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  • Performing Deception

    Learning, Skill and the Art of Conjuring

    par Brian Rappert ...
    In Performing Deception, Brian Rappert reconstructs the practice of entertainment magic by analysing it through the lens of perception, deception and learning, as he goes about studying conjuring himself.Through this novel meditation on reasoning and skill, Rappert elevates magic from the undertaking of mere trickery to an art that offers the basis for rethinking our possibilities for acting in ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • How to Look Good in a War

    Justifying and Challenging State Violence

    par Brian Rappert ...
    This book examines the methods used to depict, defend and justify the use of state violence. While others have shown how 'truth is the first casualty of war', this is the first to analyse exactly how pro-war narratives are constructed and normalised.Brian Rappert details the 'upside-down' world of war in which revelation conceals, knowledge fosters uncertainty, and transparency obscures. He looks ... En savoir plus

    $36.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Controlling the Weapons of War

    Politics, Persuasion, and the Prohibition of Inhumanity

    par Brian Rappert ...
    Collections series Contemporary Security Studies
    A fresh examination of the ethical and intellectual issues and dilemmas associated with attempts to establish formal humanitarian limits on weaponry.This new study considers how governments, non-governmental organizations, academics, political commentators and others have responded to the predicaments associated with imposing classifications about the relative acceptability of force and what is ... En savoir plus

    $46.71 CAD

  • Contested Futures

    A Sociology of Prospective Techno-Science

    par Nik Brown, Brian Rappert ...
    In a unique volume, Contested Futures brings together a group of scholars to examine the relationships between social action and the future. Rather than speculating upon what the future might bring, the volume interrogates the metaphors and practices through which the future is mobilized as an object of present day action and agency. The book shifts the analytical gaze from looking into the future ... En savoir plus

    $86.99 CAD

  • Chemical Bodies

    The Techno-Politics of Control

    Modifié par Alex Mankoo, Brian Rappert ...
    Collections series Geopolitical Bodies, Material Worlds
    In warfare, civil unrest, and political protest, chemicals have served as means of coercion, suppression, and manipulation. This book examines how chemical agents have been justified, utilised and resisted as means of control. Through attending to how, when, and for whom bodies become rendered as sites of intervention, Chemical Bodies demonstrates the inter-relations between geopolitical ... En savoir plus

    $54.99 CAD

  • Absence in Science, Security and Policy

    From Research Agendas to Global Strategy

    Modifié par Brian Balmer, Brian Rappert ...
    Collections series Global Issues
    This book explores the absent and missing in debates about science and security. Through varied case studies, including biological and chemical weapons control, science journalism, nanotechnology research and neuroethics, the contributors explore how matters become absent, ignored or forgotten and the implications for ethics, policy and society.The chapter 'Sensing Absence: How to See What Isn't ... En savoir plus

    $115.99 CAD

  • A Web of Prevention

    Biological Weapons, Life Sciences and the Governance of Research

    Modifié par Brian Rappert, Caitriona McLeish ...
    Collections series The Earthscan Science in Society Series
    Web of Prevention provides a timely contribution to the current debate about life science research and its implications for security. It is an informative guide for both experts and the public. It is a forward-looking contribution covering both ends of the equation and creates momentum for the current discussion on effective preventive measures and effective control measures. While there are no ... En savoir plus

    $94.81 CAD

  • Revelations

    A Sociology of Uncovering

    par Brian Rappert ...
    From tabloid headlines to scientific discoveries to investigative documentaries, the claim that truth is being revealed is commonplace today. Such attention-grabbing claims can conjure allure, sell products, launch careers, cement authority and much more besides.And yet, despite the familiarity of revelation-talk, this notion has been subject to limited academic theorizing to date outside of ... En savoir plus

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  • Sensing Absence: How to See What Isn't There in the Study of Science and Security

    Chapter 1 from Absence in Science, Security and Policy

    par Brian Rappert ...
    Collections series History (R0)
    Chapter 1 of this book is open access under a CC BY license.This is a chapter from Absence in Science, Security and Policy edited by Brian Rappert and Brian Balmer. This chapter is available open access under a CC BY license. Part reflection on the forthcoming chapters, part analysis of academic literature, and part programmatic agenda setting, this introduction chapter forwards the importance of ... En savoir plus

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    par Anthony Giddens ...
    In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provocative interpretation of the institutional transformations associated with modernity. We do not as yet, he argues, live in a post-modern world. Rather the distinctive characteristics of our major social institutions in the closing period of the twentieth century express the emergence of a period of 'high modernity,' in which ... En savoir plus

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  • Student Essentials: Critical Thinking

    par Debra Hills ...
    Student Essentials: Critical Thinking – in one hour helps you master the essentials of this core study skill in just 60 minutes. If you are studying for an undergraduate degree at university, critical thinking and analysis is imperative when studying and can often be the difference between an acceptable grade and a great grade. This book will help you develop the key essentials of this crucial ... En savoir plus

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  • Immediacy

    Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism

    par Anna Kornbluh ...
    Why speed, flow, and direct expression now dominate cultural styleContemporary cultural style boosts transparency and instantaneity. These are values absorbed from our current economic conditions of "disintermediation": cutting out the middleman. Like Uber, but for art. Immediacy names this style to make sense of what we lose when the contradictions of twenty-first-century capitalism demand that ... En savoir plus

    $11.19 CAD

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