The Posthuman offers both an introduction and major contribution to contemporary debates on the posthuman. Digital 'second life', genetically modified food, adv ...
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Marking the thirtieth anniversary of the revolutions of 1989, this original and wide-ranging study places the transformation of Eastern Europe in a global conte ...
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Martin Stevens explores the extraordinary variety of senses in the animal kingdom, and discusses the cutting-edge science that is shedding light on these secret ...
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The remarkable progress in algorithms for machine and deep learning have opened the doors to new opportunities, and some dark possibilities. However, a bright f ...
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An earthquake shatters Haiti and a hurricane slices through Texas. We hear that nature runs rampant, seeking to destroy us through these 'natural disasters'. Sc ...
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A searing examination of a key driver of American inequality-the tax system. ...
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What are humans? What makes us who we are? Many think that we are just complicated machines, or animals that are different from machines only by being conscious ...
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What is business for? Day one of a business course will tell you: it is to maximise shareholder profit. This single idea pervades all our thinking and teaching ...
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Getting to grips with the overlapping geopolitical, economic, and political crises faced by Western democratic societies in the 2020s. The 21st century has brou ...
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Gordon (Emeritus Professor and Fellow in Renaissance Studies, University of Leicester) Campbell
The story of the Vikings in North America as both fact and fiction, from the westward expansion of the Norse across the North Atlantic in the tenth and eleventh ...
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The economics profession has become a favourite punching bag in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Economists are widely reviled and their influence ...
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One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discover at the end that we have wasted our life. In A Guide to the ...
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Why are girls discouraged from doing science? Why do so many promising women leave science in early and mid-career? Why do women not prosper in the scientific w ...
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Saifedean (Lebanese American University, Columbia University, London School of Economics) Ammous
A comprehensive and authoritative exploration of Bitcoin and its place in monetary history When a pseudonymous programmer introduced "a new electronic cash ...
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Ellena (Sessional tutor and lecturer, RMIT University / PhD Candidate, Monash University) Savage
‘I mean who cares about opinions, gossip, whatever, when bodies are so vulnerable, in search only of love and breath.’Brilliant young writer Ellena Savage explo ...
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The first European edition of Francis DK Ching’s classic visual guide to the basics of building construction. For nearly four decades, the US publication Buildi ...
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This seminal book injects the topic of superintelligence into the academic and popular mainstream. What happens when machines surpass humans in general intellig ...
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Mark (Professor of Political Economy, Professor of Political Economy, Brown University) Blyth
Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013Governments today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless ...
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David (Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Graduate Center, City University of New York) Harvey
Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action - has become dominant in both thought ...
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This book predicts the decline of today's professions and introduces the people and systems that will replace them. In an internet-enhanced society, according t ...
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Becoming a critical thinker is a straight-forward, reassuring, and complete guide to critical thinking - one that helps you to understand critical thinking and ...
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Daniel (Professor of Ancient History, Professor of Ancient History, University of Exeter) Ogden
An exploration of how the image and idea of the dragon has evolved through historyHow did the dragon get its wings? Everyone in the modern West has a clear idea ...
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