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Rogers:: The Town the Frisco Built by Marilyn Collins 9780738523736
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $21.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738523736Author Marilyn Harris CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Arcadia... -
Gravity's Shadow: The Search for Gravitational Waves by H. Collins
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $64.47According to the theory of relativity, we are constantly bathed in gravitational radiation. When stars explode or collide, a portion of their mass becomes energy that disturbs the very fabric of the... -
Changing Order: Replication and Induction in Scientific Practice by H. M. Collins 9780226113760
Booksplease Price: $35.63This fascinating study in the sociology of science explores the way scientists conduct, and draw conclusions from, their experiments. The book is organized around three case studies: replication of... -
All About Science: Philosophy, History, Sociology & Communication by Maria Burguete 9789814508193
RRP: $47.73Booksplease Price: $44.08There is a lot of confusion and misconception concerning science. The nature and contents of science is an unsettled problem. For example, Thales of 2,600 years ago is recognized as the father of... -
Social Constructivism as Paradigm?: The Legacy of The Social Construction of Reality by Michaela Pfadenhauer
RRP: $60.62Booksplease Price: $57.07Social constructivism is one of the most prominent theoretical approaches in the social sciences. This volume celebrates the 50th anniversary of its first formulation in Peter Berger and Luckmann's... -
Expertise in Crisis: The Ideological Contours of Public Scientific Controversies David S. Caudill (Villanova University) 9781529230918
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $42.11When the utility of masks or vaccinations became politicized during the COVID-19 pandemic and lost its mooring in scientific evidence, an already-developing crisis of expertise was exacerbated. Those... -
Understanding the Tacit by Stephen P. Turner 9781138929647
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $58.86This book outlines a new account of the tacit, meaning tacit knowledge, presuppositions, practices, traditions, and so forth. It includes essays on topics such as underdetermination and mutual... -
Science, Democracy, and Curriculum Studies by John A. Weaver 9783319938394
Booksplease Price: $59.70In this book John A. Weaver suggests curriculum studies scholars need to engage more in science matters. It offers a review of science studies writing from Ludwick Fleck and Thomas Kuhn to Philip... -
The Golem: What You Should Know About Science by Harry M. Collins
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.74Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch liken science to the Golem, a creature from Jewish mythology, powerful yet potentially dangerous, a gentle, helpful creature that may yet run amok at any moment... -
Tara by Lesley Pearse 9780099557432
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66In the East End, twelve-year-old Tara witnesses her villain of a father almost kill her mother. She forges a determination then and there to change her life. This is the story of three beautiful and... -
Hermeneutics and the Natural Sciences by Robert P. Crease 9780792348108
Booksplease Price: $116.82philosophers with both hermeneutic-phenomenological and scientific back- grounds (such as Heelan, Ihde, Theodore Kisiel, Joseph Kockelmans) have begun to read the work of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty,... -
Hermeneutics and the Natural Sciences by Robert P. Crease 9789401065115
Booksplease Price: $118.99philosophers with both hermeneutic-phenomenological and scientific back- grounds (such as Heelan, Ihde, Theodore Kisiel, Joseph Kockelmans) have begun to read the work of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty,... -
Science in Society by Matthew David 9780333993484
Booksplease Price: $59.02Science/Technoscience has moved to centre-stage in debates over change, power and justice in twenty-first century societies. This text provides a general framework for understanding, combining and... -
Einstein's Generation: The Origins of the Relativity Revolution by Richard Staley
RRP: $134.16Booksplease Price: $129.13Much of the history of physics at the beginning of the twentieth century has been written with a sharp focus on a few key figures and a handful of notable events. "Einstein's Generation" offers a... -
Einstein's Generation: The Origins of the Relativity Revolution by Richard Staley 9780226770574
Booksplease Price: $51.73Much of the history of physics at the beginning of the twentieth century has been written with a sharp focus on a few key figures and a handful of notable events. "Einstein's Generation" offers a... -
The Crisis of Expertise by Gil Eyal 9780745665771
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $63.29In recent political debates there has been a significant change in the valence of the word "experts" from a superlative to a near pejorative, typically accompanied by a recitation of experts' many... -
The Crisis of Expertise Gil Eyal (Professor of Sociology, Columbia University) 9780745665788
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $21.97In recent political debates there has been a significant change in the valence of the word "experts" from a superlative to a near pejorative, typically accompanied by a recitation of experts' many... -
Einstein Was Right: The Science and History of Gravitational Waves by Alessandra Buonanno
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $42.34An authoritative interdisciplinary account of the historic discovery of gravitational wavesIn 1915, Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves-ripples in the fabric of spacetime... -
Policy Legitimacy, Science and Political Authority: Knowledge and action in liberal democracies by Michael Heazle
RRP: $70.94Booksplease Price: $66.55Voters expect their elected representatives to pursue good policy and presume this will be securely founded on the best available knowledge. Yet when representatives emphasize their reliance on... -
Making Social Science Matter: Why Social Inquiry Fails and How it Can Succeed Again by Bent Flyvbjerg 9780521772686
RRP: $127.71Booksplease Price: $121.40Making Social Science Matter presents an exciting new approach to the social and behavioral sciences including theoretical argument, methodological guidelines, and examples of practical application... -
The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies by Trevor Pinch 9780199995813
Booksplease Price: $83.59Written by the world's leading scholars and researchers in the emerging field of sound studies, The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies offers new and fully engaging perspectives on the significance of... -
Expertise: A Philosophical Introduction by Jamie Carlin Watson
Booksplease Price: $34.31What does it mean to be an expert? What sort of authority do experts really have? And what role should they play in today's society? Addressing why ever larger segments of society are skeptical... -
On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods by Bruno Latour
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods continues the project that the influential anthropologist, philosopher, and science studies theorist Bruno Latour advanced in his book We Have Never Been Modern... -
Knowledge as Social Order: Rethinking the Sociology of Barry Barnes by Massimo Mazzotti 9781138251380
RRP: $70.94Booksplease Price: $66.55Investigating a theme first pioneered by Barry Barnes in the early 1970s, this volume explores the relationship between social order and legitimate knowledge and is intended as a tribute to Barnes'... -
The Secret Life of Science: How It Really Works and Why It Matters by Jeremy J. Baumberg 9780691174358
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.61A revealing and provocative look at the current state of global scienceWe take the advance of science as given. But how does science really work? Is it truly as healthy as we tend to think? How does... -
The Spectacle of Expertise: Why Financial Analysts Perform in the Media by Alex Preda 9780231202466
RRP: $150.93Booksplease Price: $117.98Financial experts have become ubiquitous on television, radio, and social media. They provide investment advice, interpret market movements, and explain the implications of political events, wielding... -
The Spectacle of Expertise: Why Financial Analysts Perform in the Media by Alex Preda 9780231202473
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.52Financial experts have become ubiquitous on television, radio, and social media. They provide investment advice, interpret market movements, and explain the implications of political events, wielding... -
Dead Reckoning: Air Traffic Control, System Effects, and Risk by Diane Vaughan
Booksplease Price: $29.97Vaughan unveils the complicated and high-pressure world of air traffic controllers as they navigate technology and political and public climates, and shows how they keep the skies so safe. When two... -
The Evolution-Creation Struggle by Michael Ruse 9780674022553
Booksplease Price: $36.60Creation versus evolution: What seems like a cultural crisis of our day, played out in courtrooms and classrooms across the county, is in fact part of a larger story reaching back through the...