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Dutch literature --- Internet --- Online social networks --- Computer networks --- Internet users --- Social aspects --- Online social networks. --- Social aspects. --- Internet - Social aspects --- Computer networks - Social aspects --- Internet users - Netherlands

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"Do doctors really know what they are talking about when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when they warn us about the perils of global warming? Why should we trust science when our own politicians don't? In this landmark book, Naomi Oreskes offers a bold and compelling defense of science, revealing why the social character of scientific knowledge is its greatest strength--and the greatest reason we can trust it. Tracing the history and philosophy of science from the late nineteenth century to today, Oreskes explains that, contrary to popular belief, there is no single scientific method. Rather, the trustworthiness of scientific claims derives from the social process by which they are rigorously vetted. This process is not perfect -- nothing ever is when humans are involved--but she draws vital lessons from cases where scientists got it wrong. Oreskes shows how consensus is a crucial indicator of when a scientific matter has been settled, and when the knowledge produced is likely to be trustworthy."

Philosophy of science --- Science --- Social aspects --- Philosophy --- Sciences --- Social aspects. --- Philosophy. --- Aspect social. --- Philosophie. --- Philosophie des sciences. --- Science - Social aspects --- Science - Philosophy --- Science - Philosophy - Social aspects

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This groundbreaking volume, written entirely by women, examines the vastly misunderstood and multilayered world of the veil. Veiling- of women, of men, and of sacred places and objects-has existed in countless cultures and religions from time immemorial. Today, veiling is a globally polarizing issue, a locus for the struggle between Islam and the West and between contemporary and traditional interpretations of Islam. But veiling was a practice long before Islam and still extends far beyond the Middle East. This book explores and examines the cultures, politics, and histories of veiling. Twenty

History of civilization --- Thematology --- Sociology of culture --- Veils --- Voiles (Coiffures) --- Social aspects. --- History. --- Aspect social --- Histoire --- Veils in literature. --- Veils - History. --- Veils - Social aspects. --- Veils --History. --- Veils --Social aspects. --- Veils in literature --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Manners & Customs --- Social aspects --- History

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Social organizations --- Freemasonry --- Franc-maçonnerie --- Social aspects --- Aspect social --- Freemasons --- Attitudes --- Franc-maçonnerie --- Social aspects. --- Attitudes.

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"From telephones and transoceanic telegraphy to typewriters and phonographs, the era of Bell and Edison brought an array of wondrous new technologies for recording and communication. At the same time, print was becoming a mass medium, as works from newspapers to novels exploited new markets and innovations in publishing to address expanded readerships. Amid the accelerated movements of inventions and language, questions about media change became a transatlantic topic, connecting writers from Whitman to Kipling, Mark Twain to Bram Stoker and Marie Corelli. Media multiplicity seemed either to unite societies or bring division and conflict, to emphasize the material nature of communication or its transcendent side, to highlight distinctions between media or to let them be ignored. Literature, Print Culture, and Media Technologies, 1880-1900 analyzes this ferment as an urgent subject as authors sought to understand the places of printed writing in the late nineteenth century's emerging media cultures"--

History of civilization --- anno 1800-1899 --- Printing --- Mass media --- Social aspects --- History --- Technological innovations --- Social aspects. --- Technological innovations. --- 1800-1899.