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Haunted Nature - - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Haunted Nature - - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This volume is a study of human entanglements with Nature as seen through the mode of haunting. As an interruption of the present by the past, haunting can express contemporary anxieties concerning our involvement in the transformation of natural environments and their ecosystems, and our complicity in their collapse. It can also express a much-needed sense of continuity and relationality. The complexity of the question-who and what gets to be called human with respect to the nonhuman-is reflected in these collected chapters, which, in their analysis of cinematic and literary representations of sentient Nature within the traditional gothic trope of haunting, bring together history, race, postcolonialism, and feminism with ecocriticism and media studies. Given the growing demand for narratives expressing our troubled relationship with Nature, it is imperative to analyze this contested ground. "Chapter 6" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

DKK 901.00
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A New Social Ontology of Government - Daniel Little - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

A New Social Ontology of Government - Daniel Little - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book provides a better understanding of some of the central puzzles of empirical political science: how does "government" express will and purpose? How do political institutions come to have effective causal powers in the administration of policy and regulation? What accounts for both plasticity and perseverance of political institutions and practices? And how are we to formulate a better understanding of the persistence of dysfunctions in government and public administration - failures to achieve public goods, the persistence of self-dealing behavior by the actors of the state, and the apparent ubiquity of corruption even within otherwise high-functioning governments?

DKK 476.00
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Invariant Integrals in Physics - Genady P. Cherepanov - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Invariant Integrals in Physics - Genady P. Cherepanov - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

In this book, all physical laws are derived from a small number of invariant integrals which express the conservation of energy, mass, or momentum. This new approach allows us to unify the laws of theoretical physics, to simplify their derivation, and to discover some novel or more universal laws. Newton''s Law of gravity is generalized to take into account cosmic forces of repulsion, Archimedes'' principle of buoyancy is modified for account of the surface tension, and Coulomb''s Laws for rolling friction and for the interaction of electric charges are substantially repaired and generalized. For postgraduate students, lecturers and researchers.

DKK 816.00
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Mobility and the Hotel in Modern Literature - Emma Short - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Mobility and the Hotel in Modern Literature - Emma Short - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book considers the complex ways in which the hotel functions to express the shifting experiences of modernity in the works of such authors as Anthony Trollope, Wilkie Collins, Arnold Bennett, H.G. Wells, and Elizabeth Bowen. The text contributes to the critical debates on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature concerning space, movement, and mobility, arguing that the hotel reconfigures boundaries of modernist, middlebrow, and popular fiction. Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary theoretical and analytical perspectives, the book provides a critical and cultural history of the hotel in British literature, charting its changing nature and usage from the mid-nineteenth century up until the interwar period.

DKK 434.00
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Mobility and the Hotel in Modern Literature - Emma Short - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Mobility and the Hotel in Modern Literature - Emma Short - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book considers the complex ways in which the hotel functions to express the shifting experiences of modernity in the works of such authors as Anthony Trollope, Wilkie Collins, Arnold Bennett, H.G. Wells, and Elizabeth Bowen. The text contributes to the critical debates on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature concerning space, movement, and mobility, arguing that the hotel reconfigures boundaries of modernist, middlebrow, and popular fiction. Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary theoretical and analytical perspectives, the book provides a critical and cultural history of the hotel in British literature, charting its changing nature and usage from the mid-nineteenth century up until the interwar period.

DKK 604.00
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Animal Neopragmatism - John Hadley - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Animal Neopragmatism - John Hadley - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book affords a neopragmatic theory of animal ethics, taking its lead from American Pragmatism to place language at the centre of philosophical analysis. Following a method traceable to Dewey, Wittgenstein and Rorty, Hadley argues that many enduring puzzles about human interactions with animals can be ''dissolved'' by understanding why people use terms like dignity, respect, naturalness, and inherent value. Hadley shifts the debate about animal welfare and rights from its current focus upon contentious claims about value and animal mindedness, to the vocabulary people use to express their concern for the suffering and lives of animals. With its emphasis on public concern for animals, animal neopragmatism is a uniquely progressive and democratic theory of animal ethics.

DKK 604.00
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Larkin’s Travelling Spirit - Alex Howard - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Larkin’s Travelling Spirit - Alex Howard - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book examines Larkin''s evocation of place and space, along with the opportunities for self-discovery offered by the act and thought of travel. From his canonical verse to his lesser-known juvenilia and dream diaries, this title unveils a new Larkin; a man whose religious, political and ontological affiliations are often as wide-ranging and experimental as the very form and symbolic licence used to express them. Whether exploring Larkin''s fondness for deictics (''pointing'' words, like here/there), his fascination with death, or his interest in the sexual opportunities of an itinerant lifestyle, this monograph provides fresh critical approaches bound to appeal to established Larkin scholars and newcomers alike.

DKK 476.00
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Animal Neopragmatism - John Hadley - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Animal Neopragmatism - John Hadley - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book affords a neopragmatic theory of animal ethics, taking its lead from American Pragmatism to place language at the centre of philosophical analysis. Following a method traceable to Dewey, Wittgenstein and Rorty, Hadley argues that many enduring puzzles about human interactions with animals can be ''dissolved'' by understanding why people use terms like dignity, respect, naturalness, and inherent value. Hadley shifts the debate about animal welfare and rights from its current focus upon contentious claims about value and animal mindedness, to the vocabulary people use to express their concern for the suffering and lives of animals. With its emphasis on public concern for animals, animal neopragmatism is a uniquely progressive and democratic theory of animal ethics.

DKK 434.00
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Green Behaviors in the Workplace - Pascal Paille - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Green Behaviors in the Workplace - Pascal Paille - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book examines the spectrum of green behaviors in organizational settings, focusing on the contribution that employees make through their environmental engagement. The authors provide an overview of green behaviors while clarifying the meaning of the concept and its critical importance to greening employees. By distinguishing between voluntary (e.g., encouraging colleagues to express their ideas about environmental issues), prescribed (e.g., having an obligation to implement environmental policies), and counterproductive (e.g., not caring about water or electricity consumption) behaviors, the book rethinks sustainable development, placing the psychological and environmental dimensions on a par. Aimed at researchers in human resource management, organizational behavior, organizational change, and psychology, this interdisciplinary study proposes a novel approach to sustainability by assessing employee behaviors at work.

DKK 415.00
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Human Rights as Battlefields - - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Human Rights as Battlefields - - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book examines human rights as political battlefields, spaces that are undergoing constant changes in which political conflicts are expressed by a translation process within networks of interactions. This translation, in turn, contributes to modifying the scope and understanding of human rights. Ultimately, these battlefields express the legitimacy encounter of different versions of human rights in contemporary political practices. The volume thus challenges both the tendency to minimize the changing nature of human rights as well as the struggles emerging from the use of human rights discourses as a legitimization tool. By shifting the focus on what stakeholders do instead of solely on the origin, nature or foundations of human rights, the authors reveal that human rights are not static objects: they are constantly transformed and, as such, affect the horizon of universal rights.

DKK 689.00
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Undergraduate Algebra - Matej Bresar - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Undergraduate Algebra - Matej Bresar - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This textbook offers an innovative approach to abstract algebra, based on a unified treatment of similar concepts across different algebraic structures. This makes it possible to express the main ideas of algebra more clearly and to avoid unnecessary repetition. The book consists of two parts: The Language of Algebra and Algebra in Action. The unified approach to different algebraic structures is a primary feature of the first part, which discusses the basic notions of algebra at an elementary level. The second part is mathematically more complex, covering topics such as the Sylow theorems, modules over principal ideal domains, and Galois theory. Intended for an undergraduate course or for self-study, the book is written in a readable, conversational style, is rich in examples, and contains over 700 carefully selected exercises.

DKK 307.00
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Double-Edged Politics on Women’s Rights in the MENA Region - - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Double-Edged Politics on Women’s Rights in the MENA Region - - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

While the Arab Uprisings presented new opportunities for the empowerment of women, the sidelining of women remains a constant risk in the post-revolutionist MENA countries. Changes in the position of women are crucial to the reconfiguration of state-society relations and to the discussions between Islamist and secular trends. Theoretically framed and based on new empirical data, this edited volume explores women''s activism and political representation as well as discursive changes, with a particular focus on secular and Islamic feminism, and changes in popular opinions on women''s position in society. While the contributors express optimistic as well as more pessimistic views for the future, they agree that this is a period of uncertainty for women in the region, and that support by ruling elites towards women''s rights remains ambiguous and double-edged.

DKK 689.00
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Foreign Languages in Advertising - Jos Hornikx - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Foreign Languages in Advertising - Jos Hornikx - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book presents a comprehensive account of the use and effects of foreign languages in advertising. Based on consumer culture positioning strategies in marketing, three language strategies are presented: foreign language display to express foreignness, English to highlight globalness, and local language to appeal to ethnicity (for instance, Spanish for Hispanics in the USA). The book takes a multidisciplinary approach, integrating insights from both marketing and linguistics, presenting both theoretical perspectives (e.g., Communication Accommodation Theory, Conceptual Feature Model, Country-of-origin effect, Markedness Model, Revised Hierarchical Model) and empirical evidence from content analyses and experimental studies. The authors demonstrate that three concepts are key to understanding foreign languages in advertising: language attitudes, language-product congruence, and comprehension. The book will appeal to students and researchers in the fields of sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, psycholinguistics, marketing and advertising.

DKK 684.00
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Time, Freedom and the Self - Michelle Shir Wise - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Time, Freedom and the Self - Michelle Shir Wise - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

While abundant research has investigated time use, much less attention has been given to the cultural meanings attached to free time and what these may express with regard to conceptions of freedom and the self. In an attempt to fill this gap, Michelle Shir-Wise examines not only what people do in their free time, but also how they perceive, interpret and experience it, and in what way it relates to notions of happiness, freedom and the ideal self. Time, Freedom and the Self draws on contemporary theoretical debates concerning the relation between discourse, cultural repertoires, subjective meaning and agency, as well as literature around the sociology of leisure, to inform a unique interpretation of free time ("disciplined freedom"), developed in the light of questionnaires and in-depth interviews with middle-class, middle-aged participants in suburban Israel.

DKK 816.00
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Emotions and the Making of Psychiatric Reform in Britain, c. 1770-1820 - Mark Neuendorf - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Emotions and the Making of Psychiatric Reform in Britain, c. 1770-1820 - Mark Neuendorf - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book explores the ways which people navigated the emotions provoked by the mad in Britain across the long eighteenth century. Building upon recent advances in the historical study of emotions, it plots the evolution of attitudes towards insanity, and considers how shifting emotional norms influenced the development of a ''humanitarian'' temperament, which drove the earliest movements for psychiatric reform in England and Scotland. Reacting to a ''culture of sensibility'', which encouraged tears at the sight of tender suffering, early asylum reformers chose instead to express their humanity through unflinching resolve, charging into madhouses to contemplate scenes of misery usually hidden from public view, and confronting the authorities that enabled neglect to flourish. This intervention required careful emotional management, which is documented comprehensively here for the first time. Drawing upon a wide array of medical and literary sources, this book provides invaluable insights into pre-modern attitudes towards insanity.

DKK 986.00
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Confessional Poetry in the Cold War - Adam Beardsworth - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Confessional Poetry in the Cold War - Adam Beardsworth - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book explores how confessional poets in the 1950s and 1960s US responded to a Cold War political climate that used the threat of nuclear disaster and communist infiltration as affective tools for the management of public life. In an era that witnessed the state-sanctioned repression of civil liberties, poets such as Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Randall Jarrell adopted what has often been considered a politically benign confessional style. Although confessional writers have been criticized for emphasizing private turmoil in an era of public crisis, examining their work in relation to the political and affective environment of the Cold War US demonstrates their unique ability to express dissent while averting surveillance. For these poets, writing the fear and anxiety of life in the bomb''s shadow was a form of poetic doublespeak that critiqued the impact of an affective Cold War politics without naming names.

DKK 901.00
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Confessional Poetry in the Cold War - Adam Beardsworth - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Confessional Poetry in the Cold War - Adam Beardsworth - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book explores how confessional poets in the 1950s and 1960s US responded to a Cold War political climate that used the threat of nuclear disaster and communist infiltration as affective tools for the management of public life. In an era that witnessed the state-sanctioned repression of civil liberties, poets such as Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Randall Jarrell adopted what has often been considered a politically benign confessional style. Although confessional writers have been criticized for emphasizing private turmoil in an era of public crisis, examining their work in relation to the political and affective environment of the Cold War US demonstrates their unique ability to express dissent while averting surveillance. For these poets, writing the fear and anxiety of life in the bomb''s shadow was a form of poetic doublespeak that critiqued the impact of an affective Cold War politics without naming names.

DKK 901.00
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The Forms of Michael Field - Leeanne M. Richardson - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

The Forms of Michael Field - Leeanne M. Richardson - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Michael Field, the poetic identity created by Katharine Bradley (1846-1914) and her niece Edith Cooper (1862-1913), ceaselessly experimented with forms of identity and forms of literary expression. The Forms of Michael Field argues that their modes of self-creation are analogous to their poetic creations, and that exploring them in tandem is the best way to understand Michael Field''s cultural and literary importance. Michael Field deploys a different form in each volume of their lyric poetry: translations of Sappho, ekphrasis, songs, sonnets, and devotional verse. They also appropriate and revise the dramatic genres of verse tragedy and the masque. Each of these experiments in form enable Michael Field to differently address the cultural questions that beset late-Victorian women writers. Drawing on the insights of new lyric studies and new formalism, this book analyzes Michael Field''s continual quest for the aesthetic forms that best express their evolving ideas about identity and sexuality, gender and sacrifice, lyric voice and authority.

DKK 986.00
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Quality of Life and Human Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa - Valerie Moller - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Quality of Life and Human Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa - Valerie Moller - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This volume presents an account of how people in sub-Saharan Africa have fared under changing life circumstances of the past centuries until the present. By introducing the geography of the region it traces a time line of different historical periods that have shaped livelihoods of ordinary people of the region, and addresses the major milestones in political and economic development. It focuses on social indicators pointing to significant changes that have affected the health, education and wealth of sub-Saharan Africans and their outlook on the future since the wind of change blew through the region. With case studies and vignettes the book highlights how individual citizens across the 44 different countries of sub-Saharan Africa experience well-being and express their aspirations for the future. This book provides relevant material for practitioners and policy makers, including community and development workers, in non-governmental and other organizations in sub-Saharan African countries.

DKK 519.00
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Community and Autonomy in Southern Oman - Marielle Risse - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Community and Autonomy in Southern Oman - Marielle Risse - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book explores how there is latitude for people to make their own choices and how the chances to assert independence change over time in a Muslim, Arab, tribal culture. The book first gives a brief overview of day-to-day life in the Dhofar region of southern Oman, then focuses on how the traits of self-control and self-respect are linked in the everyday actions of several groups of tribes who speak Gibali (Jibbali, also known as Shari/Śḥeret), a non-written, Modern South Arabian language. Although no work can express the totality of a culture, this text describes how Gibalis are constantly shifting between preserving autonomy and signaling membership in family, tribal, and national communities. The work reflects observations and conclusions from over ten years of research into the history and culture of the Dhofar region along with longstanding, deep involvement with both men and women in the Gibali community.

DKK 604.00
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The Forms of Michael Field - Leeanne M. Richardson - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

The Forms of Michael Field - Leeanne M. Richardson - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Michael Field, the poetic identity created by Katharine Bradley (1846-1914) and her niece Edith Cooper (1862-1913), ceaselessly experimented with forms of identity and forms of literary expression. The Forms of Michael Field argues that their modes of self-creation are analogous to their poetic creations, and that exploring them in tandem is the best way to understand Michael Field''s cultural and literary importance. Michael Field deploys a different form in each volume of their lyric poetry: translations of Sappho, ekphrasis, songs, sonnets, and devotional verse. They also appropriate and revise the dramatic genres of verse tragedy and the masque. Each of these experiments in form enable Michael Field to differently address the cultural questions that beset late-Victorian women writers. Drawing on the insights of new lyric studies and new formalism, this book analyzes Michael Field''s continual quest for the aesthetic forms that best express their evolving ideas about identity and sexuality, gender and sacrifice, lyric voice and authority.

DKK 986.00
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Community and Autonomy in Southern Oman - Marielle Risse - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Community and Autonomy in Southern Oman - Marielle Risse - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book explores how there is latitude for people to make their own choices and how the chances to assert independence change over time in a Muslim, Arab, tribal culture. The book first gives a brief overview of day-to-day life in the Dhofar region of southern Oman, then focuses on how the traits of self-control and self-respect are linked in the everyday actions of several groups of tribes who speak Gibali (Jibbali, also known as Shari/Śḥeret), a non-written, Modern South Arabian language. Although no work can express the totality of a culture, this text describes how Gibalis are constantly shifting between preserving autonomy and signaling membership in family, tribal, and national communities. The work reflects observations and conclusions from over ten years of research into the history and culture of the Dhofar region along with longstanding, deep involvement with both men and women in the Gibali community.

DKK 434.00
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Children and Mental Health Talk - - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Children and Mental Health Talk - - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This timely collection explores how children display social competence in talking about their mental health and wellbeing. The authors analyse recorded conversations of young people''s interactions with professionals in which they disclose particular mental health concerns and their ways of coping, drawing on insights from ethnomethodology, conversation analysis and discursive psychology. Across a diverse range of institutional and international settings, chapters examine how children and young people employ interactional strategies to demonstrate their competence. The research reveals how young people resist or protect claims that they lack competence, especially in contexts where they might be seen as seeking or asking for support, or when their (dis)abilities and mental health is explicitly up for discussion. Each chapter concludes with a reflection on the methodological, professional and practical implications of the findings, highlighting areas where future research is necessary and addressing the empirical findings from the authors professional vision, facilitating innovative dialogue between conversation analytic research and professional vision. This book will be of great value to academics and professionals interested in how children express themselves, particularly in relation to their mental wellbeing.

DKK 731.00
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Worldviews, Ethics and Organizational Life - Michel Dion - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Worldviews, Ethics and Organizational Life - Michel Dion - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book provides an innovative way to revisit the depth and scope of our moral/post-moral worldviews, while undertaking an ontic reflection about organizational life. The ontic dimension of life refers to existing entities'' lived experiences. It has nothing to do with psychological and relational processes. The ontic level of analysis mirrors a philosophical outlook on organizational life. Unlike moral worldviews, post-moral worldviews oppose the existence of Truth-itself. Post-moral worldviews rather imply that dialogical relationships allow people to express their own truth-claims and welcome others'' truth-claims. The purpose of this book is to explain the philosophical implications of moral and post-moral worldviews and the way to move from a moral to a post-moral worldview. Moreover, this book explores the possibility to transcend the moral/post-moral dualism, through moral deliberation processes and a reinterpretation of the Presence of the Infinite in all dimensions of human life. This book could eventually help to better grasp the basic philosophical challenges behind ethical reflection about organizational issues.

DKK 689.00
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Conserving Humanity at the Dawn of Posthuman Technology - Joseph R. Carvalko Jr. - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Conserving Humanity at the Dawn of Posthuman Technology - Joseph R. Carvalko Jr. - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This volume examines the latest scientific and technological developments likely to shape our post-human future. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the author argues that we stand at the precipice of an evolutionary change caused by genetic engineering and anatomically embedded digital and informational technologies. The author delves into current scientific initiatives that will lead to the emergence of super smart individuals with unique creative capacities. He draws on technology, psychology and philosophy to consider humans-as-they-are relative to autonomy, creativity, and their place in a future shared with ''post humans.'' The author discusses the current state of bioethics and technology law, both which policymakers, beset by a torrent of revolutionary advances in bioengineering, are attempting to steer. Significantly, Carvalko addresses why we must both preserve the narratives that brought us to this moment and continue to express our humanity through, music, art, and literature, to ensure that, as a uniquely creative species, we don''t simply vanish in the ether of an evolution brought about by our own technology.

DKK 267.00
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