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Making America Gothic Again explores the ways that the rise of populist extremism has been intensified by Donald Trump’s weaponization of a politics of fear, a state of mind that, as gothic theorists have long recognized, quickly becomes its own self-propelling force.

This edited collection examines portrayals of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in contemporary children’s and YA literature and film, offering interdisciplinary perspectives, theoretical insights, literary overviews, and analyses of contemporary case studies.

This book introduces a new economic system where data – not capital or labour – drive power and profit. It reveals how platforms transform human activity into value and asks what this shift means for work, competition and the future of society.

The General Theory of Dissipative Publicness examines publicness as a dynamic formation for generating, dissipating and damping discursive energy. Extending and synthesising earlier work on liquefaction, datafication and performativisation of publicness, Slavko Splichal develops a general theoretical framework for understanding the dynamics of publicness and the volatility of publics across historical and contemporary contexts. 

This book is a brief, yet comprehensive, overview of research and scholarship of teacher professional identity development beginning in the early 1990s and ending in the present.

Adopting a spatial and affective perspective, the monograph presents a study of contemporary Pakistani women’s fiction. It analyses a corpus of novels with strong female protagonists and asks how they depict articulations of women’s relationship to the everyday experiences of nation, city and household.

The book explores how disembodiment is relevant and productive for feminist theory. Panayotov asks how we can face disembodiment literally, as a real praxis rather than a literary trope, by colliding feminism, non-philosophy, new realisms, and posthumanities to argue for literal disembodiment in the contemporary posthuman condition.

A practitioner's framework for the executive discipline of AI value realization, from predictive and generative AI through the agentic era. Drawing on thirty years of Fortune 100 financial services experience, the authors introduce a three-disciplines / seven-steps model that shows executives how to make AI programs succeed.

Darkside Economics is a book about how economics is being used as an economic weapon to coerce or defend an economy.

An Afrocentric analysis revealing how African spirituality, orality, and communal values shape African American language beyond Eurocentric linguistic paradigms.

Why leisure? What for? Why thirteen ways of looking? On what grounds and on whose authority? Blackshaw answers these questions and more by advancing an original reading of this oldest of ideas and a constructive new conception for our era.

This book profiles three large healthcare systems in the United States that have gone bankrupt or currently face financial disaster. The volume develops a grounded theory of hospital bankruptcy and applies the model to these systems.