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Objectivity / by Daston, Lorraine, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: objectivity shock -- Epistemologies of the eye -- Blind sight -- Collective empiricism -- Objectivity is new -- Histories of the scientific self -- Epistemic virtues -- The argument -- Objectivity in shirtsleeves -- Truth-to-nature -- Before objectivity -- Taming nature's variability -- The idea in the observation -- Four-eyed sight -- Drawing from nature -- Truth-to-nature after objectivity -- Mechanical objectivity -- Seeing clear -- Photography as science and art -- Automatic images and blind sight -- Drawing against photography -- Self-surveillance -- Ethics of objectivity -- The scientific self -- Why objectivity? …”
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A dharma reader : classical Indian law /

Table of Contents: “…Nature and epistemology of law. Early thinkers: Apastamba (late third century B.C.E.), Patanjali (mid-second century B.C.E.) ; Later aphoristic texts on dharma: Gautama (late second century B.C.E.), Baudhayana (early first century B.C.E.), Vasistha (late first century B.C.E.) ; Perspectives from political science: Kautilya (first-second century C.E.) ; Innovations of Manu (mid-second century C.E.) ; Developments after Manu: Yajnavalkya (fourth-fifth century C.E.), Vishnu (seventh century C.E.), Parasara (seventh century C.E.) ; The school of vedic exegesis: Sabara (fifth century C.E.), Kumarila (seventh century C.E.) ; Early commentators: Bharuci (seventh century C.E.), Visvarupa (early ninth century C.E.), Medhatithi (second half of the ninth century C.E.) ; Medieval commentators and systematizers: Commentators of Manu: Govindaraja (eleventh-twelfth century C.E.), Nandana, Kulluka (fourteenth century C.E.); Commentators of Yajnavalkya: Vijnanesvara (fl. 1100-1125 C.E.), Apararka (first half of the twelfth century C.E.); Legal digests-Nibandhas: Devanna Bhatta (circa 1200 C.E.) -- Courts of law and legal procedure. …”

Ethical relativism and universalism / by Jhingran, Saral, 1939-

Table of Contents: “…Realism: Metaphysical and Epistemological -- m. Realism and Ethical Discourse -- IV Ethical Universalism -- V Are Realism and Universalism Complementary? …”

Work Life Balance Practices of Insurance Companies in India / by Das, Sudhir Chandra

Routledge handbook of academic knowledge circulation /

Table of Contents: “…Milani and Benoît Martin -- Section III: Academic media and knowledge circulation -- The Role of the Book and Publishing Markets in Knowledge Circulation / Martina Hacke -- The role of Bibliographic Indices for Knowledge Circulation / Jonathan Voges -- The Role of Academic Journals in the Circulation of Academic Knowledge / Mariann Slíz, Panna Szabo and Tamás Farkas -- The Circulation of Academic Knowledge in the Medium of School Programmes / Viktoria Gräbe and Michael Wermke -- Circulating Knowledge through Intermediary Objects in Scientific Cooperative Networks / Dominique Vinck and Constanza Perez-Martelo -- Section IV: The political economy of academic knowledge circulation -- Knowledge Dependency and Circulation / Francesco Maniglio -- Digital Object Identifier: Privatising Knowledge Circulation through Infrastructuring / Angela Okune and Leslie Chan -- Knowledge Machines: A Complex Web of History and Technology / Mark Bernstein -- Free Circulation of Academic and Artistic Knowledge in the Context of Cognitive Capitalism / Lynda Avendaño Santana -- Knowledge Circulation and Unequal Partnerships / Montserrat Alom Bartrolí, Xilin Huang and Rigas Arvanitis -- The Changing Economics of Academic Publishing and the Discourse of "Predatory" Science / Thibaud Boncourt and David Mills -- Knowledge Circulation and the Institutionalisation of Climate Science as a New Academic Field / Tomás Undurraga, Gonzalo Aguirre and Sasha Mudd -- Crossing Disciplines and the Role of Knowledge Circulation for the Emergence of New Interdisciplinary Fields / Philippe Hamman, Christopher Schliephake and Jason Groves -- Section V: The geographies, geopolitics and historical legacies of the global circulation of academic knowledge -- Academic Knowledge, Translation and Geopolitics / Manuel Pavón-Belizón -- The Construction of Academic Prestige and Its Role in Knowledge Circulation Information Classification: General / Diogo Pinheiro -- Representation and the Transnational Circulation of Knowledge / Nil Uzun -- Knowledge Circulation and the Gaze of Epistemic Others: towards an African Epistemology / Théophile Ambadiang -- Indigenisation: The Significance of the Debates for the Circulation of Academic Knowledge / Junpeng Li, Songying Xu, Gang Zhou, Taiwen Yang and Zhiqiang Zhang -- Section VI: The relationships between academic and extra-academic knowledge -- Science and Society: Approaches for the Circulation of Knowledge beyond Academia / Michael Weinhardt and Katharina Löhr -- Newspapers and the Circulation of Academic Knowledge / Simone Jung -- Consultancy Praxis: Dynamics of Circulation between Academia and State Knowledge / Natacha Bacolla and Jimena Caravaca -- Information Classification: General -- Experts and Social Movements in the Circulation of Academic Knowledge / Christian Colella -- Addressing Inclusion and Sustainability in the Circulation of Knowledge beyond Academia / Gabriela Bortz and Ayelén Gázquez -- Section VII: Methodological approaches to studying the circulation of academic knowledge -- Ethnography and the Circulation of Knowledge / Marko Monteiro -- Biographic Methods and the Study of Academic Knowledge Circulation / Daniele Cantini -- Prosopography and the Study of Academic Knowledge Circulation / Constantin Brissaud -- Actor-Network Theory and the Materiality for Researching Academic Knowledge Circulation / Manuel Bolz, Stefanie Mallon and Marcela Suárez Estrada -- Field Theory and the Circulation of Academic Knowledge / Laurent Afresne, Clara Ruvituso and Gernot Saalmann -- Bibliometrics and the Study of Academic Knowledge Circulation / Julián D. …”

An Inquiry into meaning and truth/ by Russell, Bertrand

Experiencing anthropology in the Nicobar Archipelago / by Sahay, Vijoy S.

Indian cinema beyond Bollywood : the new independent cinema revolution /