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  • No Heavenly Bodies

    A History of Satellite Communications Infrastructure

    by Christine E. Evans, Lars Lundgren ...
    Series series Infrastructures
    The compelling and little-known history of satellite communications that reveals the Soviet and Eastern European roles in the development of its infrastructure.Taking its title from Hannah Arendt’s description of artificial earth satellites, No Heavenly Bodies explores the history of the first two decades of satellite communications. Christine E. Evans and Lars Lundgren trace how satellite ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Remapping Cold War Media

    Institutions, Infrastructures, Translations

    by Katie Trumpener, Rosamund Johnston, Anu Koivunen, Masha Salazkina, Sonja Simonyi, Jaroslav Švelch, Marie Cronqvist, Elena Razlogova, Brangwen Stone, Marla Zubel, Laura Saarenmaa, Petr Szczepanik, Stefano Pisu, Christine Evans, Lars Lundgren, Anikó Imre ...
    Why were Hollywood producers eager to film on the other side of the Iron Curtain? How did Western computer games become popular in socialist Czechoslovakia's youth paramilitary clubs? What did Finnish commercial television hope to gain from broadcasting Soviet drama?Cold War media cultures are typically remembered in terms of an East-West binary, emphasizing conflict and propaganda. Remapping Cold ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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  • Popular Geopolitics and Nation Branding in the Post-Soviet Realm

    by Robert A. Saunders ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Place, Space and Politics
    This seminal book explores the complex relationship between popular geopolitics and nation branding among the Newly Independent States of Eurasia, and their combined role in shaping contemporary national image and statecraft within and beyond the region. It provides critical perspectives on international relations, nationalism, and national identity through the use of innovative approaches ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Four Futures

    Life After Capitalism

    by Peter Frase ...
    Series series Jacobin
    An “invigorating” vision of four post-capitalist futures that consider the intersections of technology, the environment, and modern politics (The Guardian)Peter Frase argues that increasing automation and a growing scarcity of resources, thanks to climate change, will bring it all tumbling down. In Four Futures, Frase imagines how this post-capitalist world might look, deploying the tools of both ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?

    by Gabriel Rockhill ...
    Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? offers a crash course in the history of imperialist propaganda, as well as in the Marxist method for analyzing culture and ideology. Author Gabriel Rockhill demonstrates the explanatory and transformative superiority of a dialectical and historical materialist approach, while elucidating how the world of ideas is a crucial site of class struggle. He then ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • The Case Against Socialism

    by Rand Paul ...
    A recent poll showed 43% of Americans think more socialism would be a good thing. What do these people not know?Socialism has killed millions, but it's now the ideology du jour on American college campuses and among many leftists. Reintroduced by leaders such as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the ideology manifests itself in starry-eyed calls for free-spending policies like Medicare ... Read more

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  • Russia Against Modernity

    by Alexander Etkind ...
    Putin’s war is a “special operation” against modernity. The invasion has been directed against Ukraine, but the war has a broader target: the modern world of climate awareness, energy transition and digital labor. By trading oil and gas, promoting Trump and Brexit, spreading corruption, boosting inequality and homophobia, subsidizing far-right movements and destroying Ukraine, Putin’s clique aims ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • The Democratic Surround

    Multimedia & American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties

    by Fred Turner ...
    A "smart and fascinating" reassessment of postwar American culture and the politics of the 1960s from the author of From Counterculture to Cyberculture ( Reason Magazine).We tend to think of the sixties as an explosion of creative energy and freedom that arose in direct revolt against the social restraint and authoritarian hierarchy of the early Cold War years. Yet, as Fred Turner reveals in The ... Read more

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  • Testimony

    The Legacy of Schindler's List and the USC Shoah Foundation

    by Steven Spielberg ...
    This illustrated, large-format book, Testimony: The Legacy of Schindler's List and the USC Shoah Foundation—A 20th Anniversary Commemoration combines, for the first time, the behind-the-scenes story of the making of Schindler's List with the history of the remarkable organization inspired by that landmark film. Steven Spielberg's encounters with Holocaust survivors who visited the set and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Breaking Things at Work

    The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job

    by Gavin Mueller ...
    An exhilarating challenge to the way we think about work, technology, progress, and what we want from the futureIn the 19th century, English textile workers responded to the introduction of new tecnologies on the factory floor by smashing them to bits. For years 'the Luddites' roamed the English countryside, practicing drills and maneuvers that they would later deploy on unassuming machines. The ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Against the Fascist Creep

    by Alexander Reid Ross ...
    US society is notoriously complacent when it comes to the rise of fascist tendencies. When Dylann Roof murdered nine black parishioners in a Charleston church, media emphasis remained superficial. Familiar narratives of insane lone wolves and Confederate flags masked the organizations that inspired Roof's act and their connections to politicians at the local, state, and federal levels throughout ... Read more

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  • World Builders

    Technology and the New Geopolitics

    by Bruno Maçães ...
    World politics has changed, claims Bruno Maçães. Geopolitics is no longer simply a contest to control territory: in this age of advanced technology, it has become a contest to create the territory. Great powers seek to build a world for other states to inhabit, while keeping the ability to change the rules or the state of the world when necessary. At a moment when the old concepts no longer work, ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

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