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Ashley Shew

Against Technoableism

When bioethicist and professor Ashley Shew became a self-described "hard-of-hearing chemobrained amputee with Crohn's disease and tinnitus," there was no returning to "normal". Suddenly well-meaning peopl…

Jacob L. Mackey

Belief and Cult

A groundbreaking reinterpretation that draws on cognitive theory to show that belief wasn't absent from-but rather was at the heart of-Roman religionBelief and Cult argues that belief isn't uniquely Chris…

Neil Selwyn

Digital Degrowth

We are fast approaching the point of "peak digital", with the continued mass production and excessive consumption of digital technologies set to become a key driver of climate crisis, ecological breakdown…

Neil Selwyn

Digital Degrowth

We are fast approaching the point of "peak digital", with the continued mass production and excessive consumption of digital technologies set to become a key driver of climate crisis, ecological breakdown…

Humane Autonomous Technology

This open access book takes a human-focused multidisciplinary look at the ways in which autonomous technology shapes experience, affecting human lives and ways of working in settings ranging from the arts…

Olli Ahvenlahti (geb. 1949)

Thinking, Whistling

David Eltis

Atlantic Cataclysm

The book offers a new interpretation of why the slave trades (transatlantic as well as intra-American) began and ended, questioning the established narratives. A comprehensive and major work for scholars …

Victorian Interdisciplinarity and the Sciences

A Complex and Innovative Analysis of Discipline Formation in Nineteenth-Century Science

Patrick Galbraith

Uncommon Ground

We know that Britain's land ownership is unbalanced, but what about land access? Who can visit our green and pleasant spaces, who is making use of them and who is taking care of them? Much is made of open…

Gadamer on Art and Aesthetic Experience

Original essays on Hans-Georg Gadamer's hermeneutical aesthetics and philosophy of art, written by some of the most important authors in this field, disclosing the possibility of a renewed understanding o…

States of Return

"State of Return theoretically explores the concept of "return" and ethnographically traces different experiences of return migration across the globe with emphases on temporality, kinship, and citizenshi…

Pierre Rosanvallon,

The New Social Question

How social and intellectual changes undermine our justifications for the welfare state The welfare state has come under severe pressure internationally, partly for the well-known reasons of slowing econo…

Jeremy Rifkin

Planet Aqua

"What would happen if we were to awaken one day and suddenly realize that the world we live in appeared eerily alien, as if we'd been teleported to some other distant world? That frightening prospect is n…

Michael A. Bailey

Polling at a Crossroads

"Public opinion polling is in crisis. People aren't responding to polls and misses in critical elections have undermined the field's credibility. Polling at a Crossroads points a way forward by presenting…

Ian Scoones

Navigating Uncertainty

"Uncertainties are everywhere. Whether it's climate change, financial volatility, pandemic outbreaks or new technologies, we don't know what the future will hold. For many contemporary challenges, navigat…

Ian Scoones

Navigating Uncertainty

"Uncertainties are everywhere. Whether it's climate change, financial volatility, pandemic outbreaks or new technologies, we don't know what the future will hold. For many contemporary challenges, navigat…

Nick Peim

A Critique of Pure Education

This book analyses educational theory in order to offer an alternative view of the history of education in modernity. It provides a new understanding of education as a phenomenon that draws on powerful li…

Saras Sarasvathy

Effectuation

This Elements introduces effectuation and explains its framework. Effectuation theory inverts several older approaches in the 'sciences of the artificial'. These inversions suggest an entrepreneurial meth…

Power and Authority in Afghanistan

"This volume provides a critical analysis of power and authority in Afghanistan, and how the conception and practice of these have shifted both historically and over the past twenty years. Contributors ex…