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  • Algorithmic Regimes

    Methods, Interactions, and Politics

    Edited by Juliane Jarke, Bianca Prietl, Simon Egbert, Yana Boeva, Hendrik Heuer ...
    Series series Digital Studies
    Algorithms have risen to become one, if not the central technology for producing, circulating, and evaluating knowledge in multiple societal arenas. In this book, scholars from the social sciences, humanities, and computer science argue that this shift has, and will continue to have, profound implications for how knowledge is produced and what and whose knowledge is valued and deemed valid. To ... Read more

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  • A Century of Anarchy?

    War, Normativity, and the Birth of Modern International Order

    by Hendrik Simon ...
    Series series The History and Theory of International Law
    The nineteenth century has been understood as an age in which states could wage war against each other if they deemed it politically necessary. According to this narrative, it was not until the establishment of the League of Nations, the Kellogg-Briand Pact, and the UN Charter that the 'free right to go to war' (liberum ius ad bellum) was gradually outlawed. Better times dawned as this anarchy of ... Read more

    $129.59 USD

  • Chronic Care – Science and Practice

    Edited by Daniela Schmitz, Manfred Fiedler, Heike Becker, Simone Hatebur, Jan-Hendrik Ortloff ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The importance of a professionally and practically appropriate healthcare system for people with chronic illnesses—especially those with multiple chronic conditions—is undeniable in light of demographic changes and the increasing number of older adults with limited everyday competence. Although the German Enquete Commission on "Demographic Change" identified requirements and proposed solutions as ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

  • The Justification of War and International Order

    From Past to Present

    Edited by Lothar Brock, Hendrik Simon ...
    Series series The History and Theory of International Law
    The history of war is also a history of its justification. The contributions to this book argue that the justification of war rarely happens as empty propaganda. While it is directed at mobilizing support and reducing resistance, it is not purely instrumental. Rather, the justification of force is part of an incessant struggle over what is to count as justifiable behaviour in a given historical ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

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  • The Right of Self-Determination of Peoples

    The Domestication of an Illusion

    by Jörg Fisch ...
    Translated by Anita Mage ...
    Series series Human Rights in History
    The right of self-determination of peoples holds out the promise of sovereign statehood for all peoples and a domination-free international order. But it also harbors the danger of state fragmentation that can threaten international stability if claims of self-determination lead to secessions. Covering both the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century independence movements in the Americas ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Paradoxes of Media and Information Literacy

    The Crisis of Information

    by Jutta Haider, Olof Sundin ...
    Paradoxes of Media and Information Literacy contributes to ongoing conversations about control of knowledge and different ways of knowing. It does so by analysing why media and information literacy (MIL) is proposed as a solution for addressing the current information crisis.Questioning why MIL is commonly believed to wield such power, the book throws into sharp relief several paradoxes that are ... Read more

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  • Free to Obey

    How the Nazis Invented Modern Management

    by Johann Chapoutot ...
    What if the rules of modern capitalism were written during the Third Reich? Reinhard Höhn (1904-2000) was a commander of the SS, one of Nazi Germany's most brilliant legal minds, and an archetype of the fervid technocrats and intellectuals that built the Third Reich. Following Germany's defeat, after a few years in hiding, he emerged in the early 1950s as the founder and director of a renowned ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Mediated Construction of Reality

    by Nick Couldry, Andreas Hepp ...
    Social theory needs to be completely rethought in a world of digital media and social media platforms driven by data processes. Fifty years after Berger and Luckmann published their classic text The Social Construction of Reality, two leading sociologists of media, Nick Couldry and Andreas Hepp, revisit the question of how social theory can understand the processes through which an everyday world ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • The Law of Blood

    Thinking and Acting as a Nazi

    by Johann Chapoutot ...
    Translated by Miranda Richmond Mouillot ...
    Winner of the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust ResearchThe scale and the depth of Nazi brutality seem to defy understanding. What could drive people to fight, kill, and destroy with such ruthless ambition? Observers and historians have offered countless explanations since the 1930s. According to Johann Chapoutot, we need to understand better how the Nazis explained it themselves. ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Transformation of the World

    A Global History of the Nineteenth Century

    by Jürgen Osterhammel ...
    Translated by Patrick Camiller ...
    Series series America in the World
    A panoramic global history of the nineteenth centuryA monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transition. Jürgen Osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth century, moves beyond conventional Eurocentric and chronological accounts of the era, presenting instead a ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Digital Sociology

    The Reinvention of Social Research

    by Noortje Marres ...
    This provocative new introduction to the field of digital sociology offers a critical overview of interdisciplinary debates about new ways of knowing society that are emerging today at the interface of computing, media, social research and social life.Digital Sociology introduces key concepts, methods and understandings that currently inform the development of specifically digital forms of social ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Citizen Marx

    Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought

    by Bruno Leipold ...
    The first book to offer a comprehensive exploration of Marx’s relationship to republicanism, arguing that it is essential to understanding his thoughtIn Citizen Marx, Bruno Leipold argues that, contrary to certain interpretive commonplaces, Karl Marx’s thinking was deeply informed by republicanism. Marx’s relation to republicanism changed over the course of his life, but its complex influence on ... Read more

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