Topic: History

The Aesthetics of Stealth

The Aesthetics of Stealth

How performances of tactical imperceptibility—or “stealth”—have become a key political practice in digital culture as a means of escaping surveillance and tracking technologies. In The Aesthetics of Stealth, Toni Pape proposes...
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240 pages
2024-10-08 Published
Reimagining the More-Than-Human City

Reimagining the More-Than-Human City

An exploration of the multifaceted urban environmental issues in Singapore through a more-than-human lens, calling for new ways to think of and story cities. As climate change accelerates and urbanization...
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272 pages
2024-10-01 Published
U.S. History by OpenStax

U.S. History by OpenStax

U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that...
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1045 pages
2024-01-11 Published
World History Vol 1: to 1500

World History Vol 1: to 1500

World History, Volume 1: to 1500 is designed to meet the scope and sequence of a world history course to 1500 offered at both two-year and four-year institutions. Suitable for both...
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786 pages
2023-04-19 Published
World History Vol 2: from 1400

World History Vol 2: from 1400

World History, Volume 2: from 1400 is designed to meet the scope and sequence of a world history course from 1400 offered at both two-year and four-year institutions. Suitable for both...
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719 pages
2022-12-14 Published
Remaking the American Dream

Remaking the American Dream

The redefinition of the single-family house, the urban landscape, and the American Dream. Sitting squarely at the center of the American Dream, the detached single-family home has long been the...
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328 pages
2022-12-20 Published
Fiscal Policy under Low Interest Rates

Fiscal Policy under Low Interest Rates

Rethinking fiscal and monetary policy in an economic environment of high debt and low interest rates. Policy makers in advanced economies find themselves in an unusual fiscal environment: debt ratios...
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192 pages
2023-01-10 Published
Women and Climate Change

Women and Climate Change

How ideas of gender and climate change intersect with our path to a livable future. When you think "climate change," who comes to mind? Who's doing the science, the reporting,...
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288 pages
2023-02-14 Published
Playing Oppression

Playing Oppression

A striking analysis of popular board games' roots in imperialist reasoning—and why the future of play depends on reckoning with it. Board games conjure up images of innocuously enriching entertainment:...
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192 pages
2023-02-28 Published
Constructing Student Mobility

Constructing Student Mobility

How universities in the US and South Korea compete for global student markets—and how university financials shape students' lives. The popular image of the international student in the American imagination...
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216 pages
2023-04-11 Published
To Know Is to Compare

To Know Is to Compare

How systematic comparative research can unlock the potential of social media scholarship. Though diverse and fruitful, social media scholarship too often focuses on single platforms in single countries, disconnected from...
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224 pages
2023-04-18 Published
Living with Algorithms

Living with Algorithms

A nuanced account from a user perspective of what it's like to live in a datafied world. We live in a media-saturated society that increasingly transforms our experiences, relations, and...
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234 pages
2023-04-25 Published