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Hanging on to the edges :essays on science, society and the academic life
What does it mean to be a scientist working today; specifically, a scientist whose subject matter is human life? Scientists often overstate their claim to certainty, sorting the world into categorical distinctions that obstruct rather than clarify its complexities. In this book Daniel Nettle urges the reader to unpick such distinctions—biological versus social sciences, mind versus body, and …
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- 9781783745821
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- 262 p.; 23 cm.
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- 802.4 NET h
Tyneside neighbourhoods :deprivation, social life and social behaviour in one…
Nettle’s book presents the results of five years of comparative ethnographic fieldwork in two different neighbourhoods of the same British city, Newcastle upon Tyne. The neighbourhoods are only a few kilometres apart, yet whilst one is relatively affluent, the other is amongst the most economically deprived in the UK. Tyneside Neighbourhoods uses multiple research methods to explore social re…
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- 9781783741908
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- 148 p. ; ill
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- 942.876 NET t
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