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Uncontained Digital Disconnection And The Experience Of Time

Robert Hassan

_Uncontained _is an account of Hassan’s voyage of discovery – a must-read for anyone who resents the encroachment of the digital on their inner world.

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The Condition of Digitality: A Post-Modern Marxism for the Practice of Digital Life

Robert Hassan

David Harvey’s The Condition of Postmodernity rationalised capitalism’s transformation during an extraordinary year: 1989. It gave theoretical expression to a material and cultural reality that was just then getting properly…

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Empires of Speed: Time and the Acceleration of Politics and Society

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Explaining and comparing the rise and effects of the ‘empires’ of clock time and ‘network time’, Empires of Speed argues with power and clarity that our network society is hurtling…

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The Age of Distraction: Reading, Writing, and Politics in a High-Speed Networked Economy

Robert Hassan

Connections between time, technology, and the processes of reading and writing make clear the links between experiences of what appear to be quite different phenomena

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The Age of Distraction: Reading, Writing and Politics in a High-Speed Networked Economy

Robert Hassan

Connections between time, technology, and the processes of reading and writing make clear the links between experiences of what appear to be quite different phenomena

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Analog

Robert Hassan

An introduction and history to the analog as a technology and as a way of understanding the world as distinct from the digital –

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The Information Society: Cyber Dreams and Digital Nightmares

Robert Hassan

What are we to make of the information society? This book helps understand the nature of the information society - as well as the meta-processes of neoliberal globalisation and the…

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The Information Society: Cyber Dreams and Digital Nightmares

Robert Hassan

What are we to make of the information society? Many prominent theorists have argued it to be the most profound and comprehensive transformation of economy, culture and politics since the…

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In the House of Muhammad Ali: A Family Album, 1805-1952

Hassan Hassan

This work is a personal account by a junior member of the former Egyptian royal family, of life before 1952 and of the people within Egypt’s ruling class. The author…

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Philosophy of Media: A Short History of Ideas and Innovations from Socrates to Social Media

Robert Hassan,Thomas Sutherland

Since the late-1980s the rise of the Internet and the emergence of the Networked Society have led to a rapid and profound transformation of everyday life. Underpinning this revolution is…

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Philosophy of Media: A Short History of Ideas and Innovations from Socrates to Social Media

Robert Hassan,Thomas Sutherland

Since the late-1980s the rise of the Internet and the emergence of the Networked Society have led to a rapid and profound transformation of everyday life. Underpinning this revolution is…

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24/7: Time and Temporality in the Network Society

24/7 is the first collection of essays dealing with the nature and our experience of temporality in the network society.

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24/7: Time and Temporality in the Network Society

24/7 is the first collection of essays dealing with the nature and our experience of temporality in the network society.

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Robert Houle: Red Is Beautiful

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Houle’s painting blends Western abstraction, postmodernism and conceptualism with First Nations art history and techniques, challenging expectations about Indigenous aesthetics

An extensive survey spanning more than 50 years, Robert Houle…

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Suicide Prevention: The Global Context

Proceedings of the XIXth Congress of the International Association for Suicide Prevention held in Adelaide, Australia, March 23-27, 1997

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Suicide Prevention: The Global Context

Proceedings of the XIXth Congress of the International Association for Suicide Prevention held in Adelaide, Australia, March 23-27, 1997

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Climate Change and Agriculture in Africa: Impact Assessment and Adaptation Strategies

Ariel Dinar,Rashid Hassan,Robert Mendelsohn,James Benhin,et al

A work on climate change and agriculture in Africa. It includes an assessment of the potential economic impacts of future climate change, and the value of adaptation measures in Africa…

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The Islam/West Debate: Documents from a Global Debate on Terrorism, U.S. Policy, and the Middle East

In 2002, sixty prominent American intellectuals released an open letter defending the use of military force against al-Qa'ida. The letter sparked an impassioned international debate. This volume chronicles that debate…

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The Islam/West Debate: Documents from a Global Debate on Terrorism, U.S. Policy, and the Middle East

In 2002, sixty prominent American intellectuals released an open letter defending the use of military force against al-Qa'ida. The letter sparked an impassioned international debate. This volume chronicles that debate…

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Climate Change and Agriculture in Africa: Impact Assessment and Adaptation Strategies

Ariel Dinar,Rashid Hassan,Robert Mendelsohn,James Benhin,et al

This landmark book encompasses a comprehensive assessment of the potential economic impacts of future climate change, and the value of adaptation measures in Africa for different zones, regions, countries and…

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Window on the East: National and Imperial Identities in Late Tsarist Russia

Robert P. Geraci

This book provides the most comprehensive, balanced, and nuanced account yet published of the Darfur conflict’s roots and the contemporary realities that shape the experiences of those living in the…

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Molecular Breeding for Rice Abiotic Stress Tolerance and Nutritional Quality

Presents the latest knowledge of improving the stress tolerance, yield, and quality of rice crops

One of the most important cereal crops, rice provides food to more than half of…

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Sustainability Assessment: Criteria and Processes

James Tansey,Selma Hassan,Bob Gibson,Graham Whitelaw,Selma Hassan

Sustainability assessment is emerging as a transparent, integrated and far-sighted approach to decision making. Its basic demand is that significant undertakings must make a positive contribution to sustainability. Drawing from…

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Sustainability Assessment: Criteria and Processes

James Tansey,Selma Hassan,Bob Gibson,Graham Whitelaw,Selma Hassan

Many governments express commitments to sustainability, yet until now assessing sustainability in projects, plans, programmes and policies has been largely limited to traditional environmental assessment (EA) with an imperfect attempt…

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The History and Description of Africa and of the Notable Things therein contained

Containing Book I of the original, edited, with an introduction and notes. This and the following two volumes (First Series 93 and 94) have continuous pagination. This is a new…

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The History and Description of Africa and of the Notable Things therein contained

Containing Books II-IV of the original, edited, with an introduction and notes. This and the previous and following two volumes (First Series 92 and 94) have continuous pagination. This is…

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The History and Description of Africa and of the Notable Things therein contained

Containing Books V-IX of the original and Pory's additions, edited, with an introduction and notes. This and the previous two volumes (First Series 92 and 93) have continuous pagination. This…

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Living with HIV in Post-Crisis Times: Beyond the Endgame

As global health organizations claim that the AIDS/HIV crisis is nearing its end, Living with HIV in Post-Crisis Times: Beyond the Endgame examines how people living with HIV navigate changes…

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The Election After Reform: Money, Politics, and the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act

These groundbreaking studies, rich with data, include chapters on political parties, ‘527’ committees and interest groups, television ads, the ‘ground war,’ Congressional politics, and presidential campaigns. A must-read for its…

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Assessing the Environmental Impact of Agriculture

This book reviews key methods for measuring the environmental impact of agriculture. Part 1 reviews life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology. Part 2 reviews ways of modelling particular types of impact…

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Journalism from Print to Platform

Robert Hassan

Through a synthesis of philosophical anthropology and media theory, this book examines the human relationship with technology, progressing from analogue to digital, to give a new perspective on journalism in…

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