Digital Libido
Global growth sets new records, poverty and illiteracy rates fall, technological innovation creates amazing opportunities. Still we are deeply discontent, there is something fundamentally wrong with contemporary society. Democracies are paralysed and produce authoritarian bullies as leaders, a growing underclass sedates itself with fast carbs and moronic entertainment. Society is infantilised and political discourse implodes. Digital Libido is a deep and brutal analysis of humanity's rapidly increasing sense of loss and confusion in the network society. Departing from Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, and his prophetic masterpiece Civilisation and its Discontents, philosophers and futurologists Alexander Bard and Jan S derqvist create a tour de force while digging deep into the human condition in the internet age. Exposing every aspect of the complex relationship between Man and technology, Bard & S derqvist clarify our current and future existential dilemmas. Welcome to
Culture, Religion, and the Reintegration of Female Child Soldiers in Northern Uganda
The reintegration of thousands of formerly abducted children from the Lord's Resistance Army back to their families and communities in northern Uganda represents tremendous challenges. Culture, Religion, and the Reintegration of Female Child Soldi...
Algebraic Cryptanalysis
Algebraic Cryptanalysis bridges the gap between a course in cryptography, and being able to read the cryptanalytic literature. This book is divided into three parts: Part One covers the process of turning a cipher into a system of equations; Part ...
Process and Event
We have to improve our thinking. We must think in terms of motion and change, and we must abandon all childish dreams of a reality more real than the real one. If, for example, we play with the idea that the Process called History leads to the Event called God, we have to understand what that means. Namely: that God is something we humans create because we have that need not something that created the world or us humans (or anything else). This God of the new era does not yet exist, but the current technological revolutions mean that the moment of creation is near. Good news, you might say, but thereby Man reduces himself to a historical parenthesis, at least if we are to believe cyberphilosophers Alexander Bard and Jan S derqvist. And we are closer to the age of the gods than you think. Join in a breathtaking expedition that takes us from the infancy of religions in the form of magic and superstition via Persian mystics and iconoclasts to the age of enlightenment, modernity and
Jihadbruden
Marlene är 19 år när hon konverterar till islam, vilket inte är ett okontroversiellt steg för hennes omgivning. I början har hon inga tankar på extremism men när Daesh tar över mer och mer områden i Mellanöstern väcks hennes intresse för dem. Vi f...
Situationship
I den känslomässigt laddade romanen "Situationship" följer vi huvudpersonen Carolina genom kärlekens berg- och dalbana medan hon navigerar komplexa relationer och gnagande osäkerhet. Hennes dragning till Adam, en gåtfull men o...
Hadassa och Afnan
Hebron, Västbanken. Här bor Hadassa i en israelisk bosättning nära Hebron, och Afnan i Hebrons gamla stad. Deras värderingar är olika, deras liv är olika, deras världsbilder och åsikter om konflikten mellan Israel och Palestina är olika. Så smånin...
Be Happy!
Filled with pearls of wisdom and positivity originally written during lockdown, this heartwarming story is told by the creators' two adorable dogs, Hucky and Buzz. The thoughts expressed by Hucky and Buzz reflect the emotions, moods and feelings w...
Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt
This student-friendly introduction to the archaeology of ancient Egypt guides readers from the Paleolithic to the Greco-Roman periods, and has now been updated to include recent discoveries and new illustrations. *¿Superbly illustrated with photog...
Prostate Cancer Revolution
The Prostate Cancer Revolution reveals a new world of medical options for the 200,000+ men diagnosed annually with prostate cancer. Backed by compelling data about new ultrasound and MRI imaging technologies, Dr. Bard offers a way to overcome what...
48 Hours of Kristallnacht
On the nights of November 9 and 10, 1938, rampaging mobs throughout Germany and the newly acquired territories of Austria and Sudetenland freely attacked Jews in the street, in their homes and at their places of work and worship. At least 96 Jews ...
Test Your Cat
The perfect gift book for cat lovers everywhere, showing how to measure your cat's intelligence in a series of easy and fun tests. How clever is your cat? Can your cat: Make sounds upon request? Predict a change in the weather? Or is your cat the ...
A Tempest of Ravens
A Tempest of Ravens
Practical Bilevel Optimization
The use of optimization techniques has become integral to the design and analysis of most industrial and socio-economic systems. Great strides have been made recently in the solution of large-scale problems arising in such areas as production plan...
Sage for Undergraduates
As the open-source and free competitor to expensive software like Maple?, Mathematica¿, Magma, and MATLAB¿, Sage offers anyone with access to a web browser the ability to use cutting-edge mathematical software and display his or her results for ot...
Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI Atlas of Prostate Cancer
MRI Atlas of Prostate Cancer analyses high-resolution MRI scanning and dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) MRI. This combination improves the diagnosis and staging of prostate cancer and may soon replace PSA testing and digital rectal examination. The...
Underground, Volume 1
In Underground, Volume 1, Karim Yun, a biracial taekwondo fighter, pits his skills against New York's most brutal underground martial artists. Seeking revenge against the violent gang who attacked him and ended his Olympic dreams, he's determined ...
Nätokraterna
På vilka sätt har internets framfart påverkat samhälle och maktstrukturer? Hur förändras människans levnadsvillkor och världsbild i samband med de nya förutsättningar som digitaliseringen för med sig? Den digitala revolutionen är i många avseenden...
Kroppsmaskinerna
Den digitala revolutionen innebär att alla viktiga aspekter av vår tillvaro förändras i grunden: Hur vi ser på världen och hur vi ser på oss själva, hur vi tänker, hur vi arbetar, hur vi relaterar till och kommunicerar med varandra och vad som öve...
Digital libido : sex, makt och våld i nätverkssamhället
Vi ser oss omkring. Och vi vantrivs. Tillväxten slår nya rekord, fattigdom och analfabetism minskar, teknologiska innovationer skapar fantastiska möjligheter. Samtidigt känner vi alla innerst inne att det är någonting som är fundamentalt fel. Demo...
Det globala imperiet
Den digitala revolutionen innebär att alla viktiga aspekter av vår tillvaro förändras i grunden: Hur vi ser på världen och hur vi ser på oss själva, hur vi tänker, hur vi arbetar, hur vi relaterar till och kommunicerar med varandra och vad som öve...
Arven efter varven
Genom fotografen Lena Öritslands intima porträtt och journalisten Maria Bards intervjuer får du möta människor och minnen från storvarven i Göteborg. Öppenhjärtigt och innerligt berättar före detta varvsarbetare om hur kollegorna fick sina ö...