The Dilemmas Of Wonderland

Author : Yakov Ben-Haim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780192555397

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The Dilemmas of Wonderland by Yakov Ben-Haim Pdf

Innovations create both opportunities and dilemmas. They provide new and supposedly better opportunities, but — because of their newness — they are often more uncertain and potentially worse than existing options. Recent inventions and discoveries include new drugs, new energy sources, new foods, new manufacturing technologies, new toys and new pedagogical methods, new weapon systems, new home appliances and many other discoveries and inventions. Is it better to use or not to use a new and promising but unfamiliar and hence uncertain innovation? That dilemma faces just about everybody. The paradigm of the innovation dilemma characterizes many situations, even when a new technology is not actually involved. The dilemma arises from new attitudes, like individual responsibility for the global environment, or new social conceptions, like global allegiance and self-identity transcending nation-states. These dilemmas have far-reaching implications for individuals, organizations, and society at large as they make decisions in the age of innovation. The uncritical belief in outcome-optimization — "more is better, so most is best" — pervades decision-making in all domains, but is often irresponsible when facing the uncertainties of innovation. There is a great need for practical conceptual tools for understanding and managing the dilemmas of innovation. This book offers a new direction for a wide audience. It discusses examples from many fields, including e-reading, bipolar disorder and pregnancy, disruptive technology in industry, stock markets, agricultural productivity and world hunger, military hardware, military intelligence, biological conservation, on-line learning, and more.

Author : floyd merrell
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781499036374

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The Dilemma by floyd merrell Pdf

Matt receives accolades regarding his innovative retailing technique as produce manager at a large supermarket. Yet, his multi-ethnic identity continues plaguing him. Following a series of troubling confrontations, traumatic events, and the death of his wife, María, he finds he has the wherewithal finally to resolve his dilemma.

Author : Ben-Ami Scharfstein
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1991-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780814779163

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The Dilemma of Context by Ben-Ami Scharfstein Pdf

In The Dilemma of Context, Scharfstein contends that the problems encountered with context are insoluble. He explains why this problem lays an intellectual burden on us that, while remaining inescapable, can become so heavy it destroys the understandingit was created to further.

Author : Robin Fox
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351322829

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Participant Observer by Robin Fox Pdf

Robin Fox, one of the preeminent anthropologists of our time, takes us on an exuberant personal, intellectual and cultural journey through the 1930s to the 1970s. This is a personal, historical, intellectual journey, one that is at once intriguing, hilarious, and moving. Like Browning's Sordello (who recurs throughout the book), Fox is telling the story of "the development of a soul." Fox's method is to depend entirely on memory to select the people, events, and ideas that have driven him towards what was called at the time a "revolution in the social sciences." This revolution was the founding of the biosocial, or what came to be called the sociobiological, movement in the study of human behavior. It was a long road peppered with strange events, brain-bending ideas, odd adventures, dangers and sorrows, and a cast of lively, often eccentric characters.Fox describes himself as an observer of a series of endings: the last gasps of now extinct ways of life. He witnessed the last of the old steam and horse-powered northern wool towns of the industrial revolution and the pre-industrial Hardy countryside of southern England. He saw the ancient grammar schools before their destruction by doctrinaire socialism; the old LSE when it was still an international family, not just a big college; the brave but failed experiment that was Talcott Parsons' Social Relations Department. In the United States, he experienced the innocent but troubled America of the 1950s and the last gasp of traditional Indian life in New Mexico. He lived in genteel Jane Austen England in Devon and experienced peasant-crofter life in the Irish islands.Participant Observer is a report from the cultural and social battlefront, seen through the personal lens of a combatant. Fox has given us a kind of Cook's Tour through the ideas and intellectual movements of mid-century, when the world changed and the foundations of the twenty-first century were set. It is the history of an education by a narrator in love with learning.

Author : K. Mallan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230244559

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Gender Dilemmas in Children’s Fiction by K. Mallan Pdf

This engaging study examines diverse genders and sexualities in a wide range of contemporary fiction for children and young people. Mallan's insights into key dilemmas arising from the texts' treatment of romance, beauty, cyberbodies, queer, and comedy are provocative and trustworthy, and deliver exciting theoretical and social perspectives.

Author : Kerry Mallan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350308954

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Contemporary Children's Literature and Film by Kerry Mallan Pdf

Bringing together leading and emerging scholars, this book argues for the significance of theory for reading texts written and produced for young people. Integrating perspectives from across feminism, ecocriticism, postcolonialism and poststructuralism, it demonstrates how these inform approaches to a range of contemporary literature and film.

Author : Jean Evergreen
Publisher : Evergreen Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Dilemma by Jean Evergreen Pdf

Lies, betrayal and an obsession gone too far. When it comes to love, anything goes. Jason’s back, and this time he's not taking no for an answer. With Blake in the picture, Bridget is more confused than ever. Both are prepared to give her everything her heart desires. But with her head and heart at odds, will she wind up making a decision she'll regret for the rest of her life?

Author : Farah Ali
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351625555

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Eroding the Language of Freedom by Farah Ali Pdf

Let down by the uncertainties of memory, language, and their own family units, the characters in Harold Pinter’s plays endure persistent struggles to establish their own identities. Eroding the Language of Freedom re-examines how identity is shaped in these plays, arguing that the characters’ failure to function as active members of society speaks volumes to Pinter’s ideological preoccupation with society’s own inadequacies. Pinter described himself as addressing the state of the world through his plays, and in the linguistic games, emotional balancing acts, and recurring scenarios through which he put his characters, readers and audiences can see how he perceived that world.

Author : Anthony Vidler
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1994-03-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262720183

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The Architectural Uncanny by Anthony Vidler Pdf

Anthony Vidler interprets contemporary buildings and projects in light of the resurgent interest in the uncanny as a metaphor for a fundamentally "unhomely" modern condition. The Architectural Uncanny presents an engaging and original series of meditations on issues and figures that are at the heart of the most pressing debates surrounding architecture today. Anthony Vidler interprets contemporary buildings and projects in light of the resurgent interest in the uncanny as a metaphor for a fundamentally "unhomely" modern condition. The essays are at once historical—serving to situate contemporary discourse in its own intellectual tradition and theoretical—opening up the complex and difficult relationships between politics, social thought, and architectural design in an era when the reality of homelessness and the idealism of the neo-avant-garde have never seemed so far apart. Vidler, one of the deftest and surest critics of the contemporary scene, explores aspects of architecture through notions of the uncanny as they have been developed in literature, philosophy, and psychology from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. He interprets the unsettling qualities of today's architecture—its fragmented neo-constructivist forms reminiscent of dismembered bodies, its "seeing walls" replicating the passive gaze of domestic cyborgs, its historical monuments indistinguishable from glossy reproductions - in the light of modern reflection on questions of social and individual estrangement, alienation, exile, and homelessness. Focusing on the work of architects such as Bernard Tschumi, Rem Koolhaas, Peter Eisenman, Coop Himmelblau, John Hejduk, Elizabeth Diller, and Ricardo Scofidio, as well as theorists of the urban condition, Vidler delineates the problems and paradoxes associated with the subject of domesticity.

Author : Surya Narain Singh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015050646135

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The Dilemmas of Indian Polity by Surya Narain Singh Pdf

Author : Peter Harries-Jones
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0802075916

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A Recursive Vision by Peter Harries-Jones Pdf

Gregory Bateson was one of the most original social scientists of this century. He is widely known as author of key ideas used in family therapy - including the well-known condition called 'double bind' . He was also one of the most influential figures in cultural anthropology. In the decade before his death in 1980 Bateson turned toward a consideration of ecology. Standard ecology concentrates on an ecosystem's biomass and on energy budgets supporting life. Bateson came to the conclusion that understanding ecological organization requires a complete switch in scientific perspective. He reasoned that ecological phenomena must be explained primarily through patterns of information and that only through perceiving these informational patterns will we uncover the elusive unity, or integration, of ecosystems. Bateson believed that relying upon the materialist framework of knowledge dominant in ecological science will deepen errors of interpretation and, in the end, promote eco-crisis. He saw recursive patterns of communication as the basis of order in both natural and human domains. He conducted his investigation first in small-scale social settings; then among octopus, otters, and dolphins. Later he took these investigations to the broader setting of evolutionary analysis and developed a framework of thinking he called 'an ecology of mind.' Finally, his inquiry included an ecology of mind in ecological settings - a recursive epistemology. This is the first study of the whole range of Bateson's ecological thought - a comprehensive presentaionof Bateson's matrix of ideas. Drawing on unpublished letters and papers, Harries-Jones clarifies themes scattered throughout Bateson's own writings, revealing the conceptual consistency inherent in Bateson's position, and elaborating ways in which he pioneered aspects of late twentieth-century thought.

Author : Gillian Beer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226564692

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Alice in Space by Gillian Beer Pdf

An examination of Carroll's books about Alice explores the contextual knowledge of the time period in which it was written, addressing such topics as time, games, mathematics, and taxonomies.

Author : Haruki Murakami
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307781093

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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami Pdf

In this hyperkinetic and relentlessly inventive novel, Japan’s most popular (and controversial) fiction writer hurtles into the consciousness of the West. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World draws readers into a narrative particle accelerator in which a split-brained data processor, a deranged scientist, his shockingly undemure granddaughter, Lauren Bacall, Bob Dylan, and various thugs, librarians, and subterranean monsters collide to dazzling effect. What emerges is simultaneously cooler than zero and unaffectedly affecting, a hilariously funny and deeply serious meditation on the nature and uses of the mind. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Sydney (N.S.W.)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017421236

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The Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Silvestra Mariniello,Paul A. Bové
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0822321963

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Gendered Agents by Silvestra Mariniello,Paul A. Bové Pdf

Gathered from various issues of the journal BOUNDARY 2, the essays in GENDERED AGENTS assess questions of sexuality, ethics, race, psychoanalysis, subjectivity, and identity--meant to challenge traditional Western epistemology and suggest new directions for feminism. These bold essays will interest not only feminist theorists and activists, but academics from a variety of disciplines such as philosophy, sociology, anthropology, etc.