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    How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Our Relationships

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    A captivating, uncanny journey to the frontier of human-computer interaction.'It's hard to imagine a timelier book right now than this . . . you probably won't look at ChatGPT the same again.'GQ'Urgent, humane.' GUARDIAN'Engrossing.' INDEPENDENT'Existentially chilling.' THE TIMESI know we haven't known each for long, but ... ... Read more

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    How to Reclaim our Digital Future from Big Tech

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  • Feeding the Machine

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    For readers of Naomi Klein and Nicole Perlroth, a myth-dissolving exposé of how artificial intelligence exploits human labor, and a resounding argument for a more equitable digital future.Silicon Valley has sold us the illusion that artificial intelligence is a frictionless technology that will bring wealth and prosperity to humanity. But hidden beneath this smooth surface lies the grim reality of ... Read more

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  • Canon Law, the Expansion of Europe, and World Order

    by James Muldoon ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    The articles in this volume trace the development of the theory that humanity forms a single world community and that there exists a body of law governing the relations among the members of that community. These ideas first appeared in the writings of the medieval canon lawyers and received their fullest development in the writings of early modern Spanish intellectuals. Conflict and contact with ... Read more

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  • Creative Construction

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    Series series Alternatives to Capitalism in the 21st Century
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  • Building Power to Change the World

    The Political Thought of the German Council Movements

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  • Internal Colonization in Medieval Europe

    Series series The Expansion of Latin Europe, 1000-1500
    Around the year 1000 Rodulfus Glaber described France as being in the throes of a building boom. He may have been the first writer to perceive the early medieval period as a Dark Age that was ending to be replaced by a better world. In the articles gathered here distinguished medieval historians discuss the ways in which this transformation took place. European society was becoming more stable, ... Read more

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  • The Americas in the Spanish World Order

    The Justification for Conquest in the Seventeenth Century

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    Juan de Solorzano Pereira (1575-1654) was a lawyer who spent eighteen years as a judge in Peru before returning to Spain to serve on the Councils of Castile and of the Indies. Considered one of the finest lawyers in Spain, his work, De Indiarum Jure, was the most sophisticated defense of the Spanish conquest of the Americas ever written, and he was widely cited in Europe and the Americas until the ... Read more

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  • Council Democracy

    Towards a Democratic Socialist Politics

    Edited by James Muldoon ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Democratic Theory
    The return to public assemblies and direct democratic methods in the wave of the global "squares movements" since 2011 has rejuvenated interest in forms of council organisation and action. The European council movements, which developed in the immediate post-First World War era, were the most impressive of a number of attempts to develop workers’ councils throughout the twentieth century. However, ... Read more

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    Edited by Gaard Kets, James Muldoon ...
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    This book is the first collection within political theory to examine the ideas and debates of the German Revolution of 1918/19. It discusses the political theorists and actors of the revolution and uncovers an incredibly fertile body of political thought. Revolutionary events led to the proliferation of new political strategies, theoretical insights and institutional proposals. Key questions ... Read more

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  • Trumping the Mainstream

    The Conquest of Democratic Politics by the Populist Radical Right

    Series series Routledge Studies in Extremism and Democracy
    In 2016, the striking electoral success of the UK Vote Leave campaign and Donald Trump’s presidential bid defied conventional expectations and transformed the political landscape. Considered together, these two largely unpredicted events constitute a defining moment in the process of the incorporation of far-right populist discourse in mainstream politics.This timely book argues that there has ... Read more

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  • Travellers, Intellectuals, and the World Beyond Medieval Europe

    Edited by James Muldoon ...
    Series series The Expansion of Latin Europe, 1000-1500
    As the articles reprinted in this volume demonstrate, medieval men and women were curious about the world around them. They wanted to hear about distant lands and the various peoples who inhabited them. Travellers' tales, factual such as that of Marco Polo, and fictional, such as Chaucer's famous pilgrimage, entertained audiences across Europe. Colorful mappaemundi placed in churches illustrated ... Read more

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