Alternative technology and the politics of technical change (Technosphere)

Dickson, David

Fontana

How science "gets done" in today's world has profound political repercussions, since scientific knowledge, through its technical applications, has become an important source of both economic and military power. The increasing dependence of scientific research on funding from business and the military has made questions about the access to and control of scientific knowledge a central issue in today's politics of science. In The New Politics of Science, David Dickson points out that "the scientific community has its own internal power structures, its elites, its hierarchies, its ideologies, its sanctioned norms of social behavior, and its dissenting groups. And the more that science, as a social practice, forms an integral part of the economic structures of the society in which it is imbedded, the more the boundaries and differences between the two dissolve. Groups inside the scientific community, for example, will use groups outside the community—and vice versa—to achieve their own political ends." In this edition, Dickson has included a new preface commenting on the continuing and increasing influence of industrial and defense interests on American scientific research in the 1980s.

The New Politics of Science

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

University of Chicago Press

    This is a groundbreaking study of Cork's rise from insignificance to international importance as a city and port, and of South Munster's development from agricultural hinterland to one of early modern Ireland's wealthiest regions and a symbol of a new commercial order.    Reconstructing the framework of a pre-modern regional society in a way never before attempted for Ireland, Old World Colony integrates social, economic, and political history across the heartlands of "the Hidden Ireland" from the seventeenth century's civil wars to Catholic emancipation in the 1820s. Dickson shows that colonization and commerce transformed the region, but at a price: even in South Munster's formative years, the problems of pre-Famine Ireland-gross income inequality and land scarcity-were already evident.Co-published with Cork University Press, IrelandWisconsin edition for sale only in the U.S., its territories and possessions, and Canada.“A masterful account. . . . So finely nuanced and meticulously researched that it effectively raises the historiographical bar for Irish regional history.”—James G. Patterson, H-Atlantic, H-Net Reviews

Old World Colony: Cork and South Munster 1630-1830 (History of Ireland & the Irish Diaspora)

History

Europe

University of Wisconsin Press

The First Irish Cities: An Eighteenth-Century Transformation

<div>The untold story of a group of Irish cities and their remarkable development before the age of industrialization A backward corner of Europe in 1600, Ireland was transformed during the following centuries. This was most evident in the rise of its cities, notably Dublin and Cork. David Dickson explores ten urban centers and their patterns of physical, social, and cultural evolution, relating this to the legacies of a violent past, and he reflects on their subsequent partial eclipse. Beautifully illustrated, this account reveals how the country's cities were distinctive and--through the Irish diaspora--influential beyond Ireland's shores.</div>

Yale University Press

The untold story of a group of Irish cities and their remarkable development before the age of industrialization\nA backward corner of Europe in 1600, Ireland was transformed during the following centuries. This was most evident in the rise of its cities, notably Dublin and Cork. David Dickson explores ten urban centers and their patterns of physical, social, and cultural evolution, relating this to the legacies of a violent past, and he reflects on their subsequent partial eclipse. Beautifully illustrated, this account reveals how the country’s cities were distinctive and—through the Irish diaspora—influential beyond Ireland’s shores.

It is now widely recognized that communication is at the very heart of effective management. There is therefore an ever-expanding demand for valid and generalizable information on how best to relate to people in organizational contexts. Communication Skills for Effective Management meets this demand. It demonstrates how, for managers to be successful, they need to employ a range of key communication skills, styles and strategies. The contents are based upon the authors' considerable experiences of researching, teaching and consulting in a range of private and public sector organisations. From their academic and real-world involvement they have identified the core skills of effective management, presented in an academically rigorous yet student-friendly way, the reader is encouraged to interact with the material covered. Each chapter contains a series of boxed text, diagrams, tables and illustrations which summarise core points. Exercises are also provided to enable managers to put the material reviewed into practice. All of this is underpinned and supported by a firm foundation of research findings. This will be an excellent text for undergraduate business and management students studying business communication and MBA students. Practising managers will also find this book to be an invaluable resource.

Communication Skills for Effective Management

Business & Money

Hargie, Owen

Tourish, Dennis

Finance

Palgrave

Discusses the political control of technology, looks at university and military research, and evaluates government policy towards science

NEW POLITICS OF SCIENC

Pantheon

A comprehensive exploration of social rewards and their relevance to the practice of those in the interpersonal professions. The authors link discussions of theory and research with practical examples.

Rewarding People: The Skill of Responding Positively (International Series on Communication Skills)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Routledge

Following the success of editions one and two, this revised, updated and extended edition of Social Skills in Interpersonal Communication will continue as the core textbook for students of interpersonal communication. The professional groups for whom these skills are most important include counsellors, psychiatrists, doctors, nurses, social workers, psychologists, teachers, occupational and speech therapists, physioptherapists and industrial personnel. New chapters in the third edition include the increasingly popular area of interpersonal influence and there is a chapter on the theoretical basis of the authors' approach.

Social Skills in Interpersonal Communication: Third Edition

Saunders, Christine

Mental Health

The subject of interpersonal skill has attracted research interest in recent years. This third edition of the text has been completely revised and rewritten to bring the book up to date. New chapters have been added on the social psychology of skilled communication.

Social Skills Interpersnl Comm

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Alternative technology and the politics of technical change (Technosphere)

The New Politics of Science

Old World Colony: Cork and South Munster 1630-1830 (History of Ireland & the Irish Diaspora)

The First Irish Cities: An Eighteenth-Century Transformation

The First Irish Cities: An Eighteenth-Century Transformation

Communication Skills for Effective Management

NEW POLITICS OF SCIENC

Rewarding People: The Skill of Responding Positively (International Series on Communication Skills)

Social Skills in Interpersonal Communication: Third Edition

Social Skills Interpersnl Comm