Silent Hill: The Terror Engine (Landmark Video Games) by Bernard Perron (University of Michigan Press) (130 Reviews)    Price verified 52 minutes ago

Silent Hill: The Terror Engine, the second of the two inaugural studies in the Landmark Video Games series from series editors Mark J. P. Wolf and Bernard Perron, is both a close analysis of the first three Silent Hill games and a general look at the whole series. Silent Hill, with its first title released in 1999, is one of the most influential of the horror video game series. Perron situates the games within the survival horror genre, both by looking at the history of the genre and by comparing Silent Hill with such important ...

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Ancient Magick for the Modern Witch: For the Natural Born Witch by Gypsy Raven (34 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

Ancient Magick for the Modern Witch offers old spells for modern witches wishing to increase recipes in their Book of Shadows. It also offers a basic course to aspiring young witches who wish to learn about some old fashioned magic and how it works. This ebook includes love spells, weight loss spells, money spells, luck spells and a variety of potions. All using ancient and simple ingredients you can find anywhere! I've also updated it to include stories and legends where ordinary and extraordinary people use magic to manifest ...

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A Treasury of Eskimo Tales by Clara Kern Bayliss (8 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

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Young Knights of the Empire : Their Code, and Further Scout Yarns by Sir Robert Baden-Powell (9 Reviews)    Price verified 10 hours ago

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Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism: The Hidden Costs of Being Black in America (Critical America Book 32) by Jody David Armour (NYU Press) (21 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Tackling the ugly secret of unconscious racism in American society, this book provides specific solutions to counter this entrenched phenomenon.

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Japanese Lessons: A Year in a Japanese School Through the Eyes of An American Anthropologist and Her Children by Gail R. Benjamin (NYU Press) (11 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Benjamin dismantles Americans' preconceived notions of the Japanese education system "Gail R. Benjamin reaches beyond predictable images of authoritarian Japanese educators and automaton schoolchildren to show the advantages and disadvantages of a system remarkably different from the American one... " -- The New York Times Book Review Americans regard the Japanese educational system and the lives of Japanese children with a mixture of awe and indignance. We respect a system that produces higher literacy rates and superior math ...

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Signs of Resistance: American Deaf Cultural History, 1900 to World War II by Susan Burch (28 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2003 A reinterpretation of early 20th century Deaf history, with sign language at its center During the nineteenth century, American schools for deaf education regarded sign language as the "natural language" of Deaf people, using it as the principal mode of instruction and communication. These schools inadvertently became the seedbeds of an emerging Deaf community and culture. But beginning in the 1880s, an oralist movement developed that sought to suppress sign language, removing Deaf teachers ...

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DON'T DIE by Bryan R Johnson (192 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

On his final day alive, Scribe convenes a reunion of his closest friends. Though they'd been separated since a harrowing climb on Mt. Kilimanjaro, Scribe hopes the gathering will inspire an actionable plan for humanity in the face of existential challenges. Through a series of conversations, debates, and negotiations, the participants develop a blueprint for the way forward. Writing as "Zero," author Bryan Johnson is an entrepreneur and explorer of the new frontiers of being human. Johnson took stock of his health and realized that ...

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SELF THERAPY: … A WAY OF HEALING OUR SOULS (Motivational books ... contradictory perceptions Book 2) by Adrian Gabriel Dumitru (9 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Self therapy is actually a practice used by thousands of years by the humans... to analyze, define and why not even redefine the inner souls... for simple becoming a better self... on the scene of life. Can be used by anyone... with only one condition... to not lie yourself anymore... and become in the same time the therapist... but also the patient. It's a non ending process... but i guarantee you... it worth to bother doing it. Realizing the connection with the self... it all becomes different and the answers to all our ...

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ANALYZE. DEFINE. REDEFINE.: Tips and tricks for a better life (philosophical essays ... contradictory perceptions Book 1) by Adrian Gabriel Dumitru (8 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

Analyse, Define, Re-define Are you looking for a better life, one that is more fulfilling? It is often that we look for answers, answers on how to achieve this - answers relating to different themes - subject matters about health, work, relationships, friendships, passion; also themes of emotions such as love, hate, anger, joy, frustration, and happiness. I understand your search for a better life, and your desire to understand how to achieve this in the complex world we live in. Could you have a better life right here and now? The ...

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Artificial Intelligence for a Better Future: An Ecosystem Perspective on the Ethics of AI and Emerging Digital Technologies (SpringerBriefs in ... by Bernd Carsten Stahl (Springer) (10 Reviews)    Price verified 57 minutes ago

This open access book proposes a novel approach to Artificial Intelligence (AI) ethics. AI offers many advantages: better and faster medical diagnoses, improved business processes and efficiency, and the automation of boring work. But undesirable and ethically problematic consequences are possible too: biases and discrimination, breaches of privacy and security, and societal distortions such as unemployment, economic exploitation and weakened democratic processes. There is even a prospect, ultimately, of super-intelligent machines ...

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Meditations: A New Translation by Marcus Aurelius (1,309 Review)    Price verified 4 hours ago

Meditations is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from AD 161 to 180, recording his private notes to himself and ideas on Stoic philosophy. Marcus Aurelius wrote the 12 books of the Meditations in Koine Greek as a source for his own guidance and self-improvement. It is possible that large portions of the work were written at Sirmium, where he spent much time planning military campaigns from 170 to 180. Some of it was written while he was positioned at Aquincum on campaign in Pannonia, because internal ...

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Transformations in Twentieth Century Korea (Routledge Advances in Korean Studies) by Yun-shik Chang (Routledge) (17 Reviews)    Price verified 32 minutes ago

This edited collection traces the social, economic, political, and cultural dimensions of Korea's dramatic transformation since the late nineteenth century. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the chapters examine the internal and external forces which facilitated the transition towards industrial capitalism in Korea, the consequences and impact of social change, and the ways in which Korean tradition continues to inform and influence contemporary South Korean society. Transformations in Twentieth Century Korea employs a thematic ...

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The Crisis for Young People: Generational Inequalities in Education, Work, Housing and Welfare by Andy Green (Palgrave Macmillan) (14 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book provides an original and challenging analysis of one of the most pressing social issues of our times: intergenerational inequality. Based on recent mixed-method research, it explores the extent and scope of generational divides through an up-to-date analysis of the changing opportunities for young people in Britain across different life domains. A central question addressed is whether current changes are best understood as growing inequalities within and across age groups, ...

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin (Global Publishers) (7,253 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin appears to have called the work his Memoirs. Although it had a tortuous publication history after Franklin's death, this work has become one of the most famous and influential examples of an autobiography ever written. Franklin's account of his life is divided into four parts, reflecting the different periods during which he wrote them. There are actual breaks ...

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Encyclopedia of Human Evolution and Prehistory: Second Edition by Eric Delson (Routledge) (427 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

Praise for the first edition: "The most up-to-date and wide-ranging encyclopedia work on human evolution available."--American Reference Books Annual "For student, researcher, and teacher... the most complete source of basic information on the subject."--Nature "A comprehensive and authoritative source, filling a unique niche... essential to academic libraries... important for large public libraries." --Booklist/RBB

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Investigación en psicoterapia: acercamientos y líneas de reflexión (Psicoterapia y diálogo interdisciplinario) (Spanish Edition) by Diana Astrid Aguiar Aguirre (ITESO) (62 Reviews)    Price verified 41 minutes ago

La soledad, el incesto, la depresión posparto, el abandono paterno y los intentos de suicidio, entre otros problemas psicosociales relacionados con el bienestar / malestar emocional, son objeto de análisis en este volumen, en el que a partir de estudios de caso y su examen desde distintos referentes teóricos, se muestra la importancia de la investigación en la formación y labor profesional del psicoterapeuta.

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Wittgenstein's Novels by Martin Klebes (Routledge) (20 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

Analyzing features of Wittgenstein's philosophical work and including in-depth textual analyses, this study investigates the impact of Ludwig Wittgenstein's work on contemporary German and French novelists. Drawing upon aesthetics, architectural history, philosophy of science, and photography, the book seeks to explain why references both to Wittgenstein as a person, as well as to his work are more pervasive than other equally renowned twentieth century philosophers and asks why some authors such as Händler and Roubaud, are less ...

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Baby Ninth Amendments: How Americans Embraced Unenumerated Rights and Why It Matters by Anthony B. Sanders (11 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

Listing every right that a constitution should protect is hard. American constitution drafters often list a few famous rights such as freedom of speech, protection against unreasonable searches and seizures, and free exercise of religion, plus a handful of others. However, we do not need to enumerate every liberty because there is another way to protect them: an "etcetera clause." It states that there are other rights beyond those specifically listed: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to ...

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Agentes y lazos sociales: la experiencia de volverse comunidad (Spanish Edition) by Elba Noemí Gómez Gómez (11 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Cuatro manos pueden más que dos y con la suma de muchas voluntades es posible cambiar la realidad en que se vive, por más adversa que parezca. Así sucedió en la colonia Lomas de Polanco, al sur de la ciudad de Guadalajara, México, entre los años setenta y principios de los noventa del siglo XX, donde se generó un movimiento ciudadano, enraizado en las Comunidades Eclesiales de Base y la educación popular, que emprendió una lucha exitosa para conseguir los servicios de infraestructura urbana ante las promesas incumplidas de ...

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Paradise on Fire: Syed Ali Geelani and the Struggle for Freedom in Kashmir by Abdul Hakeem (9 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Paradise on Fire is the story of the struggle for national liberation of the people of Jammu and Kashmir, spearheaded by Syed Ali Shah Geelani. This political biography of Kashmir's leading freedom fighter reveals the true horror of the Kashmir dispute, the dynamics of this historical struggle for self-determination, and Geelani's huge contribution in leading this search for liberation.

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Women Workers And Technological Change In Europe In The Nineteenth And twentieth century by Gertjan De Groot (Routledge) (21 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

From the traditional stereotyped viewpoint, femininity and technology clash. This negative association between women and technology is one of the features of the sex-typing of jobs. Men are seen as technically competent and creative; women are seen as incompetent, suited only to work with machines that have been made and maintained by men. Men identify themselves with technology, and technology is identified with masculinity. The relationship between technology, technological change and women's work is, however, very complex.; ...

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Intellectuals in the Modern Islamic World: Transmission, Transformation and Communication (New Horizons in Islamic Studies) by Stephane Dudoignon (Routledge) (10 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Incorporating a rich series of case-studies covering a range of geographical areas, this collection of essays examines the history of modern intellectuals in the Islamic world throughout the twentieth century. The contributors reassess the typology and history of various scholars, providing significant diachronic analysis of the different forms of communication, learning, and authority. While each chapter presents a separate regional case, with an historically and geographically different background, the volume discloses ...

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Women Workers And Technological Change In Europe In The Nineteenth And twentieth century by Gertjan De Groot (Routledge) (18 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

From the traditional stereotyped viewpoint, femininity and technology clash. This negative association between women and technology is one of the features of the sex-typing of jobs. Men are seen as technically competent and creative; women are seen as incompetent, suited only to work with machines that have been made and maintained by men. Men identify themselves with technology, and technology is identified with masculinity. The relationship between technology, technological change and women's work is, however, very complex.; ...

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Game of Privilege: An African American History of Golf (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) by Lane Demas (The University of North Carolina Press) (58 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

This groundbreaking history of African Americans and golf explores the role of race, class, and public space in golf course development, the stories of individual black golfers during the age of segregation, the legal battle to integrate public golf courses, and the little-known history of the United Golfers Association (UGA)--a black golf tour that operated from 1925 to 1975. Lane Demas charts how African Americans nationwide organized social campaigns, filed lawsuits, and went to jail in order to desegregate courses; he also ...

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A Chinese Wonder Book by Norman Hinsdale Pitman (82 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

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Stolen Summers : A heartbreaking tale of betrayal, confinement and dreams of escape (Matilda Windsor) by Anne Goodwin (50 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

All she has left is her sanity. Will the asylum take that from her too? In 1939, Matilda is admitted to Ghyllside hospital, cut off from family and friends. Not quite twenty, and forced to give up her baby for adoption, she feels battered by the cruel regime. Yet she finds a surprising ally in rough-edged Doris, who risks harsh punishments to help her reach out to the brother she left behind. Twenty-five years later, the rules have relaxed, and the women are free to leave. How will they cope in a world transformed in their absence? ...

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The Geopolitics of the Global Energy Transition (Lecture Notes in Energy Book 73) by Manfred Hafner (Springer) (16 Reviews)    Price verified 57 minutes ago

The world is currently undergoing an historic energy transition, driven by increasingly stringent decarbonisation policies and rapid advances in low-carbon technologies. The large-scale shift to low-carbon energy is disrupting the global energy system, impacting whole economies, and changing the political dynamics within and between countries. This open access book, written by leading energy scholars, examines the economic and geopolitical implications of the global energy transition, from both regional and thematic perspectives. ...

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The Anthropology of Epidemics (Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology) by Ann H. Kelly (Routledge) (8 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

Over the past decades, infectious disease epidemics have come to increasingly pose major global health challenges to humanity. The Anthropology of Epidemics approaches epidemics as total social phenomena: processes and events which encompass and exercise a transformational impact on social life whilst at the same time functioning as catalysts of shifts and ruptures as regards human/non-human relations. Bearing a particular mark on subject areas and questions which have recently come to shape developments in anthropological thinking, ...

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The Future of Land Warfare (Geopolitics in the 21st Century) by Michael E. O'Hanlon (Brookings Institution Press) (104 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

What happens if we bet too heavily on unmanned systems, cyber warfare, and special operations in our defense? In today's U.S. defense policy debates, big land wars are out. Drones, cyber weapons, special forces, and space weapons are in. Accordingly, Pentagon budget cuts have honed in on the army and ground forces: this, after the long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, seems like an appealing idea. No one really wants American boots on the ground in bloody conflicts abroad. But it is not so easy to simply declare an end to messy land ...

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Beyond NATO: A New Security Architecture for Eastern Europe (The Marshall Papers) by Michael E. O'Hanlon (Brookings Institution Press) (22 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

In this new Brookings Marshall Paper, Michael O'Hanlon argues that now is the time for Western nations to negotiate a new security architecture for neutral countries in eastern Europe to stabilize the region and reduce the risks of war with Russia. He believes NATO expansion has gone far enough. The core concept of this new security architecture would be one of permanent neutrality. The countries in question collectively make a broken-up arc, from Europe's far north to its south: Finland and Sweden; Ukraine, Moldova, and Belarus; ...

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Death by Dogma: The biological reason why the Left is leading us to extinction, and the solution by Jeremy Griffith (42 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

Death by Dogma is a companion to THE Interview, the transcript of biologist Jeremy Griffith's ground-breaking interview that solves the human condition and saves the world - an interview described by Professor Harry Prosen, a former president of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, as 'the most important interview of all time'! In Death by Dogma, Griffith explains that the Left's dogmatic insistence that everyone behave in a cooperative and loving way makes its advocates feel good but it oppresses and stifles the freedom of ...

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Oliver Sacks: El médico que veía la mente (Magis 449) (Spanish Edition) by Alejandro Zamora (ITESO) (18 Reviews)    Price verified 57 minutes ago

El neuro?logo y escritor Oliver Sacks fue un explorador de una de las zonas que ma?s misterios guardan para nuestro entendimiento: nuestro propio cerebro y la forma en que su funcionamiento determina co?mo percibimos la realidad y co?mo se constituye nuestra identidad. A lo largo de una obra vasta que es, a la vez, divulgacio?n y cri?tica de la ciencia, encontramos adema?s la pra?ctica profesional de un me?dico cuyos pacientes estaban por encima de cualquier otro intere?s: una actitud ejemplar que reivindica la importancia de ...

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Leapfrogging Inequality: Remaking Education to Help Young People Thrive by Rebecca Winthrop (Brookings Institution Press) (16 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

Exemplary stories of innovation from around the world In an age of rising inequality, getting a good education increasingly separates the haves from the have nots. In countries like the United States, getting a good education is one of the most promising routes to upper-middle-class status, even more so than family wealth. Experts predict that by 2030, 825 million children will reach adulthood without basic secondary-level skills, and it will take a century for the most marginalized youth to achieve the educational levels that the ...

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The Consequences of Chaos: Syria?s Humanitarian Crisis and the Failure to Protect (The Marshall Papers) by Elizabeth Ferris (13 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

The massive dimensions of Syria's refugee crisis -- and the search for solutions The civil war in Syria has forced some 10 million people -- more than half the country's population -- from their homes and communities, creating one of the largest human displacements since the end of World War II. Daily headlines testify to their plight, both within Syria and in the countries to which they have fled. The Consequences of Chaos looks beyond the ever-increasing numbers of Syria's uprooted to consider the long-term economic, political, ...

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Lucifina: The Belle of Hell by Licia Flynn (11 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

For years, Lucifina lit up television screens across the region with her effervescent smile. Few suspected that this little sweetheart was no angel but rather Satan's twin sister sent to destroy the world. Lucifina: The Belle of Hell is a dark comedy about a teenage model's fall from fame. After botching countless missions to recruit world leaders, she becomes a mere mortal and begins to suffer like other humans. After giving up all hope, Beelzebub returns. He promises that if she completes an operation to kill Aaron Walker, ...

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Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism by Mary Mills Patrick (30 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

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Ética, hermenéutica y política. Filosofía en el fondo (Spanish Edition) by Miguel Fernández Membrive (ITESO) (31 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

Esta obra colectiva de ensayos académicos dictaminados, inspirados en el ciclo de conferencias Filosofía en el Fondo, ofrece una rica y entretejida lectura que en cuatro secciones (La ética ante el problema del mal, Diferencia y alteridad, Hermenéutica de la modernidad, e Intersticios políticos) profundiza los problemas humanos que resisten el paso del tiempo con enfoques hermenéuticos, genealógicos y críticos. (ITESO) (ITESO Universidad). Disponible también en versión impresa www.publicaciones.iteso.mx .

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The Philosophy of Desire in the Buddhist Pali Canon (Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism) by David Webster (Routledge) (53 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

David Webster explores the notion of desire as found in the Buddhist Pali Canon. Beginning by addressing the idea of a 'paradox of desire', whereby we must desire to end desire, the varieties of desire that are articulated in the Pali texts are examined. A range of views of desire, as found in Western thought, are presented as well as Hindu and Jain approaches. An exploration of the concept of ditthi(view or opinion) is also provided, exploring the way in which 'holding views' can be seen as analogous to the process of desiring. ...

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Christianity, Islam and Nationalism in Indonesia (Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series) by Charles E. Farhadian (21 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

Although over eighty percent of the country is Muslim, Indonesia is marked by an extraordinary diversity in language, ancestry, culture, religion and ways of life. This book focuses on the Christian Dani of West Papua, providing a social and ethnographic history of the most important indigenous population in the troubled province. It presents a fascinating overview of the Dani's conversion to Christianity, examining the social, religious and political uses to which they have put their new religion. Based on independent research ...

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The Moralist International: Russia in the Global Culture Wars (Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought) by Kristina Stoeckl (Fordham University Press) (10 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

The Moralist International analyzes the role of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian state in the global culture wars over gender and reproductive rights and religious freedom. It shows how the Russian Orthodox Church in the past thirty years first acquired knowledge about the dynamics, issues, and strategies of Right- Wing Christian groups; how the Moscow Patriarchate has shaped its traditionalist agenda accordingly; and how the close alliance between church and state has turned Russia into a norm entrepreneur for ...

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Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning, and Application (Language, Cognition, and Mind Book 9) by Lucas Bechberger (Springer) (10 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

This open access book is a timely contribution in presenting recent issues, approaches, and results that are not only central to the highly interdisciplinary field of concept research but also particularly important to newly emergent paradigms and challenges. The contributors present a unique, holistic picture for the understanding and use of concepts from a wide range of fields including cognitive science, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence, and computer science. The chapters focus on three distinct points ...

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El paraíso de la impunidad (ReVisión Universitaria) (Spanish Edition) by David Velasco Yáñez (31 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

México vive una crisis humanitaria en materia de derechos humanos, en cuya raíz se encuentra la impunidad que se ha enseñoreado en el país convirtiéndole en un paraíso para los victimarios. (ITESO) (ITESO Universidad) publicaciones.iteso.mx

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Science of Societal Safety: Living at Times of Risks and Disasters (Trust Book 2) by Seiji Abe (Springer) (10 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

This open access book covers comprehensive but fundamental principles and concepts of disaster and accident prevention and mitigation, countermeasures, and recovery from disasters or accidents including treatment and care of the victims. Safety and security problems in our society involve not only engineering but also social, legal, economic, cultural, and psychological issues. The enhancement needed for societal safety includes comprehensive activities of all aspects from precaution to recovery, not only of people but also of ...

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Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation: Towards a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World? (Routledge Global Security Studies) by Sverre Lodgaard (Routledge) (36 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project. This book examines the current debate on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, notably the international non-proliferation regime and how to implement its disarmament provisions. Discussing the requirements of a new international ...

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Being Single in India: Stories of Gender, Exclusion, and Possibility (Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity Book 15) by Sarah Lamb (12 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Today, the majority of the world's population lives in a country with falling marriage rates, a phenomenon with profound impacts on women, gender, and sexuality. In this exceptionally crafted ethnography, Sarah Lamb probes the gendered trend of single women living in India, examining what makes living outside marriage for women increasingly possible and yet incredibly challenging. Featuring the stories of never-married women as young as 35 and ...

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Europe and the Refugee Response: A Crisis of Values? (Routledge Studies in Development, Mobilities and Migration) by Elżbieta M. Goździak (Routledge) (18 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

This book explores how the rising numbers of refugees entering Europe from 2015 onwards played into fears of cultural, religious, and ethnic differences across the continent. The migrant, or refugee crisis, prompted fierce debate about European norms and values, with some commentators questioning whether mostly Muslim refugees would be able to adhere to these values, and be able to integrate into a predominantly Christian European society. In this volume, philosophers, legal scholars, anthropologists and sociologists, analyze some of ...

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Atlantic Bonds: A Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from America to Africa (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series) by Lisa A. Lindsay (The University of North Carolina Press) (24 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

A decade before the American Civil War, James Churchwill Vaughan (1828-1893) set out to fulfill his formerly enslaved father's dying wish that he should leave America to start a new life in Africa. Over the next forty years, Vaughan was taken captive, fought in African wars, built and rebuilt a livelihood, and led a revolt against white racism, finally becoming a successful merchant and the founder of a wealthy, educated, and politically active family. Tracing Vaughan's journey from South Carolina to Liberia to several parts of ...

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Corazón de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South since 1910 (The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History) by Julie M. Weise (The University of North Carolina Press) (15 Reviews)    Price verified 27 minutes ago

When Latino migration to the U.S. South became increasingly visible in the 1990s, observers and advocates grasped for ways to analyze "new" racial dramas in the absence of historical reference points. However, as this book is the first to comprehensively document, Mexicans and Mexican Americans have a long history of migration to the U.S. South. Corazon de Dixie recounts the untold histories of Mexicanos' migrations to New Orleans, Mississippi, Arkansas, Georgia, and North Carolina as far back as 1910. It follows Mexicanos into the ...

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The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf by Louis Joseph Vance (18 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

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Myths and myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology by John Fiske (42 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

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Globalization and Labour in the Twenty-First Century (Routledge Advances in International Political Economy) by Verity Burgmann (Routledge) (23 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.Globalization has adversely affected working-class organization and mobilization, increasing inequality by redistribution upwards from labour to capital. However, workers around the world are challenging their increased exploitation by globalizing corporations. In developed countries, many unions are transforming themselves to confront employer power in ...

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Ayotzinapa y la crisis del estado neoliberal mexicano (ReVisión Universitaria) (Spanish Edition) by David Velasco Yáñez (ITESO) (17 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

¿Qué pasó en Ayotzinapa? Es la pregunta que surgió el 26 de septiembre de 2014, que no encuentra una respuesta satisfactoria pese a la intervención de actores de distintas instancias, niveles y nacionalidades, y al esbozo de múltiples hipótesis sobre los enfrentamientos registrados en Iguala, Guerrero, que derivaron en la muerte de varias personas y la desaparición de 43 estudiantes de la Normal Rural "Isidro Burgos", en una tragedia que evidenció la crisis que atraviesa el estado mexicano y que afecta a todo el país. A ...

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Torture, Humiliate, Kill: Inside the Bosnian Serb Camp System (Ethnic Conflict: Studies in Nationality, Race, and Culture) by Hikmet Karcic (University of Michigan Press) (17 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

Half a century after the Holocaust, on European soil, Bosnian Serbs orchestrated a system of concentration camps where they subjected their Bosniak Muslim and Bosnian Croat neighbors to torture, abuse, and killing. Foreign journalists exposed the horrors of the camps in the summer of 1992, sparking worldwide outrage. This exposure, however, did not stop the mass atrocities. Hikmet Kar?i? shows that the use of camps and detention facilities has been a ubiquitous practice in countless wars and genocides in order to achieve the wartime ...

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Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore by William Ralston Shedden Ralston (146 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

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Empire's Violent End: Comparing Dutch, British, and French Wars of Decolonization, 1945–1962 by Thijs Brocades Zaalberg (Cornell University Press) (35 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

In Empire's Violent End, Thijs Brocades Zaalberg and Bart Luttikhuis, along with expert contributors, present comparative research focused specifically on excessive violence in Indonesia, Algeria, Vietnam, Malaysia, Kenya, and other areas during the wars of decolonization. In the last two decades, there have been heated public and scholarly debates in France, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands on the violent end of empire. Nevertheless, the broader comparative investigations into colonial counterinsurgency tend to leave ...

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Indigenous Knowledge Production: Navigating Humanity within a Western World (Routledge Advances in Sociology) by Marcus Woolombi Waters (Routledge) (22 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Despite many scholars noting the interdisciplinary approach of Aboriginal knowledge production as a methodology within a broad range of subjects - including quantum mathematics, biodiversity, sociology and the humanities - the academic study of Indigenous knowledge and people is struggling to become interdisciplinary in its approach and move beyond its current label of 'Indigenous Studies'. Indigenous Knowledge Production specifically demonstrates the use of autobiographical ethnicity as a methodological approach, where the writer ...

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Ink-Stained Hollywood: The Triumph of American Cinema’s Trade Press by Eric Hoyt (University of California Press) (15 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. For the first half of the twentieth century, no American industry boasted a more motley and prolific trade press than the movie business -- a cutthroat landscape that set the stage for battle by ink. In 1930, Martin Quigley, publisher of Exhibitors Herald, conspired with Hollywood studios to eliminate all competing trade papers, yet this attempt and each one thereafter collapsed. Exploring the communities of exhibitors and creative workers that ...

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Online Hate and Harmful Content: Cross-National Perspectives (Routledge Advances in Sociology Book 200) by Teo Keipi (Routledge) (33 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Over the past few decades, various types of hate material have caused increasing concern. Today, the scope of hate is wider than ever, as easy and often-anonymous access to an enormous amount of online content has opened the Internet up to both use and abuse. By providing possibilities for inexpensive and instantaneous access without ties to geographic location or a user identification system, the Internet has permitted hate groups and individuals espousing hate to transmit their ideas to a worldwide audience. Online Hate and ...

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International Relations: A Self-Study Guide to Theory by Manuela Spindler (40 Reviews)    Price verified 10 hours ago

The book is written for active learners - those keen on cutting their own path through the complex and at times hardly comprehensible world of THEORY in International Relations. To aid this process as much as possible, this book employs the didactical and methodical concept of integrating teaching and self-study. The criteria for structured learning about IR theory will be derived from an extensive discussion of the questions and problems of philosophy of science (Part 1). Theory of IR refers to the scientific study of IR and covers ...

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El efecto AMLO. Primer semestre de 2018 (Análisis Plural) (Spanish Edition) by Víctor Hugo Abrego Molina (49 Reviews)    Price verified 10 hours ago

Sin lugar a duda, la efervescencia electoral fue el elemento más sobresaliente del primer semestre de 2018 en México, con el contundente triunfo de Andrés Manuel López Obrador como el culmen de un proceso en el que el tres veces candidato presidencial supo capitalizar el encono y la rabia de millones de personas, y transmutarlos en esperanza. El estrepitoso derrumbe del tradicional sistema de partidos, con el PRI a la cabeza, dio pie a una reconfiguración del mapa político del país, con el Movimiento de Regeneración Nacional ...

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In Contempt: Defending Free Speech, Defeating HUAC by Ed Yellin (University of Michigan Press) (11 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

"YOU ARE HEREBY COMMANDED to be and appear before the Committee on Un-American Activities of the House of Representatives of the United States, or a duly appointed subcommittee thereof, on February 10 (Monday), 1958, at ten o'clock a.m. at City Council Chambers, City Hall, Gary, Indiana, then and there to testify touching matters of inquiry committed to said committee, and not to depart without leave of said committee." So began a decade of hardship for Ed and Jean Yellin and their three young children as the repressive weight of ...

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A Reader in Early Franciscan Theology: The Summa Halensis (Medieval Philosophy: Texts and Studies) by Oleg Bychkov (Fordham University Press) (20 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

A Reader in Early Franciscan Theology presents for the first time in English key passages from the Summa Halensis, one of the first major installments in the summa genre for which scholasticism became famous. This systematic work of philosophy and theology was collaboratively written mostly between 1236 and 1245 by the founding members of the Franciscan school, such as Alexander of Hales and John of La Rochelle, who worked at the recently founded University of Paris. Modern scholarship has often dismissed this early Franciscan ...

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No Truth Without Beauty: God, the Qur’an, and Women's Rights (Sustainable Development Goals Series) by Leena El-Ali (Palgrave Macmillan) (11 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

In this comprehensive open access book, written for readers from any or no religious background, Leena El-Ali does something remarkable. Never before has anyone taken on every last claim relating to Islam and women and countered it not just with Qur'anic evidence to the contrary, but with easy-to-use tools available to all. How can a woman's testimony be worth half of a man's? How can men divorce their wives unilaterally by uttering three words? And what's with the obsession with virgins in Paradise? Find the chapter on any of the ...

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The Incel Rebellion: The Rise of the Manosphere and the Virtual War Against Women (Emerald Studies In Digital Crime, Technology and Social Harms) by Lisa Sugiura (Emerald Publishing Limited) (18 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Emerging alongside the progression of women's rights in the twenty-first century is the development of the men's rights movement, parts of which have culminated into the contemporary 'manosphere.' Consisting of online communities that ascribe to misogynistic ideologies, which objectify, disparage, and dehumanise women, the manosphere also houses those who identify as involuntary celibate (incel). Drawing on ethnographic research and interviews, this book provides an original and timely insight into the development of the manosphere, ...

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Impulso vital, pactos sociales, justicia y discriminación (Xipe totek 103) (Spanish Edition) by Jorge Manzano Vargas (ITESO) (14 Reviews)    Price verified 22 minutes ago

En esta edición 103 de Xipe totek se aborda el tema de la justicia desde diferentes perspectivas, a partir de los textos "Fundamentos históricos y jurídicos de la Constitución mexicana" de Rafael Estrada Michel; "La justicia como punto ciego mexicano" de Luis Alberto Herrera Álvarez; y "Apuntes sobre espacio y justicia" de Juan López Vergara Newton En cuanto a la secuencia de la reflexión que Jorge Manzano hace del pensamiento de Henri Bergson, se presenta el capítulo octavo de su análisis: "La génesis de la materia". En la ...

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Red Dynamite: Creationism, Culture Wars, and Anticommunism in America (Religion and American Public Life) by Carl R. Weinberg (14 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

In Red Dynamite, Carl R. Weinberg argues that creationism's tenacious hold on American public life depended on culture-war politics inextricably embedded in religion. Many Christian conservatives were convinced that evolutionary thought promoted immoral and even bestial social, sexual, and political behavior. The "fruits" of subscribing to Darwinism were, in their minds, a dangerous rearrangement of God-given standards and the unsettling of traditional hierarchies of power. Despite claiming to focus exclusively on science and ...

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Manchus and Han: Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early Republican China, 1861-1928 (Studies on Ethnic Groups in China) by Edward J. M. Rhoads (University of Washington Press) (10 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

China?s 1911?12 Revolution, which overthrew a 2000-year succession of dynasties, is thought of primarily as a change in governmental style, from imperial to republican, traditional to modern. But given that the dynasty that was overthrown?the Qing?was that of a minority ethnic group that had ruled China?s Han majority for nearly three centuries, and that the revolutionaries were overwhelmingly Han, to what extent was the revolution not only anti-monarchical, but also anti-Manchu? Edward Rhoads explores this provocative and ...

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The Nine Point Five Theses: The Existence Of Souls Deduced By The Scientific Method by Jeffrey Corkern (105 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

Do you want to know what's going to happen to you when you die? I can show you the logically deduced answer. Do you want to know if you really, truly do have a soul? Do you want to know what you will experience in the afterlife? Do you want to know where your soul goes after the afterlife? Analytical chemist Jeff Corkern has thirty years' experience studying cause and effect. Now he shows how the scientific method and basic principles of logic prove beyond any doubt that the human soul is real. THE NINE POINT FIVE THESES: THE ...

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Can Biotechnology Abolish Suffering? by David Pearce (The Neuroethics Foundation) (26 Reviews)    Price verified 27 minutes ago

Can Biotechnology Abolish Suffering? is a collection of essays by utilitarian philosopher David Pearce. The essays deal with a variety of subjects, including the abolition of suffering through biotechnology, negative utilitarianism, our obligations toward non-human animals, the nature of consciousness, and the future of intelligent life.

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Footprints of War: Militarized Landscapes in Vietnam (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books) by David Andrew Biggs (University of Washington Press) (22 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

When American forces arrived in Vietnam, they found themselves embedded in historic village and frontier spaces already shaped by many past conflicts. American bases and bombing targets followed spatial and political logics influenced by the footprints of past wars in central Vietnam. The militarized landscapes here, like many in the world?s historic conflict zones, continue to shape post-war land-use politics. Footprints of War traces the long history of conflict-produced spaces in Vietnam, beginning with early modern wars and the ...

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Spirituality and Metaphysics: An Insider's Take on Life's Most Important Subjects by James Goi Jr. (91 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO ATTRACT MONEY USING MIND POWER If you are a fan of metaphysics, quantum physics, mind power, spirituality and spiritual growth, self-help, human potential, personal development, motivation, and the Law of Attraction, then you will love this book of James Goi Jr. quotes. Most people are concerned with material survival and success to the exclusion of anything "spiritual" or "metaphysical." And that sort of mindset has its place in human life. Human beings face many obstacles and dangers which ...

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Spiritual Power Demystified: A Guide to Claiming Your Divine Birthright by James Goi Jr. (91 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO ATTRACT MONEY USING MIND POWER If you are a fan of metaphysics, quantum physics, mind power, spirituality and spiritual growth, self-help, human potential, personal development, motivation, and the Law of Attraction, then you will love this book. Have you ever contemplated what spiritual power is? Has it been a mystery to you? Well, no more! Spiritual power is perhaps one of the most neglected and misunderstood concepts in the study of metaphysics and spirituality. After all, when is the last ...

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Language and Truth in North Korea by Sonia Ryang (University of Hawaii Press) (13 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

In this innovative and persuasive volume, Sonia Ryang offers new ways to think about North Korea and how truth emerges over decades from within a dominant discourse. It explores four discrete yet mutually related domains of discourse: North Korea's literary purge of the 1950s-1960s; its state-initiated linguistic reforms of the 1960s-1980s; stories from a people's chronicle, more than one hundred volumes in length, documenting interactions with the Great Leader, Kim Il Sung; and the multivolume memoirs of the Great Leader himself, ...

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Economic Complexity and Human Development: How Economic Diversification and Social Networks Affect Human Agency and Welfare (Routledge Studies in ... by Dominik Hartmann (Routledge) (41 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This book combines the human development approach and innovation economics in order to explore the effects that structural economic change has on human development. While economic diversification can provide valuable new social choices and capabilities, it also tends to lead to more complex decision processes and changes to the set of capabilities required by people to self-determine their future. Within this process of structural transformation, social networks are crucial for accessing information and social support, but networks ...

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The Cold War from the Margins: A Small Socialist State on the Global Cultural Scene by Theodora Dragostinova (19 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

In The Cold War from the Margins, Theodora K. Dragostinova reappraises the global 1970s from the perspective of a small socialist state -- Bulgaria -- and its cultural engagements with the Balkans, the West, and the Third World. During this anxious decade, Bulgaria's communist leadership invested heavily in cultural diplomacy to bolster its legitimacy at home and promote its agendas abroad. Bulgarians traveled the world to open museum exhibitions, show films, perform music, and showcase the cultural heritage and future aspirations of ...

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Narkomania: Drugs, HIV, and Citizenship in Ukraine by Jennifer J. Carroll (13 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

Against the backdrop of a post-Soviet state set aflame by geopolitical conflict and violent revolution, Narkomania considers whether substance use disorders are everywhere the same and whether our responses to drug use presuppose what kind of people those who use drugs really are. Jennifer J. Carroll's ethnography is a story about public health and international efforts to quell the spread of HIV. Carroll focuses on Ukraine where the prevalence of HIV among people who use drugs is higher than in parts of sub-Saharan Africa and ...

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Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination: We, Too, Are Humans (Routledge Contemporary Africa) by Chielozona Eze (Routledge) (55 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination is an interdisciplinary reading of justice in literary texts and memoirs, films, and social anthropological texts in postcolonial Africa. ? Inspired by Nelson Mandela and South Africa's robust achievements in human rights, this book argues that the notion of restorative justice is integral to the proper functioning of participatory democracy and belongs to the moral architecture of any decent society. Focusing on the efforts by African writers, scholars, artists, and activists to ...

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The Onlife Manifesto: Being Human in a Hyperconnected Era by Luciano Floridi (Springer) (50 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

What is the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on the human condition? In order to address this question, in 2012 the European Commission organized a research project entitled The Onlife Initiative: concept reengineering for rethinking societal concerns in the digital transition. This volume collects the work of the Onlife Initiative. It explores how the development and widespread use of ICTs have a radical impact on the human condition. ICTs are not mere tools but rather social forces that are increasingly ...

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Nuclear Reactions: How Nuclear-Armed States Behave (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) by Mark S. Bell (Cornell University Press) (16 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

Nuclear Reactionsanalyzes how nuclear weapons change the calculations states make in their foreign policies, why they do so, and why nuclear weapons have such different effects on the foreign policies of different countries. Mark S. Bell argues that nuclear weapons are useful for more than deterrence. They are leveraged to pursue a wide range of goals in international politics, and the nations that acquire them significantly change their foreign policies as a result. Closely examining how these effects vary and what those variations ...

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