The Inner History of Devices

"For more than two decades, in such landmark studies as The Second Self and Life on the Screen, Sherry Turkle has challenged our collective imagination with her insights about how technology enters our private worlds. In The Inner History of Devices, she describes her process, an approach that reveals how what we make is woven into our ways of seeing ourselves. She brings together three traditi…

Catalogue of chamber music for woodwind instruments

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Three Lectures on Post-Industrial Society

Previously published in French as: Trois le?cons sur la soci?et?e post-industrielle.A noted economist analyzes the upheavals caused by revolutions in technology, labor, culture, financial markets, and globalization.In this pithy and provocative book, noted economist Daniel Cohen offers his analysis of the global shift to a post-industrial era. If it was once natural to speak of industrial socie…

The black rose and other poems

Introspection, carried too far, may wreck the soul of a man, but without it a poet is merely a versifier or an experimenter, dealing with the laboratory instead of with life. For him there must be no eternal verities except those he discovers and proves to himself. He can take nothing on trust. His life-work is to " stir the decent dust about the world " — his own world as well as that of oth…

Hawaii Nei : an idyll of the Pacific isles

Alas ! the gloomy land of night, The fiery pit of baleful light ; Great clouds of smoke to heaven ascending, The melted mountains downward tending: Jehovah !— I am seized with fe

Madame Fontenoy:

AR away from the usual route of tourists, amid vineyards, rich meadows, and low sunny hills, and skirted by a broad sleepy river, stands the old town of Rheims in Champagne. So far away that few travellers

The magic casement : an anthology of fairy poetry

THE MAGIC CASEMENT A BOOK OF FAERY POEMS GIVING GLIMPSES OF THE WORLD BEYOND THE CASEMENT: SELECTED AND ARRANGED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY ALFRED NOYES

Hymn to Venus : an anthology in miniature of poems

A MEDITATION FOR HIS MISTRESS VOU are a tulip seen to-day, •*• But, dearest, of so short a stay That where you grew scarce men can say. You are a lovely July-flower, Yet one rude wind or ruffling shower Will force you hence, and in an hour.

The global internet economy

By 2002, all but a handful of countries were connected to the Internet. The intertwining of the Internet and the globalization of finance, corporate governance, and trade raises questions about national models of technology development and property rights. The sudden ability of hundreds of millions of users to gain access to a global communication infrastructure spurred the creation of new firm…

Global justice and transnational politics : essays on the moral and political…

If globalization is to be a benefit and not a burden to humankind, it must be governed by global institutions that are perceived by all people to be democratic and just. But before we can create such institutions, we must imagine them, and that requires a rethinking and extension of normative political theory. Global Justice and Transnational Politics encourages and advances that work.The book'…