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An introduction to artificial intelligence explores the philosophical and scientific implications of building machines that can think and feel more deeply than humans.
Compromising positions : political sex scandals and American Christianity -- Sex scandals, national fantasies, and the stories we tell -- Scandal : the story of wayward men (featuring a full cast, with special guest star, Donald Trump) -- Religion : the story of right and wrong …
This book offers the first attempt at understanding interpersonal violence in ancient Athens. While the archaic desire for revenge persisted into the classical period, it was channeled by the civil discourse of the democracy. Forensic speeches, curse tablets, and comedy display …
The 'Velvet Revolution' in November 1989 brought about the collapse of the authoritarian communist regime in what was then Czechoslovakia. It also marks the beginning of the country's journey towards democracy. This book examines what the values in so-called real socialism were,…
Acknowledgements: The Privilege of Listening to the Voices of Memory -- 1. I Want to be Free! : Freedom as a Fundamental Human Value -- 2. The Family under Socialism and in the Whirlwind of Transformation -- 3. Friends and the Others : How Czechs Evaluate Foreigners and Foreign …
Terrorist assemblages: homonationalism in queer times
by Puar, Jasbir K., Nyong'o, Tavia
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The sexuality of terrorism -- Abu Ghraib and U.S. sexual exceptionalism -- Intimate control, infinite detection: rereading the Lawrence case -- "The turban is not a hat" : queer diaspora and practices for profiling -- Conclusion: queer times, terrorist assemblages -- Post-script…
'Europeanism' offers a major new examination of the political, economic, and social norms, and values associated with Europe and Europeans.
"In Europeanism, John McCormick attempts to identify and outline the political, economic, and social norms and values associated with Europe and Europeans.... we cannot fully come to grips with the dynamics of modern Europe--or its place in the international system--without unde…
"In Europeanism the author attempts to identify and outline the political, economic, and social norms and values associated with Europe and Europeans. He argues that regardless of the doubts associated with the exercise of European integration and the work of the European Union,…
How can one negotiate and integrate the claims of feminism and multiculturalism through a discourse of rights? This is a timely question: the apparent opposition between feminist and multicultural justice is a central problem in contemporary political theory. It also responds to…
