Emerging Network Culture"The Moment of Complexity is a profoundly original work. In remarkable and insightful ways, Mark Taylor traces an entirely new way to view the evolution of our culture, detailing h...9999903112662Mark C. Taylor
University Of Chicago Press
lunes, 22 de abril de 2024
Knowledge, Innovation, and American CountercultureIn his 1969 book The Making of a Counterculture, Theodore Roszak described the youth of the late 1960s as fleeing science ??as if from a place inhabited by plague, ? and even see...9999903102427David Kaiser W. Patrick M...
University Of Chicago Press
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
Dispatches from an Uncertain WorldThe ideas at the root of quantum theory remain stubbornly, famously bizarre: a solid world reduced to puffs of probability; particles that tunnel through walls; cats suspended in z...9999903097464David Kaiser
University Of Chicago Press
viernes, 22 de marzo de 2024
A HistoryWe live in an age of obsession. Not only are we hopelessly devoted to our work, strangely addicted to our favorite television shows, and desperately impassioned about our cars, we ...9999903081609Lennard J. Davis
University Of Chicago Press
sábado, 10 de febrero de 2024
From the Panopticon to the Skinner Box and BeyondHow should we weigh the costs and benefits of scientific research on humans? Is it right that a small group of people should suffer in order that a larger number can live better, h...9999903081135Cathy Gere
University Of Chicago Press
jueves, 8 de febrero de 2024
The Power of the Cognitive NonconsciousN. Katherine Hayles is known for breaking new ground at the intersection of the sciences and the humanities. In Unthought, she once again bridges disciplines by revealing how we th...9999903076513N. Katherine Hayles
University Of Chicago Press
viernes, 2 de febrero de 2024
Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern FringeProperly analyzed, the collective mythological and religious writings of humanity reveal that around 1500 BC, a comet swept perilously close to Earth, triggering widespread natural...9999903063520Michael D. Gordin
University Of Chicago Press
miércoles, 10 de enero de 2024
The Revealing History of Facial HairBeards???they???re all the rage these days. Take a look around: from hip urbanites to rustic outdoorsmen, well-groomed metrosexuals to post-season hockey players, facial hair is ev...9999902789667Christopher Oldstone-Moor...
University Of Chicago Press
miércoles, 29 de diciembre de 2021
A Cultural History of Our AgeArgues that humanity is growing steadily younger, as society retains more physical and mental characteristics of youth, which is a luxury required for flashes of genius and innovat...9999902729236Robert Pogue Harrison
University Of Chicago Press
miércoles, 28 de julio de 2021
Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip ConsumerismLooks at advertising during the 1960s, focusing on the relationship between the counterculture movement and commerce.9999902726105Thomas Frank
University Of Chicago Press
martes, 27 de julio de 2021
The Evolution of the Sherman Antitrust ActUses the Sherman Antitrust Act as a case study to show how the American government develops national economic policies9999902475454William Letwin
University Of Chicago Press
lunes, 29 de julio de 2019
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