Latest update of this internationally popular anthology from George Ritzer.

This 1997 book discusses the shift to quantitative perception which made modern science, technology, business practice and bureaucracy possible.

One of the exciting characteristics of metrology is its intimate relationship between fundamental physics and the leading edge of technology which is needed to perform advanced and challenging experiments and measurements.

Lofland also describes how city people initially learn and then act upon the ordering principles dominant in their society. A World of Strangers is a wonderfully wise and readable account of how we have come to live as we do.

This book answers how openness became the defining principle of the information age, examining the history of information networks.

This volume is one of few books that explore both the International Organization for Standardization's (ISO) role as a facilitator of essential economic infrastructure and the implication of ISO techniques for a much wider realm of global ...

This book investigates standards as the recipes that shape not only the physical world, but human social interactions.