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Publisher: Artisan
Keywords: lime, squeeze, turmeric, pinch
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2012-09-18
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1579654134
ISBN-13: 9781579654139
Authors:Harry M. Collins, Trevor Pinch,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: canto, science, golem
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 1998-10-28
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0521645506
ISBN-13: 9780521645508
Through a series of intriguing case studies including the study of relativity, cold fusion, the "memory" in worms, and the sex life of lizards, this book debunks the view that scientific knowledge is a straightforward outcome of competent theorization, observation, and experimentation. The first edition generated much debate and controversy. This second edition contains a substantial new Afterword that responds to some of the criticisms made by scientists. A distinction is made between the responses of scientific fundamentalists who maintain the myth of scientific certainty and more serious-mi
Authors:Trevor Pinch, Frank Trocco,
Publisher: Harvard University Pre
Keywords: moog, synthesizer, impact, invention, days, analog
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2004-11-15
List price: $19.50
ISBN-10: 0674016173
ISBN-13: 9780674016170
"Though ubiquitous today, available as a single microchip and found in any electronic device requiring sound, the synthesizer when it first appeared was truly revolutionary. Something radically new--an extraordinary rarity in musical culture--it was an instrument that used a genuinely new source of sound: electronics. How this came to be--how an engineering student at Cornell and an avant-garde musician working out of a storefront in California set this revolution in motion--is the story told for the first time in Analog Days, a book that explores the invention of the synthesizer and its impac
Authors:Jane Austen, James Kinsley, Adela Pinch,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: classics, world, oxford, emma
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2008-05-15
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 0199535523
ISBN-13: 9780199535521
’I wonder what will become of her!’ So speculate the friends and neighbours of Emma Woodhouse, the lovely, lively, wilful,and fallible heroine of Jane Austen’s fourth published novel. Confident that she knows best, Emma schemes to find a suitable husband for her pliant friend Harriet, only to discover that she understands the feelings of others as little as she does her own heart. As Emma puzzles and blunders her way through the mysteries of her social world, Austen evokes for her readers a cast of unforgettable characters and a detailed portrait of a small town undergoing h
Author: Geraldine Pinch
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: short, introductions, introduction, egyptian, myth
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2004-07-08
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0192803468
ISBN-13: 9780192803467
Egyptian myths articulated the core values of one of the longest lasting civilizations in history, and myths of deities such as Isis and Osiris influenced contemporary cultures and became part of the Western cultural heritage. Egyptian Mythology: A Very Short Introduction explains the cultural and historical background to the fascinating and complex world of Egyptian myth, with each chapter dealing with a particular theme. To show the variety of source material for Egyptian myth, each chapter features a particular object--such as the obelisk known as Cleopatra’s Needle, a golden statue o
Author: William R. Pinch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: indian, history, society, studies, empires, ascetics, warrior, cambridge
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2006-04-10
List price: $109.99
ISBN-10: 0521851688
ISBN-13: 9780521851688
Many people assume, largely because of Gandhi’s legacy, that Hinduism is a religion of non-violence. William R. Pinch shows just how wrong this assumption is. Using the life of Anupgiri Gosain, a Hindu ascetic who lived at the end of the eighteenth century, he demonstrates that Hindu warrior ascetics were an important component of the South Asian military labor market in the medieval and early modern Indian past, and crucial to the rise of British imperialism. Today, they occupy a prominent place in modern Indian imaginations, ironically as romantic defenders of a Hindu India against for
Authors:Trevor Pinch, Richard Swedberg,
Publisher: The MIT Pre
Keywords: technology, science, studies, inside, meets, sociology, material, world, economic, living
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2008-11-30
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0262162520
ISBN-13: 9780262162524
Although social scientists generally agree that technology plays a major role in the economy, economics and technology have yet to be brought together into a coherent framework that is both analytically interesting and empirically oriented. This book draws on the tools of science and technology studies and economic sociology to reconceptualize the intersection of economy and technology, suggesting materialitythe idea that social existence involves not only actors and social relations but also objectsas the theoretical point of convergence. The contributors take up general concerns (individu
