Ageing with Smartphones in Urban China
From the cultural to the digital revolution in Shanghai
This book examines how older adults in Shanghai, China are engaging with digital technologies like smartphones as they age. It is based on 16 months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the author in Shanghai.
Ancient Knowledge Networks
A Social Geography of Cuneiform Scholarship in First-Millennium Assyria and Babylonia
Ancient Knowledge Networks is a book about how knowledge travels and is shared in ancient societies. It focuses specifically on the cuneiform scholarly networks that existed in first millennium Assyria and Babylonia.
Formal Axiology and Its Critics
This book brings together writings that critically look at and try to move forward the formal theory of value that Robert S. Hartman spent his career researching and publishing about. Hartman’s axiology (study of value and worth) was groundbreaking in how it used logic and math like set theory and relationships to [...]
Indian Islamic Architecture
Forms and Typologies, Sites and Monuments
This book offers a nice overview of the Islamic architecture found across India. It brings together several articles written over the years by John Burton-Page, a well-known British scholar. His writings focus on the main architectural styles and important buildings constructed during Muslim rule in India starting in the 1200s. Recommended for: Beginner-to-intermediate [...]
Introduction to Networking
How the Internet works
This intro book aims to explain the key concepts, design, protocols, and infrastructure behind today’s Internet connectivity in plain language that anyone can understand. Originally coming from a popular online networking course it shows the clever way global digital networks are put together through topics like TCP/IP, hardware pieces, and a quick [...]
Materialising the Roman Empire
Materializing the Roman Empire is a book that looks at using archaeology to understand the Roman Empire better. It’s edited and has different authors explore how stuff and objects – material culture – shaped how the Empire worked as it got bigger and eventually fell apart. There are three main sections: First [...]
On the Formation of Marxism
Karl Kautsky’s Theory of Capitalism, the Marxism of the Second International and Karl Marx’s Critique of Political Economy
This book by Jukka Gronow talks about how Karl Kautsky played a big role in shaping how people in the European social democratic labor movement understood and interpreted Marxism in the years before World War I. As the main authority on Marx and Engels’ ideas during this time, Kautsky’s specific analysis of [...]
Re-Mapping Centre and Periphery
Asymmetrical Encounters in European and Global Contexts
The collection presents empirical reassessments of traditional center-periphery models through geographical and social lenses on ancient Near Eastern scholarship.
Social learning towards a sustainable world
Principles, perspectives, and praxis
This book looks at the idea of social learning and how it can help move things toward more sustainable development globally. It’s got 27 different chapters from people in all kinds of fields that are trying to deal with sustainability issues. The main focus is on social learning as something people from [...]
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
The Death of Ivan Ilych tells the story of a man facing his mortality in his mid 40s. Published in 1886 by Leo Tolstoy, it gives us a glimpse into Ivan’s attitudes and thoughts as he grapples with the fact that he is dying. We see Ivan working through some heavy existential [...]
Visual Studio 2022 Succinctly
Discover the power of Visual Studio 2022, Microsoft’s newest integrated development environment (IDE) for Windows, web, and mobile app development. It’s packed with upgrades and optimized for . NET. This short ebook guide gives an overview of the exciting new features that boost productivity and streamline the development process. Recommended for: Beginner-to-intermediate [...]
White Fang
White Fang is a novel written by Jack London, an American author, and was published in 1906. The story is set in the Yukon Territory, Canada, at the end of the 19th century. The novel narrates the story of the domestication of a wild wolfhound. Moreover, White Fang is a companion novel [...]