{"product_id":"simpler-life","title":"Simpler Life","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eSimpler Life\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eTalia Dan-Cohen\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781501754333\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eCornell University Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2021\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003e1\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e174\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Simpler Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eapproaches the developing field of synthetic biology by focusing on the experimental and institutional lives of practitioners in two labs at Princeton University.\u003c\/b\u003e It highlights the distance between hyped technoscience and the more plodding and entrenched aspects of academic research. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTalia Dan-Cohen follows practitioners as they wrestle with experiments, attempt to publish research findings, and navigate the ins and outs of academic careers. Dan-Cohen foregrounds the practices and rationalities of these pursuits that give both researchers' lives and synthetic life their distinctive contemporary forms. Rather than draw attention to avowed methodology, \u003ci\u003eA Simpler Life\u003c\/i\u003e investigates some of the more subtle and tectonic practices that bring knowledge, doubt, and technological intervention into new configurations. In so doing, the book sheds light on the more general conditions of contemporary academic technoscience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Simpler Life | Talia Dan-Cohen | Paperback | 9781501754333 | Used: Like New | Anthropology 1779186 (temp: 7)","offer_id":49822521426072,"sku":"1779186","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/61fWdp9S5ZL.jpg?v=1788717716","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/simpler-life","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}