"First in-depth analysis of engineers working in resource extraction, focusing particularly on those who viewed social responsibility as fundamental to their profession"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
An accessible introduction to the behavioral insights approach, which applies evidence about human behavior to practical problems. Our behavior is strongly influenced by factors that lie outside our conscious awareness, although we tend to underestimate the power of this "automatic" side of our behavior. As a result, governments make ineffective policies, businesses create bad products, and ind…
"A highly readable and punchy roadmap that ordinary citizens and policymakers alike can use to begin rethinking and refashioning their political interactions to be more productive"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Smith investigates the role of parasites in the planning of Paris, specifically those stealing resources, hurting the city's health, and interfering of information transmission"--Outgrowth of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Princeton University, 2015, under the title: Paris and the parasite : the politics of noise in the mediatic city.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Examining radical reinventions of traditional practices, ranging from a queer reclamation of the Jewish festival of Purim to an Indigenous remixing of musical traditions. Supposedly outmoded modes of doing and making--from music and religious rituals to crafting and cooking--are flourishing, both artistically and politically, in the digital age. In this book, Gabriel Levine examines collective …
"A novel analysis of social media network manipulation that shows how everyday users can limit the spread of harmful, misleading, and objectively false information"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
An argument that the meaning of a psychological or biological measure depends on the age, gender class, and ethnicity of the human subject.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Selections from FBI files on political activists including Betty Friedan, Abbie Hoffman, Martin Luther King, Aaron Swartz, and Malcolm X. The FBI has always kept tabs on political activists. During the directorship of J. Edgar Hoover, it was a Bureau-wide obsession. Did you see that guy who didn't quite look like a journalist, taking pictures at a demonstration He was probably FBI. Did you say …
"The affective dynamics of shame, seriousness, and laughter: how humor and feminism function in the #MeToo era"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"How mental disorders became comparable worldwide through the making of metrics, focussing on the WHO's first international social psychiatry project"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.