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44 produkter
Facial Recognition in Everyday Life
Av Mark Andrejevic, Neil Selwyn m. fl.
Häftad, 2027
281 kr
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Facial recognition technology is one of the defining surveillance technologies of our time, and as the technology continues to develop it is urgently important to consider the ways in which it amplifies and reconfigures power relations.While much of the critical work on facial recognition …
DogFellow's Ghost
Av Gavin Smith
E-bok, 2011
241 kr
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A new century has begun and new fields of science are shaking man’s longest-held beliefs. And on a tropical island, somewhere in the Pacific, new kinds of creature have been conceived.Yet the Master who made them has disappeared, and for one of his creations the loss is unbearable: neither entirely …
Opening the Black Box
The Work of Watching
Av Gavin Smith
Inbunden, 2014
2516 kr
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Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras are a prominent, if increasingly familiar, feature of urbanism. They symbolize the faith that spatial authorities place in technical interventions for the treatment of social problems. CCTV was principally introduced to sterilize municipalities, to govern …
Dynamics and Relativity
Av Jeffrey Forshaw, Gavin Smith
Häftad, 2009
623 kr
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A new title in the Manchester Physics Series, this introductory text emphasises physical principles behind classical mechanics and relativity. It assumes little in the way of prior knowledge, introducing relevant mathematics and carefully developing it within a physics context. Designed to provide …
Dynamics and Relativity
Av Gavin Smith, Jeffrey Forshaw
E-bok, 2009
2281 kr
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A new title in the Manchester Physics Series, this introductory text emphasises physical principles behind classical mechanics and relativity. It assumes little in the way of prior knowledge, introducing relevant mathematics and carefully developing it within a physics context. Designed to provide …
Livelihood and Resistance
Peasants and the Politics of Land in Peru
Av Gavin Smith
Häftad, 1991
428 kr
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"Livelihood and Resistance" examines a Peruvian highland community where rural resistance has been endemic for over a century. Gavin Smith explores the way in which the villagers' daily economic interests and their political struggles contribute to their social and political identity.
Immediate Struggles
People, Power, and Place in Rural Spain
Av Susana Narotzky, Gavin Smith
Häftad, 2006
443 kr
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This superb historical and ethnographic study of the political economy of the Vega Baja region of Spain, one of the European Union's "Regional Economies," takes up the difficult question of how to understand the growing alienation ordinary working people feel in the face of globalization. Combining …
Livelihood and Resistance
Peasants and the Politics of Land in Peru
Av Gavin Smith
E-bok, 1989
503 kr
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Livelihood and Resistance examines a Peruvian highland community where rural resistance has been endemic for over a century. Gavin Smith explores the way in which the villagers'' daily economic interests and their political struggles contribute to their social and political identity. Livelihood and …
Immediate Struggles
People, Power, and Place in Rural Spain
Av Gavin Smith, Susana Narotzky
E-bok, 2006
535 kr
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This superb historical and ethnographic study of the political economy of the Vega Baja region of Spain, one of the European Union’s "Regional Economies," takes up the difficult question of how to understand the growing alienation ordinary working people feel in the face of globalization. Combining …
Barking and Dagenham
Images of London
Av Gavin Smith
Häftad, 1996
191 kr
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Barking and Dagenham have been sister communities on the Thames shore since Saxon times. In their earliest days communication with other parts was mainly by water since inland the area was a wilderness of marsh passable only with the greatest difficulty. We must assume that these early settlers …
Hackney from Stamford Hill to Shoreditch: Images of England
Av Gavin Smith
Häftad, 1999
172 kr
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Hackney from Stamford Hill to Shoreditch in old photographs
Islington
Britain in Old Photographs
Av Gavin Smith
Häftad, 2009
189 kr
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Islington retains a distinct personality which dates back to the days when it was a villages in the countryside visited by Londoners for leisure pursuits. This fascinating collection of nearly 200 old photographs of the Borough takes a nostalgic look back at some of the changes of the last hundred …
Stoke Newington
Images of England
Av Gavin Smith
Häftad, 2011
201 kr
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Stoke Newington in the early nineteenth century was notable as an 'old world' suburb possessing great charm. Many of its interesting old houses, inns and chapels were recorded in the sketches and paintings of Thomas Hosmer Shepherd and his son. At the same time a new architectural genius was at …
Perth
Britain in Old Photographs
Häftad, 2011
201 kr
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Perth in Old Photographs is the most comprehensive title on its subject ever published. Through a lively and intimate mixture of rare photographs gleaned from private and public sources, this book presents a fascinating and wide-ranging record of life in a vibrant settlement which has frequently …
Between History and Histories
The Making of Silences and Commemorations
Häftad, 1997
455 kr
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Since the 1980s historians have been influenced by two anthropological concepts: cultural distance and awareness of small-scale interactions. Recent work, however, has shifted away from these notions. We now see that cultures cannot be studied as units with internal coherence and that the microcosm …
Confronting the Present
Towards a Politically Engaged Anthropology
Av Gavin Smith
E-bok, 2021
762 kr
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Anthropologists study other people and worry about it. In the past this took the form of a professional desire to make our politics always somewhere else and to do with persons characterized as in some way different from ourselves. Now distances shrink and old forms of difference melt as global …
Confronting the Present
Towards a Politically Engaged Anthropology
Av Gavin Smith
E-bok, 2021
762 kr
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Anthropologists study other people and worry about it. In the past this took the form of a professional desire to make our politics always somewhere else and to do with persons characterized as in some way different from ourselves. Now distances shrink and old forms of difference melt as global …
Consumer Decision-Making, Analytics and AI
Av Andrew Smith, Evgeniya Lukinova m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
2445 kr
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Many decisions in our lives are decisions we make as consumers and buyers. Analytics- driven marketing underpinned by machine learning and AI has had a seismic impact on the execution of these decisions and on behavioural outcomes. This book dissects processes and issues at the heart of our …
Consumer Decision-Making, Analytics and AI
Av Andrew Smith, Evgeniya Lukinova m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
728 kr
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Many decisions in our lives are decisions we make as consumers and buyers. Analytics- driven marketing underpinned by machine learning and AI has had a seismic impact on the execution of these decisions and on behavioural outcomes. This book dissects processes and issues at the heart of our …
Consumer Decision-Making, Analytics and AI
Av Georgiana Nica-Avram, James Goulding m. fl.
E-bok, 2025
838 kr
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Many decisions in our lives are decisions we make as consumers and buyers. Analytics- driven marketing underpinned by machine learning and AI has had a seismic impact on the execution of these decisions and on behavioural outcomes. This book dissects processes and issues at the heart of our …
Consumer Decision-Making, Analytics and AI
Av Georgiana Nica-Avram, James Goulding m. fl.
E-bok, 2025
856 kr
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Many decisions in our lives are decisions we make as consumers and buyers. Analytics- driven marketing underpinned by machine learning and AI has had a seismic impact on the execution of these decisions and on behavioural outcomes. This book dissects processes and issues at the heart of our …
Bloodshot
The Official Movie Novelization
Av Gavin Smith
Ljudbok, 2020
321 kr
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Being a hero is in his blood. After he and his wife are murdered, Marine Ray Garrison is resurrected by a secret team of scientists. Enhanced with nanotechnology, he becomes a superhuman, biotech killing machine—“Bloodshot”—without any memory of his previous life. But some things can’t stay buried, …
Dynamics and Relativity
Av Gavin Smith, Jeffrey Forshaw
E-bok, 2014
717 kr
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A new title in the Manchester Physics Series, this introductory text emphasises physical principles behind classical mechanics and relativity. It assumes little in the way of prior knowledge, introducing relevant mathematics and carefully developing it within a physics context. Designed to provide …
Opening the Black Box
The Work of Watching
Av Gavin Smith
E-bok, 2014
749 kr
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Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras are a prominent, if increasingly familiar, feature of urbanism. They symbolize the faith that spatial authorities place in technical interventions for the treatment of social problems. CCTV was principally introduced to sterilize municipalities, to govern …
Opening the Black Box
The Work of Watching
Av Gavin Smith
E-bok, 2014
749 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras are a prominent, if increasingly familiar, feature of urbanism. They symbolize the faith that spatial authorities place in technical interventions for the treatment of social problems. CCTV was principally introduced to sterilize municipalities, to govern …
Opening the Black Box
The Work of Watching
Av Gavin Smith
Häftad, 2016
692 kr
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Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras are a prominent, if increasingly familiar, feature of urbanism. They symbolize the faith that spatial authorities place in technical interventions for the treatment of social problems. CCTV was principally introduced to sterilize municipalities, to govern …
Between History and Histories
The Making of Silences and Commemorations
E-bok, 1997
1058 kr
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Since the 1980s historians have been influenced by two anthropological concepts: cultural distance and awareness of small-scale interactions. Recent work, however, has shifted away from these notions. We now see that cultures cannot be studied as units with internal coherence and that the microcosm …
Facial Recognition in Everyday Life
Av Mark Andrejevic, Neil Selwyn m. fl.
Inbunden, 2027
1247 kr
Kommande
Facial recognition technology is one of the defining surveillance technologies of our time, and as the technology continues to develop it is urgently important to consider the ways in which it amplifies and reconfigures power relations.While much of the critical work on facial recognition …
Heartpiercer
Av Rich Douek, Gavin Smith m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
212 kr
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Betrayed by her lord, Kurrn, and left for dead, she awakes in a dark world overrun by nightmares, with a single mission on her mind: revenge. But before she can avenge herself on Kurrn, she must deal with the devastation left in his wake - beginning with a tribe of vicious werewolves menacing one …
