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  • Films from the Future

    The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi Movies

    by Andrew Maynard ...
    Series series Analyzing the Future
    Hard Science Fiction Films that Predict Future Technology“As the breakneck advance of technology takes us into a world that is both exciting and menacing, sci-fi films give us an inkling of what is to come, and what we should avoid.” —Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, and host of Big Picture Science#1 Best Seller in Nanotechnology, Computers & Technology, Science Fiction & ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • AI and the Art of Being Human

    A practical guide to thriving with AI while rediscovering yourself in the process

    by Jeffrey Abbott, Andrew Maynard ...
    How do you rediscover what makes you you in a world where AI can replicate everything you do?In AI and the Art of Being Human, leading experts Jeffrey Abbott and Andrew Maynard explore how to embrace your full humanity at a time when machines are increasingly able to mirror your every move. Blending storytelling and practical insight while drawing on their own work and experiences, they reveal ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

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    Future Rising

    A Journey from the Past to the Edge of Tomorrow

    by Andrew Maynard ...
    Narrated by Dan Mellins-Cohen ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 44 min

    A Compelling Vision of the Future. If you enjoy nonfiction like Homo Deus, Sapiens, and A Short History of Nearly Everything, then you'll love FUTURE RISING.Over the course of 14 billion years, humanity has gained the ability not only to imagine the future, but to design and engineer it. Entertaining and profound, Future Rising by Dr. Andrew Maynard, provides a highly original perspective on our ... Read more

    $21.51 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Films from the Future

    The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi Movies

    by Andrew Maynard ...
    Narrated by Matthew Waterson ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 41 min

    Learn how movies reveal the future of technologyFans of The Science of Interstellar, The Second Machine Age, and Physics of the Future will love Films from the Future.Science, technology, and society: In Films from the Future, former physicist Andrew Maynard threads together his love of science fiction movies with his expertise on emerging technologies to engage, entertain, and m... ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Ethics of Nanotechnology, Geoengineering, and Clean Energy

    Edited by Andrew Maynard, Jack Stilgoe ...
    Nanotechnology, clean technology, and geoengineering span the scale of human ingenuity, from the imperceptibly small to the unimaginably large. Yet they are united by a commonality of ethics that permeates how and why they are developed, and how the resulting consequences are managed. The articles in this volume provide a comprehensive account of current thinking around the ethics of development ... Read more

    $645.87 CAD

  • Values and Ethics in Social Work

    by Chris Beckett, Andrew Maynard, Peter Jordan ...
    An awareness of one’s own ethical assumptions and how these inform everyday practice is crucial for all student social workers. Social workers who genuinely wish to do the right thing by their services users have no alternative but to constantly think and rethink the principles and assumptions that inform their actions, and this book supports them on their journey to do just that.This third ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • Leading the Way

    The Seven Skills To Engage, Inspire And Motivate

    by Andrew Leigh, Michael Maynard ...
    Andrew Leigh is the co-founder of Maynard Leigh. Before this he worked as a senior manager in both the public and the private sectors. He has spent several years as a features writer for The Observer and an established author.Michael Maynard is also a co-founder of Maynard Leigh. Michael now runs business and management courses internationally, specialising in leadership and creativity, teams and ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Perfect Leader

    by Andrew Leigh, Michael Maynard ...
    Perfect Leader shows clearly how everybody can learn to exercise leadership. Are leaders born or made? The book is comprehensive yet concise and to the point. It is written in clear language and is designed to be of immediate, practical benefit to readers. It explains exactly what it takes to be a leader by identifying and examining the seven 'I's of leadership: Insight --Initiative --Inspiration ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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    Journeys Home

    Inspiring Stories, plus Tips and Strategies to Find Your Family History

    by Andrew McCarthy, Andrew McCarthy, Joyce Maynard, Pico Iyer, Diane Johnson, National Geographic Travel Team ...
    Narrated by Traber Burns, Patrick Lawlor, Adam Verner, Shaun Grindell, Feodor Chin0, Bernadette Dunne1, Carrington MacDuffie2, Amy Rubinate3, John McLain4, Tom Bromhead5, Mark Peckham6, Simon Vance7, Arthur Morey8, Stephen R. Thorne9, R. C. Bray0, Michael Kramer1, Angela Brazil2, Caroline Shaffer3, Mia Chiaromonte4, Kate Reading5, Christine Williams6, Melanie Ewbank7, Bob Souer8, Rebecca Mitchell9, Pam Ward0, various narrators1, Armando Durán3, Richard Powers4 ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 42 min

    Addressing the explosive growth in ancestral travel, this compelling narrative combines intriguing tales of discovery with tips on how to begin your own explorations. Actor and award-winning travel writer Andrew McCarthy's featured story recounts his quest to uncover his family's Irish history, while twenty-five other prominent writers tell their own heartfelt stories of connection.Spanning the ... Read more

    $27.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits

    Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture

    by Chip Colwell ...
    Narrated by Chip Colwell ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 26 min

    Who owns the past and the objects that physically connect us to history? And who has the right to decide this ownership, particularly when the objects are sacred or, in the case of skeletal remains, human? Is it the museums that care for the objects or the communities whose ancestors made them? These questions are at the heart of Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits.Today, hundreds of tribes use ... Read more

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    Turncoat

    Benedict Arnold and the Crisis of American Liberty

    by Stephen Brumwell ...
    Narrated by Andrew Sellon ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 10 min

    General Benedict Arnold's failed attempt to betray the fortress of West Point to the British in 1780 stands as one of the most infamous episodes in American history. In the light of a shining record of bravery and unquestioned commitment to the Revolution, Arnold's defection came as an appalling shock. Contemporaries believed he had been corrupted by greed; historians have theorized that he had ... Read more

    $42.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Tao of Travel

    Enlightenments from Lives on the Road

    by Paul Theroux ...
    Narrated by Charlie Anson ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 49 min

    Paul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe by collecting the best writing on travel from the books that shaped him, as a reader and a traveler. Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, The Tao of Travel enumerates “The Contents of Some Travelers’ Bags” and exposes “Writers Who Wrote about Places They Never Visited”; tracks extreme journeys in “Travel as an ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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