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Zammito / A Nice Derangement of Epistemes: Post-positivism in the Study of Science from Quine to Latour (Large Paperback) Since the 1950s, many philosophers of science have attacked positivism—the theory that scientific knowledge is grounded in objective reality. Reconstructing the history of these critiques, John H. Zammito argues that while so-called postpositivist... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98852K Victor Papanek / Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Large Paperback) This is a completely revised second edition of Design for the Real World, which has since its first appearance twenty years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design. In... 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Zammito / A Nice Derangement of Epistemes: Post-positivism in the Study of Science from Quine to Latour (Large Paperback) Since the 1950s, many philosophers of science have attacked positivism—the theory that scientific knowledge is grounded in objective reality. Reconstructing the history of these critiques, John H. Zammito argues that while so-called postpositivist... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98852K Victor Papanek / Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Large Paperback) This is a completely revised second edition of Design for the Real World, which has since its first appearance twenty years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design. In... 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Zammito / A Nice Derangement of Epistemes: Post-positivism in the Study of Science from Quine to Latour (Large Paperback) Since the 1950s, many philosophers of science have attacked positivism—the theory that scientific knowledge is grounded in objective reality. Reconstructing the history of these critiques, John H. Zammito argues that while so-called postpositivist... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98852K Victor Papanek / Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Large Paperback) This is a completely revised second edition of Design for the Real World, which has since its first appearance twenty years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design. In... 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Zammito / A Nice Derangement of Epistemes: Post-positivism in the Study of Science from Quine to Latour (Large Paperback) Since the 1950s, many philosophers of science have attacked positivism—the theory that scientific knowledge is grounded in objective reality. Reconstructing the history of these critiques, John H. Zammito argues that while so-called postpositivist... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98852K Victor Papanek / Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Large Paperback) This is a completely revised second edition of Design for the Real World, which has since its first appearance twenty years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design. In... 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Zammito / A Nice Derangement of Epistemes: Post-positivism in the Study of Science from Quine to Latour (Large Paperback) Since the 1950s, many philosophers of science have attacked positivism—the theory that scientific knowledge is grounded in objective reality. Reconstructing the history of these critiques, John H. Zammito argues that while so-called postpositivist... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98852K Victor Papanek / Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Large Paperback) This is a completely revised second edition of Design for the Real World, which has since its first appearance twenty years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design. In... 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Zammito / A Nice Derangement of Epistemes: Post-positivism in the Study of Science from Quine to Latour (Large Paperback) Since the 1950s, many philosophers of science have attacked positivism—the theory that scientific knowledge is grounded in objective reality. Reconstructing the history of these critiques, John H. Zammito argues that while so-called postpositivist... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98852K Victor Papanek / Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Large Paperback) This is a completely revised second edition of Design for the Real World, which has since its first appearance twenty years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design. In... 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Sclove / Democracy and Technology (Large Paperback) This eye-opening book describes how modern technologies--such as computers, automobiles, machine tools, hybrid crops, nuclear reactors, and others--contribute to vexing social problems ranging from the continued subordination of women and workers to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98861K Michel Serres / Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time: Michel Serres with Bruno Latour (Large Paperback) Although elected to the prestigious French Academy in 1990, Michel Serres has long been considered a maverick--a provocative thinker whose prolific writings on culture, science and philosophy have often baffled more than they have enlightened. In these... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98858K Jerome Bruner / Toward a Theory of Instruction (Large Paperback) This country’s most challenging writer on education presents here a distillation, for the general reader, of half a decade’s research and reflection. His theme is how children learn, and how they can best be helped to learn―how they can be... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98857K Jerome Bruner / On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand (Large Paperback) The left hand has traditionally represented the powers of intuition, feeling, and spontaneity. In this classic book, Jerome Bruner inquires into the part these qualities play in determining how we know what we do know; how we can help others to know―that... 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Zammito / A Nice Derangement of Epistemes: Post-positivism in the Study of Science from Quine to Latour (Large Paperback) Since the 1950s, many philosophers of science have attacked positivism—the theory that scientific knowledge is grounded in objective reality. Reconstructing the history of these critiques, John H. Zammito argues that while so-called postpositivist... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98852K Victor Papanek / Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Large Paperback) This is a completely revised second edition of Design for the Real World, which has since its first appearance twenty years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design. In... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98851K Ivan Illich / Celebration of Awareness: A Call for Institutional Revolution (Large Paperback) The book consists of 12 essays on the following themes: Vietnam & the resistance; the war on poverty; Latin America, Puerto Rico & immigration to the US mainland; Catholic Church problems; the Church's role in social change & development; the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98850K Lee Hoinacki / The Challenges of Ivan Illich: A Collective Reflection (Large Paperback) This unique collection examines the man Utne Reader has called "the greatest social critic of the twentieth century." The essays--all by people Illich has influenced personally--discuss how his life and thought have affected conceptualization, study,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98849K Jean Lave / Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics and Culture in Everyday Life (Large Paperback) In this innovative study, Jean Lave moves the analysis of one particular form of cognitive activity--arithmetic problem-solving--out of the laboratory and into the domain of everyday life. In so doing, she shows how mathematics in the "real world",... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98848K Karl E. Weick / Sensemaking in Organizations (Large Paperback) The teaching of organization theory and the conduct of organizational research have been dominated by a focus on decision-making and the concept of strategic rationality. However, the rational model ignores the inherent complexity and ambiguity of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98847K Michael Cole / Mind, Culture, and Activity: Seminal Papers from the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition (Large Paperback) This volume brings together articles from The Quarterly Newsletter of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition. The selected articles are important benchmarks in the recent history of research and theory on the cultural and contextual... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98876K Hans-Georg Gadamer / Reason in the Age of Science (Large Paperback) The essays in this book deal broadly with the question of what form reasoning about life and society can take in a culture permeated by scientific and technical modes of thought. They attempt to identify certain very basic types of questions that... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98874K Victor Turner / The Anthropology of Performance (Large Paperback) Turner is all over the globe as he addresses issues of cultural performance, carnival, film, theatre, and "performing ethnography" to break new ground in anthropological thinking about event, spectacle, and audience. One of his last writings, "Body,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98873K Stephen J. Pyne / The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica (Large Paperback) Stephen Pyne's overwhelming fascination with Antarctica is the compelling force behind this major book on this stark and largely unknown continent. It combines a geophysical examination of the ice with an inspirational survey of how one of the most... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98872K Jörn Rüsen / Thinking Utopia: Steps into Other Worlds (Large Paperback) After the breakdown of socialist and communist systems in the East, it had become fashionable to declare the so-called "end of utopia" ("end of history," "end of narratives"). The authors of this volume do not share this view but think that it is... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98864K Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Eugene Halton / The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols and the Self (Large Paperback) The meaning of things is a study of the significance of material possessions in contemporary urban life, and of the ways people carve meaning out of their domestic environment. Drawing on a survey of eighty families in Chicago who were interviewed on... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98863K Jerome Bruner / Actual Minds, Possible Worlds (Large Paperback) In this characteristically graceful and provocative book, Jerome Bruner, one of the principal architects of the cognitive revolution, sets forth nothing less than a new agenda for the study of mind. According to Professor Bruner, cognitive science has... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98862K Richard E. 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Zammito / A Nice Derangement of Epistemes: Post-positivism in the Study of Science from Quine to Latour (Large Paperback) Since the 1950s, many philosophers of science have attacked positivism—the theory that scientific knowledge is grounded in objective reality. Reconstructing the history of these critiques, John H. Zammito argues that while so-called postpositivist... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98852K Victor Papanek / Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Large Paperback) This is a completely revised second edition of Design for the Real World, which has since its first appearance twenty years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design. In... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98851K Ivan Illich / Celebration of Awareness: A Call for Institutional Revolution (Large Paperback) The book consists of 12 essays on the following themes: Vietnam & the resistance; the war on poverty; Latin America, Puerto Rico & immigration to the US mainland; Catholic Church problems; the Church's role in social change & development; the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98850K Lee Hoinacki / The Challenges of Ivan Illich: A Collective Reflection (Large Paperback) This unique collection examines the man Utne Reader has called "the greatest social critic of the twentieth century." The essays--all by people Illich has influenced personally--discuss how his life and thought have affected conceptualization, study,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98849K Jean Lave / Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics and Culture in Everyday Life (Large Paperback) In this innovative study, Jean Lave moves the analysis of one particular form of cognitive activity--arithmetic problem-solving--out of the laboratory and into the domain of everyday life. In so doing, she shows how mathematics in the "real world",... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98848K Karl E. Weick / Sensemaking in Organizations (Large Paperback) The teaching of organization theory and the conduct of organizational research have been dominated by a focus on decision-making and the concept of strategic rationality. However, the rational model ignores the inherent complexity and ambiguity of... 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Norman explores the complex interaction between human thought and the technology it creates, arguing for the development of machines that fit our minds, rather than minds that must conform to the machine.Humans... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98868K Kees Dorst / Understanding Design: 175 Reflections on Being a Designer (Large Paperback) The 150 mini-essays in this book provide a panoramic view of the subject of design. Fundamental questions are raised about the nature of design, about designers themselves and about the role of design in the broader contexts of a company and society... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98867K W. Terrence Gordon / Marshall McLuhan: Escape Into Understanding (Large Paperback) The originator of such widely used phrases as “the global village” and “the medium is the message,” Marshall McLuhan—the prescient media guru—is finally, attracting the critical attention he deserves. In the 1960s... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98866K Jean Baudrillard / The Illusion of the End (Large Paperback) In this book Jean Baudrillard, one of the most celebrated and controversial contemporary social theorists, argues that the notion of the end of history is an illusion, and that we are now engaged in a gigantic process of historical revisionism... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98865K Ian Hacking / Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science (Large Paperback) This 1983 book is a lively and clearly written introduction to the philosophy of natural science, organized around the central theme of scientific realism. It has two parts. 'Representing' deals with the different philosophical accounts of scientific... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98864K Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Eugene Halton / The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols and the Self (Large Paperback) The meaning of things is a study of the significance of material possessions in contemporary urban life, and of the ways people carve meaning out of their domestic environment. Drawing on a survey of eighty families in Chicago who were interviewed on... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98863K Jerome Bruner / Actual Minds, Possible Worlds (Large Paperback) In this characteristically graceful and provocative book, Jerome Bruner, one of the principal architects of the cognitive revolution, sets forth nothing less than a new agenda for the study of mind. According to Professor Bruner, cognitive science has... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98862K Richard E. Sclove / Democracy and Technology (Large Paperback) This eye-opening book describes how modern technologies--such as computers, automobiles, machine tools, hybrid crops, nuclear reactors, and others--contribute to vexing social problems ranging from the continued subordination of women and workers to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98861K Michel Serres / Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time: Michel Serres with Bruno Latour (Large Paperback) Although elected to the prestigious French Academy in 1990, Michel Serres has long been considered a maverick--a provocative thinker whose prolific writings on culture, science and philosophy have often baffled more than they have enlightened. In these... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98860K Jerome Bruner / The Process of Education (Large Paperback) In this classic argument for curriculum reform in early education, Jerome Bruner shows that the basic concepts of science and the humanities can be grasped intuitively at a very early age. He argues persuasively that curricula should he designed to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98859K Ivan Illich / H2O and the Waters of Forgetfulness (Large Paperback) Reflections on the Historicity of StuffIn the course of this brilliant essay the author traces the way water has been shorn of its mythic associations and reduced to an urban cleaning fluid. The histories of medicine, art, mythology, architecture,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98858K Jerome Bruner / Toward a Theory of Instruction (Large Paperback) This country’s most challenging writer on education presents here a distillation, for the general reader, of half a decade’s research and reflection. His theme is how children learn, and how they can best be helped to learn―how they can be... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98857K Jerome Bruner / On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand (Large Paperback) The left hand has traditionally represented the powers of intuition, feeling, and spontaneity. In this classic book, Jerome Bruner inquires into the part these qualities play in determining how we know what we do know; how we can help others to know―that... 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Zammito / A Nice Derangement of Epistemes: Post-positivism in the Study of Science from Quine to Latour (Large Paperback) Since the 1950s, many philosophers of science have attacked positivism—the theory that scientific knowledge is grounded in objective reality. Reconstructing the history of these critiques, John H. Zammito argues that while so-called postpositivist... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98852K Victor Papanek / Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Large Paperback) This is a completely revised second edition of Design for the Real World, which has since its first appearance twenty years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design. In... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98851K Ivan Illich / Celebration of Awareness: A Call for Institutional Revolution (Large Paperback) The book consists of 12 essays on the following themes: Vietnam & the resistance; the war on poverty; Latin America, Puerto Rico & immigration to the US mainland; Catholic Church problems; the Church's role in social change & development; the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98850K Lee Hoinacki / The Challenges of Ivan Illich: A Collective Reflection (Large Paperback) This unique collection examines the man Utne Reader has called "the greatest social critic of the twentieth century." The essays--all by people Illich has influenced personally--discuss how his life and thought have affected conceptualization, study,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98849K Jean Lave / Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics and Culture in Everyday Life (Large Paperback) In this innovative study, Jean Lave moves the analysis of one particular form of cognitive activity--arithmetic problem-solving--out of the laboratory and into the domain of everyday life. In so doing, she shows how mathematics in the "real world",... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98848K Karl E. Weick / Sensemaking in Organizations (Large Paperback) The teaching of organization theory and the conduct of organizational research have been dominated by a focus on decision-making and the concept of strategic rationality. However, the rational model ignores the inherent complexity and ambiguity of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98847K Michael Cole / Mind, Culture, and Activity: Seminal Papers from the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition (Large Paperback) This volume brings together articles from The Quarterly Newsletter of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition. The selected articles are important benchmarks in the recent history of research and theory on the cultural and contextual... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98874K Victor Turner / The Anthropology of Performance (Large Paperback) Turner is all over the globe as he addresses issues of cultural performance, carnival, film, theatre, and "performing ethnography" to break new ground in anthropological thinking about event, spectacle, and audience. One of his last writings, "Body,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98873K Stephen J. Pyne / The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica (Large Paperback) Stephen Pyne's overwhelming fascination with Antarctica is the compelling force behind this major book on this stark and largely unknown continent. It combines a geophysical examination of the ice with an inspirational survey of how one of the most... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98872K Jörn Rüsen / Thinking Utopia: Steps into Other Worlds (Large Paperback) After the breakdown of socialist and communist systems in the East, it had become fashionable to declare the so-called "end of utopia" ("end of history," "end of narratives"). The authors of this volume do not share this view but think that it is... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98871K Fons Trompenaars / Riding the Waves of Culture : Understanding Cultural Diversity in Business (Large Paperback) International management guru, Fons Trompenaar's best-selling Riding the Waves of Culture has become an essential guide for managers and trainers in multinational organizations, as well as anyone who conducts business overseas. This thoroughly... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98870K Donald A. Norman / Things That Make Us Smart (Large Paperback) In Things That Make Us Smart, Donald A. Norman explores the complex interaction between human thought and the technology it creates, arguing for the development of machines that fit our minds, rather than minds that must conform to the machine.Humans... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98868K Kees Dorst / Understanding Design: 175 Reflections on Being a Designer (Large Paperback) The 150 mini-essays in this book provide a panoramic view of the subject of design. Fundamental questions are raised about the nature of design, about designers themselves and about the role of design in the broader contexts of a company and society... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98867K W. Terrence Gordon / Marshall McLuhan: Escape Into Understanding (Large Paperback) The originator of such widely used phrases as “the global village” and “the medium is the message,” Marshall McLuhan—the prescient media guru—is finally, attracting the critical attention he deserves. In the 1960s... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98866K Jean Baudrillard / The Illusion of the End (Large Paperback) In this book Jean Baudrillard, one of the most celebrated and controversial contemporary social theorists, argues that the notion of the end of history is an illusion, and that we are now engaged in a gigantic process of historical revisionism... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98865K Ian Hacking / Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science (Large Paperback) This 1983 book is a lively and clearly written introduction to the philosophy of natural science, organized around the central theme of scientific realism. It has two parts. 'Representing' deals with the different philosophical accounts of scientific... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98864K Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Eugene Halton / The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols and the Self (Large Paperback) The meaning of things is a study of the significance of material possessions in contemporary urban life, and of the ways people carve meaning out of their domestic environment. Drawing on a survey of eighty families in Chicago who were interviewed on... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98863K Jerome Bruner / Actual Minds, Possible Worlds (Large Paperback) In this characteristically graceful and provocative book, Jerome Bruner, one of the principal architects of the cognitive revolution, sets forth nothing less than a new agenda for the study of mind. According to Professor Bruner, cognitive science has... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98862K Richard E. Sclove / Democracy and Technology (Large Paperback) This eye-opening book describes how modern technologies--such as computers, automobiles, machine tools, hybrid crops, nuclear reactors, and others--contribute to vexing social problems ranging from the continued subordination of women and workers to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98861K Michel Serres / Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time: Michel Serres with Bruno Latour (Large Paperback) Although elected to the prestigious French Academy in 1990, Michel Serres has long been considered a maverick--a provocative thinker whose prolific writings on culture, science and philosophy have often baffled more than they have enlightened. In these... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98860K Jerome Bruner / The Process of Education (Large Paperback) In this classic argument for curriculum reform in early education, Jerome Bruner shows that the basic concepts of science and the humanities can be grasped intuitively at a very early age. He argues persuasively that curricula should he designed to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98859K Ivan Illich / H2O and the Waters of Forgetfulness (Large Paperback) Reflections on the Historicity of StuffIn the course of this brilliant essay the author traces the way water has been shorn of its mythic associations and reduced to an urban cleaning fluid. The histories of medicine, art, mythology, architecture,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98858K Jerome Bruner / Toward a Theory of Instruction (Large Paperback) This country’s most challenging writer on education presents here a distillation, for the general reader, of half a decade’s research and reflection. His theme is how children learn, and how they can best be helped to learn―how they can be... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98857K Jerome Bruner / On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand (Large Paperback) The left hand has traditionally represented the powers of intuition, feeling, and spontaneity. In this classic book, Jerome Bruner inquires into the part these qualities play in determining how we know what we do know; how we can help others to know―that... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98855K Henry Petroski / The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance (Large Paperback) Henry Petroski traces the origins of the pencil back to ancient Greece and Rome, writes factually and charmingly about its development over the centuries and around the world, and shows what the pencil can teach us about engineering and technology... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98854K David D. Hall / Cultures of Print: Essays in the History of the Book (Large Paperback) How did people in early America understand the authority of print and how was this authority sustained and contested? These questions are at the heart of this set of pathbreaking essays in the history of the book by one of America's leading practitioners... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98853K John H. Zammito / A Nice Derangement of Epistemes: Post-positivism in the Study of Science from Quine to Latour (Large Paperback) Since the 1950s, many philosophers of science have attacked positivism—the theory that scientific knowledge is grounded in objective reality. Reconstructing the history of these critiques, John H. Zammito argues that while so-called postpositivist... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98852K Victor Papanek / Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Large Paperback) This is a completely revised second edition of Design for the Real World, which has since its first appearance twenty years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design. In... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98851K Ivan Illich / Celebration of Awareness: A Call for Institutional Revolution (Large Paperback) The book consists of 12 essays on the following themes: Vietnam & the resistance; the war on poverty; Latin America, Puerto Rico & immigration to the US mainland; Catholic Church problems; the Church's role in social change & development; the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98850K Lee Hoinacki / The Challenges of Ivan Illich: A Collective Reflection (Large Paperback) This unique collection examines the man Utne Reader has called "the greatest social critic of the twentieth century." The essays--all by people Illich has influenced personally--discuss how his life and thought have affected conceptualization, study,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98849K Jean Lave / Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics and Culture in Everyday Life (Large Paperback) In this innovative study, Jean Lave moves the analysis of one particular form of cognitive activity--arithmetic problem-solving--out of the laboratory and into the domain of everyday life. In so doing, she shows how mathematics in the "real world",... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98848K Karl E. Weick / Sensemaking in Organizations (Large Paperback) The teaching of organization theory and the conduct of organizational research have been dominated by a focus on decision-making and the concept of strategic rationality. However, the rational model ignores the inherent complexity and ambiguity of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98847K Michael Cole / Mind, Culture, and Activity: Seminal Papers from the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition (Large Paperback) This volume brings together articles from The Quarterly Newsletter of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition. The selected articles are important benchmarks in the recent history of research and theory on the cultural and contextual... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X98877K Rachel Charlotte Smith / Design Anthropological Futures (Large Paperback) A major contribution to the field, this ground-breaking book explores design anthropology's focus on futures and future-making. Examining what design anthropology is and what it is becoming, the authors push the frontiers of the discipline and reveal... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98876K Hans-Georg Gadamer / Reason in the Age of Science (Large Paperback) The essays in this book deal broadly with the question of what form reasoning about life and society can take in a culture permeated by scientific and technical modes of thought. They attempt to identify certain very basic types of questions that... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98874K Victor Turner / The Anthropology of Performance (Large Paperback) Turner is all over the globe as he addresses issues of cultural performance, carnival, film, theatre, and "performing ethnography" to break new ground in anthropological thinking about event, spectacle, and audience. One of his last writings, "Body,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98873K Stephen J. Pyne / The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica (Large Paperback) Stephen Pyne's overwhelming fascination with Antarctica is the compelling force behind this major book on this stark and largely unknown continent. It combines a geophysical examination of the ice with an inspirational survey of how one of the most... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98872K Jörn Rüsen / Thinking Utopia: Steps into Other Worlds (Large Paperback) After the breakdown of socialist and communist systems in the East, it had become fashionable to declare the so-called "end of utopia" ("end of history," "end of narratives"). The authors of this volume do not share this view but think that it is... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98871K Fons Trompenaars / Riding the Waves of Culture : Understanding Cultural Diversity in Business (Large Paperback) International management guru, Fons Trompenaar's best-selling Riding the Waves of Culture has become an essential guide for managers and trainers in multinational organizations, as well as anyone who conducts business overseas. This thoroughly... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98870K Donald A. Norman / Things That Make Us Smart (Large Paperback) In Things That Make Us Smart, Donald A. Norman explores the complex interaction between human thought and the technology it creates, arguing for the development of machines that fit our minds, rather than minds that must conform to the machine.Humans... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98868K Kees Dorst / Understanding Design: 175 Reflections on Being a Designer (Large Paperback) The 150 mini-essays in this book provide a panoramic view of the subject of design. Fundamental questions are raised about the nature of design, about designers themselves and about the role of design in the broader contexts of a company and society... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98867K W. Terrence Gordon / Marshall McLuhan: Escape Into Understanding (Large Paperback) The originator of such widely used phrases as “the global village” and “the medium is the message,” Marshall McLuhan—the prescient media guru—is finally, attracting the critical attention he deserves. In the 1960s... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98866K Jean Baudrillard / The Illusion of the End (Large Paperback) In this book Jean Baudrillard, one of the most celebrated and controversial contemporary social theorists, argues that the notion of the end of history is an illusion, and that we are now engaged in a gigantic process of historical revisionism... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98865K Ian Hacking / Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science (Large Paperback) This 1983 book is a lively and clearly written introduction to the philosophy of natural science, organized around the central theme of scientific realism. It has two parts. 'Representing' deals with the different philosophical accounts of scientific... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98864K Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Eugene Halton / The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols and the Self (Large Paperback) The meaning of things is a study of the significance of material possessions in contemporary urban life, and of the ways people carve meaning out of their domestic environment. Drawing on a survey of eighty families in Chicago who were interviewed on... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98863K Jerome Bruner / Actual Minds, Possible Worlds (Large Paperback) In this characteristically graceful and provocative book, Jerome Bruner, one of the principal architects of the cognitive revolution, sets forth nothing less than a new agenda for the study of mind. According to Professor Bruner, cognitive science has... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98862K Richard E. Sclove / Democracy and Technology (Large Paperback) This eye-opening book describes how modern technologies--such as computers, automobiles, machine tools, hybrid crops, nuclear reactors, and others--contribute to vexing social problems ranging from the continued subordination of women and workers to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98861K Michel Serres / Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time: Michel Serres with Bruno Latour (Large Paperback) Although elected to the prestigious French Academy in 1990, Michel Serres has long been considered a maverick--a provocative thinker whose prolific writings on culture, science and philosophy have often baffled more than they have enlightened. In these... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98860K Jerome Bruner / The Process of Education (Large Paperback) In this classic argument for curriculum reform in early education, Jerome Bruner shows that the basic concepts of science and the humanities can be grasped intuitively at a very early age. He argues persuasively that curricula should he designed to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98859K Ivan Illich / H2O and the Waters of Forgetfulness (Large Paperback) Reflections on the Historicity of StuffIn the course of this brilliant essay the author traces the way water has been shorn of its mythic associations and reduced to an urban cleaning fluid. The histories of medicine, art, mythology, architecture,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98858K Jerome Bruner / Toward a Theory of Instruction (Large Paperback) This country’s most challenging writer on education presents here a distillation, for the general reader, of half a decade’s research and reflection. His theme is how children learn, and how they can best be helped to learn―how they can be... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98857K Jerome Bruner / On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand (Large Paperback) The left hand has traditionally represented the powers of intuition, feeling, and spontaneity. In this classic book, Jerome Bruner inquires into the part these qualities play in determining how we know what we do know; how we can help others to know―that... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98855K Henry Petroski / The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance (Large Paperback) Henry Petroski traces the origins of the pencil back to ancient Greece and Rome, writes factually and charmingly about its development over the centuries and around the world, and shows what the pencil can teach us about engineering and technology... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98854K David D. Hall / Cultures of Print: Essays in the History of the Book (Large Paperback) How did people in early America understand the authority of print and how was this authority sustained and contested? These questions are at the heart of this set of pathbreaking essays in the history of the book by one of America's leading practitioners... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98853K John H. Zammito / A Nice Derangement of Epistemes: Post-positivism in the Study of Science from Quine to Latour (Large Paperback) Since the 1950s, many philosophers of science have attacked positivism—the theory that scientific knowledge is grounded in objective reality. Reconstructing the history of these critiques, John H. Zammito argues that while so-called postpositivist... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98852K Victor Papanek / Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Large Paperback) This is a completely revised second edition of Design for the Real World, which has since its first appearance twenty years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design. In... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98851K Ivan Illich / Celebration of Awareness: A Call for Institutional Revolution (Large Paperback) The book consists of 12 essays on the following themes: Vietnam & the resistance; the war on poverty; Latin America, Puerto Rico & immigration to the US mainland; Catholic Church problems; the Church's role in social change & development; the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98850K Lee Hoinacki / The Challenges of Ivan Illich: A Collective Reflection (Large Paperback) This unique collection examines the man Utne Reader has called "the greatest social critic of the twentieth century." The essays--all by people Illich has influenced personally--discuss how his life and thought have affected conceptualization, study,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98849K Jean Lave / Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics and Culture in Everyday Life (Large Paperback) In this innovative study, Jean Lave moves the analysis of one particular form of cognitive activity--arithmetic problem-solving--out of the laboratory and into the domain of everyday life. In so doing, she shows how mathematics in the "real world",... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98848K Karl E. Weick / Sensemaking in Organizations (Large Paperback) The teaching of organization theory and the conduct of organizational research have been dominated by a focus on decision-making and the concept of strategic rationality. However, the rational model ignores the inherent complexity and ambiguity of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98847K Michael Cole / Mind, Culture, and Activity: Seminal Papers from the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition (Large Paperback) This volume brings together articles from The Quarterly Newsletter of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition. The selected articles are important benchmarks in the recent history of research and theory on the cultural and contextual... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X98876K Hans-Georg Gadamer / Reason in the Age of Science (Large Paperback) The essays in this book deal broadly with the question of what form reasoning about life and society can take in a culture permeated by scientific and technical modes of thought. They attempt to identify certain very basic types of questions that... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98874K Victor Turner / The Anthropology of Performance (Large Paperback) Turner is all over the globe as he addresses issues of cultural performance, carnival, film, theatre, and "performing ethnography" to break new ground in anthropological thinking about event, spectacle, and audience. One of his last writings, "Body,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98873K Stephen J. Pyne / The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica (Large Paperback) Stephen Pyne's overwhelming fascination with Antarctica is the compelling force behind this major book on this stark and largely unknown continent. It combines a geophysical examination of the ice with an inspirational survey of how one of the most... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98872K Jörn Rüsen / Thinking Utopia: Steps into Other Worlds (Large Paperback) After the breakdown of socialist and communist systems in the East, it had become fashionable to declare the so-called "end of utopia" ("end of history," "end of narratives"). The authors of this volume do not share this view but think that it is... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98871K Fons Trompenaars / Riding the Waves of Culture : Understanding Cultural Diversity in Business (Large Paperback) International management guru, Fons Trompenaar's best-selling Riding the Waves of Culture has become an essential guide for managers and trainers in multinational organizations, as well as anyone who conducts business overseas. This thoroughly... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98870K Donald A. Norman / Things That Make Us Smart (Large Paperback) In Things That Make Us Smart, Donald A. Norman explores the complex interaction between human thought and the technology it creates, arguing for the development of machines that fit our minds, rather than minds that must conform to the machine.Humans... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98868K Kees Dorst / Understanding Design: 175 Reflections on Being a Designer (Large Paperback) The 150 mini-essays in this book provide a panoramic view of the subject of design. Fundamental questions are raised about the nature of design, about designers themselves and about the role of design in the broader contexts of a company and society... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98867K W. Terrence Gordon / Marshall McLuhan: Escape Into Understanding (Large Paperback) The originator of such widely used phrases as “the global village” and “the medium is the message,” Marshall McLuhan—the prescient media guru—is finally, attracting the critical attention he deserves. In the 1960s... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98866K Jean Baudrillard / The Illusion of the End (Large Paperback) In this book Jean Baudrillard, one of the most celebrated and controversial contemporary social theorists, argues that the notion of the end of history is an illusion, and that we are now engaged in a gigantic process of historical revisionism... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98865K Ian Hacking / Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science (Large Paperback) This 1983 book is a lively and clearly written introduction to the philosophy of natural science, organized around the central theme of scientific realism. It has two parts. 'Representing' deals with the different philosophical accounts of scientific... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98864K Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Eugene Halton / The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols and the Self (Large Paperback) The meaning of things is a study of the significance of material possessions in contemporary urban life, and of the ways people carve meaning out of their domestic environment. Drawing on a survey of eighty families in Chicago who were interviewed on... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98863K Jerome Bruner / Actual Minds, Possible Worlds (Large Paperback) In this characteristically graceful and provocative book, Jerome Bruner, one of the principal architects of the cognitive revolution, sets forth nothing less than a new agenda for the study of mind. According to Professor Bruner, cognitive science has... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98862K Richard E. Sclove / Democracy and Technology (Large Paperback) This eye-opening book describes how modern technologies--such as computers, automobiles, machine tools, hybrid crops, nuclear reactors, and others--contribute to vexing social problems ranging from the continued subordination of women and workers to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98861K Michel Serres / Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time: Michel Serres with Bruno Latour (Large Paperback) Although elected to the prestigious French Academy in 1990, Michel Serres has long been considered a maverick--a provocative thinker whose prolific writings on culture, science and philosophy have often baffled more than they have enlightened. In these... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98860K Jerome Bruner / The Process of Education (Large Paperback) In this classic argument for curriculum reform in early education, Jerome Bruner shows that the basic concepts of science and the humanities can be grasped intuitively at a very early age. He argues persuasively that curricula should he designed to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98859K Ivan Illich / H2O and the Waters of Forgetfulness (Large Paperback) Reflections on the Historicity of StuffIn the course of this brilliant essay the author traces the way water has been shorn of its mythic associations and reduced to an urban cleaning fluid. The histories of medicine, art, mythology, architecture,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98858K Jerome Bruner / Toward a Theory of Instruction (Large Paperback) This country’s most challenging writer on education presents here a distillation, for the general reader, of half a decade’s research and reflection. His theme is how children learn, and how they can best be helped to learn―how they can be... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98857K Jerome Bruner / On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand (Large Paperback) The left hand has traditionally represented the powers of intuition, feeling, and spontaneity. In this classic book, Jerome Bruner inquires into the part these qualities play in determining how we know what we do know; how we can help others to know―that... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98855K Henry Petroski / The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance (Large Paperback) Henry Petroski traces the origins of the pencil back to ancient Greece and Rome, writes factually and charmingly about its development over the centuries and around the world, and shows what the pencil can teach us about engineering and technology... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98854K David D. Hall / Cultures of Print: Essays in the History of the Book (Large Paperback) How did people in early America understand the authority of print and how was this authority sustained and contested? These questions are at the heart of this set of pathbreaking essays in the history of the book by one of America's leading practitioners... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98853K John H. Zammito / A Nice Derangement of Epistemes: Post-positivism in the Study of Science from Quine to Latour (Large Paperback) Since the 1950s, many philosophers of science have attacked positivism—the theory that scientific knowledge is grounded in objective reality. Reconstructing the history of these critiques, John H. Zammito argues that while so-called postpositivist... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98852K Victor Papanek / Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Large Paperback) This is a completely revised second edition of Design for the Real World, which has since its first appearance twenty years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design. In... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98851K Ivan Illich / Celebration of Awareness: A Call for Institutional Revolution (Large Paperback) The book consists of 12 essays on the following themes: Vietnam & the resistance; the war on poverty; Latin America, Puerto Rico & immigration to the US mainland; Catholic Church problems; the Church's role in social change & development; the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98850K Lee Hoinacki / The Challenges of Ivan Illich: A Collective Reflection (Large Paperback) This unique collection examines the man Utne Reader has called "the greatest social critic of the twentieth century." The essays--all by people Illich has influenced personally--discuss how his life and thought have affected conceptualization, study,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98849K Jean Lave / Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics and Culture in Everyday Life (Large Paperback) In this innovative study, Jean Lave moves the analysis of one particular form of cognitive activity--arithmetic problem-solving--out of the laboratory and into the domain of everyday life. In so doing, she shows how mathematics in the "real world",... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98848K Karl E. Weick / Sensemaking in Organizations (Large Paperback) The teaching of organization theory and the conduct of organizational research have been dominated by a focus on decision-making and the concept of strategic rationality. However, the rational model ignores the inherent complexity and ambiguity of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98847K Michael Cole / Mind, Culture, and Activity: Seminal Papers from the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition (Large Paperback) This volume brings together articles from The Quarterly Newsletter of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition. The selected articles are important benchmarks in the recent history of research and theory on the cultural and contextual... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X98874K Victor Turner / The Anthropology of Performance (Large Paperback) Turner is all over the globe as he addresses issues of cultural performance, carnival, film, theatre, and "performing ethnography" to break new ground in anthropological thinking about event, spectacle, and audience. One of his last writings, "Body,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98873K Stephen J. Pyne / The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica (Large Paperback) Stephen Pyne's overwhelming fascination with Antarctica is the compelling force behind this major book on this stark and largely unknown continent. It combines a geophysical examination of the ice with an inspirational survey of how one of the most... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98872K Jörn Rüsen / Thinking Utopia: Steps into Other Worlds (Large Paperback) After the breakdown of socialist and communist systems in the East, it had become fashionable to declare the so-called "end of utopia" ("end of history," "end of narratives"). The authors of this volume do not share this view but think that it is... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98871K Fons Trompenaars / Riding the Waves of Culture : Understanding Cultural Diversity in Business (Large Paperback) International management guru, Fons Trompenaar's best-selling Riding the Waves of Culture has become an essential guide for managers and trainers in multinational organizations, as well as anyone who conducts business overseas. This thoroughly... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98870K Donald A. Norman / Things That Make Us Smart (Large Paperback) In Things That Make Us Smart, Donald A. Norman explores the complex interaction between human thought and the technology it creates, arguing for the development of machines that fit our minds, rather than minds that must conform to the machine.Humans... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98868K Kees Dorst / Understanding Design: 175 Reflections on Being a Designer (Large Paperback) The 150 mini-essays in this book provide a panoramic view of the subject of design. Fundamental questions are raised about the nature of design, about designers themselves and about the role of design in the broader contexts of a company and society... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98867K W. Terrence Gordon / Marshall McLuhan: Escape Into Understanding (Large Paperback) The originator of such widely used phrases as “the global village” and “the medium is the message,” Marshall McLuhan—the prescient media guru—is finally, attracting the critical attention he deserves. In the 1960s... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98866K Jean Baudrillard / The Illusion of the End (Large Paperback) In this book Jean Baudrillard, one of the most celebrated and controversial contemporary social theorists, argues that the notion of the end of history is an illusion, and that we are now engaged in a gigantic process of historical revisionism... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98865K Ian Hacking / Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science (Large Paperback) This 1983 book is a lively and clearly written introduction to the philosophy of natural science, organized around the central theme of scientific realism. It has two parts. 'Representing' deals with the different philosophical accounts of scientific... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98864K Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Eugene Halton / The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols and the Self (Large Paperback) The meaning of things is a study of the significance of material possessions in contemporary urban life, and of the ways people carve meaning out of their domestic environment. Drawing on a survey of eighty families in Chicago who were interviewed on... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98863K Jerome Bruner / Actual Minds, Possible Worlds (Large Paperback) In this characteristically graceful and provocative book, Jerome Bruner, one of the principal architects of the cognitive revolution, sets forth nothing less than a new agenda for the study of mind. According to Professor Bruner, cognitive science has... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98862K Richard E. Sclove / Democracy and Technology (Large Paperback) This eye-opening book describes how modern technologies--such as computers, automobiles, machine tools, hybrid crops, nuclear reactors, and others--contribute to vexing social problems ranging from the continued subordination of women and workers to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98861K Michel Serres / Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time: Michel Serres with Bruno Latour (Large Paperback) Although elected to the prestigious French Academy in 1990, Michel Serres has long been considered a maverick--a provocative thinker whose prolific writings on culture, science and philosophy have often baffled more than they have enlightened. In these... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98860K Jerome Bruner / The Process of Education (Large Paperback) In this classic argument for curriculum reform in early education, Jerome Bruner shows that the basic concepts of science and the humanities can be grasped intuitively at a very early age. He argues persuasively that curricula should he designed to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98859K Ivan Illich / H2O and the Waters of Forgetfulness (Large Paperback) Reflections on the Historicity of StuffIn the course of this brilliant essay the author traces the way water has been shorn of its mythic associations and reduced to an urban cleaning fluid. The histories of medicine, art, mythology, architecture,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98858K Jerome Bruner / Toward a Theory of Instruction (Large Paperback) This country’s most challenging writer on education presents here a distillation, for the general reader, of half a decade’s research and reflection. His theme is how children learn, and how they can best be helped to learn―how they can be... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98857K Jerome Bruner / On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand (Large Paperback) The left hand has traditionally represented the powers of intuition, feeling, and spontaneity. In this classic book, Jerome Bruner inquires into the part these qualities play in determining how we know what we do know; how we can help others to know―that... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98855K Henry Petroski / The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance (Large Paperback) Henry Petroski traces the origins of the pencil back to ancient Greece and Rome, writes factually and charmingly about its development over the centuries and around the world, and shows what the pencil can teach us about engineering and technology... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98854K David D. Hall / Cultures of Print: Essays in the History of the Book (Large Paperback) How did people in early America understand the authority of print and how was this authority sustained and contested? These questions are at the heart of this set of pathbreaking essays in the history of the book by one of America's leading practitioners... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98853K John H. Zammito / A Nice Derangement of Epistemes: Post-positivism in the Study of Science from Quine to Latour (Large Paperback) Since the 1950s, many philosophers of science have attacked positivism—the theory that scientific knowledge is grounded in objective reality. Reconstructing the history of these critiques, John H. Zammito argues that while so-called postpositivist... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98852K Victor Papanek / Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Large Paperback) This is a completely revised second edition of Design for the Real World, which has since its first appearance twenty years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design. In... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98851K Ivan Illich / Celebration of Awareness: A Call for Institutional Revolution (Large Paperback) The book consists of 12 essays on the following themes: Vietnam & the resistance; the war on poverty; Latin America, Puerto Rico & immigration to the US mainland; Catholic Church problems; the Church's role in social change & development; the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98850K Lee Hoinacki / The Challenges of Ivan Illich: A Collective Reflection (Large Paperback) This unique collection examines the man Utne Reader has called "the greatest social critic of the twentieth century." The essays--all by people Illich has influenced personally--discuss how his life and thought have affected conceptualization, study,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98849K Jean Lave / Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics and Culture in Everyday Life (Large Paperback) In this innovative study, Jean Lave moves the analysis of one particular form of cognitive activity--arithmetic problem-solving--out of the laboratory and into the domain of everyday life. In so doing, she shows how mathematics in the "real world",... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98848K Karl E. Weick / Sensemaking in Organizations (Large Paperback) The teaching of organization theory and the conduct of organizational research have been dominated by a focus on decision-making and the concept of strategic rationality. However, the rational model ignores the inherent complexity and ambiguity of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98847K Michael Cole / Mind, Culture, and Activity: Seminal Papers from the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition (Large Paperback) This volume brings together articles from The Quarterly Newsletter of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition. The selected articles are important benchmarks in the recent history of research and theory on the cultural and contextual... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X98873K Stephen J. Pyne / The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica (Large Paperback) Stephen Pyne's overwhelming fascination with Antarctica is the compelling force behind this major book on this stark and largely unknown continent. It combines a geophysical examination of the ice with an inspirational survey of how one of the most... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98872K Jörn Rüsen / Thinking Utopia: Steps into Other Worlds (Large Paperback) After the breakdown of socialist and communist systems in the East, it had become fashionable to declare the so-called "end of utopia" ("end of history," "end of narratives"). The authors of this volume do not share this view but think that it is... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98871K Fons Trompenaars / Riding the Waves of Culture : Understanding Cultural Diversity in Business (Large Paperback) International management guru, Fons Trompenaar's best-selling Riding the Waves of Culture has become an essential guide for managers and trainers in multinational organizations, as well as anyone who conducts business overseas. This thoroughly... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98870K Donald A. Norman / Things That Make Us Smart (Large Paperback) In Things That Make Us Smart, Donald A. Norman explores the complex interaction between human thought and the technology it creates, arguing for the development of machines that fit our minds, rather than minds that must conform to the machine.Humans... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98868K Kees Dorst / Understanding Design: 175 Reflections on Being a Designer (Large Paperback) The 150 mini-essays in this book provide a panoramic view of the subject of design. Fundamental questions are raised about the nature of design, about designers themselves and about the role of design in the broader contexts of a company and society... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98867K W. Terrence Gordon / Marshall McLuhan: Escape Into Understanding (Large Paperback) The originator of such widely used phrases as “the global village” and “the medium is the message,” Marshall McLuhan—the prescient media guru—is finally, attracting the critical attention he deserves. In the 1960s... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98866K Jean Baudrillard / The Illusion of the End (Large Paperback) In this book Jean Baudrillard, one of the most celebrated and controversial contemporary social theorists, argues that the notion of the end of history is an illusion, and that we are now engaged in a gigantic process of historical revisionism... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98865K Ian Hacking / Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science (Large Paperback) This 1983 book is a lively and clearly written introduction to the philosophy of natural science, organized around the central theme of scientific realism. It has two parts. 'Representing' deals with the different philosophical accounts of scientific... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98864K Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Eugene Halton / The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols and the Self (Large Paperback) The meaning of things is a study of the significance of material possessions in contemporary urban life, and of the ways people carve meaning out of their domestic environment. Drawing on a survey of eighty families in Chicago who were interviewed on... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98863K Jerome Bruner / Actual Minds, Possible Worlds (Large Paperback) In this characteristically graceful and provocative book, Jerome Bruner, one of the principal architects of the cognitive revolution, sets forth nothing less than a new agenda for the study of mind. According to Professor Bruner, cognitive science has... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98862K Richard E. Sclove / Democracy and Technology (Large Paperback) This eye-opening book describes how modern technologies--such as computers, automobiles, machine tools, hybrid crops, nuclear reactors, and others--contribute to vexing social problems ranging from the continued subordination of women and workers to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98861K Michel Serres / Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time: Michel Serres with Bruno Latour (Large Paperback) Although elected to the prestigious French Academy in 1990, Michel Serres has long been considered a maverick--a provocative thinker whose prolific writings on culture, science and philosophy have often baffled more than they have enlightened. In these... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98860K Jerome Bruner / The Process of Education (Large Paperback) In this classic argument for curriculum reform in early education, Jerome Bruner shows that the basic concepts of science and the humanities can be grasped intuitively at a very early age. He argues persuasively that curricula should he designed to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98859K Ivan Illich / H2O and the Waters of Forgetfulness (Large Paperback) Reflections on the Historicity of StuffIn the course of this brilliant essay the author traces the way water has been shorn of its mythic associations and reduced to an urban cleaning fluid. The histories of medicine, art, mythology, architecture,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98858K Jerome Bruner / Toward a Theory of Instruction (Large Paperback) This country’s most challenging writer on education presents here a distillation, for the general reader, of half a decade’s research and reflection. His theme is how children learn, and how they can best be helped to learn―how they can be... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98857K Jerome Bruner / On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand (Large Paperback) The left hand has traditionally represented the powers of intuition, feeling, and spontaneity. In this classic book, Jerome Bruner inquires into the part these qualities play in determining how we know what we do know; how we can help others to know―that... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98855K Henry Petroski / The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance (Large Paperback) Henry Petroski traces the origins of the pencil back to ancient Greece and Rome, writes factually and charmingly about its development over the centuries and around the world, and shows what the pencil can teach us about engineering and technology... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98854K David D. Hall / Cultures of Print: Essays in the History of the Book (Large Paperback) How did people in early America understand the authority of print and how was this authority sustained and contested? These questions are at the heart of this set of pathbreaking essays in the history of the book by one of America's leading practitioners... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98853K John H. Zammito / A Nice Derangement of Epistemes: Post-positivism in the Study of Science from Quine to Latour (Large Paperback) Since the 1950s, many philosophers of science have attacked positivism—the theory that scientific knowledge is grounded in objective reality. Reconstructing the history of these critiques, John H. Zammito argues that while so-called postpositivist... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98852K Victor Papanek / Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Large Paperback) This is a completely revised second edition of Design for the Real World, which has since its first appearance twenty years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design. In... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98851K Ivan Illich / Celebration of Awareness: A Call for Institutional Revolution (Large Paperback) The book consists of 12 essays on the following themes: Vietnam & the resistance; the war on poverty; Latin America, Puerto Rico & immigration to the US mainland; Catholic Church problems; the Church's role in social change & development; the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98850K Lee Hoinacki / The Challenges of Ivan Illich: A Collective Reflection (Large Paperback) This unique collection examines the man Utne Reader has called "the greatest social critic of the twentieth century." The essays--all by people Illich has influenced personally--discuss how his life and thought have affected conceptualization, study,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98849K Jean Lave / Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics and Culture in Everyday Life (Large Paperback) In this innovative study, Jean Lave moves the analysis of one particular form of cognitive activity--arithmetic problem-solving--out of the laboratory and into the domain of everyday life. In so doing, she shows how mathematics in the "real world",... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98848K Karl E. Weick / Sensemaking in Organizations (Large Paperback) The teaching of organization theory and the conduct of organizational research have been dominated by a focus on decision-making and the concept of strategic rationality. However, the rational model ignores the inherent complexity and ambiguity of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98847K Michael Cole / Mind, Culture, and Activity: Seminal Papers from the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition (Large Paperback) This volume brings together articles from The Quarterly Newsletter of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition. The selected articles are important benchmarks in the recent history of research and theory on the cultural and contextual... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X98872K Jörn Rüsen / Thinking Utopia: Steps into Other Worlds (Large Paperback) After the breakdown of socialist and communist systems in the East, it had become fashionable to declare the so-called "end of utopia" ("end of history," "end of narratives"). The authors of this volume do not share this view but think that it is... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98871K Fons Trompenaars / Riding the Waves of Culture : Understanding Cultural Diversity in Business (Large Paperback) International management guru, Fons Trompenaar's best-selling Riding the Waves of Culture has become an essential guide for managers and trainers in multinational organizations, as well as anyone who conducts business overseas. This thoroughly... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98870K Donald A. Norman / Things That Make Us Smart (Large Paperback) In Things That Make Us Smart, Donald A. Norman explores the complex interaction between human thought and the technology it creates, arguing for the development of machines that fit our minds, rather than minds that must conform to the machine.Humans... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98868K Kees Dorst / Understanding Design: 175 Reflections on Being a Designer (Large Paperback) The 150 mini-essays in this book provide a panoramic view of the subject of design. Fundamental questions are raised about the nature of design, about designers themselves and about the role of design in the broader contexts of a company and society... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98867K W. Terrence Gordon / Marshall McLuhan: Escape Into Understanding (Large Paperback) The originator of such widely used phrases as “the global village” and “the medium is the message,” Marshall McLuhan—the prescient media guru—is finally, attracting the critical attention he deserves. In the 1960s... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98866K Jean Baudrillard / The Illusion of the End (Large Paperback) In this book Jean Baudrillard, one of the most celebrated and controversial contemporary social theorists, argues that the notion of the end of history is an illusion, and that we are now engaged in a gigantic process of historical revisionism... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98865K Ian Hacking / Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science (Large Paperback) This 1983 book is a lively and clearly written introduction to the philosophy of natural science, organized around the central theme of scientific realism. It has two parts. 'Representing' deals with the different philosophical accounts of scientific... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98864K Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Eugene Halton / The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols and the Self (Large Paperback) The meaning of things is a study of the significance of material possessions in contemporary urban life, and of the ways people carve meaning out of their domestic environment. Drawing on a survey of eighty families in Chicago who were interviewed on... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98863K Jerome Bruner / Actual Minds, Possible Worlds (Large Paperback) In this characteristically graceful and provocative book, Jerome Bruner, one of the principal architects of the cognitive revolution, sets forth nothing less than a new agenda for the study of mind. According to Professor Bruner, cognitive science has... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98862K Richard E. Sclove / Democracy and Technology (Large Paperback) This eye-opening book describes how modern technologies--such as computers, automobiles, machine tools, hybrid crops, nuclear reactors, and others--contribute to vexing social problems ranging from the continued subordination of women and workers to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98861K Michel Serres / Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time: Michel Serres with Bruno Latour (Large Paperback) Although elected to the prestigious French Academy in 1990, Michel Serres has long been considered a maverick--a provocative thinker whose prolific writings on culture, science and philosophy have often baffled more than they have enlightened. In these... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98860K Jerome Bruner / The Process of Education (Large Paperback) In this classic argument for curriculum reform in early education, Jerome Bruner shows that the basic concepts of science and the humanities can be grasped intuitively at a very early age. He argues persuasively that curricula should he designed to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98859K Ivan Illich / H2O and the Waters of Forgetfulness (Large Paperback) Reflections on the Historicity of StuffIn the course of this brilliant essay the author traces the way water has been shorn of its mythic associations and reduced to an urban cleaning fluid. The histories of medicine, art, mythology, architecture,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98858K Jerome Bruner / Toward a Theory of Instruction (Large Paperback) This country’s most challenging writer on education presents here a distillation, for the general reader, of half a decade’s research and reflection. His theme is how children learn, and how they can best be helped to learn―how they can be... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98857K Jerome Bruner / On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand (Large Paperback) The left hand has traditionally represented the powers of intuition, feeling, and spontaneity. In this classic book, Jerome Bruner inquires into the part these qualities play in determining how we know what we do know; how we can help others to know―that... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98855K Henry Petroski / The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance (Large Paperback) Henry Petroski traces the origins of the pencil back to ancient Greece and Rome, writes factually and charmingly about its development over the centuries and around the world, and shows what the pencil can teach us about engineering and technology... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98854K David D. Hall / Cultures of Print: Essays in the History of the Book (Large Paperback) How did people in early America understand the authority of print and how was this authority sustained and contested? These questions are at the heart of this set of pathbreaking essays in the history of the book by one of America's leading practitioners... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98853K John H. Zammito / A Nice Derangement of Epistemes: Post-positivism in the Study of Science from Quine to Latour (Large Paperback) Since the 1950s, many philosophers of science have attacked positivism—the theory that scientific knowledge is grounded in objective reality. Reconstructing the history of these critiques, John H. Zammito argues that while so-called postpositivist... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98852K Victor Papanek / Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Large Paperback) This is a completely revised second edition of Design for the Real World, which has since its first appearance twenty years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design. In... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98851K Ivan Illich / Celebration of Awareness: A Call for Institutional Revolution (Large Paperback) The book consists of 12 essays on the following themes: Vietnam & the resistance; the war on poverty; Latin America, Puerto Rico & immigration to the US mainland; Catholic Church problems; the Church's role in social change & development; the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98850K Lee Hoinacki / The Challenges of Ivan Illich: A Collective Reflection (Large Paperback) This unique collection examines the man Utne Reader has called "the greatest social critic of the twentieth century." The essays--all by people Illich has influenced personally--discuss how his life and thought have affected conceptualization, study,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98849K Jean Lave / Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics and Culture in Everyday Life (Large Paperback) In this innovative study, Jean Lave moves the analysis of one particular form of cognitive activity--arithmetic problem-solving--out of the laboratory and into the domain of everyday life. In so doing, she shows how mathematics in the "real world",... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98848K Karl E. Weick / Sensemaking in Organizations (Large Paperback) The teaching of organization theory and the conduct of organizational research have been dominated by a focus on decision-making and the concept of strategic rationality. However, the rational model ignores the inherent complexity and ambiguity of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98847K Michael Cole / Mind, Culture, and Activity: Seminal Papers from the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition (Large Paperback) This volume brings together articles from The Quarterly Newsletter of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition. The selected articles are important benchmarks in the recent history of research and theory on the cultural and contextual... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X98871K Fons Trompenaars / Riding the Waves of Culture : Understanding Cultural Diversity in Business (Large Paperback) International management guru, Fons Trompenaar's best-selling Riding the Waves of Culture has become an essential guide for managers and trainers in multinational organizations, as well as anyone who conducts business overseas. This thoroughly... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98870K Donald A. Norman / Things That Make Us Smart (Large Paperback) In Things That Make Us Smart, Donald A. Norman explores the complex interaction between human thought and the technology it creates, arguing for the development of machines that fit our minds, rather than minds that must conform to the machine.Humans... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98868K Kees Dorst / Understanding Design: 175 Reflections on Being a Designer (Large Paperback) The 150 mini-essays in this book provide a panoramic view of the subject of design. Fundamental questions are raised about the nature of design, about designers themselves and about the role of design in the broader contexts of a company and society... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98867K W. Terrence Gordon / Marshall McLuhan: Escape Into Understanding (Large Paperback) The originator of such widely used phrases as “the global village” and “the medium is the message,” Marshall McLuhan—the prescient media guru—is finally, attracting the critical attention he deserves. In the 1960s... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98866K Jean Baudrillard / The Illusion of the End (Large Paperback) In this book Jean Baudrillard, one of the most celebrated and controversial contemporary social theorists, argues that the notion of the end of history is an illusion, and that we are now engaged in a gigantic process of historical revisionism... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98865K Ian Hacking / Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science (Large Paperback) This 1983 book is a lively and clearly written introduction to the philosophy of natural science, organized around the central theme of scientific realism. It has two parts. 'Representing' deals with the different philosophical accounts of scientific... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98864K Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Eugene Halton / The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols and the Self (Large Paperback) The meaning of things is a study of the significance of material possessions in contemporary urban life, and of the ways people carve meaning out of their domestic environment. Drawing on a survey of eighty families in Chicago who were interviewed on... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98863K Jerome Bruner / Actual Minds, Possible Worlds (Large Paperback) In this characteristically graceful and provocative book, Jerome Bruner, one of the principal architects of the cognitive revolution, sets forth nothing less than a new agenda for the study of mind. According to Professor Bruner, cognitive science has... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98862K Richard E. Sclove / Democracy and Technology (Large Paperback) This eye-opening book describes how modern technologies--such as computers, automobiles, machine tools, hybrid crops, nuclear reactors, and others--contribute to vexing social problems ranging from the continued subordination of women and workers to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98861K Michel Serres / Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time: Michel Serres with Bruno Latour (Large Paperback) Although elected to the prestigious French Academy in 1990, Michel Serres has long been considered a maverick--a provocative thinker whose prolific writings on culture, science and philosophy have often baffled more than they have enlightened. In these... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98860K Jerome Bruner / The Process of Education (Large Paperback) In this classic argument for curriculum reform in early education, Jerome Bruner shows that the basic concepts of science and the humanities can be grasped intuitively at a very early age. He argues persuasively that curricula should he designed to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98859K Ivan Illich / H2O and the Waters of Forgetfulness (Large Paperback) Reflections on the Historicity of StuffIn the course of this brilliant essay the author traces the way water has been shorn of its mythic associations and reduced to an urban cleaning fluid. The histories of medicine, art, mythology, architecture,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98858K Jerome Bruner / Toward a Theory of Instruction (Large Paperback) This country’s most challenging writer on education presents here a distillation, for the general reader, of half a decade’s research and reflection. His theme is how children learn, and how they can best be helped to learn―how they can be... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98857K Jerome Bruner / On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand (Large Paperback) The left hand has traditionally represented the powers of intuition, feeling, and spontaneity. In this classic book, Jerome Bruner inquires into the part these qualities play in determining how we know what we do know; how we can help others to know―that... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98855K Henry Petroski / The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance (Large Paperback) Henry Petroski traces the origins of the pencil back to ancient Greece and Rome, writes factually and charmingly about its development over the centuries and around the world, and shows what the pencil can teach us about engineering and technology... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98854K David D. Hall / Cultures of Print: Essays in the History of the Book (Large Paperback) How did people in early America understand the authority of print and how was this authority sustained and contested? These questions are at the heart of this set of pathbreaking essays in the history of the book by one of America's leading practitioners... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98853K John H. Zammito / A Nice Derangement of Epistemes: Post-positivism in the Study of Science from Quine to Latour (Large Paperback) Since the 1950s, many philosophers of science have attacked positivism—the theory that scientific knowledge is grounded in objective reality. Reconstructing the history of these critiques, John H. Zammito argues that while so-called postpositivist... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98852K Victor Papanek / Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Large Paperback) This is a completely revised second edition of Design for the Real World, which has since its first appearance twenty years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design. In... 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Terrence Gordon / Marshall McLuhan: Escape Into Understanding (Large Paperback) The originator of such widely used phrases as “the global village” and “the medium is the message,” Marshall McLuhan—the prescient media guru—is finally, attracting the critical attention he deserves. In the 1960s... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98866K Jean Baudrillard / The Illusion of the End (Large Paperback) In this book Jean Baudrillard, one of the most celebrated and controversial contemporary social theorists, argues that the notion of the end of history is an illusion, and that we are now engaged in a gigantic process of historical revisionism... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98865K Ian Hacking / Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science (Large Paperback) This 1983 book is a lively and clearly written introduction to the philosophy of natural science, organized around the central theme of scientific realism. It has two parts. 'Representing' deals with the different philosophical accounts of scientific... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98864K Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Eugene Halton / The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols and the Self (Large Paperback) The meaning of things is a study of the significance of material possessions in contemporary urban life, and of the ways people carve meaning out of their domestic environment. Drawing on a survey of eighty families in Chicago who were interviewed on... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98863K Jerome Bruner / Actual Minds, Possible Worlds (Large Paperback) In this characteristically graceful and provocative book, Jerome Bruner, one of the principal architects of the cognitive revolution, sets forth nothing less than a new agenda for the study of mind. According to Professor Bruner, cognitive science has... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98862K Richard E. 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98858K Jerome Bruner / Toward a Theory of Instruction (Large Paperback) This country’s most challenging writer on education presents here a distillation, for the general reader, of half a decade’s research and reflection. His theme is how children learn, and how they can best be helped to learn―how they can be... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98857K Jerome Bruner / On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand (Large Paperback) The left hand has traditionally represented the powers of intuition, feeling, and spontaneity. In this classic book, Jerome Bruner inquires into the part these qualities play in determining how we know what we do know; how we can help others to know―that... 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Zammito / A Nice Derangement of Epistemes: Post-positivism in the Study of Science from Quine to Latour (Large Paperback) Since the 1950s, many philosophers of science have attacked positivism—the theory that scientific knowledge is grounded in objective reality. Reconstructing the history of these critiques, John H. Zammito argues that while so-called postpositivist... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98852K Victor Papanek / Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Large Paperback) This is a completely revised second edition of Design for the Real World, which has since its first appearance twenty years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design. In... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98849K Jean Lave / Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics and Culture in Everyday Life (Large Paperback) In this innovative study, Jean Lave moves the analysis of one particular form of cognitive activity--arithmetic problem-solving--out of the laboratory and into the domain of everyday life. In so doing, she shows how mathematics in the "real world",... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98848K Karl E. Weick / Sensemaking in Organizations (Large Paperback) The teaching of organization theory and the conduct of organizational research have been dominated by a focus on decision-making and the concept of strategic rationality. However, the rational model ignores the inherent complexity and ambiguity of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98847K Michael Cole / Mind, Culture, and Activity: Seminal Papers from the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition (Large Paperback) This volume brings together articles from The Quarterly Newsletter of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition. The selected articles are important benchmarks in the recent history of research and theory on the cultural and contextual... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X98868K Kees Dorst / Understanding Design: 175 Reflections on Being a Designer (Large Paperback) The 150 mini-essays in this book provide a panoramic view of the subject of design. Fundamental questions are raised about the nature of design, about designers themselves and about the role of design in the broader contexts of a company and society... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98867K W. Terrence Gordon / Marshall McLuhan: Escape Into Understanding (Large Paperback) The originator of such widely used phrases as “the global village” and “the medium is the message,” Marshall McLuhan—the prescient media guru—is finally, attracting the critical attention he deserves. In the 1960s... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98866K Jean Baudrillard / The Illusion of the End (Large Paperback) In this book Jean Baudrillard, one of the most celebrated and controversial contemporary social theorists, argues that the notion of the end of history is an illusion, and that we are now engaged in a gigantic process of historical revisionism... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98865K Ian Hacking / Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science (Large Paperback) This 1983 book is a lively and clearly written introduction to the philosophy of natural science, organized around the central theme of scientific realism. It has two parts. 'Representing' deals with the different philosophical accounts of scientific... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98864K Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Eugene Halton / The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols and the Self (Large Paperback) The meaning of things is a study of the significance of material possessions in contemporary urban life, and of the ways people carve meaning out of their domestic environment. Drawing on a survey of eighty families in Chicago who were interviewed on... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98863K Jerome Bruner / Actual Minds, Possible Worlds (Large Paperback) In this characteristically graceful and provocative book, Jerome Bruner, one of the principal architects of the cognitive revolution, sets forth nothing less than a new agenda for the study of mind. According to Professor Bruner, cognitive science has... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98862K Richard E. Sclove / Democracy and Technology (Large Paperback) This eye-opening book describes how modern technologies--such as computers, automobiles, machine tools, hybrid crops, nuclear reactors, and others--contribute to vexing social problems ranging from the continued subordination of women and workers to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98861K Michel Serres / Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time: Michel Serres with Bruno Latour (Large Paperback) Although elected to the prestigious French Academy in 1990, Michel Serres has long been considered a maverick--a provocative thinker whose prolific writings on culture, science and philosophy have often baffled more than they have enlightened. In these... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98860K Jerome Bruner / The Process of Education (Large Paperback) In this classic argument for curriculum reform in early education, Jerome Bruner shows that the basic concepts of science and the humanities can be grasped intuitively at a very early age. He argues persuasively that curricula should he designed to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98859K Ivan Illich / H2O and the Waters of Forgetfulness (Large Paperback) Reflections on the Historicity of StuffIn the course of this brilliant essay the author traces the way water has been shorn of its mythic associations and reduced to an urban cleaning fluid. The histories of medicine, art, mythology, architecture,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98858K Jerome Bruner / Toward a Theory of Instruction (Large Paperback) This country’s most challenging writer on education presents here a distillation, for the general reader, of half a decade’s research and reflection. His theme is how children learn, and how they can best be helped to learn―how they can be... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98857K Jerome Bruner / On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand (Large Paperback) The left hand has traditionally represented the powers of intuition, feeling, and spontaneity. In this classic book, Jerome Bruner inquires into the part these qualities play in determining how we know what we do know; how we can help others to know―that... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98855K Henry Petroski / The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance (Large Paperback) Henry Petroski traces the origins of the pencil back to ancient Greece and Rome, writes factually and charmingly about its development over the centuries and around the world, and shows what the pencil can teach us about engineering and technology... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98854K David D. Hall / Cultures of Print: Essays in the History of the Book (Large Paperback) How did people in early America understand the authority of print and how was this authority sustained and contested? These questions are at the heart of this set of pathbreaking essays in the history of the book by one of America's leading practitioners... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98853K John H. Zammito / A Nice Derangement of Epistemes: Post-positivism in the Study of Science from Quine to Latour (Large Paperback) Since the 1950s, many philosophers of science have attacked positivism—the theory that scientific knowledge is grounded in objective reality. Reconstructing the history of these critiques, John H. Zammito argues that while so-called postpositivist... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98852K Victor Papanek / Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Large Paperback) This is a completely revised second edition of Design for the Real World, which has since its first appearance twenty years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design. In... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98851K Ivan Illich / Celebration of Awareness: A Call for Institutional Revolution (Large Paperback) The book consists of 12 essays on the following themes: Vietnam & the resistance; the war on poverty; Latin America, Puerto Rico & immigration to the US mainland; Catholic Church problems; the Church's role in social change & development; the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98850K Lee Hoinacki / The Challenges of Ivan Illich: A Collective Reflection (Large Paperback) This unique collection examines the man Utne Reader has called "the greatest social critic of the twentieth century." The essays--all by people Illich has influenced personally--discuss how his life and thought have affected conceptualization, study,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98849K Jean Lave / Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics and Culture in Everyday Life (Large Paperback) In this innovative study, Jean Lave moves the analysis of one particular form of cognitive activity--arithmetic problem-solving--out of the laboratory and into the domain of everyday life. In so doing, she shows how mathematics in the "real world",... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98848K Karl E. Weick / Sensemaking in Organizations (Large Paperback) The teaching of organization theory and the conduct of organizational research have been dominated by a focus on decision-making and the concept of strategic rationality. However, the rational model ignores the inherent complexity and ambiguity of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98847K Michael Cole / Mind, Culture, and Activity: Seminal Papers from the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition (Large Paperback) This volume brings together articles from The Quarterly Newsletter of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition. The selected articles are important benchmarks in the recent history of research and theory on the cultural and contextual... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X98867K W. Terrence Gordon / Marshall McLuhan: Escape Into Understanding (Large Paperback) The originator of such widely used phrases as “the global village” and “the medium is the message,” Marshall McLuhan—the prescient media guru—is finally, attracting the critical attention he deserves. In the 1960s... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98866K Jean Baudrillard / The Illusion of the End (Large Paperback) In this book Jean Baudrillard, one of the most celebrated and controversial contemporary social theorists, argues that the notion of the end of history is an illusion, and that we are now engaged in a gigantic process of historical revisionism... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98865K Ian Hacking / Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science (Large Paperback) This 1983 book is a lively and clearly written introduction to the philosophy of natural science, organized around the central theme of scientific realism. It has two parts. 'Representing' deals with the different philosophical accounts of scientific... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98864K Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Eugene Halton / The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols and the Self (Large Paperback) The meaning of things is a study of the significance of material possessions in contemporary urban life, and of the ways people carve meaning out of their domestic environment. Drawing on a survey of eighty families in Chicago who were interviewed on... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98863K Jerome Bruner / Actual Minds, Possible Worlds (Large Paperback) In this characteristically graceful and provocative book, Jerome Bruner, one of the principal architects of the cognitive revolution, sets forth nothing less than a new agenda for the study of mind. According to Professor Bruner, cognitive science has... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98862K Richard E. Sclove / Democracy and Technology (Large Paperback) This eye-opening book describes how modern technologies--such as computers, automobiles, machine tools, hybrid crops, nuclear reactors, and others--contribute to vexing social problems ranging from the continued subordination of women and workers to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98861K Michel Serres / Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time: Michel Serres with Bruno Latour (Large Paperback) Although elected to the prestigious French Academy in 1990, Michel Serres has long been considered a maverick--a provocative thinker whose prolific writings on culture, science and philosophy have often baffled more than they have enlightened. In these... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98860K Jerome Bruner / The Process of Education (Large Paperback) In this classic argument for curriculum reform in early education, Jerome Bruner shows that the basic concepts of science and the humanities can be grasped intuitively at a very early age. He argues persuasively that curricula should he designed to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98859K Ivan Illich / H2O and the Waters of Forgetfulness (Large Paperback) Reflections on the Historicity of StuffIn the course of this brilliant essay the author traces the way water has been shorn of its mythic associations and reduced to an urban cleaning fluid. The histories of medicine, art, mythology, architecture,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98858K Jerome Bruner / Toward a Theory of Instruction (Large Paperback) This country’s most challenging writer on education presents here a distillation, for the general reader, of half a decade’s research and reflection. His theme is how children learn, and how they can best be helped to learn―how they can be... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98857K Jerome Bruner / On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand (Large Paperback) The left hand has traditionally represented the powers of intuition, feeling, and spontaneity. In this classic book, Jerome Bruner inquires into the part these qualities play in determining how we know what we do know; how we can help others to know―that... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98855K Henry Petroski / The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance (Large Paperback) Henry Petroski traces the origins of the pencil back to ancient Greece and Rome, writes factually and charmingly about its development over the centuries and around the world, and shows what the pencil can teach us about engineering and technology... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98854K David D. Hall / Cultures of Print: Essays in the History of the Book (Large Paperback) How did people in early America understand the authority of print and how was this authority sustained and contested? These questions are at the heart of this set of pathbreaking essays in the history of the book by one of America's leading practitioners... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98853K John H. Zammito / A Nice Derangement of Epistemes: Post-positivism in the Study of Science from Quine to Latour (Large Paperback) Since the 1950s, many philosophers of science have attacked positivism—the theory that scientific knowledge is grounded in objective reality. Reconstructing the history of these critiques, John H. Zammito argues that while so-called postpositivist... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98852K Victor Papanek / Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Large Paperback) This is a completely revised second edition of Design for the Real World, which has since its first appearance twenty years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design. In... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98851K Ivan Illich / Celebration of Awareness: A Call for Institutional Revolution (Large Paperback) The book consists of 12 essays on the following themes: Vietnam & the resistance; the war on poverty; Latin America, Puerto Rico & immigration to the US mainland; Catholic Church problems; the Church's role in social change & development; the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98850K Lee Hoinacki / The Challenges of Ivan Illich: A Collective Reflection (Large Paperback) This unique collection examines the man Utne Reader has called "the greatest social critic of the twentieth century." The essays--all by people Illich has influenced personally--discuss how his life and thought have affected conceptualization, study,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98849K Jean Lave / Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics and Culture in Everyday Life (Large Paperback) In this innovative study, Jean Lave moves the analysis of one particular form of cognitive activity--arithmetic problem-solving--out of the laboratory and into the domain of everyday life. In so doing, she shows how mathematics in the "real world",... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98848K Karl E. Weick / Sensemaking in Organizations (Large Paperback) The teaching of organization theory and the conduct of organizational research have been dominated by a focus on decision-making and the concept of strategic rationality. However, the rational model ignores the inherent complexity and ambiguity of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98847K Michael Cole / Mind, Culture, and Activity: Seminal Papers from the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition (Large Paperback) This volume brings together articles from The Quarterly Newsletter of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition. The selected articles are important benchmarks in the recent history of research and theory on the cultural and contextual... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X98866K Jean Baudrillard / The Illusion of the End (Large Paperback) In this book Jean Baudrillard, one of the most celebrated and controversial contemporary social theorists, argues that the notion of the end of history is an illusion, and that we are now engaged in a gigantic process of historical revisionism... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98865K Ian Hacking / Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science (Large Paperback) This 1983 book is a lively and clearly written introduction to the philosophy of natural science, organized around the central theme of scientific realism. It has two parts. 'Representing' deals with the different philosophical accounts of scientific... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98864K Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Eugene Halton / The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols and the Self (Large Paperback) The meaning of things is a study of the significance of material possessions in contemporary urban life, and of the ways people carve meaning out of their domestic environment. Drawing on a survey of eighty families in Chicago who were interviewed on... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98863K Jerome Bruner / Actual Minds, Possible Worlds (Large Paperback) In this characteristically graceful and provocative book, Jerome Bruner, one of the principal architects of the cognitive revolution, sets forth nothing less than a new agenda for the study of mind. According to Professor Bruner, cognitive science has... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98862K Richard E. Sclove / Democracy and Technology (Large Paperback) This eye-opening book describes how modern technologies--such as computers, automobiles, machine tools, hybrid crops, nuclear reactors, and others--contribute to vexing social problems ranging from the continued subordination of women and workers to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98861K Michel Serres / Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time: Michel Serres with Bruno Latour (Large Paperback) Although elected to the prestigious French Academy in 1990, Michel Serres has long been considered a maverick--a provocative thinker whose prolific writings on culture, science and philosophy have often baffled more than they have enlightened. In these... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98860K Jerome Bruner / The Process of Education (Large Paperback) In this classic argument for curriculum reform in early education, Jerome Bruner shows that the basic concepts of science and the humanities can be grasped intuitively at a very early age. He argues persuasively that curricula should he designed to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98859K Ivan Illich / H2O and the Waters of Forgetfulness (Large Paperback) Reflections on the Historicity of StuffIn the course of this brilliant essay the author traces the way water has been shorn of its mythic associations and reduced to an urban cleaning fluid. The histories of medicine, art, mythology, architecture,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98858K Jerome Bruner / Toward a Theory of Instruction (Large Paperback) This country’s most challenging writer on education presents here a distillation, for the general reader, of half a decade’s research and reflection. His theme is how children learn, and how they can best be helped to learn―how they can be... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98857K Jerome Bruner / On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand (Large Paperback) The left hand has traditionally represented the powers of intuition, feeling, and spontaneity. In this classic book, Jerome Bruner inquires into the part these qualities play in determining how we know what we do know; how we can help others to know―that... 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Zammito / A Nice Derangement of Epistemes: Post-positivism in the Study of Science from Quine to Latour (Large Paperback) Since the 1950s, many philosophers of science have attacked positivism—the theory that scientific knowledge is grounded in objective reality. Reconstructing the history of these critiques, John H. Zammito argues that while so-called postpositivist... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98852K Victor Papanek / Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Large Paperback) This is a completely revised second edition of Design for the Real World, which has since its first appearance twenty years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design. In... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98863K Jerome Bruner / Actual Minds, Possible Worlds (Large Paperback) In this characteristically graceful and provocative book, Jerome Bruner, one of the principal architects of the cognitive revolution, sets forth nothing less than a new agenda for the study of mind. According to Professor Bruner, cognitive science has... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98862K Richard E. Sclove / Democracy and Technology (Large Paperback) This eye-opening book describes how modern technologies--such as computers, automobiles, machine tools, hybrid crops, nuclear reactors, and others--contribute to vexing social problems ranging from the continued subordination of women and workers to... 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In this classic book, Jerome Bruner inquires into the part these qualities play in determining how we know what we do know; how we can help others to know―that... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98855K Henry Petroski / The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance (Large Paperback) Henry Petroski traces the origins of the pencil back to ancient Greece and Rome, writes factually and charmingly about its development over the centuries and around the world, and shows what the pencil can teach us about engineering and technology... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98854K David D. Hall / Cultures of Print: Essays in the History of the Book (Large Paperback) How did people in early America understand the authority of print and how was this authority sustained and contested? These questions are at the heart of this set of pathbreaking essays in the history of the book by one of America's leading practitioners... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98853K John H. Zammito / A Nice Derangement of Epistemes: Post-positivism in the Study of Science from Quine to Latour (Large Paperback) Since the 1950s, many philosophers of science have attacked positivism—the theory that scientific knowledge is grounded in objective reality. Reconstructing the history of these critiques, John H. Zammito argues that while so-called postpositivist... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98852K Victor Papanek / Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Large Paperback) This is a completely revised second edition of Design for the Real World, which has since its first appearance twenty years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design. In... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98849K Jean Lave / Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics and Culture in Everyday Life (Large Paperback) In this innovative study, Jean Lave moves the analysis of one particular form of cognitive activity--arithmetic problem-solving--out of the laboratory and into the domain of everyday life. In so doing, she shows how mathematics in the "real world",... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98848K Karl E. Weick / Sensemaking in Organizations (Large Paperback) The teaching of organization theory and the conduct of organizational research have been dominated by a focus on decision-making and the concept of strategic rationality. However, the rational model ignores the inherent complexity and ambiguity of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98847K Michael Cole / Mind, Culture, and Activity: Seminal Papers from the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition (Large Paperback) This volume brings together articles from The Quarterly Newsletter of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition. The selected articles are important benchmarks in the recent history of research and theory on the cultural and contextual... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X98864K Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Eugene Halton / The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols and the Self (Large Paperback) The meaning of things is a study of the significance of material possessions in contemporary urban life, and of the ways people carve meaning out of their domestic environment. Drawing on a survey of eighty families in Chicago who were interviewed on... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98863K Jerome Bruner / Actual Minds, Possible Worlds (Large Paperback) In this characteristically graceful and provocative book, Jerome Bruner, one of the principal architects of the cognitive revolution, sets forth nothing less than a new agenda for the study of mind. According to Professor Bruner, cognitive science has... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98862K Richard E. Sclove / Democracy and Technology (Large Paperback) This eye-opening book describes how modern technologies--such as computers, automobiles, machine tools, hybrid crops, nuclear reactors, and others--contribute to vexing social problems ranging from the continued subordination of women and workers to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98861K Michel Serres / Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time: Michel Serres with Bruno Latour (Large Paperback) Although elected to the prestigious French Academy in 1990, Michel Serres has long been considered a maverick--a provocative thinker whose prolific writings on culture, science and philosophy have often baffled more than they have enlightened. In these... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98860K Jerome Bruner / The Process of Education (Large Paperback) In this classic argument for curriculum reform in early education, Jerome Bruner shows that the basic concepts of science and the humanities can be grasped intuitively at a very early age. He argues persuasively that curricula should he designed to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98859K Ivan Illich / H2O and the Waters of Forgetfulness (Large Paperback) Reflections on the Historicity of StuffIn the course of this brilliant essay the author traces the way water has been shorn of its mythic associations and reduced to an urban cleaning fluid. The histories of medicine, art, mythology, architecture,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98858K Jerome Bruner / Toward a Theory of Instruction (Large Paperback) This country’s most challenging writer on education presents here a distillation, for the general reader, of half a decade’s research and reflection. His theme is how children learn, and how they can best be helped to learn―how they can be... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98857K Jerome Bruner / On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand (Large Paperback) The left hand has traditionally represented the powers of intuition, feeling, and spontaneity. In this classic book, Jerome Bruner inquires into the part these qualities play in determining how we know what we do know; how we can help others to know―that... 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Zammito / A Nice Derangement of Epistemes: Post-positivism in the Study of Science from Quine to Latour (Large Paperback) Since the 1950s, many philosophers of science have attacked positivism—the theory that scientific knowledge is grounded in objective reality. Reconstructing the history of these critiques, John H. Zammito argues that while so-called postpositivist... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98852K Victor Papanek / Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Large Paperback) This is a completely revised second edition of Design for the Real World, which has since its first appearance twenty years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design. In... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98849K Jean Lave / Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics and Culture in Everyday Life (Large Paperback) In this innovative study, Jean Lave moves the analysis of one particular form of cognitive activity--arithmetic problem-solving--out of the laboratory and into the domain of everyday life. In so doing, she shows how mathematics in the "real world",... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98848K Karl E. Weick / Sensemaking in Organizations (Large Paperback) The teaching of organization theory and the conduct of organizational research have been dominated by a focus on decision-making and the concept of strategic rationality. However, the rational model ignores the inherent complexity and ambiguity of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98847K Michael Cole / Mind, Culture, and Activity: Seminal Papers from the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition (Large Paperback) This volume brings together articles from The Quarterly Newsletter of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition. The selected articles are important benchmarks in the recent history of research and theory on the cultural and contextual... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X98863K Jerome Bruner / Actual Minds, Possible Worlds (Large Paperback) In this characteristically graceful and provocative book, Jerome Bruner, one of the principal architects of the cognitive revolution, sets forth nothing less than a new agenda for the study of mind. According to Professor Bruner, cognitive science has... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98862K Richard E. Sclove / Democracy and Technology (Large Paperback) This eye-opening book describes how modern technologies--such as computers, automobiles, machine tools, hybrid crops, nuclear reactors, and others--contribute to vexing social problems ranging from the continued subordination of women and workers to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98861K Michel Serres / Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time: Michel Serres with Bruno Latour (Large Paperback) Although elected to the prestigious French Academy in 1990, Michel Serres has long been considered a maverick--a provocative thinker whose prolific writings on culture, science and philosophy have often baffled more than they have enlightened. In these... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98860K Jerome Bruner / The Process of Education (Large Paperback) In this classic argument for curriculum reform in early education, Jerome Bruner shows that the basic concepts of science and the humanities can be grasped intuitively at a very early age. He argues persuasively that curricula should he designed to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98859K Ivan Illich / H2O and the Waters of Forgetfulness (Large Paperback) Reflections on the Historicity of StuffIn the course of this brilliant essay the author traces the way water has been shorn of its mythic associations and reduced to an urban cleaning fluid. The histories of medicine, art, mythology, architecture,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98858K Jerome Bruner / Toward a Theory of Instruction (Large Paperback) This country’s most challenging writer on education presents here a distillation, for the general reader, of half a decade’s research and reflection. His theme is how children learn, and how they can best be helped to learn―how they can be... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98857K Jerome Bruner / On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand (Large Paperback) The left hand has traditionally represented the powers of intuition, feeling, and spontaneity. In this classic book, Jerome Bruner inquires into the part these qualities play in determining how we know what we do know; how we can help others to know―that... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98855K Henry Petroski / The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance (Large Paperback) Henry Petroski traces the origins of the pencil back to ancient Greece and Rome, writes factually and charmingly about its development over the centuries and around the world, and shows what the pencil can teach us about engineering and technology... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98854K David D. Hall / Cultures of Print: Essays in the History of the Book (Large Paperback) How did people in early America understand the authority of print and how was this authority sustained and contested? These questions are at the heart of this set of pathbreaking essays in the history of the book by one of America's leading practitioners... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98853K John H. Zammito / A Nice Derangement of Epistemes: Post-positivism in the Study of Science from Quine to Latour (Large Paperback) Since the 1950s, many philosophers of science have attacked positivism—the theory that scientific knowledge is grounded in objective reality. Reconstructing the history of these critiques, John H. Zammito argues that while so-called postpositivist... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98852K Victor Papanek / Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Large Paperback) This is a completely revised second edition of Design for the Real World, which has since its first appearance twenty years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design. In... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98851K Ivan Illich / Celebration of Awareness: A Call for Institutional Revolution (Large Paperback) The book consists of 12 essays on the following themes: Vietnam & the resistance; the war on poverty; Latin America, Puerto Rico & immigration to the US mainland; Catholic Church problems; the Church's role in social change & development; the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98850K Lee Hoinacki / The Challenges of Ivan Illich: A Collective Reflection (Large Paperback) This unique collection examines the man Utne Reader has called "the greatest social critic of the twentieth century." The essays--all by people Illich has influenced personally--discuss how his life and thought have affected conceptualization, study,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98849K Jean Lave / Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics and Culture in Everyday Life (Large Paperback) In this innovative study, Jean Lave moves the analysis of one particular form of cognitive activity--arithmetic problem-solving--out of the laboratory and into the domain of everyday life. In so doing, she shows how mathematics in the "real world",... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98848K Karl E. Weick / Sensemaking in Organizations (Large Paperback) The teaching of organization theory and the conduct of organizational research have been dominated by a focus on decision-making and the concept of strategic rationality. However, the rational model ignores the inherent complexity and ambiguity of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98847K Michael Cole / Mind, Culture, and Activity: Seminal Papers from the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition (Large Paperback) This volume brings together articles from The Quarterly Newsletter of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition. The selected articles are important benchmarks in the recent history of research and theory on the cultural and contextual... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X98862K Richard E. Sclove / Democracy and Technology (Large Paperback) This eye-opening book describes how modern technologies--such as computers, automobiles, machine tools, hybrid crops, nuclear reactors, and others--contribute to vexing social problems ranging from the continued subordination of women and workers to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98861K Michel Serres / Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time: Michel Serres with Bruno Latour (Large Paperback) Although elected to the prestigious French Academy in 1990, Michel Serres has long been considered a maverick--a provocative thinker whose prolific writings on culture, science and philosophy have often baffled more than they have enlightened. In these... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98860K Jerome Bruner / The Process of Education (Large Paperback) In this classic argument for curriculum reform in early education, Jerome Bruner shows that the basic concepts of science and the humanities can be grasped intuitively at a very early age. He argues persuasively that curricula should he designed to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98859K Ivan Illich / H2O and the Waters of Forgetfulness (Large Paperback) Reflections on the Historicity of StuffIn the course of this brilliant essay the author traces the way water has been shorn of its mythic associations and reduced to an urban cleaning fluid. The histories of medicine, art, mythology, architecture,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98858K Jerome Bruner / Toward a Theory of Instruction (Large Paperback) This country’s most challenging writer on education presents here a distillation, for the general reader, of half a decade’s research and reflection. His theme is how children learn, and how they can best be helped to learn―how they can be... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98857K Jerome Bruner / On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand (Large Paperback) The left hand has traditionally represented the powers of intuition, feeling, and spontaneity. In this classic book, Jerome Bruner inquires into the part these qualities play in determining how we know what we do know; how we can help others to know―that... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98855K Henry Petroski / The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance (Large Paperback) Henry Petroski traces the origins of the pencil back to ancient Greece and Rome, writes factually and charmingly about its development over the centuries and around the world, and shows what the pencil can teach us about engineering and technology... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98854K David D. Hall / Cultures of Print: Essays in the History of the Book (Large Paperback) How did people in early America understand the authority of print and how was this authority sustained and contested? These questions are at the heart of this set of pathbreaking essays in the history of the book by one of America's leading practitioners... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98853K John H. Zammito / A Nice Derangement of Epistemes: Post-positivism in the Study of Science from Quine to Latour (Large Paperback) Since the 1950s, many philosophers of science have attacked positivism—the theory that scientific knowledge is grounded in objective reality. Reconstructing the history of these critiques, John H. Zammito argues that while so-called postpositivist... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98852K Victor Papanek / Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Large Paperback) This is a completely revised second edition of Design for the Real World, which has since its first appearance twenty years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design. In... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98851K Ivan Illich / Celebration of Awareness: A Call for Institutional Revolution (Large Paperback) The book consists of 12 essays on the following themes: Vietnam & the resistance; the war on poverty; Latin America, Puerto Rico & immigration to the US mainland; Catholic Church problems; the Church's role in social change & development; the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98850K Lee Hoinacki / The Challenges of Ivan Illich: A Collective Reflection (Large Paperback) This unique collection examines the man Utne Reader has called "the greatest social critic of the twentieth century." The essays--all by people Illich has influenced personally--discuss how his life and thought have affected conceptualization, study,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98849K Jean Lave / Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics and Culture in Everyday Life (Large Paperback) In this innovative study, Jean Lave moves the analysis of one particular form of cognitive activity--arithmetic problem-solving--out of the laboratory and into the domain of everyday life. In so doing, she shows how mathematics in the "real world",... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98848K Karl E. Weick / Sensemaking in Organizations (Large Paperback) The teaching of organization theory and the conduct of organizational research have been dominated by a focus on decision-making and the concept of strategic rationality. However, the rational model ignores the inherent complexity and ambiguity of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98847K Michael Cole / Mind, Culture, and Activity: Seminal Papers from the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition (Large Paperback) This volume brings together articles from The Quarterly Newsletter of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition. The selected articles are important benchmarks in the recent history of research and theory on the cultural and contextual... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X98861K Michel Serres / Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time: Michel Serres with Bruno Latour (Large Paperback) Although elected to the prestigious French Academy in 1990, Michel Serres has long been considered a maverick--a provocative thinker whose prolific writings on culture, science and philosophy have often baffled more than they have enlightened. In these... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98860K Jerome Bruner / The Process of Education (Large Paperback) In this classic argument for curriculum reform in early education, Jerome Bruner shows that the basic concepts of science and the humanities can be grasped intuitively at a very early age. He argues persuasively that curricula should he designed to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98859K Ivan Illich / H2O and the Waters of Forgetfulness (Large Paperback) Reflections on the Historicity of StuffIn the course of this brilliant essay the author traces the way water has been shorn of its mythic associations and reduced to an urban cleaning fluid. The histories of medicine, art, mythology, architecture,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98858K Jerome Bruner / Toward a Theory of Instruction (Large Paperback) This country’s most challenging writer on education presents here a distillation, for the general reader, of half a decade’s research and reflection. His theme is how children learn, and how they can best be helped to learn―how they can be... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98857K Jerome Bruner / On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand (Large Paperback) The left hand has traditionally represented the powers of intuition, feeling, and spontaneity. In this classic book, Jerome Bruner inquires into the part these qualities play in determining how we know what we do know; how we can help others to know―that... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98855K Henry Petroski / The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance (Large Paperback) Henry Petroski traces the origins of the pencil back to ancient Greece and Rome, writes factually and charmingly about its development over the centuries and around the world, and shows what the pencil can teach us about engineering and technology... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98854K David D. Hall / Cultures of Print: Essays in the History of the Book (Large Paperback) How did people in early America understand the authority of print and how was this authority sustained and contested? These questions are at the heart of this set of pathbreaking essays in the history of the book by one of America's leading practitioners... 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