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Experts: The Knowledge and Power of Expertise

Experts: The Knowledge and Power of Expertise

Nico Stehr

In this book, Stehr and Grundmann outline the theoretical significance and practical importance of the growing stratum of experts, counsellors and advisors in contemporary society.
Moral Markets: How Knowledge and Affluence Change Consumers ...

Moral Markets: How Knowledge and Affluence Change Consumers ...

Nico Stehr

Stehr's designation of a new stage in modern societies with the term "moral markets" signals a further development in the social evolution of markets. Market theories still widely in use today emerged in a society that no longer exists.
Biotechnology: Between Commerce and Civil Society

Biotechnology: Between Commerce and Civil Society

Nico Stehr

This volume illustrates the contributions anthropology, law, political science, and sociology can make to the ongoing discussions about the role of biotechnology in modern societies.
Knowledge societies

Knowledge societies

Nico Stehr

This book is essential reading for all those interested in social theory, sociology of knowledge and science, and the general issue of knowledge in the late 20th century.
Knowledge Politics: Governing the Consequences of Science ...

Knowledge Politics: Governing the Consequences of Science ...

Nico Stehr

This book argues that new technologies and society's response to them have created a relatively new phenomenon, "knowledge politics.
The Governance of Knowledge

The Governance of Knowledge

Nico Stehr

Professionals and graduate students in the fields of scoiology, political science, social science, and law, including policymakers and natural scientists, will find this book extremely informative.
Knowledge and Democracy: A 21st Century Perspective

Knowledge and Democracy: A 21st Century Perspective

Nico Stehr

This volume explores the relationship between knowledge and democracy, Do they support each other, do they mutually depend on each other, or are they perhaps even in conflict with each other? Does knowledge increase the freedom to act?
Climate and Society: Climate as Resource, Climate as Risk

Climate and Society: Climate as Resource, Climate as Risk

Nico Stehr

In essence, this book provides an absorbing account of the cultural history of climate and relates it to contemporary scientific knowledge about climate, climate change and its impact.
The Philosophy of Science and Technology Studies

The Philosophy of Science and Technology Studies

Steve Fuller

... Medhurst, Hugo Mendes, James Mittra, John S. Nelson, Nicolas Rasmussen, Paul Roth, Joseph Rouse, Raphael Sassower, Ullica Segerstråle, Nico Stehr, Stephen Turner, Peter Wagner, and Tom Woodward. Thanks must also go to Damon ...
Sociological Abstracts

Sociological Abstracts

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The Culture and Power of Knowledge: Inquiries into ...

The Culture and Power of Knowledge: Inquiries into ...

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Nico Stehr is Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, The University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Richard V. Ericson is Professor of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada With 4 ...
Journal of Singing: The Official Journal of the National ...

Journal of Singing: The Official Journal of the National ...

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Edited by Suzanne Rhodes Draayer. Foreword by Nico Castel. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2007. With Volume Three of Canciones de Esparia Suzanne Draayer has, in the words of Nico Castel, "completed her vision" of providing ...
The Italian Doctor's Wife

The Italian Doctor's Wife

Sarah Morgan

Nico Santini was a staggeringly successful children's heart surgeon—rich, handsome and brilliant.
The Stranger Game

The Stranger Game

Cylin Busby

Despite the happy ending, the dark details of that day continue to haunt Nico, and it becomes clear that more than one person knows the true story of what happened to Sarah. . . .
Save Me, Kurt Cobain

Save Me, Kurt Cobain

Jenny Manzer

I love this book.” —Jennifer Niven, New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places Nico Cavan has been adrift since her mother vanished when she was four—maternal abandonment isn’t exactly something you can just get over ...
Mortal Temptations

Mortal Temptations

Allyson James

Patricia, proprietor of a local antique store, gets more than she had bargained for when she meets Nico, the winged son of a powerful deity, who has been cursed by the goddess Hera to spend an eternity as a slave to female desire, in the ...
Beatleness: How the Beatles and Their Fans Remade the World

Beatleness: How the Beatles and Their Fans Remade the World

Candy Leonard

There are two other members of the siblinghood of Beatle fans whom I need to thank: Bill Trudell and Nico Detourn.Both of these wise, trusted advisors, each with unique talentsand perspectives, made the book better witheach reading and  ...
Teleology in the Ancient World: Philosophical and Medical ...

Teleology in the Ancient World: Philosophical and Medical ...

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I thank all those responsible for these wonderful opportunities, especially Rachel Ankeny, Paul Griffiths and Charles Wolfe (Brisbane), Jordi Kat and Nico Bertoloni Meli (Indiana), Mariska Leunissen and Eric Brown (St. Louis), and Hynek ...
Follow Me #4: Closing In

Follow Me #4: Closing In

Cara Lockwood

But what he has to say may just shatter everything Nico thought he knew about the woman he truly loves and cost even more lives in the fourth episode in Cara Lockwood's white-hot e-serial Follow Me. Don't miss NO TURNING BACK, the fifth ...
Digital Mammography: Nijmegen, 1998

Digital Mammography: Nijmegen, 1998

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Nijmegen, 1998 nico karssemeijer, Martin Thijssen, Jan Hendriks, Leon van Erning. SYSTEM CONSIDERATIONS FOR SATELLITE TRANSMISSION OF DIGITIZED MAMMOGRAMS DONALD NETH', KIMERLY POWELL',NANCY ...
Image Analysis and Processing — ICIAP 2015: 18th ...

Image Analysis and Processing — ICIAP 2015: 18th ...

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Compression and Querying of Arbitrary Geodesic Distances Rosario Aiello1, Francesco Banterle1(B), Nico Pietroni1, Luigi Malomo1,2, Paolo Cignoni1, and Roberto Scopigno1 1 ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy francesco.banterle ...
IV Hotine-Marussi Symposium on Mathematical Geodesy

IV Hotine-Marussi Symposium on Mathematical Geodesy

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Simulation of the Goce Gravity Field Mission Nico Sneeuw, Raul Dorobantu, Christian Gerlach, Jürgen Müller, Helmut Oberndorfer, Reiner RumInstitut für Astronomische und Physikalische Geodăsie (IAPG), Technische Universität München, ...
Media and Participation: A Site of Ideological-democratic ...

Media and Participation: A Site of Ideological-democratic ...

Nico Carpentier

Alegre, Alan and O'Siochru, Seán (2005), 'Communication Rights', in Alain Ambrosi, Valerie Peugeot and Daniel Pimienta (eds.), Word Matters. Multicultural Perspectives on Information Societies, Caen: C&F Publishers. Alfasi, Nurit (2003) , 'Is ...
Dante, Cinema, and Television

Dante, Cinema, and Television

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Ed. Patrick Rumble and Bart Testa. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994. 232^2. lannucci, Amilcare A. 'From Dante's Inferno to Dante's Peak: The Influence of Dante on Film.' Forum Italicum 32. 1 (Spring 1998): 5-35. Naldini, Nico.
The Music Between Us: Is Music a Universal Language?

The Music Between Us: Is Music a Universal Language?

Kathleen Marie Higgins

... James Averill, Martha Nussbaum, Kimasi Browne, Eric Charry, Ya-Hui Cheng, Julia Ching, Meribeth Clark, Amber CliffordNapoleone, Kathleen Costello, Steven Feld, Marilyn Fischer, Danielle FoslerLussier, Nico Frijda, Acknowledgments.
Handbook on Climate Change and Agriculture

Handbook on Climate Change and Agriculture

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Ariel Dinar, Robert O. Mendelsohn. 10 11 Integrated assessment models – the interplay of climate change, agriculture and land use in a policy tool Marian Leimbach, Alexander Popp, Hermann Lotze-Campen, Nico Bauer, Jan Philipp Dietrich ...
VIII Hotine-Marussi Symposium on Mathematical Geodesy: ...

VIII Hotine-Marussi Symposium on Mathematical Geodesy: ...

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... Josef Sebera Michael G. Sideris Nico Sneeuw Robert Tenzer Peter J.G. Teunissen Carl Christian Tscherning Ilias Tziavos Giovanna Venuti Pieter NAM Visser Jinling Wang Simon David Paul Williams Hasan Yildiz 334 List of Reviewers.
Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in the ...

Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in the ...

Stijn Alsteens

... Martin Hitz,Alison Hokanson, Melanie Holcomb, Nico Van Hout, Kirstie Howard , Timothy Husband, Debra Jackson, Joachim Jacoby, Catherine Jenkins, Zoltan Karpati, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Hans-Martin Kaulbach, Thomas Ketelsen, ...
Formula One - With Audio Level 3 Factfiles Oxford Bookworms ...

Formula One - With Audio Level 3 Factfiles Oxford Bookworms ...

Alex Raynham

... 3 (2010 Bahrain Grand Prix/Charles Coates), 5 (2010 Renault R30 Launch/ Andrew Ferraro), 10 (Red Bull Racing RB6 Renault waits in garage/Charles Coates), 13 (Nico Hulkenberg, Williams FW32 Cosworth, on the grid/2010 Malaysian ...

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