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Sufferless: The Science & Philosophy of Reducing Suffering

Sufferless: The Science & Philosophy of Reducing Suffering...

Author: Zach Charles
ISBN: 9798993505015
Format: Paperback
$63.36

Sufferless explores how progress can be measured by how much suffering we reduce, from the self to society.  Read More >>

Science in Democracy: Constructing the Authority of Science

Science in Democracy: Constructing the Authority of...

Author: Shota Azikuri
ISBN: 9783032154965
Format: Hardback
$263.97

This book deals with the issue of integrating science into democratic decision-making, emphasizing the need to balance...  Read More >>

Sufferless: The Science & Philosophy of Reducing Suffering

Sufferless: The Science & Philosophy of Reducing Suffering...

Author: Zach Charles
ISBN: 9798993505008
Format: Hardback
$92.40

Sufferless explores how progress can be measured by how much suffering we reduce, from the self to society.  Read More >>

Representing the Unobservable: The Formation of the Virtual Particle Concept in the Practice of Theory (1923–1949)

Representing the Unobservable: The Formation of the...

Author: Markus Ehberger
ISBN: 9783032091871
Format: Hardback
$158.37

This open access book examines the historical development of the concept of the virtual particle, from the first...  Read More >>

Die materiellen Grundlagen der deutschen Geschichte

Die materiellen Grundlagen der deutschen Geschichte...

Author: Hans R. Kricheldorf
ISBN: 9783662724552
Format: Paperback
$79.17

Dieses Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, inwieweit das Vorhandensein oder das Fehlen wichtiger Rohstoffe den...  Read More >>

The Extinction of Experience: How to Be Human in a Digital World

The Extinction of Experience: How to Be Human in a Digital...

Author: Christine Rosen
ISBN: 9781529967036
Format: Paperback
$29.99

The Extinction of Experience explores the way a broad range of technologies, from the microwave to the sophisticated...  Read More >>

Science in the Ancient World: From Antiquity through the Middle Ages

Science in the Ancient World: From Antiquity through...

Author: Russell M. Lawson (Tulsa Community College, USA)
ISBN: 9798216445173
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Science in the Ancient World presents a worldwide history of science, from prehistoric times through the medieval...  Read More >>

Deleuze and the Immanent Sublime: Idea and Individuation

Deleuze and the Immanent Sublime: Idea and Individuation...

Author: Louis Schreel (Ghent University, Belgium)
ISBN: 9781350344921
Format: Paperback
$59.99

What becomes of the sublime today, in a philosophy that discards the old oppositions between body and mind and embeds...  Read More >>

Internet Addiction

Internet Addiction

Author: Kathryn Vercillo
ISBN: 9798216445524
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Focusing on the increasingly common problem of internet addiction, this book examines its implications to our psychological...  Read More >>

Bizarre Medicine: Unusual Treatments and Practices through the Ages

Bizarre Medicine: Unusual Treatments and Practices through...

Author: Ruth Clifford Engs
ISBN: 9798216445562
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Explore historical and contemporary fringe remedies seen as strange, ridiculous, or even gruesome by modern Western...  Read More >>

The Islands and the Stars: A History of Japan's Space Programs

The Islands and the Stars: A History of Japan's Space...

Author: Subodhana Wijeyeratne
ISBN: 9781503644144
Format: Hardback
$323.00

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is among the six largest national space agencies in the world, along...  Read More >>

Drone Cultures: From Surveillance and Warfare to Literature and Art

Drone Cultures: From Surveillance and Warfare to Literature...

Author: John Muthyala (University of Southern Maine, USA)
ISBN: 9781350530454
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Expanding on common perceptions of the drone as a tool of war and surveillance, this book argues that they are also...  Read More >>

Perspectives on Logics for Data-driven Reasoning

Perspectives on Logics for Data-driven Reasoning

Author: Hykel Hosni ,  Jürgen Landes
ISBN: 9783031778940
Format: Paperback
$369.57

This book calls for a rethinking of logic as the core methodological tool for scientific reasoning in the context...  Read More >>

Listening In: How Audio Surveillance Became Artificial Intelligence

Listening In: How Audio Surveillance Became Artificial...

Author: Toby Heys (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) ,  David Jackson (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350340398
Format: Paperback
$36.99

Using a series of colourful case studies, this book traces a short history of covert listening and audio surveillance...  Read More >>

Nano-Ecosystems: Engineering Nature at the Nanoscale

Nano-Ecosystems: Engineering Nature at the Nanoscale...

Author: Dharmendra K. Gupta ,  S. Murugan
ISBN: 9789819550326
Format: Hardback
$580.77

The book introduces the concept of using nanotechnology to support and restore natural ecosystems. It explains how...  Read More >>

Darwin's Philosophy of Emotion

Darwin's Philosophy of Emotion

Author: Trip Glazer (University of Dayton, Ohio)
ISBN: 9781009538244
Format: Hardback
$245.81

This book contributes to two interdisciplinary topics with broad appeal, namely Darwin studies and emotions research....  Read More >>

Connected Cartographies: World Geography and the Sino-Western Translation of Knowledge, 1580-1842

Connected Cartographies: World Geography and the Sino-Western...

Author: Florin-Stefan Morar (National University of Singapore)
ISBN: 9781009636032
Format: Hardback
$316.80

This essential history tells the fascinating story of encounters between Chinese and Western traditions of world...  Read More >>

Listening In: How Audio Surveillance Became Artificial Intelligence

Listening In: How Audio Surveillance Became Artificial...

Author: Toby Heys (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) ,  David Jackson (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350340381
Format: Hardback
$110.00

Using a series of colourful case studies, this book traces a short history of covert listening and audio surveillance...  Read More >>

Drone Cultures: From Surveillance and Warfare to Literature and Art

Drone Cultures: From Surveillance and Warfare to Literature...

Author: John Muthyala (University of Southern Maine, USA)
ISBN: 9781350530461
Format: Hardback
$130.00

Expanding on common perceptions of the drone as a tool of war and surveillance, this book argues that they are also...  Read More >>

Deleuze and Slowness: Against Accelerationist Thinking

Deleuze and Slowness: Against Accelerationist Thinking...

Author: Dr Krzysztof Skonieczny (University of Warsaw, Poland)
ISBN: 9781350525481
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The first book-length treatment of the problem of slowness in Deleuze’s philosophy and its uses in understanding...  Read More >>

Where Are The Little Green Men?, The Adair Hypothesis

Where Are The Little Green Men?, The Adair Hypothesis...

Author: Terry Adair
ISBN: 9798902225324
Format: Paperback
$55.41

In a universe teeming with trillions of planets, why is there no evidence of other technological civilizations?...  Read More >>

Resurgent Commons: Feminist Political Ecologies in the European South

Resurgent Commons: Feminist Political Ecologies in the...

Author: Miriam Tola
ISBN: 9781531512538
Format: Paperback
$73.99

Resurgent Commons shows how a reconsideration of a supposedly obsolete mode of shared ownership can enable new modes...  Read More >>

The Sage Handbook of China and the Environment

The Sage Handbook of China and the Environment

Author: Christopher Coggins ,  Yifei Li
ISBN: 9781529623239
Format: Hardback
$375.00

The Sage Handbook of China and the Environment is a comprehensive resource for understanding China′s ecological...  Read More >>

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