Moral Tales and Meditations

Moral Tales and MeditationsProvocative essays and short tales that explore the effect of technology and new media on our everyday lives. Novelist, cyber theorist, and widely acclaimed hypertext fiction writer Michael Joyce weaves an evocative and provocative set of brief essays and short parable like fictions into a compelling collection of meditations on how technology and new media affect our culture and everyday lives. Taken together, these pieces present a writer's

Explores the role of print media in conversations about race and belonging across Central America

Taking apart the cluster of interconnected and mutually enforcing ‘economic fictions’ upon which the argument for free trade relies

this edition brings back into print a major work of scholarship on the unique ceremonial traditions of a changed and changing Nubian world

From hearty staples like foul midammis (stewed fava beans) and kushari (a mix of pasta

with mathematics associated with coupling the nuclear spins to the molecular chirality

or radical modernization

In the recent past

Al-Ghazālī contributed to Islamic theology

an STS statesman discusses ongoing structural changes in science

Yemen is the only state on the Arabian Peninsula that is not a member of the GCC

and its impact on Western visitors and collectors

In both celebration and suffering