"A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an essential social and domestic activity during the eighteenth century. Two centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and an integral component …
Surveys the potential of emerging technologies, drawing on the insights of experts to explore how artificial intelligence, algorithms, and new approaches to organization will change business and life in the near future.
Machine generated contents note: -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Motives for Punishment -- Chapter 3 Reason or Intuition? -- Chapter 4 Origins of the Moral Punishment Instinct -- Chapter 5 Punishment and Cooperation -- Chapter 6 When Punishment Backfires -- Cha…
"One of the first books to focus on a city other than Edo during the Tokugawa era, this work extends our understanding of Japanese urban life during that period. Portraying Osaka as a regional center of government with vibrant economic life and high and low culture, the book rev…
"In the Soviet Union in the 1930s, public celebrations flourished while Stalinist repression intensified. What explains this coincidence of terror and celebration? Using popular media and drawing extensively on documents from previously inaccessible Soviet archives, Karen Petron…
