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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Arpita RoyPublisher: Columbia University Press Imprint: Columbia University Press ISBN: 9780231205528ISBN 10: 023120552 Pages: 296 Publication Date: 02 April 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsArpita Roy, whose exceptional academic career straddles physics, anthropology, and sociology, spent two and a half years at CERN in Switzerland to bring us her unique insights into the working of particle physics. Even professional particle physicists will find much that is novel in this eye-opening book. -- A. Zee, author of <i>Quantum Field Theory as Simply as Possible</i> In Unfinished Nature, Arpita Roy takes science and technology studies back to the high-energy physics laboratory to explore its unfinished business—excavating the foundations of reality. Her ethnography of CERN combines STS’s attention to practice with a philosopher’s concern with ideas to show how cultural presuppositions determine the material universe. -- Perrin Selcer, author of <i>The Postwar Origins of the Global Environment: How the United Nations Built Spaceship Earth</i> Arpita Roy, whose exceptional academic career straddles physics, anthropology, and sociology, spent two and a half years at CERN in Switzerland to bring us her unique insights into the working of particle physics. Even professional particle physicists will find much that is novel in this eye-opening book. -- A. Zee, author of <i>Quantum Field Theory as Simply as Possible</i> Author InformationArpita Roy is a lecturer in anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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