Rated Law as an Artifact 10/10
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Rated EU Constitutional Law: An Introduction 6/10
Rated Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance 10/10
A fascinating book on politics and technology, examining the contingency of technological development through an analysis of the history of nuclear missile guidance until the end of the 1980s. Increased accuracy is not an inevitable or natural consequence of technical change, but rather the product of a complex process of conflict and cooperation between various social actors, such as technologists, laboratories and corporations, and political and military leaders. The book provides a good antidote to technical and political determinisms, coupled with accessible explanations of relevant technical concepts, which are crucial for understanding how seemingly small "technicalities" become focal points in political disputes over visions of the future of certain technologies.
Wants to read Statutory Interpretation: Pragmatics and Argumentation
Wants to read Constitutional Challenges in the Algorithmic Society
Wants to read Como ler textos jurídicos em alemão
Wants to read The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction
Rated Modern Italy: A Very Short Introduction 8/10
Finished reading Proteção de Dados Pessoais: Comentários à Lei n. 13.709/2018 -LGPD
Wants to read The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rated An Introduction to Indian Philosophy 10/10
An accessible introduction to some of the key issues in classical and medieval Indian philosophy. After a historical and methodological introduction, the author presents the issues along seven chapters: Valor (roughly, ethics and politics) -> Knowledge (the role and limits of knowledge) -> Reasoning (logic and methods for knowledge acquisition, especially inference) -> Word (philosophy of language) -> World (ontology and causation) -> Self -> Ultimates (philosophy of religion). <br/><br/>The book succeeds in what I see as being the two main goals of an introduction of this kind. First, each chapter shows how the problems tackled by authors of the various Indian traditions tackle some philosophical questions, highlighting similarities and differences between their approaches and those followed by European authors facing related problems. Second, it provides references and an initial mapping of the issues, enough for an interested reader to know where to look for further education on the subject. Here, the modular structure of the book is particularly useful, as it allows readers that are not particularly interested in some subjects (in my case, language) to make the most of the overall content.
Rated Ancillary Justice 6/10
This book is well-written and creates a rich world, but I did not really connect with it. Certainly not enough to continue the series. Nevertheless, it is easy to see why so many people loved it.
Rated Introdução ao Processo Civil Alemão 7/10
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