Social Aspects category: 6049 books
Another Fine Mess
Life on Tomorrow's Moon
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
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by CLEBERSON EDUARDO DA COSTA
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
(A5, 144 P.) - Almost every human being, to achieve its called age of reason, in the meeting of social life with other men and/or even simply for having been launched in the world without request and/or without knowing the reason, nor the because, at a given moment of its existence (in some cases...
Seizing the Future
Dawn of the Macroindustrial Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
"Marked by verve, vision, and a thorough familiarity with the field, this book buoys the spirit, challenges conventional thinking, and arms the reader as do few comparable works in futuristics. Engagingly written, and free of both jargon and pretentiousness, it sets a high standard for 21st century explorations."--Arthur B. Shostak, Drexel University
Literacy, Play and Globalization
Converging Imaginaries in Children's Critical and Cultural Performances
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
This book takes on current perspectives on children’s relationships to literacy, media, childhood, markets and transtionalism in converging global worlds. It introduces the idea of multi-sited imaginaries to explain how children’s media and literacy performances shape and are shaped by shared...
The Future of Physical Education
Building a New Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Anthony Laker leads an outstanding international team of educational theorists in critically examining the theoretical underpinnings of physical education, and in challenging the rhetoric, the practices and the pedagogies that prevail in our schools. There has been a great deal of discussion surrounding...
On the Origin of Tepees
The Evolution of Ideas (and Ourselves)
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
Why do some ideas spread, while others die off? Does human culture have its very own “survival of the fittest”? And if so, does that explain why our species is so different from the rest of life on Earth?
Throughout history, we humans have prided ourselves on our capacity to have ideas,...
Confessions of an Alien
A Mythology for the Third Millenium
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Of course the title of this series is Mythology for the Third Millennium, but what is mythology? Mythology is a narrative that usually contains hidden meanings and deals with questions such as: where do we come from, what is our purpose and what is our place in the universe? Noted psychologist Carl Jung...
Key Thinkers for the Information Society
Volume One
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Key Thinkers for the Information Society provides an introduction to some important social theorists whose work has considerable relevance to today's 'brave new world' of information and communication technologies. With the aim of widening current perspectives on the information society, each contributor...
by Elizabeth Gaskell
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
"Morton Hall" (1853) is a story written by Elizabeth Gaskell, one of the leading representatives of British literature of the Victorian era. The book weaves together many different elements from the description of ancient houses and noble lineages to the commemoration of historical events,...
Ernst Cassirer on Form and Technology
Contemporary Readings
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Ernst Cassirer's thought-provoking essay Form and Technology (1930) ascribes to technology a new dignity as a genuine tool of the mind in equal company with language and art. Translated here into English it is accompanied by critical essays that explore its current relevance.
Chronopoetics
The Temporal Being and Operativity of Technological Media
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Wolfgang Ernst has demonstrated that the knowledge of time-giving (‘chrono-poetical’) media and their temporal essence enriches the tradition of philosophical inquiry into the nature of ‘time’. This book, a translated and abridged edition of Ernst’s two major volumes, Chronopoetik and Gleichursprünglichkeit,...
The Star as Icon
Celebrity in the Age of Mass Consumption
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2008
Princess Diana, Jackie O, Grace Kelly—the star icon is the most talked about yet least understood persona. The object of adoration, fantasy, and cult obsession, the star icon is a celebrity, yet she is also something more: a dazzling figure at the center of a media pantomime that is at once voyeuristic...
Posthumanism
Anthropological Insights
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Designed to explain posthumanism to those outside of academia, this brief and accessible book makes an original argument about anthropology's legacy as a study of "more than human." Smart and Smart return to the holism of classic ethnographies where cattle, pigs, yams, and sorcerers were...
by Yuk Hui
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Digital objects, in their simplest form, are data. They are also a new kind of industrial object that pervades every aspect of our life today—as online videos, images, text files, e-mails, blog posts, Facebook events.Yet, despite their ubiquity, the nature of digital objects remains unclear.
On...