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- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 39,45 €
ISBN 978-0-674-50457-8
EAN 9780674504578
Exploiting our boundless desire to access everything all the time, digital technology is breaking down whatever boundaries still exist between the state, the market, and the private realm. Bernard Harcourt offers a powerful critique of what he calls the expository society, revealing just how unfree we are becoming and how little we seem to care.
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- Atlantic Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78239-343-6
EAN 9781782393436
In this sharp and witty book, long-time Silicon Valley observer and author Andrew Keen argues that, on balance, the Internet has had a disastrous impact on all our lives.By tracing the history of the Internet, from its founding in the 1960s to the creation of the World Wide Web in 1989, through the waves of ...
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- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21680-6
EAN 9780300216806
This new selection of Thoreau's essays traces his trajectory as a writer for the outlets of his day the periodical press, newspapers, and compendiums and as a frequent presenter on the local lecture circuit. By arranging the writings chronologically, the volume re-creates the experience of Thoreau's readers as they followed his developing ideas over time.Jeffrey ...
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- Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 47,65 €
ISBN 978-1-137-33596-8
EAN 9781137335968
What is the relevance of the concept of human rights in an age of increasing global interconnectivity, complexity and uncertainty? This provocative study connects the sociology of human rights with the field of global studies to explore what each can offer the other. Its thorough theoretical focus is informed by a broad range of controversial ...
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The Work of the Dead
A Cultural History of Mortal Remains
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 736 páginas
PVP: 45,60 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15778-8
EAN 9780691157788
The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone else care what became of his corpse? In The Work of the Dead, acclaimed cultural historian Thomas Laqueur examines why humanity has universally rejected Diogenes's argument. No culture ...
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Reclaiming Conversation
The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
- Penguin USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 27,75 €
ISBN 978-1-59420-555-2
EAN 9781594205552
Renowned media scholar Sherry Turkle investigates how a flight from conversation undermines our relationships, creativity, and productivity and why reclaiming face-to-face conversation can help us regain lost ground.We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection. Preeminent author and researcher Sherry Turkle has ...
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- Mariner Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,60 €
ISBN 978-0-544-56962-1
EAN 9780544569621
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- Duke University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
PVP: 34,95 €
ISBN 978-0-8223-6009-4
EAN 9780822360094
Written during the last decade of her life, Light in the Dark represents the culmination of Gloria E. Anzaldua's mature thought and the most comprehensive presentation of her philosophy. Throughout, Anzaldua weaves personal narratives into deeply engaging theoretical readings to comment on numerous contemporary issues-including the September 11 attacks, neocolonial practices in the art world, ...
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Control
Digitality as Cultural Logic
- MIT Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 40,75 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02953-7
EAN 9780262029537
Is there a cultural logic of what we have come to call the information age? Have the technologies and techniques centered on the computer provided not only tools but also the metaphors through which we now understand the social and economic formation of our world? In Control, Seb Franklin addresses the conditions of knowledge that ...
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In the wake of the attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris on 7 January 2015, millions took to the streets to demonstrate their revulsion, expressing a desire to reaffirm the ideals of the French Republic: liberte, egalite, fraternite. But who were the millions of demonstrators who were suddenly united under the single ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
ISBN 978-0-8232-6599-2
EAN 9780823265992
A near-death experience turns a troubled underachiever into an accomplished English professor.The botched robbery didn't do it. Neither did the three gunshots. It wasn't until he flatlined twice and was administered last rites that David Borkowski finally realized he was about to die, a thug at age fifteen. A Shot Story: From Juvie to Ph.D. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-870845-2
EAN 9780198708452
Social workers spend their time trying to ease social suffering. They encounter the extreme casualties of social inequality: the victims of poverty, illness, addiction, and abuse; they work with abusers and offenders; and operate in the space between the state and the poor or marginalized. Social work is replete with vivid human stories: the troubled ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-023095-1
EAN 9780190230951
Social Democratic America explains how this has happened and how we can do better. Lane Kenworthy convincingly argues that we can improve economic security, expand opportunity, and ensure rising living standards for all by moving toward social democracy. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of social policy in America and other affluent countries, he proposes a ...
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Looman, Mary D./ Carl, John D.
A Country Called Prison: Mass Incarceration and the Making of a New Nation
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
ISBN 978-0-19-021103-5
EAN 9780190211035
The United States is the world leader in incarcerating citizens. 707 people out of every 100,000 are imprisoned. If those currently incarcerated in the US prison system were a country, it would be the 102nd most populated nation in the world. Aside from looking at the numbers, if we could look at prison from a ...
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Have you ever wondered how to pan for gold, train a falcon or make a love potion? Could you restore a drowned person, smoke your own bacon or correctly address a Maharajah? If not, fear not - you will find the answer in this book. How to Skin a Lion is a fascinating collection of ...
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- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 29,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-845-8
EAN 9781781688458
When Jeremy Bentham proposed that government should run for the greatest benefit of the greatest number, he posed two problems: what is happiness and how can we measure it? With the rise of positive psychology, freakonimics, behavioural economics, endless TED talks, the happiness manifesto, the Happiness Index, the tyranny of customer service, the emergence of ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
ISBN 978-0-674-74395-3
EAN 9780674743953
Senior citizens from all walks of life face a gauntlet of physical, psychological, and social hurdles. But do the disadvantages some people accumulate over the course of their lives make their final years especially difficult? Or does the quality of life among poor and affluent seniors converge at some point? The End Game investigates whether ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-021112-7
EAN 9780190211127
Luis Zayas draws on his extensive research and experience as a psychological evaluator to present the most complete picture yet of the mental health and lasting trauma experienced by US citizen--children who are threatened with their fate of becoming an exile or an orphan.The United States Constitution insures that all persons born in the US ...
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- Bloomsbury USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 32,65 €
ISBN 978-1-62040-572-7
EAN 9781620405727
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The World Beyond your Head
On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,30 €
ISBN 978-0-374-98370-3
EAN 9780374983703
We often complain about our fractured mental lives and feel beset by outside forces that destroy our focus and disrupt our peace of mind. Any defense against this, Crawford argues, requires that we reckon with the way attention sculpts the self.Crawford investigates the intense focus of ice hockey players and short-order chefs, the quasi-autistic behavior ...
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