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  • Xana

    by Peter Jordi ...
    Alexander Roth wanted to use XANA to make the world a better place. His goal was to develop an artificial intelligence that takes human emotions into account while remaining controllable. At first, it is a marvel: it saves lives and detects dangers before they arise. But the more it learns, the more independent its actions become. It acts according to its own ideas and goals. Over time, XANA ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Writing The Modern History Of Iraq: Historiographical And Political Challenges

    by Riccardo Bocco, Hamit Bozarslan, Peter Sluglett, Jordi Tejel ...
    The modern history of Iraq is punctuated by a series of successive and radical ruptures (coups d'etat, changes of regime, military adventures and foreign invasions) whose chronological markers are relatively easy to identify. Although researchers cannot ignore these ruptures, they should also be encouraged to establish links between the moments when the breaks occur and the longue durée, in order ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Collapse of Freedom of Expression

    Reconstructing the Ancient Roots of Modern Liberty

    by Jordi Pujol ...
    Series series Catholic Ideas for a Secular World
    This book offers a holistic account of the problems posed by freedom of expression in our current times and offers corrective measures to allow for a more genuine exchange of ideas within the global society.The topic of free speech is rarely addressed from a historical, philosophical, or theological perspective. In The Collapse of Freedom of Expression, Jordi Pujol explores both the modern concept ... Read more

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    The Secret of Vesalius

    by Jordi Llobregat ...
    Narrated by Peter Noble ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 20 min

    Frankenstein meets The Shadow of the Wind in a Gothic thriller set in the diabolical city of fin-de-siecle Barcelona.Daniel Amat has left Spain and all that happened there behind him. Having just achieved a brilliant role in Ancient Languages at Oxford University and an even more advantageous engagement, the arrival of a letter - a demand - stamped Barcelona comes like a cold hand from behind.He ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • The Seventh Sense

    Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks

    by Joshua Cooper Ramo ...
    Endless terror. Refugee waves. An unfixable global economy. Surprising election results. New billion-dollar fortunes. Miracle medical advances. What if they were all connected? What if you could understand why?The Seventh Sense is the story of what all of today's successful figures see and feel: the forces that are invisible to most of us but explain everything from explosive technological change ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Islam and the Arab Awakening

    by Tariq Ramadan ...
    One of the most important developments in the modern history of the Middle East, the so-called Arab Spring began in Tunisia in December 2010, bringing down dictators, sparking a civil war in Libya, and igniting a bloody uprising in Syria. Its long-term repercussions in Egypt and elsewhere remain unclear. Now one of the world's leading Islamic thinkers examines and explains it, in this searching, ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Speechless

    Controlling Words, Controlling Minds

    by Michael Knowles ...
    “Every single American needs to read Michael Knowles’s Speechless. I don’t mean ‘read it eventually.’ I mean: stop what you’re doing and pick up this book.”—CANDACE OWENS"The most important book on free speech in decades—read it!” —SENATOR TED CRUZA New Strategy: We Win, They LoseThe Culture War is over, and the culture lost.The Left’s assault on liberty, virtue, decency, the Republic of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection

    by Gardner Dozois ...
    Series Book 34 - Year's Best Science Fiction
    In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self-evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection, the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world. ... Read more

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  • The Arab Spring

    The End of Postcolonialism

    by Hamid Dabashi ...
    This pioneering explanation of the Arab Spring will define a new era of thinking about the Middle East.In this landmark book, Hamid Dabashi argues that the revolutionary uprisings that have engulfed multiple countries and political climes from Morocco to Iran and from Syria to Yemen, were driven by a 'Delayed Defiance' - a point of rebellion against domestic tyranny and globalized disempowerment ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The Idea of the Public Sphere

    A Reader

    by Hannah Arendt, Seyla Benhabib, James Bohman, John Dewey, Jon Elster, Nancy Fraser, Jürgen Habermas, Immanuel Kant, Alexander Kluge, Walter Lippmann, Niklas Luhmann, Oskar Negt, Bernhard Peters, John Rawls, Carl Schmitt, Joseph Schumpeter, G.W.F Hegel, Chantal Mouffe ...
    The notion of "the public sphere" has become increasingly central to theories and studies of democracy, media, and culture over the last few decades. It has also gained political importance in the context of the European Union's efforts to strengthen democracy, integration, and identity.The Idea of the Public Sphere offers a wide-ranging, accessible, and easy-to-use introduction to one of the most ... Read more

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  • Humanity 2.0

    by Robert J. Sawyer, John Varley, Robert Silverberg ...
    What will it mean to be human in the future? How will we evolve in order to reach the stars?Fifteen short stories collected in this book examine how interstellar flight might change humanity itself. Will we choose to upload our minds into a singularity? Enhance ourselves with alien DNA? Will our bodies remain the same, but our culture and societal norms adapt to accommodate for effects of time ... Read more

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  • Making the Arab World

    Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East

    by Fawaz A. Gerges ...
    How the conflict between political Islamists and secular-leaning nationalists has shaped the history of the modern Middle EastIn 2013, just two years after the popular overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian military ousted the country’s first democratically elected president—Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood—and subsequently led a brutal repression of the Islamist group. These bloody ... Read more

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