Filter by
Althusser and Education
Louis Althusser's thinking laid the groundwork for critical educational theory, yet it is often misunderstood in critical pedagogy, sociology of education, and related fields. In this open access book, David I. Backer reexamines Althusser's educational theory, specifically the claim that education is the most powerful ideological state apparatus in modern capitalist societies. He then presents …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781350101494
- Collation
- 228 hlm; ill., lamp.,
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Alternatives to Animal Testing
This open access book presents recent advances in the pure sciences that are of significance in the quest for alternatives to the use of animals in research and describes a variety of practical applications of the three key guiding principles for the more ethical use of animals in experiments - replacement, reduction, and refinement, collectively known as the 3Rs. Important examples from across…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- -
- Collation
- 130 hlm; ill., lamp.,
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Artificial Intelligence Oceanography
This open access book invites readers to learn how to develop artificial intelligence (AI)-based algorithms to perform their research in oceanography. Various examples are exhibited to guide details of how to feed the big ocean data into the AI models to analyze and achieve optimized results. The number of scholars engaged in AI oceanography research will increase exponentially in the next deca…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789811963759
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Artificial Intelligence in the Capitalist University
Using Marxist critique, this book explores manifestations of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Higher Education and demonstrates how it contributes to the functioning and existence of the capitalist university. Challenging the idea that AI is a break from previous capitalist technologies, the book offers nuanced examination of the impacts of AI on the control and regulation of academic work and l…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781000471496,
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- Routledge Studies in Education, Neoliberalism, and Marxism,
- Call Number
- -
Alternative Economies and Spaces
The volume entails a collection of contributions by leading scholars (Raymond Bryant, Michael K. Goodman, Benjamin Huybrechts, Andrew E.G. Jonas, Roger Lee, Peter North, and Katinka Weber) concerned with alternative modes of economic and social exchange. The cases addressed in these contributions - including credit unions, alternative currencies, sustainable consumption, and social enterprise…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- -
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Alternative countrysides
A fresh anthropological look at a central but neglected topic: the profound changes in rural life throughout Western Europe today. As locals leave for jobs in cities they are replaced by neo-hippies, lifestyle-seekers, eco-activists, and labour migrants from beyond the EU. With detailed ethnographic examples, contributors analyse new modes of living rurally and emerging forms of social organis…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780719096846
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Also Innovators : How one computer salesman contributed to the digital revolu…
'Thank you for your order, Mr Mainframe Customer. The cost is £5 million and the lead-time for manufacture will be two years. In the meantime you will have to build a special computer centre to our specification. For our part, our project team will help you recruit and train potential programmers and we shall advise on how you might use the system.' How different from today when the customer…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781760462987
- Collation
- 292 hlm; ill., lamp.,
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Alloy Steel
The sections in this book are devoted to new approaches and usages of stainless steels, the influence of the environments on the behavior of certain classes of steels, new structural concepts to understand some fatigue processes, new insight on strengthening mechanisms, and toughness in microalloyed steels. The kinetics during tempering in low-alloy steels is also discussed through a new set-up…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789535160847
- Collation
- 272 hlm; ill., lamp.,
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Biocatalysis and Pharmaceuticals: A Smart Tool for Sustainable Development
: Chondroitin sulfates are linear anionic sulfated polysaccharides found in biological tissues, mainly within the extracellular matrix, which are degraded and altered by specific lyases depending on specific time points. These polysaccharides have recently acquired relevance in the pharmaceutical industry due to their interesting therapeutic applications
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783039217083, 9783039217090
- Collation
- 176
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
All through the Town
p strongThe role of the humble school bus in transforming education in America/strong Everyone knows the yellow school bus. It's been invisible and also omnipresent for a century. Antero Garcia shows how the U.S. school bus, its form unaltered for decades, is the most substantial piece of educational technology to ever shape how schools operate. As it noisily moves young people across the count…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781517915650
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography