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  • Modernity’s Critical Conscience
    Olof Hallonsten
    This book offers a thought-provoking defence of social science - and particularly the discipline of sociology - and its relevance for 21st century challenges to democratic societies. A beautifully written, wide-ranging, and appealing explanation of what the social sciences, and sociology in particular, could, and should be. ...
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    77,80 €

  • Empty Innovation
    Olof Hallonsten
    Innovation is generally viewed as something inherently good, a source of progress and prosperity in our society. But innovation can also have negative, unintended, and wasteful effects, if policies are misdirected and organizations pursue innovation to look good and convey a message, rather than to actually achieve improvements of technologies, services, and products. This book...
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    48,70 €

  • The Campaign
    Olof Hallonsten
    The European Spallation Source (ESS) is by far the largest Big Science facility ever built in Sweden. First proposed in the early 1990s, it took until 2015 before construction could start, and when it did, it was at an unlikely place. Lund, Sweden, a small village in the outskirts of Europe, is neither a neutron stronghold or among the usual suspects for hosting European Big Sc...
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    27,51 €

  • Big Science Transformed
    Olof Hallonsten
    This book analyses the emergence of a transformed Big Science in Europe and the United States, using both historical and sociological perspectives. It shows how technology-intensive natural sciences grew to a prominent position in Western societies during the post-World War II era, and how their development cohered with both technological and social developments. At the helm of...
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    133,78 €

  • Big Science Transformed
    Olof Hallonsten
    This book analyses the emergence of a transformed Big Science in Europe and the United States, using both historical and sociological perspectives. It shows how technology-intensive natural sciences grew to a prominent position in Western societies during the post-World War II era, and how their development cohered with both technological and social developments. At the helm of...
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    47,90 €

  • In Pursuit of a Promise
    Olof Hallonsten
    On 28 May 2009, at a closed meeting in Brussels, ministers and state secretaries of education and science from several EU countries decided to build the European Spallation Source (ESS) in Lund, Sweden. Or did they?It is common for big European science projects to be surrounded by secrecy and political deceit, but the ESS is extraordinary in its elusiveness. There is a remarkab...
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    34,27 €