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  Cyborg - The MIT Press Essential...

  Laura Forlano, Danya Glabau

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  This introduction to cyborg theory provides a critical vantage point for analyzing the claims around emerging technologies like automation, robots, and AI. Cyborg analyzes and reframes popular and scholarly conversations about cyborgs from the perspective of feminist cyborg theory. Drawing on their combined decades of training, teaching, and research in the social sciences, design, and engineering education, Laura Forlano and Danya Glabau introduce an approach called critical cyborg literacy. Critical cyborg literacy foregrounds power dynamics and pays attention to the ways that social and cultural factors such as gender, race, and disability shape how technology is imagined, developed, used, and resisted.Forlano and Glabau offer critical cyborg literacy as a way of thinking through questions about the relationship between humanity and technology. Cyborg examines whether modern technologies make us all cyborgs—if we consider, for instance, the fact that we use daily technologies at work, have technologies embedded into our bodies in health care applications, or use technology to critically explore possibilities as artists, designers, activists, and creators. Lastly, Cyborg offers perspectives from critical race, feminist, and disability thinkers to help chart a path forward for cyborg theory in the twenty-first century.

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  Crash Course Business Agreements...

  Introbooks Team

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  The organizations from time to time get into agreements and contracts with other organizations and individuals. The knowledge and skill to create and legally form these agreements and contracts are required by them so that they do not get into any complications later. The crash course of business agreement and the contract is thus a great source created for students who would want to specialize in the area. This course will require students to learn about the laws that govern the organizations and will enable them to format these letters which will legally bind the parties. At the end of the course the students will be in a better position to create these letter and complete the paperwork along with listing the terms and conditions on them. Business cannot operate on its own and thus they get into collaboration with other very often, it is then when the skill to create these documents arise which should be done with precision as they in most cases are legally binding.

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  Darkness Visible - A Memoir of...

  William Styron

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  The New York Times–bestselling memoir of crippling depression and the struggle for recovery by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Sophie’s Choice.In the summer of 1985, William Styron became numbed by disaffection, apathy, and despair, unable to speak or walk while caught in the grip of advanced depression. His struggle with the disease culminated in a wave of obsession that nearly drove him to suicide, leading him to seek hospitalization before the dark tide engulfed him. Darkness Visible tells the story of Styron’s recovery, laying bare the harrowing realities of clinical depression and chronicling his triumph over the disease that had claimed so many great writers before him. His final words are a call for hope to all who suffer from mental illness that it is possible to emerge from even the deepest abyss of despair and “once again behold the stars.” This ebook features a new illustrated biography of William Styron, including original letters, rare photos, and never-before-seen documents from the Styron family and the Duke University Archives.

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  Legal Canons

  Sanford V Levinson, Jack M Balkin

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  Every discipline has its canon: the set of standard texts, approaches, examples, and stories by which it is recognized and which its members repeatedly invoke and employ. Although the last twenty-five years have seen the influence of interdisciplinary approaches to legal studies expand, there has been little recent consideration of what is and what ought to be canonical in the study of law today.Legal Canons brings together fifteen essays which seek to map out the legal canon and the way in which law is taught today. In order to understand how the twin ideas of canons and canonicity operate in law, each essay focuses on a particular aspect, from contracts and constitutional law to questions of race and gender. The ascendance of law and economics, feminism, critical race theory, and gay legal studies, as well as the increasing influence of both rational-actor methodology and postmodernism, are all scrutinized by the leading scholars in the field. A timely and comprehensive volume, Legal Canons articulates the need for, and means to, opening the debate on canonicity in legal studies.Table of Contents

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  The Western Front - Landscape...

  Stephen Miles

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  The Western Front has become, once again, and after 100 years, an important and increasingly popular tourist destination. The Centenary is already encouraging large numbers of visitors to engage with this highly poignant landscape of war and to commemorate the sacrifice and loss of a previous generation. Interest is also being sharpened in the places of war as battle-sites, trench-systems, bunkers and mine craters gain a clearer identity as war heritage. For the first time this book brings together the three strands of heritage, landscape and tourism to provide a fresh understanding of the multi-layered nature of the Western Front. The book approaches the area as a rich dynamic landscape which can be viewed in a startling variety of ways: historically, materially, culturally, and perceptually. To illustrate these two dominant interpretations of the regions landscape  commemorative and heritage  are highlighted and their relationship to tourism explored. Tourism is a lens through which these layers can be peeled away, and each understood and interacted with according to the individuals own knowledge, motivation, and degree of emotional engagement. Tourism is not regarded here as a passive phenomenon, but as an active agent that can determine, dictate and inscribe this evocative landscape.   The Western Front:  Heritage, Landscape and Tourism is a timely addition to our increasing interest in the First World War and the places where it was fought. It will be indispensable to those who seek a deeper understanding of the conflict from previously undervalued perspectives.

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  Coronavirus Versus a Broken Economy

  LAURENCE GATES

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  With the rise of a pandemic of a global scale comes the destruction of the economy. As more people must stay home and isolate while medical practices become overwhelmed, the decline of economic standing can be seen. When people are staying home, the economy is not being stimulated by the incoming money and many businesses must close. COVID-19 has taken its toll on both the health and the economic sectors, leaving destruction in its wake. Economy Was Broken by the Coronavirus aims to show European business leaders and politicians how they can build better practices as the pandemic comes to a close. With this guide, business can prepare for a collapse should another pandemic arise. As it currently stands, the unemployment rate due to COVID-19 is rising. In this quarter alone the rate is expected to jump from 20% to 35%. By studying better practices and how other countries are handling the pandemic, business leaders can learn how they can best protect their company and their people. In Economy Was Broken by the Coronavirus, business will be shown aspects of planning to consider should a situation like the Coronavirus ever occur again. These aspects include: -Creating solutions and guidelines around health and safety that are clearly worded and communicated to ensure both company and public understanding.-The creation of effective local plans that are ready to be acted upon should a situation arise. -Ensuring consistent steps that are followed through every day to avoid a lapse in effectiveness.Businesses and politicians need to be better equipped to deal with the possibility of an uncertain global economy.

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