Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents, Paperback - Ellen Ullman

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Close to the Machine, Ellen Ullman's cult classic memoir of the world of computers in the 1980s and early 1990s is an insight into a world we rarel...

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Reducere. A critical exploration of the transformation of urban space through platform technologies such as Uber and AirbnbThis collection of essays explores...

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Publisher: Broadview Press LtdAuthor(s): Sigmund FreudNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 153 x 216 x 14Cover type: Paperback / s...

Slavoj Zizek and Srecko Horvat combine their critical clout to emphasize the dangers of ignoring Europe's growing wealth gap and the parallel rise ...

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Written by one of the world's most distinguished historians of psychiatry, Psychiatry and Its Discontents provides a wide-ranging and critical pers...

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The key question at the heart of this book is to what extent political activists in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong have made progress in thei...

Reducere. With a New Introduction by Mary Gaitskill A PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist A New York Times Book Review Notable Book Ellen Ullman is a rarity, a comp...

A series of investigative accounts from scholar-activists and housing campaign groups across the UK charts the diverse aims, tactics and strategies...

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Based on rich oral histories from over two hundred interviews in West Africa, Europe, and North America, this engaging study of dual citizenship an...

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This book, a comprehensive review of the author's work with clients, introduces "Unstoppable Selling" -- it captures the strategies and tactics the...

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Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Maria BoletsiNumber of pages: 328Collection: Cultural Memory in the PresentPublication date: 2013Dim...

This volume considers the ways in which alternative worldviews, fostered by advances in twentieth century natural science and other intellectual de...

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Considering the incompatibility of civilization and individual happiness, the author focuses on what he perceives to be one of society's greatest d...

This book draws on a range of critical approaches, including cultural anthropology, psychoanalytic theory, political justice theory, and feminist t...

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Reducere. This book builds upon my previous work, A People That Shall Dwell Alone: Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy (MacDonald 1994/2002; hereafter P...

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Gentrification is transforming cities, small and large, across the country. Though it's easy to bemoan the diminished social diversity and transfor...

Our contemporary celebration of difference, respect for pluralism, and avowal of identity politics have come to be regarded as the hallmarks of a p...

Using original interviews with estate residents in London, Watt provides a vivid account of estate regeneration and its impacts on marginalised com...

A defence of liberalism by the renowned political philosopher.Publisher: Profile Books LtdAuthor(s): Francis FukuyamaNumber of pages: 192Publicatio...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Nina PowerNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 144 x 223 x 25Cover type: HardbackRedescoper...

We are told that we live in a post ideological era; that we have moved 'beyond Left and Right'; and that we are 'all in it together'. Democracy has...

DescriptionThe death of the Islamic Republic's revolutionary patriarch, Ayatollah Khomeini, the bitter denouement of the Iran-Iraq War, and the mar...

Michelle Pannor Silver considers how we confront the mismatch between idealized and actual retirement. She follows doctors, CEOs, elite athletes, p...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: David G. UllmanThe Mechanical Design Process combines a practical overview of the design process with case material and rea...

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Subtitled, The Life & Times Of Denys Finch Hatton, this acclaimed biography of the conservationist, scholar, soldier, white hunter and fabled lover...

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A thousand refugees fleeing a war-torn country, and only one boat. How can a boy and his grandfather hope to make it? A haunting and suspenseful st...

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Ricardo Rubinstein explores contemporary culture and its discontents - including subjectivity, fanaticism, panic attacks, technology, and pandemics...

A British tank commanders classic eyewitness account of the Second World War.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Bill CloseIllustration(s): ...