Embodiment and Everyday Cyborgs. Technologies That Alter Subjectivity, Hardback - Gill Haddow

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Virginia Woolf famously claimed that, around December 1910, human character changed. This book addresses how music, the phonograph, and film served...

Reducere. From Robocop to the Terminator to Eve 8, no image better captures our deepest fears about technology than the cyborg, the person who is both flesh ...

What can a turn to humour offer International Relations? This book suggests that a focus on comic practice can illuminate the relationship between ...

An eclectic and humorous collection of 100 articles on the strange and unexpected ways mathematics shapes the world around us.

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The memoir left behind by journalist Keelin Shanley who died of cancer in February 2020. A remarkable story of courage and resilience and a memorab...

In 1998, Chief Historian of the Foreign Office Gill Bennett was commissioned by Foreign Secretary Robin Cook to get to the bottom of a mystery that...

An international team of leading scholars bring together research developed across anthropology, sociology, media and communication studies, and et...

Examines everyday technologies found in places and circumstances unforeseen by their designers and manufacturers. Provokes unusual perspectives on ...

This coursebook examines the material history of human communication, allowing students and teachers to examine how communication's production, for...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Mark (Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology, University of Vienna) CoeckelberghIllustration(s): 4 b 8 ...

A warm and funny story about a family where the young son is sure his Dad is a grizzly bear!

Medieval literary voices explores literary voice in relation to its authorial, scribal and socio-political settings. It reveals how literary voices...

This book is about the ways in which western spectators are bombarded with 'emergencies' by our press and political institutions. It examines the e...

A timely and much-needed critical examination of the idea of musical subjectivity, this book draws on philosophy, critical theory and music analysi...

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This book breaks new ground by bringing postmodern writings on vision and embodiment into dialogue with medieval texts and images: an interdiscipli...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Louisa (Ed Tech Designer and Researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) RosenheckIllustration(s): 63 b 1...

'The best science book I've read all year... really provocative.' Malcolm Gladwell

Powered by Plants explores the world of plants and how their properties are increasingly helping to shape the cutting edge of human technology and ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Abbas (Adjunct Faculty, San Jose State University, CA) MoallemIllustration(s): 33 Halftones, black and wh...

Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UKAuthor(s): Maddie MoateNumber of pages: 56Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 238 x 291 x 13Cover type: ...

Reducere. A compilation of current scientific knowledge about psychoactive herbal drugs.Virtually all cultures consume drugs from psychoactive plants. Caffei...

This book provides innovative readings of literary works of British Romanticism and its influence on twentieth- and twenty-first-century American l...

Publisher: RidinghouseIllustration(s): 30 colour, 7 b&wNumber of pages: 80Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 229 x 277 x 14Cover type: HardbackRedes...

Discover why time spent caring for yourself is always time well spent, and the countless ways you can improve your health, happiness and wellbeing.

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Focusing on the philosophical registers of literary texts, Adam Meehan traces the development of modernist attitudes toward subjectivity, particula...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 17 bw illusNumber of pages: 216Collection: Dress CulturesPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 162...

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Gina and Karol Daly have always been larger than life, there just isn't as much of them anymore. Together they've lost almost ten stone, and they'v...

In this thought-provoking volume, Eran Fisher interrogates the relationship between algorithms as epistemic devices and modern notions of subjectiv...

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This guide explains the key arguments of Empiricism and Subjectivity, organised thematically. It features an Appendix with a propositional summary ...

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncNumber of pages: 218Collection: Popular Culture and Everyday LifePublication date: 2007Dimensions: 159 x 237 x ...

A chronic heroin addict is given a second chance at life and rediscovers its magic showing that change is always possible, no matter how stuck we f...

Eliza Steinbock traces how cinema offers alternative ways to understand gender transitions through a specific aesthetics of change, thereby opening...

This book discusses migration in the highly topical context of Ukraine, and explores the imaginations, life-stories, aspirations and life-projects ...

"From the New York Times bestselling authors of Abundance and Bold comes a ... playbook for technological convergence in our modern era"--

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A selection of the next best writing by A. A. Gill, 'by miles the most brilliant journalist of our age' (Lynn Barber)

In this beautifully photographed book, Aileen Cox Blundell provides over 150 nutritious recipes free from refined sugar and salt, aimed at starting...

This crucial new work draws on empirical findings from rural North India in relation to madness and subjectivity, revealing the different structure...

Are Amazon Alexa and Google Home limited to our bedrooms, or can they be used in hospitals? Do you envision a future where physicians work hand-in-...

The first full-length biography of Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States and Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian.Illustrations: 2x8-pg...

This book explores Chinese young men's views of manhood and develops a new concept of 'elastic masculinity' which can be stretched and forged diffe...

Analyzing the personal clothing, makeup, and hairstyles of working-class Black and Latina girls, Jillian Hernandez examines how cultural discourses...

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