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Embodiment and everyday cyborgs Technologies that alter subjectivity
Using a range of social science methods and drawing on the sociology of the body, biomedicine and technology, Haddow invites readers of ‘Embodiment and everyday cyborgs’ to consider whether they might prefer organs from other humans or non-human animals (known as xenotransplantation), or implantable ‘cybernetic’ technologies to replace their own? In discovering that individuals have a v…
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Go home? the politics of immigration controversies
In July 2013, the UK government arranged for a van to drive through parts of London carrying the message ‘In the UK illegally? GO HOME or face arrest.’ The vans were short-lived, but they were part of an ongoing trend in government-sponsored communication designed to demonstrate control and toughness around immigration. This book explores the effects of such performances of toughness: on po…
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Public Deliberation on Climate Change Lessons from Alberta Climate Dialogue
Given the host of challenges climate governance presents and the global consequences of our response to them, the experience and knowledge shared by Hanson and the contributors to Public Deliberation on Climate Change provide an important framework for advancing public conversations and processes on this and other wicked problems. The lessons contained in the volume were gained as a result of a…
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Managing Global Challenges: The European Union, China and EU Network Diplomacy
The book provides an in-depth analysis of EU-China cooperation mechanisms with a focus on efforts to jointly address global challenges. It zooms in on the cooperation mechanisms for addressing three specific global challenges that rank high on the bilateral agenda: mitigating climate change, controlling nuclear non-proliferation and addressing the poverty-insecurity nexus. From this empirical a…
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Production Networks and Enterprises in East Asia; Industry and Firm-level Ana…
* Untuk pertama kalinya, buku ini menyatukan metode-metode kunci dalam industri dan analisis tingkat perusahaan terhadap jaringan produksi di Asia Timur. * Buku ini menawarkan pelajaran untuk wilayah berkembang lainnya (misalnya Asia Selatan, Amerika Latin, Eropa Timur, dan Afrika) yang tertarik untuk bergabung dengan jaringan produksi untuk mencapai industrialisasi dan pertumbuhan * Bab-bab i…
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- Ekonomi Pembangunan
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- 658.5 WIG p
Production Control Systems; A Guide to Enhance Performance of Pull Systems
* Mencakup sistem kontrol produksi yang menarik dan memberikan perbandingan di antara mereka. * Menyajikan alat pemodelan dan analisis untuk sistem kontrol tarik. * Memberikan pedoman bagi manajer produksi dan praktisi untuk memilih sistem kontrol terbaik. ;;; Sistem kontrol produksi mewakili area yang sangat penting untuk efisiensi manajemen operasi di perusahaan, karena sangat berdampak pada …
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- Manajemen
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How Knowledge Grows: The Evolutionary Development of Scientific Practice
An argument that the development of scientific practice and growth of scientific knowledge are governed by Darwin's evolutionary model of descent with modification. Although scientific investigation is influenced by our cognitive and moral failings as well as all of the factors impinging on human life, the historical development of scientific knowledge has trended toward an increasingly accu…
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Visual Plague: The Emergence of Epidemic Photography
How epidemic photography during a global pandemic of bubonic plague contributed to the development of modern epidemiology and our concept of the “pandemic.” In Visual Plague, Christos Lynteris examines the emergence of epidemic photography during the third plague pandemic (1894–1959), a global pandemic of bubonic plague that led to over twelve million deaths. Unlike medical photography…
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Imperfection: A Natural History
In praise of imperfection: how life on our planet is a catalog of imperfections, errors, alternatives, and anomalies. In the beginning, there was imperfection, which became the source of all things. Anomalies and asymmetries caused planets to take shape from the bubbling void and sent light into darkness. Life on earth is a catalog of accidents, alternatives, and errors that turned out to wo…
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Advanced Computational Approaches for Predicting Tourist Arrivals
Advanced Computational Approaches for Predicting Tourist Arrivals: the Case of Charter Air-Travel
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