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Mobilizing the Information Society – 9780198295563

Mobilizing the Information Society Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Strategies for Growth and Opportunity Author(s): Robin Mansell, W. Edward Steinmueller Format: Hardback Publisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom Imprint: Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 9780198295563, 978-0198295563 Synopsis ‘Mobilizing the Information Society’ provides a critical assessment of progress towards the Information Society. It begins from the premise that the construction of the Information Society in Europe is a dynamic process and that the journey towards a society that is so heavily dependent on capacities to generate, distribute, and use digital information is far from straightforward. The book draws upon empirical research generated by researchers based in the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Italy, and France that was originally funded by the European Commission’s Fourth Framework Advanced Communication Technologies and Services (ACTS) Programme which ran from 1994 to 1998. This book updates the original research, integrates the results around core themes, and provides an assessment of progress that has been made towards addressing key issues of interest to policy makers, the business community, and technology and service users. The authors lay the foundation for more useful theories of the process of change, more appropriate strategies to achieve the desired aims, and more effective policies for increasing the benefits and mitigating the effects of dislocation and exclusion from the Information Society. ‘Mobilizing the Information Society’ provides unique insights into the social, economic, and political forces that are structuring the pathway to the Information Society – and its consequences for business and individuals in their everyday lives.

Imagining the Internet – 9780199697052

Imagining the Internet Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Communication, Innovation, and Governance Author(s): Robin Mansell Format: Paperback Publisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom Imprint: Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 9780199697052, 978-0199697052 Synopsis This book is an impressive survey of our collective and cumulative understanding of the evolution of digital communication systems and the Internet. Whilst the information societies of the twenty-first century will develop ever more sophisticated technologies, the Internet is now a familiar and pervasive part of the world in which we live, work, and communicate. As such it is important to take stock of some fundamental questions – whether, for example, it contributes to progress, social cohesion, democracy, and growth – and at the same time to review the rich and varied theories and perspectives developed by thinkers in a range of disciplines over the last fifty years or more. In this remarkably comprehensive but concise and useful book, Robin Mansell summarizes key debates, and reviews the contributions of major thinkers in communication systems, economics, politics, sociology, psychology, and systems theory – from Norbert Wiener to Brian Arthur and Manuel Castells, and from Gregory Bateson to William Davidow and Sherry Turkle. This is an interdisciplinary and critical analysis of the way we experience the Internet in front of the screen, and of the developments behind the screen, all of which have implications for privacy ,security, intellectual property rights, and the overall governance of the Internet. The author presents fairly the ideas of the celebrants and the sceptics, and reminds us of the continuing need for careful, critical, and informed analysis of the paradoxes and challenges of the Internet, offering her own views on how we might move to greater empowerment, and suggesting policy measures and governance approaches that go beyond those commonly debated. This concise book will be essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the challenges the Internet presents in the twenty-first century, and the debates and research that can inform that understanding.

Cancer as a Metabolic Disease – 9780470584927

Cancer as a Metabolic DiseaseOn the Origin, Management, and Prevention of Cancer Author(s): Thomas Seyfried Format: Hardback Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, United States Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc ISBN-13: 9780470584927, 978-0470584927 Synopsis The book addresses controversies related to the origins of cancer and provides solutions to cancer management and prevention.?It expands upon Otto Warburg’s well-known theory that all cancer is a disease of energy metabolism.? However, Warburg did not link his theory to the “hallmarks of cancer” and thus his theory was discredited.? This book aims to provide?evidence, through case studies,?that cancer is primarily a metabolic disease requring?metabolic solutions for?its management and prevention.? Support for this position is?derived from critical assessment of current cancer theories.? Brain cancer case studies are presented as a proof of principle for metabolic solutions to disease management, but similarities are drawn to other types of cancer, including breast and colon, due to the?same?cellular mutations that they demonstrate.

The Sexual Contract – 9780745604329

The Sexual ContractAuthor(s): Carole Pateman Format: Paperback Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom Imprint: Polity Press ISBN-13: 9780745604329, 978-0745604329 Synopsis Carole Pateman is one of the foremost political theorists writing in English today. In this outstanding new work, she presents a major reinterpretation of modern political theory. She shows how standard discussions of social contract theory tell only half the story. The sexual contract which establishes modern patriarchy and the political right of men over women is never mentioned. In a wide-ranging and scholarly discussion, Pateman examines the significance of the political fictions of the original contract and the slave contract. She also offers a sweeping challenge to conventional understandings – of both left and right – of actual contracts in everyday life: the marriage contract, the employment contract, the prostitution contract and the new surrogacy contract. By bringing a feminist perspective to bear on the contradictions and paradoxes surrounding women and contract and the relation between the sexes, she is able to shed new light on the fundamental problems of freedom and subordination. The Sexual Contract will become a classic text in the politics of gender and will be of major interest to students of social and political theory and philosophy, women’s studies, sociology and jurisprudence.