On The Shoulders Of Merchants
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On The Shoulders Of Merchants
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Author : Richard W. Hadden
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1994-07-28
On The Shoulders Of Merchants written by Richard W. Hadden and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-07-28 with Social Science categories.
This book shows how the universal quantification of science resulted from the routinization of commercial practices that were familiar in scientists daily lives. Following the work of Franz Borkenau and Jacob Klein in the 1930s, the book describes the rise of the mechanistic world-view as a reification of relations of exchange in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Critical of more orthodox, positivist Marxist accounts of the rise of science, it argues that commercial reckoners, in keeping with the social relations in which their activity took place, delivered a new mathematical object, general magnitude, to the new mechanics. The book is an historical extension of the sociology of scientific knowledge and develops and refines themes found in the work of Alfred Sohn-Rethel and Gideon Freudenthal.
Merchants Of Doubt
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Author : Naomi Oreskes
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2011-10-03
Merchants Of Doubt written by Naomi Oreskes and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-03 with Technology & Engineering categories.
The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life. These scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming. But at the same time, a small yet potent subset of this community leads the world in vehement denial of these dangers. Merchants of Doubt tells the story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers, with deep connections in politics and industry, ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades. Remarkably, the same individuals surface repeatedly-some of the same figures who have claimed that the science of global warming is "not settled" denied the truth of studies linking smoking to lung cancer, coal smoke to acid rain, and CFCs to the ozone hole. "Doubt is our product," wrote one tobacco executive. These "experts" supplied it. Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, historians of science, roll back the rug on this dark corner of the American scientific community, showing how ideology and corporate interests, aided by a too-compliant media, have skewed public understanding of some of the most pressing issues of our era.
The Eye Of The Master
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Author : Matteo Pasquinelli
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2023-10-10
The Eye Of The Master written by Matteo Pasquinelli and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-10 with Social Science categories.
A social history of AI that finally reveals its roots in the spatial computation of industrial factories and the surveillance of collective behaviour. What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the quest "to solve intelligence," a solution supposedly to be found in the secret logic of the mind or in the deep physiology of the brain, such as in its complex neural networks. The Eye of the Master argues, to the contrary, that the inner code of AI is shaped not by the imitation of biological intelligence, but the intelligence of labour and social relations, as it is found in Babbage's "calculating engines" of the industrial age as well as in the recent algorithms for image recognition and surveillance. The idea that AI may one day become autonomous (or "sentient", as someone thought of Google's LaMDA) is pure fantasy. Computer algorithms have always imitated the form of social relations and the organisation of labour in their own inner structure and their purpose remains blind automation. The Eye of the Master urges a new literacy on AI for scientists, journalists and new generations of activists, who should recognise that the "mystery" of AI is just the automation of labour at the highest degree, not intelligence per se.
The Grocer S Companion And Merchant S Handbook
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1883
The Grocer S Companion And Merchant S Handbook written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1883 with Food categories.
Merchants And Revolution
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Author : BRENNER.
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Merchants And Revolution written by BRENNER. and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with categories.
Merchants And Revolution
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Author : Robert Brenner
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2020-05-05
Merchants And Revolution written by Robert Brenner and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-05 with Business & Economics categories.
Merchants and Revolution examines the activities of London's merchant community during the early Stuart period. Proposing a new understanding of long-term commercial change, Robert Brenner explains the factors behind the opening of long-distance commerce to the south and east, describing how the great City merchants wielded power to exploit emerging business opportunities, and he profiles the new colonial traders, who became the chief architects of the Commonwealth's dynamic commercial policy.
The Dream Merchants
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Author : Harold Robbins
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2010
The Dream Merchants written by Harold Robbins and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Erotic stories categories.
Return to a time when Hollywood was young and the movie industry was just starting out. In Harold Robbins' second novel, he captures a bygone era of entertainment pioneers turning cinematic dreams into reality. The Dream Merchants is a story of powerful men and passionate women, doing whatever they have to in order to succeed. Johnny Edge is a former carny hustler, filled with schemes and ambition. Peter Kessler trades in a life of being stuck in the hardware business for the fortunes of moviemaking. Actress Dulcie Warren isn't afraid to use her sexuality to fulfill her ambitions. And if she has to take someone down to get to the top? That's show business. Their worlds collide on the studio back lots at Magnum Pictures in moments of intrigue and entanglement. Robbins' own experiences at Universal Studios laid the foundation for The Dream Merchants, the novel that would later be made into an all-star miniseries featuring Mark Harmon, Morgan Fairchild, Eve Arden, Robert Culp, Jose Ferrer, Robert Goulet, and Fernando Lamas.
Honorable Merchants
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Author : Richard John Lufrano
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 1997-01-01
Honorable Merchants written by Richard John Lufrano and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-01-01 with Business & Economics categories.
In light of East Asia's current economic success, it has become increasingly clear that Confucian social thought, long assumed in Western scholarship to be a major stumbling block to economic development, can, under the proper circumstances, have exactly the opposite effect. Lufrano's study is the most sustained and sophisticated of recent reevaluations of Confucianism's role in the rapid commercial development in the late Ming to mid-Qing period. It will be of great interest and value to scholars in the growing field of Chinese business history and should be welcomed by those interested in the Confucian roots of Pacific Rim business practice.
Merchants Markets And Manufacture
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Author : J. Smail
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1999-07-19
Merchants Markets And Manufacture written by J. Smail and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-07-19 with History categories.
This book explores the causes and nature of the industrial revolution through a comparative study of the main wool textile manufacturing regions of England. Addressing many of the current debates in economic history and eighteenth-century studies through a detailed, archivally-based analysis, it examines how the interplay between merchants, markets and producers shaped the pace and character of economic growth during the eighteenth century, paying particular attention to the implications of rapid product innovation and the export trade.
Hunt S Merchants Magazine And Commercial Review
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Author : Freeman Hunt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1856
Hunt S Merchants Magazine And Commercial Review written by Freeman Hunt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1856 with Commerce categories.