Social Aspects category: 6049 books
by Victor W. Hatch
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
This report shows the relationship of electrical and gravitation forces.
This report shows that gravitation is due to a residual positive charge on all atoms; further that space/ether (Space as defined by Einstein and Ether as defined by Ronald Hatch in his modified ether theory are equivalent.) is...
by D W. Livingstone
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
This book provides a systematic and detailed analysis of class relations in advanced capitalist societies as a basis for understanding both class differences in educational practices and the relative effects of class and other social background factors on public attitudes toward education. Secondly,...
Graduate Citizens
Issues of Citizenship and Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2005
Following the introduction of student loans and tuition fees, the situation of students and new graduates has changed considerably. Set in this context, Graduate Citizens is a thought-provoking, and insightful look at the current generation of students' attitudes towards citizenship and matters of...
Control
Digitality as Cultural Logic
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2015
An examination of digitality not simply as a technical substrate but also as the logical basis for reshaped concepts of labor, subjectivity, and collectivity.
Is there a cultural logic of what we have come to call the information age? Have the technologies and techniques centered on the computer...
Grow Small, Think Beautiful
Ideas for a Sustainable World from Schumacher College
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Schumacher College, based near Totnes in Devon, England, opened its doors in the early 1990s and is now an internationally-renowned centre for transformative learning on all aspects of sustainable living. James Lovelock led the first course on Gaia theory. A host of visionary thinkers has followed,...
Media Events in Web 2.0 China
Interventions of Online Activism
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
This book is among the first to use a “media events” framework to examine China’s Internet activism and politics, and the first study of the transformation of China’s media events through the parameter of online activism. The author locates the practices of major modes of online activism in...
by Thomas Homer-Dixon
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2001
"The most persuasive forecast of the 21st century I have seen." -- E.O. Wilson, author of Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge and twice winner of a Pulitzer prize
“Human beings have been smart enough to turn nature to their ends, generate vast wealth for themselves, and double their average...
The Schools of Utopia & Schools of To-morrow
Illustrated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2019
Schools of To-morrow and The Schools of Utopia argue that education and learning are social and interactive processes, and thus the school itself is a social institution through which social reform can and should take place. Students should thrive in an environment where they are allowed to experience...
The Age of You
How to Understand and Benefit from Social Media and the Connected Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
The Age of You is the story about a new society, where we break away from the established rules regarding communication, relationships and the way we do business. It`s also a story about a major shift: we increasingly take control over our personal and commercial relationships. We alone decide who...
Knowledge and Virtue in Teaching and Learning
The Primacy of Dispositions
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
The challenge this book addresses is to demonstrate how, in teaching content knowledge, the development of intellectual and moral dispositions as virtues is not merely a good idea, or peripheral to that content, but deeply embedded in the logic of searching for knowledge and truth.
It offers...
Cultures in Orbit
Satellites and the Televisual
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2005
In 1957 Sputnik, the world’s first man-made satellite, dazzled people as it zipped around the planet. By the beginning of the twenty-first century, more than eight thousand satellites orbited the Earth, and satellite practices such as live transmission, direct broadcasting, remote sensing, and astronomical...
The Pursuit of Loneliness
America's Discontent and the Search for a New Democratic Ideal
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
In a classic indictment of American individualism and isolationism, Philip Slater analyzes the great ills of modern society-violence, competitiveness, inequality, and the national 'addiction' to technology.
Teaching the Whole Student
Engaged Learning With Heart, Mind, and Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Teaching the Whole Student is a compendium of engaged teaching approaches by faculty across disciplines. These inspiring authors offer models for instructors who care deeply about their students, respect and recognize students’ social identities and lived experiences, and are interested in creating...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Just what is the “participatory condition”? It is the situation in which taking part in something with others has become both environmental and normative. The fact that we have always participated does not mean we have always lived under the participatory condition. What is distinctive about the...