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Internationalizing the Internet: The Co-evolution of Influence And Technology (New Horizons in the Economics of Innovation)
Internationalizing the Internet: The Co-evolution of Influence And Technology (New Horizons in the Economics of Innovation)
This compelling book focuses on the global formation of the Internet system. It contests the common belief that the Internet’s adoption was inevitable and instead examines the social and economic processes that allowed to it to prevail over competing standards and methods for achieving a global information infrastructure. The author...
A Political Theory of Post-Truth
A Political Theory of Post-Truth
This book combines political theory with media and communications studies in order to formulate a theory of post-truth, concentrating on the latter’s preconditions, context, and functions in today’s societies. Contrary to the prevalent view of post-truth as primarily manipulative, it is argued that post-truth is, instead, a collusion...
Big Breaches: Cybersecurity Lessons for Everyone
Big Breaches: Cybersecurity Lessons for Everyone
Neil and Moudy have written a book that will help us reduce our exposure as a society to future “big breaches” but also to many of the technology risks we face in an increasingly digitized society. They do this not by presenting a “recipe” for success but by making the subject accessible to audiences who...
Fatal Exit: The Automotive Black Box Debate
Fatal Exit: The Automotive Black Box Debate
A compelling argument for automotive technologies that speak for the victim, tell the truth, and could save millions of lives

Fatal Exit: The Automotive Black Box Debate cuts through thirty years of political wrangling and institutional biases to provide an argument for the Motor Vehicle Event Data Recorder (MVEDR). This automotive equivalent...

The Nile Development Game: Tug-of-War or Benefits for All?
The Nile Development Game: Tug-of-War or Benefits for All?

This book introduces an analytic framework constructed upon the iterated Prisoners' Dilemma game to model and analyze transboundary water interactions along the Nile River. It presents a thorough and in-depth analysis of the historical path through which conflict and cooperation have been generated among the Nile riparians over...

Digital Rights Management: Technological, Economic, Legal and Political Aspects
Digital Rights Management: Technological, Economic, Legal and Political Aspects
The content industries consider Digital Rights Management (DRM) to contend with unauthorized downloading of copyrighted material, a practice that costs artists and distributors massively in lost revenue.

Based on two conferences that brought together high-profile specialists in this area - scientists, lawyers, academics, and business...

Colonial Effects
Colonial Effects
The object of this study is the production of national identity and national culture within Jordan as both a typical and an atypical postcolonial nation-state. Recent studies of nationalism describe the nation as “invented”1 or “imagined,”2 by intellectuals and/or political elites who are producers of, or produced by, the...
Race, Nation and Gender in Modern Italy: Intersectional Representations in Visual Culture (Mapping Global Racisms)
Race, Nation and Gender in Modern Italy: Intersectional Representations in Visual Culture (Mapping Global Racisms)

Finalist for the 2019 Edinburgh Gadda Prize

This book explores intersectional constructions of race and whiteness in modern and contemporary Italy. It contributes to transnational and interdisciplinary reflections on these issues through an analysis of political debates and social practices, focusing in particular...

German Political Thought and the Discourse of Platonism: Finding the Way Out of the Cave
German Political Thought and the Discourse of Platonism: Finding the Way Out of the Cave
Taking Plato’s allegory of the cave as its starting-point, this book demonstrates how later European thinkers can be read as a reaction and a response to key aspects of this allegory and its discourse of enchainment and liberation. Focusing on key thinkers in the tradition of European (and specifically German) political thought including...
International Project Management
International Project Management
International Project Management provides specific guidelines for achieving greater project success. It is the result of 15 years of work on international projects by the authors across various project areas and industries. The authors address a need for modern techniques in project management geared and suited to international...
The Distance Education Evolution: Issues and Case Studies
The Distance Education Evolution: Issues and Case Studies
The Distance Education Evolution: Case Studies addresses issues regarding the development and design of online courses, and the implementation and evaluation of an online learning program. Several chapters include design strategies for online courses that range from the specific to the universal. Many authors address pedagogical issues from both a...
Systems Thinking: Coping with 21st Century Problems (Industrial Innovation)
Systems Thinking: Coping with 21st Century Problems (Industrial Innovation)
It is a great pleasure to introduce this inaugural edition of Systems Thinking: Coping with 21st Century Problems by John Boardman and Brian Sauser. In response to the increasing relevance of “systems thinking” to global challenges from terrorism to energy to clean water to healthcare, these authors provide a unique perspective on the...
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