Simon Schaffer's Books

Central Bank Independence and the Legacy of the German Past

By: Simon Mee

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Central Bank Independence and the Legacy of the German Past

By: Simon Mee

A study of the power struggle between Germany's central bank and the West German government to control monetary policy in the post-war era.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108499783

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Regionalizing Science

Placing Knowledges in Victorian England

By: Simon Naylor

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Regionalizing Science

Placing Knowledges in Victorian England

By: Simon Naylor

Victorian England, as is well known, produced an enormous amount of scientific endeavour, but what has previously been overlooked is the important role of geography on these developments. Naylor seeks to rectify this imbalance by presenting a historical geography of regional science. Taking an in-depth look at the county of Cornwall, questions on how science affected provincial Victorian society, how it changed people's relationship with the landscape and how it shaped society are applied to the Cornish case study, allowing a depth and texture of analysis denied to more general scientific overviews of the period.

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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0822981807

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Light Without Heat

The Observational Mood from Bacon to Milton

By: David Carroll Simon

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Light Without Heat

The Observational Mood from Bacon to Milton

By: David Carroll Simon

Argues for the importance of states of careless inattention and easygoing dispassion to literary and scientific works inspired by Francis Bacon's philosophy of nature, retrieving a counternarrative to the rise of scientific method and its attendant ethos of rigor in the intellectual culture of seventeenth-century England"--

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Cornell University Press

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1501723421

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An Introduction to Management Studies

Based on the St. Gallen Management Model

By: Thomas Bieger,Samuel Heer,Simon Kuster,Harald Tuckermann

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An Introduction to Management Studies

Based on the St. Gallen Management Model

By: Thomas Bieger,Samuel Heer,Simon Kuster,Harald Tuckermann

Following the tradition of the St. Gallen management models, this textbook explores management as a function and as an activity. It covers the key concepts of management, decision theory, strategy, leadership, organization and governance. It focuses on the central fields of tension in management and includes various illustrative models.

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UTB

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3825256561

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Berman's Pediatric Decision Making

Expert Consult - Online and Print

By: Lalit Bajaj,Simon Hambidge,Ann-Christine Nyquist,Gwendolyn Kerby

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Berman's Pediatric Decision Making

Expert Consult - Online and Print

By: Lalit Bajaj,Simon Hambidge,Ann-Christine Nyquist,Gwendolyn Kerby

Berman's Pediatric Decision Making uses an algorithmic, structured approach to lead you to the right diagnosis and treatment every time. Drs. Lalit Baja, Simon Hambidge, Ann-Christine Nyquist, and Gwendolyn Kerby use evidence-based research and flow charts for each presenting complaint or specific disorder to provide quick access to the information you need for effective decision making. With updated drug tables, revised algorithms, and full-text online access at www.expertconsult.com, this streamlined new edition makes it even easier for you to diagnose and manage common clinical problems from infancy through adolescence. Rapidly access guidance on diagnosis and management from algorithms for each clinical disorder. Treat the full range of diseases and disorders with comprehensive coverage of diagnosis, assessment of severity, and clinical management. Choose the best treatment for each case thanks to indications for surgical interventions as well as expensive diagnostic procedures Access the fully searchable contents online at www.expertconsult.com. Stay current on recent developments and make effective decisions for movement disorders, physical abuse in children, sexual abuse in children, eating disorders, ADHD, and other hot topics. Find answers quickly and easily with a new table of contents organized into two sections-Presenting Complaints and Specific Disorders-that reduces the need to flip between chapters. Tap into the diverse perspectives of expert authors from all over the country. Get only the information you need in the streamlined new edition with shorter, more user-friendly flow diagrams and fewer specialized chapters.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323054056

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New York City Blues

Postwar Portraits from Harlem to the Village and Beyond

By: Larry Simon

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New York City Blues

Postwar Portraits from Harlem to the Village and Beyond

By: Larry Simon

A first-ever book on the subject, New York City Blues: Postwar Portraits from Harlem to the Village and Beyond offers a deep dive into the blues venues and performers in the city from the 1940s through the 1990s. Interviews in this volume bring the reader behind the scenes of the daily and performing lives of working musicians, songwriters, and producers. The interviewers capture their voices — many sadly deceased — and reveal the changes in styles, the connections between performers, and the evolution of New York blues. New York City Blues is an oral history conveyed through the words of the performers themselves and through the photographs of Robert Schaffer, supplemented by the input of Val Wilmer, Paul Harris, and Richard Tapp. The book also features the work of award-winning author and blues scholar John Broven. Along with writing a history of New York blues for the introduction, Broven contributes interviews with Rose Marie McCoy, “Doc” Pomus, Billy Butler, and Billy Bland. Some of the artists interviewed by Larry Simon include Paul Oscher, John Hammond Jr., Rosco Gordon, Larry Dale, Bob Gaddy, “Wild” Jimmy Spruill, and Bobby Robinson. Also featured are over 160 photographs, including those by respected photographers Anton Mikofsky, Wilmer, and Harris, that provide a vivid visual history of the music and the times from Harlem to Greenwich Village and neighboring areas. New York City Blues delivers a strong sense of the major personalities and places such as Harlem’s Apollo Theatre, the history, and an in-depth introduction to the rich variety, sounds, and styles that made up the often-overlooked New York City blues scene.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1496834720

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Mindblindness

An Essay on Autism and Theory of Mind

By: Simon Baron-Cohen

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Mindblindness

An Essay on Autism and Theory of Mind

By: Simon Baron-Cohen

In Mindblindness, Simon Baron-Cohen presents a model of the evolution and development of "mindreading." He argues that we mindread all the time, effortlessly, automatically, and mostly unconsciously. It is the natural way in which we interpret, predict, and participate in social behavior and communication. We ascribe mental states to people: states such as thoughts, desires, knowledge, and intentions. Building on many years of research, Baron-Cohen concludes that children with autism, suffer from "mindblindness" as a result of a selective impairment in mindreading. For these children, the world is essentially devoid of mental things. Baron-Cohen develops a theory that draws on data from comparative psychology, from developmental, and from neuropsychology. He argues that specific neurocognitive mechanisms have evolved that allow us to mindread, to make sense of actions, to interpret gazes as meaningful, and to decode "the language of the eyes." A Bradford Book

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MIT Press

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026252225X

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Talley and O'Connor's Clinical Examination

By: Nicholas J. Talley,Simon O'Connor

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Talley and O'Connor's Clinical Examination

By: Nicholas J. Talley,Simon O'Connor

- Expanded history taking sections - Increased OSCE content - New clinical photographs

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0729589242

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Learning with Information Systems

Learning Cycles in Information Systems Development

By: Simon Bell

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Learning with Information Systems

Learning Cycles in Information Systems Development

By: Simon Bell

In Learning with Information Systems the author takes the developing world as the context and through a series of case studies develops a commonly used systems analysis methodology. He demonstrates how this methodology can evolve and adapt as new ideas become prominent. Issues of sustainability of information systems, participation in systems design and user ownership of systems are all examined. This book does not attempt to be prescriptive for all contexts nor does it focus on any particular technology. It addresses the essential questions and promises practical approaches which will help in the avoidance of the worst forms of disaster associated with the planning of information systems for developing countries.

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Routledge

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1134845227

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Environment Reporters in the 21st Century

By: James Simon,JoAnn Myer Valenti,David B. Sachsman

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Environment Reporters in the 21st Century

By: James Simon,JoAnn Myer Valenti,David B. Sachsman

Environment Reporters in the 21st Century is the story of a relatively new journalistic beat, environmental reporting. This book explores the development of the environmental beat as a specialty during the last thirty years. It also discusses broader trends within American journalism resulting from technological changes that challenge traditional mediums, especially newspapers and magazines. The book is divided into three parts. The first reviews the literature and explains the methodology. The second describes the results of the authors’ research. The third provides in-depth accounts of environment reporters at work. A final chapter puts the research in historical perspective, viewing it in terms of the economic decline of the newspaper business and of local television news. Journalists mediate a constant struggle among thousands of environmental activists, corporate public relations people, government officials, and scientists to shape environmental reporting. This volume tells the story of environmental reporting imaginatively and innovatively.

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Transaction Publishers

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1412843898

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Thrifty Science

Making the Most of Materials in the History of Experiment

By: Simon Werrett

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Thrifty Science

Making the Most of Materials in the History of Experiment

By: Simon Werrett

If the twentieth century saw the rise of “Big Science,” then the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were surely an age of thrift. As Simon Werrett’s new history shows, frugal early modern experimenters transformed their homes into laboratories as they recycled, repurposed, repaired, and reused their material possessions to learn about the natural world. Thrifty Science explores this distinctive culture of experiment and demonstrates how the values of the household helped to shape an array of experimental inquiries, ranging from esoteric investigations of glowworms and sour beer to famous experiments such as Benjamin Franklin’s use of a kite to show lightning was electrical and Isaac Newton’s investigations of color using prisms. Tracing the diverse ways that men and women put their material possessions into the service of experiment, Werrett offers a history of practices of recycling and repurposing that are often assumed to be more recent in origin. This thriving domestic culture of inquiry was eclipsed by new forms of experimental culture in the nineteenth century, however, culminating in the resource-hungry science of the twentieth. Could thrifty science be making a comeback today, as scientists grapple with the need to make their research more environmentally sustainable?

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022661039X

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The Impact of Gray-Listing on Capital Flows: An Analysis Using Machine Learning

By: Mizuho Kida,Simon Paetzold

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The Impact of Gray-Listing on Capital Flows: An Analysis Using Machine Learning

By: Mizuho Kida,Simon Paetzold

The Financial Action Task Force’s gray list publicly identifies countries with strategic deficiencies in their AML/CFT regimes (i.e., in their policies to prevent money laundering and the financing of terrorism). How much gray-listing affects a country’s capital flows is of interest to policy makers, investors, and the Fund. This paper estimates the magnitude of the effect using an inferential machine learning technique. It finds that gray-listing results in a large and statistically significant reduction in capital inflows.

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International Monetary Fund

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1513582437

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Philosophy, God and Motion

By: Simon Oliver

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Philosophy, God and Motion

By: Simon Oliver

In the post-Newtonian world motion is assumed to be a simple category which relates to the locomotion of bodies in space, and is usually associated only with physics. This book shows this to be a relatively recent understanding of motion and that prior to the scientific revolution motion was a broader and more mysterious category, applying to moral as well as physical movements. Simon Oliver presents fresh interpretations of key figures in the history of western thought including Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas and Newton, examining the thinkers’ handling of the concept of motion. Through close readings of seminal texts in ancient and medieval cosmology and early modern natural philosophy, the books moves from antique to modern times investigating how motion has been of great significance within theology, philosophy and science. Particularly important is the relation between motion and God, following Aristotle traditional doctrines of God have understood the divine as the ‘unmoved mover’ while post-Holocaust theologians have suggested that in order to be compassionate God must undergo the motion of suffering. The text argues that there may be an authentically theological, as well as a natural scientific understanding of motion. This volume will prove a major contribution to theology, the history of Christian thought and to the growing field of science and religion.

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1134237545

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Relationship Marketing in Sports

By: André Bühler,Simon Chadwick,Gerd Nufer

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Relationship Marketing in Sports

By: André Bühler,Simon Chadwick,Gerd Nufer

Relationship Marketing in Sports aims to discuss and reformulate the principles of relationship marketing and by demonstrating how relationship marketing can be successfully applied in practice within a sports context. Written by a unique author team of academic and practitioner experience, Relationship Marketing in Sports is crucial reading for both students and professionals alike and marks a turning point in the marketing of sports.

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075068495X

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Dark Light

Electricity and Anxiety from the Telegraph to the X-Ray

By: Linda Simon

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Dark Light

Electricity and Anxiety from the Telegraph to the X-Ray

By: Linda Simon

From the invention of the telegraph to the discovery of X rays, Simon has created a revealing portrait of an anxious age when Americans welcomed electricity into their bodies even as they kept it from their homes.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0156032449

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Integrated Investing

How to integrate environmental impacts in investment processes of companies

By: Simon Weihofen

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Integrated Investing

How to integrate environmental impacts in investment processes of companies

By: Simon Weihofen

Besides financial goals, companies increasingly start formulating strategic environmental goals. However, the management and control of these goals remains a challenge. Therefore, this thesis aims to develop a method that is able to systematically integrate financial and environmental data in investment processes to support the achievement of strategic environmental and financial goals of companies. This new integrated investing method intends to provide a sufficient degree of scientific quality on the one hand and practical applicability on the other hand. In context of this thesis, a deficit analysis assesses reasons why current methods of environmental management accounting have not established as common business practice so far. During the first part of the subsequent method development a set of seven requirements is composed. On basis of these requirements additional methods of environmental management and management accounting systems are evaluated resulting in a final set of three approaches representing the basis of developing the new integrated investing method. After developing and describing the new integrated investing method, the method is applied in seven case studies within the Volkswagen Group. This method application verifies the method's practical applicability as well as its ability to manage and control strategic environmental and financial goals. In conclusion, this dissertation contributes to the development and application of a new integrated investing method that aims to ensure a sufficient degree of scientific quality and practical applicability. With the help of this method, it is able to systematically integrate environmental impacts in investment processes of companies in order to manage and control the achievement of strategic environmental and financial goals.

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epubli

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374188152X

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Truth Machine

The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting

By: Michael Lynch,Simon A. Cole,Ruth McNally,Kathleen Jordan

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Truth Machine

The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting

By: Michael Lynch,Simon A. Cole,Ruth McNally,Kathleen Jordan

DNA profiling—commonly known as DNA fingerprinting—is often heralded as unassailable criminal evidence, a veritable “truth machine” that can overturn convictions based on eyewitness testimony, confessions, and other forms of forensic evidence. But DNA evidence is far from infallible. Truth Machine traces the controversial history of DNA fingerprinting by looking at court cases in the United States and United Kingdom beginning in the mid-1980s, when the practice was invented, and continuing until the present. Ultimately, Truth Machine presents compelling evidence of the obstacles and opportunities at the intersection of science, technology, sociology, and law.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226498085

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Fireworks

Pyrotechnic Arts and Sciences in European History

By: Simon Werrett

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Fireworks

Pyrotechnic Arts and Sciences in European History

By: Simon Werrett

Fireworks are synonymous with celebration in the twenty-first century. But pyrotechnics—in the form of rockets, crackers, wheels, and bombs—have exploded in sparks and noise to delight audiences in Europe ever since the Renaissance. Here, Simon Werrett shows that, far from being only a means of entertainment, fireworks helped foster advances in natural philosophy, chemistry, mathematics, and many other branches of the sciences. Fireworks brings to vibrant life the many artful practices of pyrotechnicians, as well as the elegant compositions of the architects, poets, painters, and musicians they inspired. At the same time, it uncovers the dynamic relationships that developed between the many artists and scientists who produced pyrotechnics. In so doing, the book demonstrates the critical role that pyrotechnics played in the development of physics, astronomy, chemistry and physiology, meteorology, and electrical science. Richly illustrated and drawing on a wide range of new sources, Fireworks takes readers back to a world where pyrotechnics were both divine and magical and reveals for the first time their vital contribution to the modernization of European ideas.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226893774

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The Fruits of Fascism

Postwar Prosperity in Historical Perspective

By: Simon Reich

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The Fruits of Fascism

Postwar Prosperity in Historical Perspective

By: Simon Reich

The West German "economic miracle," Simon Reich suggests, may be best understood as a result of the discriminatory economic policies of the Nazi regime. Reich contends that ideological and institutional characteristics originating under fascism were sustained despite Germany's return to democracy and heavily influenced the economic success of its automobile industry. By contrast, the liberal economic policies of the British state led in time to the decline of an industrial sector that in 1930 had closely resembled its German counterpart. Through detailed comparative histories of German and British automobile firms, Reich challenges traditional explanations of the divergent performances of the two nations' economies and sheds new light on the relationship between state policy and economic success in pre- and postwar Europe. Liberal, nondiscriminatory British policies favorable to multinational investment contributed significantly to the decline of domestic firms, he argues, so that eventually multinationals could threaten the health of the entire British economy by investing elsewhere. The Nazi state, however, thwarted the development of American subsidiaries and fostered a core of producers, government officials, bankers, and labor union leaders.

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Cornell University Press

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1501732153

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Luftwaffe Night Fighter Combat Claims, 1939-1945

By: John Foreman,Simon W. Parry,Johannes Matthews

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Luftwaffe Night Fighter Combat Claims, 1939-1945

By: John Foreman,Simon W. Parry,Johannes Matthews

A definitive list of nearly 7,000 claims submitted by Luftwaffe night fighter pilots for Allied aircraft shot down in WW2. These claims are listed with the following details; Date, Time, Location, Type of aircraft shot down, Claiming Pilot and his Unit. Entries feature claims against Russian, American as well as Bomber Command aircraft.

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Red Kite / Air Research

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0953806146

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Leviathan and the Air-Pump

Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life (New in Paper)

By: Steven Shapin,Simon Schaffer

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Leviathan and the Air-Pump

Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life (New in Paper)

By: Steven Shapin,Simon Schaffer

Leviathan and the Air-Pump examines the conflicts over the value and propriety of experimental methods between two major seventeenth-century thinkers: Thomas Hobbes, author of the political treatise Leviathan and vehement critic of systematic experimentation in natural philosophy, and Robert Boyle, mechanical philosopher and owner of the newly invented air-pump. The issues at stake in their disputes ranged from the physical integrity of the air-pump to the intellectual integrity of the knowledge it might yield. Both Boyle and Hobbes were looking for ways of establishing knowledge that did not decay into ad hominem attacks and political division. Boyle proposed the experiment as cure. He argued that facts should be manufactured by machines like the air-pump so that gentlemen could witness the experiments and produce knowledge that everyone agreed on. Hobbes, by contrast, looked for natural law and viewed experiments as the artificial, unreliable products of an exclusive guild. The new approaches taken in Leviathan and the Air-Pump have been enormously influential on historical studies of science. Shapin and Schaffer found a moment of scientific revolution and showed how key scientific givens--facts, interpretations, experiment, truth--were fundamental to a new political order. Shapin and Schaffer were also innovative in their ethnographic approach. Attempting to understand the work habits, rituals, and social structures of a remote, unfamiliar group, they argued that politics were tied up in what scientists did, rather than what they said. Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer use the confrontation between Hobbes and Boyle as a way of understanding what was at stake in the early history of scientific experimentation. They describe the protagonists' divergent views of natural knowledge, and situate the Hobbes-Boyle disputes within contemporary debates over the role of intellectuals in public life and the problems of social order and assent in Restoration England. In a new introduction, the authors describe how science and its social context were understood when this book was first published, and how the study of the history of science has changed since then.

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Princeton University Press

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0691150206

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Quit Smoking Weapons of Mass Distraction

By: Simon Chapman

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Quit Smoking Weapons of Mass Distraction

By: Simon Chapman

Who keeps telling smokers they can’t quit without help? For decades there have been far more ex-smokers than smokers, and an estimated 75% of smokers quit without drugs or professional help. But smoking cessation is a global phenomenon serviced by multibillion-dollar industries, including the pharmaceutical and e-cigarette sectors and health professionals. These industries try to denigrate unassisted cessation and promote their products and services – “weapons of mass distraction” – as essential to successful quitting. This contributes to the medicalisation of a process that, before these products were available, had a natural history where drugs and expertise were absent, yet millions of people around the world still quit. Simon Chapman AO is one of Australia’s foremost experts on strategies to minimise harm from tobacco. In Quit Smoking Weapons of Mass Distraction, he reviews the early history of quitting smoking and the rise of assisted quitting, and gives insight into the forces that have tried to undermine smokers’ agency to stop. Chapman also provides actionable policy solutions to help people actually quit smoking. "This is a splendid read for anyone interested in what really works to reduce smoking, and what helps to keep Big Tobacco in business." — Mike Daube AO, Emeritus Professor in Public Health, Curtin University "Chapman is indispensable reading for anyone wanting to help the billion-odd smokers end their addiction. A powerful and important book!" — Robert N. Proctor, Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University

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1743328540

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Five Life Stages

Where You Are, Where You're Going, and What to Expect When You Get There

By: Judith Sharken Simon

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Five Life Stages

Where You Are, Where You're Going, and What to Expect When You Get There

By: Judith Sharken Simon

The life stage model is a powerful tool for understanding — objectively — your organization's current status and preparing it to move ahead to the future. This useful guide helps you understand where your organization is in its life and how to avoid unnecessary struggles and act on opportunities to boost your organization's development.

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1618588931

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The Intellectual Foundations of Alfred Marshall's Economic Science

A Rounded Globe of Knowledge

By: Simon J. Cook

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The Intellectual Foundations of Alfred Marshall's Economic Science

A Rounded Globe of Knowledge

By: Simon J. Cook

This book shows how Marshall's distinctive contributions to modern economics grew out of his early development of a neo-Hegelian social philosophy.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521760089

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Novel Therapeutic Agents for the Treatment of Autoimmune Diseases

By: Vibeke Strand,David L. Scot,Lee S. Simon

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Novel Therapeutic Agents for the Treatment of Autoimmune Diseases

By: Vibeke Strand,David L. Scot,Lee S. Simon

Provides a detailed survey of therapies for autoimmune diseases, exploring the rationale for their use and clinical data regarding their potential benefit.

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CRC Press

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Profit from Time

Speed up business improvement by implementing Time Compression

By: Ian C. Gregory,Simon B. Rawling

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Profit from Time

Speed up business improvement by implementing Time Compression

By: Ian C. Gregory,Simon B. Rawling

The search for speed has become the latest initiative in the pursuit of competitive advantage. This book equips the practising manager with the tools and techniques needed to utilise the philosophy of Time Compression. The authors explain how Time Compression can accelerate strategic change. They apply the principles of Time Compression to production and manufacturing systems as well as the human aspects of a business to gain competitive advantage. With detailed examples from companies that have used Time Compression, such as the Rover Group, Coats Viyella, British Airways, Lucas Industries, Short Brothers, British Steel and Massey Ferguson, the authors contend that Time Compression can be used to gain strategic advantages in virtually all businesses.

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Springer

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1349145912

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Understanding Video Games

The Essential Introduction

By: Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen,Jonas Heide Smith,Susana Pajares Tosca

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Understanding Video Games

The Essential Introduction

By: Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen,Jonas Heide Smith,Susana Pajares Tosca

From Pong to PlayStation 3 and beyond, Understanding Video Games is the first general introduction to the exciting new field of video game studies. This textbook traces the history of video games, introduces the major theories used to analyze games such as ludology and narratology, reviews the economics of the game industry, examines the aesthetics of game design, surveys the broad range of game genres, explores player culture, and addresses the major debates surrounding the medium, from educational benefits to the effects of violence. Throughout the book, the authors ask readers to consider larger questions about the medium: what defines a video game? who plays games? why do we play games? how do games affect the player? Extensively illustrated, Understanding Video Games is an indispensable and comprehensive resource for those interested in the ways video games are reshaping entertainment and society. A Companion Website (www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415977210) features student resources including discussion questions for each chapter, a glossary of key terms, a video game timeline, and links to other video game studies resources for further study.

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1135868794

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Talley and O'Connor's Examination Medicine - epub

A Guide to Physician Training

By: Nicholas J. Talley,Simon O'Connor

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A Guide to Physician Training

By: Nicholas J. Talley,Simon O'Connor

Talley & O'Connor's Examination Medicine: A guide to physician training, has prepared generations of physician trainees and medical students for their clinical examinations. Instructive, informative and aligned with current practice, this ninth edition gives you an overview of what to expect, what is expected of you and how to develop a mature clinical approach to complex medical problems. Talley and O'Connor share their valuable advice on how to prepare for the examinations, use your time to best effect and avoid common pitfalls to ensure you give your best possible performance in your examinations and beyond. - Video tutorials of long and short cases included on ExpertConsult - Clinical photographs of signs and conditions - 50 long cases including history, examination, investigations, treatment and possible lines of questioning - Sample long cases from the examiner's perspective including discussion points and clinical traps - 30 short cases including guidance for 'spot diagnosis 'and 'common stems' - Hint boxes highlighting common pitfalls and useful tips - Enhanced eBook version included with purchase

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0729588750

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Re-crafting Rationalization

Enchanted Science and Mundane Mysteries

By: Simon Locke

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Re-crafting Rationalization

Enchanted Science and Mundane Mysteries

By: Simon Locke

Re-crafting Rationalization contributes to debates relating to the public understanding of science, regarding the conceptualization of the relationship between 'science' and 'the public'. It challenges the prevailing science-centred or 'top-down' framework that currently informs notions of 'public engagement' and 'knowledge-transfer', offering an alternative that remains firmly grounded in the discourse of classical social theory. By proposing an alternative version of rationalization to the standard interpretation of Weber's disenchantment thesis, this book establishes the public understanding of science as a matter of fundamental sociological concern. As such, it redefines this field to emphasize public meanings of science, engaging with a range of topics of major interest to the public and popular meaning of science, including science and religion, science fiction and fantasy, 'fringe' science and media representations of science. Combining rhetorical analysis with ethnomethodology and membership categorization analysis, the book outlines the basis of a new approach to the sociology of knowledge, in the light of which Weber's rationalization thesis is radically re-crafted in relation to studies of scientists' discourse, the rhetoric of science popularization and public usages of science. This re-crafted rationalization is applied in a series of detailed empirical studies of enchanted science (creationism and intelligent design, Scientology and reflexive spirituality, superhero comics) and mundane mysteries (Fortean discourse, conspiracy theory and media representations of 'the scientist' in the case of Jack the Ripper). Re-crafting Rationalization therefore redresses a significant shortcoming in contemporary social theory, which currently overlooks or misrepresents important public meanings of science, whilst excluding popular culture from attention. With profound implications for the ways in which we make sense of developments involving science, this book will be of interest not only to sociologists and social theorists, but also to those interested in popular culture and subcultures and the history, philosophy and sociology of science.

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1317070038

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Instruction Grammar

From Perception via Grammar to Action

By: Simon Kasper

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Instruction Grammar

From Perception via Grammar to Action

By: Simon Kasper

Bringing together evidence from natural and social sciences, the work introduces the non-reductionist Instruction Grammar programme. Viewed from within the practicalities of the lifeworld, utterances are described as instructions to simulate perceptions and attributions for action. The approach provides solutions to long-standing philosophical problems of cognitive grammar theories and traditionally puzzling syntactic phenomena.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110430150

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Exercise-Based Interventions for Mental Illness

Physical Activity as Part of Clinical Treatment

By: Brendon Stubbs,Simon Rosenbaum

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Exercise-Based Interventions for Mental Illness

Physical Activity as Part of Clinical Treatment

By: Brendon Stubbs,Simon Rosenbaum

Exercise-Based Interventions for People with Mental Illness: A Clinical Guide to Physical Activity as Part of Treatment provides clinicians with detailed, practical strategies for developing, implementing and evaluating physical activity-based interventions for people with mental illness. The book covers exercise strategies specifically tailored for common mental illnesses, such as depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and more. Each chapter presents an overview of the basic psychopathology of each illness, a justification and rationale for using a physical activity intervention, an overview of the evidence base, and clear and concise instructions on practical implementation. In addition, the book covers the use of mobile technology to increase physical activity in people with mental illness, discusses exercise programming for inpatients, and presents behavioral and psychological approaches to maximize exercise interventions. Final sections provide practical strategies to both implement and evaluate physical activity interventions. - Covers interventions for anxiety, depression, eating disorders, alcohol use disorder, and more - Provides the evidence base for exercise as an effective treatment for mental illness - Demonstrates how to use mobile technology to increase physical activity in people with mental illness - Features practical strategies for implementation and assessment - Covers treatment approaches for patients of all ages

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Academic Press

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012812606X

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Managing Public Services - Implementing Changes

A thoughtful approach to the practice of management

By: Tony L. Doherty,Terry Horne,Simon Wootton

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Managing Public Services - Implementing Changes

A thoughtful approach to the practice of management

By: Tony L. Doherty,Terry Horne,Simon Wootton

The work of a manager in a service organisation is not the same as the work of a manager in an organisation that manufactures goods. Managing Public Services, Implementing Changes – A Thoughtful Approach 2e, is for students and managers who intend to work in a service organisation whether it is owned publicly of privately. This book concentrates on how managers can change things for the better and explains ‘why’ as well as ‘how’. The second edition has been fully updated to address challenges facing public services with new material on managing cuts, managing risk, managing innovation, producing funding applications, Lean Management and process review. A new chapter on managing social enterprise and generating social capital has also been added. This text is both solidly practical and theoretically challenging and is supported by strong pedagogical features including: case studies and illustrative vignettes from public service managers working in Europe, Asia, Australia and the US; exercises and review questions. Students will develop learning skills that enable them to transfer their learning from one situation to another and thinking skills that enable them adapt the way that they apply their learning as circumstances change. This comprehensive text has been specifically designed and developed to meet the needs of students studying public services management at undergraduate and postgraduate level. It allows the reader to develop transferable skills in thinking and learning as they work through the book and gives greater awareness of the benefits of continuous learning for staff and managers.

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Routledge

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1134578229

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Physical Theatres

A Critical Introduction

By: Simon Murray,John Keefe

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Physical Theatres

A Critical Introduction

By: Simon Murray,John Keefe

This new edition of Physical Theatres: A Critical Introduction continues to provide an unparalleled overview of non-text-based theatre, from experimental dance to traditional mime. It synthesizes the history, theory and practice of physical theatres for students and performers in what is both a core area of study and a dynamic and innovative aspect of theatrical practice. This comprehensive book: traces the roots of physical performance in classical and popular theatrical traditions looks at the Dance Theatre of DV8, Pina Bausch, Liz Aggiss and Jérôme Bel examines the contemporary practice of companies such as Théatre du Soleil, Complicite and Goat Island focuses on principles and practices in actor training, with reference to figures such as Jacques Lecoq, Lev Dodin, Philippe Gaulier, Monika Pagneux, Etienne Decroux, Anne Bogart and Joan Littlewood. Extensive cross references ensure that Physical Theatres: A Critical Introduction can be used as a standalone text or together with its companion volume, Physical Theatres: A Critical Reader, to provide an invaluable introduction to the physical in theatre and performance. New to this edition: a chapter on The Body and Technology, exploring the impact of digital technologies on the portrayal, perception and reading of the theatre body, spanning from onstage technology to virtual realities and motion capture; additional profiles of Jerzy Grotowski, Wrights and Sites, Punchdrunk and Mike Pearson; focus on circus and aerial performance, new training practices, immersive and site-specific theatres, and the latest developments in neuroscience, especially as these impact on the place and role of the spectator.

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131737939X

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This Is the BBC

Entertaining the Nation, Speaking for Britain, 1922-2022

By: Simon J. Potter

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This Is the BBC

Entertaining the Nation, Speaking for Britain, 1922-2022

By: Simon J. Potter

Does the BBC represent the voice of Britain? Historian Simon J. Potter explores the hundred year history of the British Broadcasting Corporation, illuminating the significant impact that the BBC has had on the social and cultural history of Britain, and on how Britain communicates with the wider world.

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Oxford University Press

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0192898523

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