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  • Tolerance – A Concept in Crisis

    Psychoanalytic, Group Analytic, and Socio-Cultural Perspectives

    Edited by Avi Berman, Gila Ofer ...
    Series series The New International Library of Group Analysis
    This book examines tolerance as a concept under crisis, exploring its origin and functions, and how it can be at risk of replacement by moral intolerance or retributive justice in turbulent societies.Tolerance - A Concept in Crisis considers the contributions that can be made to understanding and elaborating tolerance, and its counterpart intolerance, by psychoanalysis and group analysis. The ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • My Love Affair with Modern Art

    Behind the Scenes with a Legendary Curator

    by Katharine Kuh ...
    One of America’s leading curators, a woman of resilience and vision, a writer of clarity and ardor” (Chicago Tribune), takes you on a personal tour of the world of modern art. In the Depression-era climate of the 1930s, Katharine Kuh defied the odds and opened a gallery in Chicago, where she exhibited such relatively unknown artists as Fernand Léger, Paul Klee, Joan Miró, Ansel Adams, Marc Chagall ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Sibling Relations and the Horizontal Axis in Theory and Practice

    Contemporary Group Analysis, Psychoanalysis and Organization Consultancy

    Edited by Smadar Ashuach, Avi Berman ...
    Series series The New International Library of Group Analysis
    This book explores the interpersonal world of sibling relationships, explaining how these relationships are central to the development of the psyche of the individual, of the group, of society and of the organisation.Sibling Relations and the Horizontal Axis in Theory and Practice considers four key areas: sibling relations, sibling trauma, the law of the mother and the horizontal axis. The ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Challenges and Strategies in Teaching Linear Algebra

    Edited by Sepideh Stewart, Christine Andrews-Larson, Avi Berman, Michelle Zandieh ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book originated from a Discussion Group (Teaching Linear Algebra) that was held at the 13th International Conference on Mathematics Education (ICME-13). The aim was to consider and highlight current efforts regarding research and instruction on teaching and learning linear algebra from around the world, and to spark new collaborations. As the outcome of the two-day discussion at ICME-13, this ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Dangerous Ideas

    A Brief History of Censorship in the West, from the Ancients to Fake News

    by Eric Berkowitz ...
    This “engrossing history of censorship” is an urgent, timely read for our era of social media trolls, fake news, and free speech debates (The Economist).How restricting speech continuously shapes our culture, props up authorities, and maintains class and gender disparitiesThrough compelling narrative, historian Eric Berkowitz reveals how drastically censorship has shaped our modern society. More ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • The Artist in the Machine

    The World of AI-Powered Creativity

    by Arthur I. Miller ...
    A cautiously optimistic study of the AI-powered computers creating art, literature, and music—which may well surpass the creations of humans.Today’s computers are composing music that sounds “more Bach than Bach,” turning photographs into paintings in the style of Van Gogh's Starry Night, and even writing screenplays. But are computers truly creative—or are they merely tools to be used by ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Knowledge in a Nutshell: Enlightenment Philosophy

    The complete guide to the great revolutionary philosophers, including René Descartes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, and David Hume

    by Dr Jane O'Grady ...
    Series Book 2 - Knowledge in a Nutshell
    "...there is nothing elementary about O'Grady's primer. She pulls off the feat of writing a reliable and accessible introduction to modern philosophy that is also a meaningful contribution to the subject." - Times Literary SupplementFrom Descartes' famous line 'I think therefore I am' to Kant's fascinating discussions of morality, the thinkers of the Enlightenment have helped to shape the modern ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Story of Contemporary Art

    by Tony Godfrey ...
    An introduction to the rich and diverse history of contemporary art over the past 60 years—from Modernism and minimalism to artists like Andy Warhol and Marina Abramović.Featuring lavish illustrations, this is the perfect gift for art history fans and anyone looking for a more inclusive perspective on ‘the old boys’ club.’Encountering a work of contemporary art, a viewer might ask, "What does it ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Quantum Entanglement

    by Jed Brody ...
    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    A concise, non-technical exploration of quantum entanglement—the enigma Albert Einstein called ‘spooky action at a distance’—and how it contradicts our assumptions about the ultimate nature of reality.Quantum physics is notable for its brazen defiance of common sense. (Think of Schrödinger's Cat, famously both dead and alive.) An especially rigorous form of quantum contradiction occurs in ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Thermodynamic Weirdness

    From Fahrenheit to Clausius

    by Don S. Lemons ...
    Thermodynamics has never been easier to understand than in this non-mathematical account revealing the simplicity, principles, and key players of this fascinating branch of physics.Students of physics, chemistry, and engineering are taught classical thermodynamics through its methods—a “problems first” approach that neglects the subject’s concepts and intellectual structure. In Thermodynamic ... Read more

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  • Landscapes

    John Berger on Art

    by John Berger ...
    “Essential reading”—n+1Creative and political art criticism on landscape works from the Renaissance to the present from a “master” storyteller (Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things)In this brilliant collection of diverse pieces—essays, short stories, poems, translations—which spans a lifetime’s engagement with art, John Berger reveals how he came to his own unique way of seeing. He ... Read more

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  • The Cowshed

    Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

    by Ji Xianlin ...
    Translated by Chenxin Jiang ...
    A harrowing account of a scholar’s imprisonment during China's Cultural Revolution, this monumental memoir is one of the few surviving recordings of the movement’s oppositionThe Chinese Cultural Revolution began in 1966 and led to a ten-year-long reign of Maoist terror throughout China, in which millions died or were sent to labor camps in the country or subjected to other forms of extreme ... Read more

    $11.99 USD