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Paradoxes from A to ZThis essential guide to paradoxes takes the reader on a lively tour of puzzles that have taxed thinkers from Zeno to Galileo and Lewis Carroll to Bertrand Russell. Michael Clark uncovers an array of conundrums, such as Achilles and the Tortoise, Theseus' Ship, Hempel's Raven, and the Prisoners' Dilemma, taking in subjects as diverse as... | | Cyberpower: The Culture and Politics of Cyberspace and the InternetCyberspace now touches all lives. For some it has become as essential as the telephone or the letter. For others it is still a fearful whisper of technological promise. Sometimes we look on bemused, uncertain why all those little addresses that begin ‘http://’ appear in advertisements, and sometimes we are shocked by the possibilities,... | | The Multimedia Handbook (Blueprint Series)Multimedia has become a very large and diverse field of activity. Its fuzzy boundaries merge into Information Technology. Disk storage, creative aspects like authoring, transmission protocols, standards, politics, and networks called superhighways are examples of activities where technical matters, creative work, applications, politics, and... |
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The Logic of Scientific Discovery (Routledge Classics)`One of the most important documents of the twentieth century.' - Sir Peter Medawar, New Scientist
`One cannot help feeling that, if it had been translated as soon as it had been originally published, philosophy in this country might have been saved some detours. Professor Popper's thesis has that quality of greatness that, once... | | Playing with VideogamesThis book enlarges the discussion of mobility from tools and technologies to employees working in multiple places and between them Matti Vartiainen (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)
Playing with Videogames documents the richly productive, playful and social cultures of videogaming that support, surround and sustain... | | Hactivism and Cyberwars: Rebels with a CauseThis detailed history of hacktivism's evolution from early hacking culture to its present day status as the radical face of online politics describes the ways in which hacktivism has re-appropriated hacking techniques to create an innovative new form of political protest. The authors provide an explanation of the different strands of hacktivism... |
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From Writing to Computers... the broad and clear analysis of writing and language, and of automata theory, formal logic, and computability theory he uses to reach [his conclusion] is well worth reading.
–H. D. Warner, Western New England College
From Writing to Computers takes as its central theme the issue of a... | | Social Work, Health and EqualityThe authors use this volume to demonstrate how social work can make a significant contribution to creating greater equality in the experience of illness and health care as well as to describe the major adjustments in conceptualization, practice, and organization necessary to achieve this change. The book focuses on four key aspects, health... | | Adventures in Criminology[The book] is one of great distinction, scholarship and wit. ...a pleasure to read and which, itself, is a primary source of evidence from which much can be learnt.
–Punishment and Society
Sir Leon Radzinowicz is one of the key figures in the development of criminology in the twentieth century.... |
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