Eavesdropping: An Intimate History - Hardcover

Locke, John L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199236135 ISBN 13: 9780199236138

Verlag: OUP Oxford, 2010

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Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. ; 266 pages; Description: ix, 266 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Subject: Communication -- Psychological aspects.Eavesdropping -- History. Eavesdropping -- Psychological aspects. Summary: Eavesdropping is a form of human communication in which the information gained is stolen. It encompasses cheating to get unfair advantage, espionage to uncover secrets, and supervision to maintain power. John Locke considers the biological drive behind this behaviour as well as its social implications and consequences.

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Compelling. (Sukhdev Sandhu, Telegraph)

Reseña del editor:

Why we can't resist listening in on our neighbours

Eavesdropping has a bad name. It is a form of human communication in which the information gained is stolen, and where such words as cheating and spying come into play. But eavesdropping may also be an attempt to understand what goes on in the lives of others so as to know better how to live one's own. John Locke's entertaining and disturbing account explores everything from sixteenth-century voyeurism to Hitchcock's 'Rear Window'; from chimpanzee behaviour to Parisian café society; from private eyes to Facebook and Twitter. He uncovers the biological drive behind the behaviour, and its consequences across history and cultures. In the age of CCTV, phone tapping, and computer hacking, this is uncomfortably important reading.

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• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0199236135
• ISBN 13: 9780199236138
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 278