Professor of Sociology Donald MacKenzie

Donald A. Mackenzie

A pioneering work in the social studies of finance describes how the emergence of modern finance theory has affected financial markets in fundamental ways—as an engine that shapes them rather than a camera that reproduces their every detail.

How Financial Models Shape Markets

An Engine, Not a Camera

Mackenzie has achieved a masterful synthesis of engrossing narrative, imaginative concepts, historical perspective, and social concern.Thomas P. Hughes, Mellon Professor of the History and Sociology of Science, The University of Pennsylvania

A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance

Inventing Accuracy

"Myths of Babylonia and Assyria" by Donald A. Mackenzie. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Myths of Babylonia and Assyria

John Green

A collection of eight Scottish fairy tales, including "Battle of the Fairy Kings, " "Conall and the Thunder Hag, " and "Land of Green Mountains."

Unabridged In Easy-To-Read Type

Scottish Fairy Tales

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Myths of China and Japan

"Myths of China and Japan with illustrations in colour & monochrome after paintings and photographs" by Donald A. Mackenzie. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Myths of China and Japan with illustrations in colour & monochrome after paintings and photographs

Judy Wajcman

How the Refrigerator Got Its Hum

The Social Shaping of Technology

Excerpt from The World's Heritage of Epical, Heroic and Romantic Literature, Vol. 2 of 2 The volume closes with Don Quixote, that famous and immortal satire of knight-errantry and decadent romance, which has long been a classic not only in Spain but in almost every country in Europe and in the Americas. Its inﬂuence on modern literature can scarcely be overestimated. Cervantes lingers at the elbow of every writer of poetry or prose as a friendly critic, who throws ridicule on false poses and empty bombast, and urges that salvation may be found in the realities of life without necessarily forgetting high ideals of thought and action. Although essentially a humorist, he was also a great teacher, who by precept and example showed that enthusiasm does not necessarily justify itself, however intensive it may be, and that great literature need not involve slavish attachment to the manners and customs of the past. Withal he was a supreme master of style, whose whole heart was devoted to perfecting his art. As he was, therefore, a constructive as well as a destructive critic, it is appropriate that such a volume as this should be brought to a close in the healthy atmosphere of his gentle irony and not unkindly humour. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The World's Heritage of Epical, Heroic and Romantic Literature, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

These volumes deal with the greatest epics in the world¿s literature, and the period of time covered embraces roughly 4000 years. A beginning is made with the ¿dawn¿ of literature, and even to the`¿dawn¿ of civilization, utilized floating traditions regarding tribal heroes that were already of hoary antiquity in their own days. Most of the literature represented here bears ¿the magic stamp of a master¿, it is plain, natural, and spirited, and, withal, ¿sustainedly noble¿ manner. There are two ways in which the epics can be dealt with in such a volume as this. One is by giving bald and brief summaries of their contents; another by rendering them, partly in condensed form, so as to convey to the reader some idea of their charm as narratives, and also something of their character and atmosphere, utilizing good metrical renderings of famous passages, and, as in the case of the Paradiso, utilizing poetic translations quite freely. The latter method has been adopted, so that the volume may be, not only a helpful work of reference for students, but also one which provides instructive and entertaining reading for those who have neither time nor opportunity nor the necessary equipment for perusing theoriginals. In engaging on this part of the work the writer hoped that he was doing something to extend the knowledge and appreciation of masterpieces among the masses of the people, and toinduce the rising generation of readers to cultivate with profit an intimate acquaintance with works of a great and noble poets and great scholars of many countries.

The World's Best Representative Collection of Stories

Encyclopaedia of Romantic and Epical Literature

Great epics from the vast treasury of ancient indian literature.

Myths & Legends of India

"Elves and Heroes" by Donald A. Mackenzie. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Elves and Heroes

This volume deals with the myths and legends of Babylonia and Assyria, and as these reflect the civilization in which they developed, a historical narrative has been provided, beginning with the early Sumerian Age and concluding with the periods of the Persian and Grecian Empires. Over thirty centuries of human progress are thus passed under review. Keywords: myth, legend, ancient, religion, classic

A sociological approach to the history of proof, as applied to and performed by computer systems.

Computing, Risk, and Trust

Mechanizing Proof

Indian Myth and Legend

Teutonic Myth and Legend - An Introduction to the Eddas & Sagas, Beowulf, The Nibelungenlied, etc. This is a good collection of Northern myths, interspersed with poems and passages in classic literature that were inspired by (or are adaptations of) these myths. Like most myth collections, each story stands alone and a search for plot cohesion or smooth continuity will end in frustration. But each stand-alone is rich in imagery and a certain dreaminess that, in aggregate with all the other stories, impart a fierce, cold, clear imaginative state that lingers far after you've closed the book.

Teutonic Myth and Legend

Lucia Siu

Fabian Muniesa

Dedicated to the controversial question of whether economics is performative - of whether, in some cases, economics actually produces the phenomena it analyzes, this book features case studies that intend to offer substance to the notion of the performativity of economics in an accessible, nontechnical way.

Donald A. Mackenzie

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