Search results for “[Subject: computers-general]”

• Author(s): David M. Berry • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Anthropology - GeneralAs the twenty-first century unfolds, computers challenge the way in which we think about culture, society and what it is to be ...

• Author(s): Jill Walker Rettberg • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Computer Science and Information Technology • BISAC: Media StudiesHumans have used technology to expand our limited vision for millennia, from the inve...

• Author(s): Dany-Robert Dufour • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Economics - GeneralAfter the hell of the Nazis and the terror of Communism, it is possible that a new catastrophe has appeared on the horizon: th...

• Author(s): Molly Anne Rothenberg • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralIn The Excessive Subject: A New Theory of Social Change, Molly Anne Rothenberg uncovers an innovative theory of social chan...

• Author(s): Peter Sloterdijk • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: History - GeneralIn this wide-ranging book, renowned philosopher and cultural theorist Peter Sloterdijk examines art in all its rich and varied for...

• Author(s): Karen Wells • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Developmental - ChildWhat does it mean to think of children as social subjects and how should we go about studying childhood in society? Childhood is a ...

• Author(s): Graham Meikle • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Media StudiesWhat happens when we can no longer believe what we see? Show the AI technologies that create deepfakes enough images of a celebrity or a ...

• Author(s): Mark Hayes • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Economic PolicyJohn Maynard Keynes is the 20th century’s greatest economist. He sparked an intellectual revolution that transformed econo...

• Author(s): Giuseppe a. Veltri • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralTo analyse social and behavioural phenomena in our digitalized world, it is necessary to understand the main research opportun...

• Author(s): Peter Trawny • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernMartin Heidegger is one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century philosophy but his reputation was tainted by...

• Author(s): Christina Howells • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThis wide ranging and challenging book explores the relationship between subjectivity and mortality as it is underst...

• Author(s): James Schleifer • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: PoliticalAlexis de Tocqueville, a French aristocrat paradoxically famous for his insights into democracy and equality, is one of history's greatest ...

• Author(s): Benjamin Moffitt • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: PoliticalPopulism is the key political phenomenon of the 21st century. From Trump to Brexit, from Chávez to Podemos,...

• Author(s): Irving M. Zeitlin • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Judaism - HistoryThis book is a comprehensive account of how the Jews became a diaspora people. The term 'diaspora' was first applied exclusively...

• Author(s): Stacey Keltner • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralJulia Kristeva is one of the most creative and prolific writers to address the personal, social, and political trials ...

• Author(s): Jean-Francois Bayart • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: GlobalizationTaking the plane or sending an e-mail: globalization has become part of the fabric of our daily lives. And yet it is often seen as...

• Author(s): Tim Armstrong • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThe last 20 years has seen an explosion of work on literary modernism and its cultural and historical contexts. In this...

• Author(s): Jeremy Black • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Military - GeneralThis book provides an accessible and up-to-date account of the rich military history of the nineteenth century. It takes a fresh appr...

• Author(s): Peter Wagner • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThe idea of progress guided human expectations and actions for over two centuries. From the Enlightenment onwards, it was widely bel...

• Author(s): David Held • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: GlobalizationIn this pathbreaking book, one of the world’s leading analysts of globalization and global governance confronts the failures of internationa...

• Author(s): Nadia Urbinati • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: PoliticalSpeak your mind, always. Hypocrisy challenges this rule of authenticity, and for this very reason hypocrisy is...

• Author(s): Klaus Bringmann • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Ancient - RomeIn this new and authoritative history of the Roman republic, distinguished historian Klaus Bringmann traces the rise of a small city s...

• Author(s): Susan J. Hekman • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: GeneralIn 1949 Simone de Beauvoir asked, “What does it mean to be a woman?” Her answer to that question inaugurated a radical transformation of the ...

• Author(s): Seyla Benhabib • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blac • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Human RightsThe international order of the post-WW II period is in disarray. The sounds of war can be heard all around...

• Author(s): John C. Burnham • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: HistoryThe field of the history of medicine and health has expanded spectacularly in recent times. In What is Medical History? John C. Burnham explo...

• Author(s): Vladimir Gel'man • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: GeopoliticsIn February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale military assault on Ukraine, aimed at re-establishing Russi...

• Author(s): Claire Colebrook • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralUntil recently, "continental" philosophy has been tied either to the German tradition of phenomenology or to French post-structu...

• Author(s): Robert Springborg • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralEgypt is one of the few great empires of antiquity that exists today as a nation state. Despite its extraordinary...

• Author(s): Kidane Mengisteab • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralThe Horn of Africa is a deeply troubled region engulfed in three interlocking crises. The first is a security cri...

• Author(s): Karen R. Jones • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Europe - GeneralThe word 'park' conjures a kaleidoscope of bucolic images. Childhood frolics in urban playgrounds. Strolls through the country estate...

• Author(s): Noel Cowen • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: World - GeneralThis short book offers a clear and engaging introduction to the history of humankind, from the earliest movements of people to the contemp...

• Author(s): Keith Soothill • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: CriminologyMaking Sense of Criminology is a clear, concise introduction for all students new to the subject. As well as introducing ideas about crime...

• Author(s): Ronald Crelinsten • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: TerrorismTerrorism has emerged as one of the most problematic issues facing national governments and the international community in the 21st centu...

• Author(s): Alex Goody • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryTechnology, Literature and Culture provides a detailed and accessible exploration of the ways in which literature across the twenti...