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  • The Making of The Wandering Earth

    A Film Production Handbook

    Edited by Jiaren Wang, Regina Kanyu Wang (Storycom) ...
    Series series Studies in Global Genre Fiction
    This handbook takes us through the making of The Wandering Earth, one of the highest-grossing non-English films of all time. It is a rare, in-depth, behind-the-scenes study of the making of a masterpiece, taking the reader through the entire production process of a landmark Chinese science fiction film.The book brings to life how The Wandering Earth was created, from words to images, by a young ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

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    Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life

    by Ozan Varol ...
    * Adam Grant's # 1 pick of his top 20 books of the yearThis is not just an engrossing read--it's bursting with practical insights. Ozan Varol's dazzling debut might change how you approach problems. Houston, this book has solutions."―Adam GrantRocket science is often celebrated as the ultimate triumph of technology. But it's not. Rather, it's the apex of a certain thought process -- a way to ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Thinking Machines

    The Quest for Artificial Intelligence--and Where It's Taking Us Next

    by Luke Dormehl ...
    A fascinating look at Artificial Intelligence, from its humble Cold War beginnings to the dazzling future that is just around the corner.When most of us think about Artificial Intelligence, our minds go straight to cyborgs, robots, and sci-fi thrillers where machines take over the world. But the truth is that Artificial Intelligence is already among us. It exists in our smartphones, fitness ... Read more

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  • The Subplot

    What China Is Reading and Why It Matters

    by Megan Walsh ...
    What does contemporary China's diverse and exciting fiction tell us about its culture, and the relationship between art and politics?The Subplot takes us on a lively journey through a literary landscape like you’ve never seen before: a vast migrant-worker poetry movement, homoerotic romances by “rotten girls,” swaggering literary popstars, millionaire e-writers churning out the longest-ever novels ... Read more

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  • Bit by Bit

    How Video Games Transformed Our World

    by Andrew Ervin ...
    An acclaimed critic argues that video games are the most vital art form of our timeVideo games have seemingly taken over our lives. Whereas gamers once constituted a small and largely male subculture, today 67 percent of American households play video games. The average gamer is now thirty-four years old and spends eight hours each week playing -- and there is a 40 percent chance this person is a ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Mechademia 1

    Emerging Worlds of Anime and Manga

    Edited by Frenchy Lunning ...
    After decades in which American popular culture dominated global media and markets, Japanese popular culture—primarily manga and anime, but also toys, card and video games, and fashion—has exploded into a worldwide phenomenon. From Pokémon and the Power Rangers to Paranoia Agent and Princess Mononoke, Japanese popular culture is consumed by an eager and exponentially increasing audience of youths, ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Modes of Esports Engagement in Overwatch

    Edited by Maria Ruotsalainen, Maria Törhönen, Veli-Matti Karhulahti ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This Open Access book provides a comprehensive review of the rapidly developing esport phenomenon by examining one of its contemporary flagship titles, Overwatch (Blizzard Entertainment 2016), through three central themes and from a rich variety of research methods and perspectives. As a game with more than 40 million individual players, an annual international World Cup, and a franchised ... Read more

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  • The South Korean Film Renaissance

    Local Hitmakers, Global Provocateurs

    by Jinhee Choi ...
    Series series Wesleyan Film
    For the past decade, the Korean film industry has enjoyed a renaissance. With innovative storytelling and visceral effects, Korean films not only have been commercially viable in the domestic and regional markets but also have appealed to cinephiles everywhere on the international festival circuit. This book provides both an industrial and an aesthetic account of how the Korean film industry ... Read more

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  • Being Online

    On Computing, Data, the Internet, and the Cloud

    by Jian Wang ...
    A pioneer of cloud computing and big data offers his vision of the future world taking shape around us.Jian Wang was the founder and architect of Alibaba's cloud and has been the driving force behind its technology innovations. He was also the founder of the City Brain initiative to develop a new digital infrastructure for sustainable cities. Being Online is his meditation on the moment we are in, ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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  • The Chinese Typewriter

    A History

    by Thomas S. Mullaney ...
    How Chinese characters triumphed over the QWERTY keyboard and laid the foundation for China's information technology successes today.Chinese writing is character based, the one major world script that is neither alphabetic nor syllabic. Through the years, the Chinese written language encountered presumed alphabetic universalism in the form of Morse Code, Braille, stenography, Linotype, punch cards ... Read more

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  • Writing the Science Fiction Film

    by Robert Grant ...
    Writing the Science Fiction Film describes the kinds of stories that work best as science fiction, explores the parameters of the science fiction genre, and shows what science fiction can offer to writers that other genres cannot. ... Read more

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  • Tales from a Robotic World

    How Intelligent Machines Will Shape Our Future

    by Dario Floreano, Nicola Nosengo ...
    Stories from the future of intelligent machines—from rescue drones to robot spouses—and accounts of cutting-edge research that could make it all possible.Tech prognosticators promised us robots—autonomous humanoids that could carry out any number of tasks. Instead, we have robot vacuum cleaners. But, as Dario Floreano and Nicola Nosengo report, advances in robotics could bring those rosy ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD