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Drone Enlightenment

The Colonial Roots of Remote Warfare

By: Peter DeGabriele

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Drone Enlightenment

The Colonial Roots of Remote Warfare

By: Peter DeGabriele

Drone warfare raises far-reaching questions about responsibility, war, and sovereignty. Who can be held accountable for drone strikes? Do drones conduct wars of national territories and sovereign boundaries? What does the occupation of a land or people look like if there are no boots on the ground? Focusing specifically on the United States' use of killer drones during the War on Terror, Drone Enlightenment argues that this kind of warfare has its intellectual, ideological, and practical roots in the way the Enlightenment imagined moral agency, occupation, race, and sovereignty. As a consequence of seeing drone warfare as a creature of the Enlightenment, and through innovative readings of Hobbes, Locke, Grotius, Pufendorf, Barbeyrac, and Swift, the book also reevaluates the Enlightenment itself.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813949556

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9780813949550

Sovereign Power and the Enlightenment

Eighteenth-Century Literature and the Problem of the Political

By: Peter DeGabriele

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Sovereign Power and the Enlightenment

Eighteenth-Century Literature and the Problem of the Political

By: Peter DeGabriele

Sovereign Power and the Enlightenment examines the role of the novelists and historians of the eighteenth century in developing a vision of political modernity that questions traditional narratives about the rise of liberalism and the decline of sovereign power. It provides a new way to link the literature and philosophy of the eighteenth century with the meditations on violence and sovereignty that have preoccupied much of the political philosophy of the first years of the twenty first century. Focusing on the novelists Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, and Ann Radcliffe, and on the historians David Hume and Edward Gibbon, DeGabriele shows how these authors use the resources of their respective genres to expose the persistence of sovereign violence and to outline a type of political subject who could resist the violence more effectively than the individual beloved of modern liberalism.

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217

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Bucknell University Press

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1611486971

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9781611486971

Managerial Analytics

An Applied Guide to Principles, Methods, Tools, and Best Practices

By: Michael Watson,Derek Nelson,Peter Cacioppi

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Managerial Analytics

An Applied Guide to Principles, Methods, Tools, and Best Practices

By: Michael Watson,Derek Nelson,Peter Cacioppi

The field of analytics is rapidly evolving, making it difficult for professionals and students to keep up the most current and effective applications. Managerial Analytics will help readers sort through all these new options and identify the appropriate solution. In this reference, authors Watson, Nelson and Cacioppi accurately define and identify the components of analytics and big data, giving readers the knowledge needed to effectively assess new aspects and applications. Building on this foundation, they review tools and solutions, identify the offerings best aligned to one’s requirements, and show how to tailor analytics applications to an organization’s specific needs. Drawing on extensive experience implementing, planning, and researching advanced analytics for business, the authors clearly explain all this, and more: What analytics is and isn’t: great examples of successful usage – and other examples where the term is being degraded into meaninglessness The difference between using analytics and “competing on analytics” How to get started with big data, by analyzing the most relevant data Components of analytics systems, from databases and Excel to BI systems and beyond Anticipating and overcoming “confirmation bias” and other pitfalls Understanding predictive analytics and getting the high-quality random samples necessary Applying game theory, Efficient Frontier, benchmarking, and revenue management models Implementing optimization at the small and large scale, and using it to make “automatic decisions”

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253

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Pearson Education

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0133408647

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9780133408645

The Sociology of Consumption

An Introduction

By: Peter Corrigan

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The Sociology of Consumption

An Introduction

By: Peter Corrigan

This lucid introduction to the sociology of consumerism examines the relationship between production and consumption in late capitalist societies. The historical and theoretical discussion provides the student with the tools to examine key themes in the sociology of consumption. After a detailed historical overview of the advent of consumer society, Peter Corrigan examines theoretical accounts of consumption and consumer practice, including: Veblen and conspicuous consumption; Mary Douglas on the world of goods; Jean Baudrillard on the system of objects; and Pierre Bourdieu on cultural capital. This historical and theoretical discussion provides the student with the tools to examine key themes in the socio

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SAGE

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0761950117

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9780761950110

Drone Enlightenment

The Colonial Roots of Remote Warfare

By: Peter DeGabriele

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The Colonial Roots of Remote Warfare

By: Peter DeGabriele

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Drone Enlightenment

Drone Enlightenment

Sovereign Power and the Enlightenment

Sovereign Power and the Enlightenment

Managerial Analytics

Managerial Analytics

The Sociology of Consumption

The Sociology of Consumption

Drone Enlightenment

Drone Enlightenment

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