Oxford University Press

Cellular Convergence and the Death of Privacy explores the recent technological developments in the communication industry and the growing trend for all forms of communication to converge into the cellular handset. Stephen Wicker addresses the impact of cellular convergence on privacy from technical, legal, and social perspectives....

Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.Confluence of Thought is the first book to demonstrate the way in which Gandhi and King's socio-political ideas converge in terms of their origins, development and application....

Caspar Hare presents a bold and original approach to questions of what we ought to do, and why we ought to do it. He breaks with tradition to argue that we can tackle difficult problems in normative ethics by starting with a principle that is humble and uncontroversial. Being moral involves wanting particular other people to be better off....

Piracy, Publishing, and the Public DomainThis book reveals the impact of copyright law on transatlantic modernism in the United States. Key aspects of modernism-James Joyce&'s reputation in America, Ezra Pound&'s proposals for copyright reform, Samuel Roth&'s activities as a pirate-pornographer-are reexamined in the light of the U.S. law and the...

Astrobiologists study the origin and evolution of life on Earth and the possibility of life beyond Earth; a question that has fascinated scientists for hundreds of years. In this Very Short Introduction, David C. Catling introduces the latest scientific understanding of astrobiology, incorporating aspects of microbiology, geology, and astronomy....

A Social Informatics PerspectiveDrawing upon extensive research from inside live projects, the book examines the use of digital technologies to provide more joined-up public services, and combines cross-disciplinary insights to provide a new social informatics perspective on digital government....