Author: Robert Flint ChandlerPublisher: Int. Rice Res. Inst.
ISBN: 9711040638
Category : Agricultural innovations
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
An Adventure in Applied Science
Author: Robert Flint ChandlerPublisher: Int. Rice Res. Inst.
ISBN: 9711040638
Category : Agricultural innovations
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
An Adventure in Applied Science
Author: Robert F. Chandler jr.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
An Adventure in Applied Science
Author: Robert F. ChandlerAdventure in Applied Science
Author: An Adventure in Applied Science
Author: R. F. Chandler JúniorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
An international institute for rice research in Asia; developing and staffing the research and training program; establishing administrative policies; early research and training results; financing of irri; creation and funding of other international centers.
Horizons
Author: The Right Kind of Revolution
Author: Michael E. LathamPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801460565
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
After World War II, a powerful conviction took hold among American intellectuals and policymakers: that the United States could profoundly accelerate and ultimately direct the development of the decolonizing world, serving as a modernizing force around the globe. By accelerating economic growth, promoting agricultural expansion, and encouraging the rise of enlightened elites, they hoped to link development with security, preventing revolutions and rapidly creating liberal, capitalist states. In The Right Kind of Revolution, Michael E. Latham explores the role of modernization and development in U.S. foreign policy from the early Cold War through the present. The modernization project rarely went as its architects anticipated. Nationalist leaders in postcolonial states such as India, Ghana, and Egypt pursued their own independent visions of development. Attempts to promote technological solutions to development problems also created unintended consequences by increasing inequality, damaging the environment, and supporting coercive social policies. In countries such as Guatemala, South Vietnam, and Iran, U.S. officials and policymakers turned to modernization as a means of counterinsurgency and control, ultimately shoring up dictatorial regimes and exacerbating the very revolutionary dangers they wished to resolve. Those failures contributed to a growing challenge to modernization theory in the late 1960s and 1970s. Since the end of the Cold War the faith in modernization as a panacea has reemerged. The idea of a global New Deal, however, has been replaced by a neoliberal emphasis on the power of markets to shape developing nations in benevolent ways. U.S. policymakers have continued to insist that history has a clear, universal direction, but events in Iraq and Afghanistan give the lie to modernization's false hopes and appealing promises.
Adventure
Author: Physics, the Human Adventure
Author: Gerald James HoltonPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813529080
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Of Some Trigonometric Relations -- Vector Algebra.
Contributions to a Philosophy of Technology
Author: F. RappPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401021821
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The highly sophisticated techniques of modern engineering are normally conceived of in practical terms. Corresponding to the instrumental function of technology, they are designed to direct the forces of nature according to human purposes. Yet, as soon as the realm of mere skills is exceeded, the intended useful results can only be achieved through planned and preconceived action processes involving the deliberately considered application of well designed tools and devices. This is to say that in all complex cases theoretical reasoning becomes an indispensable means to accomplish the pragmatic technological aims. Hence the abstracting from the actual concrete function of technology opens the way to concentrate attention on the general conceptual framework involved. If this approach is adopted the relevant knowledge and the procedures applied clearly exhibit a logic of their own. This point of view leads to a methodological and even an epistemological analysis of the theoretical structure and the specific methods of procedure characteristic of modern technology. Investigations of this kind, that can be described as belonging to an ana lytical philosophy of technology, form the topic of this anthology. The type of research in question here is closely akin to that of the philosophy of science. But it is an astonishing fact that the commonly accepted and carefully investigated philosophy of science has not yet found its counterpart in an established philosophy of technology.