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Technologies of the New Real - Viral Contagion and Death of the Social (Paperback): Arthur Kroker, Marilouise Kroker Technologies of the New Real - Viral Contagion and Death of the Social (Paperback)
Arthur Kroker, Marilouise Kroker
R644 Discovery Miles 6 440 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

With astonishing speed, we have been projected into a new reality where interactions with drones, robotic bodies, and high-level surveillance are increasingly mainstream. In this age of groundbreaking developments in robotic technologies, synthetic biology is merging with artificial intelligence, forming a newly blended reality of machines, bodies, and affect. Technologies of the New Real draws from critical intersections of technology and society - including drones, surveillance, DIY bodies, and innovations in robotic technology - to explore what these advances can tell us about our present reality, or what authors Arthur and Marilouise Kroker deem the "new real" of digital culture in the twenty-first century. Technologies of the New Real explores the many technologies of our present reality as they infiltrate the social, political, and economic static of our everyday lives, seemingly eroding traditionally conceived boundaries between humans and machines, and rendering fully ambivalent borders between the human mind and simulated data.

Freedom and the Wolves (Paperback, New edition): Dietmar Schoenherr Freedom and the Wolves (Paperback, New edition)
Dietmar Schoenherr
R562 Discovery Miles 5 620 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This charming allegory, suitable for all age groups, is about a boy called Freedom. Born the son of gipsy tinkers, the boy is left outside a monastery when his parents are refused help in the coldest of winters. At first he is raised by the monks and subsequently adopted by a gentle farmer and his wife. As their son he helps on the farm and learns to love the life of a shepherd so much that he refuses to give up his liberty to go to school. However when he is attacked by vicious wolves who kill his dog companion, he realises the value of education. At school he soon makes up for lost time and excels, despite the bullies he encounters. At the age of 18 he realises that he is invincible when others attack him, but this merely serves to provoke. Before long he is imprisoned. All forms of torture are tried on him, but he is so indomitable that he is eventually summoned by the king, who appoints him to his government to bring peace and stability to the country. Freedom makes sweeping changes to its structure, turning it from war to peace, and from hierarchy to democracy. Once again his peaceful stance, reflected in the peaceful, prosperous country he manages, provokes neighbouring states to attack, until finally it is conquered and devastated. When he is discovered, starved to death in a dungeon, his wife and daughter lead the procession to the grave and are joined by others who grieve and vow to re-establish the world that he showed them was possible. The story ends with the communal realisation that people who support each other can always rebuild peace and democracy to promote social cooperation and well-being, and to counter political opposition because he - Freedom - lives on in the minds of all people. Thus there is always hope and a future, as long as each person takes responsibility for it.

The Concept of Morality (Hardcover): Pratima Bowes The Concept of Morality (Hardcover)
Pratima Bowes
R834 Discovery Miles 8 340 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Destructive Interference - Understanding the brain's telepathic potential (Paperback): Mark Fox Destructive Interference - Understanding the brain's telepathic potential (Paperback)
Mark Fox
R544 Discovery Miles 5 440 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Justice and food security in a changing climate 2021 (Paperback): Hanna Schubel, Ivo Walliman-Helmer Justice and food security in a changing climate 2021 (Paperback)
Hanna Schubel, Ivo Walliman-Helmer
R3,609 Discovery Miles 36 090 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The UN's Sustainable Development Goals saw the global community agree to end hunger and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030. However, the number of chronically undernourished people is increasing continuously. Ongoing climate change and the action needed to adapt to it are very likely to aggravate this situation by limiting agricultural land and water resources and changing environmental conditions for food production. Climate change and the actions it requires raise questions of justice, especially regarding food security. These key concerns of ethics and justice for food security due to climate change challenges are the focus of this book, which brings together work by scholars from a wide range of disciplines and a multitude of perspectives. These experts discuss the challenges to food security posed by mitigation, geoengineering, and adaptation measures that tackle the impacts of climate change. Others address the consequences of a changing climate for agriculture and food production and how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected food security and animal welfare.

If I Should Die Before You Wake - A Father's Advice on the Art of Living (Paperback, New 2018 Revised ed.): Paul A Keddy If I Should Die Before You Wake - A Father's Advice on the Art of Living (Paperback, New 2018 Revised ed.)
Paul A Keddy
R403 Discovery Miles 4 030 Out of stock
The Holy Quran and the Sciences of Nature (Paperback): Mehdi Golshani The Holy Quran and the Sciences of Nature (Paperback)
Mehdi Golshani
R455 Discovery Miles 4 550 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Data Analysis and Methods of Qualitative Research - Emerging Research and Opportunities (Paperback): Silas Memory Madondo Data Analysis and Methods of Qualitative Research - Emerging Research and Opportunities (Paperback)
Silas Memory Madondo
R3,541 Discovery Miles 35 410 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

An intellectual property discussion is central to qualitative research projects, and ethical guidelines are essential to the safe accomplishment of research projects. Undertaking research studies without adhering to ethics may be dangerous to researchers and research subjects. Therefore, it is important to understand and develop practical techniques for handling ethics with a specific focus on qualitative projects so that researchers conducting this type of research may continue to use ethical practices at every step of the project. Data Analysis and Methods of Qualitative Research: Emerging Research and Opportunities discusses in detail the methods related to the social constructionist paradigm that is popular with qualitative research projects. These methods help researchers undertake ideal qualitative projects that are free from quantitative research techniques/concepts all while acquiring practical skills in handling ethics and ethical issues in qualitative projects. The chapters each contain case studies, learning outcomes, question and answer sections, and discuss critical research philosophies in detail along with topics such as ethics, research design, data gathering and sampling methods, research outputs, data analysis, and report writing. Featuring a wide range of topics such as epistemology, probability sampling, and big data, this book is ideal for researchers, practitioners, computer scientists, academicians, analysts, coders, and students looking to become competent qualitative research specialists.

What She Saw (Paperback, 2nd ed.): Sheila Lowe What She Saw (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
Sheila Lowe
R379 Discovery Miles 3 790 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Save Yourself, Save Us All: How We can All Live Happily into the 22nd Century: The Unique Post Covid-19 Opportunity for All... Save Yourself, Save Us All: How We can All Live Happily into the 22nd Century: The Unique Post Covid-19 Opportunity for All Humankind (Paperback)
Lawrence Wolfe-Xavier
R458 Discovery Miles 4 580 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Today's lifestyles do not provide us with the foundations for true, long-term happiness. The causes of our problems are clearly identified, with achievable solutions proposed for us all. The Covid-19 Disaster globally halted 'Normal Life', the root causes of this Disaster are revealed. This book offers the reader the opportunity for reflection, self-reassessment and fresh analysis for the future pursuit of true Self-realisation and true Long-term Happiness. Easy to read, yet deals with the most critical issues of today. One of Wolfe-Xavier's 1.4M Internet reader's comments on him: 'High intellectual ability peppered with a profound spiritual intelligence is not a dish so common as one would hope. Lawrence Wolfe-Xavier has my respect.'

The Talking Cure - New and Selected Poems (Paperback): Jack Coulehan The Talking Cure - New and Selected Poems (Paperback)
Jack Coulehan
R418 R392 Discovery Miles 3 920 Save R26 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Constitutional Challenges to the Drug Law - A Case Study (Paperback): Roar Alexander Mikalsen Constitutional Challenges to the Drug Law - A Case Study (Paperback)
Roar Alexander Mikalsen
R348 R327 Discovery Miles 3 270 Save R21 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Reinventing Licentiousness - Pornography and Modern China (Hardcover): Y. Yvon Wang Reinventing Licentiousness - Pornography and Modern China (Hardcover)
Y. Yvon Wang
R1,421 Discovery Miles 14 210 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Reinventing Licentiousness navigates an overlooked history of representation during the transition from the Qing Empire to the Chinese Republic-a time when older, hierarchical notions of licentiousness were overlaid by a new, pornographic regime. Y. Yvon Wang draws on previously untapped archives-ranging from police archives and surveys to ephemeral texts and pictures-to argue that pornography in China represents a unique configuration of power and desire that both reflects and shapes historical processes. On the one hand, since the late imperial period, pornography has democratized pleasure in China and opened up new possibilities of imagining desire. On the other, ongoing controversies over its definition and control show how the regulatory ideas of premodern cultural politics and the popular products of early modern cultural markets have contoured the globalized world. Reinventing Licentiousness emphasizes the material factors, particularly at the grassroots level of consumption and trade, that governed "proper" sexual desire and led to ideological shifts around the definition of pornography. By linking the past to the present and beyond, Wang's social and intellectual history showcases circulated pornographic material as a motor for cultural change. The result is an astonishing foray into what historicizing pornography can mean for our understandings of desire, legitimacy, capitalism, and culture.

Multidisciplinary Approaches to Ethics in the Digital Era (Paperback): Meliha Nurdan Taskiran, Fatih Pinarbasi Multidisciplinary Approaches to Ethics in the Digital Era (Paperback)
Meliha Nurdan Taskiran, Fatih Pinarbasi
R4,191 Discovery Miles 41 910 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The digital era has redefined our understanding of ethics as a multi-disciplinary phenomenon. The newness of the internet means it is still highly unregulated, which allows for rampant problems encountered by countless internet users. In order to establish a framework to protect digital citizenship, an academic understanding of online ethics is required. Multidisciplinary Approaches to Ethics in the Digital Era examines the concept of ethics in the digital environment through the framework of digitalization. Covering a broad range of topics including ethics in art, organizational ethics, and civil engineering ethics, this book is ideally designed for media professionals, sociologists, programmers, policymakers, government officials, academicians, researchers, and students.

Written in Stone - Public Monuments in Changing Societies (Paperback, Anniversary, Twentieth Anniversary Edition with New... Written in Stone - Public Monuments in Changing Societies (Paperback, Anniversary, Twentieth Anniversary Edition with New Afterword)
Sanford Levinson
R588 R532 Discovery Miles 5 320 Save R56 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Twentieth Anniversary Edition with a new preface and afterword From the removal of Confederate monuments in New Orleans in the spring of 2017 to the violent aftermath of the white nationalist march on the Robert E. Lee monument in Charlottesville later that summer, debates and conflicts over the memorialization of Confederate "heroes" have stormed to the forefront of popular American political and cultural discourse. In Written in Stone Sanford Levinson considers the tangled responses to controversial monuments and commemorations while examining how those with political power configure public spaces in ways that shape public memory and politics. Paying particular attention to the American South, though drawing examples as well from elsewhere in the United States and throughout the world, Levinson shows how the social and legal arguments regarding the display, construction, modification, and destruction of public monuments mark the seemingly endless confrontation over the symbolism attached to public space. This twentieth anniversary edition of Written in Stone includes a new preface and an extensive afterword that takes account of recent events in cities, schools and universities, and public spaces throughout the United States and elsewhere. Twenty years on, Levinson's work is more timely and relevant than ever.

Life's Edge - The Search for What It Means to Be Alive (Paperback): Carl Zimmer Life's Edge - The Search for What It Means to Be Alive (Paperback)
Carl Zimmer
R166 Discovery Miles 1 660 Ships in 15 - 30 working days

We all assume we know what life is, but the more scientists learn about the living world - from protocells to brains, from zygotes to pandemic viruses - the harder they find it to define exactly what it is and what it isn't. What is life? In this riveting and thought-provoking book, Carl Zimmer explores the question by journeying to the edges of life in every direction, from viruses to computer intelligence, from its origins on earth to the search for extra-terrestrial life and the strange experiments that have attempted to recreate life from scratch in the lab. The question is not only a scientific issue; it hangs over some of society's most charged conflicts - whether a fertilized egg is a living person, for example, and when we ought to declare a person legally dead. Whether he is handling pythons or searching for hibernating bats, Zimmer investigates life in its most unfamiliar forms. He tries his own hand at evolving life in a test tube with unnerving results, explores our cultural obsession with Dr. Frankestein's monster and how Coleridge came to believe the whole universe was alive. The result is an entirely gripping exploration of one of the most crucial questions of all: the meaning of life.

Unspeakable (Paperback): Daniel Davis Wood Unspeakable (Paperback)
Daniel Davis Wood
R241 Discovery Miles 2 410 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Environmental Ethics - Foundational Readings, Critical Responses (Paperback): Joel Kassiola Environmental Ethics - Foundational Readings, Critical Responses (Paperback)
Joel Kassiola
R3,907 Discovery Miles 39 070 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Sexual Science and the Law (Hardcover, New): Richard Green Sexual Science and the Law (Hardcover, New)
Richard Green
R1,420 Discovery Miles 14 200 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

A rape victim charges that pornography caused her attacker to become a sex offender. A lesbian mother fights for custody of her child. A transsexual pilot is fired by a commercial airline after undergoing sex change and sues for sex discrimination. A homosexual is denied employment because of sexual orientation. A woman argues that her criminal behavior should be excused because she suffers from premenstrual syndrome. The law has much to say about sexual behavior, but what it says is rarely influenced by the findings of social science research over recent decades. This book focuses for the first time on the dynamic interplay between sexual science and legal decisionmaking. Reflecting the author's wide experience as a respected sex researcher, expert witness, and lawyer, Sexual Science and the Law provides valuable insights into some of the most controversial social and sexual topics of our time. Drawing on an exhaustive knowledge of the relevant research and citing extensively from case law and court transcripts, Richard Green demonstrates how the work of sexual science could bring about a transformation in jurisprudence, informing the courts in their deliberations on issues such as sexual privacy, homosexuality, prostitution, abortion, pornography, and sexual abuse. In each case he considers, Green shows how the law has been shaped by social science or impoverished by reliance on conjecture and received wisdom. He examines the role of sexual science in legal controversy, its analysis of human motivation and behavior, and its use by the courts in determining the relative weight to be given the desires of the individual, the standards of society, and the power of the state in limiting sexual autonomy. Unprecedented in its portrayal of sexuality in a legal context, this scholarly but readable book will interest and educate professional and layperson alike-those lawyers, judges, sex educators, therapists, patients, and citizens who find themselves standing nonplussed at the meeting place of morality and behavior.

Writing and Righting - Literature in the Age of Human Rights (Hardcover): Lyndsey Stonebridge Writing and Righting - Literature in the Age of Human Rights (Hardcover)
Lyndsey Stonebridge
R798 Discovery Miles 7 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A bold and accessible argument for the moral and political value of literature in rightless times. The obvious humanity of books would seem to make literature and human rights natural allies. But what is the real connection between literature and human rights? In this short polemical book, Lyndsey Stonebridge shows how the history of human rights owes much to the creative imagining of writers. Yet, she argues, it is not enough to claim that literature is the empathetic wing of the human rights movement. At a time when human rights are so blatantly under attack, the writers we need how are the political truthtellers, the bold callers out of easy sympathy and comfortable platitudes.

Organs for Sale - Bioethics, Neoliberalism, and Public Moral Deliberation (Paperback): Ryan Gillespie Organs for Sale - Bioethics, Neoliberalism, and Public Moral Deliberation (Paperback)
Ryan Gillespie
R1,139 Discovery Miles 11 390 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Organs for Sale is a study of the bioethical question of how to increase human organ supply. But it is also an inquiry into public moral deliberation and the relationship between economic worth and the value systems of a society. Looking closely at human organ procurement debates, the author offers a critique of neoliberalism in bioethics and asks what kind of society we truly want. While society has shown concern over debates surrounding organ procurement, a better understanding of the rhetoric of advocates and philosophical underpinnings of the debate might indeed improve our public moral deliberation in general and organ policy more specifically. Examining public arguments, this book uses a range of source material, from medical journals to congressional hearings to newspaper op-eds, to provide the most up-to-date and thorough analysis of the topic. Organs for Sale posits that deciding together on the limits of markets, and on what is and ought to be for sale, sheds light on the moral fibre of our society and what it needs to thrive.

From Back Alley to the Border - Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969 (Hardcover): Alicia Gutierrez-Romine From Back Alley to the Border - Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969 (Hardcover)
Alicia Gutierrez-Romine
R1,540 Discovery Miles 15 400 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In From Back Alley to the Border, Alicia Gutierrez-Romine examines the history of criminal abortion in California and the role abortion providers played in exposing and exploiting the faults in California's anti-abortion statute throughout the twentieth century. Focused on the women who used this underground network and the physicians who facilitated it, Gutierrez-Romine describes the operation of abortion providers from the 1920s through the 1960s, including regular physicians as well as women and African American abortionists, and the investigations and trials that surrounded them. During the 1930s the Pacific Coast Abortion Ring, a large, coast-wide, and comparatively safe organized abortion syndicate, became the target of law enforcement agencies, forcing abortions across the border into Mexico and ushering in an era of Tijuana "abortion tourism" in the early 1950s. The movement south of the border ultimately compelled the California Supreme Court to rule its abortion statute "void for vagueness" in People v. Belous in 1969-four years before Roe v. Wade. Gutierrez-Romine presents the first book focused on abortion on the West Coast and the border between the United States and Mexico and provides a new approach to studying how providers of illegal abortions and their female clients navigated this underground network.

The Righteous Will Flourish - Living Christian Ethics (Paperback): Steven D. West, Danielle M Gignac The Righteous Will Flourish - Living Christian Ethics (Paperback)
Steven D. West, Danielle M Gignac
R508 R477 Discovery Miles 4 770 Save R31 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Cruel and Unusual Punishment within Our Prison System (Paperback): Kumar Tripati Anant Cruel and Unusual Punishment within Our Prison System (Paperback)
Kumar Tripati Anant
R845 Discovery Miles 8 450 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Winning Political Debates - Proven Techniques for Success (Hardcover): Randy Evans, Michael Hester Winning Political Debates - Proven Techniques for Success (Hardcover)
Randy Evans, Michael Hester; Foreword by Newt Gingrich
R571 R539 Discovery Miles 5 390 Save R32 (6%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
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