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  • Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture and the Arts

    Edited by Alessandra Violi, Barbara Grespi, Andrea Pinotti, Pietro Conte ...
    If mediatization has surprisingly revealed the secret life of inert matter and the ‘face of things’, the flipside of this has been the petrification of living organisms, an invasion of stone bodies in a state of suspended animation. Within a contemporary imaginary pervaded by new forms of animism, the paradigm of death looms large in many areas of artistic experimentation, pushing the modern body ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Debt and Imperialism in the Mediterranean

    Politics of Default and Diplomacy in the 19th Century

    by Giampaolo Conte ...
    Series series Perspectives in Economic and Social History
    Tracing the bankruptcies and subsequent financial receiverships of Mediterranean countries, this book examines sovereign debt crises during the classical era of imperialism leading up to the First World War.Focusing on the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, Tunisia, and Greece, this book aims to highlight the political, diplomatic, and economic history of public debt management and the operation of ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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  • Social Work and Child Sexual Abuse

    by David A Shore, Jon Conte ...
    Here is an indispensable book highlighting information on the problem of child sexual abuse for anyone concerned with the welfare of young children. Focusing on the social worker’s role in responding to the abuse of children, this highly practical volume assesses the state of knowledge about sexual abuse. It includes reviews of the historical context in which sexual abuse takes place and sheds ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • The Procaccini and the Business of Painting in Early Modern Milan

    by Angelo Lo Conte ...
    Series series Visual Culture in Early Modernity
    The book investigates the lives and careers of the Procaccini brothers: Camillo (1561–1629), Carlo Antonio (1571–1631) and Giulio Cesare (1574–1625), the most important family of painters working in northern Italy at the start of the seventeenth century.The Procaccinis' work is here analysed by interconnecting their individual stories and understanding their success as the combination of mutual ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Artificial Societies

    The Computer Simulation Of Social Life

    Edited by Nigel Gilbert, Rosaria Conte ...
    An exploration of the implications of developments in artificial intelligence for social scientific research, which builds on the theoretical and methodological insights provided by "Simulating societies".; This book is intended for worldwide library market for social science subjects such as sociology, political science, geography, archaeology/anthropology, and significant appeal within computer ... Read more

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  • Security in the 21st Century

    The United Nations, Afghanistan and Iraq

    by Alex Conte ...
    This exceptional volume examines international security issues by way of case studies of the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Each of these raises significant issues concerning the use of force between states and the role of the United Nations in maintaining international peace and security. Alex Conte examines international terrorism and the intervention in Afghanistan, including the ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

  • Transnational Politics in the Post-9/11 Novel

    by Joseph Conte ...
    Series series Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
    Transnational Politics in the Post-9/11 Novel suggests that literature after September 11, 2001 reflects the shift from bilateral nation-state politics to the multilateralism of transnational politics. While much of the criticism regarding novels of 9/11 tends to approach these works through theories of personal and collective trauma, this book argues for the evolution of a post-9/11 novel that ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • A History of Capitalist Transformation

    A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms

    by Giampaolo Conte ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    A History of Capitalist Transformation: A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms highlights how, since the recent financial crises, the expression ‘liberal reform’ has entered common parlance as an evocative image of austerity and economic malaise, especially for the working classes and a segment of the middle class. But what exactly does ‘liberal reform’ refer to? The research analyzes the ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Defining Civil and Political Rights

    The Jurisprudence of the United Nations Human Rights Committee

    by Alex Conte, Richard Burchill ...
    Defining Civil and Political Rights provides a comprehensive analysis and commentary on the decisions - technically known as views - of the United Nations Human Rights Committee, for use by human rights lawyers throughout the world. Each of the substantive rights and freedoms set out in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights is considered in detail, by analysis of final reviews ... Read more

    $142.99 CAD

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  • What Art Is

    by Arthur C. Danto ...
    What is it to be a work of art? Renowned author and critic Arthur C. Danto addresses this fundamental, complex question. Part philosophical monograph and part memoiristic meditation, What Art Is challenges the popular interpretation that art is an indefinable concept, instead bringing to light the properties that constitute universal meaning. Danto argues that despite varied approaches, a work of ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Complex Adaptive Systems

    An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life

    by John H. Miller, Scott Page ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Complexity
    This book provides the first clear, comprehensive, and accessible account of complex adaptive social systems, by two of the field's leading authorities. Such systems--whether political parties, stock markets, or ant colonies--present some of the most intriguing theoretical and practical challenges confronting the social sciences. Engagingly written, and balancing technical detail with intuitive ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • A Brief History of Equality

    by Thomas Piketty ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceA Public Books Best Book of the Year“A profound and optimistic call to action and reflection. For Piketty, the arc of history is long, but it does bend toward equality. There is nothing automatic about it, however: as citizens, we must be ready to fight for it, and constantly (re)invent the myriad of institutions that will bring it about. This book is ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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