The Value of Convenience

The Value of ConvenienceIn this volume, Tierney identifies convenience as the value of central importance to the development of modern technical culture. While revealing modern attitudes toward technology, the human body, mortality, and necessity, Tierney focuses on the cultural value of convenience and on modern attitudes which emphasize consumption rather than production of technology.

especially eastwards

Through case studies

It goes beyond the concerns of act structure and the merits of story-driven – as opposed to character-driven – screenplays to tackle the real complexities of writing a compelling screenplay

Bourgeois Consumption looks at how the middle classes in late nineteenth-century London and Paris used food and dining as forms of social expression and identity

It examines how figures like the Vienna Circle and Quine redefined philosophy’s aims and how the later Wittgenstein warned against the pitfalls of scientism and self-deception

changes in amino acid metabolism and serotonergic brain pathways have been implicated

regardless of your level of experience

it provides new insights into the strategic failings and industrial disputes that brought down the government

philanthropist

Mismatches between the evolutionary biology of the sow and current commercial production systems give rise to welfare challenges of stereotyped behaviour development in confined systems and aggression in group housing systems

such as the development of agri-environment schemes

particularly the personification of the Ariel