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Accumulating Capital Today (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought)
This book explores the renewal of forms of capital accumulation and the institutions that shape it. It focuses on three main sources of accumulation: the extraction of profit through labor and the commodification of nature, financial speculation and the ways in which profit is converted into wealth. It thus offers a new understanding... | | Reconnecting Culture, Technology and NatureThis exciting new book uses case studies of mundane technologies such as the car and TV remote control to question some of the fundamental dichotomies thought which we make sense of the world.
This book uses case studies of mundane technologies such as the walking boot, the car and the TV remote control to question some of the fundamental ... | | Computers, Phones, and the Internet: Domesticating Information Technology
During the past decade, technology has become more pervasive, encroaching more and more on our lives. Computers, cell phones, and the internet have an enormous influence not only on how we function at work, but also on how we communicate and interact outside the office. Researchers have been documenting the effect that these types of... |
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A Brief History of Death (Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion)"The author reveals himself to be a sensitive and humane guide, in a book that ought to fascinate anyone interested in the existential conundrum of human morality." Times Higher Education Supplement
The act of death itself and the rituals surrounding it vary enormously and shed a fascinating light on the... | | | | Internet and Network Economics: 7th International Workshop, WINE 2011, Singapore, December 11-14, 2011
This volume contains the papers presented at WINE 2011: 7th Workshop on Internet
and Network Economics held during December 11–14, 2011 in Singapore.
Over the past decade, there has been a growing interaction between researchers
in theoretical computer science, networking and security, economics,
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A Handbook of Comparative Social Policy (Elgar Original Reference)The current context of social policy is one in which many of the old certainties of the past have been eroded. The predominantly inward-looking, domestic preoccupation of social policy has made way for a more integrated, international and outward approach to analysis which looks beyond the boundaries of the state. It is in this context that this... | | | | Family Business Models: Practical Solutions for the Family Business
In the early 20th century, American sociologist W. I. Thomas
won fame with the statement: ‘If men define situations as real,
they are real in their consequences.’ This fundamental observation
on human behavior, now known as the Thomas theorem,
became a cornerstone of contemporary sociology. The idea that
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