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  • No Heavenly Bodies

    A History of Satellite Communications Infrastructure

    Series series Infrastructures
    The compelling and little-known history of satellite communications that reveals the Soviet and Eastern European roles in the development of its infrastructure.Taking its title from Hannah Arendt’s description of artificial earth satellites, No Heavenly Bodies explores the history of the first two decades of satellite communications. Christine E. Evans and Lars Lundgren trace how satellite ... Leer más

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  • Four Futures

    Life After Capitalism

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    Series series Jacobin
    An “invigorating” vision of four post-capitalist futures that consider the intersections of technology, the environment, and modern politics (The Guardian)Peter Frase argues that increasing automation and a growing scarcity of resources, thanks to climate change, will bring it all tumbling down. In Four Futures, Frase imagines how this post-capitalist world might look, deploying the tools of both ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The Case Against Socialism

    de Rand Paul ...
    A recent poll showed 43% of Americans think more socialism would be a good thing. What do these people not know?Socialism has killed millions, but it's now the ideology du jour on American college campuses and among many leftists. Reintroduced by leaders such as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the ideology manifests itself in starry-eyed calls for free-spending policies like Medicare ... Leer más

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  • The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State

    de Jill Lepore ...
    **Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the YearBest Books of August: Barnes & Noble, GoodreadsA New York Times New and Notable Title“Lepore is our best scholar of the culture of governance, and our most vital historian. Here she repudiates the prospect of AI as a replacement for democracy. This is the issue of our times, and Lepore is the voice of sanity.” —Jaron Lanier, author of ... Leer más

    $20.59 USD

  • Russia Against Modernity

    Putin’s war is a “special operation” against modernity. The invasion has been directed against Ukraine, but the war has a broader target: the modern world of climate awareness, energy transition and digital labor. By trading oil and gas, promoting Trump and Brexit, spreading corruption, boosting inequality and homophobia, subsidizing far-right movements and destroying Ukraine, Putin’s clique aims ... Leer más

    $16.00 USD

  • Breaking Things at Work

    The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job

    de Gavin Mueller ...
    An exhilarating challenge to the way we think about work, technology, progress, and what we want from the futureIn the 19th century, English textile workers responded to the introduction of new tecnologies on the factory floor by smashing them to bits. For years 'the Luddites' roamed the English countryside, practicing drills and maneuvers that they would later deploy on unassuming machines. The ... Leer más

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  • World Builders

    Technology and the New Geopolitics

    World politics has changed, claims Bruno Maçães. Geopolitics is no longer simply a contest to control territory: in this age of advanced technology, it has become a contest to create the territory. Great powers seek to build a world for other states to inhabit, while keeping the ability to change the rules or the state of the world when necessary. At a moment when the old concepts no longer work, ... Leer más

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  • How Not to Network a Nation

    The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet

    Series series Information Policy
    How, despite thirty years of effort, Soviet attempts to build a national computer network were undone by socialists who seemed to behave like capitalists.Between 1959 and 1989, Soviet scientists and officials made numerous attempts to network their nation—to construct a nationwide computer network. None of these attempts succeeded, and the enterprise had been abandoned by the time the Soviet Union ... Leer más

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  • The Global Coup d'État

    The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Great Reset

    We are in the midst of a devastating takeover of our world. The Global Coup d'État shows how, why, and what we can do to stop it.The year 2020 will go down in history as the year when the global coup d'état was initiated. In a historical context, the COVID-19 crisis, the murder of George Floyd by a police officer and subsequent riots, mass protests against government lockdowns, and the 2020 ... Leer más

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  • Competing with the Soviets

    Science, Technology, and the State in Cold War America

    Series series Hopkins Introductions to the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
    A synthetic account of how science became a central weapon in the ideological Cold War.Honorable Mention for the Forum for the History of Science in America Book Prize of the Forum for the History of Science in AmericaFor most of the second half of the twentieth century, the United States and its allies competed with a hostile Soviet Union in almost every way imaginable except open military ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • The Politics of Space Security

    Strategic Restraint and the Pursuit of National Interests, Third Edition

    For the past sixty years, countries have conducted military and civilian activities in space, often for competitive purposes. But they have not yet fought in this environment. This book examines the international politics of the space age from 1957 to the present, the reasons why strategic restraint emerged among the major military powers, and how recent trends toward weaponization may challenge ... Leer más

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  • Great Decisions 2022

    A briefing book published annually by the Foreign Policy Association with eight background articles on various foreign policy topics. This book is the basis for a nationwide discussion program. ... Leer más

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