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  • The Information Society

    Cyber Dreams and Digital Nightmares

    by Robert Hassan ...
    Series series Digital Media and Society
    What are we to make of the information society? Many prominent theorists have argued it to be the most profound and comprehensive transformation of economy, culture and politics since the rise of the industrial way of life in the 18th century. Some saw its arrival in a positive light, where the dreams of democracy, of ‘connectivity’ and ‘efficiency’ constituted a break with the old ways. But other ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Analog

    by Robert Hassan ...
    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    Why, surrounded by screens and smart devices, we feel a deep connection to the analog—vinyl records, fountain pens, Kodak film, and other nondigital tools.We’re surrounded by screens; our music comes in the form of digital files; we tap words into a notes app. Why do we still crave the “realness” of analog, seeking out vinyl records, fountain pens, cameras with film? In this volume in the MIT ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Age of Distraction

    Reading, Writing, and Politics in a High-Speed Networked Economy

    by Robert Hassan ...
    Connections between time, technology, and the processes of reading and writing make clear the links between experiences of what appear to be quite different phenomena. Reading and writing have functioned together in a particular way to build the world as we have known it for three thousand years. These interacting processes have now been transformed at their core and are building a different world ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Journalism from Print to Platform

    The Impossible Shift from Analog to Digital

    by Robert Hassan ...
    Series series Disruptions
    Through a synthesis of philosophical anthropology and media theory, this book examines the human relationship with technology, progressing from analogue to digital, to give a new perspective on journalism in the digital age.Journalism from Print to Platform takes a fresh look at the relationship between journalism as a craft shaped by its tools and considers anew the tools themselves. This book ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Media

    A Short History of Ideas and Innovations from Socrates to Social Media

    by Robert Hassan, Thomas Sutherland ...
    Since the late-1980s the rise of the Internet and the emergence of the Networked Society have led to a rapid and profound transformation of everyday life. Underpinning this revolution is the computer – a media technology that is capable of not only transforming itself, but almost every other machine and media process that humans have used throughout history.In Philosophy of Media, Hassan and ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • In the House of Muhammad Ali

    A Family Album, 1805-1952

    by Hassan Hassan ...
    This remarkable memoir of a junior member of the former royal family constitutes a unique chronicle of life before 1952 among the members of Egypt's ruling class. It provides fascinating insights into the lives not only of the rulers themselves, from Muhammad Ali to King Fuad and King Farouk, but also of royal wives, cousins, aunts, uncles, and associated personalities. In the House of Muhammad ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Islam/West Debate

    Documents from a Global Debate on Terrorism, U.S. Policy, and the Middle East

    Edited by David Blankenhorn, Abdou Filali-Ansary, Hassan I. Mneimneh, Alex Roberts ...
    In 2002, sixty prominent American intellectuals released an open letter defending the use of military force against al-Qa'ida. The letter sparked an impassioned international debate unlike any other, in which jihadists, journalists, liberal Muslims, and German pacifists engaged one another on the most pressing issues of our time: terrorism, U.S. policy, and Islam-West relations.A valuable resource ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Living with HIV in Post-Crisis Times

    Beyond the Endgame

    by David A.B. Murray, Adia Benton, Janice Graham, Wesam Hassan, Jallicia Jolly, Robert Lorway, Claudia E. Ordóñez, Pamela Runestad, Vaibhav Saria, Stephen L. Schensul0, Oumy Thiongane1, Colleen Walsh Lang2 ...
    Series series Anthropology of Well-Being: Individual, Community, Society
    Over the past decade, effective prevention and treatment policies have resulted in global health organizations claiming that the end of the HIV/AIDS crisis is near and that HIV/AIDS is now a chronic but manageable disease. These proclamations have been accompanied by stagnant or decreasing public interest in and financial support for people living with HIV and the organizations that support them, ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • Climate Change and Agriculture in Africa

    Impact Assessment and Adaptation Strategies

    by Ariel Dinar, Rashid Hassan, Robert Mendelsohn, James Benhin, et al ...
    Series series Earthscan Climate
    'This is a well researched, thorough and impressive work on climate change and agriculture in Africa. I recommend it to students, researchers and practitioners working on climate change issues'Jabavu Clifford Nkomo, senior programme specialist, IDRCThis landmark book encompasses a comprehensive assessment of the potential economic impacts of future climate change, and the value of adaptation ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Songs of a Sourdough (UNABRIDGED)

    by Robert W. SERVICE ...
    Narrated by Damien Hassan ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 27 min

    Reputedly the best-selling poetry collection of the 20th century, 'Songs of a Sourdough' is best known for Robert W. Service's classic Yukon ballads, 'The Shooting of Dan McGrew' and 'The Cremation of Sam McGhee'. Service was born in Preston, Lancashire, and grew up in Scotland. In his twenties, he made his way to Canada and settled in the Yukon where he worked as a bank clerk but evidently ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • #Accelerate

    The Accelerationist Reader

    Edited by Robin Mackay, Armen Avanessian ...
    An apparently contradictory yet radically urgent collection of texts tracing the genealogy of a controversial current in contemporary philosophy.Accelerationism is the name of a contemporary political heresy: the insistence that the only radical political response to capitalism is not to protest, disrupt, critique, or détourne it, but to accelerate and exacerbate its uprooting, alienating, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Between Reason and Experience

    Essays in Technology and Modernity

    by Andrew Feenberg, Michel Callon ...
    Series series Inside Technology
    A leading philosopher of technology calls for the democratic coordination of technical rationality with everyday experience.The technologies, markets, and administrations of today's knowledge society are in crisis. We face recurring disasters in every domain: climate change, energy shortages, economic meltdown. The system is broken, despite everything the technocrats claim to know about science, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD