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83) Conflict and forced migration: escape from oppression and stories of survival, resilience, and hope
Series
Studies in symbolic interaction volume Volume 51
Publisher
Emerald Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Publisher
Koninklijke Brill nV
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Examines the importance of cultural meaning in the creation and utilization of economic value. Based on case-studies from Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia, the authors demonstrate that micro-scale entrepreneurship is intertwined with prevailing conceptions, moralities and habituations in the entrepreneurs' social milieu. More specifically, the volume argues that meaning-making is integral to economic opportunity; that economic actors'...
88) Building walls and dissolving borders: the challenges of alterity, community and securitizing space
Publisher
Ashgate Pub. Co
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In The Glass Cage, best-selling author Nicholas Carr digs behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers and digitized medicine, as he explores the hidden costs of granting software dominion over our work and our leisure and reveals something we already suspect: shifting our attention to computer screens can leave us disengaged and discontented.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The best-selling author of Policy Paradox, a classic on politics, delivers a pathbreaking work on the simple act of counting. Early in her extraordinary career, Deborah Stone wrote Policy Paradox, a landmark work on politics. Now, in Counting, she revolutionizes how we approach numbers and shows how counting shapes the way we see the world. Most of us think of counting as a skill so basic that we see numbers as objective, indisputable facts. Not...
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Whenever the people are well informed," Thomas Jefferson famously wrote, "they can be trusted with their own government." But what happens when they are not? The United States provide a good illustration: Politicians pass resolutions denying global warming's existence, that astrology can control the weather, and, in some states, even forbid using the words "Climate Change." In every aspect of our society -- from transport to technology, health care...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The car that we know - petrol or diesel-driven and operated by a human - will soon be replaced by electric cars which, in turn, will become self-driving. The reign of the car, which began in the late nineteenth century, will have lasted at most 150 years. More than any other technology - more than television, mobile phones, more even than the Internet - cars have transformed our culture. On the streets we notice people talking on their phones, but...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
""From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes--this is award winning writer Simon Winchester's brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how technology continues to change our lives and our minds." -- Back cover.
Examining such disciplines as education, journalism, encyclopedia creation, museum curation, photography and...