Work in the Future: The Automation Revolution (Skidelsky Robert)(Paperback)

Work in the Future: The Automation Revolution (Skidelsky Robert)(Paperback)

This short, accessible book seeks to explore the future of work through the views and opinions of a range of expertise, encompassing economic, historical, technological, ethical and anthropological aspects of the debate. The transition to an automated society brings with it new challenges and a

Automation and the Future of Work (Benanav Aaron)(Pevná vazba)

A polemic account of automation technologies and their effect on workplaces and the labor market Silicon Valley titans, politicians, techno-futurists and social critics have united in arguing that we are living through an era of rapid technological automation, heralding the end of work as such. But

The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution (Jervis Robert)(Paperback)

Robert Jervis argues here that the possibility of nuclear war has created a revolution in military strategy and international relations. He examines how the potential for nuclear Armageddon has changed the meaning of war, the psychology of statesmanship, and the formulation of military policy by

Service Automation: Robots and the Future of Work (Willcocks Leslie P.)(Pevná vazba)

This book captures a year's worth of learning about service automation based on a survey, in-depth client case studies, and interviews with service automation clients, providers, and advisors. It gives a balanced, informed and compelling view on gaining the many benefits, as well as managing the

Terror - Civil War in the French Revolution (Andress David)(Paperback / softback)

In this wholly definitive work, David Andress examines the The French Revolution: the birth of a new ideological age and the bloody emergence of Europe's first political

The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective (Allen Robert C.)(Paperback)

Why did the industrial revolution take place in eighteenth-century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? In this convincing new account Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolution was a successful response to the global economy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He

The Industrial Revolution: A Very Short Introduction (Allen Robert C.)(Paperback)

The Industrial Revolution was a pivotal point in British history that occurred between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries and led to far reaching transformations of society. With the advent of revolutionary manufacturing technology productivity boomed. Machines were used to spin and

The Bolsheviks Come to Power: The Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd (Rabinowitch Alexander)(Paperback)

A classic work depicting the early months of the Russian Revolution. With a new introduction for the Revolution's

Durruti in the Spanish Revolution (Paz Abel)(Paperback)

Durruti was the ultimate working-class hero: carrying the future in his heart and a gun in each pocket. Abel Paz's magnificent biography resurrects the very soul of Spanish anarchism.'--Mike Davis, author of Planet of SlumsAK Press has commissioned an elegant, new and unabridged translation of the

Keynes - The Return of the Master (Skidelsky Robert)(Paperback / softback)

When unbridled capitalism falters, is there an alternative? This title shows how the great economist's ideas not only explain why the current financial crisis occurred - but are our best way

Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas (Lovato Roberto)(Paperback)

John Maynard Keynes: 1883-1946: Economist, Philosopher, Statesman (Skidelsky Robert)(Paperback)

THE DEFINITIVE SINGLE-VOLUME BIOGRAPHY Robert Skidelsky's three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes has been acclaimed as the authoritative account of the great economist-statesman's life. Here, Skidelsky has revised and abridged his magnum opus into one definitive book, which examines in its

What's Wrong with Economics?: A Primer for the Perplexed (Skidelsky Robert)(Paperback)

A passionate and informed critique of mainstream economics from one of the leading economic thinkers of our time This insightful book looks at how mainstream economics' quest for scientific certainty has led to a narrowing of vision and a convergence on an orthodoxy that is unhealthy for the

Special Operations in the American Revolution (Tonsetic Robert L.)(Paperback)

In this book, renowned author, and former U.S. Army Colonel, Robert Tonsetic describes and analyzes numerous examples of special operations conducted during the Revolution.'What is unique about this book is the perspective. To a modern-day reader, special ops conjure images of highly trained and

The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 (Middlekauff Robert)(Paperback)

The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically acclaimed volume--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic. Beginning with the French and Indian War and

The Music of the Future (Barry Robert)(Paperback)

The Music of the Future is not a book of predictions or speculations about how to save the music business or the bleeding edge of technologies. Rather, it's a history of failures, mapping 200 years of attempts by composers, performers and critics to imagine a future for music. Encompassing utopian

Starship Troopers (Heinlein Robert A.)(Mass Market Paperbound)

In Robert A. Heinlein's controversial bestseller, a recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the Universe--and into battle against mankind's most alarming enemy.JOIN THE ARMY AND SEE THE UNIVERSEThe historians can't seem to settle whether to call this one 'The Third Space War'

The Great Terror: A Reassessment (Conquest Robert)(Paperback)

The definitive work on Stalin's purges, Robert Conquest's The Great Terror was universally acclaimed when it first appeared in 1968. Harrison Salisbury called it 'brilliant...not only an odyssey of madness, tragedy, and sadism, but a work of scholarship and literary craftsmanship.' And in recent

The American Revolution: A Very Short Introduction (Allison Robert J.)(Paperback)

Here is a brisk, accessible, and vivid introduction to arguably the most important event in the history of the United States--the American Revolution. Between 1760 and 1800, the American people cast off British rule to create a new nation and a radically new form of government based on the idea

Keynes: A Very Short Introduction (Skidelsky Robert)(Paperback)

John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) is a central thinker of the twentieth century, not just an economic theorist and statesman, but also an important figure in economics, philosophy, politics, and culture. In this Very Short Introduction Lord Skidelsky, a renowned biographer of Keynes, explores his

Automatic Society: The Future of Work (Stiegler Bernard)(Paperback)

In July 2014 the Belgian newspaper Le Soir claimed that France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland and the United States may lose between 43 and 50 per cent of their jobs within ten to fifteen years. Across the world, integrated automation, one key result of the so-called 'data economy', is

Globotics Upheaval - Globalisation, Robotics and the Future of Work (Baldwin Richard)(Paperback / softback)

THE RISE OF THE ROBOTS for the masses. How to survive in a world of virtual

Rojava: Revolution, War and the Future of Syria's Kurds (Schmidinger Thomas)(Paperback)

The Kurdish territory of Rojava in Syria has in recent years become a watchword for radical democracy, communalism, and gender equality. This book, however, argues that much of how we see Rojava from the outside is a projection of the values of Western radicals whose understanding of the

Molecular Revolution in Brazil (Guattari Felix)(Paperback)

The post-'68 psychoanalyst and philosopher visits a newly democratic Brazil in 1982 and meets future President Luis Ignacia Lula da Silva: a guide to the radical thought and optimism at the root of today's Brazil.Yes, I believe that there is a multiple people, a people of mutants, a people of