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  • Programming Literature

    by Rebecca Roach ...
    This is a book about the messy, archival worlds of literature and computing, and the myriad of relations that have existed between the two. Before J. M. Coetzee was a writer of Nobel-Prize winning novels, the South African was a programmer for one of the most significant Cold War supercomputer projects in Britain. Experimental British writer Christine Brooke-Rose worked at Bletchley Park with Alan ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • For F*ck's Sake

    Why Swearing is Shocking, Rude, and Fun

    by Rebecca Roache ...
    Why do we love to swear so much? Why do we get so offended when others do it? With wit and insight, philosopher Rebecca Roache seeks answers to these and other puzzling questions about bad language. When someone swears at you, it can sting. Likewise, sometimes there is no better way to make the point you're making--emphasize, insult, or just plain offend--than to use a swear. What explains the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Literature and the Rise of the Interview

    by Rebecca Roach ...
    Today interviews proliferate everywhere: in newspapers, on television, and in anthologies; as a method they are a major tool of medicine, the law, the social sciences, oral history projects, and journalism; and in the book trade interviews with authors are a major promotional device. We live in an 'interview society'. How did this happen? What is it about the interview form that we find so ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

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    For F*ck's Sake

    Why Swearing is Shocking, Rude, and Fun

    by Rebecca Roache ...
    Narrated by Polly Lee ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 36 min

    Why do we love to swear so much? Why do we get so offended when others do it?In this lively and amusing exploration of the various puzzles that surround swearing, philosopher Rebecca Roache argues that what makes swearing offensive is not really the words at all: the offensiveness lies in what we don't say. The unspoken—and usually unconscious—inferences that speakers and listeners make about each ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Moving Modernisms

    Motion, Technology, and Modernity

    Edited by David Bradshaw, Laura Marcus, Rebecca Roach ...
    The essays in Moving Modernisms: Motion, Technology, and Modernity, written by renowned international scholars, open up the many dimensions and arenas of modernist movement and movements: spatial, geographical and political: affective and physiological; temporal and epochal; technological, locomotive and metropolitan; aesthetic and representational. Individual essays explore modernism's complex ... Read more

    $92.69 USD

  • Psychiatry Reborn: Biopsychosocial psychiatry in modern medicine

    Edited by Will Davies, Julian Savalescu, Rebecca Roache, J. Pierre Loebel ...
    Series series International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
    Psychiatry Reborn: Biopsychosocial Psychiatry in Modern Medicine is a comprehensive collection of essays by leading experts in the field, and provides a timely reassessment of the biopsychosocial approach in psychiatry. Spanning the sciences and philosophy of psychiatry, the essays offer complementary perspectives on the ever more urgent importance of the biopsychosocial approach to modern ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Designer Biology

    The Ethics of Intensively Engineering Biological and Ecological Systems

    by Immaculada de Melo Martin, Valentina Urbanek, William Kabasenche, Nicholas Agar, S. Matthew Liao, Anders Sandberg, Rebecca Roache, Stephen Jackson, Donald S. Maier, Nicole Hassoun, Benjamin Hale, Sune Holm, Scott Simmons, Allen Thompson, David A. Frank ...
    Advances in our scientific understanding and technological power in recent decades have dramatically amplified our capacity to intentionally manipulate complex ecological and biological systems. An implication of this is that biological and ecological problems are increasingly understood and approached from an engineering perspective. In environmental contexts, this is exemplified in the pursuits ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Uprising

    by Emily Roach, Rebecca Rahme ...
    Kenz is under the reign of an oppressive regime led by those they call the Silencers. The youth of the world, who are born into a life with special abilities, are sent on the run, sometimes by their own parents. Now the young refugees must form a resistance and take down the government. Adrian is an anxiety-ridden teenager from Earth whose world was turned upside down five years ago, when her ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • New Media

    A Critical Introduction

    by Martin Lister, Jon Dovey, Seth Giddings, Iain Grant, Kieran Kelly ...
    New Media: A Critical Introduction is a comprehensive introduction to the culture, history, technologies and theories of new media. Written especially for students, the book considers the ways in which 'new media' really are new, assesses the claims that a media and technological revolution has taken place and formulates new ways for media studies to respond to new technologies.The authors ... Read more

    $83.99 USD

  • Wordslut

    A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

    by Amanda Montell ...
    “As funny as it is informative, this book will have you laughing out loud while you contemplate the revolutionary power of words.” —Camille Perri, author of The Assistants and When Katie Met CassidyA brash, enlightening, and wildly entertaining feminist look at gendered language and the way it shapes us.The word bitch conjures many images, but it is most often meant to describe an unpleasant woman ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • An Introduction To Counselling

    by John McLeod, Richard Smith ...
    This bestseller provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of counselling and psychotherapy. ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • What is Media Archaeology?

    by Jussi Parikka ...
    This cutting-edge text offers an introduction to the emerging field of media archaeology and analyses the innovative theoretical and artistic methodology used to excavate current media through its past.Written with a steampunk attitude, What is Media Archaeology? examines the theoretical challenges of studying digital culture and memory and opens up the sedimented layers of contemporary media ... Read more

    $21.00 USD