Zbirka: Sociologija in antropologija
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Origins of Unfairness(2019) O'CONNOR, CAILIN (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE)In almost every human society some people get more and others get less. Why is inequity the rule in human societies? Philosopher Cailin O'Connor reveals how cultural evolution works on social categories such as race and gender to generate unfairness.Vezava: Trda67,46 € -
Philosopher Looks at Human Beings(2021) RUSE, MICHAEL (FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY)Why do we think ourselves superior to all other animals? Are we right to think so? In this wide-ranging and fascinating book, Michael Ruse explores these questions in religion, science and philosophy.Vezava: Mehka17,81 € -
Obesity in the News(2021) BROOKES, GAVIN (LANCASTER UNIVERSITY),BAKER, PAUL (LANCASTER UNIVERSITY)How do newspapers use language to represent obesity, and how does this language potentially shame and stigmatise people with obesity? The first book-length linguistic analysis of the representation of obesity in the press, this work presents innovative meVezava: Mehka55,13 € -
Computational Approaches to the Network Science of Teams(2020) LI, LIANGYUE,TONG, HANGHANG (UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, URBANA-CHAMPAIGN)This comprehensive review for researchers and practitioners in data mining and social networks surveys recent progress in team science. Focusing on underlying network structures, it presents models and algorithms for characterizing, predicting, optimizingVezava: Trda80,50 € -
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Normal Accidents(1999) PERROW, CHARLESAnalyzes the social side of technological risk. This book argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety - building in more warnings and safeguards - fails because systems complexity makes failures inevitable. It asserts that typicalVezava: Mehka56,55 € -
Morality at the Margins(2019) HILLEWAERT, SARAHWhat does it mean to be young, modern, and Muslim? Documenting everyday life in Lamu (Kenya), this book explores the mundane practices of behavior and speech that create moral personhood. In elaborating everyday practices of Islamic pluralism, the book shVezava: Mehka58,21 € -
Hawthorn Archive(2017) GORDON, AVERY F.Creatively explores the utopian elements found in a variety of resistive and defiant activity in the past and in the present, with a focus on the Black Radical Tradition.Vezava: Mehka64,87 €
