Geopolitics of Spectacle. Space, Synecdoche, and the New Capitals of Asia, Hardback - Natalie Koch

Why do autocrats build spectacular new capital cities? In The Geopolitics of Spectacle, Natalie Koch considers how autocratic rulers use "spectacul...

This timely book analyzes nuclear energy policies in Asia, a region at risk for high-stakes conflict. The contributors explore what drives debates ...

This is the tale of the modern Space Age, detailing all the risks, rewards and rivalries that have fueled space exploration over the decades. Jump ...

This book focuses on the new phenomenon of digital geopolitics in the former Soviet Union. It considers how media serve as platforms for the contes...

A collection of Rudyard Kipling's articles describing Sikh soldiers' experiences of the First World War. Published to coincide with the 150th anniv...

Reducere. Many know of Shambhala, the Tibetan Buddhist legendary land of spiritual bliss popularized by the film, Shangri-La. But few may know of the role Sh...

Jairus Victor Grove offers an ecological theorization of geopolitics in which he contends that contemporary global crises are better understood whe...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Daniel S. (Senior Research Professor in International Relations, Senior Research Professor in Inte...

Reducere. Civilization in the twenty-first century is characterized by its technological capacity, which is substantially realized through space technologies...

Reducere. Space is again in the headlines. E-billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are planning to colonize Mars. President Trump wants a "Space Force" to ac...

Reducere. Why did modern states and economies develop first in the peripheral and late-coming culture of Europe? This historical puzzle looms behind every st...

The first global history of the Normans, who - beyond the conquest of England - came to dominate Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East.Publ...

The contributors to this volume explore how non-Western, pluriversal approaches to core questions in the social sciences and humanities can help to...

Under the ambitious leadership of President Xi Jinping, China is zealously transforming its wealth and economic power into potent tools of global p...

Acclaimed author follows the work of the Situationist International after May 1968.Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): McKenzie WarkNumber of pages: 2...

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America is the most punitive nation in the world, incarcerating more than 2.3 million people--or one in 136 of its residents. Against the backdrop ...

An engaging, all-encompassing biography of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that explores her explosive rise and impact on the future of Amer...

"One of the finest books on information security published so far in this century--easily accessible, tightly argued, superbly well-sourced, intimi...

The threat of cyberwar can feel very Hollywood: nuclear codes hacked, power plants melting down, cities burning. In reality, state-sponsored hackin...

Examines an under-studied aspect of Alexander's career and character, exploring his role as both a soldier and a politician.Publisher: Pen & Sword ...

Americans have been fascinated by ruins as symbols of the past and now as symbols of the future. Empire of Ruins tells the story of what ruins have...

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Kyle J. Gardner reveals how colonial border-making practices in the Himalayas transformed a historical crossroads into a disputed borderland and ge...

Reducere. DescriptionA provocative, must-read investigation that both appreciates the importance of--and punctures the hype around--big-time contemporary Ame...

This volume identifies and evaluates the relationship between outer-space geography and geographic position (astrogeography), and the evolution of ...

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Mahmood MonshipouriNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 150 x 223 x 39Cover type:...

DescriptionJairus Victor Grove contends that we live in a world made by war. In Savage Ecology he offers an ecological theory of geopolitics that a...

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Global supply chains connect the world in unprecedented and complex ways. The US-China trade and technology war, economic nationalism, and Covid-19...

Drawing on radical democratic theory and the ideas of political theorist Guy Debord, Rethinking the Spectacle examines the tension between spectacl...

Reducere. Digital ethnography can be understood as a method for representing real-life cultures through storytelling in digital media. Enabling audiences to ...

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There is something devastatingly beautiful about the way we metamorphose through pain. In March of 2018, author Natalie Sanchez unexpectedly lost h...

Reducere. Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping, and Medicine, new expanded edition, is a comprehensive survey of the technology of mapping and its relatio...

Long at the margins of global affairs, the Arctic now finds itself at the frontline of issues which will challenge and define our world in the twen...

Reducere. From 13th century Franciscan monks to Beyoncé in Black is King, Making a Spectacle charts the fascinating ascension of eyeglasses--from an unsightl...

This book addresses the evident but unexplored intertwining of visibility and invisibility in the discourses around syphilis. This book is the firs...

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Kenneth Koch has been called "one of our greatest poets" by John Ashbery, and "a national treasure" in the 2000 National Book Award Finalist Citati...

Reducere. Winner of the 2016 Frantz Fanon Prize for Outstanding Book in Caribbean Thought presented by the Caribbean Philosophical Association In this provoc...

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Applying strategic theory to outer space and drawing out the implications for international relations Offers a definitive and original vision of sp...