Traditional approaches to agricultural science present a number of barriers to increasing our
understanding of sustainable agriculture. Logical positivist and reductionist methods limit the …

" This is an immensely useful book for sociologists working in a wide range of sub-fields. It
confirms Freidson's status among the leading exponents of the old Chicago tradition. This …

Is job insecurity the new norm? With fewer and fewer people working in steady, long-term
positions for one employer, has the dream of a secure job with full benefits and a decent …

The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression has generated a fundamental re-
evaluation of the free-market policies that have dominated American politics for three …

We examine how two highly successful new biotechnology firms (NBFs) source their most
critical input—scientific knowledge. We find that scientists at the two NBFs enter into large …

This book is a practical guide on how to improve the communication and cultural awareness
among culturally different people. Three stages of multicultural development are outlined …

How can we hold in the same view both cultural or historical constructs and generalities
about social existence? Kinship, Law and the Unexpected takes up an issue at the heart of …

Although many scholars suggest that IPR has a positive effect on cumulative innovation, a
growing “anti-commons” perspective highlights the negative role of IPR over scientific …

This unique book–informed by ten years' research–focuses on intellectual property and
charts the global transition towards intellectual capitalism with technology-based …

This essay reviews six different approaches to intellectual property. It and argues that none
of these accounts provide an adequate justification of intellectual property laws and policies …