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Editore: The University Of Chicago Press Mai 2015, 2015
ISBN 10: 022627165XISBN 13: 9780226271651
Da: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Germania
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - With clear and powerful evidence, 'House of Debt' shows how society s reliance on debt is dangerous and leads to economic disaster. Atif Mian and Amir Sufi compellingly illustrate how debt too easily destroys common borrowers net worth, how these borrowers stop spending, and how people lose jobs as a result. Thoroughly grounded in compelling economic evidence, 'House of Debt' offers convincing answers to some of the most important questions facing the modern economy today.' 232 pp. Deutsch.
Editore: The University Of Chicago Press Mai 2015, 2015
ISBN 10: 022627618XISBN 13: 9780226276182
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measures how the temperature actually feels on the body, would hit 126 degrees by the time the day was over. Meteorologists had been warning residents about a two-day heat wave, but these temperatures did not end that soon. When the heat wave broke a week later, city streets had buckled; the records for electrical use were shattered; and power grids had failed, leaving residents without electricity for up to two days. And by July 20, over seven hundred people had perished-more than twice the number that died in the Chicago Fire of 1871, twenty times the number of those struck by Hurricane Andrew in 1992--in the great Chicago heat wave, one of the deadliest in American history.
Editore: The University Of Chicago Press Mai 2015, 2015
ISBN 10: 022624136XISBN 13: 9780226241364
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Worries about scientific objectivity just won t go away, but by now, it s safe to say, no one who reflects on the appropriate role of values and interests in scientific research thinks it is or could be free of them. It now seems obvious that social, political, and economic values and interests influence research on weapons, for example, or health and the environment. Yet the dominant late twentieth-century philosophies of science have tended to conceptualize the reliability and predictive power of the results of research as damaged by such values and interests, and they continue to do so in spite of powerful analyses of how sciences operate in practice and in spite of the rise around the globe in the last four decades of various forms of participatory action research and citizen science, both of which take their research agendas from the concerns of disadvantaged groups. Why are the epistemic/scientific norm of objectivity and the social/political norm of diversity still perceived as inevitably in conflict with each other Why aren t they perceived as in conflict only sometimes, but many times as providing valuable resources for each other How can we promote science that is both more epistemically adequate and socially just Sandra Harding probes these questions with clarity and concrete cases, and in doing so puts severe pressure on conventional philosophies of science and points to intellectually sounder and politically more progressive ways to think about them. She proposes a new way to relink sciences and their philosophies to democratic social relations, even while these are themselves undergoing transformations. A must read for anyone interested in how to think about the politics of science globally.'.
Editore: The University Of Chicago Press Mai 2015, 2015
ISBN 10: 022611273XISBN 13: 9780226112732
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - George Herbert Mead is widely considered among the most influential philosophers in American pragmatism. Created from verbatim notes of his widely attended lectures at the University of Chicago, 'Mind, Self, And Society' captures both the intellect and the personality of one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century and remains a seminal text in both social psychology and philosophy. This new, definitive edition includes an insightful foreword from leading Mead scholar Hans Joas, as well as a revealing set of textual notes by Dan Huebner that detail the origins of the text. The added materials will shed new light and spur new scholarship on this masterwork.