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Book SynopsisThis book is a study in the depth of a colonial 'plantation' during fifty critical years of slavery in the Caribbean. As the title suggests however, it is not concerned with slavery exclusively, but with a social entity of which slavery was a significant part. Brathwaite argues that the people - from Britain and West Africa, mainly - who settled, lived and worked in Jamaica, contributed to the formation of a society which developed its own distinctive character - creole society. This society developed institutions, customs and attitudes which were basically the result of the interaction between its two main elements, the African and European. But this creole society was also part of a wider American or New World culture complex, and as such, it was also shaped by the pressures upon it of British and European mercantilism, and the American, French, and Humanitarian Revolutions.

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Book SynopsisThe emergence of nationalist movements and the increase in black consciousness in the Caribbean have diverted scholarship away from the white elite to the recording of the experiences of the black and coloured populations. This study reverses this trend by focusing on the strategies adopted by the white community to shape and dominate the social and economic environment in a region which is predominantly non-white.

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Book SynopsisThis book is for policy-makers navigating the digital transformation. Global governance is needed to mitigate the disproportionate risks of artificial intelligence but is in a state of deep crisis. Revisiting the era of telecommunication monopolies, this book argues that today’s return of sovereignty resembles the great reregulation, but of the entire digital economy. Breaking through the previous asymmetrical distribution of technology and institutional power, China threatens the United States’ technology hegemony. The task is to avert from the straitjacket of hyperdigitalization without causing new silos.Table of ContentsForeword.- Preface.- List of Figures.- Introduction.- The Rise and Fall of the 20th Century Technology Silos.- Breaking through Post-Colonial Dependencies.- Technology Silos of Today or the End of Global Innovation.- The Transformation of Our Time.- Race to the Bottom.- Recommendations for Policymakers.- References.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introducing medical research collections as sources of ‘public goods’?.- Chapter 2: Building heart disease research as infrastructure in the Framingham Heart Study.-Chapter 3: Contesting research collection purposes in the Singapore Tissue Network.- Chapter 4: Making population in accounting for mortality in the Million Death Study.- Chapter 5: Disputing medical research in the European research infrastructure BBMRI-ERIC.- Chapter 6: Comparing infrastructures for the purpose of population-based medical research.- Chapter 7: Revisiting medical research participation through citizenship.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Connotation of Think Tanks and Its Development (Pan Jiaofeng et al).- Chapter 2. Theory Structure of the Double Helix Methodology in Think Tanks (Pan Jiaofeng et al).- Chapter 3. Theoretical Value and Significance of the Double Helix Methodology in Think Tanks (Pan Jiaofeng et al).- Chapter 4. Decomposition of Think Tank Problems (Yang Guoliang et al). Chapter 5.  Scenario Analysis of Think Tank Problems  (Leng Fuhai et al).- Chapter 6. Uncertainty Analysis in Think Tank Problem Study  (Gao Mingang).- Chapter 7. Policy Simulation Analysis in Think Tank Problem Research (Wu Jing et al).- Chapter 8.  Cyclic Iteration of Think Tank Research (Liu Huihui et al) .- Chapter 9. DIIS and MIPS Coupling (Mu Di et al).- Chapter 10. Organization and Management of Think Tank Experts (Wan Jinbo et al).- Chapter 11. Human-machine Research Support System in Think Tank Research (Zhang Feng et al).- Chapter 12. Combination of Objective Analysis and Subjective Judgment (Wan Jinbo et al).- Chapter 13. Product Quality Management (Mu Di et al).

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Book Synopsis1 Introduction: From Geographic Space to Cyberspace.- 2 China’s Economic Growth and Aggressions, 1994-2004.- 3 The Rise of Cyberspace.- 4 Technology Denial: De-coupling the ICT Industries.- 5 Data Collection Denial: Segregating the Platform Industries.- 6 Cyberspace Trade Barriers.- 7 Blockchains Applications as Digital Networking.- 8 Difficult Regime Transition Across the Digital Wall.- 9 Penetrating Through the Digital Wall.- 10 Sensitivity of International Digital Coalitions.- 11 Conclusions: The Digital Wall as a Self-fulling Expectation.

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Book Synopsis1. Introduction.- 2. Theoretical and Technical Foundations.- 3. IT Progress and Innovations Since 2016.- 4. IT Case Studies.- 5. Digital Trade Facilitation Technologies.- 6. Policy and Regulatory Framework for IT.- 7. Future IT Trends and Predictions.- 8. IT Management and Strategy for Businesses.- 9. Cybersecurity Measures and Challenges in ASEAN Related to Digital Trade Facilitation.-  10.The Role of Digital Identity in Trade.- 11. Impact of Trade Digitalization on SMEs in Southeast Asia.- 12. E-commerce Strategies and Frameworks.- 13. Sustainable Practices in Digital Trade.- 14. Conclusion, Recommendations, and Final Thoughts.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction - Section A: Trustworthy science communicators - Chapter 2: Scientist-citizenship, scientist-activism, scientist-rhetors: Reconceptualizing the ethos of expertise for the crises of our times.- Chapter 3: The role of science communication in building trust in scientific expertise.- Chapter 4: Contestation of science, post-truth regimes, and emotions, A review.- Chapter 5: Celebrity scientists as mediators between science and the public in an acute health crisis.- Chapter 6: Communicative roles of scientists in intermingling online public arenas: An analytical framework.- Chapter 7: Trusting the martyr: The appeal of the rogue expert archetype in science-skeptical narratives - Section B: Trust and the field of science communication.- Chapter 8: Third-order science communication: What is it, and where can I get some?.- Chapter 9: The devil in the disciplines: Towards a science communication culture informed by field-specific self-reflection.- Chapter 10: Riskcommunication and stories.- Chapter 11: Post-truth science communication as knowledge (of) failure.- Chapter 12: Science communication in small countries: Language, communities and trust.- Chapter 13: Dialogical digital relationships: A model for digital science.- Chapter 14: Portraying pesticides: An application of CLT in news coverage of glyphosate in French and German English-language online articles.- Chapter 15: Science communication in family communication in the age of artificial intelligence: Who is more trustworthy to children: parents or robots?.- Chapter 16: The evil corporation trope: An analysis of popular science-fiction films - Section C: Trust in science.- Chapter 17: Beyond the binary of trust and mistrust.- Chapter 18: How public good matters complicate the public trust question for science.- Chapter 19: Resources, values, trust: Sharing in stem cell research.- Chapter 20: The definitional and measurement problems of trust and distrust in science.- Chapter 21: Trust cues in content about science: How the media present female and male scientists differently.- Chapter 22: Identifying segments of trust in science in South Africa and Germany: A comparative study.- Chapter 23: Personal epistemologies and science information: Exploring the role of scientific evidence and trust.- Chapter 24: The complex discursive construction of trust in vaccines' among parents: a cross-linguistic study.- Chapter 25: Spelling errors and 'shouting' capitalization implicitly lead to linearly additive penalties to trustworthiness of online health information: Online randomised experiments with laypersons.- Chapter 26: Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: General Introduction.- Part I. Unpacking the technologies of development: a critique of technology transfer.- Chapter 2 David Pretel. Mexico and the Technology Transfer Debate (1960s-1970s).- Chapter 3: Moisés Gámez. Japanese technical assistance, `Toyodism´, and business transformation. From Toyoda de Mexico to Siderúrgica Nacional, 1954-1970.- Chapter 4 Guillermo Guajardo. (Totopos y Margaritas) U.S. advisors and models for Mexico's industrial and infrastructural development during the Cold War, ca. 1940-1970 - Part II. The hopes and wrath of development.- Chapter 5: Claudia Escalera. Labor-based roads or the Sisyphus myth: institutionalizing the isolation of (rural) localities.- Chapter 6: Jayson Porter. Strong enough to remove dirt and skin: Soap and violence in twentieth-century Guerrero.- Chapter 7: Netzahualcóyotl Gutiérrez. The National Corn Commission: agricultural modernization, biopolitics, and state-making in Mexico, 1947-1961.- Chapter 8: Joel Vargas. Feeding development: rural nutritional projects in Mexico between the 1940s and 1960s.- Part III. Conglomerates of experts.- Chapter 9: Claudia Agostoni. Hospital modernization: ideals, network of experts and technical assistance in post-Revolutionary Mexico, 1940-1960.- Chapter 10: Diana Montaño. Sowing Clouds: Drought, Science and Technical Expertise in the Necaxa, 1949-1962.- Chapter 11: Gisela Mateos and Edna Suárez. Aggressive and imaginative: atoms and water in the Mexico-USA border (1963-1968).- Chapter 12: Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Technoscientific Imaginary.- Chapter 3: The case of facial recognition technologies.- Chapter 4: The case of AI-assisted reproductive technologies.- Chapter 5: Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Some theoretical issues on social mobility of science and technology human resources in the context of the fourth industrial revolution.- Chapter 2: The Fourth Industrial Revolution and its impact on Social mobility of Science and technology human resources from the Social Mobility Approach.- Chapter 3: Applying The Push-Pull Theory in the Study of the Social Mobility of Science and Technology Human Resources in Vietnamese Universities.- Chapter 4: Types of Social Mobility of Vietnam's Science and Technology Human Resources in the Context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Research Results at Two Vietnam National Universities).- Chapter 5: Exploring the Determinants of the International Academic Mobility.- and “Brain Drain” in Vietnam During and after Tertiary Education.- Chapter 6: Brain drain on the spot of the scientific community in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution – A number of Issues in Vietnam.- Chapter 7: Social mobility management policies of science and technology human resources in Vietnam in the context of the fourth industrial revolution: Opportunities and challenges.- Chapter 8: Financial policy to attract high-quality science and technology human resources at public universities in Vietnam from social mobility approach.- Chapter 9: Social mobility and university talent acquisition in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: On the notion and theorization of peripheral science.- Chapter 2: The subordinate integration in the production and circulation of knowledge: origin, development and rewritings.- Chapter 3: Give Me the World and I Will Raise Laboratories: Veiled Provincialism and Geopolitics of Knowledge in Latin American STS.- Chapter 4: Latin American Infrastructure Studies: On the fragility of modernist projects.- Chapter 5: Towards a “Bio-Sociotechnical Systems” Approach: considerations and evidences based on communicable diseases.- Chapter 6: Gender and the aspirational biomedicalization of sexual risk.- Chapter 7: Technologies and knowledge in gray zones.- Chapter 8: Social Technology: historical development and appropriations of the concept.- Chapter 9: The Engaged Engineering and (other) technological fields (EETF) Program – A Review from a Latin American Perspective.- Chapter 10: Local eco-innovation: contributions to the debate on sustainable innovation.- Chapter 11: Bringing convivial tools into STS Studies. The intersection of artistic practices, agri-food, and technoscience in Latin America.- Chapter 12: Cognitive Materialism: A Theory on Capitalism and Knowledge.- Chapter 13: Socio-technical analysis in action: Processes of construction of working/non-working of technologies.- Chapter 14: Citation Functions and Their Role in Scientific Organization.- Chapter 15: Transversality: The Emergence of an Environmental Ethic in Climate Governance.- Chapter 16: Technological Bargaining: Limits and Potentials of Labor Agency in the Face of Technological Change.- Chapter 17: Breaking the deficit-dialogue binary with hybrids: Opening-up science-society framings from the South.

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Book Synopsis.- Chapter 1:Value is the core essence of human civilization.- Chapter 2:  Technology is the means to ignite value.- Chapter 3:  Functions and Negentropy of Human Civilization.- Chapter 4:  Human Values Civilization.- Chapter 5:  Awakening of Values.- Chapter 6: Value Conflic.- Chapter 7:  Value Revolution.- Chapter 8:  Value Cornerstone of Human Civilization: A Global History of Civilizations.- Chapter 9:  Consensus Space of Human Values Civilization — The Meta-Universe.- Chapter 10: The Value Community of Human Values Civilization – a Community of Shared Human Destiny.- Chapter 11:Initiative for Human Values Civilization.

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Book SynopsisIntroduction.- Animal Agriculture and the Anthropocene.- Cultivating Meat from Cells.- Cellular Economies and Meat as Technologies.- Making and Eating Meat in/for/against the Anthropocene.- Mapping Meat Technologies: Biosocialities and Geosocialities of Cellular Meat.- The Biopolitics of Cr/Edibility: The Construction of Taste.- Erasing the Body.- Techno-utopian Imaginaries and Anthropocene Narratives.- Phenomenology of Repair: Negotiating the Social Order in the Anthropocene.- Competing Vitalities: Separating the Real from the Fake in the Search for Authenticity.- Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: The Controversy over Expert Consensus in Science.- Chapter 2: Consensus Pervades Scientific Processes.- Chapter 3: Expert Consensus to Establish Scientific Truths.- Chapter 4: Spontaneous and Deliberative Processes to Reach Consensus.- Chapter 5: Expert Consensus to Guide Practice and Policy.- Chapter 6: Expert Consensus on Research Methods.- Chapter 7: Specifying Experts and Consensus.- Chapter 8: Methods for Determining Deliberative Consensus.- Chapter 9: How Wisdom-of-Crowds Research Can Help Improve Deliberative Consensus Methods.- Chapter 10: Towards a Wisdom of Scientific Crowds.- Chapter 11: Using Expert Consensus to Persuade the Public.

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