Postmodernity

Literature & Fiction

David, Lyon

History & Criticism

Open University Press

Discusses the tanks, aircraft, and ships that were at the cutting edge of technological advances during the Second World War

The Military Hardware Of World War II

Eric Grove

hugh-lyon

christopher-chant

Science & Math

The Military Press

The Runaway Duck (Picture Hippo)

Children's Books

scholastic

The increasing influence of computers in modern societies has been seen by some as offering great promise for the future, but by others as menacing in the extreme. In this work, David Lyon investigates the validity of these two opposing points of view. Whether making a phone call, claiming benefits, entering the work-place or using a credit card, more and more daily activities are recorded and traced using what are here called "surveillance systems". Computerization vastly expands the surveillance capacity of all forms of organization, including the state, but also extending to the consumer market-place. By analyzing these various contexts of surveillance activity, Lyon is able to offer a judicious interpretation of the influence electronic information systems have upon the social order today. The result is an interpretation of modern social, political and economic institutions which goes far beyond merely assessing the role of information technology. Lyon provides an overview of such surveillance as a major phenomenon of contemporary societies. But neither the optimistic nor the pessimistic view of the role of information technology is accurate. The reality, Lyon suggests, is much more complex and subtle. In unravelling these complexities Lyon aims to make a useful contribution to the understanding of modern institutions in an era of globalizing electronic communication.

The Rise of Surveillance Society: Computers and Social Control in Context

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Blackwell*publishers

Take the trouble out of travel and ensure your trip to Boston is a tea party! With handy maps and information on the liveliest bars and clubs and the best museums and galleries, you can enjoy one of America's oldest cities with this compact and useful guide.

Boston

Travel

Patricia Harris

Jonathan Schultz

United States

Dorling Kindersley Publishers Lt

This book is as much a celebration of Boston as it is a practical guidebook. Every page is packed with illustrations and photographs that show off the city's historic architecture and sights to maximum effect. Major museums and attractions get extended coverage. With detailed visitor information, excellent maps, and plenty of good restaurants, shops and hotels to choose from, this is the only guide you will need.

Tom Brass

DK Eyewitness Travel

Gardners Books

Thomas Cook's Signpost Guides are designed to provide you with a comprehensive but flexible reference source to guide you as you tour a country or region by car. This guide divides New England into touring areas - one per chapter. It includes a selection of the best regions for touring in New England featuring Boston, Cape Cod, northern Maine and the Green Mountains. It contains ideas for exploring on your own. Provides detailed guides to sightseeing and activities, together with accommodation, dining and shopping recommendations. Attractions and areas are all rated to guide your personal choice. There are road maps and city plans to pinpoint driving routes and other tours.

Signpost Guide New England

Stephen Morgan

UNKNO

Postmodernity (Concepts in Social Thought)

U of Minnesota Press

Postmodernity as idea, critique, cultural experience, and social condition has engendered a sometimes angry, sometimes anxious debate across many disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. In Postmodernity, David Lyon provides a stimulating introduction to this contested concept and the discussions it provokes.Lyon describes this multilayered notion that encompasses a variety of major social and cultural changes taking place at the end of the twentieth century. Among the key processes he examines: -- rapid technological change-- shifting political concerns-- the rise of social movements-- globalizationLyon discusses modernity as a social-cultural entity and questions whether it and the monolithic edifice of Enlightenment rationality and progress are disintegrating. He concludes that a new sort of society is emerging, one structured around consumers and consumption rather than workers and production. This second edition delves more deeply into issues such as globalization and the new postmodern quest for ethics.

LYON, David

Univ. of Minnesota Press

Postmodernity as idea, critique, cultural experience, and social condition has engendered an enormous, sometimes angry, sometimes anxious debate across many disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. In Postmodernity, David Lyon provides a stimulating introduction to this contested concept and the discussions which surround it.

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