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The technical transformation of the Royal Navy during the Victorian
era posed many design, tactical and operational problems for
administrators from the 1830s onwards. The switch from sail to
steam required the creation of a system of defended coaling
stations and a greater infrastructure.
An exploration of the Karens, a small nation that inhabited the
mountains and forests of the Lower Burma who were loyal to the
British during the Anglo-Burmese wars.
The technical transformation of the Royal Navy during the Victorian
era posed a succession of bewildering design, tactical and
operational problems for administrators from the 1830s onwards.
These problems have attracted considerable scrutiny. Far less
scrutiny, however, has been paid to an equally fundamental
strategic quandary created by the switch from sail to steam.
An exploration of the Karens, a small nation that inhabited the
mountains and forests of the Lower Burma who were loyal to the
British during the Anglo-Burmese wars.
A remarkable look at how the growth, technology, and politics of
high-frequency trading have altered global financial markets In
today's financial markets, trading floors on which brokers buy and
sell shares face-to-face have increasingly been replaced by
lightning-fast electronic systems that use algorithms to execute
astounding volumes of transactions. Trading at the Speed of Light
tells the story of this epic transformation. Donald MacKenzie shows
how in the 1990s, in what were then the disreputable margins of the
US financial system, a new approach to trading-automated
high-frequency trading or HFT-began and then spread throughout the
world. HFT has brought new efficiency to global trading, but has
also created an unrelenting race for speed, leading to a
systematic, subterranean battle among HFT algorithms. In HFT, time
is measured in nanoseconds (billionths of a second), and in a
nanosecond the fastest possible signal-light in a vacuum-can travel
only thirty centimeters, or roughly a foot. That makes HFT
exquisitely sensitive to the length and transmission capacity of
the cables connecting computer servers to the exchanges' systems
and to the location of the microwave towers that carry signals
between computer datacenters. Drawing from more than 300 interviews
with high-frequency traders, the people who supply them with
technological and communication capabilities, exchange staff,
regulators, and many others, MacKenzie reveals the extraordinary
efforts expended to speed up every aspect of trading. He looks at
how in some markets big banks have fought off the challenge from
HFT firms, and how exchanges sometimes engineer technical systems
to favor certain types of algorithms over others. Focusing on the
material, political, and economic characteristics of high-frequency
trading, Trading at the Speed of Light offers a unique glimpse into
its influence on global finance and where it could lead us in the
future.
Global warming is expected to change fire regimes, likely
increasing the severity and extent of wildfires in many ecosystems
around the world. What will be the landscape-scale effects of these
altered fire regimes? Within what theoretical contexts can we
accurately assess these effects? We explore the possible effects of
altered fire regimes on landscape patch dynamics, dominant species
(tree, shrub, or herbaceous) and succession, sensitive and invasive
plant and animal species and communities, and ecosystem function.
Ultimately, we must consider the human dimension: what are the
policy and management implications of increased fire disturbance,
and what are the implications for human communities?
Global warming is expected to change fire regimes, likely
increasing the severity and extent of wildfires in many ecosystems
around the world. What will be the landscape-scale effects of these
altered fire regimes? Within what theoretical contexts can we
accurately assess these effects? We explore the possible effects of
altered fire regimes on landscape patch dynamics, dominant species
(tree, shrub, or herbaceous) and succession, sensitive and invasive
plant and animal species and communities, and ecosystem function.
Ultimately, we must consider the human dimension: what are the
policy and management implications of increased fire disturbance,
and what are the implications for human communities?
A remarkable look at how the growth, technology, and politics of
high-frequency trading have altered global financial markets In
today's financial markets, trading floors on which brokers buy and
sell shares face-to-face have increasingly been replaced by
lightning-fast electronic systems that use algorithms to execute
astounding volumes of transactions. Trading at the Speed of Light
tells the story of this epic transformation. Donald MacKenzie shows
how in the 1990s, in what were then the disreputable margins of the
US financial system, a new approach to trading-automated
high-frequency trading or HFT-began and then spread throughout the
world. HFT has brought new efficiency to global trading, but has
also created an unrelenting race for speed, leading to a
systematic, subterranean battle among HFT algorithms. In HFT, time
is measured in nanoseconds (billionths of a second), and in a
nanosecond the fastest possible signal-light in a vacuum-can travel
only thirty centimeters, or roughly a foot. That makes HFT
exquisitely sensitive to the length and transmission capacity of
the cables connecting computer servers to the exchanges' systems
and to the location of the microwave towers that carry signals
between computer datacenters. Drawing from more than 300 interviews
with high-frequency traders, the people who supply them with
technological and communication capabilities, exchange staff,
regulators, and many others, MacKenzie reveals the extraordinary
efforts expended to speed up every aspect of trading. He looks at
how in some markets big banks have fought off the challenge from
HFT firms, and how exchanges sometimes engineer technical systems
to favor certain types of algorithms over others. Focusing on the
material, political, and economic characteristics of high-frequency
trading, Trading at the Speed of Light offers a unique glimpse into
its influence on global finance and where it could lead us in the
future.
The result of six years of study and travel in pre-Soviet
Russia, this work by a major British journalist provides a vivid
description of daily life under the last three Tsars, in the
turbulent age following the emancipation of the serfs in 1861
Originally published in 1984.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these
important books while presenting them in durable paperback
editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly
increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the
thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since
its founding in 1905.
Around the globe, economists affect markets by saying what
markets are doing, what they should do, and what they will do.
Increasingly, experimental economists are even designing real-world
markets. But, despite these facts, economists are still largely
thought of as scientists who merely observe markets from the
outside, like astronomers look at the stars. "Do Economists Make
Markets?" boldly challenges this view. It is the first book
dedicated to the controversial question of whether economics is
performative--of whether, in some cases, economics actually
produces the phenomena it analyzes.
The book's case studies--including financial derivatives
markets, telecommunications-frequency auctions, and individual
transferable quotas in fisheries--give substance to the notion of
the performativity of economics in an accessible, nontechnical way.
Some chapters defend the notion; others attack it vigorously. The
book ends with an extended chapter in which Michel Callon, the
idea's main formulator, reflects upon the debate and asks what it
means to say economics is performative.
The book's insights and strong claims about the ways economics
is entangled with the markets it studies should interest--and
provoke--economic sociologists, economists, and other social
scientists.
In addition to the editors and Callon, the contributors include
Marie-France Garcia-Parpet, Francesco Guala, Emmanuel Didier,
Philip Mirowski, Edward Nik-Khah, Petter Holm, Vincent-Antonin
Lepinay, and Timothy Mitchell."
The result of six years of study and travel in pre-Soviet Russia,
this work by a major British journalist provides a vivid
description of daily life under the last three Tsars, in the
turbulent age following the emancipation of the serfs in 1861
Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the
latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of
Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original
texts of these important books while presenting them in durable
paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy
Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage
found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905.
Reviews of the 1st Edition:
."."..This book is a welcome addition to the sociology of
technology, a field whose importance is increasingly recognised."
"- Sociology
."."..sets a remarkably high standard in breadth of coverage, in
scholarship, and in readability and can be recommended to the
general reader and to the specialist alike."" - Science and
Society
."."..This remarkably readable and well-edited anthology
focuses, in a wide variety of concrete examples, not on the impacts
of technologies on societies but in the reverse: how different
social contexts shaped the emergence of particular technologies.""
- Technology and Culture How does social context affect the
development of technology? What is the relationship between
technology and gender Is production technology shaped by efficiency
or by social control? Technological change is often seen as
something that follows its own logic - something we may welcome, or
about which we may protest, but which we are unable to alter
fundamentally. This reader challenges that assumption and its
distinguished contributors demonstrate that technology is affected
at a fundamental level by the social context in which it develops.
General arguments are introduced about the relation of technology
to society and different types of technology are examined: the
technology of production; domestic and reproductive technology; and
military technology.
The book draws on authors from Karl Marx to Cynthia Cockburn to
show that production technology is shaped by social relations in
the workplace. It moves on to the technologies of the household and
biological reproduction, which are topics that male-dominated
social science has tended to ignore or trivialise - though these
are actually of crucial significance where powerful shaping factors
are at work, normally unnoticed. The final section asks what shapes
the most frightening technology of all - the technology of
weaponry, especially nuclear weapons.
The editors argue that social scientists have devoted
disproportionate attention to the effects of technology on society,
and tended to ignore the more fundamental question of what shapes
technology in the first place. They have drawn both on established
work in the history and sociology of technology and on newer
feminist perspectives to show just how important and fruitful it is
to try to answer that deeper question. The first edition of this
reader, published in 1985, had a considerable influence on thinking
about the relationship between technology and society. This second
edition has been thoroughly revised and expanded to take into
account new research and the emergence of new theoretical
perspectives.
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Rußland (Paperback)
Donald MacKenzie Wallace
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R1,016
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Rußland (Hardcover)
Donald MacKenzie Wallace
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R1,569
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Discovery Miles 14 810
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This book is written for general readers with an interest in
science, and offers the tools and ideas for understanding how
climate change will affect mountains of the American West. A major
goal of the book is to provide material that will not become
quickly outdated, and it does so by conveying its topics through
constants in ecological science that will remain unchanged and
scientifically sound. The book is timely in its potential to be a
long-term contribution, and is designed to inform the public about
climate change in mountains accessibly and intelligibly. The major
themes of the book include: 1) mountains of the American West as
natural experiments that can distinguish the effects of climate
change because they have been relatively free from human-caused
changes, 2) mountains as regions with unique sensitivities that may
change more rapidly than the Earth as a whole and foreshadow the
nature and magnitude of change elsewhere, and 3) different
interacting components of ecosystems in the face of a changing
climate, including forest growth and mortality, ecological
disturbance, and mountain hydrology. Readers will learn how these
changes and interactions in mountains illuminate the complexity of
ecological changes in other contexts around the world.
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Russia (Hardcover)
Donald MacKenzie Wallace
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R1,397
Discovery Miles 13 970
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Russia (Paperback)
Donald MacKenzie Wallace
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R1,086
Discovery Miles 10 860
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