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    - Innovation in a Fragile Future
    by Helga (President Nowotny
    £14.99

    An influential scholar in science studies argues that innovation tames the insatiable and limitless curiosity driving science, and that society's acute ambivalence about this is an inevitable legacy of modernity.

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    - Building our Sociotechnical Future
    by M. Carme Alemany Gomez, Harold Collins, Dominique Vinck, et al.
    £41.49

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    - How Occupied Landscapes Shape Scientific Knowledge
    by Jess (Postdoctoral Researcher Bier
    £26.99

    Digital practices in social and political landscapes: Why two researchers can look at the same feature and see different things.Maps are widely believed to be objective, and data-rich computer-made maps are iconic examples of digital knowledge. It is often claimed that digital maps, and rational boundaries, can solve political conflict. But in Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine, Jess Bier challenges the view that digital maps are universal and value-free. She examines the ways that maps are made in Palestine and Israel to show how social and political landscapes shape the practice of science and technology.How can two scientific cartographers look at the same geographic feature and see fundamentally different things? In part, Bier argues, because knowledge about the Israeli military occupation is shaped by the occupation itself. Ongoing injustices—including checkpoints, roadblocks, and summary arrests—mean that Palestinian and Israeli cartographers have different experiences of the landscape. Palestinian forms of empirical knowledge, including maps, continue to be discounted.Bier examines three representative cases of population, governance, and urban maps. She analyzes Israeli population maps from 1967 to 1995, when Palestinian areas were left blank; Palestinian state maps of the late 1990s and early 2000s, which were influenced by Israeli raids on Palestinian offices and the legacy of British colonial maps; and urban maps after the Second Intifada, which show how segregated observers produce dramatically different maps of the same area. The geographic production of knowledge, including what and who are considered scientifically legitimate, can change across space and time. Bier argues that greater attention to these changes, and to related issues of power, will open up more heterogeneous ways of engaging with the world.

  • - Technology's Attack on Referees and Umpires and How to Fix It
    by Robert (Senior Lecturer, Christopher (Graduate Student, Cardiff University) Higgins, et al.
    £39.49

    How technologies can get it wrong in sports, and what the consequences are-referees undermined, fans heartbroken, and the illusion of perfect accuracy maintained.

  • - Transnational Histories of MRI in the United States, Britain, and India
    by Amit (Associate Professor Prasad
    £7.99

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    - Visual Representations, Visual Culture, and Computer Graphics in Design Engineering
    by Kathryn Henderson
    £17.99

    In this text, sociologist and art critic Kathryn Henderson offers a perpsective on this topic by exploring the impact of computer graphic systems on the visual culture of engineering design. Henderson shows how designers use drawings both to organize resources, political support and power.

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    - The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City
    by Peter D. (Assistant Professor) Norton
    £26.99

  • - Biology, Physics, and Change in Science
    by Park (Visiting Assistant Professor Doing
    £7.99

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    - How Financial Models Shape Markets
    by Donald (University of Edinburgh) Mackenzie
    £26.49

    In An Engine, Not a Camera, Donald MacKenzie argues that the emergence of modern economic theories of finance affected financial markets in fundamental ways. These new, Nobel Prize-winning theories, based on elegant mathematical models of markets, were not simply external analyses but intrinsic parts of economic processes.Paraphrasing Milton Friedman, MacKenzie says that economic models are an engine of inquiry rather than a camera to reproduce empirical facts. More than that, the emergence of an authoritative theory of financial markets altered those markets fundamentally. For example, in 1970, there was almost no trading in financial derivatives such as "futures." By June of 2004, derivatives contracts totaling $273 trillion were outstanding worldwide. MacKenzie suggests that this growth could never have happened without the development of theories that gave derivatives legitimacy and explained their complexities.MacKenzie examines the role played by finance theory in the two most serious crises to hit the world's financial markets in recent years: the stock market crash of 1987 and the market turmoil that engulfed the hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management in 1998. He also looks at finance theory that is somewhat beyond the mainstream—chaos theorist Benoit Mandelbrot's model of "wild" randomness. MacKenzie's pioneering work in the social studies of finance will interest anyone who wants to understand how America's financial markets have grown into their current form.

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    - Classification and Its Consequences
    by Geoffrey C. (Professor and Director Bowker
    £29.49

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    - Knowledge and Control in the Genomics Revolution
    by Stephen (Associate Professor Hilgartner
    £26.99

    How the regimes governing biological research changed during the genomics revolution, focusing on the Human Genome Project.

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