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Understanding Human Evolution

For the one-term course in human evolution paleoanthropology or fossil hominins taught at the junior/senior level in departments of anthropology or biology. This new edition provides a comprehensive overview to the field of paleoanthropology the study of human evolution by analyzing fossil remains. It includes the latest fossil finds attempts to place humans into the context of geological and biological change on the planet and presents current controversies in an even-handed manner. | Understanding Human Evolution

GBP 175.00

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Creative Evolution

First published in French in 1907 Henri Bergson’s L’évolution créatrice is a scintillating and radical work by one of the great French philosophers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This outstanding new translation the first for over a hundred years brings one of Bergson’s most important and ambitious works to a new generation of readers. A sympathetic though critical reader of Darwin Bergson argues in Creative Evolution against a mechanistic reductionist view of evolution. For Bergson all life emerges from a creative shared impulse which he famously terms élan vital and which passes like a current through different organisms and generations over time. Whilst this impulse remains as forms of life diverge and multiply human life is characterized by a distinctive form of consciousness or intellect. Yet as Bergson brilliantly shows the intellect’s fragmentary and action- oriented nature which he likens to the cinematograph means it alone cannot grasp nature’s creativity and invention over time. A major task of Creative Evolution is to reconcile these two elements. For Bergson the answer famously lies in intuition which brings instinct and intellect together and takes us “into the very interior of life. ” A work of great rigour and imaginative richness that contributed to Bergson winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1927 Creative Evolution played an important and controversial role in the trajectory of twentieth-century philosophy and continues to create significant discussion and debate. The philosopher and psychologist William James who admired Bergson’s work was writing an introduction to the first English translation of the book before his death in 1910. This new translation includes a foreword by Elizabeth Grosz and a helpful translator’s introduction by Donald Landes. Also translated for the first time are additional notes articles reviews and letters on the reception of Creative Evolution in biology mathematics and theology. This edition includes fascinating commentaries by philosophers Maurice Merleau-Ponty Georges Canguilhem and Gilles Deleuze.

GBP 49.99

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Cognitive Evolution From Single Cells to the Human Mind

Cognitive Evolution provides an in-depth exploration of the natural history of cognition from the beginning of life on Earth to present-day humans. Drawing together evolutionary comparative and neuroscience research the book brings a unique cognitive perspective to evolutionary psychology. The second edition features the latest research and illustrations on emerging topics making it a true update of the field. After introducing evolution Boles adopts an information processing perspective – from inputs to outputs with all the mental processes in between to provide a systematic overview of the evolution of cognition including its sensory motoric perceptual and cognitive components. The combination of evolutionary comparative and neuroscience perspectives provides an insight on topics like vision handedness tools and planning spatial perception pattern recognition memory language and consciousness. Cognitive Evolution is a comprehensive essential read for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of cognitive and evolutionary psychology. Researchers will find it a useful and insightful synthesis of the field yet even the curious public will find in it much that is surprising and enlightening. | Cognitive Evolution From Single Cells to the Human Mind

GBP 44.99

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Primate Evolution and Human Origins

Primate Evolution and Human Origins compiles for the first time the major ideas and publications that have shaped our current view of the evolutionary biology of the primates and the origin of the human line. Designed for freshmen-to-graduate students in anthropology paleontology and biology the book is a unique collection of classic papers culled from the past 20 years of research. It is also an important reference for academicians and researchers as it covers the entire scope of primate and human evolution (with an emphasis on the fossil record). A comprehensive bibliography cites over 2000 significant articles not found in the main text.

GBP 150.00

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Broadening Our Knowledge on Cluster Evolution

Although clusters are regarded as important elements in economic development the strong focus in the literature on the way clusters function is contrasted with a disregard for their evolutionary development: how clusters actually become clusters how and why they decline and how they shift into new fields and transform over time. Although recently new cluster life cycle approaches emerged both empirical evidence and theoretical contributions on this topic are still limited. This book therefore contributes to broadening our knowledge on the life cycle and evolution of clusters both empirically and theoretically. It contains chapters on inter-firm relations as drivers of cluster transformation as well as chapters on the heterogeneity of firms and firm capabilities during cluster evolution and on the role of institutions in stimulating the emergence and growth of clusters. Case-studies stem from different industries and technologies such as biogas film and television new media and medical technologies and from different countries such as Sweden Austria Switzerland and South Korea. All chapters underline that cluster evolution does not only depend on internal dynamics but that external relations are an integral part of cluster dynamics. This book was previously published as a special issue of European Planning Studies. | Broadening Our Knowledge on Cluster Evolution

GBP 42.99

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Human Evolution Economic Progress and Evolutionary Failure

This monograph is an innovative endeavour in many ways. First it brings to the fore the synergy between human evolution and economic and social progress. Second it acknowledges the critical contributions from the routine adherence to contextual truth and contextual non-violence of humanity at large. Finally it argues that the world is sliding towards evolutionary failure by not moving further forward in the adherence to the two core human values. For all those interested in development in a holistic sense the book will inspire thinking and debate. Human evolution will go on – one way or the other – with or without adherence to truth and non-violence. The book stresses the time is now to go for the best and eschew the worst. | Human Evolution Economic Progress and Evolutionary Failure

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The Vegan Evolution Transforming Diets and Agriculture

Arguing for a vegan economy this book explains how we can and should alter our eating habits away from meat and dairy through sociocultural evolution. Using the latest research and ideas about the cultural ecology of food this book makes the case that through biological and especially cultural evolution the human diet can gravitate away from farmed meat and dairy products. The thrust of the writing demonstrates that because humans are a cultural species and since we are evolving more culturally than biologically it stands to reason for health and environmental reasons that we develop a vegan economy. The book shows that for many good reasons we don’t need a diet of meat and dairy and a call is made to legislative leaders policy makers and educators to shift away from animal farming and inform people about the advantages of a vegan culture. The bottom line is that we have to start thinking collectively about smarter ways of growing and processing plant foods not farming animals as food to generate good consequences for health the environment and therefore animals. This is an attainable and worthy goal given the mental and physical plasticity of humans through cooperative cultural evolution. This book is essential reading for all interested in veganism whether for ethical environmental or health reasons and those studying the human diet from a range of disciplines including cultural evolution food ecology animal ethics food and nutrition and evolutionary studies. | The Vegan Evolution Transforming Diets and Agriculture

GBP 35.99

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Islam and Evolution Al-Ghazālī and the Modern Evolutionary Paradigm

This book attempts to equip the reader with a holistic and accessible account of Islam and evolution. It guides the reader through the different variables that have played a part in the ongoing dialogue between Muslim creationists and evolutionists. This work views the discussion through the lens of al-Ghazālī (1058-1111) a widely-known and well-respected Islamic intellectual from the medieval period. By understanding al-Ghazālī as an Ash’arite theologian a particular strand of Sunni theology his metaphysical and hermeneutic ideas are taken to explore if and how much Neo-Darwinian evolution can be accepted. It is shown that his ideas can be used to reach an alignment between Islam and Neo-Darwinian evolution. This book offers a detailed examination that seeks to offer clarity if not agreement in the midst of an intense intellectual conflict and polarity amongst Muslims. As such it will be of great interest to scholars of Science and Religion Theology Philosophy of Religion Islamic Studies and Religious Studies more generally. *Winner of the International Society for Science & Religion (ISSR) book prize 2022 (academic category)* | Islam and Evolution Al-Ghazālī and the Modern Evolutionary Paradigm

GBP 36.99

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International Banking and Financial Systems Evolution and Stability

This title was first published in 2003. In this volume of essays - based on papers delivered to 2001 conference International Banking and Financial Systems - leading European bankers and banking historians give their assessment of the evolution of central banking in 20th-century Europe. As well as providing a historical perspective the volume also explores how the lessons of the 20th century may be brought to bear on current and future trends in central banking. In so doing this volume provides an insight into the ways in which economic stability and growth has been and can be promoted. | International Banking and Financial Systems Evolution and Stability

GBP 31.99

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The Evolution of Religion and Morality Volume I

This volume assesses the role of religion in cooperation and prosocial behaviour using ethnographic and experimental methods across eight different field sites. The first of two volumes presents results from the first phase of the Evolution of Religion and Morality (ERM) Project. Using a unique combination of both experimental and ethnographic methods the ERM project addresses pressing questions from the burgeoning cultural evolutionary sciences of religion: What is the relationship between religious beliefs and cooperation? When people are committed to punitive knowledgeable and morally concerned gods are they more inclined to behave prosocially towards others? How far does this prosociality extend? Do important individual and contextual factors mediate this relationship? In addition to an omnibus report this book offers seven site-specific reports that contextualize experimental and ethnographic data collected around the world. Collecting data from communities as diverse as the Hadza of Tanzania villagers from two communities on Tanna Island Vanuatu residents of Marajó Brazil Fijians from Yasawa and Lovu Tyvans from southern Siberia and Mauritians this ground-breaking work sets a new standard in the scientific study of religion. The Evolution of Religion and Morality: Volume I will be a key resource for scholars and researchers of religious studies human evolutionary biology psychology anthropology the cultural evolution of religion and the sociology of religion. This book was originally published as a special issue of Religion Brain & Behavior. | The Evolution of Religion and Morality Volume I

GBP 130.00

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The Evolution of Paleolithic Technologies

The Evolution of Paleolithic Technologies provides a novel perspective on long-term trajectories of evolutionary change in Paleolithic tools and tool-makers. Members of the human lineage have been producing stone tools for more than 3 million years. These artefacts provide key evidence for important evolutionary developments in hominin behaviour and cognition. Avoiding conventional approaches based on progressive stages of development this book instead examines global trends in six separate dimensions of technological behaviour between 2. 6 million and 10 000 years ago. Combining these independent trends results in both a broader and a more finely punctuated perspective on key intervals of change in hominin behaviour. To draw this picture together the concluding section explores behavioural cognitive and demographic implications of developments in material culture and technological procedures at seven key intervals during the Pleistocene. Researchers interested in Paleolithic archaeology will find this book invaluable. It will also be of interest to archaeologists researching stone tool technology and to students of human evolution and behavioural change in prehistory.

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Religion and its Evolution Signals Norms and Secret Histories

This book examines why individuals and communities invest heavily in their religious life through multi-disciplinary perspectives. It pursues philosophical psychological deep time historical and adaptive answers to this question. Religion is a profoundly puzzling phenomenon from an evolutionary perspective. Commitment to religions are typically expensive and most of the beliefs that motivate them cannot be true (since religious belief systems are inconsistent with one another). Yet some form of religion seems to be universal and resilient in historically known cultures – though not if archaeology is to be trusted in human communities early in the evolution of our species. We have collectively invented religion over about the last 100 000 years. Stemming from an interdisciplinary workshop this book grapples with these challenges and features diverse contributions: some offer evolutionary and historical analyses identifying hidden adaptive benefits to religion independent of the veracity of religious belief. Others see connections between religious commitment and commitment to the social norms that make cooperative life possible and explore aspects of human psychology that make religious belief tempting. Broad in scope and theoretically ambitious Religion and Its Evolution: Signals Norms and Secret Histories will be a key resource for scholars and researchers of religious studies sciences of religion psychology anthropology the cultural evolution of religion and the sociology of religion. This book was originally published as a special issue of Religion Brain & Behavior. | Religion and its Evolution Signals Norms and Secret Histories

GBP 130.00

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The Evolution of Religion and Morality Volume II

This volume draws on a unique dataset to answer pressing questions about human religiosity. Building upon the first volume in this series it presents results from the second phase of the Evolution of Religion and Morality (ERM) project. The second volume investigates key questions in the evolutionary and cognitive sciences of religion and highlights cultural variability and context specificity of diverse religious systems. Chapters draw on a dataset comprising 2 228 participants from 15 ethnographically diverse societies that stretch from Africa and India through Oceania to South America and include hunter-gatherers pastoralists horticulturalists subsistence farmers and wage laborers. Four chapters using the full dataset answer the following questions: What are the general predictors of commitment to supernatural agents? Is there a gender gap in religiosity? Does belief in punitive gods facilitates cooperation? Are supernatural agents implicitly associated with moral concerns? Chapters from individual field sites further explore the distinction between moralizing and local gods the potentially disruptive role of belief in local gods on cooperation with anonymous co-religionists and the relationship between belief in moralizing gods cooperation and differential access to material resources. Above these empirical studies the book also includes an informed discussion with specialists on the challenges of running such a large cross-cultural project and gives concrete recommendations for future projects. The Evolution of Religion and Morality: Volume II will be a key resource for scholars and researchers of religious studies human evolutionary biology psychology anthropology the cultural evolution of religion and the sociology of religion. This book was originally published as a special issue of Religion Brain & Behavior. | The Evolution of Religion and Morality Volume II

GBP 130.00

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Evolution of Brain and Behavior in Vertebrates

Originally published in 1976 the object of this volume was to present a relatively up-to-date overview of what was known what was suspected and what remained to be discovered concerning the general question of the evolution of the vertebrate brain and behaviour and to present a list of references for those who wanted to delve deeper into one or another aspect of the problem. Accordingly it contains chapters by palaeontologists sensory morphologists and physiologists comparative neurologists and comparative psychologists. The chapters are arranged in a sequence loosely approximating the order in which the various animals brain structures or behaviour first appeared. Therefore the chapters fall naturally into sections each section directed to a group of vertebrates beginning with those which have very remote common ancestry and progressing to those with more recent common ancestry with mankind. | Evolution of Brain and Behavior in Vertebrates

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Hunters and Gatherers (Vol I) Vol I: History Evolution and Social Change

All that is central to the dynamic process in human society is evident in the study of hunter-gatherers - peoples whose subsistence way of life reflects the original form of human adaptation. This is the thesis of these wide-ranging volumes in which internationally leading scholars consider hunter-gatherer peoples in Africa Asia Australia and North America and reflect theoretically on the hunter-gatherer condition. Volume 1: Hunters and Gatherers - History Evolution and Social ChangeVolume II: Hunters and Gatherers - Property Power and Ideology | Hunters and Gatherers (Vol I) Vol I: History Evolution and Social Change

GBP 130.00

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Mulla Sadra and Eschatology Evolution of Being

The book explains Sadrā’s theory of the nature of afterlife. It presents Sadrā’s philosophical premises concerning the nature of human beings and their physical and psychological developments through which Sadrā shows how the afterlife is intimately connected to the nature of the human being and how it is a natural stage of the evolution of each individual in which a corporeal body has no role. Presenting Mullā Sadrā in a new light the aim of this book is to investigate Sadrā’s metaphysical principles of the Return (al-ma‘ād) that have been either partially presented or misunderstood in most of the existing secondary literature. Focusing on Sadrā’s philosophical works specifically the Asfār and his commentary on the Quran this study demonstrates how Sadrā is a philosopher able to carry the premises of the previous philosophical theories to radically different conclusions. Mullā Sadrā and Eschatology demonstrates the manner in which Sadrā explains the Return as presented in the Quran and Hadith but also shows how he presents the Return as a natural stage of the evolution of human beings in which a corporeal body has no role. Thus Sadrā offers a plausible philosophical explanation to the problem of bodily resurrection that had occupied Muslim philosophers for centuries. Explaining Mullā Sadrā ‘s distinctive method of doing philosophy this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Islamic Philosophy Religion and Islamic Studies more broadly. | Mulla Sadra and Eschatology Evolution of Being

GBP 38.99

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Cultural Evolution The Empirical and Theoretical Landscape

Since the dawn of social science theorists have debated how and why societies appear to change develop and evolve. Today this question is pursued by scholars across many different disciplines and our understanding of these dynamics has grown markedly. Yet there remain important areas of disagreement and debate: what is the difference between societal change development and evolution? What specific aspects of cultures change develop or evolve and why? Do societies change develop or evolve in particular ways perhaps according to cycles or stages or in response to survival necessities? How do different disciplines—from sociology to anthropology to psychology and economics—approach these questions? This book provides complex and nuanced answers to these and many other questions. First the book invites readers to consider the broad landscape of societal dynamics across human history beginning with humanity’s origins in small nomadic bands of hunter gatherers through to the emergence of post-industrial democracies. Then the book provides a tour of several prominent existing theories of cultural change development and evolution. Approaches to explaining cultural dynamics will be discussed across disciplines and schools of thought from meme theories to established cumulative cultural evolutionary theories to newly emerging theories on cultural tightness-looseness. The book concludes with a call for theoretical integration and a frank discussion of some of the most unexamined structures that drive cultural dynamics across schools of thought. | Cultural Evolution The Empirical and Theoretical Landscape

GBP 34.99

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Eruptions Initiatives and Evolution in Citizen Activism Civil Societies at Crossroads

Eruptions Initiatives and Evolution in Citizen Activism is the result of a collaborative research project spanning Asia Africa Latin America and Europe. The book analyses internal and external challenges to civil society in more than twenty countries. It investigates through studies of ountries that include South Africa India and the Netherlands of civil society evolution; examinations of citizen activism such as Occupy London the Chilean student movement the Cambodian farmers campaign against land grabs; regional overviews such as the Southern Cone of Latin America Southern Africa and Russia. The studies identify changing roles capacities contributions and limitations of civil society in response to changing political economic and social contexts. The book goes on to present selected studies identifies patterns and lessons that emerge across countries and regions. It articulates implications of those lessons for practitioners and policy makers concerned with civil society contributions to national and regional development. This book was published as a special double issue of Development in Practice. | Eruptions Initiatives and Evolution in Citizen Activism Civil Societies at Crossroads

GBP 38.99

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Technology and the Stylistic Evolution of the Jazz Bass

Technology and the Stylistic Evolution of the Jazz Bass traces the stylistic evolution of jazz from the bass player’s perspective. Historical works to date have tended to pursue a ‘top down’ reading one that emphasizes the influence of the treble instruments on the melodic and harmonic trajectory of jazz. This book augments that reading by examining the music’s development from the bottom up. It re-contextualizes the bass and its role in the evolution of jazz (and by extension popular music in general) by situating it alongside emerging music technologies. The bass and its technological mediation are shown to have driven changes in jazz language and musical style and even transformed creative hierarchies in ways that have been largely overlooked. The book’s narrative is also informed by investigations into more commercial musical styles such as blues and rock in order to assess how and the degree to which technological advances first deployed in these areas gradually became incorporated into general jazz praxis. Technology and the Jazz Bass reconciles technology more thoroughly into jazz historiography by detailing and evaluating those that are intrinsic to the instrument (including its eventual electrification) and those extrinsic to it (most notably evolving recording and digital technologies). The author illustrates how the implementation of these technologies has transformed the role of the bass in jazz and with that jazz music as an art form.

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Agricultural Policy in the United States Evolution and Economics

Agricultural Policy in the United States: Evolution and Economics traces U. S. agricultural policy from its colonial roots to the present using economic concepts to analyze and interpret political and economic consequences. It also examines the processes by which agricultural policies are developed and the government structure which supports the implementation of legislation passed by Congress. The book includes arguments for and against common tools of U. S. agricultural policy without influencing the reader in a particular direction. Each chapter contains questions and exercises to support students’ learning and technical economic material is contained in optional appendices. This second edition examines the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 and sets the scene for future policy developments. Additionally it looks at trade wars and the impact of Black Swan events like the COVID-19 pandemic on agricultural resilience. | Agricultural Policy in the United States Evolution and Economics

GBP 69.99

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The Evolution of Cognitive Behavior Therapy A Personal and Professional Journey with Don Meichenbaum

The Evolution of Cognitive Behavior Therapy: A Personal and Professional Journey with Don Meichenbaum explores the untold story of how Cognitive Behavior Therapy emerged and discusses the controversies encountered along the way. This volume will feature a personal account of Don Meichenbaum's contributions from his initial work on self-instructional training with schizophrenics and impulsive children through his work on stress inoculation training and his most recent works with traumatized individuals. These previously published papers are complemented with updated papers and accompanying commentary. | The Evolution of Cognitive Behavior Therapy A Personal and Professional Journey with Don Meichenbaum

GBP 51.99

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The Evolution of Modern Land Warfare Theory and Practice

Extensively illustrated with 52 detailed campaign and battle maps and diagrams this book originally published in 1990 surveys the evolution of warfare in Europe from Napoleon to the end of the twentieth century and in Asia from the Middle Ages. It considers the interaction of technology and warfare. With wide-ranging examples the book includes two in depth case studies one on the Soviet Operational Manoeuvre Group and its predecessors in the Russian Imperial Army the other on the history of land warfare including guerilla warfare in Asia. In this book the author demonstrates that military history can be of immense practical help to the modern military analyst and professional. Now updated with a new introduction to take into account changes since 1990 this book remains of essential value to students teachers & professionals in political & social history international relations defence war & peace studies. | The Evolution of Modern Land Warfare Theory and Practice

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Media and Science-Religion Conflict Mass Persuasion in the Evolution Wars

This book examines why the religion-science skirmishes known as the Evolution Wars have persisted into the 21st century. It does so by considering the influences of mass media in relation to decision-making research and the Elaboration Likelihood Model one of the most authoritative persuasion theories. The book’s analysis concentrates on the expression of cues or cognitive mental shortcuts in Darwin-sceptic and counter-creationist broadcasts. A multiyear collection of media generated by the most prominent Darwin-sceptic organizations is surveyed along with rival publications from supporters of evolutionary theory described as the pro-evolutionists. The analysed materials include works produced by Young Earth Creationist and Intelligent Design media makers New Atheist pacesetters as well as both agnostic and religious supporters of evolution. These cues are shown to function as subtle but effective means of shaping public opinion including appeals to expertise claims that ideas are being censored and the tactical use of statistics and technical jargon. Contending that persuasive mass media is a decisive component of science-religion controversies this book will be of keen interest to scholars of Religion Science and Religion interactions as well as researchers of Media and Communication Studies more generally. *Winner ISSR 2021 Book Prize* | Media and Science-Religion Conflict Mass Persuasion in the Evolution Wars

GBP 38.99

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Policy In Evolution The U.s. Role In China's Reunification

The reunification of Taiwan with China is one of the most important policy issues of our time. The issue has broad strategic political economic and moral ramifications for the U. S. as well as for Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. The People's Republic of China (PRC) has assigned top political priority to reunification and has made the | Policy In Evolution The U. s. Role In China's Reunification

GBP 84.99

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Digital Transformation in The Recording Industry Evolution of Power: From The Turntable To Blockchain

The recording industry has famously been transformed by technology throughout its entire history. The book presents an analysis of these changes using Porter's five forces model. The author highlights the evolution of buyers' and suppliers' power the emergence of new competitors product innovation and rivalry between companies in the industry driven by economic political social and legal factors. As an early mover in the social diffusion of copyright-sensitive content the recording industry reflected in this book serves as an important reference for the analysis of other cultural and creative sectors. | Digital Transformation in The Recording Industry Evolution of Power: From The Turntable To Blockchain

GBP 130.00

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Understanding Human Evolution

Creative Evolution

Cognitive Evolution From Single Cells to the Human Mind

Primate Evolution and Human Origins

Broadening Our Knowledge on Cluster Evolution

Human Evolution Economic Progress and Evolutionary Failure

The Vegan Evolution Transforming Diets and Agriculture

Islam and Evolution Al-Ghazālī and the Modern Evolutionary Paradigm

International Banking and Financial Systems Evolution and Stability

The Evolution of Religion and Morality Volume I

The Evolution of Paleolithic Technologies

Religion and its Evolution Signals Norms and Secret Histories

The Evolution of Religion and Morality Volume II

Evolution of Brain and Behavior in Vertebrates

Hunters and Gatherers (Vol I) Vol I: History Evolution and Social Change

Mulla Sadra and Eschatology Evolution of Being

Cultural Evolution The Empirical and Theoretical Landscape

Eruptions Initiatives and Evolution in Citizen Activism Civil Societies at Crossroads

Technology and the Stylistic Evolution of the Jazz Bass

Agricultural Policy in the United States Evolution and Economics

The Evolution of Cognitive Behavior Therapy A Personal and Professional Journey with Don Meichenbaum

The Evolution of Modern Land Warfare Theory and Practice

Media and Science-Religion Conflict Mass Persuasion in the Evolution Wars

Policy In Evolution The U.s. Role In China's Reunification

Digital Transformation in The Recording Industry Evolution of Power: From The Turntable To Blockchain

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