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HB | 9780521766456 | £50.00 PB | 9780521150187 | £24.99 Pages | 424 596 colour illustrations 20 tables December 2014
• Explains in an engaging, nontechnical way how computers work, how the world of computing came to be this way, and where it is going in the future • Contains numerous anecdotes and photos of key events and personalities involved with the development of the industry • Features chapters on Moore's Law, video games, malware and cryptography, machine learning, Artificial Intelligence and consciousness • Shows how students have been able to make major contributions to computing and why young people should be interested in helping shape the future
Computers now impact almost every aspect of our lives, from our social interactions to the safety and performance of our cars. How did this happen in such a short time? And this is just the beginning … In this book, Tony Hey and Gyuri Pápay lead us on a journey from the early days of computers in the 1930s to the cutting-edge research of the present day that will shape computing in the coming decades. Along the way, they explain the ideas behind hardware, software, algorithms, Moore's Law, the birth of the personal computer, the Internet and the Web, the Turing Test, Jeopardy's Watson, World of Warcraft, spyware, Google, Facebook and quantum computing. This book also introduces the fascinating cast of dreamers and inventors who brought these great technological developments into every corner of the modern world. This exciting and accessible introduction will open up the universe of computing to anyone who has ever wondered where his or her smartphone came from.
1. Beginnings of a revolution; 2. The hardware; 3. The software is in the holes; 4. Programming languages and software engineering; 5. Algorithmics; 6. Mr. Turing's amazing machines; 7. Moore's Law and the silicon revolution; 8. Computing gets personal; 9. Computer games; 10. Licklider's intergalactic computer network; 11. Weaving the World Wide Web; 12. The dark side of the Web; 13. Artificial intelligence and neural networks; 14. Machine learning and natural-language processing; 15. The end of Moore's Law; 16. The third age of computing; 17. Computers and science fiction – an essay.
HB | 9781107044395 | £65.00 Pages | 436 28 b/w illustrations 13 maps 8 tables January 2015
• No other books offers a comparative overview of the history of rice • Comparative study spanning regional divides, historical eras, and fields of study • Of interest to scholars of world, global, economic, agrarian, environmental, and food history, as well as anthropologists
Rice today is food to half the world’s population. It’s history is inextricable tangled with the emergence of colonialism, the global networks of industrial capitalism, and the modern world economy. The history of rice is currently a vital and innovative field of research attracting serious attention, but no attempt has yet been made to write a history of rice and its place in the rise of capitalism from a global and comparative perspective. Rice is a first step toward such a history. The fifteen chapters, written by specialists on Africa, the Americas, and several regions of Asia, are premised on the utility of a truly international approach to history. Each one brings a new approach that unsettles prevailing narratives and suggests new connections. Together they cast new light on the significant roles of rice such as crop, food, community and shape historical trajectories and interregional linkages in Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
Foreword Giorgio Riello; Preface: global networks and new histories of rice Francesca Bray; Part I. Purity and Promiscuity: Introduction Francesca Bray; 1. Global visions vs local complexity: experts wrestle with the problem of development Jonathan Harwood; 2. Rice, sugar, and livestock in Java, 1820–1940: Geertz's Agricultural Involution 50 years on Peter Boomgaard and Pieter M. Kroonenberg; 3. A desire to eat well: rice and the market in eighteenth-century China Sui-wai Cheung; 4. Rice and maritime modernity: the modern Chinese state and the South China Sea rice trade Seung-Joon Lee; 5. Promiscuous transmission and encapsulated knowledge: a material-semiotic approach to modern rice in the Mekong David Biggs; 6. Red and white rice in the vicinity of Sierra Leone: linked histories of slavery, emancipation and seed selection Bruce Mouser, Edwin Nuijten, Florent Okry and Paul Richards; Part II. Environmental Matters: Introduction Edda Fields-Black; 7. Rice on the Upper Guinea Coast: a regional perspective based on interdisciplinary sources and methods Edda Fields-Black; 8. Reserving water: environmental and technological relationships with colonial South Carolina inland rice plantations Hayden Smith; 9. Asian rice in Africa: plant genetics and crop history Erik Gilbert; 10. When Jola granaries were full Olga F. Linares; 11. Of health and harvests: seasonal mortality and commercial rice cultivation in the Punjab and Bengal regions of South Asia Lauren Minsky; Part III. Power and Control: Introduction Peter Coclanis; 12. The cultural meaning of work: the 'Black Rice Debate' reconsidered Walter Hawthorne; 13. White rice: the Midwestern origins of the modern rice industry in the United States Peter Coclanis; 14. Rice and the path of economic development in Japan Penelope Francks; 15. Commodities and anti-commodities: rice on Sumatra 1915–25 Harro Maat; Index; Bibliography.
HB | 9781107023963 | £20.00 Pages | 224 32 colour illustrations December 2014
• A pioneering account of the history and culture of chopsticks • Charts the evolution of chopstick use in Asian food culture from ancient times to the present day • Surveys the cultural significance of chopsticks and chopstick use across the cultures in which they are used
Chopsticks have become a quintessential part of the Japanese, Chinese and Korean culinary experience across the globe, with more than one fifth of the world's population using them daily to eat. In this vibrant, highly original account of the history of chopsticks, Q. Edward Wang charts their evolution from a simple eating implement in ancient times to their status as a much more complex, cultural symbol today. Opening in the Neolithic Age, at the first recorded use of chopsticks, the book surveys their practice through Chinese history, before exploring their transmission in the fifth century to other parts of Asia, including Vietnam, Korea, Japan and Mongolia. Calling upon a striking selection of artwork, the author illustrates how chopstick use has influenced Asian cuisine, and how, in turn the cuisine continues to influence chopstick use, both in Asia and across the globe.
1. Introduction; 2. Why chopsticks? Their origin and original function; 3. Why chopsticks? Their origin and original function; 4. Forming a chopsticks cultural sphere: Vietnam, Japan, Korea and beyond; 5. Using chopsticks: customs, manners and etiquette; 6. A pair inseparable: chopsticks as gift, metaphor and symbol; 7. 'Bridging' food cultures in the world; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.
HB | 9781107043961 | £50.00 PB | 9781107619753 | £17.99 Pages | 336 11 b/w illustrations 11 tables September 2014
• A lively and accessible book, with many engaging examples which will appeal to a broad readership • Compellingly written, this book sets out a forceful alternative to the received wisdom, showing how language and the mind really work • Drawing on cutting-edge research, Evans explores a more realistic alternative to the notion of a language 'instinct'
Language is central to our lives, the cultural tool that arguably sets us apart from other species. Some scientists have argued that language is innate, a type of unique human 'instinct' pre-programmed in us from birth. In this book, Vyvyan Evans argues that this received wisdom is, in fact, a myth. Debunking the notion of a language 'instinct', Evans demonstrates that language is related to other animal forms of communication; that languages exhibit staggering diversity; that we learn our mother tongue drawing on general properties and abilities of the human mind, rather than an inborn 'universal' grammar; and that, ultimately, language and the mind reflect and draw upon the way we interact with others in the world. Compellingly written and drawing on cutting-edge research, The Language Myth sets out a forceful alternative to the received wisdom, showing how language and the mind really work.
Acknowledgements; 1. Language and mind rethought; 2. Is human language unrelated to animal communication systems?; 3. Are there language universals?; 4. Is language innate?; 5. Is language a distinct module in the mind?; 6. Is there a universal Mentalese?; 7. Is thought independent of language?; 8. Language and mind regained.
HB | 9781107071278 | £65.00 Pages | 340 18 b/w illustrations September 2014
• Provides a compelling new analysis of Hiroshima's place within the global development of Holocaust and World War II memory • Analyses the impact of nuclear energy on Japanese culture and surveys the complex symbolic play between energy and weapons • Explores narratives of victimization and national identity that continue to plague East Asia and other areas to this day
In 1962, a Hiroshima peace delegation and an Auschwitz survivor's organization exchanged relics and testimonies, including the bones and ashes of Auschwitz victims. This symbolic encounter, in which the dead were literally conscripted in the service of the politics of the living, serves as a cornerstone of this volume, capturing how memory was utilized to rebuild and redefine a shattered world. This is a powerful study of the contentious history of remembrance and the commemoration of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima in the context of the global development of Holocaust and World War II memory. Emphasizing the importance of nuclear issues in the fifties and sixties, Zwigenberg traces the rise of global commemoration culture through the reconstruction of Hiroshima as a 'City of Bright Peace', memorials and museums, global tourism, developments in psychiatry, and the emergence of the figure of the survivor-witness and its consequences for global memory practices.
Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. 'The most modern city in the world': city planning, commemoration and atomic power in Hiroshima, 1945–1955; 2. Modernity's angst: survivors between shame and pride: 1945–1960; 3. Socialist bombs and peaceful atoms: exhibiting modernity and fighting for peace in Hiroshima, 1955–1962; 4. Healing a sick world: Robert Lifton, PTSD, and the psychiatric reassessment of survivors and trauma; 5. The Hiroshima Auschwitz Peace March and the globalization of victimhood; 6. A sacred ground for peace: violence, tourism and the sanctification of the Peace Park, 1963–1975; 7. Peeling the red apple: the Hiroshima Auschwitz Committee and the Hiroshima-Auschwitz museum, 1973–1995; Conclusion: the other ground zero? Hiroshima, Auschwitz, 9.11 and the world between them; Index.
HB | 9781107076068 | £60.00 Pages | 360 4 maps December 2014
• Scrupulously pieces together the puzzle of the overthrow of Mosaddeq based on Iranian, British and American sources • Addresses the essential question of whether the overthrow of Mosaddeq was an engineered coup or a spontaneous popular uprising • Assesses the role of foreign and domestic forces in the overthrow
Ali Rahnema's work is a meticulous historical reconstruction of the Iranian coup d'état in 1953 that led to the overthrow of Mohammed Mosaddeq and his government. Mosaddeq's removal from power has probably attracted more attention than any other event occurring during his tenure because of the role of foreign involvement; the political, economic and social impact on Iran and the long-term impact the ousting had on Iran-US relations. Drawing on American, British and Iranian sources, Rahnema closely examines the four-day period between the first failed coup and the second successful attempt, investigating in fine detail how the two coups were conceptualised, rationalised and executed by players on both the Anglo-American and Iranian sides. Through painstaking research into little-studied sources, Rahnema casts new light on how a small group of highly influential pro-Britain politicians and power brokers revisited the realities on the ground with the CIA operatives dispatched to Iran and how they recalibrated a new, and ultimately successful, operational plan.
Introduction: Mosaddeq's overthrow according to the shah; 1. The British reaction to Mosaddeq in power: 'Mossie Grabs Britain's Oil – But Navy to the Rescue' (Daily Express); 2. Mosaddeq's opposition strikes: testing tactics; 3. Who beckoned and who executed on 28 February (9 Esfand); 4. TPAJAX: company (CIA) commanders and firm (SIS) functionaries operationalising the coup; 5. The CIA-affiliated organisations: propaganda and combat; 6. The precision coup flops: back to the drawing board; 7. Second coup and capabilities of the military network; 8. A viable homespun coup; 9. The crucial last-minute preparations; 10. The second coup begins with the pincer movement of the thugs; 11. Coup agents occupying the city centre; 12. Attacking ministries and pro-Mosaddeq buildings; 13. The enigma of the tanks: betrayal or incompetence; 14. Mosaddeq overthrown; 15. Religious representatives and the coup; 16. Why did the second coup succeed?; 17. Mosaddeq's exit: legal transfer of power or coup d'état; Conclusion.
HB | 9781107036901 | £25.00 Pages | 417 34 b/w illustrations 10 maps August 2014
• Includes a synthesis of the best scholarship on the subject and also benefits from the author's expertise on Germany and Austria-Hungary • Argues that the Great War may be conceptualized as a series of Allied reactions to the actions of Germany and Austria-Hungary • Each chapter of this global account explains why the naval war mattered in both the course of World War One and also the evolution of warfare at sea
This is a major new naval history of the First World War which reveals the decisive contribution of the war at sea to Allied victory. In a truly global account, Lawrence Sondhaus traces the course of the campaigns in the North Sea, Atlantic, Adriatic, Baltic and Mediterranean and examines the role of critical innovations in the design and performance of ships, wireless communication and firepower. He charts how Allied supremacy led the Central Powers to attempt to revolutionize naval warfare by pursuing unrestricted submarine warfare, ultimately prompting the United States to enter the war. Victory against the submarine challenge, following their earlier success in sweeping the seas of German cruisers and other surface raiders, left the Allies free to use the world's sea lanes to transport supplies and troops to Europe from overseas territories, and eventually from the United States, which proved a decisive factor in their ultimate victory.
1. Navies and naval warfare in 1914; 2. Global prelude; 3. European waters, 1914–15; 4. Submarine warfare: the great experiment, 1915; 5. Combined operations, 1915; 6. Germany's fleet sorties, 1916; 7. Submarine warfare: the great gamble, 1917–18; 8. War and revolution, 1917; 9. Final operations; Epilogue: peace and naval disarmament; Bibliography.
HB | 9781107044968 | £50.00 PB | 9781107622951 | £18.99 Pages | 250 December 2014
• Brings together discussions of literature, film, technology, psychoanalysis in an interdisciplinary synthesis • Addresses the concerns of 'new modernist studies', to which the author has been a significant contributor • Explores the continuities and discontinuities between late nineteenth- and early twentiethcentury literary and cultural forms
Laura Marcus is one of the leading literary critics of modernist literature and culture. Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema covers the period from around 1880 to 1930, when modernity as a form of social and cultural life fed into the beginnings of modernism as a cultural form. Railways, cinema, psychoanalysis and the literature of detection - and their impact on modern sensibility - are four of the chief subjects explored. Marcus also stresses the creativity of modernist women writers, including H. D., Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf. The overriding themes of this work bear on the understanding of the early twentieth century as a transitional age, thus raising the question of how 'the moderns' understood the conditions of their own modernity.
1. The lodger; 2. Oedipus express: psychoanalysis and the railways; 3. Railway reading; 4. 'From autumn to spring, aesthetics change': modernity's visual displays; 5. 'A hymn to the movement': the 'city symphony' of the 1920s and 1930s; 6. Staging the 'private theatre': gender and the auto-erotics of reverie; 7. The new biography; 8. European witness: analysands abroad in the 1920s and 1930s; 9. Dreaming and the cinematographic consciousness; 10. Directed dreaming: Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage and the space of dreams; 11. 'In the circle of the lens': Woolf's 'telescopic' story, scene making and memory; 12. Virginia Woolf and the art of the novel.
HB | 9781107025233 | £50.00 PB | 9781107655768 | £17.99 Pages | 293 25 b/w illustrations November 2014
• A systematic combination of historical and visual analysis • The first book to explain the difference between comics and graphic novels • A complete overview of the genre via numerous examples and illustrations
This book provides both students and scholars with a critical and historical introduction to the graphic novel. Jan Baetens and Hugo Frey explore this exciting form of visual and literary communication, showing readers how to situate and analyse graphic novels since their rise to prominence half a century ago. Several key questions are addressed: what is the graphic novel? How do we read graphic novels as narrative forms? Why is page design and publishing format so significant? What theories are developing to explain the genre? How is this form blurring the categories of high and popular literature? Why are graphic novelists nostalgic for the old comics? The authors address these and many other questions raised by the genre. Through their analysis of the works of many well-known graphic novelists - including Bechdel, Clowes, Spiegelman and Ware - Baetens and Frey offer significant insights for future teaching and research on the graphic novel.
1. Introduction to the graphic novel: a special type of comic book; 2. Adult comics before the graphic novel: from moral panic to pop art sensationalism, 1945–67; 3. Underground comix and mainstream evolutions, 1968–80; 4. 'Not just for kids': clever comics and the new graphic novels; 5. Understanding panel and page layouts; 6. Drawing and style, word and image; 7. The graphic novel as a specific form of storytelling; 8. The graphic novel and literary fiction: exchanges, interplays and fusions; 9. Nostalgia and the return of history.
HB | 9780521826402 | £30.00 Pages | 480 December 2014
• The first book-length study of Sartre as philosopher of the imaginary, offering new insights into the philosophical, literary, aesthetic and political thought of one of the most renowned thinkers of the twentieth century • Treats Sartre's major works in relation to the evolution of his thought • Pays special attention to Sartre's ethical theory in relation to both his philosophical and literary works
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) was one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Regarded as the father of existentialist philosophy, he was also a political critic, moralist, playwright, novelist, and author of biographies and short stories. Thomas R. Flynn provides the first book-length account of Sartre as a philosopher of the imaginary, mapping the intellectual development of his ideas throughout his life, and building a narrative that is not only philosophical but also attentive to the political and literary dimensions of his work. Exploring Sartre's existentialism, politics, ethics, and ontology, this book illuminates the defining ideas of Sartre's oeuvre: the literary and the philosophical, the imaginary and the conceptual, his descriptive phenomenology and his phenomenological concept of intentionality, and his conjunction of ethics and politics with an 'egoless' consciousness. It will appeal to all who are interested in Sartre's philosophy and its relation to his life.
1. The childhood of a genius; 2. An elite education: student, author, soldier, teacher; 3. Teaching in the Lycée, 1931–1939; 4. First triumph: The Imagination; 5. Consciousness as imagination; 6. The necessity of contingency: Nausea; 7. The war years, 1939–1944; 8. Bad faith in human life: Being and Nothingness; 9. Existentialism: the fruit of liberation; 10. Ends and means: existential ethics; 11. Means and ends: political existentialism; 12. A theory of history: Search for a Method; 13. Individuals and groups: Critique of Dialectical Reason; 14. A second ethics?; 15. Existential biography: Flaubert and others; Conclusion: the Sartrean imaginary, chastened but indomitable.
HB | 9781107071681 | £55.00 PB | 9781107417687 | £19.99 Pages | 272 38 b/w illustrations 4 maps December 2014
• Features case studies on the greatest cognitive hoaxes perpetuated in history • Extrapolates the fundamental principles of cognitive deception for use • Can be read in part or in whole because of the modular format
Unlike sleights of hand, which fool the senses, sleights of mind challenge cognition. This book defines and explains cognitive deception and explores six prominent potential historical instances of it: the Cross of King Arthur, Drake's Plate of Brass, the Kensington Runestone, the Vinland Map, the Piltdown Man, and the Shroud of Turin. In spite of evidence contradicting their alleged origins, their stories continue to persuade many of their authenticity. Peter Hancock uses these purported hoaxes as case studies to develop and demonstrate fundamental principles of cognitive psychology. By dissecting each ostensible artifact, he illustrates how hoaxes can deceive us and offers us defenses against them. This book further examines how and why we allow others to deceive us and how and why we even deceive ourselves at times. Accessible to beginner and expert alike, Hoax Springs Eternal provides an essential interdisciplinary guide to cognitive deception.
1. The tangled web; 2. Case one: the Cross of King Arthur; 3. Case two: Drake's Plate of Brass; 4. The psychology of deception; 5. Case three: the Kensington Runestone; 6. Case four: the Vinland Map; 7. Deciding on deception; 8. Case five: the Piltdown Man; 9. Case six: the Shroud of Turin; 10. Deception redux; 11. Summary: hoax springs eternal.
HB | 9781107017504 | £65.00 Pages | 330 10 b/w illustrations 2 tables July 2014
• Features up-to-date discussions of relevant issues concerning schadenfreude by the world's leading psychologists and philosophers in the domain • Provides examples of sociological, cultural, and historical perspectives on schadenfreude • Proposes research questions that still need to be addressed for a better understanding of the nature of schadenfreude and the role it plays in social relations spurring future research
When someone suffers a mishap, a setback or a downfall, we sometimes find ourselves experiencing schadenfreude - an emotion defined as deriving pleasure from another's misfortune. Schadenfreude is a common experience and an emotion which is seemingly inherent to social being. This book offers a comprehensive summary of current theoretical and empirical work on schadenfreude from psychological, philosophical and other scientific perspectives. The chapters explore justice as an underlying motive for schadenfreude, and the role played by social comparison processes and envy in evoking pleasure at the misfortunes of others in interpersonal relations. Schadenfreude is also described as a common phenomenon in intergroup relations. This is a compelling volume on a fascinating subject matter that aims to increase our understanding of the nature of this emotion and the role it plays in social relations.
1. Introduction to schadenfreude Wilco W. van Dijk and Jaap W. Ouwerkerk; Part I. Schadenfreude as a Justice-Based Emotion: 2. Morality and schadenfreude John Portmann; 3. Deservingness and schadenfreude N. T. Feather; 4. Hypocrisy and schadenfreude Caitlin A. J. Powell; Part II. Schadenfreude as a Comparison-Based Emotion: 5. The personal comparative concern in schadenfreude Aaron Ben-Ze'ev; 6. Empirical challenges to understanding the role of envy in schadenfreude Richard H. Smith, Stephen M. Thielke and Caitlin A. J. Powell; 7. Malicious envy and schadenfreude Niels van de Ven; 8. Schadenfreude and consumer behaviour Jill M. Sundie; 9. Striving for positive self-evaluation as a motive for schadenfreude Wilco W. van Dijk and Jaap W. Ouwerkerk; Part III. Schadenfreude as an Intergroup Phenomenon: 10. Stereotypes and schadenfreude Mina Cikara and Susan T. Fiske; 11. Schadenfreude in sports and politics: a social identity perspective D. Ryan Schurtz, David Combs, Charles Hoogland and Richard H. Smith; 12. Intergroup rivalry and schadenfreude Jaap W. Ouwerkerk and Wilco W. van Dijk; 13. Situating schadenfreude in social relations Colin Wayne Leach, Russell Spears and Anthony S. R. Manstead; Part IV. Schadenfreude and Related Phenomena: 14. Schadenfreude and laughter F. H. Buckley; 15. Schadenfreude and the desire for vengeance Elise C. Seip, Mark Rotteveel, Lotte F. van Dillen and Wilco W. van Dijk; 16. Schadenfreude and pouting John Portmann; Part V. Schadenfreude in Society, Language, and Literature: 17. Schadenfreude and social life: a comparative perspective on the expression and regulation of mirth at the expense of others Giselinde Kuipers; 18. Tracing down schadenfreude in spontaneous interaction: evidence from corpus linguistics Kurt Feyaerts and Bert Oben; 19. 'Smile not, however, I venture to repeat': schadenfreude in nineteenth-century American literature Diederik Oostdijk; 20. Schadenfreude, concluding notes Agneta H. Fischer.
HB | 9781107069961 | £65.00 Pages | 224 1 b/w illustration September 2014
• Summarises the long history of melancholia - from antiquity to 1800 • Argues that melancholia is a culture-bound syndrome, appealing to those who are uncomfortable with constructivist and hard realist approaches to mental illness • Explains the appeal of melancholia to the arts
Melancholia is a commonly experienced feeling, and one with a long and fascinating medical history that can be charted back to antiquity. Avoiding the simplistic binary opposition of constructivism and hard realism, this book argues that melancholia was a culture-bound syndrome which thrived in the West because of the structure of Western medicine since the Ancient Greeks, and because of the West's fascination with self-consciousness. Whilst melancholia cannot be equated with modern depression, Matthew Bell argues that concepts from recent depression research can shed light on melancholia. Within a broad historical panorama, Bell focuses on ancient medical writing, especially the little-known but pivotal Rufus of Ephesus, and on the medicine and culture of early modern Europe. Separate chapters are dedicated to issues of gender and cultural difference, and the final chapter offers a survey of melancholia in the arts, explaining the prominence of melancholia especially in literature.
Introduction; 1. Naming a disease; 2. What's wrong with me?; 3. Melancholy men, depressed women?; 4. The Western malady; 5. The telescope of truth; Conclusion.
HB |9781107066410 | £60.00 Pages | 230 6 b/w illustrations 1 table August 2014
• Studies the phenomenon of 'empty labor' - the time during which employees engage in nonwork activities during the working day • Provides an analysis based on rich data - both qualitative and quantitative - of workplace resistance and the reasons behind employees' inactivity • Challenges the notion of wage labor as governed by instrumental reason, and develops a concept of 'the subject' and human agency, both of which are lacking in other critical workplace studies
While most people work ever-longer hours, international statistics suggest that the average time spent on non-work activities per employee is around two hours a day. How is this possible, and what are the reasons behind employees withdrawing from work? In this thought-provoking book, Roland Paulsen examines organizational misbehavior, specifically the phenomenon of 'empty labor', defined as the time during which employees engage in private activities during the working day. This study explores a variety of explanations, from under-employment to workplace resistance. Building on a rich selection of interview material and extensive empirical research, it uses both qualitative and quantitative data to present a concrete analysis of the different ways empty labor unfolds in the modern workplace. This book offers new perspectives on subjectivity, rationality and work simulation and will be of particular interest to academic researchers and graduate students in organizational sociology, organization studies, and human resource management.
Foreword; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Power at work; 3. Subjectivity at work; 4. Mapping out empty labor; 5. How to succeed at work without really trying; 6. The timeappropriating subject; 7. The organization of idleness; 8. Resistance incorporated?; 9. Conclusion; Appendix: methodological notes; Bibliography; Index.
HB | 9781107017313 | £50.00 PB | 9781107605961 | £18.99 Pages | 240 November 2014
• Ideal for classroom use in courses on political philosophy, political economy, and the history and philosophy of economics • Fuses moral philosophy and economics, utilizing both in assessing socialism • A reassessment of capitalism and socialism that is particularly timely after the recent economic downturn
Is socialism morally superior to other systems of political economy, even if it faces practical difficulties? In The End of Socialism, James R. Otteson explores socialism as a system of political economy - that is, from the perspectives of both moral philosophy and economic theory. He examines the exact nature of the practical difficulties socialism faces, which turn out to be greater than one might initially suppose, and then asks whether the moral ideals it champions - equality, fairness, and community - are important enough to warrant attempts to overcome these difficulties nonetheless, especially in light of the alleged moral failings of capitalism. The result is an examination of the 'end of socialism', both in the sense of the moral goals it proposes and in the results of its unfolding logic.
1. What socialism and capitalism are; Part I. Socialism's Problems in Practice: 2. Knowledge and planning; 3. Knowledge: value, equality, and experts; 4. Knowledge and community; 5. The day-two problem; Part II. Socialism's Problems in Principle: 6. Economics and morality; 7. Respect and individuality; 8. Socialism's great mistake; 9. Prosperity; 10. Equality and freedom; 11. Fairness; Conclusion. Grapes sweet and sour.
HB | 9781107049635 | £50.00 PB | 9781107627956 | £19.99 Pages | 344 119 b/w illustrations August 2014
• Written in conversational, nontechnical style, ideal for both undergraduates and anyone with a general interest in the story of animal evolution • Covers all the main animal groups, from jellyfish to mammals, explaining what we know about the course of evolution and outlining what still remains to be learned • Deals equally with the pattern and the process of evolution – with both evolutionary trees and evolutionary mechanisms
What do we know about animal evolution in the early twenty-first century? How much more do we know today than Darwin did? What are the most exciting discoveries that have been made in the last few decades? Covering all the main animal groups, from jellyfish to mammals, this book considers all of these questions and more. Its 30 short chapters, each written in a conversational, nontechnical style and accompanied by numerous original illustrations, deal equally with the pattern and the process of evolution – with both evolutionary trees and evolutionary mechanisms. They cover diverse evolutionary themes, including: the animal toolkit, natural selection, embryos and larvae, animal consciousness, fossils, human evolution, and even the possibility of animal life existing elsewhere than on Earth. This unique text will make an excellent introduction for undergraduates and others with an interest in the subject.
Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. What is an animal?; 2. Before there were animals; 3. How to make a fossil; 4. The Cambrian explosion; 5. How to make a species; 6. Jellyfish and their kin; 7. How to make a tree; 8. The enigmatic urbilaterian; 9. Animal symmetry and heads; 10. A plethora of worms; 11. Trends in animal complexity; 12. Where the octopus is king; 13. How to make an animal; 14. Exoskeletons galore; 15. Extinction; 16. Mouth first, mouth second; 17. Comparing embryos; 18. Larvae, mouthparts and moulting; 19. The animal toolkit; 20. Vertebrate origins and evolution; 21. From water to land to water; 22. Variation and inheritance; 23. Evolutionary novelties; 24. Human origins and evolution; 25. Animal plasticity; 26. The nature of adaptation; 27. The direction of evolution; 28. Animal extremophiles; 29. Extraterrestrial animals?; 30. The ghost in the machine; Appendix; References; Index.
HB | 9781107043176 | £17.99 Pages | 256 33 b/w illustrations December 2014
• A unique collection of essays and talks from Nobel Laureate Leon N. Cooper, one of the world's most eminent living physicists • Presents Cooper's original views on many subjects, from the relationship between science and society, to consciousness and the nature and limits of science • A fascinating read for anyone interested in science and its interaction with the human experience
Does science have limits? Where does order come from? Can we understand consciousness? Written by Nobel Laureate Leon N. Cooper, this book places pressing scientific questions in the broader context of how they relate to human experience. Widely considered to be a highly original thinker, Cooper has written and given talks on a large variety of subjects, ranging from the relationship between art and science, possible limits of science, to the relevance of the Turing test. These essays and talks have been brought together for the first time in this fascinating book, giving readers an opportunity to experience Cooper's unique perspective on a range of subjects. Tackling a diverse spectrum of topics, from the conflict of faith and science to whether understanding neural networks could lead to machines that think like humans, this book will captivate anyone interested in the interaction of science with society.
Part I. Science and Society: 1. Science and human experience; 2. Does science undermine our values?; 3. Can science serve mankind?; 4. Modern science and contemporary discomfort: metaphor and reality; 5. Faith and science; 6. Art and science; 7. Fraud in science; 8. Why study science? The keys to the cathedral; 9. Is evolution a theory? A modest proposal; 10. The silence of the second; 11. Introduction to Copenhagen; 12. The unpaid debt; Part II. Thought and Consciousness: 13. Source and limits of human intellect; 14. Neural networks; 15. Thought and mental experience: the Turing test; 16. Mind as machine: will we rubbish human experience?; 17. Memory and memories: a physicist's approach to the brain; 18. On the problem of consciousness; Part III. On the Nature and Limits of Science: 19. What is a good theory?; 20. Shall we deconstruct science?; 21. Visible and invisible in physical theory; 22. Experience and order; 23. The language of physics; 24. The structure of space; 25. Superconductivity and other insoluble problems; 26. From gravity to light and consciousness: does science have limits?
HB | 9781107083349 | £27.99 Pages | 240 94 b/w illustrations 8 colour illustrations October 2014
• The first complete biography of Fred Sanger to be published, offering unique insight into the remarkable extent of his scientific achievements and providing a real portrait of the modest man behind them • Based in part on a rare and exclusive interview of Sanger by the author, accompanied by numerous personal and family photographs • A final chapter features commentaries by six eminent molecular biologists (four of them Nobel prize winners), highlighting the wider context of Sanger's scientific legacy
Considered 'the father of genomics', Fred Sanger (1918–2013) paved the way for the modern revolution in our understanding of biology. His pioneering methods for sequencing proteins, RNA and, eventually, DNA earned him two Nobel Prizes. He remains one of only four scientists (and the only British scientist) ever to have achieved that distinction. In this, the first full biography of Fred Sanger to be published, Brownlee traces Sanger's life from his birth in rural Gloucestershire to his retirement in 1983 from the Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. Along the way, he highlights the remarkable extent of Sanger's scientific achievements and provides a real portrait of the modest man behind them. Including an extensive transcript of a rare interview of Sanger by the author, this biography also considers the wider legacy of Sanger's work, including his impact on the Human Genome Project and beyond.
Foreword Sir Edwin Southern; Acknowledgements; Brief chronology and honours; Introduction; 1. A Quaker upbringing; 2. How about studying insulin?; 3. Radioactive sequencing of proteins and nucleic acids; 4. Interview of Fred by the author in 1992. Early life; 5. Interview of Fred by the author in 1992. Insulin and the Biochemistry Department, Cambridge University; 6. Interview of Fred by the author, 1992. Nucleic Acids at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge; 7. Post-Sanger sequencing – high throughput, automated sequencing; 8. Cancer – the impact of New Generation Sequencing; 9. Commentaries on Fred Sanger's scientific legacy by Paul Berg, Elizabeth Blackburn, Sir John Sulston, David Bentley and Paul Nurse; Epilogue; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index.
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