Popular science (243)

publisher: Springer
year: 2006
description:This collection charts the terrain of contemporary Japanese animation, one of the most explosive forms of visual culture to emerge at the crossroads of transnational cultural production in the last twenty-five years. The essays offer bold and insight...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:From the ampersat and amerpsand, via smileys and runes to the ubiquitous presence of mathematical and other symbols in sciences and technology: both old and modern documents abound with many familiar as well as lesser known characters, symbols and ot...

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:This book places children's literature at the forefront of early twentieth-century debates about national identity and class relations that were expressed through the pursuit of leisure. Focusing on stories about hiking, camping and sailing, this boo...

publisher: Springer
year: 2007
description:Commerce in Culture is an innovative study of how states have responded to the globalization of the film sector. Concerned with more than film content or substance, the book exposes the ongoing political and economic struggles that shape cultural pro...

publisher: Springer
year: 2013
description:Technoscientific developments often have far-reaching consequences, both negative and positive, for the public. Yet, because science has the authority to decide which judgments about scientific issues are sound, public concerns are often dismissed be...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:Computer umgeben uns heute in fast allen Lebensbereichen. Sie erleichtern uns nicht nur als PC oder Laptop die Arbeit, sondern sind auch eingebettet in zahlreiche Objekte unseres täglichen Lebens – vom Auto bis zur Waschmaschine. Doch wie funktionier...

publisher: Springer
year: 2010
description:This book explores the social origins of the Western preoccupation with health and environmental hazards. It looks at the rise of the dichotomy between the vulnerable 'in' and the threatening 'out' by examining the pathologies associated with weather...

publisher: Springer
year: 2011
description:This book looks back at the meaning and purpose of leisure in the past. But this is not a simple social history of leisure. It is not enough to write a history of leisure on its own in fact, it is impossible without engaging in the debate about what ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2011
description:The Environmental and climatic issues varies from continent to continent and is unique to Asia. Understanding the issues does need lot of research and study material which students may not be able to gather due to shortage of time and resources. Henc...

publisher: Springer
year: 2009
description:This innovative and adventurous work, now in paperback, uses broadly feminist and postmodernist modes of analysis to explore what motivates damaging attitudes and practices towards disability. The book argues for the significance of the psycho-social...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Diese fünfte deutsche Auflage enthält ein ganz neues Kapitel über van der Waerdens Permanenten-Vermutung, sowie weitere neue, originelle und elegante Beweise in anderen Kapiteln. Aus den Rezensionen: “… es ist fast unmöglich, ein Mathematikbuch zu sc...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Der Autor dieses Buches bespricht kleine adaptive Fortschritte, die ganzheitliches vernetztes Denken und Handeln voraussetzen, aus dem eine systemstabilisierende Wirkung erwächst. Biokybernetik und Deglobalisierung verfolgen ähnliche Prinzipien. Dahe...