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Remaining Relevant in Your Tech Career: When Change Is the Only Constant
Remaining Relevant in Your Tech Career: When Change Is the Only Constant
Remain relevant in the face of constant change during your career in technology. This book shows you how to proactively plan in anticipation of future changes. 

Many people find technology careers enticing because of the number of job opportunities, the high compensation, or simply because of fascination with
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Seduction: A History From the Enlightenment to the Present
Seduction: A History From the Enlightenment to the Present

A brilliantly original history that explores the shifting cultural mores of courtship, told through the lives of remarkable women and men throughout history.

If sex has generally been a private matter, seduction has always been of intense public interest. Whether the stuff of front-page tabloid news, the
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Empire: A New History of the World
Empire: A New History of the World

A dazzling new history of the world told through the ten major empires of human civilization.

Eminent historian Paul Strathern opens the story of Empire with the Akkadian civilization, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then turns to the immense Roman Empire,...

The Internet Society in China: A 2016 Report (Sociology, Media and Journalism in China)
The Internet Society in China: A 2016 Report (Sociology, Media and Journalism in China)

This book provides a cutting edge analysis of the rapid rise of China’s network society and reviews recent key developments within China’s internet economy, notably the concepts of “Lucky Money” and E-Business on Wechat, and Crowd-Funding Platforms. It focuses on drawing out the sociological impact of these...

The Fascination with Violence in Contemporary Society: When Crime is Sublime (Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture)
The Fascination with Violence in Contemporary Society: When Crime is Sublime (Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture)
This book directly explores the question of why contemporary society is so fascinated with violence and crime. The Fascination with Violence in Contemporary Society posits that the phenomenon is, in part, because we have all become consumers of the sublime: an intense and strongly ambiguous emotion which is increasingly...
A Sociology of Shame and Blame: Insiders Versus Outsiders
A Sociology of Shame and Blame: Insiders Versus Outsiders

This book presents a novel approach to framing the concept of stigma, and understanding why and how it functions. 

Graham Scambler extends his analysis beyond common social interactionist understandings of stigma by linking experiences to the larger social structure?the political economy. A Sociology of...

Patients, Doctors and Healers: Medical Worlds among the Mapuche in Southern Chile
Patients, Doctors and Healers: Medical Worlds among the Mapuche in Southern Chile
Recognizing the interplay between biomedicine and indigenous medicine among the Mapuche in Southern Chile, this book explores notions of culture and personhood through the bodily experiences and medical choices of patients. Through case studies of patients in the context of medical pluralism,  Kristensen argues that medical practices are...
Post-Fordist Cinema: Hollywood Auteurs and the Corporate Counterculture (Film and Culture Series)
Post-Fordist Cinema: Hollywood Auteurs and the Corporate Counterculture (Film and Culture Series)
The New Hollywood boom of the late 1960s and 1970s is celebrated as a time when maverick directors bucked the system. Against the backdrop of counterculture sensibilities and the prominence of auteur theory, New Hollywood directors such as Robert Altman and Francis Ford Coppola seemed to embody creative individualism. In Post-Fordist...
Just Eat It: How intuitive eating can help you get your shit together around food
Just Eat It: How intuitive eating can help you get your shit together around food
Review: Truly life-changing . It's about trusting your appetite - something that shouldn't be radical, yet something many women (including myself) see as a hugely daunting task. (Dolly Alderton); Laura is a passionate and intelligent voice of new thinking, a fire starter of the revolution in how we think about food, eating and our...
How Drawings Work: A User-Friendly Theory
How Drawings Work: A User-Friendly Theory

How Drawings Work cheekily explains that what architects make is information that enables other people to make buildings. That information comes in a variety of forms: drawings by hand and computer, models both physical and virtual, and words as needed. The book reflects in witty prose on the nature of architectural drawings...

Critical Essays on Twin Peaks: The Return
Critical Essays on Twin Peaks: The Return

This edited collection offers an interdisciplinary study of Twin Peaks: The Return, the third season of a TV program that has attracted the attention (and appreciation) of spectators, fans, and critics for over two decades. The book takes readers into several distinct areas and addresses the different approaches and the range...

The 100X Leader: How to Become Someone Worth Following
The 100X Leader: How to Become Someone Worth Following

Become the leader others want to follow

Forget everything you know about motivating others and building a harmonious workplace. If you want to get the best out of people, you must be willing to fight. But, that doesn't mean you become a dominator, nor does coddling others work.

The best leader...

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