Author: Kavaljit Singh
Publisher: Zed Book
Keywords: globalization, questioning
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2005-10-21
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 1842772791
ISBN-13: 9781842772799

This book makes a critical analysis of several contemporary debates surrounding globalization. With the help of case studies, statistical data and cogent analysis, it debunks several myths associated with globalization processes. Written for a non-technical audience readership, the author fundamentally questions the viewpoints held by the "hyper-globalists." Singh not only contributes to deepening the current debates on globalization but provides an indispensable tool of analysis for concerned citizens, students, social and political activists, labor unions, NGOs, and policy makers alike.

Author: Tom Bethell
Publisher: Vales Lake Publishing, LLC
Keywords: necessary, relativity, einstein, questioning
Number of Pages: 205
Published: 2009-07-15
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0971484597
ISBN-13: 9780971484597

Questioning Einstein: Is Relativity Necessary? by Tom Bethell is a serious scholarly work that is very well written, absorbing the reader in a tale of long-neglected experimental results that plays out to a deep satisfaction in finally answering the question, "Why can’t I understand relativity?" This is a fresh, unique review of both special and general relativity. It takes for granted that Einstein s mathematics is properly done. It does not quarrel with the numerous experimental results that support Einstein’s general relativity theory. Then what is the quarrel with Einstein? Bet

Author: Randy Newman
Publisher: Kregel Publications
Keywords: evangelism, questioning
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2004-02-01
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 082543324X
ISBN-13: 9780825433245

A revolutionary look at sharing Christ with unbelievers by using Jesus’ penetrating method of question asking to engage others in personal dialogue and life-changing interaction.

Author: Andrew Feenberg
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: technology, questioning
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1999-04-16
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 0415197546
ISBN-13: 9780415197540

Modern industrial society is an experiment with a brief past and an uncertain future. In less than two centuries, technology has transformed the globe and given the human race the power to realize its highest ideals or destroy itself. Questioning Technology offers the recognition of the democratic significance of public intervention into technical lifeWe see that the rise and advance of information technology accounts for technologies ultimately crucial social and political position. If we continue to see technical and social domains as being separate, then we are essentially avoiding and deny

Author: Andrew Feenberg
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: technology, questioning
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1999-04-16
List price: $42.95
ISBN-10: 0415197554
ISBN-13: 9780415197557

In this extraordinary introduction to the study of the philosophy of technology, Andrew Feenberg argues that techonological design is central to the social and political structure of modern societies. Environmentalism, information technology, and medical advances testify to technology’s crucial importance.In his lucid and engaging style, Feenberg shows that technology is the medium of daily life. Every major technical changes reverberates at countless levels: economic, political, and cultural. If we continue to see the social and technical domains as being seperate, then we are essential

Author: Kath Woodward
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: identity, questioning
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2004-11-03
List price: $160.00
ISBN-10: 0415329671
ISBN-13: 9780415329675

Our world is an increasingly unstable place, but current changes offer new opportunities as well as new challenges. This key volume provides an accessible exploration of identity as a contemporary concern in everyday life and as a key concept in social science. Drawing on work from a range of disciplines and focusing on the key social divisions of gender, class and nation, it shows how these challenges and opportunities work out in practice. What is really happening when people either individually or in groups identify with particular definitions of themselves or strike out to take up new id

Author: J. T. Dillon
Publisher: Ablex Publishing
Keywords: study, multidisciplinary, discussion, questioning
Number of Pages: 348
Published: 1988-01-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0893914932
ISBN-13: 9780893914936