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  • Technological Choices

    Transformation in Material Cultures Since the Neolithic

    Redigeret af Pierre Lemonnier ...
    Serier serie Material Cultures
    Technological Choices applies the critical tools of archaeology to the subject of technology and its impact on humankind throughout the ages. An examination of the challenges technological innovations present to various cultures, Technological Choices asserts that in any society, such choices are made on the basis of cultural values and social relations, rather than on the inherent benefits in ... Læs mere

    588,44 kr.

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  • A Plea for the Animals

    The Moral, Philosophical, and Evolutionary Imperative to Treat All Beings with Compassion

    af Matthieu Ricard ...
    Every cow just wants to be happy. Every chicken just wants to be free. Every bear, dog, or mouse experiences sorrow and feels pain as intensely as any of us humans do. In a compelling appeal to reason and human kindness, Matthieu Ricard here takes the arguments from his best-sellers Altruism and Happiness to their logical conclusion: that compassion toward all beings, including our fellow animals, ... Læs mere

    128,49 kr.

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  • The Social Life of Things

    Commodities in Cultural Perspective

    Redigeret af Arjun Appadurai ...
    The meaning that people attribute to things necessarily derives from human transactions and motivations, particularly from how those things are used and circulated. The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and past. Focusing on culturally defined aspects of exchange and socially regulated processes of ... Læs mere

    277,42 kr.

  • The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader

    Redigeret af Sandra Harding ...
    For twenty years, the renowned philosopher of science Sandra Harding has argued that science and technology studies, postcolonial studies, and feminist critique must inform one another. In The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader, Harding puts those fields in critical conversation, assembling the anthology that she has long wanted for classroom use. In classic and recent essays, ... Læs mere

    269,24 kr.

  • A Foot in the River

    Why Our Lives Change -- and the Limits of Evolution

    af Felipe Fernández-Armesto ...
    We are a weird species. Like other species, we have a culture. But by comparison with other species, we are strangely unstable: human cultures self-transform, diverge, and multiply with bewildering speed. They vary, radically and rapidly, from time to time and place to place. And the way we live -- our manners, morals, habits, experiences, relationships, technology, values -- seems to be changing ... Læs mere

    95,04 kr.

  • Exploring Wild Law

    The philosophy of Earth Jurisprudence

    Redigeret af Peter Burdon ...
    Wild law is a groundbreaking approach to law that stresses human dependence on nature. For the first time, this volume brings together voices from the leading proponents of wild law around the world. It introduces readers to the idea of wild law and considers its relationship to environmental law, the rights of nature, science, religion, property law and international governance. ... Læs mere

    95,11 kr.

  • Cartographic Grounds

    Projecting the Landscape Imaginary

    Redigeret af Charles Waldheim, Jil Desimini ...
    Mapping has been one of the most fertile areas of exploration for architecture and landscape in the past few decades. While documenting this shift in representation from the material and physical description toward the depiction of the unseen and often immaterial, Cartographic Grounds takes a critical view toward the current use of data mapping and visualization and calls for a return to ... Læs mere

    250,24 kr.

  • The People, Place, and Space Reader

    Redigeret af Jen Jack Gieseking, William Mangold, Cindi Katz, Setha Low, Susan Saegert ...
    The People, Place, and Space Reader brings together the writings of scholars, designers, and activists from a variety of fields to make sense of the makings and meanings of the world we inhabit. They help us to understand the relationships between people and the environment at all scales, and to consider the active roles individuals, groups, and social structures play in creating the environments ... Læs mere

    941,57 kr.

  • The Natural City

    Re-envisioning the Built Environment

    Redigeret af Ingrid Leman Stefanovic, Stephen Bede Scharper ...
    Urban and natural environments are often viewed as entirely separate entities - human settlements as the domain of architects and planners, and natural areas as untouched wilderness. This dichotomy continues to drive decision-making in subtle ways, but with the mounting pressures of global climate change and declining biodiversity, it is no longer viable. New technologies are promising to provide ... Læs mere

    308,24 kr.

  • Built to Meet Needs: Cultural Issues in Vernacular Architecture

    af Paul Oliver ...
    The study of vernacular architecture explores the characteristics of domestic buildings in particular regions or localities, and the many social and cultural factors that have contributed to their evolution. In this book, vernacular architecture specialist Paul Oliver brings together a wealth of information that spans over two decades, and the whole globe. Some previously unpublished papers, as ... Læs mere

    1.733,44 kr.

  • Vernacular Architecture in the 21st Century

    Theory, Education and Practice

    Redigeret af Lindsay Asquith, Marcel Vellinga ...
    The issues surrounding the function and meaning of vernacular architecture in the twenty-first century are complex and extensive. Taking a distinctively rigorous theoretical approach, this book considers these issues from a number of perspectives, broadening current debate to a wider multidisciplinary audience. These collected essays from the leading experts in the field focus on theory, education ... Læs mere

    599,14 kr.

  • In the Active Voice (Routledge Revivals)

    af Mary Douglas ...
    Serier serie Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1982, this collection of essays is a reproach to a form of the sociology of religion that treats people as the passive objects of impersonal social influences. In opposition to this, the author seeks to assert an active voice style of thinking about the relations between individuals and their cultural environment, whether in economics, history or literary criticism.This ... Læs mere

    470,73 kr.