English | ASIN: B0BGNLSVGJ | 2022 | 7 hours and 14 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 198 MB
How were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today? From Professor Lynn Hunt comes this extraordinary cultural and intellectual history, which traces the roots of human rights to the rejection of torture as a means for finding the truth. She demonstrates how ideas of human relationships portrayed in novels and art helped spread these new ideals and how human rights continue to be contested today.

Inventing Western Civilization by Thomas C. Patterson
English | January 1, 1997 | ISBN: 0853459606, 0853459614 | True EPUB | 156 pages | 3.7 MB

Bogomir Doringer, Brigitte Felderer, "Faceless: Re-inventing Privacy Through Subversive Media Strategies"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 3110525135 | PDF | pages: 304 | 17.3 mb

Don Leggett, "Re-inventing the Ship: Science, Technology and the Maritime World, 1800-1918 "
English | ISBN: 113826105X | 2016 | 240 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Ships have histories that are interwoven with the human fabric of the maritime world. In the long nineteenth century these histories revolved around the re-invention of these once familiar objects in a period in which Britain became a major maritime power. This multi-disciplinary volume deploys different historical, geographical, cultural and literary perspectives to examine this transformation and to offer a series of interconnected considerations of maritime technology and culture in a period of significant and lasting change. Its ten authors reveal the processes involved through the eyes and hands of a range of actors, including naval architects, dockyard workers, commercial shipowners and Navy officers. By locating the ship's re-invention within the contexts of builders, owners and users, they illustrate the ways in which material elements, as well as scientific, artisan and seafaring ideas and practices, were bound together in the construction of ships' complex identities.

Inventing the Council inside the Apostolic Library: The Organization of Curial Erudition in Late Cinquecento Rome By Malesevic, Filip
2021 | 544 Pages | ISBN: 3110720639 | PDF | 36 MB
The book provides a detailed study of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana and its interior decoration which today still remains inaccessible to the ordinary visit. Placing the history of the Vatican Library in the larger context of how erudition was administered and organized within the Early Modern Roman Curia, the book will also take into consideration how the Vaticana was used in contrast to other newly founded libraries.

Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present by Johanna Drucker
English | July 26, 2022 | ISBN: 0226815811 | True PDF | 384 pages | 27.7 MB

Inventing Value: The Social Construction of Monetary Worth
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1009199331 | 245 Pages | PDF | 1.2 MB
Value is central to the market sectors of the contemporary economy, yet the best-established theories of value fail to expose how it operates and how it is manipulated for profit. This book begins to reconstruct the theory of value. In one sense, it argues, value is a personal assessment of worth, but those assessments draw deeply on normative standards. The book examines those standards and how they are formed, transformed and supported by the construction of new social structures. The empirical evidence comes from contemporary financial examples: the mortgage-backed securities that caused the global crash of 2008, how venture capitalists secure outrageous valuations for so-called unicorn companies, and the rise of Bitcoin. The result is a theory that shows how value is invented by value entrepreneurs in pursuit of their interests and thus provides a new basis for criticising the role of value in the commodity economy and the finance sector.

Sara N. Hottinger, "Inventing the Mathematician: Gender, Race, and Our Cultural Understanding of Mathematics"
English | 2017 | pages: 217 | ISBN: 1438460104, 1438460090 | PDF | 1,3 mb
Considers how our ideas about mathematics shape our individual and cultural relationship to the field.

Inventing the Earth: Ideas on Landscape Development since 1740 By
2005 | 171 Pages | ISBN: 1405101873 | PDF | 4 MB
This book chronicles how successive generations of natural philosophers, geologists and geomorphologists have come to invent the view of the Earth over the past 250 years. Chronicles how successive generations of natural philosophers, geologists and geomorphologists have come to invent different views of the Earth over the last 250 years. Uses as its central viewpoint changing ideas about the significance of the action of rain and rivers on the Earth's surface. Shows how our contemporary "truths" have come to be accepted and exposes the frailty of even the most impeccably scientific visions of the Earth. Content: Chapter 1 Inventing Scientific Explanations (pages 3-10): Chapter 2 Inventing the Age (and Origin) of the Earth (pages 11-22): Chapter 3 Inventing 'Modern Earth Science': Charles Lyell and 'the Principles of Geology' (pages 23-40): Chapter 4 Inventing the Ice Age: The Role of Louis Agassiz (pages 41-54): Chapter 5 Inventing A Balanced View of 'forces Now in Operation': Charles Darwin's Travels in Space and Time (pages 55-71): Chapter 6 Inventing A Fluvial Landscape: Powell, Gilbert and the Western Explorations (pages 72-86): Chapter 7 Inventing the Geographical Cycle and the Synthetic Genius of W.M. Davis (pages 87-97): Chapter 8 Reinventing A Newtonian Universe: the Reductionist Revolution, 1945?77 (pages 98-111): Chapter 9 Reinventing the Earth, 1977? : Homo Sapiens, History and Microorganisms (pages 112-126):

Inventing Intelligence: A Social History of Smart By Paul Michael Privateer(auth.)
2005 | 275 Pages | ISBN: 1405112166 | PDF | 2 MB
What is intelligence? What makes humans Homo sapiens - the intelligent species?Inventing Intelligence is a bold deconstruction of the history of intelligence. Uncoupling our understanding of this most familiar concept from its traditional social science moorings, this book trains a cultural studies lens on intelligence to expose it as yet another form of representation.Inventing Intelligence charts the history of intelligence from its earliest articulations through to postmodern AI. Individual chapters recount the loving spheres of divine intelligence imagined by Plato, the self-conscious stylings of the Renaissance Man, the politics of intelligence in the Enlightenment, as well as contemporary assessments of digital intelligence and the mysterious adventure of Einstein's brain. Ambitious in its historical sweep, unflinching in its challenge to conventional wisdom, Inventing Intelligence is for everyone and anyone who used to think that the parameters and the stakes of intelligence-evident in the current controversy over "intelligent" design-had been negotiated and finalized.Content: Chapter 1 The Pre?Renaissance Tradition of Intelligence (pages 23-26): Chapter 2 The New Landscape of Smart (pages 27-31): Chapter 3 The First Smart Economy (pages 32-40): Chapter 4 Renaissance Intellectual Trends (pages 41-54): Chapter 5 Renaissance Philosophy and Fabrications of Intelligence: from Montaigne to Hobbes (pages 55-76): Chapter 6 Smart Renaissance Science (pages 77-85): Chapter 7 Profitable Knowledge and Intelligence Becomes a Career (pages 77-85): Chapter 8 Intelligence and Dominant Renaissance Scientists (pages 86-88): Chapter 9 Intelligence and the Enlightenment (pages 99-104): Chapter 10 Illuminating Enlightenment Intelligence (pages 99-104): Chapter 11 Enlightenment Insight: Fallen Apples, Social Mathematics, and a New Intelligence (pages 105-110): Chapter 12 The Clinical Gaze and Human Normalization (pages 111-146): Chapter 13 Smart Architects and Contemporary Intelligence (pages 147-156): Chapter 14 Smart Tools and Modern Intelligence (pages 159-197): Chapter 15 Smart Critiques: New Sciences and New Mathematics (pages 227-244):