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  • Integrating the Human Sciences
    Rick Szostak
    What if we recognized that human sciences collectively investigate a few dozen key phenomena that interact with each other? Can we imagine a human science that would seek to stitch its understandings of this system of phenomena into a coherent whole? If so, what would that look like? ...
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    73,51 €

  • Making Sense of the Future
    Rick Szostak
    This book integrates the latest thinking in future studies with the author’s expertise in world history, economics, interdisciplinary studies, knowledge organization, and political activism. Supported by guiding questions and suggestions for class projects, it is an accessible textbook for students of future studies. ...
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    74,81 €

  • Technology and American Society
    Gary Cross / Rick Szostak
    This updated 3rd edition extends coverage into the twenty-first century, concluding with a new chapter on recent electronic and technological advances. Technology and American Society remains the ideal introduction to the myriad interactions of technological advancement throughout American history. ...
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    119,92 €

  • Interdisciplinary Knowledge Organization
    Claudio Gnoli / María López-Huertas / Rick Szostak
    This book proposes a novel approach to classification, discusses its myriad advantages, and outlines how such an approach to classification can best be pursued. It encourages a collaborative effort toward the detailed development of such a classification. This book is motivated by the increased importance of interdisciplinary scholarship in the academy, and the widely perceived...
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    158,71 €

  • Restoring Human Progress
    Professor Rick Szostak
    Is human progress possible? If so, how can it be achieved? Many progressive intellectuals and activists once turned to socialism for answers to both questions, but such individuals generally now appreciate that the answers provided were simplistic and misguided in important respects. Many have thus embraced nihilism, doubting that human progress is achievable or even conceivabl...
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    28,38 €

  • Classifying Science
    Rick Szostak
    Classification is the essential first step in science. The study of science, as well as the practice of science, will thus benefit from a detailed classification of different types of science. In this book, science - defined broadly to include the social sciences and humanities - is first unpacked into its constituent elements: the phenomena studied,...
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    342,89 €

  • The Causes of Economic Growth
    Rick Szostak
    What are the causes of economic growth? As billions of people still live in poverty, this is perhaps the most important question in human science. It is also a very complex one, as rates of economic growth are influenced by a multitude of economic as well as political, geographical and sociological factors. This books attempts to advance a nuanced und...
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    207,24 €

  • Unifying Ethics
    Rick Szostak
    Unifying Ethics provides a simple yet powerful response to the ethical challenge of our time: How can respect for diversity be encouraged, but also honesty, responsibility, and other desirable attitudes, values, and behaviors be encouraged? The book presents five approaches to ethical evaluation. These approaches are grounded respectively in consequences, virtues, deontology, i...
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    91,49 €