Feed-Forward: On the Future of Twenty-First-Century Media (Hansen Mark B. N.)(Paperback)

Feed-Forward: On the Future of Twenty-First-Century Media (Hansen Mark B. N.)(Paperback)

Even as media in myriad forms increasingly saturate our lives, we nonetheless tend to describe our relationship to it in terms from the twentieth century: we are consumers of media, choosing to engage with it. In Feed-Forward, Mark B. N. Hansen shows just how outmoded that way of thinking is: media

Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction (Vint Sherryl)(Pevná vazba)

Drawing on a rich array of twenty-first-century speculative fiction, this book demonstrates how the commodification of life through biotechnology has far-reaching implications for how we think of personhood, agency, and value. Sherryl Vint argues that neoliberalism is reinventing life under

Twenty-First-Century Hollywood: Rebooting the System (Archer Neil)(Paperback)

Twenty-First-Century Hollywood looks into the contexts of studio film production in the new century in order to understand what shapes the style and content of present-day cinema. In an era dominated in box-office terms by the franchise and the family film, this book combines close textual readings

Stagecoach in the Twenty-First Century (Jenkinson Keith A.)(Paperback)

Keith A. Jenkinson looks at the story of Stagecoach in the twenty-first century, with a array of rare and previously unpublished

A New History of the Future in 100 Objects: A Fiction (Hon Adrian)(Paperback)

Imagining the history of the twenty-first century through its artifacts, from silent messaging systems to artificial worlds on asteroids.In the year 2082, a curator looks back at the twenty-first century, offering a history of the era through a series of objects and artifacts. He reminisces about

Surrogate Warfare: The Transformation of War in the Twenty-First Century (Krieg Andreas)(Paperback)

This book explores the emerging phenomenon of 'surrogate warfare' in twenty-first century conflict. The popular notion of war is that it is fought en masse by one military versus the other state's military. But the reality today is that both state and non-state actors are increasingly looking to

Merchants of Culture - The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century (Thompson John B.)(Paperback / softback)

The Big Picture: The Fight for the Future of Movies (Fritz Ben)(Paperback)

The stunning metamorphosis of twenty-first-century Hollywood and what lies ahead for the art and commerce of film In the past decade, Hollywood has endured a cataclysm on a par with the end of silent film and the demise of the studio system. Stars and directors have seen their power dwindle, while

An Analysis of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Broten Nick)(Paperback)

Thomas Piketty is a fine example of an evaluative thinker. In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, he not only provides detailed and sustained explanations of why he sees existing arguments relating to income and wealth distribution as flawed, but also gives us very detailed evaluations of the

General Intellects: Twenty-Five Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century (Wark McKenzie)(Paperback)

A guide to the thinkers and the ideas that will shape the future What happened to the public intellectuals that used to challenge and inform us? Who is the Sartre or De Beauvoir of the internet age? General Intellects argues that we no longer have such singular figures, but we do have general

Crime and Punishment in the Future Internet: Digital Frontier Technologies and Criminology in the Twenty-First Century (Milivojevic Sanja)(Paperback)

Crime and Punishment in the Future Internet is an examination of the development and impact of digital frontier technologies (DFTs) such as Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of things, autonomous mobile robots, and blockchain on offending, crime control, the criminal justice system, and the

The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader (Brayshaw Teresa)(Paperback)

The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader combines extracts from over 70 international practitioners, companies, collectives and makers from the fields of Dance, Theatre, Music, Live and Performance Art, and Activism to form an essential sourcebook for students, researchers and practitioners

The End of Days: Armageddon and Prophecies of the Return (Sitchin Zecharia)(Mass Market Paperbound)

Why is it that our current twenty-first century A.D. is so similar to the twenty-first century B.C.? Is history destined to repeat itself?Will biblical prophecies come true, and if so, when? It has been more than three decades since Zecharia Sitchin's trailblazing book The 12th Planet brought to

Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition (Bishop Christopher M.)(Paperback)

This is the first comprehensive treatment of feed-forward neural networks from the perspective of statistical pattern recognition. After introducing the basic concepts, the book examines techniques for modeling probability density functions and the properties and merits of the multi-layer

Days of Awe and Wonder - How To Be A Christian In The Twenty-First Century (Borg Marcus J.)(Paperback / softback)

Distilled into a single volume, here is the essence of Marcus Borg: the world's leading spokesman for progressive Christianity until his death in 2015, and one of the most widely respected and influential theologians of our

Ireland and migration in the twenty-first century (Gilmartin Mary)(Paperback)

Considers migration to, from and within Ireland in the twenty-first century, covering the Celtic Tiger era of mass immigration to Ireland as well as the dramatic growth in levels of emigration that has occurred since the Irish economic

Building the Intentional University: Minerva and the Future of Higher Education (Kosslyn Stephen M.)(Paperback)

How to rebuild higher education from the ground up for the twenty-first century.Higher education is in crisis. It is too expensive, ineffective, and impractical for many of the world's students. But how would you reinvent it for the twenty-first century--how would you build it from the ground up?

Global Crime Today: The Changing Face of Organised Crime (Galeotti Mark)(Paperback)

Crime is recognized as a constant factor within human society, but in the twenty-first century organized crime is emerging as one of the distinctive security threats of the new world order. The more complex, organized and interconnected society becomes, its crime becomes too. This book recognizes

Europe's Troubled Peace: 1945 to the Present (Buchanan Tom)(Paperback)

This revised second edition now extends to the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century, covering the financial crisis and the related crisis in European integration, the impact of the 'War on Terror' on Europe, and the redefinition of Europe following EU enlargement. Thoroughly revised

The New Fourth Branch: Institutions for Protecting Constitutional Democracy (Tushnet Mark)(Paperback)

Twenty-first-century constitutions now typically include a new 'fourth branch' of government, a group of institutions charged with protecting constitutional democracy, including electoral management bodies, anticorruption agencies, and ombuds offices. This book offers the first general theory of

Extraordinary Time - The End of the Postwar Boom and the Return of the Ordinary Economy (Levinson Marc)(Paperback / softback)

The early 1970s witnessed the arrival of the problems that define the twenty-first century. In An Extraordinary Time, Marc Levinson investigates how the oil crisis of the 1970s marked a radical turning point in global economics: and paved the way for the political and financial troubles of the

Shock and Awe - Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-First Century (Reynolds Simon)(Paperback / softback)

Explores most decadent of genres on both sides of the Atlantic. This title charts the retro future sounds, outrageous styles and gender-fluid sexual politics that came to define the first half of the seventies. It also brings right up to date with a final chapter on glam in hip hop, Lady Gaga, and

The Age of Football - The Global Game in the Twenty-first Century (Goldblatt David)(Pevná vazba)

The critically acclaimed global story of football in the twenty-first

Dancing with the Earth Changes: A Guide Through the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century (Pogačnik Marko)(Paperback)

'It is increasingly evident that the dramatic consequences of the Earth's changing process cannot be avoided, that our civilization today is not willing to implement the necessary measures to stop the deterioration of the natural environment. It is up to open-minded individuals and their networks