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  • Recalling Childhood

    by Elizabeth Arndt, Jake Dailey, George Dibley, Paul G. Halpern, B. A. Hussainmiya, Pradeep Kanthan, Ruth Malcolm, Shakila Abdul Maman, Ooi Keat Gin, Hajar Abdul Rahim, Kenelm Robert, Georg Schmid, Sigrid Schmid-Bortenschlager, Kobkua Suwannathat-pian, Lorraine Wheeler, Rupert Wheeler, Colin Mackerras, Wang Gungwu ...
    What can you remember of your childhood? This was the question put to a number of ‘seniors’ asked to start from as far back as they could get, and go as far as the onset of adolescence. Their answers are in this unusual book.Topics naturally include their physical self; their parents, siblings, grandparents, friends, playmates, teachers, classmates, pets; their manners, training, rewards and ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Thoughts on Things Forgotten

    Recharging the Collective Memory Banks

    by Georg Schmid, Sigrid Schmid-Bortenschlager ...
    We forget all kinds of things, trivial and important ones; and not just things but also topics and techniques, and we forget in different ways. Inconvenient as it is to forget your to-do list, forgetting grave political factors can lead to repeating the same mistakes. Foolish as it is to let proven solutions fall by the wayside, repression, both on a personal as on a political level, will lead to ... Read more

    $67.09 USD

  • The Mind Screen

    Identification Desire and Its Cinematic Arena

    by Georg Schmid ...
    For well over a century cinema has exerted enormous influence, yet many questions regarding its fascination remain unanswered. Films work so well because the viewers tend to unconsciously identify with the actors/actresses. The desire to become another, substituting identity by identification, can be traced to the illusion that the filmic heroes/heroines are immortal – identifying with them raises ... Read more

    $73.79 USD

  • The Treachery of the Elites

    by Georg Schmid ...
    Series Book 22 - Studies in Philosophy, History of Ideas and Modern Societies
    This book gives explanations for the growing gap in wealth and income and the rise of anti-democratic movements. The power of the elites today is supposedly founded on merit (education, intelligence etc.), but a closer look shows that a well-marked-out pool is just self-re-producing. The power these in-groups wield often leads to moral insensibility, made worse by a condescending attitude towards ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • Liquid Love

    On the Frailty of Human Bonds

    by Zygmunt Bauman ...
    This book is about the central figure of our contemporary, ‘liquid modern’ times – the man or woman with no bonds, and particularly with none of the fixed or durable bonds that would allow the effort of self-definition and self-assertion to come to a rest. Having no permanent bonds, the denizen of our liquid modern society must tie whatever bonds they can to engage with others, using their own ... Read more

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  • Liquid Modernity

    by Zygmunt Bauman ...
    In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focused modernity to a 'light' and 'liquid', software-based modernity. This passage, he argues, has brought profound change to all aspects of the human condition. The new remoteness and un-reachability of global systemic structure coupled with the unstructured and under-defined, fluid state of the ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

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  • Unruly Voices

    Essays on Democracy, Civility and the Human Imagination

    by Mark Kingwell ...
    Accessible, entertaining, anecdotal. A good introduction to issues in contemporary civics as well as a measured and thoughtful response to major themes and figures in cultural studies.Civility in politics is a subject throughout, and analyses of both Obama's rhetoric and the use of lowest-common-denominator insults in public debate will be well-timed going into the 2012 election campaignNot just ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Technological Society

    by Jacques Ellul ...
    As insightful and wise today as it was when originally published in 1954, Jacques Ellul's The Technological Society has become a classic in its field, laying the groundwork for all other studies of technology and society that have followed.Ellul offers a penetrating analysis of our technological civilization, showing how technology—which began innocuously enough as a servant of humankind—threatens ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Wasted Lives

    Modernity and Its Outcasts

    by Zygmunt Bauman ...
    The production of 'human waste' – or more precisely, wasted lives, the 'superfluous' populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts – is an inevitable outcome of modernization. It is an unavoidable side-effect of economic progress and the quest for order which is characteristic of modernity.As long as large parts of the world remained wholly or partly unaffected by modernization, they were ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Consuming Life

    by Zygmunt Bauman ...
    With the advent of liquid modernity, the society of producers is transformed into a society of consumers. In this new consumer society, individuals become simultaneously the promoters of commodities and the commodities they promote. They are, at one and the same time, the merchandise and the marketer, the goods and the travelling salespeople. They all inhabit the same social space that is ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Liquid Life

    by Zygmunt Bauman ...
    'Liquid life’ is the kind of life commonly lived in our contemporary, liquid-modern society. Liquid life cannot stay on course, as liquid-modern society cannot keep its shape for long. Liquid life is a precarious life, lived under conditions of constant uncertainty.The most acute and stubborn worries that haunt this liquid life are the fears of being caught napping, of failing to catch up with ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • Globalization

    The Human Consequences

    by Zygmunt Bauman ...
    Series series Themes for the 21st Century
    'Globalization' is a word that is currently much in use. This book is an attempt to show that there is far more to globalization than its surface manifestations. Unpacking the social roots and social consequences of globalizing processes, this book disperses some of the mist that surrounds the term.Alongside the emerging planetary dimensions of business, finance, trade and information flow, a ... Read more

    $20.00 USD