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Understanding energy innovation : learning from smart grid experiments
This open access book uses smart grids to explore and better understand energy innovation, from a social science perspective. Understanding Energy Innovation has four core themes—networks, nodes, narratives and nostalgia—and each chapter tackles a theme, using case studies from Australia and Europe. Energy innovation is currently occurring at a rapid pace, in response to a host of problems …
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- 9789811662539
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- XI, 101 p
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- 621.31 HEA u
Bloomsbury scientists : science and art in the wake of Darwin
Bloomsbury Scientists is the story of the network of scientists and artists living in a square mile of London before and after the First World War. This inspired group of men and women viewed creativity and freedom as the driving force behind nature, and each strove to understand this in their own inventive way. Their collective energy changed the social mood of the era and brought a new synthe…
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- 9781787350045
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- xiv, 198 p. ill;
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- 509.420904 BLO M
Turn on the light on science : a research-based guide to break down popular s…
"Scientists deserve public recognition. The ways that they are depicted, however, are severely limited in physical and personal traits, helping to establish and enhance stereotypes under the general title of ‘scientist’. These stereotypes range from the arrogant researcher who wants to rule the world, to the lab coat wearing ‘nerdy’ genius, but all generally fall to an extreme view of a…
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- 9781911529057
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- xvi, 103p.
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- 509 TUR t
Science in movements : knowledge control and social contestation in china's …
This book analyses and compares the origins, evolutionary patterns and consequences of different science and technology controversies in China, including hydropower resistance, disputes surrounding genetically modified organisms and the nuclear power debate. The examination combines social movement theories, communication studies, and science and technology studies. Taking a multidisciplinary a…
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- 9781003160212
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- XIV, 236 p.
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- Chinese Perspectives on Journalism and Communication,
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- 306.4509510905 JIA s
Community and identity in contemporary technosciences
This open access edited book provides new thinking on scientific identity formation. It thoroughly interrogates the concepts of community and identity, including both historical and contemporaneous analyses of several scientific fields. Chapters examine whether, and how, today’s scientific identities and communities are subject to fundamental changes, reacting to tangible shifts in research f…
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- 9783030617288
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- xii, 315p. : ill.
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- 305.96 COM c
Cultures of computer game concerns : the child across families, law, science …
The same computer games are played by youths all over the world, and worldwide games become matters of concern in relation to children: worries rise about addiction, violence, education, time, and economy. Yet, these concerns vary depending upon where they are situated: in families, legal contexts, industry or science. They also play out differently across countries and cultures. This situated …
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- 9783839439340
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- III, 355 p.
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- VerKörperungen/MatteRealities - Perspektiven empirischer Wissenschaftsforschung, 23
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- 794.8 CUL c
The science of citizen science
This open access book discusses how the involvement of citizens into scientific endeavors is expected to contribute to solve the big challenges of our time, such as climate change and the loss of biodiversity, growing inequalities within and between societies, and the sustainability turn. The field of citizen science has been growing in recent decades. Many different stakeholders from scientist…
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- 9783030582784
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- vii, 529p. : ill.
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- 303.483 SCI s
Law, technology and dispute resolution : privatisation of coercion
The use of new information and communication technologies both inside the courts and in private online dispute resolution services is quickly changing everyday conflict management. However, the implications of the increasingly disruptive role of technology in dispute resolution remain largely undiscussed. In this book, assistant professor of law and digitalisation Riikka Koulu examines the mult…
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- 9781315149479
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- 219p. : ill.
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- 347.09 KOU l
Strange science : investigating the limits of knowledge in the Victorian Age
'Strange Science: Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age' is an unprecedented collection that examines marginal, fringe, and unconventional forms of scientific inquiry, as well as their cultural representations in the Victorian period. Although now relegated to the category of the pseudoscientific, fields like mesmerism and psychical research captured the imagination of th…
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- 9780472130177
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- xiv, 293p. : ill.
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- 509.4109034 STR s
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