America Identified: Biometric Technology and Society

An examination of the public perception of biometric identification technology in the context of privacy, security & civil liberties.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Situated Intervention: Sociological Experiments in Health Care

This work considers the question of how the direct involvement of social scientists in the practices they study can lead to the production of interesting sociological knowledge. It draws together two activities that are often seen as belonging to different realms: intervening in practices and furthering sociological understanding of them.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Memorandum Addressed by The Jugoslav Socialists to The International Socialis…

We are publishing our Memorandum for the information of Socialist and bourgeois public opinion in Europe on the subject of the Jugoslav Question which is so little known and so much misunderstood abroad. As will be seen from this Memorandum, we Southern Slavs, or Jugoslavs (Serbs, Croats and Slovenes) are one single people which has been politically, nationally and economically subjugated. ISTo…

The Tuning of Place: Sociable Spaces and Pervasive Digital Media

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Innovation in Cultural Systems: Contributions from Evolutionary Anthropology

Here, leading scholars offer a range of perspectives on the roles played by innovation in the evolution of human culture. The contributors consider innovation in biological terms discussing epistemology, animal studies, systematics and phylogeny, phenotypic plasticity and evolvability, and much more.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Beyond Red and Blue: How Twelve Political Philosophies Shape American Debates

Why Americans do not divide neatly into red and blue or right and left but form coalitions across party lines on hot-button issues ranging from immigration to same-sex marriage.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Breakthrough Communities: Sustainability and Justice in the Next American Met…

Activists, analysts, and practitioners describe innovative strategies that promote healthy neighborhoods, fair housing, and accessible transportation throughout America's cities and suburbs.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia

Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, is built by a community - a community of Wikipedians who are expected to "assume good faith" when interacting with one another. In Good Faith Collaboration, Joseph Reagle examines this unique collaborative culture;Wikipedia, says Reagle, is not the first effort to create a freely shared, universal encyclopedia; its early twentieth-century ancestors include Pa…

The Self-Organizing Social Mind

"A Bradford book."In this work, John Bolender proposes a new explanation for the forms of social relations. He argues that the core of social-relational cognition exhibits beauty - in the physicist's sense of the word, associated with symmetry.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Honest Signals: How They Shape Our World

"A Bradford book."How understanding the signaling within social networks can change the way we make decisions, work with others, and manage organizations.How can you know when someone is bluffing? Paying attention? Genuinely interested? The answer, writes Alex Pentland in Honest Signals, is that subtle patterns in how we interact with other people reveal our attitudes toward them. These unconsc…