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Hardcover. Surveillance is a key notion for understanding power and control in the modern world, but it has been curiously neglected by historians of science and technology. Using the overarching concept of the "surveillance imperative," this collection of essays offers a new window on the evolution of the environmental sciences during and after the Cold War. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 290 pages, 22 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBTW; PDX; RGY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 237 x 21. Weight in Grams: 580.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137438720
- ISBN
- 9781137438720
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.40
€ 63.40
Hardback. Can genetics contribute to improving education for all learners? This book considers how education can benefit from the recent progress in genetically informative research, providing new insights into the origins of individual differences in educational traits. These can range from cognitive abilities to motivation and personality. Editor(s): Kovas, Yulia; Malykh, Sergey; Gaysina, Darya. Num Pages: 311 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JMM; JNC; PSAK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 545.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 311
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137437310
- ISBN
- 9781137437310
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Condition: New
€ 119.74
€ 119.74
Hardcover. Contemporary culture offer contradictory views of the internet and new media technologies, painting them in extremes of optimistic enthusiasm and pessimistic concern. This book explores such representations, uncovering the roots of our cultural responses to the internet, centred upon a profoundly ambivalent reaction to technological modernity. Num Pages: 122 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; PDR; UYV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 149 x 14. Weight in Grams: 288.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137436689
- ISBN
- 9781137436689
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.59
€ 61.59
Hardcover. The internet is changing the way we interact and communicate. But how is it impacting on more historically traditional institutions like the British Conservative Party? This book examines the role of specific internet technologies like ConservativeHome, Facebook, Twitter and WebCameron in the organizational culture of the Tory Party 2005-14. Num Pages: 158 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPL; JPW; TJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 218 x 14. Weight in Grams: 348.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137436504
- ISBN
- 9781137436504
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.92
€ 61.92
Hardcover. This book provides new insights into how new biology, and the emergence of "translational" policies to drive the health bioeconomy, is reshaping the innovation ecosystem for new therapies. A key argument is that a broader definition of value (beyond the economic aspects) is needed to understand health innovation in the twenty-first century. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFH; JFMG; MMG; PDG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 224 x 24. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137436283
- ISBN
- 9781137436283
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.46
€ 62.46
Paperback. Indigenous peoples have passed down vital knowledge for generations from which local plants help cure common ailments, to which parts of the land are unsuitable for buildings because of earthquakes. Here, Hendry examines science through these indigenous roots, problematizing the idea that Western science is the only type that deserves that name. Num Pages: 212 pages, 21 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSL9; JHM; PD; RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 216 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137435910
- ISBN
- 9781137435910
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 117.59
€ 117.59
Hardback. Indigenous peoples have passed down vital knowledge for generations from which local plants help cure common ailments, to which parts of the land are unsuitable for buildings because of earthquakes. Here, Hendry examines science through these indigenous roots, problematizing the idea that Western science is the only type that deserves that name. Num Pages: 211 pages, 20 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFSL9; JHM; PD; RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 211
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137435903
- ISBN
- 9781137435903
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Condition: New
€ 118.77
€ 118.77
Hardcover. By interweaving Hegelian dialectic and the middle voice, this book develops a holistic account of life, nature, and the ethical orientation of human beings with respect to them without falling into the trap of either subjecting human rights to totality or relegating non-human beings and their habitats to instrumentalism. Num Pages: 340 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 24. Weight in Grams: 540.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137412102
- ISBN
- 9781137412102
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.28
€ 63.28
Hardback. Spracklen explores the impact of the internet on leisure and leisure studies, examining the ways in which digital leisure spaces and activities have become part of everyday leisure. Covering a range of issues from social media and file-sharing to romance on the Internet, this book presents new theoretical directions for digital leisure. Series: Leisure Studies in a Global Era. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD; JHBS; PDR; UBJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 430.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137405869
- ISBN
- 9781137405869
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.59
€ 62.59
Hardcover. After pioneering this technology and growing the market, COMSAT fell prey to changes in government policy and to its own lack of entrepreneurial talent. The author explores the factors which contributed to this rise and fall of COMSAT. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KNTT; TJKS; TTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137396914
- ISBN
- 9781137396914
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.35
€ 119.35
Hardback. Referencing key contemporary debates on issues like surveillance, identity, the global financial crisis, the digital divide and Internet politics, Andrew White provides a critical intervention in discussions on the impact of the proliferation of digital media technologies on politics, the economy and social practices. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JHB; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137393616
- ISBN
- 9781137393616
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.95
€ 129.95
Hardcover. Financing Life Science Innovation reviews the literature on venture capital, corporate governance, and life science venturing and presents a study of the Swedish life science industry and the venture capital investors being active in financially and managerially supporting life science start-up firms. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DNS; KJH; KJMV1; PSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137392466
- ISBN
- 9781137392466
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.10
€ 119.10
Hardcover. New technologies may have transformed human societies, but not much has been written on how they are impacting people in Africa and other developing regions, in terms of how they use technology to enhance their socioeconomic conditions in everyday life. This book critically examines these issues from theoretical, practical and policy perspectives. Series: Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change. Num Pages: 307 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFG; GTF; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137389329
- ISBN
- 9781137389329
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.84
€ 62.84
Hardcover. Mobile is impacting heavily on our society today. In this book, Nicoletti analyzes the application of mobile to the world of financial institutions. He considers future developments and the possible use of mobile to help the transformation in products, processes, organizations and business models of financial institutions globally. Series: Palgrave Studies in Financial Services Technology. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KFFK; TJKT1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137386557
- ISBN
- 9781137386557
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.13
€ 119.13
Paperback. This book attempts to rethink the concept of technological literacy in a modern context, not only in terms of a subject area taught in schools, but also as an important general concept that all citizens should engage with. As this book will illustrate, the concept of technological literacy has no universally agreed definition. Editor(s): Dakers, John R. Num Pages: 183 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JN; PDR; UBJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 308.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137386328
- ISBN
- 9781137386328
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 42.86
€ 54.99
€ 42.86
Paperback. This book analyses shipping markets and their interdependence. This ground-breaking text develops a new macroeconomic approach to maritime economics and provides the reader with a more comprehensive understanding of the way modern shipping markets function. Num Pages: 372 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCB; KCD; KCL; KFFM; KJ; THRB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 189 x 20. Weight in Grams: 757.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 372
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137383402
- ISBN
- 9781137383402
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 142.16
€ 142.16
Hardcover. During the last century, advances in the life sciences were used in the development of biological and chemical weapons in large-scale state offensive programmes, many of which targeted the nervous system. This study questions whether the development of novel biological and chemical neuroweapons can be prevented as neuroscience progresses. Series: Global Issues. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JWMC; PSAN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137381811
- ISBN
- 9781137381811
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.15
€ 62.15
Hardcover. This book offers a deep insight into the genesis and development of the European Commission's energy and climate legislation, focusing on the interplay of politics and science. How does the Commission react when confronted with knowledge? According to the author, the Commission functions as catalyst transforming knowledge into politics. Series: Energy, Climate and the Environment. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFE; JPSN2; KNBT; RNPG; THX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137380258
- ISBN
- 9781137380258
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.99
€ 118.99
Hardcover. Markus Seidel provides a detailed critique of epistemic relativism in the sociology of scientific knowledge. In addition to scrutinizing the main arguments for epistemic relativism he provides an absolutist account that nevertheless aims at integrating the relativist's intuition. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: HPK; JM; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 145 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137377883
- ISBN
- 9781137377883
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.92
€ 62.92
Hardcover. Through case studies, theoretical research and interviews with leading players in science and governance, this book introduces a new understanding of change in governance of bioscience research. In particular it examines change as it is shaped by approaches developed by Science and Technology Studies and Sociology of Scientific Knowledge theorists. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MBGR; PDK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 143 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137374981
- ISBN
- 9781137374981
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.26
€ 62.26
Paperback. Fully revised and up-to-date chapters set out a philosophical and practical explanation of what technological literacy is, how we think when we employ it, how we teach it, how we learn it, and how we use it. Editor(s): Dakers, John R. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: HPK; JFCA; TB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 216 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 223
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137373465
- ISBN
- 9781137373465
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.47
€ 61.47
hardcover. Editor(s): Geppert, A. Num Pages: 352 pages, 49 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; PG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2018
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137369154
- ISBN
- 9781137369154
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.45
€ 120.45
Hardcover. Digitalism is a philosophical strategy that uses new computational ways of thinking to develop naturalistic but meaningful ways of thinking about bodies, souls, universes, gods, and life after death. Your Digital Afterlives examines four recently developed and digitally inspired theories of life after death. Series Editor(s): Nagasawa, Yujin; Wielenberg, Erik J. Series: Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAB; JMS; PDA; UD; UYZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137363855
- ISBN
- 9781137363855
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.82
€ 62.82
Hardback. Congress' Own Think Tank recaps the OTA experience-it's creation, operation, and circumstances of its closure- and that of organizations attempting to fill the gap since OTA's closure as well as a number of new forces shaping the current context for science and technology issues facing the Congress. Series: Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy. Num Pages: 140 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KNV; PD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 140
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137360892
- ISBN
- 9781137360892
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.03
€ 62.03