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  • The Levelling

    What's Next After Globalization

    by Michael O'Sullivan ...
    A brilliant analysis of the transition in world economics, finance, and power as the era of globalization ends and gives way to new power centers and institutions.The world is at a turning point similar to the fall of communism. Then, many focused on the collapse itself, and failed to see that a bigger trend, globalization, was about to take hold. The benefits of globalization--through the freer ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Narrative, Digitality, Well-Being

    by Michael O’Sullivan ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Narrative, Digitality, Well-Being Narrative, Digitality, Wellbeing adopts a transdisciplinary approach in exploring new forms of narrative that have emerged in a digital age, an age of new online practices that are both associated with increased riskand enhanced sense of identity. The book examines new literary narratives, new philosophies of digitality, and new approaches to cross-disciplinary ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Fixed Prosthodontics in Dental Practice

    by Michael O'Sullivan ...
    Series Book 22 - QuintEssentials of Dental Practice
    The practice of fixed prosthodontics has undergone many changes in recent times with significant developments in dental materials and principles of adhesion. However, tooth preparation is still guided by the need to preserve tooth tissue, generate space for restorative material and reshape the tooth to a cylindrical form with a defined finish line. This book carries these principles as a common ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • No Birds of Passage

    A History of Gujarati Muslim Business Communities, 1800–1975

    by Michael O’Sullivan ...
    A sweeping account of three Gujarati Muslim trading communities, whose commercial success over nearly two centuries sheds new light on the history of capitalism, Islam, and empire in South Asia.During the nineteenth century, three Gujarati Muslim commercial castes—the Bohras, Khojas, and Memons—came to dominate Muslim business in South Asia. Although these communities constitute less than 1 ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Economics of Empire

    Genealogies of Capital and the Colonial Encounter

    Edited by Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem, Michael O'Sullivan ...
    Series series Postcolonial Politics
    The Economics of Empire: Genealogies of Capital and the Colonial Encounter is a multidisciplinary intervention into postcolonial theory that constructs and theorizes a political economy of empire.This comprehensive collection traces the financial genealogies associated with the colonial enterprise, the strategies of economic precarity, the pedigrees of capital, and the narratives of exploitation ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Brendan Behan

    A Life

    by Michael O'Sullivan ...
    Hailed as the new O'Casey by Irish critics in 1958, Behan is now often portrayed as the archetypal Irishman and spectacular drunk. Behind the myth lies the more compelling story of a writer who was never able to fully harness his larger-than-life personality and talent. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Cloneliness

    On the Reproduction of Loneliness

    by Prof Michael O'Sullivan ...
    Recent posthuman philosophies, human-computer interface studies, and technology-inspired biopolitical discourses and practices are reinventing and reimagining loneliness in different communities.Cloneliness: The Reproduction of Loneliness takes a cross-cultural approach to loneliness by examining 20th-century artistic expressions and examinations of loneliness in the context of more recent global ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • An Analysis of Gilbert Ryle's The Concept of Mind

    by Michael O'sullivan ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Gilbert Ryle’s 1949 The Concept of Mind is now famous above all as the origin of the phrase “the ghost in the machine” – a phrase Ryle used to attack the popular idea that our bodies and minds are separate. His own position was that mental acts are not at all distinct from bodily actions. Indeed, they are the same thing, merely described in different ways – and if one cuts through the confusing ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Irish Expatriatism, Language and Literature

    The Problem of English

    by Michael O'Sullivan ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines how Irishness as national narrative is consistently understood ‘from a distance’. Irish Presidents, critics, and media initiatives focus on how Irishness is a global resource chiefly informed by the experiences of an Irish diaspora predominantly working in English, while also reminding Irish people ‘at home’ that Irish is the 'national tongue'. In returning to some of Ireland’s ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Academic Barbarism, Universities and Inequality

    by Michael O'Sullivan ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    The image of the university is tarnished: this book examines how recent philosophies of education, new readings of its economics, new technologies affecting research and access, and contemporary novelists' representations of university life all describe a global university that has given up on its promise of greater educational equality. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The humanities and the Irish university

    Anomalies and opportunities

    by Michael O'Sullivan ...
    This is the first book-length study of the humanities and the Irish university. Ireland was a deeply religious country throughout the twentieth century but the colleges of its National University never established a religion or theology department. The official first language of Ireland is Irish but the vast majority of teaching in the arts and humanities is in English. These are two of the ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • An Analysis of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

    by Michael O'Sullivan ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason is one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy – not to mention one of the most challenging. Its topic is the nature of human knowledge, and the question of whether or not it is possible to have knowledge of the world at all.Over two centuries later, Kant’s treatise remains a subject of fierce debate among philosophers, who continue to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD