Product Description: “The collection of wild, often hilarious postcards from his trip to America contains some of the year’s most original and beautiful writing.”—New Statesman and SocietyIn this, his most accessible and evocative book, France’s leading philosopher of postmodernism takes to the freeways in a collection of traveler’s tales from the land of hyperreality...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Baudrillard's last book was about America. His new one is about cats, Foucault, Alfa-Romeos, leukemia, Catholicism, the Berlin Wall, mattresses, Laurent Fabius, John Paul II, roses, Antartica, Lech Walesa, mud wrestling, porn films, snow, feminism, Rio, Lacan, Stevie Wonder, DNA and Terrorism...read more

Covers leaders, campaigns and battles, weapons, tactics, organization, and national military histories

Product Description: Jean Baudrillard is widely recognized as one of the most important and provocative writers of our age. Variously termed “France’s leading philosopher of postmodernism” and “a sharp-shooting Lone Ranger of the post-Marxist left,” he might also be called our leading philosopher of seduction or of mass culture...read more

Product Description: Jean Baudrillard is widely recognized as one of the most important and provocative writers of our age. Variously termed “France’s leading philosopher of postmodernism” and “a sharp-shooting Lone Ranger of the post-Marxist left,” he might also be called our leading philosopher of seduction or of mass culture...read more

Jean Baudrillard is one of the most controversial and stimulating figures in contemporary philosophy and cultural criticism. Whether embraced or reviled for his reflections on 'hyperreality', he never fails to evoke strong reactions. Yet, all too often, discussion of Baudrillard's ideas takes place at one remove, with much imputed to him. It is sometimes claimed that his writing is too abstract or obscure to analyse rigorously. The Indifferent Paroxyst offers the reader a new way to approach Baudrillard's ideas through the use of the interview format. Closely questioned by French journalist Philippe Petit, Baudrillard covers a vast range of topics, including Fukuyama; 1989 and the collapse of Communism; Bosnia, the Gulf War, Rwanda and the New World Order; globalisation and universalisation; the return of ethnic nationalisms; the nature of war; revisionism and Holocaust denial; Deleuze, Foucault, Bataille and Virilio; nihilism and the apocalyptic; the practice of writing; virtual reality; the West and the East; the culture of victimhood and repentance; human rights and citizenship; French intellectuals and engagement; the nature of capitalism today; consumer society and social exclusion; liberation; death, violence and necrophilia; reality, illusion and the media; and destabilisation of all aspects of life, including sexuality. Baudrillard's answers--which span politics, philosophy and culture--are concise, witty and trenchant, and they serve both as an accessible introduction to his ideas for the newcomer and as a fascinating clarification of recent positions for the connoisseur. (view table of contents)

A guide to creating change in organizations and gaining personal fulfillment and success (view table of contents)

This guide is aimed at both the package holidaymaker and the independent traveller visiting Sri Lanka. It offers information for those who wish to explore, understand a little more about the local architecture and where to experience the local cuisine and culture.

Amazon.com Review: Your company is not a machine. It may make machines, or it may service them, but it is not, in itself, a machine. It's a living entity in an unpredictable world. This makes it nearly impossible to run a business organization effectively with a hierarchical, top-down management style...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The first part of this book traces the development of African cinema, from colonization to Afrocentrism, through themes such as the decolonization of the imagination and the quest for legendary African origins. The second part of the book analyzes specific films, particularly through narrative and in terms of their African specificity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Key Facts is a completely new series that has been specially written for Law students. It is the essential revision tool for a broad range of Law courses from A level to degree level. It covers the main subject areas including: Criminal Law, Contract Law, Tort and The English Legal System...read more

Part of the second phase of 'Key Facts' series, this book presents company law which is an option within Law degrees and an essential component within MBAs and some Business degrees.

Product Description: Baudrillard here turns his hand to political debates and issues.'Watching the president's Christmas message produces this necropolar, white-mass sensation. Seeing the video broadcast of the Christmas service in the cathedral itself, with these pathetic screens and the young worshippers slumped around them here and there, you tell yourself that God and religion deserved better...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book seeks to comprehend the philosophical meaning of September 11 and will leave untouched none of the prevailing views currently propagated.How would it be if what we take for human advance were simply a technological progress that literally leaves us out of its equations? What if progress is not humanity striking out bravely towards the future, but an ultimately destructive force? In a remarkable tour d'horizon, Paul Virilio paints a bleak picture of current scientific, cultural, social and political values...read more

Discusses the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center from a philosophical viewpoint that considers their symbolic representation as a challenge to the American monopolistic system, profiling sophisticated modern terrorism while stating that conventional warfare will not be an appropriate response. Original. 10,000 first printing.

Deals with the tort law.

Product Description: The fourth collection of fragments and sketches, by an observer in "internal exile."Baudrillard's work of the last two decades has downplayed the position of the critical subject and gone over to the standpoint of the object. Nowhere is this objective (non-)critique which results so clearly played out as in the Cool Memories series...read more

Product Description: In this fourth collection of fragments and sketches, Baudrillard’s stance is less that of the interventionist intellectual analysing the world than of the barely participant observer.Baudrillard's work of the last two decades has downplayed the position of the critical subject and gone over to the standpoint of the object...read more

Product Description: Jean Baudrillard is one of the most revered philosophers of the past century, and his work has helped define how we think about the post-modern. In this fascinating book of interviews conducted with Francois L'Yvonnet, Baudrillard is on sparkling form and explores his life in terms of his educational, political and literary experiences, as well as reflecting on his intellectual genesis and his position as outsider in the field of great French thinkers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The Unlocking The Law series will unravel the complex demands of law in a way that will ensure students understand concepts fully and are able to apply them both to their studies and to their vocation.

Written for students studying law courses from A Level to degree level. This work includes chapters such as: Marriage and Divorce, Domestic violence, Children's rights, Principles of the Children Act, Parental responsibility, Private child law, Emergency child protection, Care and supervision, Adoption, and more.

The Unlocking The Law series will unravel the complex demands of law in a way that will ensure students understand concepts fully and are able to apply them both to their studies and to their vocation.