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1984, Spring: A Choice of Futuresby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 0246123060 (0-246-12306-0)
Hardcover, Granada
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Advocacy After Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Ordersby Kim FortunISBN 0226257207 (0-226-25720-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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American Philosophy of Technology: The Empirical Turnby Hans Achterhuis, Robert P. CreaseISBN 0253214491 (0-253-21449-1)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Philosophy of Technology: The Empirical Turn'Book summary:Introduces contemporary American philosophy of technology through six of its leading figures. The six American philosophers of technology whose work is profiled in this clear and concise introduction to the fieldAlbert Borgmann, Hubert Dreyfus, Andrew Feenberg, Donna Haraway, Don Ihde, and Langdon Winnerrepresent a new, empirical direction in the philosophical study of technology that has developed mainly in North America. In place of the grand philosophical schemes of the classical generation of European philosophers of technology (including Martin Heidgger, Jacques Ellul, and Hans Jonas), the contemporary American generation addresses concrete technological practices and the co-evolution of technology and society in modern culture. Six Dutch philosophers associated with Twente University survey and critique the full scope and development of their American colleagues work, often illustrating shifts from earlier to more recent interests. Individual chapters focus on Borgmanns engagement with technology and everyday life; Dreyfuss work on the limits of artificial intelligence; Feenbergs perspectives on the cultural and social possibilities opened by technologies; Haraways conception of the cyborg and its attendant blurring of boundaries; Ihdes explorations of the place of technology in the lifeworld; and Winners fascination with the moral and political implications of modern technologies. American Philosophy of Technology offers an insightful and readable introduction to this new and distinctly American philosophical turn.
Contributors are Hans Achterhuis, Philip Brey, René Munnik, Martijntje Smits, Pieter Tijmes, and Peter-Paul Verbeek.
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Apocalypse: Nuclear Catastrophe in World Politicsby Louis RenâE BeresISBN 0226043606 (0-226-04360-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environmentby Reyner BanhamISBN 0226036987 (0-226-03698-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Art of Digital Audioby John WilkinsonISBN 0240515870 (0-240-51587-0)
Hardcover, Focal Pr
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The Atrocity Exhibitionby J.G. BallardISBN 0224618385 (0-224-61838-5)
Hardcover, Cape
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The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450by David C. LindbergISBN 0226482316 (0-226-48231-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450'Book summary:This landmark book represents the first attempt in two decades to survey the science of the ancient world, the first attempt in four decades to write a comprehensive history of medieval science, and the first attempt ever to present a full, unified account of both ancient and medieval science in a single volume. In The Beginnings of Western Science , David C. Lindberg provides a rich chronicle of the development of scientific ideas, practices, and institutions from the pre-Socratic Greek philosophers to the late-medieval scholastics. Lindberg surveys all the most important themes in the history of ancient and medieval science, including developments in cosmology, astronomy, mechanics, optics, alchemy, natural history, and medicine. He synthesizes a wealth of information in superbly organized, clearly written chapters designed to serve students, scholars, and nonspecialists alike. In addition, Lindberg offers an illuminating account of the transmission of Greek science to medieval Islam and subsequently to medieval Europe. And throughout the book he pays close attention to the cultural and institutional contexts within which scientific knowledge was created and disseminated and to the ways in which the content and practice of science were influenced by interaction with philosophy and religion. Carefully selected maps, drawings, and photographs complement the text. Lindberg's story rests on a large body of important scholarship produced by historians of science, philosophy, and religion over the past few decades. However, Lindberg does not hesitate to offer new interpretations and to hazard fresh judgments aimed at resolving long-standing historical disputes. Addressed to the general educated reader as well as to students, his book will also appeal to any scholar whose interests touch on the history of the scientific enterprise. [via]
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The Bomb and the Computerby Andrew WilsonISBN 0214667278 (0-214-66727-8)
Hardcover, Barrie & Rockliff, Cresset P.
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Books, Banks, Buttons: And Other Inventions From The Middle Agesby Chiara Frugoni, William McCuaigISBN 0231128134 (0-231-12813-4)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The Bridge on the Drinaby Ivo AndricISBN 0226020452 (0-226-02045-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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"No better introduction to the study of Balkan and Ottoman history exists, nor do I know of any work of fiction that more persuasively introduces the reader to a civilization other than our own. It is an intellectual and emotional adventure to encounter the Ottoman world through Andric's pages in its grandiose beginning and at its tottering finale. It is, in short, a marvelous work, a masterpiece, and very much sui generis. . . . Andric's sensitive portrait of social change in distant Bosnia has revelatory force."William H. McNeill, from the introduction
"The dreadful events occurring in Sarajevo over the past several months turn my mind to a remarkable historical novel from the land we used to call Yugoslavia, Ivo Andric's The Bridge on the Drina."John M. Mohan, Des Moines Sunday Register
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The Camel and the Wheelby Richard W. BullietISBN 023107235X (0-231-07235-X)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Communication Technology Updateby August E. GrantISBN 0240804945 (0-240-80494-5)
Softcover, Butterworth-Heinemann
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Communication Technology Update'Book summary:New communication technologies are being introduced at an astonishing rate. Making sense of these technologies is increasingly difficult. Communication Technology Update is the single best source for the latest developments, trends, and issues in communication technology. Now in its ninth edition, Communication Technology Update has become an indispensable information resource for business, government, and academia. As always, every chapter has been completely rewritten to reflect the latest developments and market statistics, and now covers mobile computing, digital photography, personal computers, digital television, and electronic games, in addition to the two dozen technologies explored in the previous edition. The book's companion website (www.tfi.com/ctu) offers updated information submitted by chapter authors and offers links to other Internet resources. [via]
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Contextual Media: Multimedia and Interpretationby Edward Barrett, Marie RedmondISBN 0262023830 (0-262-02383-0)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
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Dealing With Risk: Why the Public and the Experts Disagree on Environmental Issuesby Howard MargolisISBN 0226505294 (0-226-50529-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Decade of Disasterby Ann LarabeeISBN 0252068203 (0-252-06820-3)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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Designing Sociable Robotsby Cynthia L. BreazealISBN 0262025108 (0-262-02510-8)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
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Destination Disasterby Bruce Page, Paul Eddy, Elaine PotterISBN 0246108835 (0-246-10883-5)
Hardcover, Hart-Davis
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Digital Librariesby William Y. ArmsISBN 0262011808 (0-262-01180-8)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
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Digitizing The News: Innovation In Online Newspapersby Pablo J. BoczkowskiISBN 0262025590 (0-262-02559-0)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
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The Domain-Matrix: Performing Lesbian at the End of Print Cultureby Sue-Ellen CaseISBN 0253332265 (0-253-33226-5)
Hardcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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Dream Reaper: The Story of an Old-Fashioned Inventor in the High-Tech, High-Stakes World of Modern Agricultureby Craig CanineISBN 0226092658 (0-226-09265-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Edison: Inventing the Centuryby Neil BaldwinISBN 0226035719 (0-226-03571-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Electric City: Energy and the Growth of the Chicago Area, 1880-1930by Harold L. PlattISBN 0226670759 (0-226-67075-9)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Artsby Richard A. LanhamISBN 0226468852 (0-226-46885-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts'Book summary:The personal computer has revolutionized communication, and digitized text has introduced a radically new medium of expression. Interactive, volatile, mixing word and image, the electronic word challenges our assumptions about the shape of culture itself.[via]
This highly acclaimed collection of Richard Lanham's witty, provocative, and engaging essays surveys the effects of electronic text on the arts and letters. Lanham explores how electronic text fulfills the expressive agenda of twentieth-century visual art and music, revolutionizes the curriculum, democratizes the instruments of art, and poses anew the cultural accountability of humanism itself.
Persuading us with uncommon grace and power that the move from book to screen gives cause for optimism, not despair, Lanham proclaims that "electronic expression has come not to destroy the Western arts but to fulfill them."
The Electronic Word is also available as a Chicago Expanded Book for your Macintosh®. This hypertext edition allows readers to move freely through the text, marking "pages," annotating passages, searching words and phrases, and immediately accessing annotations, which have been enhanced for this edition. In a special prefatory essay, Lanham introduces the features of this electronic edition and gives a vividly applied critique of this dynamic new edition.More editions of The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts:
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsbyby Nicolas TredellISBN 0231115350 (0-231-11535-0)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby'Book summary:In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.
It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem. [via]
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Fatal Words: Communication Clashes and Aircraft Crashesby Steven CushingISBN 0226132013 (0-226-13201-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Feminism in Twentieth-Century Science, Technology, and Medicineby Elizabeth Lunbeck, Londa L. Schiebinger, Angela N. H. CreagerISBN 0226120244 (0-226-12024-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literatureby Pierre Bourdieu, Randal JohnsonISBN 0231082878 (0-231-08287-8)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature'Book summary:During the last two decades, sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has become a dominant force in cultural activity ranging from taste in music and art to choices in food and lifestyles.
The Field of Cultural Production brings together Bourdieu's major essays on art and literature and provides the first introduction to Bourdieu's writings and theory of a cultural field that situates artistic works within the social conditions of their production, circulation, and consumption.
Bourdieu develops a highly original approach to the study of literary and artistic works, addressing many of the key issues that have preoccupied literary art and cultural criticism in the last twentieth century: aesthetic value and canonicity, intertextuality, the institutional frameworks of cultural practice, the social role of intellectuals and artists, and structures of literary and artistic authority.
Bourdieu elaborates a theory of the cultural field which situates artistic works within the social conditions of their production, circulation, and consumption. He examines the individuals and institutions involved in making cultural products what they are: not only the writers and artists, but also the publishers, critics, dealers, galleries, and academies. He analyzes the structure of the cultural field itself as well as its position within the broader social structures of power.
The essays in his volume examine such diverse topics as Flaubert's point of view, Manet's aesthetic revolution, the historical creation of the pure gaze, and the relationship between art and power.
The Field of Cultural Porduction will be of interest to students and scholars from a wide range of disciplines: sociology and social theory, literature, art, and cultural studies.
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, James RiegerISBN 0226752275 (0-226-75227-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in the Networked Worldby Christine L. BorgmanISBN 026202473X (0-262-02473-X)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
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Heidegger's Confrontation With Modernity Technology, Politics, and Artby Michael E. ZimmermanISBN 0253205581 (0-253-20558-1)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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The Hindenburgby Michael Macdonald MooneyISBN 0246105305 (0-246-10530-5)
Hardcover, Hart-Davis, MacGibbon Ltd
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A History of Russian and Soviet Sea Powerby Donald W. MitchellISBN 0233965181 (0-233-96518-1)
Hardcover, A. Deutsch
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History of the British Armyby Peter Young, James Philip LawfordISBN 0213000504 (0-213-00050-4)
Hardcover, Barker
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History of the United States Armyby Russel F. WeigleyISBN 0253203236 (0-253-20323-6)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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The Imperative of Responsibilityby Hans JonasISBN 0226405974 (0-226-40597-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Imperative of Responsibility'Book summary:Hans Jonas here rethinks the foundations of ethics in light of the awesome transformations wrought by modern technology: the threat of nuclear war, ecological ravage, genetic engineering, and the like. Though informed by a deep reverence for human life, Jonas's ethics is grounded not in religion but in metaphysics, in a secular doctrine that makes explicit man's duties toward himself, his posterity, and the environment. Jonas offers an assessment of practical goals under present circumstances, ending with a critique of modern utopianism.[via]More editions of The Imperative of Responsibility:
The Imperative of Responsibility: In Search of an Ethics for the Technological Ageby Hans JonasISBN 0226405966 (0-226-40596-6)
Hardcover, University of Chicago Press
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Inside the Soviet Armyby Viktor SuvorovISBN 0241108896 (0-241-10889-6)
Hardcover, Hamilton
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John Von Neumann and the Origins of Modern Computingby William AsprayISBN 0262011212 (0-262-01121-2)
Hardcover, MIT Press
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Kicking the Carbon Habit: Global Warming And the Case for Renewable And Nuclear Energyby William SweetISBN 0231137109 (0-231-13710-9)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The Languages of Edison's Lightby Charles BazermanISBN 026202456X (0-262-02456-X)
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The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Informationby Alan LiuISBN 0226486990 (0-226-48699-0)
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Life Under a Cloud: American Anxiety About the Atomby Allan M. WinklerISBN 0252067738 (0-252-06773-8)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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Lincoln and the Tools of Warby Robert V. BruceISBN 0252060903 (0-252-06090-3)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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Literacy Theory in the Age of the Internetby Todd W. Taylor, Irene WardISBN 0231113315 (0-231-11331-5)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Literacy Theory in the Age of the Internet'Book summary:By now it is widely accepted wisdom that the Internet has vast potential as a learning tool for students of almost all ages and levels. But it is less clear how to harness this potential most effectively. What indeed should the "online classroom" mean to teachers? Will the rush to get "wired" mean little more than enhanced visuals or automated lecture delivery--or can it result in innovative pedagogies for improving literacy into the twenty-first century?
In this collection of essays, some of the most progressive voices in literacy studies reconsider what it means to be literate in the information age, and offer practical advice not only for getting networked computers into the classroom but also for instructing students and other teachers how to tap into their boundless potential.
Essays range in subject from the story of a radical, communal writers' group working together in a networked environment; to an exploration of how utopian notions of the networked classroom don't always hold true, on the basis of the authors' classroom experience of hostile, dysfunctional chat room exercises; to an applied and totally attainable model for gathering support and preparing teachers for new technologies.
Together the contributions provide a provocative and much-needed introduction to the constantly shifting subject of literacy theory, paving the way for continued dialogue on a subject that teachers, students, and all writers and readers can no longer afford to ignore.
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Man in the Age of Technologyby Arnold GehlenISBN 023104853X (0-231-04853-X)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Managing the Flow of Technology: Technology Transfer and the Dissemination of Technological Information within the R&D Organizationby Thomas J. AllenISBN 0262010488 (0-262-01048-8)
Hardcover, MIT Press]
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Mary Shelley: Frankensteinby Berthold Schoene-Harwood, Richard BeynonISBN 0231121938 (0-231-12193-8)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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This "Guide" encapsulates the most important critical reactions to a novel that straddles the realms of both "high" literature and popular culture. The selections shed light on "Frankenstein"'s historical and socio-political relevance, its innovative representations of science, gender, and identity, as well as its problematic cultural location between academic critique and creative production. Ranging from the first reviews in 1818 to postmodern readings of the mid-1990s, the "Guide" illuminates one of British literature's most spectacular novels. [via]
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Megawatts and Megatrons: The Future of Nuclear Power and Nuclear Weaponsby Georges Charpak, Richard L. GarwinISBN 0226284271 (0-226-28427-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Cultureby Mark C. TaylorISBN 0226791181 (0-226-79118-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture'Book summary:"The Moment of Complexity is a profoundly original work. In remarkable and insightful ways, Mark Taylor traces an entirely new way to view the evolution of our culture, detailing how information theory and the scientific concept of complexity can be used to understand recent developments in the arts and humanities. This book will ultimately be seen as a classic."-John L. Casti, Santa Fe Institute, author of Gödel: A Life of Logic, the Mind, and Mathematics[via]
The science of complexity accounts for that inscrutable mix of chaos and order that governs our natural world. Complexity explains how networks emerge and function, how species organize into ecosystems, how stars form into galaxies, and how just a few sequences of DNA can account for so many different life forms. Recently, the idea of complexity has taken the worlds of business and politics by storm. The concept is used to account for phenomena as varied as the behavior of the stock market, the response of voting populations, and the effects of risk management. Even Disney has used complexity theory to manage crowd control at its theme parks.
Given the startling development of new information technologies, we now live in a moment of unprecedented complexity, an era in which change occurs faster than our ability to comprehend it. With The Moment of Complexity, Mark C. Taylor offers a timely map for this unfamiliar terrain opening in our midst, unfolding an original philosophy through a remarkable synthesis of science and culture. According to Taylor, complexity is not just a breakthrough scientific concept, but the defining quality of the post-Cold War era. The flux of digital currents swirling around us, he argues, has created a new network culture with its own distinctive logic and dynamic.
Drawing on resources from information theory and evolutionary biology, Taylor explains the operation of complex adaptive systems in social and cultural processes and captures a whole new zeitgeist in the making. To appreciate the significance of our emerging network culture, he claims, we need not only to understand contemporary scientific and technological transformations, but also to explore the subtle influences of art, architecture, philosophy, religion, and higher education. The Moment of Complexity, then, is a remarkable work of cultural analysis on a scale rarely seen today. To follow its trajectory is to learn how we arrived at this critical moment in our culture, and to know where we might head in the twenty-first century.More editions of The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture:
The Myth of the Computerby Brian RotheryISBN 0220668167 (0-220-66816-7)
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The New Electronic Media: Innovations in Video Technologiesby Hoyt R. HilsmanISBN 0240517318 (0-240-51731-8)
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The Next Ten Thousand Years: A Vision of Man's Future in the Universesby Adrian BerryISBN 0224009664 (0-224-00966-4)
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The Patterns of War Since the Eighteenth Centuryby Larry H. AddingtonISBN 0253208602 (0-253-20860-2)
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The Patterns of War Through the Eighteenth Centuryby Larry H. AddingtonISBN 0253205514 (0-253-20551-4)
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The Politics of the Artificial: Essays on Design and Design Studiesby Victor MargolinISBN 0226505049 (0-226-50504-9)
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The Praktica Way: The Praktica Photographer's Companionby Leonard GauntISBN 0240507436 (0-240-50743-6)
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Prometheus Wired: The Hope for Democracy in the Age of Network Technologyby Darin David BarneyISBN 0226037452 (0-226-03745-2)
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Ramus, Method And The Decay Of Dialogue: From The Art Of Discourse To The Art Of Reasonby Walter J. Ong, Adrian JohnsISBN 0226629767 (0-226-62976-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ramus, Method And The Decay Of Dialogue: From The Art Of Discourse To The Art Of Reason'Book summary:Renaissance logician, philosopher, humanist, and teacher, Peter Ramus (1515-72) is best known for his attack on Aristotelian logic, his radical pedagogical theories, and his new interpretation for the canon of rhetoric. His work, published in Latin and translated into many languages, has influenced the study of Renaissance literature, rhetoric, education, logic, andmore recentlymedia studies.[via]
Considered the most important work of Walter Ong's career, Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue is an elegant review of the history of Ramist scholarship and Ramus's quarrels with Aristotle. A key influence on Marshall McLuhan, with whom Ong enjoys the status of honorary guru among technophiles, this challenging study remains the most detailed account of Ramus's method ever published. Out of print for more than a decade, this bookwith a new foreword by Adrian Johnsis a canonical text for enthusiasts of media, Renaissance literature, and intellectual history.More editions of Ramus, Method And The Decay Of Dialogue: From The Art Of Discourse To The Art Of Reason:
Red Forge: The Soviet Military Industry Since 1965by Peter AlmquistISBN 0231070667 (0-231-07066-7)
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Science & Technology EncyclopediaISBN 0226742679 (0-226-74267-9)
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Science and Technology in a Multicultural World: The Cultural Politics of Facts and Artifactsby David J. HessISBN 023110197X (0-231-10197-X)
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Shaping Technology/Building Society: Studies in Socio-Technical Changeby Wiebe E. Bijker, John LawISBN 0262023385 (0-262-02338-5)
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Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequencesby Geoffrey C. Bowker, Susan Leigh StarISBN 0262024616 (0-262-02461-6)
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Space Technology & Planetary Astronomyby Joseph N. TatarewiczISBN 0253356555 (0-253-35655-5)
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Spaceship Earthby Barbara JacksonISBN 0231029519 (0-231-02951-9)
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programsby Harold Abelson, Julie Sussman, Gerald Jay SussmanISBN 0262011530 (0-262-01153-0)
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The authors employ this philosophy in their writing technique. The text asks the broad question "What is programming?" Having come to the conclusion that programming consists of procedures and data, the authors set off to explore the related questions of "What is data?" and "What is a procedure?"
The authors build up the simple notion of a procedure to dizzying complexity. The discussion culminates in the description of the code behind the programming language Scheme. The authors finish with examples of how to implement some of the book's concepts on a register machine. Through this journey, the reader not only learns how to program, but also how to think about programming. [via]
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Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age, 1971-1984by Van Burnham, Ralph H. BaerISBN 0262024926 (0-262-02492-6)
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From Pong to Pac-Man, Asteroids to Zaxxon, more than 50 million people around the world have come of age within the electronic flux of video games, their subconscious forever etched with images projected from arcade and home video game systems.
Exuberantly written and illustrated in full colour, Supercade pays tribute to the technology, games and visionaries of one of the most influential periods in the history of computer science--one that profoundly shaped the modern technological landscape and helped change the way people view entertainment.
The book includes contributions from such commentators and participants as Ralph Baer, Julian Dibbell, Keith Feinstein, Joe Fielder, Lauren Fielder, Justin Hall, Leonard Herman, Steven Johnson, Steven Kent, Nick Montfort, Bob Parks, Carl Steadman and Tom Vanderbilt. --Miles Taylor [via]
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Technobabbleby John A. BarryISBN 0262023334 (0-262-02333-4)
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Technological Utopianism in American Cultureby Howard P. SegalISBN 0226744388 (0-226-74438-8)
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Technologies of Gender: Essays on Theory, Film, and Fictionby Teresa De LauretisISBN 0253204410 (0-253-20441-0)
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This book addresses the question of gender in poststructuralist theoretical discourse, postmodern fiction, and womens cinema. It examines the construction of gender both as representation and as self-representation in relation to several kinds of texts and argues that feminism is producing a radical rewriting, as well as a rereading, of the dominant forms of Western culture.
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Technology and Choice: Readings from Technology and Cultureby Marcel C. Lafollette, Jeffrey K. StineISBN 0226467767 (0-226-46776-7)
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Technology and Privacy: The New Landscapeby Marc Rotenberg, Philip AgreISBN 026201162X (0-262-01162-X)
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Technology and the Lifeworld: From Garden to Earthby Don IhdeISBN 0253205603 (0-253-20560-3)
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Technology and the Politics of Knowledgeby Andrew Feenberg, Alastair HannayISBN 0253209404 (0-253-20940-4)
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Ways of Knowing: A New History of Science, Technology, and Medicineby John V. PickstoneISBN 0226667952 (0-226-66795-2)
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Western Warfare, 1775-1882by Jeremy BlackISBN 0253214726 (0-253-21472-6)
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White Teeth: Reader's Companionby Zadie SmithISBN 024113997X (0-241-13997-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'White Teeth: Reader's Companion'Book summary:Epic in scale and intimate in approach, White Teeth is a formidably ambitious debut. First novelist Zadie Smith takes on race, sex, class, history, and the minefield of gender politics, and such is her wit and inventiveness that these weighty subjects seem effortlessly light. She also has an impressive geographical range, guiding the reader from Jamaica to Turkey to Bangladesh and back again.
Still, the book's home base is a scrubby North London borough, where we encounter Smith's unlikely heroes: prevaricating Archie Jones and intemperate Samad Iqbal, who served together in the so-called Buggered Battalion during World War II. In the ensuing decades, both have gone forth and multiplied: Archie marries beautiful, bucktoothed Clara--who's on the run from her Jehovah's Witness mother--and fathers a daughter. Samad marries stroppy Alsana, who gives birth to twin sons. Here is multiculturalism in its most elemental form: "Children with first and last names on a direct collision course. Names that secrete within them mass exodus, cramped boats and planes, cold arrivals, medical checks."
Big questions demand boldly drawn characters. Zadie Smith's aren't heroic, just real: warm, funny, misguided, and entirely familiar. Reading their conversations is like eavesdropping. Even a simple exchange between Alsana and Clara about their pregnancies has a comical ring of truth: "A woman has to have the private things--a husband needn't be involved in body business, in a lady's... parts." And the men, of course, have their own involvement in bodily functions:
The deal was this: on January 1, 1980, like a New Year dieter who gives up cheese on the condition that he can have chocolate, Samad gave up masturbation so that he might drink. It was a deal, a business proposition, that he had made with God: Samad being the party of the first part, God being the sleeping partner. And since that day Samad had enjoyed relative spiritual peace and many a frothy Guinness with Archibald Jones; he had even developed the habit of taking his last gulp looking up at the sky like a Christian, thinking: I'm basically a good man.
Not all of White Teeth is so amusingly carnal. The mixed blessings of assimilation, for example, are an ongoing torture for Samad as he watches his sons grow up. "They have both lost their way," he grumbles. "Strayed so far from what I had intended for them. No doubt they will both marry white women called Sheila and put me in an early grave." These classic immigrant fears--of dilution and disappearance--are no laughing matter. But in the end, they're exactly what gives White Teeth its lasting power and undeniable bite. --Eithne Farry [via]More editions of White Teeth: Reader's Companion:
World of Fairs: The Century-Of-Progress Expositionsby Robert W. RydellISBN 0226732371 (0-226-73237-1)
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