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The Obsolescence of the Human

by Günther Anders ...

Translated by Christopher John Müller ...

Series series Posthumanities
Now available in English—one of the twentieth century’s most important works on the philosophy of technologyWith this first English translation of influential German philosopher Günther Anders’s 1956 masterpiece of critical theory, The Obsolescence of the Human, a new generation of readers can now engage with his prescient and haunting vision of a “world without us” dominated by technology.Looking ... Read more

$38.99 CAD

Now available in English—one of the twentieth century’s most important works on the philosophy of technologyWith this first English translation of influential German philosopher Günther Anders’s 1956 masterpiece of critical theory, The Obsolescence of the Human, a new generation of readers can now engage with his prescient and haunting vision of a “world without us” dominated by technology.Looking
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Prometheanism

Technology, Digital Culture and Human Obsolescence

by Christopher John Müller ...

Series series Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics
Günther Anders’s prolific philosophy of technology is undergoing a major revival but has never been translated into English. Prometheanism mobilises Anders’s pragmatic thought and current trends in critical theory to rethink the constellations of power that are configuring themselves around our increasingly “smart” machines.The book offers a comprehensive introduction to Anders’s philosophy of ... Read more

$50.99 CAD

Günther Anders’s prolific philosophy of technology is undergoing a major revival but has never been translated into English. Prometheanism mobilises Anders’s pragmatic thought and current trends in critical theory to rethink the constellations of power that are configuring themselves around our increasingly “smart” machines.The book offers a comprehensive introduction to Anders’s philosophy of
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Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism

Edited by Stefan Herbrechter, Ivan Callus, Manuela Rossini, Marija Grech, Megen de Bruin-Molé, Christopher John Müller ...

Series series Reference Module Humanities
Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism is a major reference work on the paradigm emerging from the challenges to humanism, humanity, and the human posed by the erosion of the traditional demarcations between the human and nonhuman. This handbook surveys and speculates on the ways in which the posthumanist paradigm emerged, transformed, and might further develop across the humanities. With its ... Read more

$896.59 CAD

Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism is a major reference work on the paradigm emerging from the challenges to humanism, humanity, and the human posed by the erosion of the traditional demarcations between the human and nonhuman. This handbook surveys and speculates on the ways in which the posthumanist paradigm emerged, transformed, and might further develop across the humanities. With its
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Credo Credit Crisis

Speculations on Faith and Money

Edited by Aidan Tynan, Laurent Milesi, Christopher John Müller ...

Series series Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics
Money facilitates the rites and rituals we perform in everyday life. More than a mere medium of exchange or a measure of value, it is the primary means by which we manifest a faith unique to our secular age.But what happens when individual belief (credo, ‘I’ believe) and the systems into which it is bound (credit, ‘it’ believes) enter into crisis? Where did the sacredness of money come from, and ... Read more

$57.99 CAD

Money facilitates the rites and rituals we perform in everyday life. More than a mere medium of exchange or a measure of value, it is the primary means by which we manifest a faith unique to our secular age.But what happens when individual belief (credo, ‘I’ believe) and the systems into which it is bound (credit, ‘it’ believes) enter into crisis? Where did the sacredness of money come from, and
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Mermaids

Art, Symbolism and Mythology

by Axel Müller, Christopher Halls, Ben Williamson ...

Women with fish tails are among the oldest and still most popular of mythological creatures, possessing a powerful allure and compelling ambiguity. They dwell right in the uncanniest valley of the sea: so similar to humans, yet profoundly other. Mermaids: Art, Symbolism and Mythology presents a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and beautifully illustrated study of mermaids and their influence on ... Read more

$67.99 CAD

Women with fish tails are among the oldest and still most popular of mythological creatures, possessing a powerful allure and compelling ambiguity. They dwell right in the uncanniest valley of the sea: so similar to humans, yet profoundly other. Mermaids: Art, Symbolism and Mythology presents a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and beautifully illustrated study of mermaids and their influence on
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The Future is Now

America Confronts the New Genetics

by Eric Cohen, George J. Annas, Ronald Bailey, Sen Christopher "Kit" Bond, J Bottum, Sen Sam Brownback, President George W. Bush, Kenneth L. Connor, Richard M. Doerflinger, Michael J. Fox0, Bill Frist1, Francis Fukuyama2, Robert P. George3, James K. Glassman4, Rep James Greenwood5, Sen Tom Harkin6, Sen Orrin G. Hatch7, Gertrude Himmelfarb8, Aldous Huxley9, Leon R. Kass0, Michael Kinsley1, Charles Krauthammer2, Rep Dennis J. Kucinich3, Joshua Lederberg4, Gilbert Meilaender5, H J. Muller6, National Bioethics Advisory Commission7, Edmund D. Pellegrino8, Rael9, Paul Ramsey0, William Saletan1, Wesley J. Smith2, James A. Thomson3, Laurence H. Tribe4, James D. Watson5, Michael D. West6, Ian Wilmut7, Adam Wolfson8 ...

This book looks at both the past and the future of the debate over whether there are moral limits to scientific progress and what life will look like in the genetic age. ... Read more

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This book looks at both the past and the future of the debate over whether there are moral limits to scientific progress and what life will look like in the genetic age.
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The Idea of a Human Rights Museum

by Angela Failler, Adam Muller, Clint Curle, Christopher Powell, Amanda Grzyb, Jodi Giesbrecht, Struan Sinclair, Helen Fallding, Stephen Jaeger, Mary Reid0, Ken Norman1, A. Dirk Moses2, Roger I. Simon3, Ruth B. Phillips4, David Petrasek5, Karen Busby7, Andrew Woolford8, Armando Perla0, Jennifer Carter1, Jorge A. Nállim2, George Jacob3 ...

Series Book 1 - Human Rights and Social Justice Series
The Idea of a Human Rights Museum is the first book to examine the formation of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and to situate the museum within the context of the international proliferation of such institutions. Sixteen essays consider the wider political, cultural and architectural contexts within which the museum physically and conceptually evolved drawing comparisons between the CMHR and ... Read more

$19.99 CAD

The Idea of a Human Rights Museum is the first book to examine the formation of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and to situate the museum within the context of the international proliferation of such institutions. Sixteen essays consider the wider political, cultural and architectural contexts within which the museum physically and conceptually evolved drawing comparisons between the CMHR and
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Understanding Atrocities

Remembering, Representing and Teaching Genocide

by Amarnath Amarasingam, Andrew R. Basso, Kristin Burnett, Lori Chambers, Laura Beth Cohen, Travis Hay, Stephen Leonard Jacobs, Lorraine Markotic, Sarah Minslow, Donia Mounsef, Adam Muller, Christopher Powell, Raffi Sarkissian ...

Series Book 1 - Arts in Action
Understanding Atrocities is a wide-ranging collection of essays bridging scholarly and community-based efforts to understand and respond to the global, transhistorical problem of genocide. The essays in this volume investigate how evolving, contemporary views on mass atrocity frame and complicate the possibilities for the understanding and prevention of genocide. The contributors ask, among other ... Read more

$27.99 CAD

Understanding Atrocities is a wide-ranging collection of essays bridging scholarly and community-based efforts to understand and respond to the global, transhistorical problem of genocide. The essays in this volume investigate how evolving, contemporary views on mass atrocity frame and complicate the possibilities for the understanding and prevention of genocide. The contributors ask, among other
... Read more
Forgotten Founders and Other Neglected Social Theorists

by Christopher T. Conner, Nicholas M. Baxter, David R. Dickens, Eugene Halton, Mary Jo Deegan, Stacy L. Smith, Christine Bucior, Diane M. Rodgers0, Harvey A. Farberman1, Lukas Szrot2, Shing-Ling S. Chen3, Alan Sica4, Lawrence T. Nichols5, Michael A. Katovich6, Thaddeus Müller7 ...

This edited volume highlights the work of ten forgotten and neglected social theorists in the hope of reinvigorating interest in their work and their potential contributions to the analysis of contemporary social issues. Each chapter includes a brief biographical sketch, an overview of the selected theorist’s work and significance, and the relevance of their work to one or more contemporary social ... Read more

$49.99 CAD

This edited volume highlights the work of ten forgotten and neglected social theorists in the hope of reinvigorating interest in their work and their potential contributions to the analysis of contemporary social issues. Each chapter includes a brief biographical sketch, an overview of the selected theorist’s work and significance, and the relevance of their work to one or more contemporary social
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The Southwest Anthology

The Best of the Writing Programs

by John Andrews, Meagan Anthony, Megan Anthony, Natalia Arredondo, Thomas S. Burnett, Christopher Chatto, Caitlin Cundiff, Heather Eliott-Henderson, Jacob Euteneuer, Rebecca Hoffman, Chloe Honum, Cat Hubka, Paula Hughson, Mary Kancewick, Carolann Caviglia Madden, Katherine Markey, Grace Megnet, Beth McKinney, Seth Muller, Stacy Murison, Jamie Paul, Brennan Peel, Susan Pigott, Matthew Salesses, Kathryn Wilder ...

Meet the next generation of literary superstars! Texas Review Press brings you The Southwest Anthology: The Best of the Writing Programs, featuring the upper echelon in talent in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction at MFA, MA, and PhD programs across the Southwest. This beautiful volume was assembled and produced by graduate students in the MFA program in Creative Writing, Editing, and Publishing at ... Read more

$17.99 CAD

Meet the next generation of literary superstars! Texas Review Press brings you The Southwest Anthology: The Best of the Writing Programs, featuring the upper echelon in talent in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction at MFA, MA, and PhD programs across the Southwest. This beautiful volume was assembled and produced by graduate students in the MFA program in Creative Writing, Editing, and Publishing at
... Read more
Invasion Biology

Hypotheses and Evidence

by Sabrina Amador-Vargas, Tim M. Blackburn, Raul Rennó Braga, Phillip Cassey, Simon Debille, Martin Enders, Felix Erhard, Alejandro G. Farji-Brener, Gordon A. Fox, Pablo García-Díaz, Lorena Gómez Aparicio, James Griesemer, Julie L. Lockwood, Christopher J. Lortie, Caroline Müller, Regina Nordheimer, Petr Pysek, Samuel M. Scheiner, Julian Starzer, Olena Torchyk, Jean Ricardo Simões Vitule ...

Series series CABI Invasives Series
Invasion biology has many hypotheses, but it is largely unknown whether they are backed up by empirical evidence. This book fills that gap by (a) further developing a tool for assessing research hypotheses and (b) applying it to a number of invasion hypotheses, using the hierarchy-of-hypotheses (HoH) approach. Part 1, an overview chapter of invasion biology will be followed by an introduction to ... Read more

$72.99 CAD

Invasion biology has many hypotheses, but it is largely unknown whether they are backed up by empirical evidence. This book fills that gap by (a) further developing a tool for assessing research hypotheses and (b) applying it to a number of invasion hypotheses, using the hierarchy-of-hypotheses (HoH) approach. Part 1, an overview chapter of invasion biology will be followed by an introduction to
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Language Assessment for Remediation (1981)

by David J Muller, Sian M. Munro, Christopher Code ...

Series series Routledge Revivals
Published in 1981, this book describes and critically examines the standardised tests and modes of assessment available and most commonly used by speech therapists, psychologists and educationalists.Tests and other assessment procedures are discussed and therapeutic strategies suggested. Thus, psycholinguistic approaches such as ITPA, the Reynell Developmental Language Scales and the Aston Index; ... Read more

$68.70 CAD

Published in 1981, this book describes and critically examines the standardised tests and modes of assessment available and most commonly used by speech therapists, psychologists and educationalists.Tests and other assessment procedures are discussed and therapeutic strategies suggested. Thus, psycholinguistic approaches such as ITPA, the Reynell Developmental Language Scales and the Aston Index;
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