Learning from Shenzhen: China's Post-Mao Experiment from Special Zone to Model City
Mary Ann O'Donnell, Winnie Wong and Jonathan Bach
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This multidisciplinary volume, the first of its kind, presents an account of China's contemporary...
Noise: Living and Trading in Electronic Finance
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We often think of finance as a glamorous world, a place where investment bankers amass huge profits...
Housekeeping by Design: Hotels and Labor
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One of the great pleasures of staying in a hotel is spending time in a spotless, neat, and organized...
International Air Carrier Liability: Safety and Security
David Hodgkinson and Rebecca Johnston
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International Air Carrier Liability brings together essential treaties and airline-to--airline...
Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions at Fifty: Reflections on a Science Classic
Lorraine Daston and Robert J. Richards
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Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was a watershed event when it was published...
Savage Energies: Lessons of Myth and Ritual in Ancient Greece
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We often think of classical Greek society as a model of rationality and order. Yet as Walter Burkert...
The Broken Hoe: Cultural Reconfiguration in Biase Southeast Nigeria
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In this study of the Biase, a small ethnic group living in Nigeria's Cross River State, the author...
Thinking Through Technology: The Path Between Engineering and Philosophy
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What does it mean to think about technology philosophically? Why try? These are the issues that Carl...
Outsider Scientists: Routes to Innovation in Biology
Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich
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Outsider Scientists describes the transformative role played by "outsiders" in the growth of the...
Probing the Sky with Radio Waves: From Wireless Technology to the Development of Atmospheric Science
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By the late nineteenth century, engineers and experimental scientists generally knew how radio waves...