The Real Pain of Punishment explores the true pains of incarceration using insights from empirical sciences and people with lived prison experiences. The book highlights the concept of ‘belonging’ as an unprecedented lens for critically interrogating the legitimacy of incarceration across penal theory, sentencing practice,...
Get the spanish version here! This book explores the often-overlooked democratic principle of ‘rotation of power’. It considers two key questions: what happens when power stops changing hands in a democracy, and when incumbents manipulate the system to entrench themselves in office, can democracy survive? Democracies are often...
A bold new take on how Europe adapts, endures, and remains powerful in a rapidly shifting world order. Europe is often cast as lurching from one near-death experience to the next—from the eurozone crisis and Brexit to a pandemic and war on its borders. And yet,...
Popular debates about AI and democracy rest on misconceptions about both democracy and AI. Theodore Lechterman, an ascendant thinker in the philosophy and governance of AI, dismantles these misconceptions and shows how to rethink democracy for an algorithmic age. Recoding Democracy reveals that democratizing AI is not...
La fuerza de una sociedad no se mide solo por sus instituciones, sino por el compromiso de su gente. La sociedad civil y la participación ciudadana son el motor que impulsa cambios, construye puentes y da voz a quienes buscan un futuro más justo e inclusivo....
Read the book here! It is often assumed that architects and urban planners are responsible for shaping our cities. Especially since the onset of global capitalism, however,much urban expansion worldwide has been driven by developers and builders in the pursuit of profit. Despite the considerable...
Includes a Foreword written by Peter Tomka, Judge and former President of the International Court of Justice. This book is the first systematic study of the objections to jurisdiction and admissibility in investment arbitration by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). The authors...
This volume centers on the Red Book, a little-known 1967 research document that served as the conceptual foundation for Festival Plaza, the central space of Expo ’70 in Osaka. Produced by an extraordinary coalition of architects, artists, engineers, computer scientists, musicians, and writers, the Red Book proposed a...
The world of business stands at a crossroads. While there is general agreement that its impact on business will resemble that of previous General Purpose Technologies like electricity or the internet, business leaders are overwhelmed by the noise around Artificial Intelligence and struggling to make complex...
Lilly Reich in Barcelona: The Materialization of a Neglected Authorship studies the work that Lilly Reich (1885–1947) developed in Berlin, Frankfurt, and Stuttgart before partnering with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969), as well as the work they later produced together in creative tandem: from the...
While technological innovation has long reshaped artistic and cultural practices, the rise of generative AI (Gen AI) represents an unprecedenteddisruption due to its scale, speed, and capacity to produce outputs that can rival and surpass human creativity. This edited book examines how AI istransforming creativity,...
This monograph brings together several of the papers presented at the seminars organized within the framework of the project on leadership and civic engagement, funded by the Tatiana Foundation. Between 2022 and 2024, the project was carried out in collaboration with 16 Spanish public universities,...
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