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  • No Heavenly Bodies

    A History of Satellite Communications Infrastructure

    Serier serie Infrastructures
    The compelling and little-known history of satellite communications that reveals the Soviet and Eastern European roles in the development of its infrastructure.Taking its title from Hannah Arendt’s description of artificial earth satellites, No Heavenly Bodies explores the history of the first two decades of satellite communications. Christine E. Evans and Lars Lundgren trace how satellite ... Læs mere

    245,36 kr.

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  • Four Futures

    Life After Capitalism

    af Peter Frase ...
    Serier serie Jacobin
    "It is easier to imagine the end of the world," the theorist Fredric Jameson has remarked, "than to imagine the end of capitalism." Jacobin Editor Peter Frase argues that technological advancements and environmental threats will inevitably push our society beyond capitalism, and Four Futures imagines just how this might look. Extrapolating possible futures from current changes the world is now ... Læs mere

    80,72 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Case Against Socialism

    af Rand Paul ...
    A recent poll showed 43% of Americans think more socialism would be a good thing. What do these people not know?Socialism has killed millions, but it's now the ideology du jour on American college campuses and among many leftists. Reintroduced by leaders such as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the ideology manifests itself in starry-eyed calls for free-spending policies like Medicare ... Læs mere

    129,24 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Russia Against Modernity

    Putin’s war is a “special operation” against modernity. The invasion has been directed against Ukraine, but the war has a broader target: the modern world of climate awareness, energy transition and digital labor. By trading oil and gas, promoting Trump and Brexit, spreading corruption, boosting inequality and homophobia, subsidizing far-right movements and destroying Ukraine, Putin’s clique aims ... Læs mere

    135,99 kr.

  • The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State

    af Jill Lepore ...
    **Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the YearBest Books of August: Barnes & Noble, GoodreadsA New York Times New and Notable Title“Lepore is our best scholar of the culture of governance, and our most vital historian. Here she repudiates the prospect of AI as a replacement for democracy. This is the issue of our times, and Lepore is the voice of sanity.” —Jaron Lanier, author of ... Læs mere

    194,24 kr.

  • World Builders

    Technology and the New Geopolitics

    World politics has changed, claims Bruno Maçães. Geopolitics is no longer simply a contest to control territory: in this age of advanced technology, it has become a contest to create the territory. Great powers seek to build a world for other states to inhabit, while keeping the ability to change the rules or the state of the world when necessary. At a moment when the old concepts no longer work, ... Læs mere

    240,13 kr.

  • How Not to Network a Nation

    The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet

    Serier serie Information Policy
    How, despite thirty years of effort, Soviet attempts to build a national computer network were undone by socialists who seemed to behave like capitalists.Between 1959 and 1989, Soviet scientists and officials made numerous attempts to network their nation—to construct a nationwide computer network. None of these attempts succeeded, and the enterprise had been abandoned by the time the Soviet Union ... Læs mere

    245,36 kr.

  • Competing with the Soviets

    Science, Technology, and the State in Cold War America

    Serier serie Hopkins Introductions to the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
    A synthetic account of how science became a central weapon in the ideological Cold War.Honorable Mention for the Forum for the History of Science in America Book Prize of the Forum for the History of Science in AmericaFor most of the second half of the twentieth century, the United States and its allies competed with a hostile Soviet Union in almost every way imaginable except open military ... Læs mere

    224,10 kr.

  • The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State

    af Jill Lepore ...
    Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year 2026'Superb' Philip Pullman'Revelatory' George SaundersIt presented itself as a form of futurism. But the future envisioned by the architects of the Artificial State looked, chillingly, like the very worst of the past…We live in the age of data. Over the past century, rapidly evolving technologies have transformed every aspect of our ... Læs mere

    215,17 kr.

  • The Politics of Space Security

    Strategic Restraint and the Pursuit of National Interests, Third Edition

    For the past sixty years, countries have conducted military and civilian activities in space, often for competitive purposes. But they have not yet fought in this environment. This book examines the international politics of the space age from 1957 to the present, the reasons why strategic restraint emerged among the major military powers, and how recent trends toward weaponization may challenge ... Læs mere

    304,67 kr.

  • Great Decisions 2022

    A briefing book published annually by the Foreign Policy Association with eight background articles on various foreign policy topics. This book is the basis for a nationwide discussion program. ... Læs mere

    160,29 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Political Technology

    The Globalisation of Political Manipulation

    af Andrew Wilson ...
    'Political technology' is a Russian term for the professional engineering of politics. It has turned Russian politics into theatre and propaganda, and metastasised to take over foreign policy and weaponise history. The war against Ukraine is one outcome. In the West, spin doctors and political consultants do more than influence media or run campaigns: they have also helped build parallel universes ... Læs mere

    312,69 kr.