Topic: Politics

The Equitably Resilient City

The Equitably Resilient City

Twelve global planning and urban design interventions—and what they reveal about equity-centered urban resilience in the face of climate change. Hillside favelas in South America imperiled by landslides. Flood-threatened mobile...
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480 pages
2024-10-01 Published
Aiming for Net Zero

Aiming for Net Zero

How Costa Rican leaders adopted policies to reduce planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, and what other countries can learn from their actions. As atmospheric greenhouse gases continue their steep ascent, the...
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240 pages
2024-10-01 Published
From Sensing to Sentience

From Sensing to Sentience

A new theory of Neurobiological Emergentism that explains how sentience emerges from the brain. Sentience is the feeling aspect of consciousness. In From Sensing to Sentience, Todd Feinberg develops a new theory called Neurobiological Emergentism (NBE) thatintegrates...
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216 pages
2024-10-01 Published
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
Personal Data-Smart Cities

Personal Data-Smart Cities

This book sets out to address some of the issues that a smart city needs to overcome to make use of both the data currently available to them and how...
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358 pages
2023-04-03 Published
Patterns of Inclusion

Patterns of Inclusion

It is widely presumed that digitalisation, automation and artificial intelligence (AI) shape the future of work; yet, gender is rarely considered in those debates. This ground-breaking book, written by a...
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170 pages
2024-08-22 Published
The Pedagogies of Re-Use

The Pedagogies of Re-Use

The Pedagogies of Re-Use captures the amazing digital gathering of students, academics, practitioners, and activists that happened at the International School of Re-Construction. Involving over 100 people, from countries as...
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236 pages
2024-06-28 Published
Introduction to Philosophy by OpenStax

Introduction to Philosophy by OpenStax

Designed to meet the scope and sequence of your course, Introduction to Philosophy surveys logic, metaphysics, epistemology, theories of value, and history of philosophy thematically. To provide a strong foundation in...
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409 pages
2022-08-19 Published
Structure: Concepts, Consequences, Interactions

Structure: Concepts, Consequences, Interactions

Natural phenomena, including human language, are not just series of events but are organized quasi-periodically; sentences have structure, and that structure matters. Howard Lasnik and Juan Uriagereka “were there” when...
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248 pages
2022-12-13 Published
Migration and Home

Migration and Home

This open access short reader offers an intersectional perspective on the meaning of home in migration. The book provides a pathway through existing scholarship on home and migration, exploring how...
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115 pages
2024-01-31 Published
A World Trading System for the Twenty-First Century

A World Trading System for the Twenty-First Century

When designing a world trading system for the twenty-first century, “Keep calm and carry on” beats “Move fast and break things.” Global trade is in trouble. Climate change, digital trade,...
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304 pages
2022-12-20 Published