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Corporate Social Irresponsibility

by Paula Alexander ...

Corporate Social Irresponsibility focuses on ethical failures in order to relate corporate responsibility to business ethics, corporate governance, and organization effectiveness. The book advocates a strategic approach to CSR – ethical management cannot, and should not, be divorced from effective management.Corporate social responsibility has transitioned from oxymoron into a defining challenge ... Read more

$105.99 USD

Corporate Social Irresponsibility focuses on ethical failures in order to relate corporate responsibility to business ethics, corporate governance, and organization effectiveness. The book advocates a strategic approach to CSR – ethical management cannot, and should not, be divorced from effective management.Corporate social responsibility has transitioned from oxymoron into a defining challenge
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The Prison House of the Circuit

Politics of Control from Analog to Digital

by Jeremy Packer, Paula Nuñez de Villavicencio, Alexander Monea, Kathleen Oswald, Kate Maddalena, Joshua Reeves ...

Has society ceded its self-governance to technogovernance?The Prison House of the Circuit presents a history of digital media using circuits and circuitry to understand how power operates in the contemporary era. Through the conceptual vocabulary of the circuit, it offers a provocative model for thinking about governance and media.The authors, writing as a collective, provide a model for ... Read more

$21.59 USD

Has society ceded its self-governance to technogovernance?The Prison House of the Circuit presents a history of digital media using circuits and circuitry to understand how power operates in the contemporary era. Through the conceptual vocabulary of the circuit, it offers a provocative model for thinking about governance and media.The authors, writing as a collective, provide a model for
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Paul within Paganism

Restoring the Mediterranean Context to the Apostle

Edited by Alexander Chantziantoniou, Paula Fredriksen, Stephen L. Young ...

A collaborative project, this work introduces a burgeoning new approach to the study of Paul, which contextualizes the pagans' apostle within the wider world of ancient Mediterranean religion (so-called "paganism"). The anthology assembles cutting-edge essays from both senior and rising scholars, whose contributions collectively demonstrate how Paul's Jewish religious program is native to the ... Read more

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A collaborative project, this work introduces a burgeoning new approach to the study of Paul, which contextualizes the pagans' apostle within the wider world of ancient Mediterranean religion (so-called "paganism"). The anthology assembles cutting-edge essays from both senior and rising scholars, whose contributions collectively demonstrate how Paul's Jewish religious program is native to the
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The Unique Andy Warhol

The Life and Works of the Most Important Pop Artist

by Bert Alexander Petzold ...

Translated by Paula Smith ...

Series series Global Basics 101 · Your Series for Modern Knowledge
Why does a soup can feel like a work of art? Why does a starlet’s pose become an icon? And why does our present sometimes feel like an endless repetition of images? If you understand Andy Warhol, you understand the mechanics of pop culture, media and fame right up to our own day. This non-fiction book opens the door to an artist who turned advertising into art – and art into a brand: cool, razor ... Read more

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Why does a soup can feel like a work of art? Why does a starlet’s pose become an icon? And why does our present sometimes feel like an endless repetition of images? If you understand Andy Warhol, you understand the mechanics of pop culture, media and fame right up to our own day. This non-fiction book opens the door to an artist who turned advertising into art – and art into a brand: cool, razor
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Noir Affect

by Christopher Breu, Elizabeth A. Hatmaker, Paula Rabinowitz, Alexander Dunst, Sean Grattan, Peter Hitchcock, Justus Nieland, Andrew Pepper, Brian Rejack0, Ignacio Sánchez Prado1, Pamela Thoma2, Kirin Wachter-Grene3 ...

Noir Affect proposes a new understanding of noir as defined by negative affect. This new understanding emphasizes that noir is, first and foremost, an affective disposition rather than a specific cycle of films or novels associated with a given time period or national tradition. Instead, the essays in Noir Affect trace noir’s negativity as it manifests in different national contexts from the ... Read more

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Noir Affect proposes a new understanding of noir as defined by negative affect. This new understanding emphasizes that noir is, first and foremost, an affective disposition rather than a specific cycle of films or novels associated with a given time period or national tradition. Instead, the essays in Noir Affect trace noir’s negativity as it manifests in different national contexts from the
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The Physicist Albert Einstein

Life and Works of the Founder of the Theory of Relativity and the Best-Known Scientific Genius and Pacifist of the Twentieth Century

by Bert Alexander Petzold ...

Translated by Paula Smith ...

Series series Global Basics 101 · Your Series for Modern Knowledge
Anyone who knows Albert Einstein only as a tousle haired face on a poster has seen only the surface. How could a physicist so fundamentally change the Newtonian view of the world that time and space suddenly became mobile and the twentieth century learned a new way of thinking. This non fiction book shows why Einstein, as the originator of the theory of relativity, became the very image of the ... Read more

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Anyone who knows Albert Einstein only as a tousle haired face on a poster has seen only the surface. How could a physicist so fundamentally change the Newtonian view of the world that time and space suddenly became mobile and the twentieth century learned a new way of thinking. This non fiction book shows why Einstein, as the originator of the theory of relativity, became the very image of the
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Reframing Twentieth-Century French Philosophy

The Roots of Desire

by Till Grohmann, Stefan Kristensen, Paula Lorelle, Delia Popa, Alexander Schnell, Melissa Theriault, Renaud Barbaras, Scott Davidson, A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone ...

Series series Continental Philosophy and the History of Thought
Reframing Twentieth-Century French Philosophy: The Roots of Desire, edited by Elodie Boublil, investigates the works of French philosophers who have been relegated to the margins of the canon, even if their teachings and writings have been recognized as highly influential. The contributions gather around the concept of “desire” to make sense of the French philosophical debate throughout the ... Read more

$76.99 USD

Reframing Twentieth-Century French Philosophy: The Roots of Desire, edited by Elodie Boublil, investigates the works of French philosophers who have been relegated to the margins of the canon, even if their teachings and writings have been recognized as highly influential. The contributions gather around the concept of “desire” to make sense of the French philosophical debate throughout the
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The Admired Painter Frida Kahlo

The Life and Works of an Icon of Art and Feminism

by Petzold Bert Alexander ...

Translated by Paula Smith ...

Series series Global Basics 101 · Your Series for Modern Knowledge
Why does the art world celebrate male genius while overlooking the revolutionary women who transformed how we see pain, identity, and the female experience? Discover how one Mexican painter defied convention, suffering, and erasure to become the most iconic feminist artist of the twentieth century.Frida Kahlo didn't just paint self-portraits – she created a visual language that spoke truths about ... Read more

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Why does the art world celebrate male genius while overlooking the revolutionary women who transformed how we see pain, identity, and the female experience? Discover how one Mexican painter defied convention, suffering, and erasure to become the most iconic feminist artist of the twentieth century.Frida Kahlo didn't just paint self-portraits – she created a visual language that spoke truths about
... Read more
The Eccentric Painter and Artist Salvador Dalí

The Life and Works of a Leading Representative of Surrealism

by Bert Alexander Petzold ...

Translated by Paula Smith ...

Series series Global Basics 101 · Your Series for Modern Knowledge
Why do melting clocks and burning giraffes still haunt us today, and why does Dalí’s world feel like a mirror of our own dreams? This non-fiction book shows you how Salvador Dalí turned the unconscious into images you never forget – and how a young provocateur became the best-known Surrealist of the twentieth century. Anyone who knows Dalí only as an eccentric figure will discover here the precise ... Read more

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Why do melting clocks and burning giraffes still haunt us today, and why does Dalí’s world feel like a mirror of our own dreams? This non-fiction book shows you how Salvador Dalí turned the unconscious into images you never forget – and how a young provocateur became the best-known Surrealist of the twentieth century. Anyone who knows Dalí only as an eccentric figure will discover here the precise
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The History of France

Celts, Romans, Kings, Revolutions and the Napoleonic Wars · The History of France between Courtly Culture, Republican Tradition, Cultural Prestige and Political Influence in Europe

by Bert Alexander Petzold ...

Translated by Paula Smith ...

Series series Global Basics 101 · Your Series for Modern Knowledge
Why did France become a country that shaped Europe’s history, politics and culture over the centuries more profoundly than almost any other nation? This book presents France as the cultural visionary of the new Europe and leads straight into a history full of upheavals, power struggles, ideas and moments of artistic brilliance. Anyone wishing to understand Europe will discover here the ... Read more

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Why did France become a country that shaped Europe’s history, politics and culture over the centuries more profoundly than almost any other nation? This book presents France as the cultural visionary of the new Europe and leads straight into a history full of upheavals, power struggles, ideas and moments of artistic brilliance. Anyone wishing to understand Europe will discover here the
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The History of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK)

Romans, Normans, Empire, Industrialisation and Imperialism · The History of Great Britain from Monarchy and Global Sea Power to Parliamentary Democracy and Constitutional Monarchy

by Bert Alexander Petzold ...

Translated by Paula Smith ...

Series series Global Basics 101 · Your Series for Modern Knowledge
How could an island on the edge of Europe give rise to the power that, through kings, Parliament, empire and industrialisation, shaped the world for centuries? Anyone wishing to understand Great Britain, its political upheavals and its global influence, will find in this book far more than a mere chronicle. ‘The History of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK)’ is a fact ... Read more

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How could an island on the edge of Europe give rise to the power that, through kings, Parliament, empire and industrialisation, shaped the world for centuries? Anyone wishing to understand Great Britain, its political upheavals and its global influence, will find in this book far more than a mere chronicle. ‘The History of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK)’ is a fact
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The Painter and Versatile Artist Pablo Picasso

Life and Works of a Multifaceted Twentieth-Century Genius

by Bert Alexander Petzold ...

Translated by Paula Smith ...

Series series Global Basics 101 · Your Series for Modern Knowledge
Anyone who knows Pablo Picasso only as a famous name has merely skimmed the surface. This non-fiction book opens up a view behind myth and masterpiece and shows why Picasso’s art still electrifies us today. You follow a compelling Picasso biography that does not stop at anecdotes, but explains how talent and defiance combined to form an artist who shaped Classical Modernism and repeatedly ... Read more

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Anyone who knows Pablo Picasso only as a famous name has merely skimmed the surface. This non-fiction book opens up a view behind myth and masterpiece and shows why Picasso’s art still electrifies us today. You follow a compelling Picasso biography that does not stop at anecdotes, but explains how talent and defiance combined to form an artist who shaped Classical Modernism and repeatedly
... Read more

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