, preparing children - through means sometimes quite obvious and often extremely subtle, sometimes explicitly taught and more often implicitly embodied - for the different, classed, futures that await them. We see how these different classed futures are made to seem natural. And we are shown how an ideology such as "American individualism" works, providing the barest of scaffolds on which very different, and equally powerfully motivating, versions of itself can be constructed." - Naomi Quinn, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University "With subtle insight and a poet's eye for the telling detail, Adrie Kusserow grapples with the great hidden fact of American life: social class. She shows how upper class preschoolers on Manhattan's East Side learn that life is a canvas to be painted with beautiful colors and that they are flowers who must be gently nurtured; in contrast, working-class children in Queens discover that life is a dangerous mountain to be climbed and that they must be tough and hard to survive the ordeal. This important book helps the reader understand how these crucial differences in consciousness are inculcated, enacted, and reproduced in ordinary life. It should be mandatory reading for teachers, parents, and policy makers as well as social scientists who wish to better understand the complexities of American culture." - Charles Lindholm, University Professor of Anthropology, Boston University "American Individualisms sets a new standard for excellence for the study of class and inequality in America. Kusserow's insightful ethnographic account shows how class is a learned position, an orientation toward self and others that takes root in childhood through ever-so-subtle child-rearing and classroom practices. Rich in observation and sophisticated analysis of how parents and teachers unconsciously pass along the markers of social class - through tone of voice, facial expression, deportment and metaphors used to speak about a child and her future - this book deepens our understanding of what it would take to ensure that American schools leave no child behind." - Wendy Luttrell, Nancy Phforzeimer Aronson Associate Professor of Human Development and Education, Harvard Graduate School of EducationTable of ContentsIntroduction* Ethnographic Method& Context * American Individualism& Social Class Revisited * Queens Ethnoconceptions of the Child's Self * Queenston Hard Protective Individualism vs. Kelley Hard Projective Individualism * Individualism& Ethnoconceptions of the Child's Self in Parkside * Queenston& Kelley Preschools * Parkside Preschools * Balancing Psychologized Individualism with Societal Constraints& Uncovering the True Self

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Book SynopsisThe Nigerian diaspora is now world-wide, and when Yoruba travel, they take with them their religious organizations. As a member of the Cherubim and Seraphim church in London for over thirty years, anthropologist Hermione Harris explores a world of prayer, spirit possession, and divination through dreams and visions.Trade Review"The Yoruba community in London was one of the largest African groups, already substantial when Harris began her fieldwork in 1969, and is now an established and significant ethnic minority. Her account is based on extensive participant observation, interviews, and written records kept by the church members at her request. The narrative is lively, and enriched with a number of fascinating descriptions ofAládùúrà services, and illuminating testimonies, reminiscences, and comments by the worshippers. It is clear that Harris was an excellent field worker, endowed with both resilience and empathy, and the material she presents is full and detailed. As a study of religious change, this book is important for its documentation of a substantial but neglected topic: the nature of Aládùúrà churches in Britain. Extensive and important work has been done on the Aládùúrà churches in Nigeria by Harold Turner, J. D. Y. Peel, and others, but very little on the variants found among Yoruba communities in Britain. It explores the interaction of traditional and Christian spiritual repertoires in commendable depth. As a study of the religious dimension of a particular community - Yoruba labor/educational migrants in late-twentieth century London-it is a pioneering piece of work which will find a readership in several academic disciplines." - Karin Barber, University of Birmingham, England "Deeply researched, beautifully written, and informed by a lively sympathy for its subjects, Hermione Harris's book is by far the richest study that has yet been done of an African Christian church in the Diaspora. Reaching back to the first big wave of Nigerian settlement in London over forty years ago, Harris's subtle analysis shows how indigenous Yoruba notions of spiritual power fuse with Bible interpretation to shape the life-worlds of Nigerian students and workers, and underpin the rituals of prayer and revelation that answer to their practical and existential needs. This will surely prove a benchmark study for anyone interested in the religious life of the African Diaspora for many years to come." - J. D. Y. Peel, SOAS (London) "At a time when contemporary anthropological and sociological scholarship on African Christianity has concentrated on multifaceted processes of globalizing Pentecostalism, Hermione Harris's new book is an important reminder that a fresh understanding of the so-called African Initiated (or Indpendent/Instituted) Churches (AICs) is necessary in putting African Pentecostalism in proper (global) perspective... Scholars and students of African religions/Christianities across the disciplines will find this book of much use in their work." - Asonzeh UkahTable of ContentsIntroduction 'Stars of the World': Yoruba Worker-Students in Britain 'The Cherubim and Seraphim Church, United Kingdom' From Ase to Agbara: the Concept of Spiritual Power in the Cherubim and Seraphim 'Electrical Energy': Dynamic Metaphors of Spiritual Power Experiencing Power: Possession by the Holy Spirit Revelation as Divinatory Practice 'Practical Christianity': Revelation and the Power of Prayer Epilogue: Empowerment and Yoruba Christianity

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Book SynopsisGenes, Culture, and Human Evolution: A Synthesisis a textbook on human evolution that offers students a unique combination of cultural anthropology and genetics. Written by two geneticistsincluding a world-renowned scientist and founder of the Human Genome Diversity Projectand a socio-cultural anthropologist. Based on recent findings in genetics and anthropology that indicate the analysis of human culture and evolution demands an integration of these fields of study. Focuses on evolutionor, rather, co-evolutionviewed from the standpoint of genes and culture, and their inescapable interactions. Unifies cultural and genetic concepts rather than rehashing nonempirical sociobiological musings. Demonstrates that empirical genetic evidence, based on modern DNA analysis and population studies, provides an excellent foundation for understanding human cultural diversity. Trade Review"This book lives up to its title. It provides an invigorating and well-informed overview of human genetic and cultural evolution, one that transcends the disciplinary boundaries that become an irrelevance to a full understanding of where we come from, out nature and origins." (Anthropos, 2009) "The important branch of evolutionary anthropology that concentrates on the co-evolution of genes and culture has been in need of its definitive textbook. Here it has found its perfect expression in one of those rare texts that is also a grand synthesis and a contribution in its own right."—Robin Fox, University Professor of Social Theory, Rutgers University "Stone and Lurquin have integrated what we know about bones, genes, and languages to produce a uniquely valuable account. By focusing on the science of human evolution, the authors avoid the stultifying debates about what is culture and does it evolve. With this volume, evolutionary anthropology becomes a coherent discipline accessible to all students and scholars in the human sciences."—Marc Feldman, Stanford University "The first textbook that uses evolutionary theory to combine the study of human culture and genetics." (Australian Journal of Anthropology)Table of ContentsFigures. Plates. Preface. Introduction by L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza. 1. Genetic and Cultural Theory: A Brief Overview. 2. Human Descent and Paleoanthropology. 3. Foundations of Classical and Molecular Genetics. 4. Genetics as a Key to Human Origins and Prehistory. 5. Fundamentals of Human Evolution: Mutation and Natural Selection. 6. Fundamentals of Human Evolution: Drift, Migration, and Quantitative Analysis of Human Genetic Diversity. 7. Cultural Evolution. 8. Geography of Human Genes and Correlation with Languages. 9. The Prehistory of Human Genes. 10. Voyages: Prehistoric Human Expansions. 11. The Neolithic Transition in Europe and the Peopling of the Americas. 12. Genes, Kinship, and Identity. 13. Cultural Clines, Clades, Cycles, and Waves: The Process of Cultural Evolution. 14. Genes and Culture in Medicine. General Conclusion. Appendix 1. The Denaturing High Performance Liquid Chromatography (DHPLC) Technique. Appendix 2. The Hardy–Weinberg Theorem. Appendix 3. A Simulation of Drift. Appendix 4. The Diversification of Languages. Notes. Key References. Glossary. Index.

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Book SynopsisWhy do orangutan arms closely resemble human arms? What is the advantage to primates of having long limbs? Why do primates have forward-facing eyes? This book answers these questions.Trade ReviewGebo's consistent focus throughout the book [is] on how anatomical differences relate mechanically to differences in function. Subsequent well-illustrated chapters discuss the hard anatomy of the primate body-heads, teeth, backs, forelimbs, and hind limbs from both phylogenetic and functional perspectives. -- John G. Fleagle Evolutionary Anthropology A nearly perfect introduction to a complex and fascinating subject. Choice Synthesizing the extensive and detailed anatomical literature related to primate bony morphology is no small task, and Gebo does a fantastic job of summarizing important anatomies and oddities, and how these relate to functional demands... The next generation of scholars learning from this textbook will almost certainly come to the same realization as Darwin, Cuvier, and Linnaeus--that comparative anatomy is essential for understanding our place within primates. New Biological Books This book serves as a good, basic introduction to primate anatomy, and there are many attractive, large illustrations throughout the book to accompany anatomical descriptions. Journal of Mammology Daniel Gebo has produced a text that can only be described as invaluable to the researcher, academic, conservationist, primatologist or student of evolutionary studies. A dream of a book. The BiologistTable of ContentsPrefaceChapter 1. Primate Phylogeny and AdaptationChapter 2. The Wet-Nosed PrimatesChapter 3. The Dry-Nosed PrimatesChapter 4. Musculoskeletal SystemChapter 5. HeadsChapter 6. TeethChapter 7. BacksChapter 8. Primate Locomotion and the ForelimbChapter 9. HindlimbChapter 10. Great Ape and Human AnatomyConclusionSelected ReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis overview of Australian post-contact history uses material objects such as artefacts, buildings, and landscapes. The book offers broad geographic and temporal coverage, and social themes such as gender, status, ethnicity and identity inform every chapter.Trade ReviewFrom the reviews:“An Archaeology of Australia since 1788 succeeds in presenting the broad-range of Australian historical archaeology and its contribution to understanding Australia’s past. The authors are to be congratulated in undertaking such a task and setting the scene for the next decade of growth in the field. This is a work that all serious historical archaeologists need, especially those formulating research designs for projects whether they be salvage archaeology or research archaeology.” (Iain Stuart, Australian Archaeology, Issue 72, June, 2011)“The narrative writing style is accessible for most audiences as they need not be well-versed in Australian archaeology to benefit from this book. … is devoted to well-researched and influential themes of Australian archaeology and comprises figures, tables and numerous intriguing discussions that will precipitate and entice future research. The book was written to ‘present an overview of the material evidence … of Australian post contact history and the conclusions reached by historical archaeology’ (p2) and with much enthusiasm the authors have achieved this aim.” (Melissa Dunk, Eras Journal, November, 2011)This volume amply demonstrates that it is far too soon to talk of a single archaeology of the modern world...The Lawrence and Davis volume is the first book-length overview of Australian historical archaeology since Graham Connah's The Archaeology of Australia's History was published in 1988. The significant methodological and theoretical changes to this field over the last quarter of a century mean that a new overview of historical archaeology in Australia is long overdue...The comprehensive range of case studies, which are often explicitly and implicitly tied to research outside of Australia, is one of this volume's real strengths...Another strength of the volume lies in bringing this research to a broader audience. Lawrence and Davies are also generally excellent in explaining not just where some topics might be ripe for expansion, but also why they may have been under-studied in the past...It fully deserves to find a wide international audience, both as a quick reference to broad themes and as the definitive detailed guide to specific topics from Australian research. (Alasdair Brooks, Post-Medieval Archaeology, 46, 2, 2012)Table of Contents1. Introduction2..Convict origins3. Aboriginal dispossession and survival4. Shipwrecks and maritime trade5. Whaling, sealing and maritime industries6. Pastoralism and agriculture7. Gold rushes and precious metals8. Manufacturing and processing9. Migration and Ethnicity10. An urbanised nation11. Australians at Home12. Death13. The Twentieth Century and Beyond

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Book SynopsisThis compelling book explores the explosive pace of change in China and how its citizens are grappling with a dramatically new world, both in the public and private spheres. China's stratospheric growth has made it the second largest economy in the worldand one of the most unequal. Marxist ideology and socialist ideals have almost completely collapsed, replaced by a combination of materialism and assertive nationalism. The vast migration of labor from countryside to city has continued apace. The pressures of a hypercompetitive market economy are ripping apart the traditional family and threatening the environment. Corruption has reached new heights. The political system is even more rigid, but perhaps more brittle, than a decade ago. There is enormous popular pride in the ascension of China to the rank of global superpower and general satisfaction in the material benefits that the poor as well as the rich have been gaining from an expanding economy. But there is also great restlessnessTrade Review[An] excellent interdisciplinary collection with chapters on everything from courtship to consumerism. * The Wall Street Journal *The book’s material, culled from personal interviews, Chinese-language periodicals and websites, and other sources, is remarkably rich and wide-ranging, as is the expert analysis of its thirteen contributors. * Los Angeles Review of Books *In a rapidly evolving China, there have been real economic gains for different social classes, but injustice and political corruption remain. Through a variety of case studies, this book seeks to offer a better understanding of what it means to be Chinese today. * Survival: Global Politics and Strategy *[A]s the editors of this timely volume put it, 'What does it mean now to be Chinese?'. . . .[A]nyone wishing to get a sense of the popular ferment that lies beneath the rapid growth and strict political controls emphasized in daily headlines will find much of value in this book. * Foreign Affairs *The editors of Restless China have provided us with a stimulating and wide-ranging collection of essays exploring important issues and trends in contemporary China. The book would be a useful addition to reading lists for undergraduate courses on contemporary Chinese popular culture and urban social issues. Readers will certainly understand the editors’ characterization of China as restless, but it is likely that a range of other adjectives will also come to mind as they make their way through these rich and provocative analyses. * The China Journal *Restless China sets the same high standards as Unofficial China and Popular China, the previous very well-received compilations from the editors. In a crowded marketplace, this volume stands out by focusing on the most exciting current developments in Chinese society and popular culture, and by a close examination of Chinese language sources that reveal what the Chinese themselves are thinking about and debating as they seek an appropriate value system and identity to reflect the new prosperity, all under the continuing influences of the Maoist legacy and the impact of globalization. As with the previous volumes, Restless China will be great for teaching and stimulating class discussion. -- Stanley Rosen, University of Southern CaliforniaFor 25 years Perry Link, Richard Madsen, and Paul Pickowicz, three of the most insightful Western scholars studying China, have collaborated in studying the life and thought of Chinese people. This is the third volume in their series, pulling together recent work by Westerners and Chinese. The contributors have read widely in Chinese literature on the internet and engaged in long conversations with their Chinese friends. Many of them have conducted lengthy fieldwork in China. They highlight fascinating examples that reveal the issues faced by ordinary citizens: how they are treated by officials after they have been involved in accidents, jokes they tell about the Soviet Union, preparations many well-to-do businesspeople make in case they decide to emigrate, discussions about the holy and the sacred, responses to food safety. The result is a book that has the vitality of first-hand experiences and that helps foreigners to better understand the restlessness so many feel as their country gets richer and their problems become more complex. -- Ezra F. Vogel, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsRestless China: An Introduction Perry Link, Richard P. Madsen, and Paul G. Pickowicz Part I: Legacies Chapter 1: When Things Go Wrong: Accidents and the Legacy of the Mao Era in Today’s China Jeremy Brown Chapter 2: "The Only Reliability Is That These Guys Aren't Reliable!": The Business Culture of Red Capitalism X. L. Ding Chapter 3: Political Humor in Postsocialist China: Transnational and Still Funny Paul G. Pickowicz Part II: A New Electronic Community Chapter 4: From Grass-Mud Equestrians to Rights-Conscious Citizens: Language and Thought on the Chinese Internet Perry Link and Xiao Qiang Chapter 5: Han Han and the Public Yang Lijun Chapter 6: Are You the One?: The Competing Public Voices of China’s Post-1980s Generation Shuyu Kong Part III: Values Chapter 7: The Sacred and the Holy: Religious Power and Cultural Creativity in China Today Richard P. Madsen Chapter 8: An Invisible Path: “Urban Buddhists” in Beijing and Their Search for Meaning David Moser Chapter 9: Chinese Youth: Hot Romance and Cold Calculation William Jankowiak Part IV: Global Standards Chapter 10: A Collapsing Natural Environment? Su Xiaokang and Perry Link Chapter 11: Awash in Money and Searching for Excellence: The Restlessness of Chinese Universities Hsiung Ping-chen Chapter 12: Food Safety and Social Risk in Contemporary China Yunxiang Yan

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Book SynopsisThis unique book, now fully updated, provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of life in North Korea today. Drawing on decades of experience, noted experts Ralph Hassig and Kongdan Oh explore a world few outsiders can imagine. In vivid detail, the authors describe how the secretive and authoritarian government of Kim Jong-un shapes every aspect of its citizens'' lives, how the command socialist economy has utterly failed, and how ordinary individuals struggle to survive through small-scale capitalism. Weighing the very limited individual rights allowed, the authors illustrate how the political class system and the legal system serve solely as tools of the regime.The key to understanding how the North Korean people live, the authors argue, is to realize that their only allowed role is to support Kim Jong-un, whose grandfather founded the country in the late 1940s. Still a cypher, Kim Jong-un, as did his father before him, controls his people by keeping them isolated and banning Trade ReviewAs extreme economic hardship has driven more North Koreans to the south, they are bringing with them an inside look at a very closed nation. In an updated edition of their 2009 book, Hassig and Oh look at the slowly fracturing secretiveness of the Hermit Kingdom. From the defectors come details of numerous individual efforts to quietly subvert the dictates of the Kim dynasty by illegally growing crops on patches of appropriated land or trading goods on black markets to survive. Since the late 1940s when Kim Il-sung took control, the country has been controlled by the Kim dynasty, demanding loyalty and obedience in the face of continued failure to provide for citizens despite overblown claims of collectivist harmony and abundance. In their highly secretive and regimented society, citizens are compelled to join mandatory groups that meet to discuss work or community issues and to criticize themselves for purported shortcomings in service to the government. This is a fascinating look at the very slow infiltration of outside influences despite efforts by the North Korean government to maintain isolation. * Booklist *Hassig and Oh give a panoramic view of this hermit nation. It is probably the most comprehensive work currently available because it covers almost every aspect of life in this isolated society. The authors provide rich data in their examination of the three-generation Kim regime to let readers understand its historical development, its tight political control over its citizens, and its failures in agriculture, health care, other economic areas, and international relationships. More important, based on surveys and interviews with numerous northern defectors, the authors illustrate the lives of ordinary people in the north, such as how they cope with their daily lives under political control, how they doggedly try to survive during natural and economic hardships, and how they perceive the Kim regime and the outside world. Most important, the authors emphasize the change of people in the change of a regime. Continuous exposure to external information is the most important way for North Koreans to better understand their lives under dictatorship and broaden their perceptions of the outside world, which will eventually lead to fundamental changes in the nation. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. * CHOICE *

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Book SynopsisNynke Tromp is a design researcher.Paul Hekkert is full professor at the department of industrial design, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands.Trade ReviewOffering a significant analysis of the social implications of design and the range of products and services that stimulate human behavior, this is a valuable addition to the literature on design of all varieties. * CHOICE *Everything that’s designed has effects on society, and how we live, and designers have a responsibility to understand this, and design with attention to the impacts their work can have, now and for future generations. In Designing for Society, Nynke Tromp and Paul Hekkert give us a thoughtful and well-informed set of ways of approaching this complex and wide-ranging subject, demonstrating the power of designing products, services, and systems with a focus on social value. * Dan Lockton, Chair of Design Studies at Carnegie Mellon University, USA *To the large numbers of students and professionals who want to ‘do good’ and to make a difference in the world, this book offers a wealth of insights and guidelines. The 'society-centred design practice' outlined by the authors is both theoretically exciting and useful in practice. * Erik Stolterman Bergqvist, Professor of Informatics at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA *Table of ContentsPreface Foreword Introduction 1. Building a Viable Society 2. Effect-driven Design 3. A Clash of Concerns 4. The Far-reaching Influence of the Artefact 5. An Imperfect World 6. Social Implication Design 7. Mapping the Social Context 8. Assessing Impact 9. Social Design in Practice References Index

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