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  • The Lolly Factory

    by Christopher Leslie Aulich ...
    The Lolly Factory is surrealistic story slanted towards fantasy which is out beyond the frontier of acid Gothic. It is an experimental blend of satire, fantasy and farce which details a journey of self-discovery. ... Read more

    $30.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Histories of Computing in Asia

    IFIP WG 9.7 International Workshop on the History of Computing, HC 2024, Phuket, Thailand, September 8–9, 2024, Revised Selected Papers

    Edited by Christopher Leslie ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP WG 9.7 International Workshop on the History of Computing, HC 2024, held in Phuket, Thailand, during September 8–9, 2024.The 8 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 submissions. These papers present the histories of computing in Asia, focusing on topics such as Internationalism, Science and ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Moral Capital

    Foundations of British Abolitionism

    by Christopher Leslie Brown ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    Revisiting the origins of the British antislavery movement of the late eighteenth century, Christopher Leslie Brown challenges prevailing scholarly arguments that locate the roots of abolitionism in economic determinism or bourgeois humanitarianism. Brown instead connects the shift from sentiment to action to changing views of empire and nation in Britain at the time, particularly the anxieties ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • From Hyperspace to Hypertext

    Masculinity, Globalization, and Their Discontents

    by Christopher Leslie ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book illuminates how science fiction studies can support diversity, equity, and inclusion in science and engineering. Shortly before science fiction got its name, a new paradigm connected whiteness and masculinity to the advancement of civilization. In order to show how science fiction authors supported the social construction of these gender and racial norms – and also challenged them – this ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Arming Slaves

    From Classical Times to the Modern Age

    Edited by Christopher Leslie Brown, Philip D. Morgan ...
    Series series The David Brion Davis Series
    Arming slaves as soldiers is a counterintuitive idea. Yet throughout history, in many varied societies, slaveholders have entrusted slaves with the use of deadly force. This book is the first to survey the practice broadly across space and time, encompassing the cultures of classical Greece, the early Islamic kingdoms of the Near East, West and East Africa, the British and French Caribbean, the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • White Over Black

    American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812

    by Winthrop D. Jordan ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    In 1968, Winthrop D. Jordan set out in encyclopedic detail the evolution of white Englishmen’s and Anglo-Americans' perceptions of blacks, perceptions of difference used to justify race-based slavery, and liberty and justice for whites only. This second edition, with new forewords by historians Christopher Leslie Brown and Peter H. Wood, reminds us that Jordan’s text is still the definitive work ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Current Directions in ICT and Society

    IFIP TC9 50th Anniversary Anthology

    Edited by Christopher Leslie, David Kreps ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This project was motivated by the upcoming fiftieth anniversary of the IFIP Human Choice and Computers (HCC) conference, the event that led to IFIP’s Technical Committee 9 (TC 9). Although IFIP committees are mainly technical, TC 9 is dedicated to research at the intersection of information and communication technology (ICT) with society. In addition to sponsoring HCC, TC 9 supports groups that ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Histories of Computing in Eastern Europe

    IFIP WG 9.7 International Workshop on the History of Computing, HC 2018, Held at the 24th IFIP World Computer Congress, WCC 2018, Poznań, Poland, September 19–21, 2018, Revised Selected Papers

    Edited by Christopher Leslie, Martin Schmitt ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the IFIP WG 9.7 International Workshop on the History of Computing, HC 2018, Held at the 24th IFIP World Computer Congress, WCC 2018, in Poznań, Poland, in September 2018.The 16 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 submissions. They reflect academic approaches to history along with the expertise of museum ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • International Communities of Invention and Innovation

    IFIP WG 9.7 International Conference on the History of Computing, HC 2016, Brooklyn, NY, USA, May 25-29, 2016, Revised Selected Papers

    Edited by Arthur Tatnall, Christopher Leslie ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book contains revised selected papers presented at the IFIP WG 9.7 International Conference on the History of Computing, HC 2016, held in Brooklyn, NY, USA, in May 2016.The 13 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics related to the history of computing and focus on the history of pre-existing ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Speculative Whiteness

    Science Fiction and the Alt-Right

    by Jordan S. Carroll ...
    Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
    Reveals the alt-right’s project to claim science fiction and—by extension—the futureFascists such as Richard Spencer interpret science fiction films and literature as saying only white men have the imagination required to invent a high-tech future. Other white nationalists envision racist utopias filled with Aryan supermen and all-white space colonies. Speculative Whiteness traces these ideas ... Read more

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  • Born in Blackness

    Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War

    by Howard W. French ...
    Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understanding of world history.Traditional accounts of the making of the modern world afford a place of primacy to European history. Some credit the fifteenth-century Age of Discovery and the maritime connection it established between West and East; others the ... Read more

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