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  • SYNER-G: Systemic Seismic Vulnerability and Risk Assessment of Complex Urban, Utility, Lifeline Systems and Critical Facilities

    Methodology and Applications

    Edited by B. Khazai, H. Wenzel, K. Pitilakis, P. Franchin ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    SYNER-G, a multidisciplinary effort funded by the European Union, allowed the development of an innovative methodological framework for the assessment of physical as well as socio-economic seismic vulnerability and risk at urban and regional level. The results of SYNER-G are presented in two books both published by Springer, the present and a second one, entitled “SYNER-G: Typology Definition and ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Tourism and Resilience

    by Bruno Abegg, Arjen Alberts, Maria Amoamo, Godfrey Baldacchino, Susanne Becken, Marta Berbés-Blázquez, Jeremy Buultjens, Athula Chammika Gnanapala, Harold Goodwin, Bijan Khazai, Alan A Lew, Glenn McCartney, Pin T. Ng, Jonathan Pugh, Iraj Ratnayake, Esteban Ruiz-Ballesteros, Daniel Scott, Valerie A. Sheppard, Jennifer Strickland-Munro, Robert Steiger, Lisa Trawöger, Tsung-chiung Wu ...
    This is the first book to address the concept of resilience and its specific application and relevance to tourism, in particular tourism destinations. Resilience relates to the ability of organisms, communities, ecosystems and populations to withstand the impacts of external forces while retaining their integrity and ability to continue functioning. It is particularly applicable to tourism ... Read more

    $150.99 CAD

  • Iraq in Crisis

    by Anthony H. Cordesman, Sam Khazai ...
    Series series CSIS Reports
    Iraq is a nation in crisis bordering on civil war. The country now faces growing violence, a steady rise in Sunni Islamist extremism, an increasingly authoritarian leader that favors Iraq’s Sunnis, and growing ethnic tension between Arabs and Kurds. The recent Iraqi election offers little promise that it can correct the corruption, the weaknesses in its security forces, and the critical failures ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

  • 28 Cultural Studies Steps To Read and Interpret Literary Text and Movies

    How To Write A Literary Analysis Of Literature

    by Sara Khazai, ALI MAHMOOD JASIM ...
    Series series how to apply literary theories on literature
    ✓This study contains steps that enable readers and researchers to read and interpret literary texts and films and interpret the implicit meanings behind lines and scenes. These steps are in the form of questions and answers with examples. These questions will enable the reader to apply cultural studies to literary texts, even if the reader's analytical levels are modest. This content begins with a ... Read more

    $16.61 CAD

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    Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale

    by James B. South ...
    Series Book 4 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    Twenty-three essays by young professional philosophers examine crucial ethical and metaphysical aspects of the Buffyverse (the world of Buffy). Though the show already attracted much scholarly attention, this is the first book to fully disinter the intellectual issues. Designed by Whedon as a multilevel story with most of its meanings deeply buried in heaps of heavy irony, Buffy the Vampire Slayer ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Abolish the Family

    A Manifesto for Care and Liberation

    by Sophie Lewis ...
    What if we could do better than the family?We need to talk about the family. For those who are lucky, families can be filled with love and care, but for many they are sites of pain: from abandonment and neglect, to abuse and violence. Nobody is more likely to harm you than your family.Even in so-called happy families, the unpaid, unacknowledged work that it takes to raise children and care for ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • A Darwinian Left

    Politics, Evolution and Cooperation

    by Peter Singer ...
    Series series Darwinism Today series
    In this ground-breaking book, a renowned bioethicist argues that the political left must radically revise its outdated view of human nature. He shows how the insights of modern evolutionary theory, particularly on the evolution of cooperation, can help the left attain its social and political goals.Singer explains why the left originally rejected Darwinian thought and why these reasons are no ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Capitalism: A Horror Story

    Gothic Marxism and the Dark Side of the Radical Imagination

    by Jon Greenaway ...
    A horror-story history of capitalism and its relationship to the haunted and the gothic, and a manifesto of Gothic Marxism, which finds revolutionary hope in the nightmare of modernity.What does it mean to see horror in capitalism? What can horror tell us about the state and nature of capitalism?Blending film criticism, cultural theory, and philosophy, Capitalism: A Horror Story examines ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • No Speed Limit

    Three Essays on Accelerationism

    by Steven Shaviro ...
    Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
    Accelerationism is the bastard offspring of a furtive liaison between Marxism and science fiction. Its basic premise is that the only way out is the way through: to get beyond capitalism, we need to push its technologies to the point where they explode. This may be dubious as a political strategy, but it works as a powerful artistic program.Other authors have debated the pros and cons of ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Gender History

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Antoinette Burton ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Antoinette Burton argues that gender history is hiding in plain sight, at work everywhere we look. This volume introduces the field of gender history--its origins, development, reception, recalibrations, and frictions. It offers a set of working definitions of gender as a descriptive category and as a category of historical analysis, tracing the emergence, usage, and applicability of these ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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  • The Man in the High Castle and Philosophy

    Subversive Reports from Another Reality

    Edited by Bruce Krajewski, Joshua Heter ...
    Series Book 111 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    The Man in the High Castle is an Amazon TV show, based on the Philip K. Dick novel, about an “alternate present” (beginning in the 1960s) in which Germany and Japan won World War II, with the former Western US occupied by Japan, the former Eastern US occupied by Nazi Germany, and a small “neutral zone” between them. A theme of the story is that in this alternative world there is eager speculation, ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • On Microfascism

    Gender, Death, and War

    by Jack Z. Bratich ...
    Key selling points:Avoids rehashing histories already available elsewhere; will address the contemporary fascist resurgence in the most up-to-date possible fashion, including recent spectacular mobilizations.Goes deeper than accounts that focus on organized movements and leaders, examining what needs to happen before these movements can emerge and revealing that the seeds of embryonic fascism are ... Read more

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