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View book details for The Virtual Ninja Manifesto
Fighting Games, Martial Arts and Gamic Orientalism
Navigating between societys moral panics about the influence of violent videogames and philosophical texts about self-cultivation in the martial arts, The Virtual Ninja Manifesto asks whether the figure of the virtual ninja can emerge as an aspirational figure in the …
View book details for The Uncertain Business of Doing Good
Outsiders in Africa
The relationship between Westerners and Africa has long been conflicted and complicated. Frequently exploitative, it is also just as often propelled by an almost irresistible urge to "do good." The persistence of this impulse is intriguing. From Doctor Livingstone 150 …
This book takes the reader through London and its spiritual history - what its inhabitants believed, what they worshipped, where, when and how; the landmarks, the names, the issues and the arguments. Written in a more or less chronological way, …
View book details for Baroness Cox 2nd Edition
Eyewitness to a broken world
Baroness Cox of Queensbury was appointed a Life Peer in 1982. A former deputy speaker of the House of Lords, she is a tireless advocate for international human rights. She visits the most forgotten people in the world, often in …
View book details for The Snowmelt River
The Three Powers Book 1: An Epic Fantasy of Irish Mythology by the Bestselling Author of Twins of Moon
Four teenagers are drawn from an Irish mountaintop into an enchanted land and gifted with great powers: but with power comes responsibility, and a vast evil has noticed their arrival . . . On the summit of the fabled mountain …
View book details for Philippe Grandrieux
Sonic Cinema
Philippe Grandrieux is one of cinema's only living true radicals and feted as one of the most innovative and important film makers of his generation. His consistently controversial work remains, however, relatively unknown outside of the international art film festival …
View book details for Zen Vegan Food
Delicious Plant-based Recipes from a Zen Buddhist Monk
In this book, Buddhist temple priest and chef Koyu Iinuma shares the simple and delicious plant-based meals he prepares in the kitchens of Fukushoji temple in Yokohama, Japan.The 73 recipes showcased in Zen Vegan Food are incredibly beautiful and tasty, …
View book details for Glastonbury 50
The Official Celebration of the Worlds Greatest Festival
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK IN THE TIMES: 'Captivating'A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR: 'In-depth and inspiring''Beautifully compiled ... the perfect festival experience' SUNDAY TIMESGlastonbury 50 is the authorised, behind-the-scenes, inside story of the music …
View book details for Dark Sound
Feminine Voices in Sonic Shadow
Dark sound carries the dense cultural weight of darkness; it is the undertow of music that embodies melancholy, desire, grief, violence, rage, pain, loss and longing. Compelling and unnerving, dark sound immerses bodies in the darkest moments and delves into …
What are the still-unknown horizons of world thought? This book brings together prominent scholars from varying disciplines to speculate on this obscure question and the many crossroads that face intellectuals in our contemporary era and its aftermath. The result is …
View book details for Innovation Through Information Systems
Volume II: A Collection of Latest Research on Technology Issues
This book presents the current state of research in information systems and digital transformation. Due to the global trend of digitalization and the impact of the Covid 19 pandemic, the need for innovative, high-quality research on information systems is higher …
View book details for Islamic Modernities in Southeast Asia
Exploring Indonesian Popular and Visual Culture
What does it mean to be a modern Muslim today? In contemporary discourse Islam and modernity are often presented as each others opposites in media and popular culture. Southeast Asia has a large Muslim population, especially in Indonesia, Malaysia, and …
This book employs recursivity and contingency as two principle concepts to investigate into the relation between nature and technology, machine and organism, system and freedom. It reconstructs a trajectory of thought from an Organic condition of thinking elaborated by Kant, …
This book provides a detailed overview of the microorganisms that form the initial growth on the exterior facades of buildings. It deals with the ecophysiological properties that characterize the basic conditions under which these microorganisms can occur on facades. In …
View book details for Dammed
The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory
Dammed explores Canadas hydroelectric boom in the Lake of the Woods area. It complicates narratives of increasing affluence in postwar Canada, revealing that the inverse was true for Indigenous communities along the Winnipeg River. Dammed makes clear that hydroelectric generating …
View book details for Autonomy, Refusal, and the Black Bloc
Positioning Class Analysis in Critical and Radical Theory
Autonomy, Refusal, and the Black Bloc reinterprets the positioning of critical and radical theory by focusing squarely on the role of class analysis. It also argues that the survivance of The Frankfurt School style of critique is wholly dependent upon …
View book details for Chairman at the Board
Recording the Soundtrack of a Generation
Chairman at the Board is an intimate, funny, and absorbing look at the music business by an insider who has recorded a host of the greatest musical artists from the 1970s to today. Bill Schnee takes the reader inside the …
View book details for Cultural Texts of Resistance in Zimbabwe
Music, Memes, and Media
Cultural Texts of Resistance in Zimbabwe explores how ordinary citizens appropriate and deploy cultural texts such as internet memes, songs, political cartoons and social media discussions as vehicles to contest hegemonic narratives of the state and insert alternative ways of …
View book details for Changing European Visions of Disaster and Development
Rekindling Faust's Humanism
Goethes 1832 poem Faust offers a vision of humanity realising freedom and prosperity through transcending natural adversity. Changing European Visions of Disaster and Development returns to Faust as a way of exploring the rise and fall of European humanist aspirations …
Every politics is an aesthetic. If necropolitics is the (accelerated) politics of what is usually referred to as the apolitical age, what are its manoeuvres, temporalities, intensities, textures, and tipping points? Bypassing revelatory and reconstructionist approaches the tendency of which …
View book details for Fifty Shades of Crimson
Robert Fripp and King Crimson
Features interviews with Bill Bruford, Peter Giles, Gordon Haskell, Judy Dyble and more . . .In 1969 five young Englishmen calling themselves King Crimson altered the course of rock music, and despite a revolving-door lineup, the band has continued to …
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Organized Crime, Big Business, and the Corruption of American Democracy
From Truman to Trump, the deep corruption of our political leaders unveiled.Many critiques of the Trump era contrast it with the latter half of the twentieth century, when the United States seemed governed more by statesmen than by special interests. …
View book details for Longmen's Stone Buddhas and Cultural Heritage
When Antiquity Met Modernity in China
This thoroughly researched book provides the first comprehensive history of how a UNESCO World Heritage site on the Central China Plain, Longmens caves and the Buddhist statuary of Luoyang, was rediscovered in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Drawing on original …
Scientific change is often a function of technological innovation new instruments show us new things we could not see before and we then need new theories to explain them. One of the results of this process is that what counts …
View book details for Art as Capital
The Intersection of Science, Technology, and the Arts
In global terms, creative industries are on the rise, as are new media investigations in art and initiatives that encourage innovation in the arts, for end-use in the economy. However, there is a significant lack of critical reflection on this …
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