Reading Faces is the first book to discuss the historical contexts and theoretical underpinnings of the artificial intelligence systems (AIs) that identify individuals, or purport to ascribe emotions and characteristics to them based on the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487568603)
My Life in the Law is a rich, personal reflection on Robert J. Sharpe’s long, varied, and influential career as a lawyer, scholar, and judge. After giving an account of his early life and education, Sharpe examines his time as a l...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University Press of Kansas, ISBN-13: 9780700640485)
The compelling history of how the US Marines and their allies fought to preserve the Corps and establish its role in national defense.Only five years after Marines raised the American flag on Iwo Jima, the United States Marine Corps...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111330877)
Recent studies have underlined the importance of consulting different sources to trace global histories of diseases. However, due to a lack of critical editions of medical works, leprosy is poorly understood, and a wider interpretation of it a...Loe edasi...
Distrust is in the air—of politicians, corporations, and the institutions that claim to protect us. Trust is often seen as the foundation of a better society—but better for whom? While some forms of radical certainty can foster survival, resist...Loe edasi...
Psychological and psychotherapeutic orientations often neglect the notion that the individual is not one unit, but rather a coalition of affects.This book explores and embraces this multiplicity within the human psyche and challenges the reader to...Loe edasi...
Psychological and psychotherapeutic orientations often neglect the notion that the individual is not one unit, but rather a coalition of affects. Providing a multi-disciplinary framework for the practice of psychotherapy and philosophy, this book...Loe edasi...
Sari: Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783119145558)
Despite the assumption that we live today in a rather rationalist and mechanized world, there remain many aspects that neither medicine nor physics can fully explain. The Catholic Church continues to pronounce individuals as saints because scienti...Loe edasi...
Sacred Drugs explores the ways in which psychoactive substances from alcohol, cannabis, and pharmaceuticals to coffee and tobacco, intersect with religious life. This book will be the go-to volume for readers interested in the complex relat...Loe edasi...
Sacred Drugs explores the numerous ways in which psychoactive substances, from alcohol to psilocybin, cannabis to pharmaceuticals, and coffee to tobacco, intersect with religious life. This cutting-edge volume acknowledges the ubiquity of drug use i...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111579900)
Phrynichus’ Praeparatio sophistica ranks not last among the most importat works of ancient scholarly literature which we wish we could read in its original, full redaction. It was Phrynichus’ magnum opus, and the high status of...Loe edasi...
Based on Soviet narratology, this book offers a genealogy of spatial, user-centric story design and its current applications, situating spatial story design as medium sui generis that evolved as a counter–narrative to agonal games on the one hand,...Loe edasi...
This volume provides a broad and comprehensive overview of the many ways in which pragmatism has influenced contemporary debates in philosophy of science.Pragmatism has been undergoing a considerable revival in philosophical debates for the...Loe edasi...
Reading Faces is the first book to discuss the historical contexts and theoretical underpinnings of the artificial intelligence systems (AIs) that identify individuals, or purport to ascribe emotions and characteristics to them based on the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487541415)
Oscar Wildes Paris explores Wildes connection with the French capital from his rise to fame to his eventual exile and death, examining his self-fashioning in the city, its impact on his career, and his eventual absorption into Parisian cultural hist...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487509231)
Gender Battles: Latin American Women, War, and Feminism by gender studies and Latin Americanist scholar Vanesa Miseres focuses on the overlooked voices of women who wrote about and participated in Latin American and global wars from the 1...Loe edasi...
The artistic, cultural, and institutional exchanges between West and East Germany and the United States during the Cold War. Throughout the Cold War era, a sustained and intense dialogue developed between both the West and East German and...Loe edasi...
The Depression of the 1890s caused widespread economic suffering throughout the country and triggered a march of unemployed men from Massillon, Ohio, to Washington, D.C. Known in the press as Coxeys Army--led, ironically, by successful busin...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110776676)
Mara-Johanna Kölmel explores the profound impact of digital technologies on the field of sculpture since the 1950s. When artists create their works using AI, custom software, or prototyping technologies, how should we be rethinking the concept of sc...Loe edasi...
Social reproduction theory is a big idea. It explores how the daily renewal of human life, and therefore human labor, is essential to capitalism. Here, leading feminists come together to apply the theory to one of its most extreme settings - th...Loe edasi...
In Empire of Shiva, David Childress, popular author and star of the History Channel’s show Ancient Aliens, brings us the evidence for a global civilization that worshipped the Hindu god Shiva—a civilization that is over 20,000 years old. Childress sh...Loe edasi...
The #1 New York Times bestseller, first time in paperback! As the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals who committed genocide went on the run. A few were swiftly...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: St Martin's Press, ISBN-13: 9781250345684)
A powerful indictment of the political and military decisions that led to October 7While Israel Slept tells the gripping inside story of how Hamas, Israel’s weakest enemy, succeeded in launching a surprise attack on one of th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: St Martin's Press, ISBN-13: 9781250373083)
From the New York Times bestselling and National Jewish Book Award–winning author: a gripping novel of foreboding, betrayal, heroism, and hope set in World War II BudapestBy the end of 1943, nearly all of Europe’s Jewish population...Loe edasi...
An exploration of why the Israeli-Palestinian peace process failed, and an anticipation of what lies ahead-- Provided by publisher. Two insiders explain why the Israeli–Palestinian peace process failed, and anticipate what lies...Loe edasi...
Throughout history, pearls have been treasured for their beauty wherever theyve been found -- from China to the Persian Gulf to Mexico and beyond. Before the creation of cultured pearls, natural pearls were incredibly rare, considered symbols o...Loe edasi...
This book explores democratic fragility, an underdeveloped concept in the analyses of contemporary political regimes. Diagnoses of fragility commonly occur when states are brought to the brink of the abyss. Democracy and Its Fragility: Mapping...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031918780)
This edited volume operationalizes the figure of the ghost and subsequent hauntings through Derrida’s framing of hauntology—in an effort to attend to the liminal spaces that exist between presence and absence throughout social...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226845654)
A reflection on the role of suffering in human existence. Its right there in the Book of Job: Man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward. Suffering is an inescapable part of the human conditionwhich leads to a question that has pro...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226845630)
A provocative exploration of how Americas democratic crisis is rooted in a dangerous mismatch between our Constitution and todays nationalized, partisan politics. The ground beneath American political institutions has moved, with national...Loe edasi...
