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  • Techniques of Hearing

    History, Theory and Practices

    Edited by Michael Schillmeier, Robert Stock, Beate Ochsner ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness
    Hearing, health, and technologies are entangled in multi-faceted ways. This edited volume addresses this complex relationship by arguing that modern hearing was and is increasingly linked to and mediated by technological innovations.By providing a set of original interdisciplinary investigations that shed new light on the history, theory, and practices of hearing techniques, it is able to explore ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Eventful Bodies

    The Cosmopolitics of Illness

    by Michael Schillmeier ...
    Series series Theory, Technology and Society
    Disrupting, questioning and altering the taken-for-granted ’cosmos’ of everyday life, the experiences of illness challenge the different ways in which social normalcy is remembered, maintained and expected. This book explores the manifold experiences of life threatening, infectious or non-curable illnesses that trouble the practices and relations of human and social life. Challenging a mere ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • New Technologies and Emerging Spaces of Care

    by Miquel Domènech ...
    New Technologies and Emerging Spaces of Care provides the latest practice-oriented qualitative research and innovative conceptual discussions of how health and health care systems are currently dealing with complex transformations and varied reforms. Exploring and analysing the social and cultural impact of new technologies, this book examines the societal relevance of new technologies of care and ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Agency without Actors?

    New Approaches to Collective Action

    Edited by Jan-Hendrik Passoth, Birgit Peuker, Michael Schillmeier ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    The question of agency is a key issue in social theory and research. The discourse of human agency as an effect of social relations is deeply intertwined with the history of sociological thought. However, in most recent discussions the role of non-humans gains a substantial impact concerning agency. Agency without Actors? New Approaches to Collective Action asks: Are nonhumans active, do they have ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Rethinking Disability

    Bodies, Senses, and Things

    by Michael Schillmeier ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
    This text is a critical and empirically-based introduction to disability studies. It offers a comprehensive, book-length analysis of disability through the lens of Science and Technology Studies (STS), and presents a practice-oriented discussion of how bodies, senses and things are linked in everyday life and configure "enabling" and "disabling" scenarios. Relevant to a broad spectrum of medical ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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    Methods and Methodology

    Edited by Adri van den Brink, Diedrich Bruns, Hilde Tobi, Simon Bell ...
    Defining a research question, describing why it needs to be answered and explaining how methods are selected and applied are challenging tasks for anyone embarking on academic research within the field of landscape architecture. Whether you are an early career researcher or a senior academic, it is essential to draw meaningful conclusions and robust answers to research questions.Research in ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Digital Technology Research

    Edited by Sara Price, Carey Jewitt, Barry Brown ...
    Research on and with digital technologies is everywhere today. This timely, authoritative Handbook explores the issues of rapid technological development, social change, and the ubiquity of computing technologies which have become an integrated part of people′s everyday lives.This is a comprehensive, up-to-date resource for the twenty-first century. It addresses the key aspects of research within ... Read more

    $118.79 USD

  • A Construction Manual for Robots' Ethical Systems

    Requirements, Methods, Implementations

    Edited by Robert Trappl ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This book will help researchers and engineers in the design of ethical systems for robots, addressing the philosophical questions that arise and exploring modern applications such as assistive robots and self-driving cars.The contributing authors are among the leading academic and industrial researchers on this topic and the book will be of value to researchers, graduate students and practitioners ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Uses of Technology in Lower Secondary Mathematics Education

    A Concise Topical Survey

    by Paul Drijvers, Lynda Ball, Bärbel Barzel, M. Kathleen Heid, Yiming Cao, Michela Maschietto ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This topical survey provides an overview of the current state of the art in technology use in mathematics education, including both practice-oriented experiences and research-based evidence, as seen from an international perspective. Three core themes are discussed: Evidence of effectiveness; Digital assessment; and Communication and collaboration.The survey’s final section offers suggestions for ... Read more

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  • The Constitution of Society

    Outline of the Theory of Structuration

    by Anthony Giddens ...
    Anthony Giddens has been in the forefront of developments in social theory for the past decade. In The Constitution of Society he outlines the distinctive position he has evolved during that period and offers a full statement of a major new perspective in social thought, a synthesis and elaboration of ideas touched on in previous works but described here for the first time in an integrated and ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • A Deeper Learning Companion for CLIL

    Putting Pluriliteracies into Practice

    Edited by Do Coyle, Oliver Meyer, Susanne Staschen-Dielmann ...
    If education is to prepare learners for lifelong learning, there needs to be a shift towards deeper learning: a focus on transferable knowledge and problem-solving skills alongside the development of a positive or growth mind-set. Deeper learning is inextricably linked with CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) – a revolutionary teaching approach where students study subjects in a ... Read more

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  • Reassembling the Social:An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory

    An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory

    by Bruno Latour ...
    Series series Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies
    Reassembling the Social is a fundamental challenge from one of the world's leading social theorists to how we understand society and the 'social'. Bruno Latour's contention is that the word 'social', as used by Social Scientists, has become laden with assumptions to the point where it has become misnomer. When the adjective is applied to a phenomenon, it is used to indicate a stablilized state of ... Read more

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