Devenir père est l’une des expériences les plus courantes mais aussi l’une des plus profondes qui puissent changer la vie d’un homme. Il y a cinquante ans encore, on supposait que le rôle du père était d’aller travailler, de rapporter la paie et d’incarner l’autorité dans le foyer. Aujourd’hui, on découvre toute la complexité de la paternité, et les nombreux questionnements des nouveaux papas :• La paternité va-t-elle me changer ?• Comment les autres hommes remplissent-ils ce...

In this entertaining and accessible exploration of love, Oxford anthropologist Dr Anna Machin dives into the science behind the myriad types of love that exist in the world, including romantic love, parental love, friendships, love for pets, football teams, religious love and even love for our smartphones.Through original research brought to life by interviews and case studies, and encompassing such fascinating areas as polyamorous relationships, parasocial (love for a celebrity) a...

»Papa werden – Die Entstehung des modernen Vaters« überwindet die alten Stereotype der Vaterschaft in einer unterhaltenden und informativen Reise durch die historischen Rollen des Vaters und hilft Ihnen zu entscheiden, was für ein Vater Sie sein wollen. Dies ist ein Buch für alle – für die, die gerade erst Vater werden, und für die, die es schon lange sind. Die evolutionäre Anthropologin Anna Machin erzählt die Geschichte der Vaterschaft von ihren evolutionären Anfängen vor einer halben Mi...

In this entertaining and accessible exploration of love, Oxford anthropologist Dr Anna Machin dives into the science behind the myriad types of love that exist in the world, including romantic love, parental love, friendships, love for pets, football teams, religious love and even love for our smartphones.Through original research brought to life by interviews and case studies, and encompassing such fascinating areas as polyamorous relationships, parasocial (love for a celebrity) a...

O incitantă explorare antropologică a științei dragosteiCe ne pot spune științele sociale și umaniste despre experiența umană cel mai greu de cuantificat — dragostea? Anna Machin caută cel mai cuprinzător răspuns cu putință, care consideră prietenia și familia pe picior de egalitate cu dragostea romantică, dar și cu poliamoria, familia aleasă, dragostea queer și chiar iubirea pentru animalele de companie, celebrități sau zeități.Ea studiază în detaliu aceste relații intime, ...

THE STORY OF FATHERHOOD AND WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A FATHER TODAY, BASED ON A DECADE-LONG STUDY OF NEW AND EXPECTANT FATHERS.As heard on Diary of a CEO podcast.Becoming a father is one of most common but also one of the most profoundly life-altering experiences a man can have. It is up there with puberty, falling in love and experiencing your first loss. Fifty years ago a father’s role was assumed to be clear: he went to work; he provided the ...

Introductory textbooks on American government tell us that the Supreme Court is independent from the elected branches and that independent courts better protect rights than their more deferential counterparts. But are these facts or myths?   In this groundbreaking new work, Anna Harvey reports evidence showing that the Supreme Court is in fact extraordinarily deferential to congressional preferences in its constitutional rulings. Analyzing cross-national evidence...

The moment AI began generating art and stories, humans began valuing imperfection, effort, and slowness more than ever.We're handwriting letters. Choosing bread that took three days. Celebrating flaws. We're not resisting AI, we're discovering what machines can't touch.What Machines Can't Replace reveals the paradox at the heart of our AI future: the more abundant machine-made content becomes, the more precious human creativity feels. Drawing on neuroscienc...

An interdisciplinary, cross-cultural collection that decenters familiar narratives to provide a fresh perspective on what artificial intelligence is today, and what it might become.Historians, media theorists, science-fiction writers, philosophers, and artists from China and elsewhere reexamine the nation’s intense engagement with AI, moving beyond the clichés that still dominate contemporary debate.Today, visions of the contested future of AI veer between ...

With a New Introduction by Jaron LanierA Salon Best Book of the YearIn 1997, the computer was still a relatively new tool---a sleek and unforgiving machine that was beyond the grasp of most users. With intimate and unflinching detail, software engineer Ellen Ullman examines the strange ecstasy of being at the forefront of the predominantly male technological revolution, and the difficulty of translating the inherent messiness of human life into artful and efficient c...

The Citizen Machine is the untold political history of television's formative era. Historian Anna McCarthy goes behind the scenes of early television programming, revealing that long before the age of PBS, leaders from business, philanthropy, and social reform movements as well as public intellectuals were all obsessively concerned with TV's potential to mold the right kind of citizen.Based on years of path-breaking archival work, The Citizen Machine sheds new light on the place of ...

When Anna Broinowski learned that fracking had invaded downtown Sydney, she had a brilliant idea: she would seek guidance for a kryptonite-powerful anti-fracking movie from the world's greatest propaganda factory, apart from Hollywood. After two years of trying, she was allowed to make her case in Pyongyang and was granted full permission to film. She worked closely with the leading lights of North Korean cinema, even playing an American in a military thriller. Interviewing loyalists and d...