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  • The Quantification of Life and Health from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century

    Intersections of Medicine and Philosophy

    Edited by Simone Guidi, Joaquim Braga ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This edited volume explores the intersection of medicine and philosophy throughout history, calling attention to the role of quantification in understanding the medical body. Retracing current trends and debates to examine the quantification of the body throughout the early modern, modern and early contemporary age, the authors contextualise important issues of both medical and philosophical ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • The Quantification of Bodies in Health

    Multidisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Btihaj Ajana, Joaquim Braga, Simone Guidi ...
    The use of digital tracking technologies is a widespread phenomenon. Millions of people around the world now track, document, and analyse their physical activities, vital functions, and daily habits through wearable devices, apps, and platforms. The aim is to assess and improve health, productivity, and wellbeing. The current Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the uptake of tracking technologies.At ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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  • Uncountable

    A Philosophical History of Number and Humanity from Antiquity to the Present

    by David Nirenberg, Ricardo L. Nirenberg ...
    Ranging from math to literature to philosophy, Uncountable explains how numbers triumphed as the basis of knowledge—and compromise our sense of humanity.Our knowledge of mathematics has structured much of what we think we know about ourselves as individuals and communities, shaping our psychologies, sociologies, and economies. In pursuit of a more predictable and more controllable cosmos, we have ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Quantified Self

    by Deborah Lupton ...
    With the advent of digital devices and software, self-tracking practices have gained new adherents and have spread into a wide array of social domains. The Quantified Self movement has emerged to promote 'self-knowledge through numbers'.In this groundbreaking book Deborah Lupton critically analyses the social, cultural and political dimensions of contemporary self-tracking and identifies the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Reframing Visual Social Science

    Towards a More Visual Sociology and Anthropology

    by Luc Pauwels ...
    The burgeoning field of 'visual social science' is rooted in the idea that valid scientific insight into culture and society can be acquired by observing, analyzing and theorizing its visual manifestations: visible behavior of people and material products of culture. Reframing Visual Social Science provides a well-balanced, critical-constructive and systematic overview of existing and emerging ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • A Discourse on the Method

    of Correctly Conducting One's Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences

    Translated by Ian Maclean ...
    by René Descartes ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'I concluded that I was a substance whose whole essence or nature resides only in thinking, and which, in order to exist, has no need of place and is not dependent on any material thing.' Descartes'sA Discourse on the Method of Correctly Conducting One's Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences marks a watershed in European thought; in it, the author provides an informal intellectual autobiography ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • From the Tree to the Labyrinth

    by Umberto Eco ...
    How we create and organize knowledge is the theme of this major achievement by Umberto Eco. Demonstrating once again his inimitable ability to bridge ancient, medieval, and modern modes of thought, he offers here a brilliant illustration of his longstanding argument that problems of interpretation can be solved only in historical context. ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Netnography Unlimited

    Understanding Technoculture using Qualitative Social Media Research

    Edited by Robert V. Kozinets, Rossella Gambetti ...
    Netnography has become an essential tool for qualitative research in the dynamic, complex, and conflicted worlds of contemporary technoculture. Shaped by academic fields, industries, national contexts, technologies and platforms, and languages and cultures for over two decades, netnography has impacted the research practices of scholars around the world.In this volume, 34 researchers present 19 ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • Dictionary of Untranslatables

    A Philosophical Lexicon

    Edited by Barbara Cassin, Emily Apter, Jacques Lezra, Michael Wood ...
    Series series Translation/Transnation
    Characters in some languages, particularly Hebrew and Arabic, may not display properly due to device limitations. Transliterations of terms appear before the representations in foreign characters.This is an encyclopedic dictionary of close to 400 important philosophical, literary, and political terms and concepts that defy easy—or any—translation from one language and culture to another. Drawn ... Read more

    $104.49 CAD

  • Emotional AI

    The Rise of Empathic Media

    by Andrew McStay ...
    What happens when media technologies are able to interpret our feelings, emotions, moods, and intentions? In this cutting edge new book, Andrew McStay explores that very question and argues that these abilities result in a form of technological empathy. Offering a balanced and incisive overview of the issues raised by ‘Emotional AI’, this book:Provides a clear account of the social benefits and ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • Introducing Semiotic

    Its History and Doctrine

    by John Deely ...
    This comprehensive survey of semiotics examines its development from pre-Socratic philosophy to Peirce's Sign Theory and beyond.In Introducing Semiotics, renowned philosopher and semiotician John Deely provides a conceptual overview of the field, covering its development across centuries of Western philosophical thought. It delineates the foundations of contemporary semiotics and concretely ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Politics and Possibilities of Self-Tracking Technology

    Data, Bodies and Design

    by Suneel Jethani ...
    Collecting data about our lives, our bodies and our behaviours has become a part of everyday practice that promises greater self-awareness, healthier living and increased productivity. This book focuses on the dialectical relationship between users and designers of self-tracking technology to examine how logics of datafication redefine the body. It explores what these emerging relations mean for ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD