Political lives of information

Political Lives of Information

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Brief Lives

Presents author's experience of a complex variety of people who have contributed to our political, spiritual and cultural life.

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Blacketts

The Blacketts have cast long shadows over the region's history as Newcastle merchants, miners, the builders of Wallington Hall and political figures i

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Global Political Economy

With a unique emphasis on the big debates and questions that have the potential to affect all our lives, a diverse range of viewpoints are presented t

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Iconomy: Towards a Political Economy of Images

Exploring viral imagery of the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Presidents Trump and Biden, Black Lives Matter, as well as the rise of a “black aesthetic” in

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Populist Disinformation in Fragmented Information Settings

In this highly relevant work, Dr. Michael Hameleers illuminates the role of traditional and social media in shaping the political consequences of popu

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Revolutionary Lives of the Red and Black Atlantic Since 1917

This volume explores the life histories of a wide range of radical figures whose political activity in relation to the black liberation struggle was c

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Arsenal: The Story of a Football Club in 101 Lives

The businessman whose ruthless political skills saw Arsenal leapfrog Tottenham Hotspur into the First Division. The manager who took Arsenal to a hat-

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Researching Women's Lives From A Feminist Perspective

Explores the issues of violence, sexuality, political activity, popular culture, and also the impact of race, class, sexual orientation and age. The b

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Little Guides to Great Lives: Nelson Mandela

Anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician and philanthropist, Nelson Mandela's journey from political prisoner to president of South Africa is an incre

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Democracy and Social Justice Education in the Information Age

The author also furthers considerations of how the political process can provide meaning and new visions of justice in a globalized world, and advance

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Václav Havel (Critical Lives) - Kieran Williams

<p>Václav Havel claimed to want a quiet life dedicated to writing, but he lived exactly the opposite: as the most famous dissident in Czechoslovakia under Communist rule, he spent many years in jail as a political prisoner and, after leading a revolutionary movement in 1989, thirteen years as president and twenty as one of the most respected intellectuals on the wor...

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Václav Havel (Critical Lives) - Kieran Williams

Anotace: Václav Havel claimed to want a quiet life dedicated to writing, but he lived exactly the opposite: as the most famous dissident in Czechoslovakia under Communist rule, he spent many years in jail as a political prisoner and, after leading a revolutionary movement in 1989, thirteen years as president and twenty as one of the most respected intellectuals on the wo...

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Smartphones and Information on Current Events Taylor & Francis Ltd

Smartphones and Information on Current Events provides unprecedented insights into young people’s news consumption patterns and the ecology of mobile news. Advancing our knowledge of mobile behaviour, the book also highlights the ways in which mobile news impacts the lives of the general public. Smartphones and Information on Current Events will be useful to scholars, st...

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Behind Closed Doors: SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING

A searing portrait of English society seen through the lives of families and workers in the care system.

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Behind Closed Doors: SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING

A searing portrait of English society seen through the lives of families and workers in the care system.

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Shakespeare´s Book: The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio - Laoutaris Chris

Anotace: `A lively picture of multiple operators scrambling to steal a march on the competition . . . Lavishly detailed`FINANCIAL TIMES `This is Shakespearean scholarship at its best, brilliantly researched yet compulsively readable. It`s a book for our times, enduringly fascinating and appealing to both enthusiasts and the general reader. ...

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Shakespeare´s Book: The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio - Chris Laoutaris

<p>'A lively picture of multiple operators scrambling to steal a march on the competition . . . Lavishly detailed'FINANCIAL TIMES 'This is Shakespearean scholarship at its best, brilliantly researched yet compulsively readable. It's a book for our times, enduringly fascinating and appealing to both enthusiasts and the general reader...

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Swimmer

Klara Walldeen was orphaned as a child and brought up by her grandparents on a remote Swedish archipelago. She is now a political aide in Brussels - and she has just seen something she shouldn't: something people will kill to keep hidden. On the other side of the world, an old spy hides from his past. Once, he was a man of action, so dedicated to the cause that he abandon...

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Arguing until Doomsday

Weaving together biography and political history, Michael Woods restores Jefferson Davis and Stephen Douglas's fatefully entwined lives and careers to

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Politics of Care

A vital collection bringing together Black Lives Matter and COVID-19 from the acclaimed political and literary magazine Boston Review.

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Wives of Western Philosophy

The Wives of Western Philosophy examines the lives and experiences of the wives and women associated with nine distinct political thinkers—from Socra

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Politics of Protest

This collection provides a deep engagement with the political implication of Black Lives Matter. This book covers a broad range of topics using a vari

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Penguin Map of the World

Includes all the flags of the world and updated political boundaries. This title contains information that reflects worldwide political changes.

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Anna, Grandmother of Jesus

This book contains channelled information about the family of Jesus and offers missing pieces of the lives of Anna, Mary and Jesus, including unknown

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Story of Painting

An history of Western Art from cave paintings through to modern times. It includes information about the artists and their lives and techniques. It is

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Acts of Resistance

In Acts of Resistance, Amber Massie-Blomfield writes about the artists who have treated the protest site as their canvas and contributed to movements that have transformed history - from the musicians in Auschwitz to the four-year Siege of Sarajevo, from the to ACT UP's 1989 invasion of the New York Stock Exchange, to the Niger Delta and indigenous communities in Bolivia....

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Complete Book of US Presidents, Fourth Edition

The Complete Book of US Presidents is rich with photos and short biographical essays about the social, cultural, and political lives of 46 United St

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History of Ancient Egypt

This is an account of the rise and fall of the civilization in the Nile Valley, covering the first human settlement (c. 120,000 BC) to its conquest by Alexander the Great in 333 BC. It is the first reign-by-reign history of ancient Egypt to be published since Sir Alan Gardiner's Egypt of the Pharaohs (1961) and takes full account of the many archaeological, scientific and...

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Shadows of Doubt

Early Access Game Note: This Early Access game is not complete and may or may not change further. A procedurally-generated sandbox stealth game with a whole city of secrets at your fingertips! Shadows of Doubt is set in an alternate reality in the hyper-industrialized 1980s. Think like a detective and use a variety of gadgets as a private intelligence investigator, g...

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Shadows of Doubt (PC)

Early Access GameNote: This Early Access game is not complete and may or may not change further.A procedurally-generated sandbox stealth game with a whole city of secrets at your fingertips!Shadows of Doubt&nbsp;is set in an alternate reality in the hyper-industrialized 1980s. Think like a detective and use a variety of gadgets as a private intelligence investigator, ...

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Edge of Eternity: Book Three of the Century Trilogy (0451474023)

Kniha - autor Ken Follett, 1136 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná In Fall of Giants and Winter of the World, Ken Follett followed the fortunes of five international families—American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh—as they made their way through the twentieth century. Now they come to one of the most tumultuous eras of all: the 1960s through the 1980s, f...

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Poetics and Politics of the Veil in Iran

This volume explores the lives of women in Iran through the social, political and aesthetic contexts of veiling, unveiling and re-veiling. Through poe

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Age of Vice - Kapoor Deepti

Anotace: This is the age of vice, where money, pleasure, and power are everything, and the family ties that bind can also kill. New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the curb and in the blink of an eye, five people are dead. It's a rich man's car, but when the dust settles there is no rich man at all, just a shell-shocked servant who cannot explain the ...

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Age of Vice - Deepti Kapoor

<p> </p> <p>This is the age of vice, where pleasure and power are everything, and the family ties that bind can also killNew Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the kerb, and in the blink of an eye five people are dead. It's a rich man's car, but when the dust settles there is no rich man at all, just a shell-shocked servant who cannot explain the st...

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The Hound of the Baskervilles

Suddenly, in the darkness, there was a terrible, low howl and it came from the moor. ‘The hound!’ cried Holmes.’ Tag Mystery In this Reader you will find: - information about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s life - a section focusing on background and context - a glossary of difficult words - comprehension activities - an exit test An old family document says that everyone who l ...

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Half of a Yellow Sun (0007200285)

Kniha - autor Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 434 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá Set in Nigeria during the 1960s, at the time of a vicious civil war in which a million people died and thousands were massacred in cold blood. The three main characters in the novel are swept up in the violence during these turbulent years. One is a young boy from a poor village wh...

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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (0061339202)

Kniha - autor Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, 304 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná "Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's famous investigations of ""optimal experience"" have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state of consciousness called ""flow."" During flow, people typically experience deep enjoyment, creativity, and a total invol...

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera

<p>A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon; a man torn between his love for her and his womanising. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals; while her other lover stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities. In a world where lives are shaped by choices and events, and everything occurs but once, existence...

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Routledge Handbook of Religion and Politics Taylor & Francis Ltd

This third edition of the successful Routledge Handbook of Religion and Politics provides a definitive global survey of the interaction of religion and politics. From the United States to the Middle East, from Asia to Africa, and beyond, religion continues to be an important factor in political activity and organisation. References at the end of each chapter guide the rea...

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The Book of Unwritten Tales 2

Every world needs its heroes. However unlikely they may seem. Join Wilbur, Ivo, Nate and Critter in another classic point-and-click adventure in the wicked world of Aventásia. Help them fulfill their destiny. A destiny as yet unwritten.The Tale A few years have passed since our heroes heroically defeated the arch-witch Mortroga. And their lives, like the lives of most peo...

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The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 (PC)

Every world needs its heroes. However unlikely they may seem. Join Wilbur, Ivo, Nate and Critter in another classic point-and-click adventure in the wicked world of Aventásia. Help them fulfill their destiny. A destiny as yet unwritten.The TaleA few years have passed since our heroes heroically defeated the arch-witch Mortroga. And their lives, like the lives of most peop...

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Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space - Adam Higginbotham

<p>From the New York Times-bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger space shuttle disaster based on fascinating in-depth reporting and new archival research - riveting history that reads like a thriller'Gripping' ED CAESAR * 'Masterly' GEOFF DYER * 'Incredible' TIM HARFORDOn the morning of 2...

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Jewish Sights of Bohemia nad Moravia - Jiří Fiedler

<p>This guide book is the first work to give a comprehensive list and description of the historical monuments which have remained from more than 600 Jewish communities and a survey of the history of Jewish settlement in the Czech Republic. The guide contains comprehensive encyclopedic entries, arranged in alphabetical order, dealing with the history of 138 selected ...

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Coming of Age in the War on Terror

Anotace: `One minute you`re a 15-year old girl who loves Netflix and music and the next minute you`re looked at as maybe ISIS.` The generation born at the time of the 9/11 attacks are turning 18. What has our changed world meant for them? We now have a generation - Muslim and non-Muslim - who have grown up only knowing a world at war on terror. These young people have be...

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Atlas of the World: Twenty-Eighth Edition

The only world atlas updated annually, Oxford's Atlas of the World is the most authoritative atlas on the market. Full of crisp, clear cartography of urban areas and natural landscapes around the globe, the Atlas contains maps of cities and regions at carefully selected scales that give a striking view of the Earth's surface. It opens with a detailed survey of world stati...

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Make, Think, Imagine : The Future of Civilisation - Browne John

Anotace: Today`s unprecedented pace of change leaves many people wondering what new technologies are doing to our lives. Has social media robbed us of our privacy and fed us with false information? Are robots going to take our jobs? Will better healthcare lead to an ageing population that cannot be cared for? And has our demand for energy driven the Earth`s climate to th...

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Make, Think, Imagine : The Future of Civilisation - John Browne

<p>Today's unprecedented pace of change leaves many people wondering what new technologies are doing to our lives. Has social media robbed us of our privacy and fed us with false information? Are robots going to take our jobs? Will better healthcare lead to an ageing population that cannot be cared for? And has our demand for energy driven the Earth's climate to the...

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The Europa Regional Surveys of the World 2023 Taylor & Francis Ltd

This nine-volume set covers each of the major world regions. As well as covering the region as a whole, each volume provides a vast range of background information, statistics, directory information and analysis of the social, political and economic situation for each of the individual countries within that region. Titles include: Africa South of the Sahara 2023, Central ...

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The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance Taylor & Francis Ltd

This handbook explores the concepts, methodologies, and implications of collective intelligence for democratic governance, in the rst comprehensive survey of this field. It is essential reading and an authoritative reference for scholars, students, researchers and practitioners of public policy, public administration, governance, public management, information technology ...

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The West: A New History of an Old Idea, 1. vydání - Sweeney Naoise Mac

*A BBC RADIO 4 Book of the Week*'A fantastic achievement' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Bright, expansive, and iconoclastic, this deliciously witty book has the potential to upset the applecart of "Western Civilisation" itself... Magnificent' Prof. Suzannah Lipscomb_________________A radical new account of how the idea of the West has shaped our hist...

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Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier - Winfrey Oprah

Anotace: In Build the Life You Want, Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey invite you to begin a journey toward greater happiness, no matter how challenging your circumstances. Combining their decades of experience studying happiness from every angle, they show you how to improve your life right now - instead of waiting for the outside world to change.You will learn how to:...

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The Nickel Boys : Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2020 - Colson Whitehead

<p>WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2020Winner of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction 2020Time #1 Novel of the Year 2019________________________________________________________________________Author of The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of Americ...

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Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic - Winchester Simon

Anotace: `A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter` New York Times `An ebullient, irrepressible spirit invests this book. It is erudite and sprightly`Sunday Times From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarte...

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Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic - Simon Winchester

<p>'A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter' New York Times 'An ebullient, irrepressible spirit invests this book. It is erudite and sprightly'Sunday Times From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kinderg...

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Atlas of Egyptian Mummies in the Czech Collections II: Non-Adult Human Mummies (978-80-7036-750-6)

Elektronická kniha - ze série Atlas of Egyptian Mummies in the Czech Collections, autor Pavel Onderka, 104 stran, anglicky Ancient Egyptian mummies and their funerary equipment are an invaluable source of information not only on the Egyptians’ perception of death, but more importantly on their lives – diseases and traumas they suffered from, activities they carried out,...

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Fall of Ruin and Wrath: An epic spicy romantasy from a mega bestselling author - Jennifer L. Armentrout

<p>From the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of From Blood and Ash, Fall of Ruin and Wrath is a scorching romance with high stakes, breathtaking magic and a searing enemies-to-lovers romance.She lives by her intuition. He feeds on her pleasure . . .Long ago, the world was destroyed by gods. Only nine cities were spared. Separated by vast wilderness teeming wi...

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Young Adult ELI Readers 1/A1: The Hound of the Baskervilles with Audio CD - Arthur Conan Doyle

<p>Suddenly, in the darkness, there was a terrible, low howl and it came from the moor. ‘The hound!’ cried Holmes.’ Tag Mystery In this Reader you will find: - information about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s life - a section focusing on background and context - a glossary of difficult words - comprehension activities - an exit test An old family document says that everyo...

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Soldiers as Citizens

This is the first exploration of the British army to combine labour, political and military history. It analyses the political lives of nineteenth ce

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Infinity Kings: The much-loved hit from the author of No.1 bestselling blockbuster THEY BOTH DIE AT THE END! - Silvera Adam

Anotace: From the author of the INTERNATIONAL NO.1 BESTSELLER THEY BOTH DIE AT THE END.In this epic conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Infinity Cycle trilogy, two brothers find themselves in a heartbreaking war against one another . . . For fans of Cassandra Clare, Leigh Bardugo and Sarah J Maas. After the ultimate betrayal, Emil must rise up as a leader to ...

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