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Author : Richard Dowling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Ignorant Essays written by Richard Dowling and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frank Uekötter
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782382534
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)
Download or read book Managing the Unknown written by Frank Uekötter and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information is crucial when it comes to the management of resources. But what if knowledge is incomplete, or biased, or otherwise deficient? How did people define patterns of proper use in the absence of cognitive certainty? Discussing this challenge for a diverse set of resources from fish to rubber, these essays show that deficient knowledge is a far more pervasive challenge in resource history than conventional readings suggest. Furthermore, environmental ignorance does not inevitably shrink with the march of scientific progress: these essays suggest more of a dialectical relationship between knowledge and ignorance that has different shapes and trajectories. With its combination of empirical case studies and theoretical reflection, the essays make a significant contribution to the interdisciplinary debate on the production and resilience of ignorance. At the same time, this volume combines insights from different continents as well as the seas in between and thus sketches outlines of an emerging global resource history.
Author : Linsey McGoey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317674391
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to the Sociology of Ignorance written by Linsey McGoey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ignorance is typically thought of as the absence or opposite of knowledge. In global societies that equate knowledge with power, ignorance is seen as a liability that can and should be overcome through increased education and access to information. In recent years, scholars from the social sciences, natural sciences and humanities have challenged this assumption, and have explored the ways in which ignorance can serve as a vital resource – perhaps the most vital resource – in social and political life. In this seminal volume, leading theorists of ignorance from anthropology, sociology and legal studies explore the productive role of ignorance in maintaining and destabilizing political regimes, entrenching corporate power, and shaping policy developments in climate science, global health, and global economic governance. From debates over death tolls during the war in Iraq, to the root causes of the global financial crisis, to poverty reduction strategies at the World Bank, contributors shed light on the unexpected ways that ignorance is actively harnessed by both the powerful and the marginalized in order to achieve different objectives. This eye-opening volume suggests that to understand power today, we must enrich our understanding of ignorance. This book was originally published as a special issue of Economy and Society.
Author : Wendell Berry
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458772497
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)
Download or read book The Way of Ignorance written by Wendell Berry and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The continuing war in Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, the political sniping engendered by the Supreme Court nominations, Terry Schiavo - contemporary American society is characterized by divisive anger, profound loss, and danger. Wendell Berry, one of the country's foremost cultural critics, addresses the menace, responding with hope and intelligence in a series of essays that tackle the major questions of the day. Whose freedom are we considering when we speak of the ''free market'' or ''free enterprise?'' What is really involved in our National Security? What is the price of ownership without affection? Berry answers in prose that shuns abstraction for clarity, coherence, and passion, giving us essays that may be the finest of his long career.
Author : Richard Dowling
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781346750842
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (58 download)
Download or read book Ignorant Essays written by Richard Dowling and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-11-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Richard 1846-1898] [Dowling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781362910770
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (17 download)
Download or read book IGNORANT ESSAYS written by Richard 1846-1898] [Dowling and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Dowling
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781104339968
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (399 download)
Download or read book Ignorant Essays written by Richard Dowling and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : Folke Dovring
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1567507484
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (675 download)
Download or read book Knowledge and Ignorance written by Folke Dovring and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1998-03-25 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dovring explores the limits of science as causes of ignorance. Some topics examined in these essays are problems with our ways of knowing and the impact of emotion on objectivity. He argues that reality consists of designs—of things and processes. While most designs we might think of cannot exist, those that can exist add up to a tool box of creation which contains the detailed laws of nature, many of them synergisms. Reality must conform to this web of necessities, hence the danger of unchecked virtual reality. These lines of thought are then applied to evolution as creation and history. In a final essay, Dovring explores topics upon which science should concentrate. This book will be of interest to scientists as well as the lay public interested in the theory of science and questions of truth and faith.
Author : John Foster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance written by John Foster and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Dowling
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483359819
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (598 download)
Download or read book Ignorant Essays (Classic Reprint) written by Richard Dowling and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ignorant Essays MY most ingenious friend met me one day, and asked me whether I considered I should be richer if I had the ghost of Sixpence or if I had not the ghost of Sixpence. What side do you take I inquired, for I knew his disputatious turn. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Linsey McGoey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317674383
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to the Sociology of Ignorance written by Linsey McGoey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ignorance is typically thought of as the absence or opposite of knowledge. In global societies that equate knowledge with power, ignorance is seen as a liability that can and should be overcome through increased education and access to information. In recent years, scholars from the social sciences, natural sciences and humanities have challenged this assumption, and have explored the ways in which ignorance can serve as a vital resource – perhaps the most vital resource – in social and political life. In this seminal volume, leading theorists of ignorance from anthropology, sociology and legal studies explore the productive role of ignorance in maintaining and destabilizing political regimes, entrenching corporate power, and shaping policy developments in climate science, global health, and global economic governance. From debates over death tolls during the war in Iraq, to the root causes of the global financial crisis, to poverty reduction strategies at the World Bank, contributors shed light on the unexpected ways that ignorance is actively harnessed by both the powerful and the marginalized in order to achieve different objectives. This eye-opening volume suggests that to understand power today, we must enrich our understanding of ignorance. This book was originally published as a special issue of Economy and Society.
Author : John Foster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance written by John Foster and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mandy Len Catron
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501137468
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book How to Fall in Love with Anyone written by Mandy Len Catron and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A beautifully written and well-researched cultural criticism as well as an honest memoir” (Los Angeles Review of Books) from the author of the popular New York Times essay, “To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This,” explores the romantic myths we create and explains how they limit our ability to achieve and sustain intimacy. What really makes love last? Does love ever work the way we say it does in movies and books and Facebook posts? Or does obsessing over those love stories hurt our real-life relationships? When her parents divorced after a twenty-eight year marriage and her own ten-year relationship ended, those were the questions that Mandy Len Catron wanted to answer. In a series of candid, vulnerable, and wise essays that takes a closer look at what it means to love someone, be loved, and how we present our love to the world, “Catron melds science and emotion beautifully into a thoughtful and thought-provoking meditation” (Bookpage). She delves back to 1944, when her grandparents met in a coal mining town in Appalachia, to her own dating life as a professor in Vancouver. She uses biologists’ research into dopamine triggers to ask whether the need to love is an innate human drive. She uses literary theory to show why we prefer certain kinds of love stories. She urges us to question the unwritten scripts we follow in relationships and looks into where those scripts come from. And she tells the story of how she decided to test an experiment that she’d read about—where the goal was to create intimacy between strangers using a list of thirty-six questions—and ended up in the surreal situation of having millions of people following her brand-new relationship. “Perfect fodder for the romantic and the cynic in all of us” (Booklist), How to Fall in Love with Anyone flips the script on love. “Clear-eyed and full of heart, it is mandatory reading for anyone coping with—or curious about—the challenges of contemporary courtship” (The Toronto Star).
Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1913724263
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Why I Write written by George Orwell and published by Renard Press Ltd. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times
Author : P E S Kartha
Publisher : P E S KARTHA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Celebration of Ignorance written by P E S Kartha and published by P E S KARTHA. This book was released on 2021-12-17 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: COLLAGE OF DELIGHTFUL ESSAYS! The ‘Celebration of Ignorance’ comprises 30 essays, derived from many contrasting themes such as travel reminisces, the multifaceted profile of Yoga, hilarious childhood memories, the age and pedigree of water, the current status of a Spiritual pilgrimage, and more. A few of the essays discuss serious issues like Beliefs and Behaviour. Even so they are presented in a cheerful, pleasant style with a sprinkle of humour. A few such threads are: Knowledge-Island and the sea of human ignorance, Formal vs informal education, Global warming, Kerala School of Mathematics, The golden features of Sanskrit, the threatened cultural base and the festivals of Kerala, The Indian Culture, amongst others. A few of the representative essay-titles are: Snowball Comets Inc.; Breakfast, Penance & The Ecstasy; Fascinating Story of Our Calendars; Does A Butterfly Trigger Storms; Joy; Onam, e-Onam; A Day That Changed The World; ... This is a good read as well as a good gift to your dear ones!
Author : John Foster
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3387323263
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (873 download)
Download or read book An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance written by John Foster and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-22 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author : T. CASTLEY
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Antiquarian Speculations, consisting of essays and dissertations, on various subjects written by T. CASTLEY and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
