The story of how the emerging food justice movement is seeking to transform the American food system from seed to table. In today's food system, farm workers face difficult and hazardous conditions, low-income neighborhoods lack supermarkets but abound in fast-food restaurants and liquor stores, food products emphasize convenience rather than wholesomeness, and the international reach of Americ…
Influential neoclassical economist Lionel McKenzie has made major contributions to postwar economic thought in the fields of equilibrium, trade, and capital accumulation. This selection of his papers traces the development of his thinking in these three crucial areas.McKenzie's early academic life took him to Duke, Princeton, Oxford, the University of Chicago, and the Cowles Commission. In 1957…
An influential scholar in science studies argues that innovation tames the insatiable and limitless curiosity driving science, and that society's acute ambivalence about this is an inevitable legacy of modernity.Curiosity is the main driving force behind scientific activity. Scientific curiosity, insatiable in its explorations, does not know what it will find, or where it will lead. Science nee…
Proceedings from the third annual Robotics: Science and Systems conference, presenting state-of-the-art research on the foundations of robotics, robotics applications, and robotics systems.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
This text is a proposal for an interdisciplinary context-sensitive framework for assessing the strength of scientific arguments that melds J?urgen Habermas's discourse theory and sociological contextualism.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
A famous Iranian dissident calls for universal human rights and democracy based on our common humanity.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
From the former UN head weapons inspector in Iraq, a plea for a renewed global disarmament movement.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Essays link Gaian science to such global environmental quandaries as climate change and biodiversity destruction, providing perspectives from science, philosophy, politics, and technology.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
An analysis of the ways that software creates new spatialities in everyday life, from supermarket checkout lines to airline flight paths.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
The collected writings of artist and filmmaker Hollis Frampton, including all the essays from the long-unavailable Circles of Confusion along with rare additional material.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.