Technologies of the New Real. Viral Contagion and Death of the Social, Paperback - Marilouise Kroker

Technologies of the New Real explores the human impact of technology in the twenty-first century.Publisher: University of Toronto PressAuthor(s): M...

In this book, the authors examine factors influencing the spread of fake news, and suggest ways to combat it by exploring the key elements which en...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 7 Line drawings, black and white; 28 Halftones, black and white; 35 Illustrations, black and whiteN...

Providing a radical new approach to labour migration, this book challenges the prevailing legal and political construction of the figure of the irr...

The number emphasis of new forms of social life - from likes and retweets to star ratings and scores at work - is considered in terms of its pernic...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Laura KipnisNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 148 x 185 x 29Cover type: HardbackRedes...

This volume gathers together ten original essays on the contemporary politics of visibility. Contributions are interdisciplinary and address an arr...

In this extraordinary investigation based on extensive documentary research and dozens of interviews with the key players, Brian Brivati sets out t...

The true story of one of the biggest financial scandals in recent history reaches very different conclusions to the standard narrative.Publisher: B...

Reducere. Is there evidence of a joint alien-military plot to control humankind? Has a secret cabal of the planet's movers and shakers made an unholy allianc...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Patrick MarnhamIllustration(s): 31 bw in 8pp platesNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensi...

Reducere. After two decades, Washington Post journalist Blaine Harden returned to his small-town birthplace in the Pacific Northwest to follow the rise and f...

Reducere. Black Crowes drummer and cofounder Steve Gorman shares the band's inside story in this behind-the-scenes biography, from their supernova stardom in...

Reducere. While digging out a new basement near Los Angeles, homeowners accidentally unearth a 3, 000-year-old Phoenician altar.A treasure-hunter in Ohio fin...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Death Machines offers a critical reconsideration of ethical theories and political justifications for technologised practices of violence in contem...

DescriptionIt's hard to imagine that "the cool" could ever go out of style. After all, cool is style. Isn't it? And it may be harder to imagine a w...

Reducere. About the AuthorGary A. Wilson's previous books include Honky Tonk Town: Havre, Montana's Lawless Era and Outlaw Tales of Montana. Biographer, hist...

Reducere. " A] quietly terrifying book. . . . It's hard not to feel a bit feverish at times while reading." --The Boston GlobeIn The Viral Storm, award-winni...

Examines how viruses like HIV, swine flu, and bird flu have almost wiped us out in the past - and may do so in the future. This title explores why ...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Winner of the 2013 John Hope Franklin Book Prize presented by the American Studies Association Social Death tackles one of the core paradoxes of so...

This Element offers a first-person phenomenological history of watching productions of Shakespeare during the pandemic year of 2020. It explores ho...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

In the 1970s, while their contemporaries were protesting the computer as a tool of dehumanization and oppression, a motley collection of college dr...

Reducere. First published in 1921, this book contains the memoirs of Pierre Gilliard. Pierre Gilliard (1879 - 1962) was a Swiss author and academic famous fo...

The story of the legendary King Arthur. This is the definitive work on the true King Arthur published exactly 1500 years after the historic kings f...

Reducere. We can be certain that the body does not survive death. Once the heart stops circulating blood, the brain is no longer nourished and begins to deca...

Is the Christian calendar we all use historically accurate? Was 1 A.D. really the first "year of the Lord"? Does the Christian era start from the t...

First published in 1944, Magdalen King-Hall's Life and Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton is a historical novel set in late-seventeenth-century Engla...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Pierre BertonIn 1897 a grimy steamer docked in Seattle and set into epic motion the incredible succession of events that Pi...

Reducere. DescriptionAn insider biography of the Black Crowes by drummer and cofounder Steve Gorman For over two decades, The Black Crowes topped the charts ...

Reducere. In the 1940s coal camp of Stansbury, Wyoming, life revolved around the underground mine, community, and family. In many ways, it was the idyllic mo...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Marika CiforIllustration(s): 18 b&w illustrationsNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2022Dimen...

DescriptionA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Long-listed for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence. One of Esquire's Best Books of 2...

After having his face sliced off one year ago, The Joker makes his horrifying return in this new epic that features Batman's entire network of part...

Essential reading.' Jamie Bartlett, author of The People vs Tech'A magisterial guide to the impact of the digital revolution on our institutions an...