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Hacking Harvard
Language: en
Pages: 339
Authors: Robin Wasserman
Categories: Young Adult Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-10-27 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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It's the ultimate challenge: breaking into the Ivy League. The hack: To get one deadbeat, fully unqualified slacker into the most prestigious school in the coun
A Hacker Manifesto
Language: en
Pages: 209
Authors: McKenzie Wark
Categories: Computers
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-06-30 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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A double is haunting the world--the double of abstraction, the virtual reality of information, programming or poetry, math or music, curves or colorings upon wh
Mad Travelers
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Ian Hacking
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Reflections on the Reality of transient mental illnessThis text uses the case of Albert Dadas, the first diagnosed "mad traveller", to weigh the legitimacy of c
Historical Ontology
Language: en
Pages: 292
Authors: Ian Hacking
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-09-15 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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In this text, Ian Hacking offers his reflections on the philosophical uses of history. The focus is the historical emergence of concepts and objects.
The Social Construction of What?
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: Ian Hacking
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-05-15 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Lost in the raging debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what, precisely, is being constructed. Facts, gender, quarks, reality? Ian