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Messy Ethnographies in Action
This edited collection of chapters showcases original and interdisciplinary ethnographic fieldwork in a range of international settings; including studies of underground pub life in North East England; Finnish hotels; and bio-scientific institutions in the Amazonian rainforest. Informed by John Law’s concept of ethnographic “mess,” this book makes a unique, empirically-informed, contribution to an understanding of the social construction of knowledge and the role that ethnography can and does play (Law, 2004). It provides a range of colourful snapshots from the field, showing how different researchers from multiple research environments and disciplines are negotiating the practicalitie...
The Gift and its Paradoxes
Bringing social theory and philosophy to bear on popular movies, novels, myths, and fairy tales, The Gift and its Paradoxes explores the ambiguity of the gift: it is at once both a relation and a thing, alienable and inalienable, present and poison. Challenging the nature of giving as reciprocal, the book engages critically with the work of Mauss and develops a new theory of the gift according to which the gift cannot be reduced to a model of exchange, but must instead entail a loss or sacrifice. Ultimately, the gift is examined in the book as the impossible occurrence of gratuitous giving. In addition to exploring the conditions of possibility and impossibility of the gift, the book draws o...
Applied Parallel Computing. Advanced Scientific Computing
TheseproceedingscontainthepaperspresentedatPARA2002,theSixth- ternationalConferenceonAppliedParallelComputing. PARA2002washeldin Espoo,Finland,June15–18,2002,andhostedbyCSC,theFinnishinformation technologycenterforscience. Thegeneralthemeoftheconferencewasadvanced scienti?ccomputing. Theconferencedemonstratedtheabilityofadvancedscienti?ccomputingto solvereal-worldproblems,andhighlightedmethods,instruments,andtrendsin futurescienti?ccomputing. Theconferencebeganwithaone-daytutorialsession onGridprogramming. Theconferencefocusedonanapplication-oriented,multi-disciplinary,and multi-scaleapproach. Awidevarietyofscienti?ccomputingapplicationswere introduced,fromsemiconductorprocessingandbehaviorofthehumanbodyto oceanicandatmosphericphenomena. Scienti?ccomputingcoupledwithmulti-disciplinaryandmulti-scaleexp- tisewillplayasigni?cantroleinsolvingchallengingproblemsinscience.
Contingent Valuation
This major reference work the first of its kind provides a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the large and growing literature on contingent valuation. It includes entries on over 7,500 contingent valuation papers and studies from over 130 countries covering both the published and grey literatures. This book provides an interpretive historical account of the development of contingent valuation, the most commonly used approach to placing a value on goods not normally sold in the marketplace. The major fields catalogued here include culture, the environment, and health application. This bibliography is an ideal starting point for researchers wanting to find other studies that have...
Towards Teracomputing - Proceedings Of The Eighth Ecmwf Workshop On The Use Of Parallel Processors In Meteorology
The demand for more and more computer power in numerical weather prediction and meteorological research is as strong as ever. Previously, the world meteorological community tried to meet this demand by exploiting parallelism. In this field, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts has established itself as the central venue for bringing together operational weather forecasters, climate researchers and parallel computer manufacturers to share their experiences through a series of workshops held every other year. This book reports on the latest such workshop. It gives an excellent overview of the latest achievements in this field. The demand for and the developments towards Teracomputing, the next order of magnitude in meteorological supercomputing, are given particular attention.
The Simmelian Legacy
While Georg Simmel is widely known, the impact of his work has been far from straightforward, with the ways in which his ideas have been taken up by later thinkers as complex and diverse as the ideas themselves. The Simmelian Legacy is a comprehensive study of the work of this influential sociologist and philosopher and its reception in the Anglophone, German, and French intellectual worlds. By returning to Simmel and his legacy, this text gives voice to a corpus of vast significance and great potential that has lived too much in the shadows. It examines how his relational mode of thought transforms the landscape of sociological problems to subvert conventional conceptions of Simmel's oeuvre as well as of sociology's history. It not only rediscovers key dimensions of Simmel's thought, but also explores its gradual and uneven re-emergence within subsequent scholarship. This is an engaging and lucid, intellectually illuminating and thoroughly accessible overview of the thought of one of sociology's key thinkers that will be essential reading for both scholars and students of sociology and social theory.
