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by Anne E. Greene
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Scientific writing is often dry, wordy, and difficult to understand. But, as Anne E. Greene shows in Writing Science in Plain English,writers from all scientific disciplines can learn to produce clear, concise prose by mastering just a few simple principles.
This short, focused guide presents...
The Common Place of Law
Stories from Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Why do some people not hesitate to call the police to quiet a barking dog in the middle of the night, while others accept the pain and losses associated with defective products, unsuccesful surgery, and discrimination? Patricia Ewick and Susan Silbey collected accounts of the law from more than four...
Writing for Social Scientists
How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article: Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
Students and researchers all write under pressure, and those pressures—most lamentably, the desire to impress your audience rather than to communicate with them—often lead to pretentious prose, academic posturing, and, not infrequently, writer’s block.
Sociologist Howard S. Becker has...
Seven Ways of Looking at Pointless Suffering
What Philosophy Can Tell Us about the Hardest Mystery of All
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
It’s right there in the Book of Job: “Man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward.” Suffering is an inescapable part of the human condition—which leads to a question that has proved just as inescapable throughout the centuries: Why? Why do we suffer? Why do people die young? Is there...
This New Yet Unapproachable America
Lectures after Emerson after Wittgenstein
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Stanley Cavell is a titan of the academic world; his work in aesthetics and philosophy has shaped both fields in the United States over the past forty years. In this brief yet enlightening collection of lectures, Cavell investigates the work of two of his most tried-and-true subjects: Emerson and...
The Challenger Launch Decision
Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA, Enlarged Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
When the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded on January 28, 1986, millions of Americans became bound together in a single, historic moment. Many still vividly remember exactly where they were and what they were doing when they heard about the tragedy. Diane Vaughan recreates the steps leading up to...
The Restless Clock
A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Today, a scientific explanation is not meant to ascribe agency to natural phenomena: we would not say a rock falls because it seeks the center of the earth. Even for living things, in the natural sciences and often in the social sciences, the same is true. A modern botanist would not say that plants...
Rereading the Fossil Record
The Growth of Paleobiology as an Evolutionary Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
Rereading the Fossil Record presents the first-ever historical account of the origin, rise, and importance of paleobiology, from the mid-nineteenth century to the late 1980s. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, David Sepkoski shows how the movement was conceived and promoted by a small but...
From Voice to Influence
Understanding Citizenship in a Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
How have online protests—like the recent outrage over the Komen Foundation’s decision to defund Planned Parenthood—changed the nature of political action? How do Facebook and other popular social media platforms shape the conversation around current political issues? The ways in which we gather...
Mollie Is Three
Growing Up in School
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
"No adult can escape the adult perspective; but simply recognizing its inevitable limitations in a children's world enables a few gifted educators to accept the existence and vilify of whole kindergartens full of different perspectives. One such person is Vivian Gussin Paley. . . . Her books....
Everyday Law on the Street
City Governance in an Age of Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Toronto prides itself on being “the world’s most diverse city,” and its officials seek to support this diversity through programs and policies designed to promote social inclusion. Yet this progressive vision of law often falls short in practice, limited by problems inherent in the...
Beyond the Map
Unruly Enclaves, Ghostly Places, Emerging Lands and Our Search for New Utopias
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
New islands are under construction or emerging because of climate change. Eccentric enclaves and fantastic utopian experiments are multiplying. Once-secret fantasy gardens are cracking open their doors to outsiders. Our world is becoming stranger by the day—and Alastair Bonnett observes and captures...
Nocturne
A Journey in Search of Moonlight
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
“Nobody who has not taken one can imagine the beauty of a walk through Rome by full moon,” wrote Goethe in 1787. Sadly, the imagination is all we have today: in Rome, as in every other modern city, moonlight has been banished, replaced by the twenty-four-hour glow of streetlights in a world that...
Before Mickey
The Animated Film 1898-1928
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
This witty and fascinating study reminds us that there was animation before Disney: about thirty years of creativity and experimentation flourishing in such extraordinary work as Girdie the Dinosaur and Felix the Cat. Before Mickey, the first and only in-depth history of animation from 1898-1928,...