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With state-of-the-art science and gripping narratives, she reveals steps what individuals, groups, and institutions can take to fight prejudice\" -   Adam Grant, author of Think Again\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDespite revolutions in our understanding of bias, we're still much better at documenting the problem than solving it. When it comes to prevention and cure, Jessica Nordell's powerful book is a breakthrough. With state-of-the-art science and gripping narratives, she reveals steps what individuals, groups, and institutions can take to fight prejudice -- Adam Grant, author of Think Again\u003cbr\u003eIn an age of snap judgements and empty moralizing, The End of Bias is a lifeboat. Jessica Nordell accompanies her incredible depth of research with the kind of attention to nuance, self-examination, and genuine compassion that marks the difference between information and wisdom. This book will not just want to make you be a better person - it will convince you that others can be too -- Jenny Odell, author of How To Do Nothing\u003cbr\u003eFull of evidence-based interventions, The End of Bias demonstrates that change is possible. In need of some hope? Start here! -- Beverly Daniel Tatum, bestselling author of Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? and Other Conversations About Race\u003cbr\u003eAn exhaustively researched, illuminating book on what leads to bias and how to avoid those pitfalls * Irish Times *","brand":"Granta Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47850750804311,"sku":"9781846276781","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781846276781.jpg?v=1710620113"},{"product_id":"the-second-sex-9780099595731","title":"The Second Sex","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSimone de Beauvoir\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Paris in 1908. In 1929 she became the youngest person ever to obtain the \u003ci\u003eagrégation\u003c\/i\u003e in philosophy at the Sorbonne, placing second to Jean-Paul Sartre. She taught at the lycées at Marseille and Rouen from 1931-1937, and in Paris from 1938-1943. After the war, she emerged as one of the leaders of the existentialist movement, working with Sartre on \u003ci\u003eLes Temps Mordernes\u003c\/i\u003e. The author of several books including \u003ci\u003eThe Mandarins \u003c\/i\u003e(1957) which was awarded the Prix Goncourt, de Beauvoir was one of the most influential thinkers of her generation. She died in 1986.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA masterpiece * Vogue *\u003cbr\u003eDiscovering \u003ci\u003eThe Second Sex\u003c\/i\u003e was like an explosion in my skull, shattering illusions bred in a conventional fifties childhood...Re-reading the book now I realise how much of it is still entirely relevant, and that (despite advances) women are as much in need of liberation as ever -- Bel Mooney\u003cbr\u003eDe Beauvoir was not just a genius as a theorist. She dared to live it. 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By weaving together theories and examples from around the world, Matthew Engelke brilliantly shows why anthropology matters: not only because it allows us to understand other points of view, but also because in the process, it reveals something about ourselves too.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEngelke's subtle and self-reflexive study presents an excellent overview of the debates and issues that have shaped this hugely influential social science. . . Using an eclectic range of examples, including \"bridewealth\" in modern China and the role of social values in Downton Abbey, he shows how anthropology reveals both the limits of common sense and the universal lessons that can be drawn from communities everywhere -- PD Smith * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThink Like an Anthropologist \u003c\/i\u003esets forth the anthropological sensibility as a mode of thinking that might encourage us to better appreciate the complexity and diversity of the modern world -- Lamorna Ash * TLS *\u003cbr\u003eInforming -- and perhaps occasionally startling readers who aren't themselves anthropologists -- is a profoundly important goal. Engelke achieves his goal with crystal-clear writing, and occasional humor, too -- Barbara J. King * NPR *\u003cbr\u003eBrilliant, lively, short(ish) introduction into the key issues that shape anthropology. The ideal introduction for a general reader, a student - or the parent of a teenager who does not understand why their kid wants to study anthropology instead of accounting. (Don't worry; they can still find a job.) -- Gillian Tett * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eAn affable introduction to the discipline -- James Ryerson * New York Times Book Review *\u003cbr\u003eClearly the work of an author having tremendous fun with material he knows inside out . . . Thinking like an anthropologist is something that we should all do more often -- Simon Underdown * Times Higher Education *\u003cbr\u003eWe may not do research in faraway places or even nearby, among our curious neighbors, but we all need to be anthropologists. Thinking like an anthropologist means stopping to consider our common-sense categories in critical, comparative, and historically informed ways. 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In this fully updated paperback edition of Antisocial Media, Siva Vaidhyanathan explains how Facebook devolved from an innocent social site hacked together by Harvard students into a force that, while it may make personal life just a little more pleasurable, makes democracy a lot more challenging. It''s an account of the hubris of good intentions, a missionary spirit, and an ideology that sees computer code as the universal solvent for all human problems. And it''s an indictment of how social media has fostered the deterioration of democratic culture around the world, from facilitating Russian meddling in support o\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFortunately, finally, we seem ready to have the necessary conversations about how social media has changed our hearts and minds and politics, including the hard conversations. And this is the right book for our moment. It lays out, in crisp, compelling language, why Facebook may be good for some individuals but not good for democracy. Antisocial Media is not negative or defeatist. But it does not sugarcoat the facts. We can only remake technology to conform to new social values if we do the hard work of committing to what they are. That's a problem that Facebook can't solve. This is history, philosophy, and a call to action.\" -Sherry Turkle, Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology, MIT, and author of Reclaiming Conversation and Alone Together\u003cbr\u003eHello, reader. Do you use Facebook? Do you see it more times in a given day than you, say, drink a glass of water? If so, I suggest you find out from Siva Vaidhyanathan to what it is that you've given not only yourself, but also your crucial little portion of our world. He's the one who can tell you.\" -Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn and Fortress of Solitude\u003cbr\u003eAs a San Franciscan, I've had a front-row seat for the rise of Silicon Valley as a global power, and what the glossy new oligarchs have brought us terrifies me, as has the widespread obliviousness to the consequences of their new systems of information control. It's made me enormously grateful for Siva Vaidhyanathan, who set out after the election to dissect exactly how Facebook had helped corrupt our minds, our culture, our elections, and our governments. His scathing conclusions here should both chill you and equip you to face the perils the new information megacorporations pose to each and all of us.\" -Rebecca Solnit, author of Hope in the Dark\u003cbr\u003eAn eye -opening and provocative examination of the unintended consequences that this tech giant inflicted on the global community it created. * Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, and author of Cyberwar   *\u003cbr\u003eFacebook's plan to connect the world has backfired. Democratic societies are unraveling everywhere. Conflict is trumping community, suspicion is undermining trust. Antisocial Media is the best account of how and why the world's leading tech firms have contributed to this crisis, here and across the globe. Vaidhyanathan's message is not merely necessary; it's urgent. * Eric Klinenberg, Professor of Sociology at NYU and author of Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life   *\u003cbr\u003eVaidhyanathan does have some solutions in mind, but they are not the simple tweaks Facebook proposes. There's no way at this point to reengineer a platform that rewards hasty, emotional, shallow engagement or moderates content to ensure two billion people behave themselves. We need to work across borders to make these steps multinational if not global. And we need to do it soon. The lamps are going out all over Europe again, and far beyond. * Barbara Fister, Inside HigherEd   *\u003cbr\u003eIn \"Antisocial Media,\" University of Virginia professor Siva Vaidhyanathan gives a full and rigorous accounting of Facebook's sins. Much of the criticism will be familiar to anyone who has been following the news about the company. What distinguishes the book is Vaidhyanathan's skill in putting the social media phenomenon into a broader context - legal, historical and political. * Nicholas Carr, The Washington Post *\u003cbr\u003eIn a post-Cambridge Analytica, post-Donald Trump election world, Vaidhyanathan's book [Antisocial Media] is a critique of the \"Facebook machine\" and the ways it operates on users in terms of \"pleasure, surveillance, attention, protest, politics, and disinformation.\" - Express Newspaper Service, The Indian Express\u003cbr\u003eVaidhyanathan has written a structured response to the behemoth that is Facebook. He acknowledges all the rhetorically valid ways in which Facebook might offer emotionally fulfilling interactions (the author himself is a user), but he buttresses these emotive motivations with close readings of the filter bubble, monetization of all transactions on the platform, and even the inherent vice of \"good\" business... Verdict: Ideal for readers who live in the world of social media who want to put these platforms into context. * Jesse A. Lambertson, Library Journal *\u003cbr\u003eAn excellent critique of the social media giant underlines the threat it poses to us all - and suggests how it can be tamed. * John Naughton, The Guardian   *\u003cbr\u003eWith 30 per cent of the world's population on Facebook, Vaidhyanathan contends that the platform could become the operating system of our lives. And while it's fun to catch up with old school friends, its \"mediated cacophony\" is a powerful tool for the vocal minority to quickly subvert silent majorities. Zuckerberg himself is curiously complacent. Facebook, he says, \"is just too big to govern. We are victims of its success. * Nick Smith, Engineering \u0026amp; Technology   *\u003cbr\u003eThis thoroughly researched and persuasively argued account of social media's noxious effects on the very fabric of society is the first study of its kind: a trenchant analysis of Facebook's unwholesome side effects. It needed saying, and it's supremely well said.\" - Juanita Coulson, The Lady\u003cbr\u003eFrom propagating fake news to violating our privacy, from empowering authoritarian regimes to enabling anti-Semitic advertising, Facebook has become the social network everyone loves to hate. Vaidhyanathan, whose previous books include \"The Googlization of Everything\" - and \"Why We Should Worry\", has produced a valuable guide, written in clear, non-academic prose, to the monstrous force Facebook has become. And if his overview of what's gone wrong with Facebook will seem familiar to those of us who obsess about these things, it nevertheless serves as a worthwhile introduction to the Zuckerborg and all that it has wrought. If only Vaidhyanathan had some compelling ideas on what to do about it. If only any of us did.\" - Dan Kennedy, The Arts Fuse\u003cbr\u003eVaidhyanathan has been a strenuous critic of the technology industry, and the book is best described by his own pithy summary: \"The problem with Facebook is Facebook.\" He's spent the past several years reading and thinking with scholarly depth about not just how Facebook works, but why it was built the way that it was.\" - Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic\u003cbr\u003eVaidhyanathan writes with conviction and a deep sense of history. His research is sharp and diverse and his long association with media studies and readings on the philosophy of modern technology is vividly reflected in his writing. Personally, it was a pleasure to know that Vaidhyanathan had worked with the New York University where legendary social commentator and a critic of technology, Neil Postman, taught, and his anecdotes on Postman's ideas are a social media student's delight.\" - Jinoy Jose P, The Hindu\u003cbr\u003eI think your book has to be, in my mind, one of the most important nonfiction books of this year, if not in the last decade... It's extremely important for the users especially to look at the mechanics of this monster that's been created over the last decade or so.\" - Juan González, Daily Show Co-Host, Democracy Now!\u003cbr\u003e14\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction Chapter 1: The Pleasure Machine Chapter 2: The Surveillance Machine Chapter 3: The Attention Machine Chapter 4: The Benevolence Machine Chapter 5: The Protest Machine Chapter 6: The Politics Machine Chapter 7: The Disinformation Machine Conclusion: The Nonsense Machine Acknowledgements","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732529230167,"sku":"9780190056544","price":14.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780190056544.jpg?v=1719997289"},{"product_id":"the-power-of-the-sacred-9780190933272","title":"The Power of the Sacred","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ea substantive analysis * Bernice Martin, Church Times *\u003cbr\u003eA thoroughly argued, intriguing book. * Michael McCallion, Catholic Books Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface Introduction Chapter 1. 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Placing each theory in its European and North American contexts, the authors confront major criticisms that have been voiced against each theory, and construct defences where appropriate. 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It reconsiders how knowledge actually changes and advances. Challenging the accepted belief that social sciences are in a perpetual state of progress, this work contends that there is a core set of principles.","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732898853207,"sku":"9780226001012","price":28.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226001012.jpg?v=1719998865"},{"product_id":"the-rise-of-the-masses-9780226826837","title":"The Rise of the Masses","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn insightful examination of how intersecting individual motivations and social structures mobilize spontaneous mass protests.    Between 15 and 26 million Americans participated in protests surrounding the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and others as part of the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, which is only one of the most recent examples of an immense mobilization of citizens around a cause. In The Rise of the Masses, sociologist Benjamin Abrams addresses why and how people spontaneously protest, riot, and revolt en masse. While most uprisings of such a scale require tremendous resources and organizing, this book focuses on cases where people with no connection to organized movements take to the streets, largely of their own accord. Looking to the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, and the Black Lives Uprising, as well as the historical case of the French Revolution, Abrams lays out a theory of how and why massive mobilizations arise without the large-scal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Skillfully drawing on and synthesizing an impressive range of theoretical perspectives, Benjamin Abrams has fashioned a highly original theory of spontaneous mass mobilization. As if that weren’t enough, he goes on to make a compelling, empirically informed case for the application of his affinity-convergence theory to four iconic mass movements, ranging from the French Revolution to the George Floyd Protests of 2020.  Anyone interested in the dynamics of spontaneous mass action will want to read this book.”\u003cbr\u003e   -- Doug McAdam, Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology,             Stanford University\u003cbr\u003e“Drawing on four diverse cycles of contention. . . . Abrams shows how much of the process of mobilization can be explained as the product of affinities and convergence on the part of unorganized groups—the 'masses' in his title—while their failures can be explained as their inability to create viable and robust structures around their affinities. His book should be read by social movement specialists and by general readers concerned with the current waves of mass mobilization alike. While the book is based on immense reading and research, it is Abrams's deep thinking that I admire most. A very readable and engaging book.\" -- Sidney Tarrow, author of Power in Movement\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Social movements and revolutions are enormously consequential. Yet, their confounding and elusive mysteries are not fully understood. How do they burst forth, who brings them into being, and why do they fail or succeed? Do they spring from spontaneity or organization? \u003ci\u003eThe Rise of the Masses\u003c\/i\u003e squarely confronts these fundamental questions through careful analysis, copious evidence, and enthralling narratives of historic movements. In so doing, Abrams illuminates how these engines of social change operate. This book is a rich fount of knowledge that should be widely read.”\u003c\/p\u003e -- Aldon Morris, author of The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement\u003cbr\u003e\"This book will be important reading for those interested in explaining mobilization generally and delving into how we can better understand more spontaneous mobilizations. In addition, it would be of interest to any scholars or publics interested in the four core cases of analysis. I found the book compelling, beautifully written, and convincing.\" -- Catherine Corrigall-Brown * Social Forces *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part I: Theorizing Mobilization\u003cbr\u003e 1. What We Know about Mobilization, and What We Need To\u003cbr\u003e 2. Affinity-Convergence Theory\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part II: The Egyptian Revolution, 2011\u003cbr\u003e 3. Egypt on the Eve of Revolution\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Anatomy of a Revolutionary Moment\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Fall and Fall of Revolutionary Egypt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part III: Occupy Wall Street\u003cbr\u003e 6. Globalizing the Revolution\u003cbr\u003e 7. Enter the Occupiers\u003cbr\u003e 8. The End of the Extraordinary\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part IV: The Black Lives Uprising, 2020\u003cbr\u003e 9. From Tragedy to Uprising\u003cbr\u003e 10. 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That heritage reveals a unique type of ''authority'' in society, ''epistemic practical authority'' built up continuously through social discourse and action, shifting focus from the state of ''being'' to the dynamic of ''becoming.'' What is law''s role in this world? The modest, yet powerful, version of the rule of law advocated here is one that draws on a wellspring of practical wisdom - prudence gleaned from pragmatic experience. It chastens power, while not disconnecting law from other sources of social action and\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of the most brilliant books I have read on the profound sources and contemporary drivers of our current age of anxiety. Stephen J. Toope's suggestion of a practice-oriented pragmatist rule of law to contribute to remedying the predicament is sensible and normatively imperative.' 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Katzenstein, Cornell University\u003cbr\u003e'Drawing on a variety of disciplines and approaches, Stephen J. Toope suggests saving the rule of law from itself and its many discontents by developing a largely procedural version, sensitive to a diversity of demands of time and place. Viewing law predominantly as a social practice involving not just lawyers but also citizens, activists, politicians, journalists and others, Toope develops a pragmatic notion of the rule of law, built around the Aristotelian idea of 'practical wisdom'. In doing so, he offers an inspiring vision on law and its importance in times of populism, digitalisation, climate change, and other profound challenges. Lucidly written, A Rule of Law for Our New Age of Anxiety is an insightful meditation by one of the most respected academic leaders worldwide.' Jan Klabbers, University of Helsinki\u003cbr\u003e'A lifelong exemplar of scholarship, principle, university leadership, and humble decency, Stephen J. Toope believes in simple truths, calmly held and passionately implemented. Here he argues compellingly that our answer to such disruptive anxieties as authoritarian populist nationalism and jarring technological change must be renewed commitment to the rule of law, informed by honest social discourse about lessons learned from our shared history of making progress together.' Harold Hongju Koh, Sterling Professor of International Law and former Dean, Yale Law School. Legal Adviser, United States Department of State (2009–13), Assistant Secretary of State, Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (1998–2001)\u003cbr\u003e'That an ideal can be at once modest and precious is a thought too rarely entertained. This intelligent, humane and wide-ranging work shows that the rule of law, conceived as a community of 'anchoring [legal] practices - a constellation of ideas, discourses and concrete actions' rather than just an instrument of power, can be both. Modest because it is only one practice among many; precious as indispensable foundation for the best of the others. A welcome tonic for an 'age of anxiety'.' Martin Krygier, AM Gordon Samuels Professor of Law and Social Theory, UNSW Sydney and Senior Research Fellow, CEU Democracy Institute, Budapest\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction; Part I. Uncertainty, Risk and Anxiety: 1. Our Age of Anxiety; 2. Populism and Nationalism; 3. The Confounding Diversity of Globalisation; 4. The Rise of Disruptive Technologies and Dominating Platforms; Part II. Our Inheritance of Thought and Action: Addressing our Anxiety; 5. Practical Wisdom and Pragmatism; 6. Social Practices, Background Knowledge and Law; Part III. A Modest 'Rule of Law' Helps Frame a Healthier Society: 7. The Bases of Law and Challenges to Legalism; 8. Interactional Law and the Rule of Law; 9. Lawyers, Practice and Legal Education; Conclusion: That A Beginning Be Made.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738022261079,"sku":"9781009299459","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781009299459.jpg?v=1723811685"},{"product_id":"incentives-9781107610330","title":"Incentives","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen incentives work well, individuals prosper. When incentives are poor, the pursuit of self-interest is self-defeating. This book is wholly devoted to the topical subject of incentives from individual, collective, and institutional standpoints. This third edition is fully updated and expanded, including a new section on the 200708 financial crisis and a new chapter on networks as well as specific applications of school placement for students, search engine ad auctions, pollution permits, and more. 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Working together, students, alumni, teachers, and staff embraced hope as a method, demonstrating that it is possible to find positive answers even in a situation of imminent collapse. The case histories narrated in the book provide alternatives to conventional forms of design teaching, but also prove that education can be a site for democracy and the practice of freedom.  Deprived of the activity of creating for an imagined future, design can still assert a way forward through practices of making and experimenting. Drawing on their perso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZoy Anastassakis and Marcos Martins take us on a personal journey through the challenges of leadership, management and teaching in a design school during times of uncertainty, precariousness and government neglect in Brazil. 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But also claiming resistance, vulnerability, care, interdependence, coexistence and solidarity as essential terms of a design lexicon they generously share with us in this momentous book. -- Frederico Duarte, University of Lisbon, Portugal\u003cbr\u003eHope is perhaps the element to be harnessed in a time that insists on oppressing and in which different ways of doing things are designed to circumvent the investments of domination. In these margins, scribbling is the act of imprinting life, whether it be to inscribe battles and continuity, or to strike through the logics that paint a world obsessed with a single, exclusive method. 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[A great strength of \u003ci\u003eDesign Studies\u003c\/i\u003e is] the effective demonstration that design analysis and history is not an elitist, purely academic pursuit, but essential to consideration of society and its cultural expressions in the very broadest sense. -- Linda King, The Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Ireland * Artefact - Journal of the Irish Association of Art Historians *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeneral Introduction, Hazel Clark and David Brody  \u003cb\u003eSECTION I: HISTORY OF DESIGN \u003c\/b\u003e Section Introduction  I.1: DESIGN HISTORIES  Part Introduction  1. Nikolaus Pevsner, Pioneers of Modern Design  2. Adrian Forty, Design, Designers and the Literature of Design  3. Matthew Turner, Early Modern Design in Hong Kong  4. Lucila Fernández Uriate, Modernity and Postmodernity from Cuba  I.2: DESIGN HISTORY AS A DISCIPLINE  Part Introduction  5. Victor Margolin, Design History and Design Studies  6. John Walker, Defining the Object of Study  7. Judy Attfield, FORM\/female FOLLOWS FUNCTION\/male  8. Denise Whitehouse, The State of Design History as a Discipline  Annotated Guide to Further Reading  \u003cb\u003eSECTION II: DESIGN THINKING \u003c\/b\u003e Section Introduction  II.1: DESIGN PHILOSOPHIES AND THEORIES  Part Introduction  9. Buckminster Fuller, Speculative Prehistory of Humanity  10. John Chris Jones, What is Designing?  11. Louis Bucciarelli, Designing Engineers  12. Henry Petroski, Success and Failure in Design 13. Richard Buchanan, Wicked Problems in Design Thinking II.2: DESIGN RESEARCH  Part Introduction  14. Herbert Simon, Understanding the Natural and Artificial Worlds  15. Donald Schön, Designing; Rules, Types and Worlds  16. Susan Squires, Discovery Research  II: 3 DESIGN COMMUNICATIONS  Part Introduction  17. Eric van Schaak, The Division of Pictorial Publicity in World War I  18. 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Sustainable Development Project Implementation    Retheorizing Economics    Green New Dealism    Development Multilateralism    Conclusion Notes References Index","brand":"SAGE Publications Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48740471800151,"sku":"9781544305363","price":109.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781544305363.jpg?v=1720054780"},{"product_id":"classical-sociological-theory-9781544354828","title":"Classical Sociological Theory","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe authors are proud sponsors of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award—enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cstrong\u003eClassical Sociological Theory, Eighth Edition\u003c\/strong\u003e, provides a comprehensive overview of the major theorists and schools of sociological thought from the Enlightenment roots of theory through the early 20th century. 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As the social sciences became increasingly concerned with issues of professionalization and standards of validity inspired by more established disciplines, especially the natural sciences and economics, the focus on dynamic processes gave way to efforts to illuminate structural (i.e., static) features of modern social life. In recent decades, however, this preoccupation with structure has begun to give way to more process-oriented research orientations. In part, this renewed interest in dynamics rather than statics is reflective of the growing influence of Continental European traditions, especially in Germany and France. In this follow-up volume to \"Theorizing the Dynamics of Social Processes (vol. 27)\", the emphasis is placed on recent trends in Continental European social theory, and on the importance of political analyses to theorizing modern societies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Contributors. EDITORIAL BOARD.  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The second edition of Social Justice: Theories, Issues, and Movements responds to the need for a comprehensive introduction to these issues.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Theories of social justice are presented in an accessible fashion to encourage engagement of students, activists, and scholars with these important lines of inquiry. Issues are analyzed utilizing various theories for furthering engagement in possibilities. Struggles for justice -- from legal cases to on the ground movements -- are presented for historical context and to inform the way forward.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis new edition effectively updates an all-too-rare book in the criminal justice library. The additions link the book to many contemporary debates that have evolved since it was first published. -- Raymond J. 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Environmental, Ecological, And Species Justice                                                   \u003cbr\u003e 8. Indigenous, Postcolonial, and Counter-colonial Forms of Justice                                     \u003cbr\u003e 9. Postmodern, Post Postmodern, and Posthumanist Forms of Justice                                 \u003cbr\u003e Part III Struggles for Social Justice                           \u003cbr\u003e 10. Legal Struggles and Social Justice                                                           \u003cbr\u003e 11. Justice and Grassroots Struggles                                                             \u003cbr\u003e 12. Emerging Conceptions of Justice in a Global Arena                               \u003cbr\u003e 13. 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It discusses the historical developments in governance preceding globalization, the diverse theoretical and methodological approaches to globalization, and analyzes underdevelopment, anti-globalization movements, global poverty, global inequality, and the debates on international trade versus protectionism. Finally, the volume looks to the future and provides prospects for inter-civilizational understanding, rapprochement, and global cooperation. This will be of great interest to academics and students of sociology, social anthropology, political science and international relations, economics, social policy, social history, as well as to policy makers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 Introduction: Globalization and the Millennial Ascent of Individual Rights; Ino Rossi.- PART I. GLOBALIZATION AS A FIELD OF STUDY: CONCEPTUALIZING AND EXPLORING GLOBALIZATION: Introduction: Chapter 2. The Global Turn; Roland Robertson.- Chapter 3. Global Systemic Anthropology and the Analysis of Globalization;  Jonathan Friedman.- Chapter4.  Media, Sociocultural Change, and Meta-Culture; York Kautt.- Chapter 5. Globalization and the Challenge of the Anthropocene; Leslie Sklair.- Chapter 6. Conceptual Structures for a Theory of World Society; Rudolf Stichweh.- Chapter 7. Principles of Geo-Political Dynamics; Jonathan H. Turner.- Chapter 8. Transdisciplinarity in Globalization Research: The Global Studies Framework;  Manfred B. Steger. PART: GLOBALIZATION PROCESSES: CULTURAL, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND ECOLOGICAL: ON CULTURAL GLOBALIZATION : Chapter 9 Goals, Values, and Endemic Conflicts in the New Global Culture; Martin Albrow.- Chapter 10. The Affectual Landscape of Globalization: New Migration, Generalized Discontent, and Ressentiment; Jörg Dürrschmidt.- Chapter 11. Globalization, Cosmopolitanization, and a New Research Agenda; Joy Zhang.-. PART ON POLITICAL GLOBALIZATION : Chapter 12. Global Transformations in Polity, Policy, and Politics: World Polity, Europe, and the Nation-State;  Didem Buhari Gulmez.- Chapter 13. The Politics of the Adjective Global: May’s Global Britain and the ‘New World’; Sabine Selchow.- Chapter 14.  (Postmodern) Populism as a Trope for Contested Glocality; Barrie Axford.- Chapter 15. Globalization and the Rise of the Economic State: PRC and USA in Comparison;  Guoguang Wu PART:  ON ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION: Chapter 16. Trade Globalization and Its Consequences; Michael C. Dreiling.- Chapter 17. The Political Economy of the United States and the Structure of the Millennial World-System;  Salvatore Babones.- Chapter 18. Global Inequality and Capitalist World-Economy, 1500—Present: A Critique of Neo-Modernization Theories;  Sahan S. Karatasli.- Chapter 19. Mind the Gaps! Clustered Obstacles to Mobility in the Core\/Periphery Hierarchy; Marilyn Grell-Brisk and Christopher Chase-Dunn.- Chapter 20. Global Inequality and Global Poverty; Robert Holton. PART: ON ECOLOGICAL GLOBALIZATION: Chapter 21. Reconfiguring Ecology in the Twenty-First–Century. Social Movements as Producers of the Global Age; Geoffrey Pleyers.- Chapter 22. Globalization, Marginalization, and the External Arena; Robert Schaeffer.- Chapter 23.  Global Indigenism and the Web of Transnational Social Movements; Christopher Chase-Dunn, James Fenelon, Thomas D. Hall, Ian Breckenridge-Jackson, and Joel Herrera.- PART: GLOBALIZATION IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH: VIEWS FROM THE ASIA-PACIFIC: Globalization and Political Economy Chapter 24. Globalization in Asia or Asian Globalization?; Habibul Haque Khondker.- Chapter 25. China’s Global Rise: From Socialist Self-reliance to the Embracement of Economic Globalization; Yin-wah Chu.- Chapter 26. The Newness of the Chinese Developmental State Under Xi’s Administration;  Falin Zhang.- Chapter 27. India’s Transition: A New Complex of Capitalism and Hindu Nationalism; Anjan Chakrabarti, Anup Dhar, and Sayonee Majumdar.- Chapter 28. Socially Sustainable Globalization? The Domestic Politics of Globalization in Australia; Tom Conley. Part: Impact of Globalization on Culture.- Chapter 29. Neoliberalism Without Guarantees: The Glocality of Labor,Education, and Sport in Japan from the 1980s to the 2000s; Koji Kobayashi and Steven J. Jackson.- Chapter 30.  “The Impact of Globalization on Chinese Culture and “Glocalized Practices” in China”; Ning Wang.- Chapter 31.  Border-Crossing and Interfacing in Asia: Approaches, Patterns, and Consequences; Ming-Chang Tsai.- Chapter 32. Transformations in Kinship Relations in a Globalized India: Interrogating Marriage, Law, and Intimacy;  Rukmini Sen Part: Globalization, Law and Democracy.- Chapter 33. The Ascent of Asian Strongmen: Emerging Market Populism and the Revolt Against Liberal Globalization;  Richard Javad Heydarian.- Chapter 34. Globalization and Indian Political Modernity; Leïla Choukroune.- Chapter 35. Whose Democracy? Governing Indonesia in a Globalized World; Lena Tan PART: VIEWS FROM SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: Globalization and Political Culture.- Chapter 36. Globalization, Democracy, and Good Governance in Africa; Ngozi Nwogwugwu.- Chapter 37. Political Globalization in an African Perspective: Continuity and Change; Goran Hyden Globalization, Poverty and Economic Development.- Chapter 38. Human Capital Contribution to the Economic Growth of Sub-Saharan Africa: Does Health Status Matter? Evidence from Dynamic Panel Data; Abel Kinyondo and Mwoya Byaro.- Chapter 39. Globalization, Poverty, and Development in Africa: Looking Past to the Future; Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba, Ebenezer Babajide Ishola,and Israel Kehinde Ekanade.- Chapter 40. Africa’s Industrialization and Prosperity: Time for Structural Change;  David Sseppuuya PART: VIEWS FROM LATIN AMERICA: Globalization and Political Economy.- Chapter 41. Latin America: Between the Promises of Globalization and the Chimera of Nationalism; Ronaldo Munck.- Chapter 42. Globalization and the Transformation of Latin America’s Political Economy; William I. Robinson.- Chapter 43. The Caribbean and Global Capitalism: Five Strategic Traits; Jeb Sprague.- Part Impact of Globalization on Culture: Chapter 44. Through Thick and Thin: Globalization and Contested Conceptualizations of the Rule of Law in Latin America; Craig L. Arceneaux.- Chapter 45.  Indigenous People in Pluricultural Nations of Latin America; June Nash PART: DESIGNS FOR A FUTURE WORLD ORDER: Introduction: TOWARD A DEMOCRATIC GLOBALIZATION Chapter 46. Re-embracing the Masses Economically by Financialization;  Jürgen Schraten.- Chapter 47. A Manifesto for Good Globalization: Or, the Manifesto as Method; Paul James.- Chapter 48. Forging a Diagonal Instrument for the Global Left: The Vessel;  Rebecca Álvarez and Christopher Chase-Dunn.- Chapter 49. Alternatives to Neoliberal Globalization;  Vishwas Satgar PART: ALTERNATIVE CIVILIZATIONAL DESIGNS: Chapter 50. Global Mobilization in the Name of Islam: the Global Imaginary of Political Islam;  Amentahru Wahlrab and Rebecca A. Otis.- Chapter 51.  Tian Xia: A Confucian Model of State Identity and Global Governance;  Tongdong Bai.- Chapter 52.  Russian Civilization and Global Culture: Alternative or Coexistence?; Ilya Ilyin and Olga Leonova.- Chapter 53.  (Re)Constructing Neo-Confucianism in a “Glocalized” Context;  Ning Wang PART: TOWARD AN INTER-CIVILIZATIONAL AND COSMIC WORLD ORDER: Chapter 54. From Cultural Pluralism and Civilizational Disintegration to a Global Cultural-cum-civilizational System;  Alexander N. Chumakov.- Chapter 55. From World Politics to a World Political System;  Olga Leonova and Ilya Ilyin.- Chapter 56. The Final Frontier of Global Society and the Evolution of Space Governance; Eytan Tepper .- PART. CONCLUSION: Chapter 57. 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