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Machine-Age Comedy - Michael North - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Machine-Age Comedy - Michael North - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

In this latest addition to Oxford''s Modernist Literature & Culture series, renowned modernist scholar Michael North poses fundamental questions about the relationship between modernity and comic form in film, animation, the visual arts, and literature. Machine-Age Comedy vividly constructs a cultural history that spans the entire twentieth century, showing how changes wrought by industrialization have forever altered the comic mode. With keen analyses, North examines the work of a wide range of artists - including Charlie Chaplin, Walt Disney, Marcel Duchamp, Samuel Beckett, and David Foster Wallace - to show the creative and unconventional ways the routinization of industrial society has been explored in a broad array of cultural forms. Throughout, North argues that modern writers and artists found something inherently comic in new experiences of repetition associated with, enforced by, and made inevitable by the machine age. Ultimately, this rich, tightly focused study offers a new lens for understanding the devlopment of comedic structures during periods of massive social, political, and cultural change to reveal how the original promise of modern life can be extracted from its practical disappointment.

DKK 344.00
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Smashing the Liquor Machine - A Global History of Prohibition - Bog af Mark Lawrence (Assistant Professor of Political Science Schrad - Hardback

Smashing the Liquor Machine - A Global History of Prohibition - Bog af Mark Lawrence (Assistant Professor of Political Science Schrad - Hardback

When most people think of the prohibition era, they think of speakeasies, gin runners, and backwoods fundamentalists railing about the ills of strong drink. In other words, in the popular imagination, it is a peculiarly American event. Yet, as Mark Lawrence Schrad shows in Smashing the Liquor Machine, the conventional scholarship on prohibition is extremely misleading for a simple reason: American prohibition was just one piece of a global wave of prohibition laws that occurred around the same time...

DKK 262.95
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Moral Machines - Wendell Wallach - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Moral Machines - Wendell Wallach - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

"An invaluable guide to avoiding the stuff of science-fiction nightmares."--John Gilby, Times Higher Education"Moral Machines is a fine introduction to the emerging field of robot ethics. There is much here that will interest ethicists, philosophers, cognitive scientists, and roboticists."-Peter Danielson, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews"Written with an abundance of examples and lessons learned, scenarios of incidents that may happen, and elaborate discussions on existing artificial agents on the cutting edge of research/practice, Moral Machines goes beyond what is known as computer ethics into what will soon be called the discipline of machine morality. Highly recommended."-G. Trajkovski, CHOICE"...the book does succeed in making the essential point that the phrase ''moral machine'' is not an oxymoron. It also provides a window onto an area of research with which psychologists are unlikely to be familiar and one from which, at some point, we may be able to learn quite a lot."-PsycCRITIQUES "Moral Machines represents a valuable addition to, and extension of, the current literature on machine morality. As the development of autonomous artificial moral agents becomes closer to being realized, I suspect that this book will only gain in importance."--Metapsychology

DKK 267.00
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The Moral Dynamics of Economic Life - An Extension and Critique of Caritas in Veritate - Bog - Paperback

The Moral Dynamics of Economic Life - An Extension and Critique of Caritas in Veritate - Bog - Paperback

Caritas in veritate (Charity in Truth) is the ''social'' encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI, one of many papal encyclicals over the last 120 years that address economic life. This volume, based on discussions at a symposium co-sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies and the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, analyzes the situation of the Church and the theological basis for Benedict's thinking about the person, community, and the globalizedeconomy.

DKK 369.95
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Design in the USA - Jeffrey L. Meikle - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Design in the USA - Jeffrey L. Meikle - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

From the Cadillac to the Apple Mac, the skyscraper to the Tiffany lampshade, the world in which we live has been profoundly influenced for over a century by the work of American designers. But the product is only the end of a story that is full of fascinating questions. What has been the social and cultural role of design in American society? To produce useful things that consumers need? Or to persuade them to buy things that they don''t need? Where does the designer stand in all this? And how has the role of design in America changed over time, since the early days of the young Republic? Jeffrey Meikle explores the social and cultural history of American design spanning over two centuries, from the hand-crafted furniture and objects of the early nineteenth century, through the era of industrialization and the mass production of the machine age, to the information-based society of the present, covering everything from the Arts and Crafts movement to Art Deco, modernism to post-modernism, MOMA to the Tupperware bowl.

DKK 186.00
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Violence against Women in Politics - Bog af Mona Lena (Professor of Political Science Krook - Paperback

Violence against Women in Politics - Bog af Mona Lena (Professor of Political Science Krook - Paperback

This book provides the first comprehensive account of violence against women in politics. Tracing its emergence as a concept, Mona Lena Krook draws on research in multiple disciplines to theorize that this phenomenon is not simply a gendered extension of existing definitions of political violence privileging physical aggressions against rivals. Rather, it is a distinct phenomenon involving a broad range of harms to undermine women as political actors. Adopting aglobal comparative approach, Krook..

DKK 296.95
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St. Francis of Assisi and Nature - Roger D Sorrell - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

St. Francis of Assisi and Nature - Roger D Sorrell - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

One of the best-loved saints of all time, Francis of Assisi is often depicted today as a kind of proto-hippie or early environmentalist. This book, the most comprehensive study in English of Francis''s view of nature in the context of medieval tradition, debunks modern anachronistic interpretations, arguing convincingly that Francis''s ideas can only be understood in their 13th-century context. Through close analysis of Francis''s writings, particularly the Canticle of the Sun , Sorrell shows that many of Francis''s beliefs concerning the proper relation of humanity to the natural world have their antecedents in scripture and the medieval monastic orders, while other ideas and practices-his nature mysticism, his concept of familial relationships with created things, and his extension of chivalric conceptions to interactions with creatures-are entirely his own. Sorrell insists, however, that only by seeing Francis in terms of the Western traditions from which he arose can we appreciate the true originality of this extraordinary figure and the relevance of his thought to modern religious and environmental concerns.

DKK 321.00
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Mismatched Women - The Siren's Song Through the Machine - Bog af Jennifer (Assistant Professor Fleeger - Paperback

Mismatched Women - The Siren's Song Through the Machine - Bog af Jennifer (Assistant Professor Fleeger - Paperback

This book tells the history of sound machines through singers whose bodies and voices do not match. Jennifer Fleeger explores this phenomenon, moving from the fictional Trilby to the real-life Youtube star Susan Boyle, and demonstrating along the way that singers with voices that do not match their bodies are essential to the success of technologies for preserving and sharing music.

DKK 355.95
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