Barbara Smith: 147 books

Book cover of The Mangle in Practice

The Mangle in Practice

Science, Society, and Becoming

by Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub, Adrian Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2009

In The Mangle of Practice (1995), the renowned sociologist of science Andrew Pickering argued for a reconceptualization of research practice as a “mangle,” an open-ended, evolutionary, and performative interplay of human and non-human agency. While Pickering’s ideas originated in science and...
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Living Low Paid

The dark side of prosperous Australia

by Helen Masterman-Smith, Barbara Pocock
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008

Even in an international downturn, Australia is a prosperous country. Yet many Australians are working more for less and struggling to meet their basic needs, despite being employed. Living Low Paid investigates the Orwellian vision unfolding, often behind closed doors, in Australia's working...
Book cover of Friends
by Barbara Paulding and Rene J. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ''What! You too? I thought I was the only one'' (C. S. Lewis). Filled with famous quotations on the many facets of friendship, this wise and witty little quote book is the perfect tribute to true friends!
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The Body Multiple

Ontology in Medical Practice

by Annemarie Mol, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2003

The Body Multiple is an extraordinary ethnography of an ordinary disease. Drawing on fieldwork in a Dutch university hospital, Annemarie Mol looks at the day-to-day diagnosis and treatment of atherosclerosis. A patient information leaflet might describe atherosclerosis as the gradual obstruction of...
Book cover of 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know - Part 2: More Complicated
by Barbara Seagram, Marc Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011

Based on the best-selling book 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know, "part 2: More Complicated" includes the following conventions:Chapter 9: Jacoby 2NT forcing major raiseChapter 10: Splinter bidsChapter 11: Cuebid raisesChapter 12: BalancingChapter 13: Help suit game triesChapter 14: Control-showing...
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Aircraft Stories

Decentering the Object in Technoscience

by John Law, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2002

In Aircraft Stories noted sociologist of technoscience John Law tells “stories” about a British attempt to build a military aircraft—the TSR2. The intertwining of these stories demonstrates the ways in which particular technological projects can be understood in a world of complex contexts. Law...
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Studies in Urbanormativity

Rural Community in Urban Society

by Alexander R. Thomas, Brian Lowe, Polly Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013

The world has been witnessing a long unfolding process of urbanization that not only has altered the structural basis of society in terms of political economy, but has also symbolically relegated rural people and life to a secondary or deviant status through an ideology of urbanormativity. Both structural...
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Bioarchaeology of the American Southeast

Approaches to Bridging Health and Identity in the Past

by Ralph Bailey, Tracy K. Betsinger, Steven N. Byers
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018

A timely update on the state of bioarchaeological research, offering contributions to the archaeology, prehistory, and history of the southeastern United States.   Building on the 1991 publication What Mean These Bones? Studies in Southeastern Bioarchaeology, this new edited collection from Shannon...
Book cover of Indigenous Homelessness

Indigenous Homelessness

Perspectives from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand

by Paul Andrew, Tim Aubry, Yale Belanger
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016

Being homeless in one’s homeland is a colonial legacy for many Indigenous people in settler societies. The construction of Commonwealth nation-states from colonial settler societies depended on the dispossession of Indigenous peoples from their lands. The legacy of that dispossession and related...
Book cover of Appalachia in Regional Context
by Barbara Ellen Smith, John Pickles, John Gaventa
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018

In an increasingly globalized world, place matters more than ever. Nowhere is that more true than in Appalachian studies -- a field which brings scholars, activists, artists, and citizens together around a region to contest misappropriations of resources and power and combat stereotypes of isolation...
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American Democracy

A Great Leap of Faith

by National Museum of American History, Harry R. Rubenstein, William Bird
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017

American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith is the companion volume to an exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History that celebrates the bold and radical experiment to test a wholly new form of government. Democracy is still a work in progress, but it is at the core of our nation's...
Book cover of 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know - Part 1: Learn These First
by Barbara Seagram, Marc Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011

From the best-selling book 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know, "Part 1: Learn these first" includes the following conventions:Chapter 1: Stayman 2♣ response to 1NTChapter 2: Takeout doublesChapter 3: Weak two-bidsChapter 4: 2♣ strong artificial openingChapter 5: ReversesChapter 6: Blackwood and...
Book cover of Heroines of the Restoration
by Barbara B. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2013

This touching collection of tributes honors 22 remarkable women of the Restoration. Chapter authors, selected from among the Church's premier women writers, provide the reader with uplifting, insightful accounts of significant heroines in Church history. Each author expresses deep gratitude for the...
Book cover of Connecting Teaching and Learning

Connecting Teaching and Learning

History, Evolution, and Case Studies of Teacher Work Sample Methodology

by Ronald A. Beghetto, Karen S. Buchanan, Barbara Chesler Buckner
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011

As accountability in education has become an increasingly prominent topic, teacher preparation programs are being asked to provide credible evidence that their teacher candidates can impact student learning. Teacher Work Samples, first developed 30 years ago, have emerged as an effective method...
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