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  • Prometheanism

    Technology, Digital Culture and Human Obsolescence

    Series series Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics
    Günther Anders’s prolific philosophy of technology is undergoing a major revival but has never been translated into English. Prometheanism mobilises Anders’s pragmatic thought and current trends in critical theory to rethink the constellations of power that are configuring themselves around our increasingly “smart” machines.The book offers a comprehensive introduction to Anders’s philosophy of ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • The Obsolescence of the Human

    Translated by Christopher John Müller ...
    Series series Posthumanities
    Now available in English—one of the twentieth century’s most important works on the philosophy of technologyWith this first English translation of influential German philosopher Günther Anders’s 1956 masterpiece of critical theory, The Obsolescence of the Human, a new generation of readers can now engage with his prescient and haunting vision of a “world without us” dominated by technology.Looking ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Understanding Atrocities

    Remembering, Representing and Teaching Genocide

    Series Book 1 - Arts in Action
    Understanding Atrocities is a wide-ranging collection of essays bridging scholarly and community-based efforts to understand and respond to the global, transhistorical problem of genocide. The essays in this volume investigate how evolving, contemporary views on mass atrocity frame and complicate the possibilities for the understanding and prevention of genocide. The contributors ask, among other ... Read more

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  • The Future of Qualitative Research in Healthcare

    The Role and Management of Digital Methods

    Digital methods in healthcare research have been steadily gaining ground but, until recently, were superseded by conventional face-to-face approaches wherever possible. However, the COVID-19 pandemic rendered in-person forms of data collection largely impossible, propelling digital approaches to the forefront. This book offers a digital lens in the participatory perspective of ethnography, a ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Swiss Contract Law in International Commercial Arbitration

    A Commentary

    This book provides a systematic presentation of the most important commercial contracts under Swiss law, i.e., the contract of sale, the contract for work and services, the simple mandate contract, and the commercial agency contract, as well as the licence agreement, the exclusive distribution agreement, and the settlement agreement. The book also contains an in-depth introduction of the Swiss law ... Read more

    $219.79 USD

  • Dynamics of Democratic Elections

    A Mathematical Approach to Political Science

    Dynamics of Democratic Elections explores modeling approaches to democratic elections and opinion dynamics at the intersection of mathematics, political science, and computational modeling. The book focuses on relatively simple models, their analysis, and how they perform in real-world applications. In order to make the book easy to navigate, the material is divided into three major parts ... Read more

    $88.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Now

    The Physics of Time - and the Ephemeral Moment that Einstein Could Not Explain

    Narrated by Christopher Grove ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 2 min

    “Now” is a simple yet elusive concept.You are reading the word “now” right now. But what does that mean? What makes the ephemeral moment “now” so special? Its enigmatic character has bedeviled philosophers, priests, and modern-day physicists from Augustine to Einstein and beyond. Einstein showed that the flow of time is affected by both velocity and gravity, yet he despaired at his failure to ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • War of Words

    Culture and the Mass Media in the Making of the Cold War in Europe

    War of Words is a volume of essays on the role of propaganda, mass media and culture in the development of the Cold War in Europe. Exploring a dimension of the political and diplomatic rivalry of interest to historians principally in the last decade, these essays explore the cultural dimensions of the early Cold War. The powers felt it necessary to explain and justify to Europeans the division of ... Read more

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  • Credo Credit Crisis

    Speculations on Faith and Money

    Series series Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics
    Money facilitates the rites and rituals we perform in everyday life. More than a mere medium of exchange or a measure of value, it is the primary means by which we manifest a faith unique to our secular age.But what happens when individual belief (credo, ‘I’ believe) and the systems into which it is bound (credit, ‘it’ believes) enter into crisis? Where did the sacredness of money come from, and ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Rehabilitation in Practice

    Ethnographic Perspectives

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book focuses on developing the use of ethnographic research for rehabilitation practitioners by recognizing its value methodologically and empirically in the field of rehabilitation. The very nature of ethnographic research offers an array of opportunities for researchers to understand the social world around them. The book identifies the multifaceted use of ethnographic methods in the ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Aviation Risk and Safety Management

    Methods and Applications in Aviation Organizations

    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    The International Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO) decision to require aviation organizations to adopt Safety Management Systems poses a major problem especially for small and medium sized aviation companies. The complexity of regulations overstrains the aviation stakeholders who seek to fully advantage from them but have no clear guidance. The aim of the book is to show the implementation of ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Apple's approach towards innovation and creativity

    How Apple, the most innovative company in the world, manages innovation and creativity.

    Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: A, Prifysgol Cymru University of Wales, course: Organisational Learning and Development, language: English, abstract: This paper deals with innovation and creativity in today’s organisations and outlines how Apple has established itself as one of the leaders in the hardware and software ... Read more

    $17.64 USD