Author: United States. Congress SenatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2400
Book Description
Report
Author: United States. Congress SenatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2400
Book Description
American Photography
Author: Vicki GoldbergPublisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 0811826228
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
This beautiful and informative photographic history includes images from 1900 to 1999. Many are often seen (bullet piercing the apple, splashing crown of milk, Sophia Loren looking askance at Jayne Mansfield's plunging decollete, and Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother); but most are probably unknown, because the photos were selected not only for their visual and cognitive qualities but also for their importance to the history and development of photographic technique and usage. The century is divided into thirds for explanation's sake, and there is at least one photograph for every year. While this is a picture book, the accompanying text provides informative introductions to the uses and abuses of perhaps the century's most important medium. The book is companion to the PBS series. Oversize: 12.5x9.5". Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Ethics Expertise
Author: Lisa RasmussenPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402038208
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Section I examines historical philosophical understandings of expertise in order to situate the current institution of bioethics. Section II focuses on philosophical analyses of the concept of expertise, asking, among other things, how it should be understood, how it can be acquired, and what such expertise warrants. Finally, section III addresses topics in bioethics and how ethics expertise should or should not be brought to bear in these areas, including expertise in the court room, in the hospital room, in the media, and in making policy. 2. A GUIDED HISTORICAL TOUR As Scott LaBarge points out, Plato’s dialogues can be viewed as an extended treatment of the concept of moral expertise, so it is fitting to begin the volume with an examination of “Socrates and Moral Expertise”. Given Socrates’ protestations (the Oracle at Delphi notwithstanding) that he knows nothing, LaBarge observes that it would be interesting to determine both what a Socratic theory of moral expertise might be and whether Socrates qualified as such an expert. Plato’s model of moral expertise is what LaBarge calls “demonstrable expertise”, which is concerned mainly with the ability to attain a goal and to explain how one did it. The problem with this account is that when one tries to solve the various problems in the model – for example, allowing that moral expertise is not an all-or-nothing skill – then one is immediately faced with the “credentials problem”. As LaBarge puts it, “. . .
The Social Construction of What?
Author: Ian HackingPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674812000
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Lost in the raging debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what, precisely, is being constructed. Facts, gender, quarks, reality? Ian Hacking’s book explores an array of examples to reveal the deep issues underlying contentious accounts of reality—especially regarding the status of the natural sciences.
Practices of Comparing
Author: Angelika EpplePublisher: Bielefeld University Press
ISBN: 9783837651669
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Practices of comparing shape how we perceive, organize, and change the world. This volume outlines the program of a new research agenda that places comparative practices at the center of an interdisciplinary exploration.
Conjectures and Refutations
Author: Karl Raimund PopperPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415285940
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Conjectures and Refutations is one of Karl Popper's most wide-ranging and popular works, notable not only for its acute insight into the way scientific knowledge grows, but also for applying those insights to politics and to history. It provides one of the clearest and most accessible statements of the fundamental idea that guided his work: not only our knowledge, but our aims and our standards, grow through an unending process of trial and error.
Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion
Author: Valerie SteelePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Contains 640 alphabetized, cross-referenced entries on clothing and fashion, covering such disciplines as fashion design, anthropology, sociology, business, history, and art history.
Gender, Labour, War and Empire
Author: Philippa LevinePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230582923
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
A lively collection of essays on the cultures of nineteenth and twentieth-century Britain. Topics range from prostitution and slavery to the effect of war on fashion magazine reporting to inter-racial marriage in the postwar years. Particular areas of focus include the Second World War, its legacies and the reactions to postwar decolonization.
Handbook of English Costume in the Sixteenth Century
Author: Cecil Willett CunningtonPublisher: Plays
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Elimination of German Resources for War
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cartels
Languages : en
Pages : 1700
Book Description
Part 7: Contains results of U.S. Government investigation of German-based I.G. Farben international cartel organization and activities in support of Nazi and possible future German military efforts