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1. Introduction: Fichte's Post-Kantian Project, Steven Hoeltzel -- Part I: Historical and Conceptual Context -- 2. Fichte's Life and Philosophical Trajectory, Yolanda Estes -- 3. The Precursor as Rival: Fichte in Relation to Kant, Günter Zöller -- 4. Fichte, German Idealism, and the Parameters of Systematic Philosophy, Andreas Schmidt -- Part II: Metaphilosophy and Method -- 5. Fichte on the Standpoint of Philosophy and the Standpoint of Ordinary Life, Halla Kim -- 6. Reflection, Metaphilosophy, and Logic of Action in the Science of Knowledge, Isabelle Thomas-Fogiel -- 7. Fichte's Anti-Dogmatism and the Autonomy of Reason, Kienhow Goh -- Part III: Transcendental Theory -- 8. Knowledge and Action: Self-Positing, I-Hood, and the Centrality of the Striving Doctrine, C. Jeffery Kinlaw -- 9. Fichte's Account of Reason and Rational Normativity, Steven Hoeltzel -- 10. Fichte's Relation I: Anstoß and Aufforderung, Gabriel Gottlieb -- Part IV: Ethical Theory -- 11. Fichte's Deduction of the Moral Law, Owen Ware -- 12. Freedom as an End in Itself: Fichte on Ethical Duties, Paul Guyer -- 13. Fichte on Freedom, Wayne Martin -- Part V: Political and Social Theory -- 14. Fichte on Property Rights and Coercion, Nedim Nomer -- 15. Fichte's Theory of the State in Foundations of Natural Right, James A. Clarke -- 16. Fichte's Concept of the Nation, David James -- 17. Fichte's Philosophy of History: Between A Priori Foundation and Material Development, Angelica Nuzzo -- Part VI: Metaphysics and Epistemology -- 18. Giving Shape to the Shapeless: Divine Incomprehensibility, Moral Knowledge, and Symbolic Representation, Benjamin D. Crowe -- 19. The Letter and the Spirit: Kant's Metaphysics and Fichte's Epistemology, Matthew C. Altman -- 20. Transcendental Ontology in Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre of 1804, Markus Gabriel -- Part VII: Repercussions -- 21. Heidegger's Modest Fichteanism, Michael Stevenson -- 22. Fichte, Sartre, and Levinas on the Problem with the Problem of Other Minds, Cynthia D. Coe -- 23. Fichtean Selfhood and Contemporary Philosophy of Language: The Case of Transcendental Pragmatics, Michihito Yoshime -- 24. Conclusion: Complexity, Unity, Infinity, Steven Hoeltzel

"The term "interest" lacks a precise antonym. In English, we have "disinterested" and "uninteresting," but we want for a term that denotes robust opposition to interest. The same appears to hold true in every other language (as far as we know). Interest's missing antonym reflects not merely a widespread lexical oversight, but a misrecognition of interest's complete and exact meaning. More importantly, the idea that interest has no opposite expresses a certain refusal to acknowledge the power of the impulse to extinguish interest, for the self and for others.

Why then do we foreclose interest's possibility, degrade our (and others') capacities to experience interest, and destroy interest's objects? Why do we decline what interest proffers — which includes creative and subjective being, thinking, and relating — in favor of more primitive modes of survival, thoughtlessness, and nonbeing? Why do relationships — with ourselves, with others, with objects — toward which genuine interest draws us seem sometimes, if not often, unbearable?

These questions are difficult. Their answers, even more so. Misinterest: Essays, Pensées, and Dreams attempts to approach them in an honest way, without making them fascinating, mysterious, boring, obscurantist, or fascinatingly mysteriously boringly obscurantist. Outwardly, Misinterest is concerned with dreams and forgetting and Eros and soaring dogs and groups and suicidal suburban teenagers and sex and jury duty and Nazis and fathers and hatred and holy parrots and fundamentalists and plagues and other things that may or may not be interesting. Ultimately, however, it seeks, like Jules Renard, "en restant exact" (in remaining true/real), to shed light on the establishment of misinterest, missingness, and mystery where and when they need not be, and, thus, on the psychic, familial, and political forces that compel us not to be when and where we ought."

Companies across all industries are leveraging digital technologies to transform outdated processes and build new business models to compete in the information age. For all the publicity and hype, successful digital transformation has proven to be elusive. Numerous studies have found more than half of all digital transformation efforts fail. Digitally Deaf explores the obstacles and inhibitors that derail transformation efforts and outlines the steps organizations should take to establish an environment for success. Written by a highly experienced CIO, Digitally Deaf illustrates symptoms and underlying issues through the author's experiences at large, Fortune 250 organizations. Digitally Deaf establishes a framework for digital transformation execution beginning with the development of a common definition and language for transformation. Learn the roles of the board of directors and leadership in establishing the appropriate messaging, governance, and organizational structure to drive digital efforts. Realize how digital transformation efforts amplify common problems encountered in typical technology projects. Discover how the IT organization must transform to enable the agility needed to fuel new digital business models. Finally, learn to spot the symptoms of issues that undermine transformation success and how to address them."On the topic of digital transformation, Steve addresses the mind set shift that is needed to be successful, leveraging relatable examples across multiple industries. Digitally Deaf offers a very relevant perspective on what it takes to move a traditional organization into the digital age." Boris Sherman, CTO Tailored Brands "Stone, as a former CIO, accurately outlines the challenges associated with new technologies and the benefits of implementing a digital-first culture. This book helps business and technology leaders understand the landscape and how to embrace digital to create new sources of value in their organizations." Jonathan Brassington, Head, Capgemini Invent North America

Imagine someone uncertain, exactly, what a club was (in the sense that Thackeray or Lord Castlereagh would have used the term). Imagine this person leafing through this lavish volume. Even if they had no idea what or where the Travellers Club was, they would be immediately transported by Justin Paget?s photographs into what appears to be a palace, Italianate but unmistakably English. Charles Barry was the genius who designed it. Just look at the Library, one of the most beautiful rooms in Europe, adorned by C. R. Cockerell ? architect of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford ? with a frieze after that in the Temple at Bassae, and a coal fire burning reassuringly in the grate. Here is a resplendent dining room (called in the language of clubland a Coffee Room) glittering with gigantic chandeliers ? two are reproductions; one comes from Carlton House, the demolished residence of the Prince Regent. Here is a staircase up which tottered the old French ambassador, Charles Maurice, Prince de Talleyrand-Périgord.0Here is the Travellers Club, 106 Pall Mall. And here is its history, by John Martin Robinson, one of our finest architectural historians. It is, however, very much more than an architectural history. It takes us from the days after the Napoleonic wars, when a group of young aristocrats, who had travelled in the Mediterranean, wanted to start a club that was less political than the existing London clubs; through the high days of Victorian clubland, when four prime ministers, and nearly all the Dukes, royal and non-royal, belonged; to the era of the ?Foreign Office? members, i.e. spies, who included Donald Maclean, John Cairncross and Anthony Blunt, as well as the real Foreign Office membership, to its period of decline and near extinction in the 1970s

As the rich words from the African proverbs resonate into the twenty-first century regarding the importance of identity and telling the stories of people of African descent through the eyes of the people, the grand rhetorician and griot of the twentieth century Dr William Edward Burghardt Du Bois's infamous problem remains so today - "the problem of the colour-line." After the election of Barack Hussein Obama, the first African American president of the United States; after the Civil Rights Movement; after Brown versus the Board of Education; after the students' right to their own language; after Plessy versus Ferguson; and the murders of innocent, young African American males, including Emmett Till, Timothy Thomas, Trayvon Martin, John Crawford III, Tamir Rice, Jordan Davis, Eric Garner, and Mike Brown, people of African descent are still battling with being labelled a "problem in one's own country" while the USA continues to strive for a post-racial era. W.E.B. Du Bois's rhetoric and motives in general are more relevant today than ever in reassessing what he so eloquently describes and unveils through the phrase "double consciousness" in Souls of Black Folk (1903), through which he reveals the feeling of a problem. This ground-breaking volume, featuring contributions from W.E.B. Du Bois's great-grandson, Arthur McFarlane II, among others, is organized into three parts. Part I focuses on the foundation of Du Bois's Africana Rhetoric through the origins of Africana Studies, Pan Africanism, and Africana Critical Theory. Part II focuses on Du Bois's rhetorical strategies and rhetorical analyses in his scholarship and life. Part III focuses on gender and sexuality in Du Bois's selected works. This work, the first of its kind devoted exclusively to Du Bois's rhetoric and motives--can serve as a blueprint for today as the struggle toward a post racial

Intro -- Title Page Content -- Part 1: Life in the C-Suite -- IT'S LONELY AT THE TOP -- THE CHANGING WORLD OF COMMUNICATION -- THE ART OF CONTROL -- THE LEADER AS A BRAND -- THE IMPORTANCE OF THE LEADER BRAND -- CREATING YOUR PUBLIC PROFILE -- YOU'RE IN CONTROL OF YOUR BRAND -- INTERNAL COMMUNICATION VIA EXTERNAL MEDIA -- NEVER BE SEEN TO SEEK PUBLICITY -- UNDERSTAND WHAT MAKES THE NEWS -- HOW YOU COMMUNICATE AFFECTS HOW THE COMPANY PERFORMS -- JUST UNDER-PROMISE AND JUST OVER-DELIVER -- SET EXPECTATIONS -- ENJOY THE HONEYMOON WHILE YOU CAN -- YOU CAN FALL IN A HOLE BUT FILL IT UP -- Part 2: Communicating in the C-Suite -- DELIVERING AT THE TOP -- ENGAGING YOUR AUDIENCE WITH STORIES -- WHEN A STORY TELLS IT ALL -- YOU DON'T CREATE CHANGE WITH EMAIL -- TIME FOR A PRESENTATION AND TIME FOR A SPEECH -- AVOIDING NERVES - OR TACKLING THEM -- CONQUERING THE CHALLENGE OF NOTES -- BECOMING POWERFUL -- IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS THAT COUNT -- WHEN STRUCTURE MAKES THE DIFFERENCE -- CENTERING YOURSELF -- RHETORIC - LOVE IT OR HATE IT -- 50mm CAN MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE -- THE WORDS THAT PROVE YOU'RE NOT CONNECTING -- IF IT FEELS CLUMSY, CHANGE IT -- THERE IS NO 'AUDIENCE' -- CREATE AN AUDIENCE -- GESTURES - BRINGING YOUR SPEECH ALIVE -- GESTURES ARE VISUAL AIDS -- GESTURES CAN BE TOO BIG, AND TOO SMALL -- USE GESTURES TO DESCRIBE -- GESTURES ARE FOR THE AUDIENCE -- KEEP YOUR GESTURES BEHIND THE LECTERN -- TELL US HOW YOU FEEL -- MOVEMENT ABOVE ALL -- MOVEMENT MUST HAVE PURPOSE -- THE POWER OF PRESENT PARTICIPLES -- GET YOUR HAND OUT OF YOUR POCKET! -- EMPATHISE -- TALK BENEFITS, NOT FEATURES -- THE BIG BLACK ARROW -- TAKE THE WIN -- CONVERSATIONAL LANGUAGE -- Part 3: Presenting Financial Results -- THEY'RE JOINED AT THE HIP -- HOW MANY TIMES DO YOU NEED TO TELL THEM? -- CUT DOWN THE NUMBER OF SLIDES -- DON'T USE ANY SLIDES -- DON'T READ THE SLIDES.

"We Greeks are one in blood and one in language; we have temples to the gods and religious rites in common, and a common way of life." So the fifth-century historian Herodotus has some Athenians declare, in explanation of why they would never betray their fellow Greeks to the enemy, the "barbarian" Persians. And he might have added further common features, such as clothing, foodways, and political institutions. But if the Greeks knew that they were kin, why did many of them side with the Persians against fellow Greeks, and why, more generally, is ancient Greek history so often the history of internecine wars and other forms of competition with one another? This is the question acclaimed historian Robin Waterfield sets out to explore in this magisterial history of ancient Greece. With more information, more engagingly presented, than any similar work, this is the best single-volume account of ancient Greece in more than a generation. Waterfield gives a comprehensive narrative of seven hundred years of history, from the emergence of the Greeks around 750 BCE to the Roman conquest of the last of the Greco-Macedonian kingdoms in 30 BCE. Equal weight is given to all phases of Greek history -- the Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic periods. But history is not just facts; it is also a matter of how we interpret the evidence. Without compromising the readability of the book, Waterfield incorporates the most recent scholarship by classical historians and archaeologists and asks his readers to think critically about Greek history. A brilliant, up-to-date account of ancient Greece, suitable for history buffs and university students alike, Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens presents a compelling and comprehensive story of this remarkable civilization's disunity, underlying cultural solidarity, and eventual political unification."--

Islamist political parties and groups are on the rise throughout the Muslim world and in Muslim communities in the West. Owing largely to the threat of terrorism, political Islam is often portrayed as a monolithic movement embodying fundamentalism and theocracy, an image magnified by the rise of populism and xenophobia in the United States and Europe. Reality, however, is far more complicated. Political Islam has evolved considerably since its spectacular rise decades ago, and today it features divergent viewpoints and contributes to discrete but simultaneous developments worldwide. This is a new political Islam, more global in scope but increasingly local in action. Emmanuel Karagiannis offers a sophisticated analysis of the different manifestations of contemporary Islamism. In a context of global economic and social changes, he finds local manifestations of Islamism are becoming both more prevalent and more diverse. Many Islamists turn to activism, still more participate formally in the democratic process, and some, in far fewer numbers, advocate violence - a wide range of political persuasions and tactics that reflects real and perceived political, cultural, and identity differences. Synthesizing prodigious research and integrating insights from the globalization debate and the literature on social movements, The New Political Islam seeks to explain the processes and factors leading to distinctive fusions of "the global" and "the local" across the landscape of contemporary political Islam. Examining converts to Islam in Europe, nonviolent Islamists with global reach, Islamist parties in Turkey, Egypt, and Tunisia, and militant Shia and Sunni groups in Syria and Iraq, Karagiannis demonstrates that Islamists have embraced ideas and practices from the global marketplace and have attempted to implement them locally. He looks closely at the ways in which Islamist activists, politicians, and militants have utilized the language of human rights, democracy, and justice to gain influence and popular support and to contend for power.

Introduction : the impact of four decades of war and violence on afghan society and political culture / Nazif Shahrani -- Technologies of power-competing discourses on national identity, statehood, and state stability -- Afghanistan : a turbulent state in transition / Amin Saikal -- Afghanistan's "traditional" Islam in transition : the deep roots of Taliban extremism / Bashir Ahmad Ansari -- Language, poetry, and identity in Afghanistan : poetic texts, changing contexts / Mohammad Omar Sharifi -- Lineages of the urban state : locating continuity and change in post-2001 Kabul / Khalid Homayun Nadiri and M. Farshid Alemi Hakimyar -- Webs and spiders : four decades of violence, intervention, and statehood in Afghanistan (1978-2016) / Timor Sharan -- Merchant-warlords : changing forms of leadership in Afghanistan's unstable political economy / Noah Coburn -- Borders, access to strategic resources, and challenges to state stability / Ahmad Shayeq Qassem -- Brought to you by foreigners, warlords, and local activists : TV and the Afghan culture wars / Wazhmah Osman -- Personal and collective identities, gender relations, and the trust deficit -- "The war destroyed our society" : masculinity, violence, and shifting cultural idioms among Afghan Pashtun / Andrea Chiovenda -- Engendering the Taliban / Sonia Ahsan -- Anticipating discontinuous change : Afghanistan in retrospect and prospect / Robert L. Canfield and Fahim Masoud -- Adapting to a new political ecology of uncertainties at the margins -- Badakhshanis since the Saur revolution : struggle, triumph, hope, and uncertainty / M. Nazif Shahrani -- Hazara civil society activists and local, national, and international political institutions / Melissa Kerr Chiovenda -- Adapting to three decades of uncertainty : the flexibility of social institutions among Baloch groups in Afghanistan / Just Boedeker -- Party institutionalization meets women's empowerment? Acquiring power and influence in Afghanistan / Ann Larson -- Violence, social services delivery, and the rising trust deficit -- Childbirth and social change in Afghanistan / Kylea Laina Liese -- Signatures of distrust in contemporary Afghanistan : more than a decade of development effort for vulnerable groups : the case of disability / Parul Bakhshi and Jean-Francois Trani.

Australia is a unique society, created from immigration planned by the state and, for almost a century, organised and recruited through the governments of the British Empire. In the formative days it depended on convict labour from England and Ireland, whereas the United States depended on slave labour from Africa. In subsequent years most Australians were British subjects whereas this ceased to be so for Americans upon their independence. However in recent years this British character has progressively been abandoned with the admission of a wide from other societies. This has created a multicultural society, although one in which the English language remains dominant and British "values' remain praised at least by the conservative side of politics Australia is remote from Britain despite many transport links and investments. Its neighbours are Asians or Pacific Islanders, with only New Zealand as a much smaller British neighbour many miles away.This leads to contradictory situations such as the increasing Asian intake of immigrants and of Asian and especially Chinese business and investment. Although Immigration still remains government controlled as throughout the past but it no longer favours British settlers as it once did. Apart from local neighbours arriving for temporary or permanent residence it also faces the fact that British naval and military force is no longer relevant in the region. The closest protective Ally has become the United States, but the growing powers include China, India and the small but threatening Communist republic of North Korea, armed with nuclear rockets aimed on Australian potential targets for the first time since the end of the war with Japan in 1945. From a relatively safe and stable society, Australia faces new dilemmas. However, even in the past' emphasis on building a compatible society was not achieved without many tensions and problems

Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- The Evolving Conception of Diversity -- "!ke e: /xarra //ke": Old Diversities and New Responses in the Quest for Unity in South Africa /Jaap de Visser and Nico Steytler -- Federalism and the Evolving Conceptions of Unity and Diversity in Ethiopia /Assefa Fiseha -- Empowerment and Exclusion: The story of two African federations /Yonatan Tesfaye Fessha -- Accommodating National Minorities in Federal Switzerland – Old Concepts Meet New Realities /Eva Maria Belser -- Interplay Between Unity and Diversity -- The Canadian Constitution and the Metaphor of the Living Tree /Eugénie Brouillet and Alain-G. Gagnon -- Interplay of Unity and Diversity in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Bosnia and Herzegovina In-Between Uniformity and Division /Dejan Vanjek -- Is there Unity in Brazil's Political Diversity? /Tracy Beck Fenwick -- Political Unity and Economic Diversity in the Argentine Federation /Miguel Angel Asensio -- Unity and Diversity in Italy (Partially) Asymmetric Regionalism in Light of Contemporary Constitutional Reform /Paolo Colasante -- Federalism as Decision-Making and New Institutional Practices -- Diversity Accommodation as a Strategy of National Unity: The Case of Canada /James Bickerton -- The Evolution of European Union Citizenship between Unity and Diversity /Gabriella Saputelli -- Constitutional Design and Asymmetrical Federalism -- Diversity-Induced Centralization in American Federalism with Asymmetrical Accommodations of Territorial Diversity /John Kincaid -- Of Tribes and Territories: Asymmetry in American Federalism /G. Alan Tarr -- How Unity and Diversity Affect Political Asymmetries of Indigenous Groups in Federations: Heterogenous Institutional Practices in Australia, Canada, and the United States /Shane Day -- Asymmetrical Federalism in India: Promoting Secession or Accommodating Diversity? /Rekha Saxena -- Reconciling Liberal Democracy, Nationalism and Political Divorce /Marc Sanjaume-Calvet -- Hegemonic or Shared Autonomy? Two Approaches and Their Implications for Constitutional Design /Karl Kössler -- The "Ping-Pong"-Power: Deviant State Legislation in Germany /Hans-Peter Schneider -- English or French? Disputes in Switzerland over Federal Competence in Teaching Languages /Peter Hänni -- Conclusion: Conceptual, Theoretical and Empirical Reflections /Michael Burgess -- Back Matter -- General Index.

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1: The Politics of Torture -- 1 Without end? Torture in the twenty-first century -- 2 Torture and power -- 3 The dark backdrop of sacrifice: torture in the mechanisms of terror -- 4 Torture after the abolition of torture -- 5 The black phoenix -- 6 Torture and democracy -- 7 After 9/11: state of exception, pre-emptive torture -- 8 The debate over torture -- 9 The dilemma of 'getting our hands dirty': Thomas Nagel and Michael Walzer -- 10 Alan Dershowitz and the 'torture warrant' -- 11 The lesser evil is still an evil -- 12 24: the gentleman torturer -- 13 A political theology of torture -- 14 Why not torture the terrorist? The ticking time bomb -- 15 Dangerous, pseudo-philosophical tales -- 16 Illegitimacy: the torturer state -- 17 A shipwreck of human rights? -- 18 Human dignity in torture -- 2: Phenomenology of Torture -- 1 Defining torture: etymological notes -- 2 'Whoever has succumbed to torture can no longer feel at home in the world' (Améry) -- 3 Torture, genocide, Holocaust -- 4 Killing and torturing -- 5 Between biopower and sovereign power -- 6 Anatomy of the butcher -- 7 Sade, the negation of the other, and the language of violence -- 8 From Torquemada to Scilingo: four portraits -- 9 Born torturers? -- 10 Pedro and the Captain -- 11 The victim's secret -- 12 Saying the word 'torture' -- 13 On pain and suffering -- 14 Surviving one's own death -- 3: The Administration of Torture -- 1 Giulio Regeni: the body of the tortured -- 2 Benjamin -- or, on an ignominious institution -- 3 The G8 in Genoa -- 4 'No touch' torture: on Stammheim prison -- 5 Desaparecidos: when death is denied -- 6 The CIA's global Gulag -- 7 Guantánamo: a camp for the new millennium -- 8 Abu Ghraib: the photographs of shame -- 9 Women and sexual violence -- 10 In the hands of the stronger

Winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. J. M. Coetzee presents a coherent, unorthodox analysis of censorship from the perspective of one who has lived and worked under its shadow. The essays collected here attempt to understand the passion that plays itself out in acts of silencing and censoring. He argues that a destructive dynamic of belligerence and escalation tends to overtake the rivals in any field ruled by censorship. From Osip Mandelstam commanded to compose an ode in praise of Stalin, to Breyten Breytenbach writing poems under and for the eyes of his prison guards, to Aleksander Solzhenitsyn engaging in a trial of wits with the organs of the Soviet state, Giving Offense focuses on the ways authors have historically responded to censorship. It also analyzes the arguments of Catharine MacKinnon for the suppression of pornography and traces the operations of the old South African censorship system. "The most impressive feature of Coetzee's essays, besides his ear for language, is his coolheadedness. He can dissect repugnant notions and analyze volatile emotions with enviable poise."-Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review "Those looking for simple, ringing denunciations of censorship's evils will be disappointed. Coetzee explicitly rejects such noble tritenesses. Instead . . . he pursues censorship's deeper, more fickle meanings and unmeanings."-Kirkus Reviews "These erudite essays form a powerful, bracing criticism of censorship in its many guises."-Publishers Weekly "Giving Offense gets its incisive message across clearly, even when Coetzee is dealing with such murky theorists as Bakhtin, Lacan, Foucault, and René; Girard. Coetzee has a light, wry sense of humor."-Bill Marx, Hungry Mind Review "An extraordinary collection of essays."-Martha Bayles, New York Times Book Review "A disturbing and illuminating moral expedition."-Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times Book Review

chapter Introduction -- part 1 August -- chapter Lesson 1: Exploring Media Literacy with Students -- part Lesson 2: Close Reading and What It Means for Media Literacy -- chapter Lesson 3: What's Missing From That Media Message? -- part 2 September -- chapter Lesson 4: Unraveling the Messages in TV Advertising -- chapter Lesson 5: Examining the Political Announcement -- chapter Lesson 6: Truth vs Propaganda in Political Ads -- part 3 October -- chapter Lesson 7: Media Literacy Week - A Time to Remember Why Media Literacy Is So Important -- chapter Lesson 8: Teach Students to Analyze Political Debates -- chapter Lesson 9: Students Need Help Detecting Fake News -- part 4 November -- chapter Lesson 10: Examining Holiday Toy Ads -- chapter Lesson 11: Looking Beyond the Toy Ads to a World Saturated with Marketing Messages -- part 5 December -- chapter Lesson 12: Engaging in the Study of Parody -- chapter Lesson 13: How Big Media Influences the News We Read -- part 6 January -- chapter Lesson 14: Looking Deeper into Super Bowl Ads -- chapter Lesson 15: Being Savvy About Diet Ad Season -- chapter Lesson 16: Studying Black History Through the Vision of Gordon Parks -- chapter Lesson 17: Civil Rights - How Pictures Changed America -- part 7 February -- chapter Lesson 18: Learning from the Academy Awards -- chapter Lesson 19: Exploring the Language of Film -- chapter Lesson 20: Reading the Symbols of Costume Design -- part 8 March -- chapter Lesson 21: Comparing: History vs Hollywood - Who Gets the Story Right? -- chapter Lesson 22: Analyzing the Media Through Docudramas -- chapter Lesson 23: How Media Appeals to Our Emotions -- part 9 April -- chapter Lesson 24: Examining Product Placement -- chapter Lesson 25: Noticing the Power of Branding -- part 10 May -- chapter Lesson 26: Understanding Media Messages in Popular Magazines -- chapter Lesson 27: Reading and Interpreting Iconic News Images -- part Lesson 28: The Role of Celebrity in Raising Our Awareness -- chapter Conclusion.

European Contract Law in the Digital Age offers an overview of the interactions between digital technologies and contract law and takes into account the two (late) 2015 EU Commission proposals on digital contracting and digital content. The book goes beyond these proposals and is grouped around the three pillars of an architecture of contract law in the digital age: the regulatory framework; digital interventions over the life-cycle of the contract; and digital objects of contracting. The discussion of the regulatory framework looks at the platforms used for digital contracting - such as Airbnb - which are particularly important instruments for the formation of digital contracts. In describing the life-cycle of the contract, this book shows how four key technologies (digital platforms, Big Data analytics, artificial intelligence, and blockchain) are being used at different stages of the contractual process, from the screening for contractual partners to formation, enforcement and interpretation. Furthermore, digitally facilitated contracting increasingly relates to digital content - for instance software or search engines - as the object of the contract but while this area has notably been shaped by the proposed Directive on Contracts for the Supply of Digital Content, this work shows that important questions remain unanswered. This book highlights how the digital dimension opens a new chapter in the concept of contracting, both questioning and revisiting many of its core concepts. It is a reliable resource on topical developments for everyone interested in digital technologies and contract law. Stefan Grundmann is Professor of European Private Law, Transnational Law and Legal Theory at Humboldt University, Berlin and the European University Institute, Florence. He has written books and commentaries in several languages in contract law, banking law and company law, as well as in private law theory. He is President of the Society of European Contract Law