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		<title>Philosophies of the Sciences: A Guide</title>
		<link>http://bookpasta.net/blog/2010/06/08/philosophies-of-the-sciences-a-guide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A collection of essays discussing a wide range of sciences and the central philosophical issues associated with them, presenting the sciences collectively to encourage a greater understanding of their associative theoretical foundations, as well as their relationships to each other. Offers a new and unique approach to studying and comparing the philosophies of a variety of scientific disciplines Explores a wide variety of individual sciences, including mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, sociology and economics The essays are written by leading scholars in a highly accessible style for the student audience Complements more traditional studies of philosophy of science]]></description>
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		<title>The History of Time: A Very Short Introduction</title>
		<link>http://bookpasta.net/blog/2010/05/03/the-history-of-time-a-very-short-introduction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 17:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Chronology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why do we measure time in the way that we do? Why is a week seven days long? At what point did minutes and seconds come into being? Why are some calendars lunar and some solar? The organization of time into hours, days, months, and years seems immutable and universal, but is actually far more artificial than most people realize. For example, the French Revolution resulted in a restructuring of the French calendar, and the Soviet Union experimented with five and then six-day weeks. Leofranc Holford-Strevens brings us this fascinating study of time using a range of examples from Ancient Rome and Julius Caesar&#8217;s imposition of the Leap Year to the 1920&#8242;s project for a fixed Easter. Those interested in time, history, and the development of the calendar will enjoy this absorbing exploration of an aspect of our lives that we all take for granted. The organisation of time into hours, days, months and years seems immutable and universal, but is actually far more artificial than most people realise. The French Revolution resulted in a restructuring of the French calendar, and the Soviet Union experimented with five and then six-day weeks. Leofranc Holford-Strevens explores these questions using a range of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Group Cognition: Computer Support for Building Collaborative Knowledge</title>
		<link>http://bookpasta.net/blog/2009/12/24/group-cognition-computer-support-for-building-collaborative-knowledge/</link>
		<comments>http://bookpasta.net/blog/2009/12/24/group-cognition-computer-support-for-building-collaborative-knowledge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 21:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Innovative uses of global and local networks of linked computers make new ways of collaborative working, learning, and acting possible. In Group Cognition Gerry Stahl explores the technological and social reconfigurations that are needed to achieve computer-supported collaborative knowledge building—group cognition that transcends the limits of individual cognition. Computers can provide active media for social group cognition where ideas grow through the interactions within groups of people; software functionality can manage group discourse that results in shared understandings, new meanings, and collaborative learning. Stahl offers software design prototypes, analyzes empirical instances of collaboration, and elaborates a theory of collaboration that takes the group, rather than the individual, as the unit of analysis. Stahl&#8217;s design studies concentrate on mechanisms to support group formation, multiple interpretive perspectives, and the negotiation of group knowledge in applications as varied as collaborative curriculum development by teachers, writing summaries by students, and designing space voyages by NASA engineers. His empirical analysis shows how, in small-group collaborations, the group constructs intersubjective knowledge that emerges from and appears in the discourse itself. This discovery of group meaning becomes the springboard for Stahl&#8217;s outline of a social theory of collaborative knowing. Stahl also discusses such related issues as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Policing Organized Crime</title>
		<link>http://bookpasta.net/blog/2009/12/11/policing-organized-crime/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 04:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When criminal activity is as straightforward as a child’s game of cops and robbers, the role of the police is obvious, but today’s bad guys don’t always wear black. In fact, the most difficult criminals to cope with are those who straddle the gray divide between licit and illicit activity. Many of these nefarious sorts operate on the fringe of society, often acting the part of businesspersons, meeting the demands of otherwise law-abiding clientele with illegally procured or delivered goods. Others, specially trained to occupy positions of responsibility, make the most of position and special knowledge to partake of ill-gotten gains. Then there are the organized crime families and syndicates who make use of common business models to turn dubious undertakings into profitable ventures. Policing Organized Crime: Intelligence Strategy Implementation addresses these very real types of modern criminals. It examines the methods and motives of those operating on the fringes of society, including more obvious outlaws as well as less obvious lawyers, businesspeople, and bankers, social outcasts as well as devoted family people. Written by Petter Gottschalk, an internationally respected police expert in organized crime, this book details the workings of entrepreneurial crime through the use of case studies from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>e-Transformation: Enabling New Development Strategies</title>
		<link>http://bookpasta.net/blog/2009/12/07/e-transformation-enabling-new-development-strategies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Could information and communication technology (ICT) become the transformative tool for a new style of global development? Could ICT promote knowledge-based, innovation-driven, and smart, adaptive, participatory development? As countries seek a way out of the present period of economic contraction, they are trying to weave ICT into their development strategies, in the same way organizations have learned to use ICT to transform their business models and strategies. This integration offers a new path to development that is responsive to the challenges of our times. In e-Transformation, Nagy Hanna identifies the key ingredients for the strategic integration of ICT into national development, with examples from around the world. He draws on his rich experience of over 35 years at the World Bank and other aid agencies to outline the strategic options involved in using ICT to maximize developmental impact—transforming public service institutions, networking businesses for innovation and competitiveness, and empowering communities for social inclusion and poverty reduction. He identifies the key interdependencies in e-transformation and offers a holistic framework to tap network effects and synergies across all elements of the process, including leadership, cyber policies, institutions, human resources, technological competencies, information infrastructure, and ICT uses for government, business, and society. Integrating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nonviolence and Peace Psychology</title>
		<link>http://bookpasta.net/blog/2009/12/03/nonviolence-and-peace-psychology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent trends and events worldwide have increased public interest in nonviolence, pacifism, and peace psychology as well as professional interest across the social sciences. Nonviolence and Peace Psychology assembles multiple perspectives to create a more comprehensive and nuanced understanding of the concepts and phenomena of nonviolence than is usually seen on the subject. Through this diverse literature&#8211;spanning psychology, political science, religious studies, anthropology, and sociology&#8211;peace psychologist Dan Mayton gives readers the opportunity to view nonviolence as a body of principles, a system of pragmatics, and a strategy for social change. This important volume:Draws critical distinctions between nonviolence, pacifism, and related concepts.Classifies nonviolence in terms of its scope (intrapersonal, interpersonal, societal, global) and pacifism according to political and situational dimensions.Applies standard psychological concepts such as beliefs, motives, dispositions, and values to define nonviolent actions and behaviors. Brings sociohistorical and cross-cultural context to peace psychology.Analyzes a century&#8217;s worth of nonviolent social action, from the pathbreaking work of Gandhi and King to the Courage to Refuse movement within the Israeli armed forces. Reviews methodological and measurement issues in nonviolence research, and suggests areas for future study.Although more attention is traditionally devoted to violence and aggression within the social sciences, Nonviolence and Peace Psychology [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Complexity and Spatial Networks</title>
		<link>http://bookpasta.net/blog/2009/11/30/complexity-and-spatial-networks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Macroeconomics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This book offers a panoramic view of recent advances in spatial complexity, in order to enhance our understanding of complex spatial networks by simplicity in terms of both the basic driving forces of systemic impacts and the modelling of such systems. Simple models mapping out the evolution of complex networks are undoubtedly a key issue in spatial economic research. In exploring this untrodden ground, this volume pursues new interdisciplinary pathways for theoretical, methodological and empirical analysis in the complex interconnected space-economy. It highlights ‘evolutionary’ directions and ‘unifying’ perspectives in this fascinating research field.]]></description>
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		<title>The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics</title>
		<link>http://bookpasta.net/blog/2009/11/30/the-number-sense-how-the-mind-creates-mathematics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our understanding of how the human brain performs mathematicalcalculations is far from complete. But in recent years there have been manyexciting scientific discoveries, some aided by new imaging techniques&#8211;whichallow us for the first time to watch the living mind at work&#8211;and others byingenious experiments conducted by researchers all over the world. There arestill perplexing mysteries&#8211;how, for instance, do idiot savants perform almostmiraculous mathematical feats?&#8211;but the picture is growing steadily clearer. InThe Number Sense, Stanislas Dehaene offers general readers a first look at theserecent stunning discoveries, in an enlightening exploration of the mathematicalmind.Dehaene, a mathematician turned cognitive neuropsychologist, begins withthe eye-opening discovery that animals&#8211;including rats, pigeons, raccoons, andchimpanzees&#8211;can perform simple mathematical calculations, and he describesingenious experiments that show that human infants also have a rudimentarynumber sense (American scientist Karen Wynn, for instance, using just a fewMickey Mouse toys and a small puppet theater, proved that five-month-old infantsalready have the ability to add and subtract). Further, Dehaene suggests thatthis rudimentary number sense is as basic to the way the brain understands theworld as our perception of color or of objects in space, and, like these otherabilities, our number sense is wired into the brain. But how then did the brainleap from this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Acting in an Uncertain World</title>
		<link>http://bookpasta.net/blog/2009/11/26/acting-in-an-uncertain-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Controversies over such issues as nuclear waste, genetically modified organisms, asbestos, tobacco, gene therapy, avian flu, and cell phone towers arise almost daily as rapid scientific and technological advances create uncertainty and bring about unforeseen concerns. The authors of Acting in an Uncertain World argue that political institutions must be expanded and improved to manage these controversies, to transform them into productive conversations, and to bring about &#8220;technical democracy.&#8221; They show how &#8220;hybrid forums&#8221;—in which experts, non-experts, ordinary citizens, and politicians come together—reveal the limits of traditional delegative democracies, in which decisions are made by quasi-professional politicians and techno-scientific information is the domain of specialists in laboratories. The division between professionals and laypeople, the authors claim, is simply outmoded. The authors argue that laboratory research should be complemented by everyday experimentation pursued in the real world, and they describe various modes of cooperation between the two. They explore a range of concrete examples of hybrid forums that have dealt with sociotechnical controversies including nuclear waste disposal in France, industrial waste and birth defects in Japan, a childhood leukemia cluster in Woburn, Massachusetts, and Mad Cow Disease in the United Kingdom. They discuss the implications for political decision making in general, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Climate Change and Armed Conflict</title>
		<link>http://bookpasta.net/blog/2009/11/26/climate-change-and-armed-conflict/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Climate]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This book examines the evolution of the relationship between climate change and conflict, and attempts to visualize future trends. Owing to the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, current trends in climate change will not appreciably alter over the next half century even if drastic action is taken now. Changes in climate will produce unique types and modes of conflict, redefine the value of important resources, and create new challenges to maintaining social order and stability. This book examines the consequences of climate change and argues that it has and will produce two types of different types of conflict: &#8216;cold wars&#8217; and &#8216;hot wars&#8217;. Cold wars will occur in northern and southern latitudes as warming draws countries into possible conflict due to expanding interests in exploiting new resources and territories (inter-state conflict). Hot wars will break out around the equator as warming expands and intensifies dry areas, increasing competition for scarce resources (intra-state conflict). Conflict is not inevitable, but it will also be a consequence of how states, international institutions and people react to changes in climate. Climate change and conflict have always shaped human experiences. This book lays out the parameters of the relationship, shows its history, and [...]]]></description>
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