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Privacy is one of the most contested concepts of our time. This book sets out a rigorous and comprehensive framework for understanding debates about privacy and our rights to it. Much of the conflict around privacy comes from a failure to recognise divergent perspectives. Some people argue about human rights, some about social conventions, others about individual preferences and still others about information and data processing. As a result, ...

A comprehensive, rigorous, multidisciplinary analysis of privacy debates, organised around a framework for understanding the different questions and perspectives of antagonists.

Modernity is a social, cultural, or historical descriptor for a certain type of society or set of social arrangements. It is a contentious and disputed term, often understood implicitly. It is a way of describing and classifying highly complex, dynamic, and emergent aggregate social phenomena, and so dramatically simplifies such contexts. However, the language of modernity remains attractive to commentators, academics, and policymakers. In thi...

Four Internets offers a revelatory new approach for conceptualizing the Internet and understanding the sometimes rival values that drive its governance and stability. It unravels how tensions between the models play out across politics, economics, and technology, ultimately debating whether these models can continue to co-exist-or what might happen if any fall away.

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Kieron O'Hara gives a new account of what 'conservative' actually means, refashioning the traditional conservative philosophy for a modern age. He draws on the works of thinkers such as Edmund Burke and Adam Smith, philosophers from Plato to Ludwig Wittgenstein, and today's social commentators such as Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Jared Diamond.

Covers Huxley's entire works, including his influential essays, to paint an intimate and sympathetic portrait.

OHara argues that Joseph Conrads work speaks directly to readers in a way that none of his contemporaries can. His skepticism, pessimism, emphasis on the importance and fragility of community, and the difficulties of escaping history are important tools for understanding the modern political world.

The book reviews the history of the 1975 Common Market referendum, looking at the story of the campaign, the larger-than-life personalities behind it, the way it changed our constitution forever - but also how it failed to settle the European argument. Lessons are then drawn for the likely 2006 referendum on the European Constitution.