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Disciplining the Divine

Ashgate, 2009

"Disciplining the Divine" offers the first comprehensive treatment of the Social Model of the Trinity, exploring its central place within much theological discourse of the past half century, including its relation to wider cultural and political concerns. The book highlights the manner in which theologians have attempted to make the...

Keywords in Radical Philosophy and Education (Critical Understanding in Education)

Brill Academic Publishers, 2019

While education is an inherently political field and practice, and while the political struggles that radical philosophy takes up necessarily involve education, there remains much to be done at the intersection of education and radical philosophy. That so many intense political struggles today actually center educational processes and...

Hactivism and Cyberwars: Rebels with a Cause

Routledge, 2004

This 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...

North Korea: The Struggle Against American Power

Pluto Press, 2005

George W. Bush's infamous remark about the 'Axis of Evil' brought North Korea dramatically back into the international spotlight. During the late 1990s relations between North Korea and the US and its allies were on the mend. However, the election of George W. Bush resulted in renewed crisis. The nuclear accord between the two...

Cryptography: A Very Short Introduction

Oxford University Press, 2002

We are surrounded by cryptography, from the ATM, where we withdraw cash, mobile phones, and the Internet, to workplace security systems that protect business secrets, and the civil and military codes that protect the skies above us.

In this fascinating introduction to how cryptography actually works, Fred Piper and Sean Murphy highlight...

Before Prozac: The Troubled History of Mood Disorders in Psychiatry

Oxford University Press, 2008

Psychiatry today is a barren tundra, writes medical historian Edward Shorter, where drugs that don't work are used to treat diseases that don't exist. In this provocative volume, Shorter illuminates this dismal landscape, in a revealing account of why psychiatry is "losing ground" in the struggle to treat depression.

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Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison

Routledge, 1999

In the first expose of unjust medical experimentation since David Rothman's Willowbrook's Wars, Allen M. Hornblum releases devastating stories from within the walls of Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison. For more than two decades, from the mid-1950s through the mid-1970s, inmates were used, in exchange for a few dollars, as guinea pigs...

Categorical Data Analysis With Sas and Spss Applications

Psychology Press, 2003

This book is primarily designed for a senior undergraduate class in Categorical Data Analysis and for majors in biomedical, biostatistics and statistics programs, but can also be used as reference text for researchers working in the area, and /or for an introductory text in a graduate course on the subject. A prerequisite of a one year...

Technological Turf Wars: A Case Study of the Antivirus Industry

Temple University Press, 2008

In Technological Turf Wars, Jessica Johnston analyzes the tensions and political dilemmas that coexist in the interrelationship among science, technology and society. Illustrating how computer security is as concerned with social relationships as it is with technology, Johnston provides an illuminating ethnography that...

The Early Roman Expansion into Italy: Elite Negotiation and Family Agendas

Cambridge University Press, 2019

This book presents a radical new interpretation of Roman expansion in Italy during the fourth and third centuries BCE. Nicola Terrenato argues that the process was accomplished by means of a grand bargain that was negotiated between the landed elites of central and southern Italy, while military conquest played a much smaller role than is...

Forgery and Memory at the End of the First Millennium

Princeton Press, 2021

An in-depth exploration of documentary forgery at the turn of the first millennium

Forgery and Memory at the End of the First Millennium takes a fresh look at documentary forgery and historical memory in the Middle Ages. In the tenth and eleventh centuries, religious houses across Europe began...

John P. Slough: The Forgotten Civil War General

University of New Mexico Press, 2021

John Potts Slough, the Union commander at the Battle of Glorieta Pass, lived a life of relentless pursuit for success that entangled him in the turbulent events of mid-nineteenth-century America. As a politician, Slough fought abolitionists in the Ohio legislature and during Kansas Territory's fourth and final constitutional...

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