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Nature's Ideological Landscape A Literary and Geographic Perspective on its Development and Preservation on Denmark's Jutland Heath

Nature's Ideological Landscape A Literary and Geographic Perspective on its Development and Preservation on Denmark's Jutland Heath

Originally published in 1984 Nature’s Ideological Language examines the common ideological roots of environmental reclamation and nature preservation. In the general context of European British and American historical experience the Jutland heaths of Denmark are taken as a concrete example for a general critique of European and American policy concerning the use of landscape. Two sets of contradictions are highlighted: ideological and practical between development and preservation; and those between scientific historical aesthetic and recreational motivation for preservation. The book is based on a study of the Jutland heath from 1750 to the present focusing on the Danish perception of the area as expressed in literary art and in economic journals topographies and government reports. Against this background the development of the modern conception of nature is traced and its ideological implications and planning consequences discussed. As a study of humanistic geography this book will be of interest to geographers conservationists and planners. | Nature's Ideological Landscape A Literary and Geographic Perspective on its Development and Preservation on Denmark's Jutland Heath

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The Life and Literary Pursuits of Allen Davenport

The Life and Literary Pursuits of Allen Davenport

First published in 1994 this volume features an autobiography of Allen Davenport a key figure linking Chartism with the French Revolution along with some of his selected works. Davenport was an important propagandist for agrarian reform a critical follower of Robert Owen one of the first male supporters of the feminist causes and birth control and a leading member of the revolutionary underground movement in Regency London. He was a prolific author political journalist and poet. His autobiography published in 1845 has long been presumed lost - historians have had to make do with tantalising fragments from contemporary reviews. When a copy was found in Nashville in 1982 it was immediately recognised as a unique source of information about nineteenth-century popular politics. This volume reprints the complete text with editorial apparatus and supplemented by a careful selection of Davenport's other writing by Dr Malcolm Chase. The Life and Literary Pursuits of Allen Davenport thus gives a unique insight into the cultural and political life of England in the crowded years between Peterloo and Chartism.

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Redefining Innovation Embracing the 80-80 Rule to Ignite Growth in the Biopharmaceutical Industry

Redefining Innovation Embracing the 80-80 Rule to Ignite Growth in the Biopharmaceutical Industry

Most people marvel at the level of innovation demonstrated by the biopharmaceutical industry in bringing new products to the market – especially in the past 20 years. However there is a crisis looming in the industry that should be a concern to all of us who take for granted the constant pace at which new treatments and increasingly cures have emerged from the laboratories of current sector incumbents. In the book we examine the evolution of the biopharmaceutical industry to understand how it became what we term a unicorn industry with a unique US-centered business model that has led to multiple blockbuster products (aka unicorns) year after year. We explore how past success has created perceived barriers to innovation diversification beyond the chemical or biological-based biopharmaceutical product and highlight the warning signs of the industry’s decline. We define a potential pathway for transforming the industry’s business model by broadening the definition sources and enablers of innovation beyond the traditional biopharmaceutical product. We introduce and advocate for the 80-80 Rule - Being 80% confident that you will only be 80% right the first time should feel normal. The 80-80 Rule is a theme that emphasizes speed and willingness to embrace uncertainty and overcome internal barriers to change. It sets the standard for redefining innovation as a platform to reignite growth of the biopharmaceutical industry. | Redefining Innovation Embracing the 80-80 Rule to Ignite Growth in the Biopharmaceutical Industry

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Food Phytates

Food Phytates

Food Phytates takes a new look at phytates including their potential health benefits. It includes the latest information on the beneficial heath effects of phytates the influence of phytates in disease prevention the potential use of phytate as an antioxidant in foods and phytase expression in transgenic plants. In 14 chapters leading researchers shed new light on phytates' potential ability to lower blood glucose reduce cholesterol and triacylglycerols and reduce the risks of cancer and heart disease.

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Beyond Liberalism

Beyond Liberalism

In Beyond Nihilism Michael Polanyi argued that a merely negative liberty of doing as one pleases so long as one does not impinge upon the equal liberty of others - must and has led to destructive nihilism and a fierce reaction to collectivism. R. T. Allen takes up this argument in Beyond Liberalism and shows how Polanyi's political philosophy evolved into a more positive and distinctly conservative concept of liberty converging upon the archetypal conservatism of Edmund Burke. Allen examines Polanyi's and F. A. Hayek's thinking with respect to the nature value and foundations of liberty. Negative and positive liberties are two sides of one liberty and Allen believes negative conceptions of liberty are as dangerous as positive ones. He distinguishes among general and abstract definitions of liberty and shows how all including that of Hayek ultimately dissolve. According to Allen only tacit conceptions of liberty such as those of Burke and Polanyi prove viable. This is because they rest on concrete tradition. Allen examines how the skeptical rationalist and utilitarian philosophies of Ludwig von Mises and Sir Karl Popper fail to support the value of liberty and even proved to be destructive of it. Allen argues that society cannot rely upon the classically liberal notion of contract but rather upon prescriptive and inherited obligations. In turn this means that citizens have positive as well as negative duties to each other and the body politic of which they are part and upon whose support liberty depends. A free society is held together by emotional bonds and the traditions and rituals that sustain them. A free society also presupposes that the individual has inherent value in and for himself. For R. T. Allen only Christianity and certainly no modern philosophy has a conception of the unique individual and his irreplaceable value and of a political order that transcends itself into the moral order. Even Polanyi's liberty is ultimately insufficient for it gives no inherent value to the person himself but instead to the ideals which he serves. Beyond Liberalism challenges deeply ingrained notions of liberty and its meaning in modern society. It is a call for traditions of self-restraint and justice for their own sakes. This noteworthy volume is an essential addition to the libraries of political scientists philosophers and theologians alike.

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Preparation for Life? Vocationalism and the Equal Opportunities Challenge

Preparation for Life? Vocationalism and the Equal Opportunities Challenge

First published in 1997 this volume contributes to the debate on the ground-breaking Technical and Vocational Education Initiative (TVEI) introduced by Margaret Thatcher by exploring the implications of its equal opportunities policy. The scheme was announced in 1982 piloted in 1983 extended nationally in 1987 and ended in 1997. It responded to criticisms that the education system was failing to meet the needs of employers and committed to equal opportunities for boys and girls along with increasing access to technology at the genesis of the computing era. The TVEI represented the first major intervention by central Government in curriculum development in England and was organised on a local authority level. The author Sue Heath had experienced mixed messages for what students of each gender could expect to achieve and she remained fascinated by the implications of the TVEI for 1980s school curriculums. Based on research begun in 1989 the volume reassesses the significance of the TEVI as a landmark policy in education. Heath examines areas including vocationalism the issue of gender implementing the TVEI locally the curricular experiences of TVEI pupils and whether the TVEI succeeded in preparing students for the world of work and later life. | Preparation for Life? Vocationalism and the Equal Opportunities Challenge

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The Cia's Secret Operations Espionage Counterespionage And Covert Action

The Cia's Secret Operations Espionage Counterespionage And Covert Action

I am grateful to those of my colleagues in this first generation of American spymasters who were willing to share their experiences with me even after I retired to my unclassified farm . I am indebted to Howard Roman who worked with Allen Dulles on his intelligence writings for his assistance in the preparation of the early chapters and to Nancy Kelly my editor at Reader's Digest Press for the sharp edge of her pruning shears . | The Cia's Secret Operations Espionage Counterespionage And Covert Action

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The Productive Graduate Student Writer How to Manage Your Time Process and Energy to Write Your Research Proposal Thesis and Dissertatio

The Productive Graduate Student Writer How to Manage Your Time Process and Energy to Write Your Research Proposal Thesis and Dissertatio

This book is for graduate students-and others-who want to become more productive writers. It's especially written for those who want to:• increase their motivation focus and persistence to move a project to completion• overcome procrastination and perfectionistic tendencies• reduce (or write in spite of) their anxiety and fear of writing• manage their time work energy (and advisor) for greater productivityThe process or craft of sustained writing is not a matter that’s taught to undergraduate or graduate students as part of their studies leaving most at sea about how to start a practice that is central to a career in academe and vital in many other professional occupations. This book grew out of conversations Jan Allen has held with her graduate students for over 30 years and reflects the fruit of the writing workshops and boot camps she has conducted at three universities her own and numerous colleagues’ experiences with writing and advising as well as the feedback she receives from her popular Productive Writer listserv. While Jan Allen recognizes that writing is not an innate talent for most of us she demonstrates that it is a process based on skills which we can identify learn practice and refine. She focuses both on the process and habits of writing as well as on helping you uncover what kind of writer are you and reflect on your challenges and successes. With a light touch and an engaging sense of humor she proposes strategies to overcome procrastination and distractions and build a writing practice to enable you to become a more productive and prolific writer. Jan Allen proposes that you read one of her succinct chapters – each devoted to a specific strategy or writing challenge – each day or once a week. When you find one that increases your concentration motivation or endurance make it a habit. Try it for two weeks charting the resulting increased productivity. It will become part of your repertoire of writing and productivity tools to which you can progressively add. | The Productive Graduate Student Writer How to Manage Your Time Process and Energy to Write Your Research Proposal Thesis and Dissertatio

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Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Cartoonists and Caricaturists

Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Cartoonists and Caricaturists

British cartoonists and caricaturists are renowned worldwide. Originally published in 2000 this indispensable handbook offers a unique ‘who’s who’ of all the major artists working in Britain in the twentieth century and contains nearly 500 entries. Extensively illustrated the book provides information on the work of artists such as Steve Bell Gerald Scarfe Posy Simmonds Ronald Searle Trog mac and Larry as well as such past masters as David Low Vicky H. M. Bateman Illingworth Heath Robinson and more. The dictionary concentrates primarily on political cartoonists caricaturists and joke or ‘gag’ cartoonists actively working for the main Fleet Street national dailies and weeklies from 1900 to 1995. Each entry is cross-referenced and provides a concise biographical outline with an account of the artist’s style influences and preferred medium. Where relevant the entry includes suggestions for further reading and notes solo exhibitions books illustrated and works held in public collections. The Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Cartoonists and Caricaturists offers an insight into the lives of satirical artists working during a century that provoked cartoonists and caricaturists to a pitch of comic and artistic invention that has rarely been matched.

GBP 99.99
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Philosophical Foundations for the Curriculum

Philosophical Foundations for the Curriculum

In this book first published in 1978 Allen Brent sets out to explore some of the questions raised by theorists and philosophers regarding curriculum. He starts by investigating whether all knowledge is the product of social conditions of particular times or places or whether there is some kind of universal framework implicit in the claims to knowledge which men make. He looks at the work of Plato Newman Freire and Hirt and how each of them in a strikingly different way they have tried to give us an objective basis for curriculum judgements and how the validity of that basis is attacked by contemporary sociologists of knowledge. This book is aimed primarily at students who are concentrating on the philosophy of education or curriculum theory. | Philosophical Foundations for the Curriculum

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Fitting Statistical Distributions The Generalized Lambda Distribution and Generalized Bootstrap Methods

Fitting Statistical Distributions The Generalized Lambda Distribution and Generalized Bootstrap Methods

Throughout the physical and social sciences researchers face the challenge of fitting statistical distributions to their data. Although the study of statistical modelling has made great strides in recent years the number and variety of distributions to choose from-all with their own formulas tables diagrams and general properties-continue to create problems. For a specific application which of the dozens of distributions should one use? What if none of them fit well?Fitting Statistical Distributions helps answer those questions. Focusing on techniques used successfully across many fields the authors present all of the relevant results related to the Generalized Lambda Distribution (GLD) the Generalized Bootstrap (GB) and Monte Carlo simulation (MC). They provide the tables algorithms and computer programs needed for fitting continuous probability distributions to data in a wide variety of circumstances-covering bivariate as well as univariate distributions and including situations where moments do not exist. Regardless of your specific field-physical science social science or statistics practitioner or theorist-Fitting Statistical Distributions is required reading. It includes wide-ranging applications illustrating the methods in practice and offers proofs of key results for those involved in theoretical development. Without it you may be using obsolete methods wasting time and risking incorrect results. | Fitting Statistical Distributions The Generalized Lambda Distribution and Generalized Bootstrap Methods

GBP 59.99
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Monte Carlo Methods and Models in Finance and Insurance

Monte Carlo Methods and Models in Finance and Insurance

Offering a unique balance between applications and calculations Monte Carlo Methods and Models in Finance and Insurance incorporates the application background of finance and insurance with the theory and applications of Monte Carlo methods. It presents recent methods and algorithms including the multilevel Monte Carlo method the statistical Romberg method and the Heath–Platen estimator as well as recent financial and actuarial models such as the Cheyette and dynamic mortality models. The authors separately discuss Monte Carlo techniques stochastic process basics and the theoretical background and intuition behind financial and actuarial mathematics before bringing the topics together to apply the Monte Carlo methods to areas of finance and insurance. This allows for the easy identification of standard Monte Carlo tools and for a detailed focus on the main principles of financial and insurance mathematics. The book describes high-level Monte Carlo methods for standard simulation and the simulation of stochastic processes with continuous and discontinuous paths. It also covers a wide selection of popular models in finance and insurance from Black–Scholes to stochastic volatility to interest rate to dynamic mortality. Through its many numerical and graphical illustrations and simple insightful examples this book provides a deep understanding of the scope of Monte Carlo methods and their use in various financial situations. The intuitive presentation encourages readers to implement and further develop the simulation methods.

GBP 42.99
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The Radio Station Broadcasting Podcasting and Streaming

The Radio Station Broadcasting Podcasting and Streaming

The Radio Station offers a concise and insightful guide to all aspects of radio broadcasting streaming and podcasting. This book’s tenth edition continues its long tradition of guiding readers to a solid understanding of who does what when and why in a professionally managed station. This new edition explains what radio in America has been where it is today and where it is going covering the basics of how programming is produced financed delivered and promoted via terrestrial and satellite broadcasting streaming and podcasting John Allen Hendricks and Bruce Mims examine radio and its future within a framework of existing and emerging technologies. The companion website is new revised with content for instructors including an instructors’ manual and test questions. Students will discover an expanded library of audio interviews with leading industry professionals in addition to practice quizzes and links to additional resources. | The Radio Station Broadcasting Podcasting and Streaming

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Favorite Counseling and Therapy Techniques

Favorite Counseling and Therapy Techniques

In the new edition of this highly popular book Howard Rosenthal once again brings together a group of prominent therapists who share their insightful pioneering and favorite therapeutic techniques. These therapists include such well-known figures as Albert Ellis Arnold Lazarus William Glasser Raymond Corsini and Allen E. Ivey. Many of the classic entries in the previous edition are once again included some unaltered and others updated while several new chapters have been added to reflect the newest advancements in the counseling field. For practitioners wondering what methods to use when working with clients and what they can prescribe for them between sessions or for those who simply are interested in gaining insight into the thoughts and minds of such eminent therapists the more than 50 entries in this text are sure to be both highly useful and exciting reads. | Favorite Counseling and Therapy Techniques

GBP 180.00
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English for Journalists Thirtieth Anniversary Edition

English for Journalists Thirtieth Anniversary Edition

English for Journalists has established itself in newsrooms the world over as an invaluable guide to the basics of English and to those aspects of writing such as reporting speech house style and jargon which are specific to the language of journalism. Written in a highly accessible and engaging style English for Journalists covers the fundamentals of grammar spelling punctuation and journalistic writing with all points illustrated through a series of concise and illuminating examples. The book features practical easy-to-follow advice with examples of common mistakes and problem words. This thirtieth anniversary edition features a revised first chapter on the state of English today by author Wynford Hicks and a chapter on writing for social media by Gavin Allen along with an updated glossary and references. This is an essential guide to written English for practising journalists and students of journalism today. | English for Journalists Thirtieth Anniversary Edition

GBP 34.99
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Food-Drug Synergy and Safety

Food-Drug Synergy and Safety

Scientists health professionals and consumers are increasingly interested in the relationships between food components and food-drug combinations as they strive to find more effective ways to prevent or treat chronic disease. As one of the first unified and in-depth sources in this emerging topic Food-Drug Synergy and Safety explores the vast potential benefits of food and food-drug synergy. The book addresses the interaction of two or more components within a single food between several foods or between foods and drugs consumed together in which the potential health benefit is greater than the effect of the single component food or drug. Each chapter follows a consistent framework and addresses the health benefits mechanisms of action and safety aspects pertaining to the food and food-drug synergies. Sections discuss food and food-drug synergies in the context of specific disease groups such as cardiovascular disease cancer osteoporosis inflammatory diseases hypertension and obesity for easy reference in a clinical setting. A separate section focuses entirely on performance enhancers including caffeine creatine and ephedrine/ephedra and their potential to influence human health in addition to ergogenic applications. The final section provides scientists with a framework for designing experiments that elucidate the heath benefits and safety aspects of food and food-drug synergies. Food-Drug Synergy and Safety lays the essential foundation in this new direction of research as it gains momentum in the fields of food nutrition medicine and pharmaceutical sciences.

GBP 56.99
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The Bohemian Ethos Questioning Work and Making a Scene on the Lower East Side

The Bohemian Ethos Questioning Work and Making a Scene on the Lower East Side

The iconoclastic ingenuity of bohemians from Gerard de Nerval to Allen Ginsberg continually captivates the popular imagination; the worlds of fashion advertising and even real estate all capitalize on the alternative appeal of bohemian style. Persistently overlooked however is bohemians' distinctive relationship to work. In this book sociologist Judith R. Halasz examines the fascinating junctures between bohemian labor and life. Weaving together historiography ethnography and personal experiences of having been raised amidst downtown New York's bohemian communities Halasz deciphers bohemians' unconventional behaviors and attitudes towards employment and the broader work world. From the nineteenth-century harbingers on Paris' Left Bank to the Beats Underground and more recent bohemian outcroppings on New York's Lower East Side The Bohemian Ethos traces the embodiment of a politically charged yet increasingly precarious form of cultural resistance to hegemonic social and economic imperatives. | The Bohemian Ethos Questioning Work and Making a Scene on the Lower East Side

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Strategic Management From Theory to Practice

Strategic Management From Theory to Practice

A focus on creating and sustaining a flow of profitable transactions in other words the creation of sustainable competitive advantage is the seemingly simple yet complex goal of strategic leaders and managers. Allen Amason and Andrew Ward approach the topic of strategic management with this focus in mind. Rather than simply teaching theory and research Amason and Ward seek to convey the fundamental keys to how strategy works. This book is designed to help students think critically and understand fully how to strategically manage their future firms. In so doing it will enable them to adapt and learn even as their circumstances change; to apply sound logic and reasoning even in new and unfamiliar settings. By conveying enduring and fundamental principles of economic and human behavior rather than simply reporting on the latest innovations this book succeeds in preparing students to excel in the business environment over time regardless of how it evolves. | Strategic Management From Theory to Practice

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Solving Critical Design Problems Theory and Practice

Solving Critical Design Problems Theory and Practice

Solving Critical Design Problems demonstrates both how design is increasingly used to solve large complex modern-day problems and as a result how the role of the designer continues to develop in response. With 13 case studies from various fields including program and product design Tania Allen shows how types of design thinking such as systems thinking metaphorical thinking and empathy can be used together with methods such as brainstorming design fiction and prototyping. This book helps you find ways out of your design problems by giving you other ways to look at your ideas so that your designs make sense in their setting. Solving Critical Design Problems encourages a design approach that challenges assumptions and allows designers to take on a more critical and creative role. With over 100 images this book will appeal to students in design studios industrial and product design as well as landscape and urban design. | Solving Critical Design Problems Theory and Practice

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State Energy Policy Current Issues Future Directions

State Energy Policy Current Issues Future Directions

This book is the product of the good will and hardwork of many people. The contributors all recognized experts in their fields are thanked for providing thoughtful informative chapters and for accommodating editorial suggestions and revisions. Westview Press is thanked for providing the opportunity to address a serious omission in the energy literature. The Geography Department at the University of Maryland made a similarly generous commitment of secretarial staff and faciltiies. Allen Eney aided in the construction of computerized maps. Many skilled conscientious individuals at state energy offices public utility commissions the U. S. Department of Energy and other organizations supplied essential data and produced many of the analytic studies that underlie the contents of the book. Patti Leedham provided patient and expert typing through numerous revisions of the chapters and many tables. Patricia Sawyer provided essential guidance support and proofreading throughout the entire effort. | State Energy Policy Current Issues Future Directions

GBP 130.00
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Statistical Simulation Power Method Polynomials and Other Transformations

Statistical Simulation Power Method Polynomials and Other Transformations

Although power method polynomials based on the standard normal distributions have been used in many different contexts for the past 30 years it was not until recently that the probability density function (pdf) and cumulative distribution function (cdf) were derived and made available. Focusing on both univariate and multivariate nonnormal data generation Statistical Simulation: Power Method Polynomials and Other Transformations presents techniques for conducting a Monte Carlo simulation study. It shows how to use power method polynomials for simulating univariate and multivariate nonnormal distributions with specified cumulants and correlation matrices. The book first explores the methodology underlying the power method before demonstrating this method through examples of standard normal logistic and uniform power method pdfs. It also discusses methods for improving the performance of a simulation based on power method polynomials. The book then develops simulation procedures for systems of linear statistical models intraclass correlation coefficients and correlated continuous variates and ranks. Numerical examples and results from Monte Carlo simulations illustrate these procedures. The final chapter describes how the g-and-h and generalized lambda distribution (GLD) transformations are special applications of the more general multivariate nonnormal data generation approach. Throughout the text the author employs Mathematica® in a range of procedures and offers the source code for download online. Written by a longtime researcher of the power method this book explains how to simulate nonnormal distributions via easy-to-use power method polynomials. By using the methodology and techniques developed in the text readers can evaluate different transformations in terms of comparing percentiles measures of central tendency goodness-of-fit tests and more. | Statistical Simulation Power Method Polynomials and Other Transformations

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United Artists

United Artists

Established in 1919 by Hollywood's top talent United Artists has had an illustrious history from Hollywood minor to industry leader to a second-tier media company in the shadow of MGM. This edited collection brings together leading film historians to examine key aspects of United Artists' centennial history from its origins to the sometimes chaotic developments of the last four decades. The focus is on several key executives – ranging from Joseph Schenck to Paula Wagner and Tom Cruise – and on many of the people making films for United Artists including Gloria Swanson David O. Selznick Kirk Douglas the Mirisch brothers and Woody Allen. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources individual case studies explore the mutually supportive but also in places highly contentious relationships between United Artists and its producers the difficult balance between artistic and commercial objectives and the resulting hits and misses (among them The General the Pink Panther franchise Heaven’s Gate Cruising and Hot Tub Time Machine). The second volume in the Routledge Hollywood Centenary series United Artists is a fascinating and comprehensive study of the firm’s history and legacy perfect for students and researchers of cinema and film history media industries and Hollywood.

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Landmark Essays on Rhetoric of Science: Issues and Methods

Landmark Essays on Rhetoric of Science: Issues and Methods

Landmark Essays in Rhetoric of Science: Issues and Methods compiles the essential readings of the vibrant field of rhetoric of science tracing the growth and core concerns of the field since its development in the 1970s. A companion to Randy Allen Harris’s foundational Landmark Essays in Rhetoric of Science: Case Studies this volume includes essays by such luminaries as Carolyn R. Miller Jeanne Fahnestock and Alan G. Gross along with an early prophetic article by Charles Sanders Pierce. Harris’s detailed introduction puts the field into its social and intellectual context and frames the important contributions of each essay which range from reimagining classical concepts like rhetorical figures and topical invention to Modal Materialism and the Neomodern hybridization of Actor Network Theory with Genre Studies. Race revolution and Daoism come up along the way and the empirical recalcitrance of the moon. This collection serves as a textbook for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in science studies and is an invaluable resource for researchers concerned with science not as a special autonomous sacrosanct enterprise but as a set of value-saturated profoundly influential rhetorical practices. | Landmark Essays on Rhetoric of Science: Issues and Methods

GBP 48.99
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