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The first book of essays to explore the intersection of these two vital disciplines.Documentary and feminist film studies have long been separate or parallel universes that need to converse or collide. The essays in this volume, written by prominent...

'Refreshingly clear-eyed ... Faking It is an insightful and intelligent book that's a must for those looking for facts about AI hype.' - Books+Publishing'AI will be as big a game-changer as the smart phone and the personal computer - or bigger! This book...

Lucretius's long shadow falls across the disciplines of literary history and criticism, philosophy, religious studies, classics, political philosophy, and the history of science. The best recent example is Stephen Greenblatt's popular account of the...

The concept of Identity Crisis came into usage in the 1940s and it has continued to dominate the cultural zeitgeist ever since. In his exploration of the historical origins of this development, Frank Furedi argues that the principal driver of the 'crisis...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989571357Author Ralph H KilmannFormat HardbackPage Count 302Imprint Kilmann DiagnosticsPublisher Kilmann DiagnosticsWeight(grams) 572gDimensions(mm)...

It's a trauma like no other. Being perceived as a threat or, worse, hunted as food makes an animal attack a unique ordeal. Suddenly you're helpless, at its mercy. When an animal strikes it is lightning fast, determined and can't be reasoned with...

Typically, cities and nature are perceived as geographic opposites, cities being manufactured social creations, and nature being outside of human construction. Through a historical geography of water in the modern city, Kaika shows that this is not the...

Corruption is one of the biggest global issues, ahead of extreme poverty, unemployment, the rising cost of food and energy, climate change, and terrorism. It is thought to be one of the principal causes of poverty around the globe. Its significance in...

Digital technologies are having a profound effect on the temporalities of individuals, households and organisations. We now expect to be able to instantly source a vast array of information at any time and from anywhere, as well as buy goods with the...

It began in 1960 with the Greensboro sit-ins. By 1973, when a few Native Americans rebelled at Wounded Knee and the U.S. Army came home from Vietnam, it was over. In between came Freedom Rides, Port Huron, the Mississippi Summer, Berkeley, Selma,...

Marcus Aurelius's timeless insights into human behaviour show that 2000 years on, not much has changed in the workplace and we could all do well if we focus on what we can control and worry less about things we can't.As head of the Roman empire, he...

What has philosophy to do with the poor? If, as has often been supposed, the poor have no time for philosophy, then why have philosophers always made time for them? Why is the history of philosophy-from Plato to Karl Marx to Jean-Paul Sartre to Pierre...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582434872Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 205g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061233357Author Winifred GallagherFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Fifty years ago Enoch Powell made national headlines with his 'Rivers of Blood' speech, warning of an immigrant invasion in the once respectable streets of Wolverhampton. This local fixation brought the Black Country town into the national spotlight, yet...

Throughout its long history, home dressmaking has been a formative experience in the lives of millions of women. In an age of relative affluence and mass production, it is easy to forget that just over a generation ago, young girls from middle- and...

A provocative and disturbing look at the ways new economic facts are shaping our personal and social values. The distinguished sociologist Richard Sennett surveys major differences between earlier forms of industrial capitalism and the more global,...

Originally published in 1970, The Urban Revolution marked Henri Lefebvre's first sustained critique of urban society, a work in which he pioneered the use of semiotic, structuralist, and poststructuralist methodologies in analyzing the development of the...

This volume includes six essays, the first dating from 1935 and the last from 1967, by one of the outstanding economists of our time. The economics presented in this volume is political economy worthy of the name: a discipline which shows us the social...

Low confidence in the police and the increasing crime rates during the 1990s led to a series of government initiatives directed at changing both the structure and management of the police service. In 2006 in an attempt to define what a principled police...

"You are about to enter a new genre, that of scientific fables, by which I don't mean science fiction, or false stories about science, but, on the contrary, true ways of understanding how difficult it is to figure out what animals are up to." -Bruno...

Trends have become a commodity-an element of culture in their own right and the very currency of our cultural life. Consumer culture relies on a new class of professionals who explain trends, predict trends, and in profound ways even manufacture trends...

Rethinking Nature brings the voices of leading Continental philosophers into discussion about what is emerging as one of our most pressing and timely concerns-the environmental crisis facing our planet. The essays featured in this volume embrace...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356990616Author Ruskin BondFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint HarperCollins Publishers IndiaPublisher HarperCollins Publishers India

This volume explores the history of reading in the British Isles during a period in which the printed word became all pervasive. From wealthy readers of 'amatory fiction', through to men and women reading surreptitiously at the Victorian railway...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420961713Author John DonneFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 15mm

Housework--often trivialized or simply overlooked in public discourse--contributes in a complex and essential way to the form that families and societies assume. In this innovative study, Marjorie L. DeVault explores the implications of "feeding the...

The first large-scale empirical analysis of the gender gap in science, showing how the structure of scientific labor and rewards-publications, citations, funding-systematically obstructs women's career advancement.If current trends continue, women and...

In 1817, the first British envoy to meet the king of the Asante of West Africa was dazzled by his reception. A group of 5,000 Asante soldiers, many wearing immense caps topped with three foot eagle feathers and gold ram's horns, engulfed him with a "zeal...

Lisa Morgan didn't know how strong she was until she lost everything. Following eight exhausting years working a Lisa was burnt out and ready for a new chapter in her life-hopefully one that involved a little romance. In her forties and doubtful of...

Feminism is not dead. This groundbreaking book advances a radical and pioneering feminist manifesto for today's modern audience that exposes the real reasons as to why women are still oppressed and what feminist activism must do to counter it through a...

Exploring the issues of class through in-depth studies of housing, sport, art, music and politics in Britain, Class and Everyday Life persuasively demonstrates the pervasive influence of class on everyday life and the need to centre a radical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820476162Author Joe L. KincheloeFormat PaperbackPage Count 185Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 280g

'Its scope and learning are brilliant and dazzling.' - Eli Noam, Columbia Business School How did The New York Times transform its organisation for the digital age?How does Netflix drive performance through culture?Why did Disney struggle to find a CEO...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452011847Author Ayn RandFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

With the aim of widening the scope of Marxist theory, Henri Lefebvre finished Dialectical Materialism just before the beginning of World War II and the Resistance movement against the Vichy regime. As the culmination of Lefebvre's interwar activities,...

This book provides the first clear, comprehensive, and accessible account of complex adaptive social systems, by two of the field's leading authorities. Such systems--whether political parties, stock markets, or ant colonies--present some of the most...

In the first-ever comprehensive survey of the world's female buccaneers, Pirate Women tells of the women, both real and legendary, who through the ages sailed alongside-and sometimes in command of-their male counterparts. These women came from all walks...

Ruth Harrison's Animal Machines now a unique historical classic, had a profound impact on public opinion and the quality of life of farmed animals when it was published in 1964. * Reprinted in its entirety, gives an accurate, and sometimes shocking,...

Our day-to-day experiences over the past decade have taught us that there must be limits to our tremendous appetite for energy, natural resources, and consumer goods. Even utility and oil companies now promote conservation in the face of demands for...