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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “philippe blanchard”
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  • Careers of the Professoriate

    Academic Pathways of the Linguists and Sociologists in Germany, France and the UK

    by Johannes Angermuller, Philippe Blanchard ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines career patterns of the professoriate. Professors may appear as specialised individualists in their fields, and yet they follow pathways which are anything but unique. Drawing from a unique data set, the authors analyse the trajectories of the almost 2000 linguists and sociologists who hold full professorships in Germany, France and the UK in 2015. With a background in social ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Knowledge and the World: Challenges Beyond the Science Wars

    Edited by Martin Carrier, Johannes Roggenhofer, Günter Küppers, Philippe Blanchard ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The fundamental question of whether, or in what sense, science informs us about the real world has pervaded the history of thought since antiquity. Is what science tells us about the world determined unambiguously by facts, or does the content of any scientific theory in some way depend on the human condition? "Sokal’s hoax" attacked the mere seriousness of post-modern views of science and shifted ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Direction of Time

    Edited by Sergio Albeverio, Philippe Blanchard ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This edited book presents the problems of time and direction from an interdisciplinary point of view, concentrating in particular on the following relations:• Time and physics• Time, philosophy and psychology• Time, mathematics and information theoryIt is a unique contribution by philosophers and scientists who are active in mathematics, physics, biology, engineering, information theory and ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Advances in Sequence Analysis: Theory, Method, Applications

    Edited by Philippe Blanchard, Felix Bühlmann, Jacques-Antoine Gauthier ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book gives a general view of sequence analysis, the statistical study of successions of states or events. It includes innovative contributions on life course studies, transitions into and out of employment, contemporaneous and historical careers, and political trajectories. The approach presented in this book is now central to the life-course perspective and the study of social processes more ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Mathematical Methods in Physics

    Distributions, Hilbert Space Operators, Variational Methods, and Applications in Quantum Physics

    by Philippe Blanchard, Erwin Brüning ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    The second edition of this textbook presents the basic mathematical knowledge and skills that are needed for courses on modern theoretical physics, such as those on quantum mechanics, classical and quantum field theory, and related areas. The authors stress that learning mathematical physics is not a passive process and include numerous detailed proofs, examples, and over 200 exercises, as well as ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • The Message of Quantum Science

    Attempts Towards a Synthesis

    Edited by Jürg Fröhlich, Philippe Blanchard ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This collection of essays is above all intended to pay tribute to the fact that while QM today is a refined and incredibly successful instrument, many issues concerning the internal consistency and the interpretation of this theory are still not nearly as well understood as they ought to be.In addition, whenever possible these essays take the opportunity to link foundational issues to the many ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Paradoxes of Media and Information Literacy

    The Crisis of Information

    by Jutta Haider, Olof Sundin ...
    Paradoxes of Media and Information Literacy contributes to ongoing conversations about control of knowledge and different ways of knowing. It does so by analysing why media and information literacy (MIL) is proposed as a solution for addressing the current information crisis.Questioning why MIL is commonly believed to wield such power, the book throws into sharp relief several paradoxes that are ... Read more

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  • Research Methodologies and Ethical Challenges in Digital Migration Studies

    Caring For (Big) Data?

    Edited by Marie Sandberg, Luca Rossi, Vasilis Galis, Martin Bak Jørgensen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This Open Access book investigates the methodological and ethical dilemmas involved when working with digital technologies and large-scale datasets in relation to ethnographic studies of digital migration practices and trajectories. Digital technologies reshape not only every phase of the migration process itself (by providing new ways to access, to share and preserve relevant information) but ... Read more

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  • Theory and Method in Socio-Legal Research

    Edited by Reza Banakar, Dr Max Travers ...
    Series series Oñati International Series in Law and Society
    Socio-legal researchers increasingly recognise the need to employ a wide variety of methods in studying law and legal phenomena, and the need to be informed by an understanding of debates about theory and method in mainstream social science. The papers in this volume illustrate how a range of topics, including EU law, ombudsmen, judges, lawyers, Shariah Councils and the quality assurance industry ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Europe’s New Scientific Elite

    Social Mechanisms of Science in the European Research Area

    by Barbara Hoenig ...
    Series series Public Intellectuals and the Sociology of Knowledge
    Winner of the Harald Kaufmann Prize for Senior Researchers, 2018This book examines the question of whether the process of European integration in research funding has led to new forms of oligarchization and elite formation in the European Research Area. Based on a study of the European Research Council (ERC), the author investigates profound structural change in the social organization of science, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Cities in Globalization

    Practices, Policies and Theories

    Edited by Peter Taylor, Ben Derudder, Pieter Saey, Frank Witlox ...
    Series series Questioning Cities
    Despite traditionally being a strong research topic in urban studies, inter-city relations had become grossly neglected until recently, when it was placed back on the research agenda with the advent of studies of world/global cities. More recently the ‘external relations’ of cities have taken their place alongside ‘internal relations’ within cities to constitute the full nature of cities.This ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Quantum Waveguides

    by Pavel Exner, Hynek Kovařík ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This monograph explains the theory of quantum waveguides, that is, dynamics of quantum particles confined to regions in the form of tubes, layers, networks, etc. The focus is on relations between the confinement geometry on the one hand and the spectral and scattering properties of the corresponding quantum Hamiltonians on the other. Perturbations of such operators, in particular, by external ... Read more

    $143.09 USD