Politics of technological progress

Politics of Technological Progress

By offering a new theory of economic development, this book will appeal to anyone interested in the fate of developing societies. By highlighting the

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Progress, Pluralism, and Politics

Williams examines the colonial and anti-colonial arguments of Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, Jeremy Bentham, and L.T. Hobhouse. He reveals some of the cen

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Human and Technological Progress Towards the Socio-Economic Paradigm of the Future

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Law, Practice and Politics of Forensic DNA Profiling

This collection reviews developments in DNA profiling across jurisdictions with a focus on scientific and technological advancement as well as the pol

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Power and Progress

The extraordinary untold story of how technological change has shaped our history and determined who wins and who loses the rewards of prosperity.

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Dark Side of Technology

The book is concerned with human progress and the unexpected consequences of technological advances. It examines a vast range of topics from medicine

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Confessions of an Enterprise Architect

The book discusses how to succeed as a software systems architect despite the politics, budgets, setbacks, personnel issues, and technological challen

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Age of Wonders: Planetfall Deluxe Edition

Deluxe Edition Content includes: Digital Artbook Experience the colorful and imaginative art that brought the world of Age of Wonders: Planetfall to life. Original Soundtrack Immerse yourself in the fantastical world of Planetfall with the games original soundtrack. Bravado Bundle Cosmetic Pack Nothing says “We’re here to rebuild society in our image”...

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Age of Wonders: Planetfall Deluxe Edition (PC)

Deluxe Edition Content includes:Digital ArtbookExperience the colorful and imaginative art that brought the world of Age of Wonders: Planetfall to life.Original SoundtrackImmerse yourself in the fantastical world of Planetfall with the games original soundtrack.Bravado Bundle Cosmetic PackNothing says “We’re here to rebuild society in our image&rdq...

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Autopoiesis of Architecture - A New Framework for Architecture V1

Take a theoretical approach to architecture with The Autopoiesis of Architecture , which presents the topic as a discipline with its own unique logic. Architecture's conception of itself is addressed as well as its development within wider contemporary society. Author Patrik Schumacher offers innovative treatment that enriches architectural theory with a coordinated arse...

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Make, Think, Imagine : The Future of Civilisation - Browne John

Anotace: Today`s unprecedented pace of change leaves many people wondering what new technologies are doing to our lives. Has social media robbed us of our privacy and fed us with false information? Are robots going to take our jobs? Will better healthcare lead to an ageing population that cannot be cared for? And has our demand for energy driven the Earth`s climate to th...

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Make, Think, Imagine : The Future of Civilisation - John Browne

<p>Today's unprecedented pace of change leaves many people wondering what new technologies are doing to our lives. Has social media robbed us of our privacy and fed us with false information? Are robots going to take our jobs? Will better healthcare lead to an ageing population that cannot be cared for? And has our demand for energy driven the Earth's climate to the...

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Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century - DeLong J. Bradford

Anotace: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEARA FINANCIAL TIMES BEST ECONOMICS BOOK OF THE YEAR AND THE ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARFrom one of the world`s leading economists, a sweeping new history of the twentieth century - a century that left us vastly richer, yet still profoundly dissati...

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A Room of One´s Own, 1. vydání - Virginia Woolf

<p>Based on lectures given at Cambridge colleges and first published by the Hogarth Press in 1929, A Room of One's Own is an extended essay about the predicament of female writers and a stirring call for autonomy and recognition. As well as settling scores with reactionary critics and laying the foundations of a history of women's literature, the text is also a triu...

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The Right Side of History : How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great - Shapiro Ben

Anotace: Human beings have never had it better than we have it now in the West. So why are we on the verge of throwing it all away?In 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Shapiro spoke at the University of California-Berkeley. Hundreds of police officers were required to protect his speech. What was so frightening about Shapiro? He came to argue that Western civil...

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Britain and the Bomb

British technological ambition in the 1950s and 1960s - the Golden Age of British Aviation. Cold War fears and Cold War politics - Cuban missiles, Gar

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Prospects for Economic Growth in the United States

Explores the future of economic growth in the US, considering demographics, social insurance programs, technological progress, human capital, immigrat

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Human Frontiers

A provocative, exciting exploration of the future of ideas - and the history of technological and cultural progress that has taken us to today

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Ruling Ideas, The

The ideas of the entrepreneurial-self, technological progress, God, nation, and race legitimize hierarchy and will make you depressed and anxious.

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The Logistics Audit Taylor & Francis Ltd

Extraordinary technological progress, but also the experience gained from the global COVID-19 pandemic, force the future vision of the world’s economic development to assume a close coexistence and intense interaction between production (manufacturing) and logistics and supply chain management. This perspective requires that the current functioning of organizations will h...

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Zero to One

Peter Thiel is the co-founder of PayPal and the first outside investor in Facebook. In the Spring of 2012, he gave a lecture course at Stanford for software engineers, calling on them to think boldly and broadly about how they might use their skills to shape the future, and imparting the lessons he has gleaned from his own experience.One of the students in that class - Bl...

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Railway Empire: Great Britain Ireland

New scenario – Transport Revolution (1830 - 1850) Map expansion: Great Britain & Ireland (available in Free Game and Sandbox Modes) 10 historical engines like the Rocket (0-2-2) or Firefly (0-2-0) 13 new tradeable goods (e.g. cider and whisky) and 45 new cities New songs and reworked city buildings England - Home of the first steam engines is experiencing an age of...

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Railway Empire: Great Britain & Ireland (PC)

New scenario – Transport Revolution (1830 - 1850) Map expansion: Great Britain &amp; Ireland (available in Free Game and Sandbox Modes) 10 historical engines like the Rocket (0-2-2) or Firefly (0-2-0) 13 new tradeable goods (e.g. cider and whisky) and 45 new cities New songs and reworked city buildings England - Home of the first steam engines is experiencing an ag...

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Cardiovascular Surgery

The history of surgical approaches to many diseases spans several centuries. However, the last century, and particularly its second half, witnessed an establishment of specialized surgical fields, such as urology surgery, neurosurgery and thoracic surgery, as a result of the rapidly growing knowledge of physiology, pathophysiology, blood transfusion, infection control as ...

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Simply AI: Facts Made Fast - Dorling Kindersley

Anotace: Combining clear labelled imagery with easy-to-understand text, this new edition of Simply Artificial Intelligence is the perfect introduction to the latest developments in AI, including ChatGPT and the Internet of Things.Covering a broad range of fields within AI - from computing and mathematics to politics and philosophy - entries demystify what artificial inte...

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Simply AI: Facts Made Fast - Dorling Kindersley

<p>Combining clear labelled imagery with easy-to-understand text, this new edition of Simply Artificial Intelligence is the perfect introduction to the latest developments in AI, including ChatGPT and the Internet of Things.Covering a broad range of fields within AI - from computing and mathematics to politics and philosophy - entries demystify what artificial intel...

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Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World (014312885X)

Kniha - autor Adam Grant, 336 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná “Originals is one of the most important and captivating books I have ever read, full of surprising and powerful ideas. It will not only change the way you see the world; it might just change the way you live your life. And it could very well inspire you to change your world.”? Sheryl Sandberg, be...

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The Classic H. G. Wells Collection - Herbert George Wells

Anotace: This handsome box set brings together the most celebrated works of H.G. Wells, presented in five paperback volumes with striking contemporary cover designs. H.G. Wells was a pioneer of the science fiction genre and a man of boundless imagination. Whether describing marvelous new technologies, the vagaries of space flight or the risks of scientific development, ...

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The Bitcoin Standard

A comprehensive and authoritative exploration of Bitcoin and its place in monetary historyWhen a pseudonymous programmer introduced “a new electronic cash system that’s fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party” to a small online mailing list in 2008, very few people paid attention. Ten years later, and against all odds, this upstart autonomous decentralized softwar...

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Seven Letters to Melin Essays on the So - Josef Šafařík

<p>Josef Šafařík's Seven Letters to Melin is a critique of a reductionist technological approach to life and of man's alienation from nature and from himself in the modern era. The book is conceived as a series of letters to a certain Melin, in fact Šafařík's alternative or former self as a working engineer who believed in the value of science and technical progress...

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Advances in Fibrous Material Science - Dana Křemenáková,Jiří Militký,Rajesh Mishra

Anotace: Odborná knižní publikace nejmodernějšího materiálového inženýrství. Třetí díl z volné série knih o současném vědeckém výzkumu polymerních materiálů se snahou navrhnout materiál na molekulární úrovni, aby dosahoval požadovaných vlastností a aplikací na makroskopické úrovni. Jde o výsledky výzkumu na molekulární úrovni, tak aby na makroskopické byly dosaženy všech...

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Advances in Fibrous Material Science

Odborná knižní publikace nejmodernějšího materiálového inženýrství. Třetí díl z volné série knih o současném vědeckém výzkumu polymerních materiálů se snahou navrhnout materiál na molekulární úrovni, aby dosahoval požadovaných vlastností a aplikací na makroskopické úrovni. Jde o výsledky výzkumu na molekulární úrovni, tak aby na makroskopické byly dosaženy všechny požadov...

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Advances in Fibrous Material Science - Dana Křemenáková

<p>Odborná knižní publikace nejmodernějšího materiálového inženýrství. Třetí díl z volné série knih o současném vědeckém výzkumu polymerních materiálů se snahou navrhnout materiál na molekulární úrovni, aby dosahoval požadovaných vlastností a aplikací na makroskopické úrovni. Jde o výsledky výzkumu na molekulární úrovni, tak aby na makroskopické byly dosaženy všechn...

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Where We Go From Here - neuveden

Anotace: During his campaign for President in 2016, Senator Bernie Sanders stated over and over again that the future of America was dependent upon its willingness to start a political revolution. Real change never occurs from the top down - it always happens from the bottom up. That`s what he said when he ran for President, and that`s what he believes now more than ever...

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Rule the Waves 3

Build Your Navy, from pre-Dreadnoughts to Aircraft Carriers and Missile Cruisers! Rule the Waves 3 is a simulation of naval ship design and construction, fleet management and naval warfare from 1890 to 1970 and will place you in the role of 'Grand Admiral' of a navy from the time when steam and iron dominated warship design up to the missile age. Rule the Waves 3 will let...

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Rule the Waves 3 (PC)

Build Your Navy, from pre-Dreadnoughts to Aircraft Carriers and Missile Cruisers!Rule the Waves 3 is a simulation of naval ship design and construction, fleet management and naval warfare from 1890 to 1970 and will place you in the role of 'Grand Admiral' of a navy from the time when steam and iron dominated warship design up to the missile age. Rule the Waves 3...

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Railway Empire (PC) DIGITAL

United States, 1830: ‘The New World’ is in its ascendancy. Industry is booming, and the race is on to establish the most dominant and powerful rail empire in all of North America. It’s time to outthink and outmaneuver your competitors as you lead your company into the 20th century! In Railway Empire, you will create an elaborate and wide-ranging&nb...

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Grand Ages Medieval (PC) DIGITAL

What is Grand Ages: Medieval? "Grand Ages: Medieval" is an entry in Kalypso's "Grand Ages" series of finely-crafted strategy games of different genres developed by different studios. This game is not a sequel to the 2009 title "Grand Ages: Rome", a classic RTS with a focus on city building. "Grand Ages: Medieval" is a larger scale, real-time empire simulati...

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Playing with Reality

A sweeping intellectual history of games and their importance to human progress.We play games to learn about the world, to understand our minds and the minds of others, and to practice making predictions about the future. Games are thought to be older than written language, and have now become the dominant cultural media?bigger than movies, TV, music, and literature combi...

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A Promised Land - Barack Obama

Anotace: A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy. In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly p...

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Old World

Old World is a historical strategy game where you lead your empire through multiple generations, building a grand legacy to last beyond your own years. This is an era of great leaders, from the revered to the feared. Which will you be?   Marry for politics, raise your heirs, and manage your relationship with the families of your kingdom. In the fast and furious world...

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Old World (PC)

Old World is a historical strategy game where you lead your empire through multiple generations, building a grand legacy to last beyond your own years. This is an era of great leaders, from the revered to the feared. Which will you be?&nbsp;Marry for politics, raise your heirs, and manage your relationship with the families of your kingdom. In the fast and furious wor...

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R.G. Grant - Flight

A stunning visual celebration of the world's aircraft and the pioneers who made a dream become reality. Introducing Flight - a historical and visual exploration of awe-inspiring aviation over a period of one hundred years, from the earliest aeroplane prototypes to today's supersonic jets, this all-encompassing book about aeroplanes takes you on an action-packed flight to ...

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Seven Letters to Melin Essays on the Soul, Science, Art and Mortality - Šafařík Josef

Anotace: Josef Šafařík's Seven Letters to Melin is a critique of a reductionist technological approach to life and of man's alienation from nature and from himself in the modern era. The book is conceived as a series of letters to a certain Melin, in fact Šafařík's alternative or former self as a working engineer who believed in the value of science and te...

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Iron Harvest (PC)

Iron Harvest is a real-time strategy game (RTS) set in the alternate reality of 1920+, just after the end of the Great War. The Game lets you control giant dieselpunk mechs, combining epic singleplayer and coop campaigns as well as skirmishes with intense action on the battlefield for multiplayer fans, Iron Harvest is the classic real-time strategy game fans have been wai...

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Iron Harvest

Iron Harvest is a real-time strategy game (RTS) set in the alternate reality of 1920+, just after the end of the Great War. The Game lets you control giant dieselpunk mechs, combining epic singleplayer and coop campaigns as well as skirmishes with intense action on the battlefield for multiplayer fans, Iron Harvest is the classic real-time strategy game fans have been wai...

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Railway Empire (PC) DIGITAL (PC)

United States, 1830: &lsquo;The New World&rsquo; is in its ascendancy. Industry is booming, and the race is on to establish the most dominant and powerful rail empire in all of North America. It&rsquo;s time to outthink and outmaneuver your competitors as you lead your company into the 20th century!In&nbsp;Railway Empire, you will create an elaborate and w...

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Sense: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story (PC) Klíč Steam

Sense - 不祥的预感: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story is a 2.5D game inspired by Clock Tower and Fatal Frame. With careful attention to pacing, atmosphere and storytelling, Sense hopes to return the horror genre to its roots; celebrating the slow, fearful creep of dread instead of relying on over the top action and jump scares. The ghosts - as glitches on our reality - act as spiritual ...

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Sense: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story (PC) Klíč Steam (PC)

Sense - 不祥的预感: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story is a 2.5D game inspired by Clock Tower and Fatal Frame. With careful attention to pacing, atmosphere and storytelling, Sense hopes to return the horror genre to its roots; celebrating the slow, fearful creep of dread instead of relying on over the top action and jump scares. The ghosts - as glitches on our reality - act as spiritual ...

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Dějiny věd a techniky 4/2015

<p>Vědecký recenzovaný časopis zaměřený na původní články z dějin přírodních a exaktních věd, techniky a věd příbuzných. Vítána jsou také témata o aplikacích těchto věd (dějiny architektury, medicíny a umění, vztah vědy a společnosti, vědní politika atd.) i jejich přesazích ke společenským vědám, resp. statě o jednotlivých disciplínách v rámci teorie, filosofie a so...

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Grand Ages Medieval (PC) DIGITAL (PC)

What is Grand Ages: Medieval?"Grand Ages: Medieval" is an entry in Kalypso's "Grand Ages" series of finely-crafted&nbsp;strategy games of different genres&nbsp;developed by different studios. This game is not a sequel to the 2009 title "Grand Ages: Rome", a classic RTS with a focus on city building. "Grand Ages: Medieval&quo...

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A Promised Land, 1. vydání - Barack Hussein Obama

<p>A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracyIn the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly pers...

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