Author: Hugo de Burgh
Publisher: Totem Books
Keywords: foe, friend, china
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-05-25
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1840467339
ISBN-13: 9781840467338

China is set to become the world’s next superpower. Should America celebrate - or be afraid? China: Friend or Foe? deals with vital questions: Who are China’s power-players? Will the Chinese economy increase trade or kill off our livelihoods? How is China using its political and cultural influence? Accessible and hard-hitting, China: Friend or Foe? goes beyond borders and stereotypes to explain what China means to America and the West at large.

Author: Stuart Sim
Publisher: Totem Books
Keywords: encounters, postmodern, history, derrida
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 1995-08-16
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 1840460946
ISBN-13: 9781840460940

What does it mean to proclaim ’the end of history’, as several thinkers have done in recent years? Francis Fukuyama, the American political theorist, created a considerable stir in The End of History and the Last Man (1992) by claiming that the fall of communism and the triumph of free market liberalism brought an ’end of history’ as we know it. Prominent among his critics has been the French philosopher Jacques Derrida, whose Specters of Marx (1993) deconstructed the concept of ’the end of history’ as an ideological confidence trick, in an effort to salvage

Author: Steve Fuller
Publisher: Totem Books
Keywords: intellectual
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2002-07-28
List price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 1840467215
ISBN-13: 9781840467215

Chomsky, Dawkins, Germaine Greer, Martin Amis ... with regular TV appearances, newspaper columns and cultural commentary, intellectuals are indispensable characters of modern life. But what is an intellectual? What distinguishes them from philosophers, scientists, politicians or entrepreneurs? Why are they happy to be insulted as long as they are not ignored? As well as a history of the intellectual from Ancient Greece to post-9/11, Steve Fuller introduces exemplars from the past - Voltaire, Sartre, Norman Mailer and Bertrand Russell - alongside many living examples in this essential guide to

Authors:Ziauddin Sardar, Borin Van Loon,
Publisher: Totem Books
Keywords: introducing, icon, cultural, studies
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2001-04-26
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1840465875
ISBN-13: 9781840465877

Provides an incisive tour through this complex subject, charting its origins in Britain and its migration to the U.S.A.

Author: Elizabeth Wright
Publisher: Totem Books
Keywords: encounters, postmodern, postfeminism, lacan
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 1996-10-29
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 1840461829
ISBN-13: 9781840461824

Jacques Lacan (1901–81), known as ‘the French Freud’, is the key figure of postmodern psychoanalysis, reviled by some critics and revered by others who see him as the most original psychoanalytic theorist since Freud. ‘Postfeminism’ too is a disputed term. It can mean the mass media backlash against traditional feminism’s struggle for women’s equality, or, in an entirely different sense, the repositioning of feminism to confront the realities of entrenched patriarchy and women’s marginalisation. What do Lacan and postfeminism have in common – besides being misunderstood? T

Authors:David Papineau, Howard Selina,
Publisher: Totem Books
Keywords: introducing, consciousness
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2001-11-13
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1840466650
ISBN-13: 9781840466652

Introducing Consciousness starts with the problem of the philosophical relation between mind and matter, explains the historical origins of this problem, and traces different scientific attempts to explain consciousness. Along the way, readers will be introduced to zombies and Chinese Rooms, ghosts in machines and Schrodinger’s cat.

Authors:Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon, Ralph Edney,
Publisher: Totem Books
Keywords: geometry, fractal, introducing
Number of Pages: 174
Published: 2000-01-15
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 1840461233
ISBN-13: 9781840461237

Traces the development of fractal geometry, the geometry of the natural world, from Zeno to calculus and the first mathematicians to set the stage for the field. Combines text and graphics to offer the most accessible amount that any reader is likely to find, helping in the overall move toward scientific literacy. Softcover.