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Living in a Material World: Economic Sociology Meets Science and Technology Studies (Inside Technology)
Although social scientists generally agree that technology plays a major role in the economy, economics and technology have yet to be brought together in 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 materiality—the idea that social existence involves not only actors and social relations but also objects—as the theoretical point of convergence. The contributors take up general concerns (including individual agency in a network economy and the materiality of the household in economic history) and specific financial technologies (the stock ticker, the trading room, the telephone). Forms of infrastructure—accounting, global configurations of trading and information technologies, patent law—are examined. Case studies of the effect of the Internet and information technology on consumption (e-commerce), the reputation economy (the rise of online reviews of products), and organizational settings (outsourcing of an IT system) complete this collection of essays. Contributors: Elizabeth Popp Berman, Daniel Beunza, Michel Callon, Karin Knorr Cetina, Shay David, Thomas F. Gieryn, Barbara Grimpe, David Hatherly, David Leung, Christian Licoppe, Donald MacKenzie, Philip Mirowski, Fabian Muniesa, Edward Nik-Khah, Trevor Pinch, Alex Preda, Nicholas J. Rowland, David Stark, Richard Swedberg..
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The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology
The impact of technology on society is clear and unmistakable The influence of society on technology is more subtle. The 13 essays in this book draw on a wide array of case studies from cooking stoves to missile systems, from 15thÂcentury Portugal to today's AI labs - to outline an original research program based on a synthesis of ideas from the social studies of science and the history of technology. Together they affirm the need for a study of technology that gives equal weight to technical, social, economic, and political questions..
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Magic in Ancient Egypt
"Magic in Ancient Egypt" makes a welcome reappearance in this revised and updated edition. The Egyptians were famous in the ancient world for their knowledge of magic. Religion, medicine, technology and what we would call magic co-existed without apparent conflict, and it was not unusual for magical and 'practical' remedies for illness, for example, to be used side by side. Magic was resorted to by everyone, from the pharaoh guarding his country with elaborate magical rituals to the expectant mother wearing amulets to safeguard her unborn child. The book examines the fascinating connections between myth and magic, and the deities such as Bes and Isis who had special magical importance. It discusses the techniques of magic, its practitioners and the surviving magical texts, as well as the objects which were used in magic: figurines, statues, amulets and wands. A chapter is devoted to medicine and magic, and one to magic and the dead. Finally, it shows how elements and influences from Egyptian magic survived in or were taken up by later societies, right up to the 21st century..
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Squeeze in a Pinch (Handy Mandy)
The bleachers at the school athletic field are broken and there's a little league game that afternoon Squeeze hurts Manny's finger during the repair and she's convinced that she's a danger to all around her. She won't continue with the repair. Manny explains that everyone makes mistakes. The rest of the tools chime in and share their mistakes. In the end, Squeeze successfully helps with the repair without any additional injuries and Manny is asked by the team's coach to become their team sponsor.
Handy Manny features the humorous adventures of Manny Garcia, the best darn handyman in his diverse community. Manny and his eclectic group of talking tools work together to fix objects, help neighbors, and show preschoolers how to conquer everyday problems.
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Strange Fits of Passion: Epistemologies of Emotion, Hume to Austen
This book contends that when late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century writers sought to explain the origins of emotions, they often discovered that their feelings may not really have been their own. It explores the paradoxes of representing feelings in philosophy, aesthetic theory, gender ideology, literature, and popular sentimentality, and it argues that this period’s obsession with sentimental, wayward emotion was inseparable from the dilemmas resulting from attempts to locate the origins of feelings in experience. The book shows how these epistemological dilemmas became gendered by studying a series of extravagantly affective scenes: Hume’s extraordinary confession of his own melancholy in the Treatise of Human Nature; Charlotte Smith’s insistence that she really feels the gloomy feelings portrayed in her Elegiac Sonnets; Wordsworth’s witnessing of a woman poet reading and weeping; tearful exchanges between fathers and daughters in the gothic novel; the climactic debate over the strengths of men’s and women’s feelings in Jane Austen’s Persuasion; and the poetic and public mourning of a dead princess in 1817. .
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Pinch of Time: Meals in Less Than 30 Minutes (Nitty Gritty Cookbooks) (Nitty Gritty Cookbooks) (Nitty Gritty Cookbooks)
Feeling the pinch of time? Create fresh, flavorful meals in 30 minutes with this latest addition to the nitty gritty® cookbooks series. Follow the author's basic principles: everything in place before you begin; foods cut into small pieces for faster cooking; and finally, using ingredients that are packaged for convenience. Sandra Rudloff takes care to make instructions short and simple. But the finished product tastes like it took all day! .
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Pitching In A Pinch: Or, Baseball From The Inside
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