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Melbourne University Press Author Portraits
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/71561These photographs are of authors published at some stage by Melbourne University Press, and were taken for the purposes of furnishing author pictures on the covers of titles published by the Press.114553
Series: [2003.0130] "Melbourne University Press Author Portraits
The Famous Pluto Springs
No full textPostcard of the Famous Pluto Spring located in French Lick, Indiana.Postcard of the Famous Pluto Spring in French Lick, Indiana
Pluto
No full textOrbiting at the edge of the outer Solar System, Pluto is an intriguing object in astronomy. Since the fascinating events surrounding its discovery, it has helped increase our understanding of the origin and evolution of the Solar System, and raised questions about the nature and benefits of scientific classification. This is a timely and exciting account of Pluto and its satellites. The author uses Pluto as a case study to discuss discovery in astronomy, how remote astronomical bodies are investigated, and the role of classification in science by discussing Pluto's recent classification as a dwarf planet. Besides Pluto, the book also explores the rich assortment of bodies that constitute the Edgeworth–Kuiper Belt, of which Pluto is the largest innermost member. Richly illustrated, this text is written for general readers, amateur astronomers and students alike. Boxed text provides more advanced information especially for readers who wish to delve deeper into the subject.</jats:p
The Lost Art of Agitprop and The Return of Socialist Praxis
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Pluto Press via the DOI in this recordAs the UK Labour Party aims to organise its forgotten heartlands, it can learn from a
rich history of socialist culture in working-class communities. RMT official and
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Imaginary Futures: From Thinking Machines to the Global Village
No full text16 commissioned artworks by Alex Veness to accompany text by Richard Barbrook, coordinator of the Hypermedia Research Centre at the University of Westminster. In the book: "Imaginary Futures From Thinking Machines to the Global Village". About the bookThis book is a history of the future. It shows how our contemporary understanding of the Net is shaped by visions of the future that were put together in the 1950s and 1960s.Richard Barbrook argues that at the height of the Cold War the Americans invented the only working model of communism in human history, the Internet. Yet, for all of its libertarian potential, the goal of this high-tech project was geopolitical dominance. The ownership of time was control over the destiny of humanity. The potentially subversive theory of cybernetics was transformed into the military-friendly project of "artificial intelligence." Capitalist growth became the fastest route to the "information society." The rest of the world was expected to follow America's path into the networked future.Today, we're still being told that the Net is creating the information society---and that America today is everywhere else tomorrow. Barbrook shows how this idea serves a specific geopolitical purpose. Thankfully, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the DIY ethic of the Net shows that people can resist these authoritarian prophecies by shaping information technologies in their own interest. Ultimately, if we don't want the future to be what it used to be, we must invent our own improved and truly revolutionary future.Richard Barbrook is the author of a number of highly influential essays on the clash between commerce and cooperation within the Net, including "The Hi-Tech Gift Economy," "Cyber-communism," and (with Andy Cameron) "The Californian Ideology." He has recently published a book on the social groups shaping the information society, The Class of the New. Barbrook is Senior Lecturer in the School of Media, Art and Design at the University Westminster and is a trustee of cybersalon.org/
The 2008—2013 Crisis as Metastasis. A Preview of the 2nd edition of The Cancer Stage of Capitalism by Pluto Press
No full textBy means of selection of relevant excerpts, a preview is offered hereby of the 2nd edition of John McMurtry's prophetic 1999 book "The Cancer Stage of Capitalism", published by Pluto Press, and entitled "The Cancer Stage of Capitalism and Its Cure
Review of "How Corrupt is Britain?" by David Whyte (London, Pluto Press, 2015)
No full textA book review of How Corrupt is Britain, edited by David Whyte and published by Pluto Press (2015)
Saccolaimus pluto
No full textSaccolaimus pluto (Miller, 1911). Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 38:396. TYPE LOCALITY: Philippines, Mindanao, near Zamboanga. DISTRIBUTION: Philippines. SYNONYMS: capito. COMMENTS: Includes capito; see Lawrence (1939:42). Corbet and Hill (1980:45) listed capito as a distinct species without comment. Almost certainly a subspecies of saccolaimus.Published as part of Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, pp. 137-241 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 159, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.735306
Afyare Abdi Elmi Understanding the Somalia Conflagration, (Pambazuka, Pluto Press, 2010)
No full textAmin Samir. Afyare Abdi Elmi Understanding the Somalia Conflagration, (Pambazuka, Pluto Press, 2010). In: Recherches Internationales, n°89, 2011. Les enjeux du changement climatique. pp. 233-236
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No full text1999 Art and Outrage: provocation, controversy and the visual arts, by John A. Walker, published by Pluto Press. Pages 155-159, ISBN 0-7453-1354-
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