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21 produkter
Samba in the Night
Spiritism in Brazil
Inbunden, 1994
1537 kr
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An absorbing account of an anthropologist's fieldwork and explorations into alternative religions in Brazil, "Samba in the Night" invites the reader into the mysterious world of spirit mediums, poltergeists, psychic surgery, exorcism and spiritual healing. The author focuses on spiritism, a vital …
The Brazilian Puzzle
Culture on the Borderlands of the Western World
Av David J. Hess, Roberto DaMatta
Häftad, 1995
724 kr
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How do Brazilians think about their own culture in comparison with those of North America and Western Europe? The Brazilian Puzzle provides a unique picture of everyday life in Brazil viewed from a comparative perspective. Brazilian scholars and Brazilianists explore a range of topics in everyday …
Good Green Jobs in a Global Economy
E-bok, 2012
358 kr
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An examination of the politics of green jobs that foresees a potential ideological shift away from neoliberalism toward “developmentalism.” Good Green Jobs in a Global Economy is the first book to explore the broad implications of the convergence of industrial and environnmental policy in the …
Undone Science
E-bok, 2016
481 kr
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A theoretical integration of science and technology studies and social movement studies that finds both common ground and “undone” research. As the fields of social movement studies (SMS) and science and technology studies (STS) have diversified in topical focus, they have moved closer to each …
Undone Science
Social Movements, Mobilized Publics, and Industrial Transitions
Häftad, 2016
592 kr
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Spirits and Scientists
Ideology, Spiritism, and Brazilian Culture
Häftad, 1991
543 kr
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Brazilian Spiritism (espiritismo, kardecismo) is an important middle-class religious movement whose followers believe in communication with the dead via spirit mediums and in healing illnesses by means of spiritual therapies. Unlike Anglo-Saxon Spiritualists, Brazilian Spiritists count among their …
Studying Those Who Study Us
An Anthropologist in the World of Artificial Intelligence
Av Diana E. Forsythe, David J. Hess
Häftad, 2002
302 kr
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Diana E. Forsythe was a leading anthropologist of science, technology, and work, and especially of the field of artificial intelligence. This volume collects her best-known essays, along with other major works that remained unpublished upon her death in 1997.The essays proceed as a series of …
Can Bacteria Cause Cancer?
Alternative Medicine Confronts Big Science
Inbunden, 1997
1002 kr
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Growing numbers of cancer patients are exploring diet, food supplements, herbs, and nontoxic immunotherapies like bacterial vaccines as a means of therapy. Yet most cancer research organizations refuse to even evaluate these alternatives. Can Bacteria Cause Cancer? argues convincingly that unless …
Can Bacteria Cause Cancer?
Alternative Medicine Confronts Big Science
Häftad, 2000
442 kr
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Growing numbers of cancer patients are exploring diet, food supplements, herbs, and nontoxic immunotherapies like bacterial vaccines as a means of therapy. Yet most cancer research organizations refuse to even evaluate these alternatives. Can Bacteria Cause Cancer? argues convincingly that unless …
Science Studies
An Advanced Introduction
Inbunden, 1997
973 kr
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The first comprehensive survey of the nascent field of "science studies"Thrust into the public eye by the contentious "Science Wars"—played out most recently by physicist Alan Sokal's hoax—the nascent field of science studies takes on the political, historical, and cultural dimensions of technology …
Science Studies
An Advanced Introduction
Häftad, 1997
373 kr
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The first comprehensive survey of the nascent field of "science studies"Thrust into the public eye by the contentious "Science Wars"—played out most recently by physicist Alan Sokal's hoax—the nascent field of science studies takes on the political, historical, and cultural dimensions of technology …
Women Confront Cancer
Twenty-One Leaders Making Medical History by Choosing Alternative and Complementary Therapies
Av Margaret Wooddell, David J. Hess
Inbunden, 1998
1229 kr
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Each year hundreds of thousands of women are diagnosed with cancer, and more and more frequently, women are turning to alternative treatments to take control of their illnesses and their lives. Information, however, has been scarce for women navigating through conventional and unconventional …
Women Confront Cancer
Twenty-One Leaders Making Medical History by Choosing Alternative and Complementary Therapies
Av Margaret Wooddell, David J. Hess m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
433 kr
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Each year hundreds of thousands of women are diagnosed with cancer, and more and more frequently, women are turning to alternative treatments to take control of their illnesses and their lives. Information, however, has been scarce for women navigating through conventional and unconventional …
Fields of Knowledge
Science, Politics and Publics in the Neoliberal Age
Av David J. Hess, Scott Frickel
E-bok, 2014
1497 kr
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This issue of Political Power and Social Theory explores the changes in science associated with the rise of neoliberalism since the 1970s. The neoliberalization of science has complicated interactions among states, markets, and civil society, often in ways that challenge major assumptions …
Fields of Knowledge
Science, Politics and Publics in the Neoliberal Age
Av Scott Frickel, David J. Hess
Inbunden, 2014
1383 kr
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This issue of Political Power and Social Theory explores the changes in science associated with the rise of neoliberalism since the 1970s. The neoliberalization of science has complicated interactions among states, markets, and civil society, often in ways that challenge major assumptions …
Science and Technology in a Multicultural World
The Cultural Politics of Facts and Artifacts
Häftad, 1995
323 kr
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-- Rayna Rapp, New School for Social Research
Localist Movements in a Global Economy
Sustainability, Justice, and Urban Development in the United States
Inbunden, 2009
116 kr
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Undone Science
Social Movements, Mobilized Publics, and Industrial Transitions
Inbunden, 2016
705 kr
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Alternative Pathways in Science and Industry
Activism, Innovation, and the Environment in an Era of Globalizaztion
Inbunden, 2007
135 kr
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Good Green Jobs in a Global Economy
Making and Keeping New Industries in the United States
Häftad, 2014
279 kr
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Alternative Pathways in Science and Industry
Activism, Innovation, and the Environment in an Era of Globalizaztion
Av David J. Hess, Robert Gottlieb
Häftad, 2007
184 kr
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