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  • Hieroglyph

    Stories & Visions for a Better Future

    Hieroglyph: Stories & Visions for a Better Future is an anthology of optimistic science fiction from some of today's most hopeful visionaries."This collection could be the shot in the arm our imaginations need. It's an important book and not just for the fiction." — Wall Street JournalBorn of an initiative at the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University, this remarkable ... Leer más

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  • How to Change the Future

    Unleashing the Power of Collaborative Imagination

    de Ed Finn ...
    A playful field guide to imagination: humanity’s greatest superpower and our only hope for surviving the twenty-first century.Our relationship with the future is broken. Looming crises—from AI disruption and economic injustice to the collapse of democratic norms—can overwhelm us with feelings of apathy and hopelessness. The answer to these challenges is imagination, the overlooked human superpower ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

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  • Canada after Harper

    His ideology-fuelled attack on Canadian society and values, and how we can now work to create the country we want

    de Ed Finn ...
    Most Canadians know that Stephen Harper has had a tremendous impact on the country since becoming prime minister in 2006. But few have the in-depth knowledge of how far his transformation has gone -- what has already been done, and what the consequences will be in the future.This book brings together Canadian experts in a wide variety of areas. They document key changes put in place by the Harper ... Leer más

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  • Frankenstein

    Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds

    de Mary Shelley ...
    The original 1818 text of Mary Shelley's classic novel, with annotations and essays highlighting its scientific, ethical, and cautionary aspects.Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has endured in the popular imagination for two hundred years. Begun as a ghost story by an intellectually and socially precocious eighteen-year-old author during a cold and rainy summer on the shores of Lake Geneva, the ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Climate Imagination

    Dispatches from Hopeful Futures

    Edición de Ed Finn, Joey Eschrich ...
    A clarion call for visions of vibrant, hopeful climate futures, bringing together global voices to share stories of resilient communities based in real science.When we think of climate, the stories we tell about the future are often catastrophic: megastorms, crop failures, and heat waves loom over us, sending a signal that the problem is so vast, so complex, that it’s out of our control. That ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • What Algorithms Want

    Imagination in the Age of Computing

    de Ed Finn ...
    The gap between theoretical ideas and messy reality, as seen in Neal Stephenson, Adam Smith, and Star Trek.We depend on—we believe in—algorithms to help us get a ride, choose which book to buy, execute a mathematical proof. It's as if we think of code as a magic spell, an incantation to reveal what we need to know and even what we want. Humans have always believed that certain invocations—the ... Leer más

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  • Imagining Transmedia

    How the blurring of media forms—transmedia—became the default for how we experience narratives, and how that cultural transformation has redefined the worlds of education, entertainment, and our increasingly polarized public discourse.Over the past decade, the power of narrative has been unleashed with awesome and terrifying consequences, and it has been consumed in its blurred media forms by ... Leer más

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    Hieroglyph

    Stories and Visions for a Better Future

    Completo

    24 hora 25 minutos

    Inspired by New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson, an anthology of stories, set in the near future, from some of today’s leading writers, thinkers, and visionaries that reignites the iconic and optimistic visions of the golden age of science fiction.In his 2011 article “Innovation Starvation,” Neal Stephenson argued that we—the society whose earlier scientists and engineers witnessed ... Leer más

    $52.99 USD

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    What Algorithms Want

    Imagination in the Age of Computing

    de Ed Finn ...
    Narrado por Scott Merriman ...

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    8 hora 55 minutos

    We depend on--we believe in--algorithms to help us get a ride, choose which book to buy, execute a mathematical proof. It's as if we think of code as a magic spell, an incantation to reveal what we need to know and even what we want. Humans have always believed that certain invocations--the marriage vow, the shaman's curse--do not merely describe the world but make it. Computation casts a cultural ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

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    The Book of Magic

    A Collection of Stories

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    24 hora 38 minutos

    A new anthology celebrating the witches and sorcerers of epic fantasy—featuring stories by George R. R. Martin, Scott Lynch, Megan Lindholm, and many others!Hot on the heels of Gardner Dozois’s acclaimed anthology The Book of Swords comes this companion volume devoted to magic. How could it be otherwise? For every Frodo, there is a Gandalf . . . and a Saruman. For every Dorothy, a Glinda . . . and ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

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    Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

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    15 hora 44 minutos

    World renowned scientist Carl Sagan and acclaimed author Ann Druyan have written a Roots for the human species, a lucid and riveting account of how humans got to be the way we are. It shows with humor and drama that many of our key traits--self-awareness, technology, family ties, submission to authority, hatred for those a little different from ourselves, reason, and ethics--are rooted in the deep ... Leer más

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    Darkest Year, The

    The American Home Front, 1941-1942

    Narrado por Stefan Rudnicki ...

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    12 hora 53 minutos

    The Darkest Year is acclaimed author William K. Klingaman’s narrative history of the American home front from December 7, 1941 through the end of 1942, a psychological study of the nation under the pressure of total war.For Americans on the home front, the twelve months following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor comprised the darkest year of World War Two. Despite government attempts to ... Leer más

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