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3) After Coal
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This documentary profiles inspiring individuals who are building a new future in the coalfields of eastern Kentucky and South Wales. Viewers meet ex-miners using theater to rebuild community infrastructure, women transforming a former coal board office into a hub for education and enterprise, and young people striving to stay in their home communities. The stories of coalfield residents who must abandon traditional livelihoods bring viewers to the...
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"A stunningly original, lushly illustrated vision for a Green Utopia, published on the 500th anniversary of the original Big Idea. Five hundred years ago a powerful new word was unleashed upon the world when Thomas More published his book Utopia, about an island paradise far away from his troubled land. It was an instant hit, and the literati across Europe couldn't get enough of its blend of social fantasy with a deep desire for a better world. Five...
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"You swab your cheek or spit in a vial, then send it away to a lab somewhere. Weeks later you get a report that might tell you where your ancestors came from or if you carry certain genetic risks. Or the report could reveal long-buried family secrets and upend your entire sense of identity. Soon a lark becomes an obsession, a relentless drive to find answers to questions at the core of your being, like "Who am I?" and "Where did I come from?" Welcome...
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Nikolas Rose is James Martin White Professor of Sociology and Director of the BIOS Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His books include The Psychological Complex, Governing the Soul, Inventing Our Selves, and Powers of Freedom: Reframing Political Thought.
For centuries, medicine aimed to treat abnormalities. But today normality itself is open to medical...
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Scientists have been searching for signals from extraterrestrial civilizations since Frank Drake's first radio survey in 1960. But what would actually happen if SETI's search succeeds? Is there any way we could even make sense of the signal we receive?
Written by an expert in communication systems and translation technology, this book explores the science of interstellar communication. It explains how this process may unfold, how an ET communication...
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In a world shattered by distrust and upheaval, "Echoes of Faith: Resonance in the Trustless Era, Rebuilding Hope and Connection" beckons readers into a mesmerizing journey of redemption and renewal. Delve into the heart of a society torn asunder by betrayal, where echoes of shattered faith reverberate through every corner. From the ashes of despair emerge tales of courage, resilience, and the unyielding power of the human spirit.Follow the intertwined...
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David J. T. Sumpter is professor of applied mathematics at Uppsala University in Sweden.
How and why animals produce group behaviors
Fish travel in schools, birds migrate in flocks, honeybees swarm, and ants build trails. How and why do these collective behaviors occur? Exploring how coordinated group patterns emerge from individual interactions, Collective Animal Behavior reveals why animals produce group behaviors and examines their evolution...
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Claude Rosental is a sociologist and researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and a member of the Institut Marcel Mauss at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in France.
The development of theorems in logic is generally thought to be a solitary and purely cerebral activity, and therefore unobservable by sociologists. In Weaving Self-Evidence, French sociologist Claude Rosental challenges this notion by tracing...
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The natural beauty of Austin, Texas, has always been central to the city's identity. From the beginning, city leaders, residents, planners, and employers consistently imagined Austin as a natural place, highlighting the region's environmental attributes as they marketed the city and planned for its growth. Yet, as Austin modernized and attracted an educated and skilled labor force, the demand to preserve its natural spaces was used to justify economic...
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The era of digital communication provides endless opportunities for the collection and analysis of social data in novel ways. It also presents new and unanticipated challenges, as researchers are often inventing elements of their methodologies on the fly or studying a phenomenon or media platform for the first time.
Research Exposed offers in-depth, behind-the-scenes accounts of doing empirical social science in this new paradigm. Through firsthand...
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In "Hidden Connections," I delve into the intricate web of relationships and dependencies that silently govern our lives, exploring the unseen forces that shape our world in profound and unexpected ways. From the microscopic interactions within our bodies to the global networks of power and influence, this book aims to unveil the hidden connections that define our existence.The narrative unfolds through a series of compelling stories that traverse...
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Michel Maffesoli: un sociólogo posmoderno busca un acercamiento a la obra de este autor francés pretendiendo mostrar partes esenciales de su pensamiento sobre la posmodernidad. El debate que propone en términos de lo posmoderno de la sociedad de hoy no está ni mucho menos superado, según lo plantean aquellos que asumieron la discusión posmodernista como una moda intelectual más. Algunos pensaban que el concepto designaba la lógica cultural...
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El trabajo de los conductores de taxi va más allá de transportar individuos de un lugar a otro. En medio de los recorridos por la ciudad, los conductores de taxi construyen interacciones entre sí, con otros agentes sociales, con el taxi, con el espacio y con el tiempo; es en estas interacciones donde forman los significados sobre el trabajo de conducir taxi. En esta investigación se retoma la teoría del interaccionismo simbólico -propuesto por...
16) Human Selection
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This work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1890 and it is now republished with a brand new introductory biography. 'Human Selection' is an essay on the future of human evolution in relation to Darwin's suggestion that natural selection was having a reduced or non-existent effect on modern humanity.
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Thomas Armstrong, Ph.D., an award-winning educator and expert on human development, offers a cross-cultural view of life's entire journey, from before birth to death to the possibilities of an afterlife. Dr. Armstrong cites both clinical research and anecdotal evidence in a comprehensive view of the challenges and opportunities we face at every stage of our development. His accessible narrative incorporates elements of history, literature, psychology,...
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Why is life like a poker game? How did a failed robbery help to explain human nature? Why are we so certain bad men will win-and yet we're so wrong?
In this, the third volume of The Secrets of Life quartet, SS O'Connor once more uses his easy-going, conversational style to explain how the science of decision analysis developed, and why it has come to show us not only the reasoning behind how humans arrive at their choices in life, but why so much...
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Why are humans neither 'good' nor 'bad'? How can so much chaos and confusion in the world actually lead to order? Why are we so often wrong when we're asked if the world's getting better?
In this, the last book in The Secrets of Life quartet, SS O'Connor pulls together the threads of genetic and cultural evolution, and then adds to these the conclusions of evolutionary game theory. As he does this, he ends with an intertwined narrative that explains...
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The story of mankind's struggle against polio is compelling, exciting and full of twists and pardoxes. One of the grand challenges of modern medicine, it was a battleground between good and bad science. Gareth Williams takes an original view of the journey to understanding and defeating polio.
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