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Mangle of Practice
Time, Agency, and Science
Häftad, 1995
340 kr
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This text offers an understanding of the nature of scientific, mathematical and engineering practice, and the production of scientific knowledge. The author presents an approach to the unpredictable nature of change in science, taking into account the number of factors - social, technological, …
Cybernetic Brain
Sketches of Another Future
Häftad, 2011
400 kr
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Cybernetics is often thought of as a grim military or industrial science of control. But as Andrew Pickering reveals in this surprising book, a much more lively and experimental strain of cybernetics can be traced from the 1940s to the present. "The Cybernetic Brain" explores a largely forgotten …
Cybernetic Brain
Sketches of Another Future
E-bok, 2010
808 kr
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Cybernetics is often thought of as a grim military or industrial science of control. But as Andrew Pickering reveals in this beguiling book, a much more lively and experimental strain of cybernetics can be traced from the 1940s to the present. The Cybernetic Brain explores a largely forgotten group …
Constructing Quarks
A Sociological History of Particle Physics
Häftad, 1999
451 kr
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Recounts the history of the post-war conceptual development of elementary-particle physics. Inviting a reappraisal of the status of scientific knowledge, the text suggests that scientists are not mere passive observers and reporters of nature. Rather they are social beings as well as active …
Science as Practice and Culture
Häftad, 1992
425 kr
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Science as Practice and Culture explores one of the newest and most controversial developments within the rapidly changing field of science studies: the move toward studying scientific practice--the work of doing science--and the associated move toward studying scientific culture, understood as the …
Science as Practice and Culture
E-bok, 2010
928 kr
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Science as Practice and Culture explores one of the newest and most controversial developments within the rapidly changing field of science studies: the move toward studying scientific practice—the work of doing science—and the associated move toward studying scientific culture, understood as the …
Mangle of Practice
Time, Agency, and Science
E-bok, 2010
739 kr
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This ambitious book by one of the most original and provocative thinkers in science studies offers a sophisticated new understanding of the nature of scientific, mathematical, and engineering practice and the production of scientific knowledge. Andrew Pickering offers a new approach to the …
Lancastrians to Tudors
England 1450-1509
Av Andrew Pickering, Richard Brown m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
376 kr
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An engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history. The Wars of the Roses and the struggle for the throne between the Houses of York and Lancaster dominate the history of England in the latter half of the fifteenth century. But what were the causes of over forty years of …
Mangle in Practice
Science, Society, and Becoming
Av Andrew Pickering, Keith Guzik
Häftad, 2009
385 kr
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In The Mangle of Practice (1995), the renowned sociologist of science Andrew Pickering argued for a reconceptualization of research practice as a “mangle,” an open-ended, evolutionary, and performative interplay of human and non-human agency. While Pickering’s ideas originated in science and …
Mangle in Practice
Science, Society, and Becoming
Av Keith Guzik, Andrew Pickering
E-bok, 2009
570 kr
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In The Mangle of Practice (1995), the renowned sociologist of science Andrew Pickering argued for a reconceptualization of research practice as a “mangle,” an open-ended, evolutionary, and performative interplay of human and non-human agency. While Pickering’s ideas originated in science and …
Cheddar Through Time
Av Andrew Pickering, Nicola Foster
Häftad, 2011
176 kr
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Now that the railway has gone and most visitors disembark from the car and coach bays above the world-famous caves, this book explores Cheddar past and present from the top of its dramatic gorge to the substantial reservoir beyond the bustling village below. While its caves have long served as the …
Witch Hunt
The Persecution of Witches in England
Av David Pickering, Andrew Pickering
Häftad, 2013
123 kr
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It was not so long ago that the belief in witchcraft was shared by members of all levels of society. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, diseases were feared by all, the infant mortality rate was high, and around one in six harvests was likely to fail. In the small rural communities in …
Cheddar Through Time
Av Nicola Foster, Andrew Pickering
E-bok, 2011
169 kr
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Now that the railway has gone and most visitors disembark from the car and coach bays above the world-famous caves, this book explores Cheddar past and present from the top of its dramatic gorge to the substantial reservoir beyond the bustling village below. While its caves have long served as the …
Cheddar Through Time Revised Edition
Av Nicola Foster, Andrew Pickering
E-bok, 2015
166 kr
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The unique and picturesque village of Cheddar has a long and ancient history, from world-famous landmarks to local myths and ghost stories. From as early as 1130 the beauty of Cheddar Gorge was recognised as one of the ‘Four Wonders of England’. It is through archive and contemporary photographs …
Secret Frome
Av Andrew Pickering, Gary Kearley
Häftad, 2019
187 kr
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The town of Frome, in the ancient royal forest of Selwood that straddles the borders of Wiltshire and Somerset, was once renowned for its prosperous woollen cloth industry and is now noted as an emerging provincial centre for the arts and crafts. The town and its environs has a fascinating and …
Acting with the World
Agency in the Anthropocene
Inbunden, 2025
1133 kr
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In the Anthropocene our actions are coming home to roost. Global warming, species extinctions, and environmental disasters are the dark side of our mastery of nature. In Acting with the World, Andrew Pickering identifies a different pattern of being and doing that can evade this dark side, a …
Acting with the World
Agency in the Anthropocene
Häftad, 2025
272 kr
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In the Anthropocene our actions are coming home to roost. Global warming, species extinctions, and environmental disasters are the dark side of our mastery of nature. In Acting with the World, Andrew Pickering identifies a different pattern of being and doing that can evade this dark side, a …
Acting with the World
Agency in the Anthropocene
E-bok, 2025
423 kr
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In the Anthropocene our actions are coming home to roost. Global warming, species extinctions, and environmental disasters are the dark side of our mastery of nature. In Acting with the World , Andrew Pickering identifies a different pattern of being and doing that can evade this dark side, a …
Witches of Selwood
Witchcraft Belief and Accusation in Seventeenth-Century Somerset
Inbunden, 2021
299 kr
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Witches of Selwood
Witchcraft Belief and Accusation in Seventeenth-Century Somerset
Häftad, 2023
257 kr
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Cybernetics for the 21st Century Vol. 1
Epistemological Reconstruction
Av Andrew Pickering, Katherine Hayles m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
314 kr
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Cybernetic Brain
Sketches of Another Future
Inbunden, 2011
802 kr
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Cybernetics is often thought of as a grim military or industrial science of control. But as Andrew Pickering reveals in this surprising book, a much more lively and experimental strain of cybernetics can be traced from the 1940s to the present. "The Cybernetic Brain" explores a largely forgotten …
Mangle of Practice
Time, Agency, and Science
Inbunden, 1995
852 kr
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This text offers an understanding of the nature of scientific, mathematical and engineering practice, and the production of scientific knowledge. The author presents an approach to the unpredictable nature of change in science, taking into account the number of factors - social, technological, …
Science as It Could Have Been
Discussing the Contingency/Inevitability Problem
Av Lena Soler, Emiliano Trizio m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
924 kr
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Could all or part of our taken-as-established scientific conclusions, theories, experimental data, ontological commitments, and so forth have been significantly different? Science as It Could Have Been focuses on a crucial issue that contemporary science studies have often neglected: the issue of …
