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Technical Fouls

Democracy and Technological Change

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Democracy and Technological Change

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Chasing Progress in the Irish Republic

Ideology, Democracy and Dependent Development

By: John Kurt Jacobsen

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Chasing Progress in the Irish Republic

Ideology, Democracy and Dependent Development

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This book, first published in 1994, investigates the political causes and consequences of economic policy in Ireland, addressing key debates in political economy.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521466202

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Technical Fouls

Democracy And Technological Change

By: John Kurt Jacobsen

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Democracy And Technological Change

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What is it that shapes the direction of technological progress in advanced industrial societies? Is it science? Technology itself? Or is it something even more powerful and all-encompassing, like power or money or politics? John Kurt Jacobsen addresses this topic by investigating how contemporary democratic capitalist states govern the development and deployment of their scientific and technological resources. He examines the interaction of ideology, profits, and power, and their combined effect upon technology policy in democracies.The ?social function of science? has been a contentious area of scholarly study throughout the second half of the twentieth century. Although the book focuses mainly on the United States, for the sake of instructive comparison, it also studies technological development of other societies, including the former Soviet Union and China. Some competing accounts of technical change across the borders include laissez faire, cultural, and neo-Marxist markets. In fact, with regard to laissez faire markets, even to inquire if science has a social function is to deviate from the appropriate images of economic development. What is always politically at stake is who will rule the next stage in production due to each swing in technology, which will, in turn, be associated with a new structure of control. Most recently, the microchip revolution and cyberspace are the most highly publicized candidates for the next upswing in technology?and thus the next new structure of control.The explanatory focus of the book is on ideology, or on ideas about how technology works and should work, and the three key areas of policy contention discussed are industrial development, military uses, and the environment. Students and scholars of science, technology, and sociology should find this book useful in coming to terms with the fundamental questions underlying the development of technology today.

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Routledge

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0429976569

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9780429976568

The Eastern Enlargement of the European Union

By: John O'Brennan

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The Eastern Enlargement of the European Union

By: John O'Brennan

In May 2004, eight former communist states in Central and Eastern Europe acceded to the European Union. This new book examines the Eastern expansion of the EU through a tripartite structure, developing an empirical, conceptual and institutional analysis to provide a rounded and substantive account of EU enlargement, with new theoretical insights. The foreword is by written by Pat Cox, former president of the European Parliament. John O'Brennan also explores: why the EU decided to expand its membership what factors drove this process forward? how did the institutional environment of the EU influence enlargement outcomes? In this context he comprehensively covers the role of the European Council, Commission and Parliament. This important volume will of great interest to students and scholars of European politics and European Union studies.

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1134234406

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Re-envisioning the Everyday

American Genre Scenes, 1905-1945

By: John Fagg

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Re-envisioning the Everyday

American Genre Scenes, 1905-1945

By: John Fagg

Often seen as backward-looking and convention-bound, genre painting representing scenes of everyday life was central to the work of twentieth-century artists such as John Sloan, Norman Rockwell, Jacob Lawrence, and others, who adapted such subjects to an era of rapid urbanization, mass media, and modernist art. Re-envisioning the Everyday asks what their works do to the tradition of genre painting and whether it remains a meaningful category through which to understand them. Working with and against the established narrative of American genre painting’s late nineteenth-century decline into obsolescence, John Fagg explores how artists and illustrators used elements of the tradition to picture everyday life in a rapidly changing society, whether by appealing to its nostalgic and historical connotations or by updating it to address new formal and thematic concerns. Fagg argues that genre painting enabled twentieth-century artists to look slowly and carefully at scenes of everyday life and, on some occasions, to understand those scenes as sites of political oppression and resistance. But it also limited them to anachronistic ways of seeing and tied them to a freighted history of stereotyping and condescension. By surveying genre painting when its status and relevance were uncertain and by looking at works that stretch and complicate its boundaries, this book considers what the form is and probes the wider practice of generic categorization. It will appeal to students and scholars of American art history, art criticism, and cultural studies.

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Penn State Press

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0271095814

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9780271095813

International Politics on the World Stage

By: John T. Rourke

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International Politics on the World Stage

By: John T. Rourke

This concise text provides students and instructors with a comprehensive overview of world politics, inviting them in a straightforward and accessible way to explore international relations and its new challenges. A hallmark of the text is the authors' position that politics affect the lives of all of us, and that the individual can have an impact, whether small or large, by being politically aware and by taking action..

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0072890363

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Screen World, 1987

By: John Willis

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Screen World, 1987

By: John Willis

Screen World, volume 38, features outstanding films and performers. Academy Awards Best Picture "Platoon". Academy Award for Best Actor Paul Newman for "The color of money" and Academy Award for Best Actress Marlee Matlin "Children of a lesser God". Also has pictorial and statistical record of the 1986 movie season.

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Crown

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051756615X

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Technical Fouls

Democracy And Technological Change

By: John Kurt Jacobsen

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Technical Fouls

Democracy And Technological Change

By: John Kurt Jacobsen

What is it that shapes the direction of technological progress in advanced industrial societies? Is it science? Technology itself? Or is it something even more powerful and all-encompassing, like power or money or politics? John Kurt Jacobsen addresses this topic by investigating how contemporary democratic capitalist states govern the development and deployment of their scientific and technological resources. He examines the interaction of ideology, profits, and power, and their combined effect upon technology policy in democracies.The “social function of science” has been a contentious area of scholarly study throughout the second half of the twentieth century. Although the book focuses mainly on the United States, for the sake of instructive comparison, it also studies technological development of other societies, including the former Soviet Union and China. Some competing accounts of technical change across the borders include laissez faire, cultural, and neo-Marxist markets. In fact, with regard to laissez faire markets, even to inquire if science has a social function is to deviate from the appropriate images of economic development. What is always politically at stake is who will rule the next stage in production due to each swing in technology, which will, in turn, be associated with a new structure of control. Most recently, the microchip revolution and cyberspace are the most highly publicized candidates for the next upswing in technology—and thus the next new structure of control.The explanatory focus of the book is on ideology, or on ideas about how technology works and should work, and the three key areas of policy contention discussed are industrial development, military uses, and the environment. Students and scholars of science, technology, and sociology should find this book useful in coming to terms with the fundamental questions underlying the development of technology today.

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Westview Press

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0813319994

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Technical Fouls

Technical Fouls

Chasing Progress in the Irish Republic

Chasing Progress in the Irish Republic

Technical Fouls

Technical Fouls

The Eastern Enlargement of the European Union

The Eastern Enlargement of the European Union

Re-envisioning the Everyday

Re-envisioning the Everyday

International Politics on the World Stage

International Politics on the World Stage

Screen World, 1987

Screen World, 1987

Technical Fouls

Technical Fouls

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