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  • Semiotic Flesh

    Information and the Human Body

    Edited by Phillip Thurtle, Robert E. Mitchell ...
    For much of the 20th century, an apparently solid conceptual wall allowed us to separate information and bodies. Information is that which exists between elements; bodies are the elements themselves. One is abstract the other corporeal. One is intricately involved in signs and syntax, the other in cells and organs. Yet in the last few decades, it has become increasingly clear that this conceptual ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Marketing the Frontier in the Northwest Territory

    Land Sales, Soils and the Settling of the Great Lakes Region in the 19th Century

    by Robert E. Mitchell ...
    Combining narrative history with data-rich social and economic analysis, this new institutional economics study examines the failure of frontier farms in the antebellum Northwest Territory, where legislatively-created imperfect markets and poor surveying resulted in massive investment losses for both individual farmers and the national economy. The history of farming and spatial settlement ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • My Father's Endless Universe

    by Robert E. Mitchell ...
    My Father’s Endless UniverseBy: Robert E. MitchellMany have tried exploring our universe and the Earth’s atmosphere. But while trying, we often forget that God’s reach extends far beyond the reach of our own galaxy: He made the universe, and He touches everything—and everyone—in it. My Father’s Endless Universe is an exploration of the experiences of another of God’s races on Earth, as they ... Read more

    $7.00 USD

  • Human Geographies Within the Pale of Settlement

    Order and Disorder During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

    by Robert E. Mitchell ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This study suggests how traditional language-rich narrative histories of the Pale of Settlement can benefit from drawing on the large vocabularies, questions, theories and analytical methods of human geography, economics and the social sciences for an understanding of how Jewish communities responded to multiple disruptions during the nineteenth century. Moving from the ecological level of systems ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • The Language of Economics

    Socially Constructed Vocabularies and Assumptions

    by Robert E. Mitchell ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This Palgrave Pivot demonstrates that the inherited vocabularies of economics and other social sciences contain socially constructed words and theories that bias our very understanding of history and markets, bridging the empirical and moral dimensions of economics in general and inequality in particular. Wealth, GDP, hierarchies, and inequality are socially constructed words infused with moral ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

    How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake

    by Steven Novella, Bob Novella, Cara Santa Maria, Jay Novella ...
    An all-encompassing guide to skeptical thinking from podcast host and academic neurologist at Yale University School of Medicine Steven Novella and his SGU co-hosts, which Richard Wiseman calls "the perfect primer for anyone who wants to separate fact from fiction."It is intimidating to realize that we live in a world overflowing with misinformation, bias, myths, deception, and flawed knowledge. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Master Algorithm

    How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World

    by Pedro Domingos ...
    **Recommended by Bill GatesA thought-provoking and wide-ranging exploration of machine learning and the race to build computer intelligences as flexible as our own**In the world's top research labs and universities, the race is on to invent the ultimate learning algorithm: one capable of discovering any knowledge from data, and doing anything we want, before we even ask. In The Master Algorithm, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A Theory of Fields

    by Neil Fligstein, Doug McAdam ...
    Finding ways to understand the nature of social change and social order-from political movements to market meltdowns-is one of the enduring problems of social science. A Theory of Fields draws together far-ranging insights from social movement theory, organizational theory, and economic and political sociology to construct a general theory of social organization and strategic action. In a work of ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason

    by David Harvey ...
    Karl Marx's Capital is one of the most important texts written in the modern era. Since 1867, when the first of its three volumes was published, it has had a profound effect on politics and economics in theory and practice throughout the world. But Marx wrote in the context of capitalism in the second half of the nineteenth century, and his assumptions and analysis need to be updated in order to ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

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  • From Bacteria to Bach and Back

    The Evolution of Minds

    by Daniel C. Dennett ...
    "A supremely enjoyable, intoxicating work." —NatureHow did we come to have minds? For centuries, poets, philosophers, psychologists, and physicists have wondered how the human mind developed its unrivaled abilities. Disciples of Darwin have explained how natural selection produced plants, but what about the human mind?In From Bacteria to Bach and Back, Daniel C. Dennett builds on recent ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

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  • Introduction to Sociological Theory

    Theorists, Concepts, and their Applicability to the Twenty-First Century

    by Michele Dillon ...
    The extensively revised and updated second edition combines carefully chosen primary quotes with wide-ranging discussion and everyday illustrative examples to provide an in-depth introduction to classical and contemporary sociological theory.Combines classical and contemporary theory in a single, integrated textShort biographies and historical timelines of significant events provide context to ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Age of Spiritual Machines

    When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence

    by Ray Kurzweil ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Bold futurist Ray Kurzweil, author of The Singularity Is Near, offers a framework for envisioning the future of machine intelligence—“a book for anyone who wonders where human technology is going next” (The New York Times Book Review).“Kurzweil offers a thought-provoking analysis of human and artificial intelligence and a unique look at a future in which the capabilities of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD