Harry M. Collins & Trevor Pinch 
Golem [PDF ebook] 
What You Should Know About Science

Why are humans neither ‘good’ nor ‘bad’? How can so much chaos and confusion in the world actually lead to order? Why are we so often wrong when we’re asked if the world’s getting better? In this, th …

How many days are there between full moons – think you know? Is there an ancient key to the calendar hidden in stone circles? What is the magical secret of the Sun-Moon-Earth system? If you have ever …

Elena Barabantseva looks at the close relationship between state-led nationalism and modernisation, with specific reference to discourses on the overseas Chinese and minority nationalities. The inter …

Artisanal mining is commonly associated with violent conflict, rampant corruption and desperate poverty. Yet millions of people across Sub Sahara Africa depend on it. Many of them are living in easte …

Environmental ethics presents and defends a systematic and comprehensive account of the moral relation between human beings and their natural environment and assumes that human behaviour toward the n …

The Lisbon Treaty, which came into force in December 2009, aims to make the European Union both more efficient and legitimate. Two new important posts were created; an elected President of the Europe …

The early Abbasid Caliphate was an important period for Islam. The dynasty, based in Baghdad, ruled over a vast Empire, stretching from the Indus Valley and Southern Russia to the East to Tunisia in …

Participatory Development (PDev) has been embraced by Third World governments and international organizations such as the World Bank as a means to reduce poverty and empower disadvantaged communities …

Part 1 is a comprehensive study of the Qur”anic data about each prophet, with a full portrait of every figure and dealing also with all the major scholarly literature on the subject and with the Qur …

Communication, Management and Information Technology contains the contributions presented at the International Conference on Communication, Management and Information Technology (ICCMIT 2016, Co …