Innovation and its Enemies: Why People Resist New Technologies
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The rise of artificial intelligence has rekindled a long-standing debate regarding the impact of...
Institutions, Regulatory Styles, Society and Environmental Governance in China
Carlos Wing Hung Lo and Shui Yan Tang
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During the past three decades of rapid industrial growth, China has suffered from devastating...
Crash Bang Wallop: The Inside Story of London's Big Bang and a Financial Revolution That Changed the World
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The one book you need to read if you want to understand the financial world. For fans of Michael...
Felt Time: The Science of How We Experience Time
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We have widely varying perceptions of time. Children have trouble waiting for anything. ("Are we...
Police Work and Identity: A South African Ethnography
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This is a book about the men and women who police contemporary South Africa. Drawing on rich,...
Prospects for Resilience: Insight from New York City's Jamaica Bay
Eric W. Sanderson, William D. Solecki, John R. Waldman and Adam S. Parris
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Given the realities of climate change and sea level rise, coastal cities around the world are...
Shameful Bodies: Religion and the Culture of Physical Improvement
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What happens when your body doesn't look how it's supposed to look, or feel how it's supposed to...
The Philosophy of Horror
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Sitting on pins and needles, anxiously waiting to see what will happen next, horror audiences crave...
Western Sufism: From the Abbasids to the New Age
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Western Sufism is sometimes dismissed as a relatively recent "new age" phenomenon, but in this book,...
Theatre, Exhibition, and Curation: Displayed and Performed
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Examining the artistic, intellectual, and social life of performance, this book interrogates Theatre...