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  • The Art of Thinking in a Digital World

    Be Logical – Be Creative – Be Critical

    by Luc de Brabandere, Lina Benmehrez, Jonas Leyder ...
    Luc de Brabandere has had three careers in his fifty years of professional life. He started out as a computer engineer, before becoming a consultant in creativity, and today he is a corporate philosopher. This journey has led him to investigate successively the three modes of thinking that are permanently articulated within us: logical thinking, creative thinking and critical thinking. As a ... Read more

    $36.29 CAD

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  • An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments

    Learn the Lost Art of Making Sense

    by Ali Almossawi ...
    Series series Bad Arguments
    “This short book makes you smarter than 99% of the population. . . . The concepts within it will increase your company’s ‘organizational intelligence.’. . . It’s more than just a must-read, it’s a ‘have-to-read-or-you’re-fired’ book.”—Geoffrey James, INC.comFrom the author of An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language, here’s the antidote to fuzzy thinking, with furry animals!Have you read (or ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

  • Is That a Fish in Your Ear?

    Translation and the Meaning of Everything

    by David Bellos ...
    People speak different languages, and always have. The Ancient Greeks took no notice of anything unless it was said in Greek; the Romans made everyone speak Latin; and in India, people learned their neighbours' languages - as did many ordinary Europeans in times past. But today, we all use translation to cope with the diversity of languages. Without translation there would be no world news, not ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Making Design Theory

    by Johan Redstrom ...
    Series series Design Thinking, Design Theory
    A new approach to theory development for practice-driven research, proposing that theory is something made in and through design.Tendencies toward “academization” of traditionally practice-based fields have forced design to articulate itself as an academic discipline, in theoretical terms. In this book, Johan Redström offers a new approach to theory development in design research–one that is ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Second Digital Turn

    Design Beyond Intelligence

    by Mario Carpo ...
    Series series Writing Architecture
    The first digital turn in architecture changed our ways of making; the second changes our ways of thinking.Almost a generation ago, the early software for computer aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) spawned a style of smooth and curving lines and surfaces that gave visible form to the first digital age, and left an indelible mark on contemporary architecture. But today's digitally ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Waltz of Reason

    The Entanglement of Mathematics and Philosophy

    by Karl Sigmund ...
    **"A mind-bending jaunt ... that makes clear in fascinating detail how math is more than a sum of its parts" (Publishers Weekly)Winner of the Neumann Prize**“Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here,” Plato warned would-be philosophers. Mathematician Karl Sigmund agrees.In The Waltz of Reason, he shows how mathematics and philosophy together have shaped our understanding of space, chance, logic, ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Automatic Society, Volume 1

    The Future of Work

    Translated by Daniel Ross ...
    by Bernard Stiegler ...
    In July 2014 the Belgian newspaper Le Soir claimed that France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland and the United States may lose between 43 and 50 per cent of their jobs within ten to fifteen years. Across the world, integrated automation, one key result of the so-called ‘data economy’, is leading to a drastic reduction in employment in all areas - from the legal profession to truck ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Great Endarkenment

    Philosophy in an Age of Hyperspecialization

    by Elijah Millgram ...
    Human beings have always been specialists, but over the past two centuries division of labor has become deeper, ubiquitous, and much more fluid. The form it now takes brings in its wake a series of problems that are simultaneously philosophical and practical, having to do with coordinating the activities of experts in different disciplines who do not understand one another. Because these problems ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD

  • Attunement

    Architectural Meaning after the Crisis of Modern Science

    by Alberto Perez-Gomez ...
    How architecture can move beyond the contemporary enthusiasms for the technically sustainable and the formally dazzling to enhance our human values and capacities.Architecture remains in crisis, its social relevance lost between the two poles of formal innovation and technical sustainability. In Attunement, Alberto Pérez-Gómez calls for an architecture that can enhance our human values and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Mathematics without Apologies

    Portrait of a Problematic Vocation

    by Michael Harris, Michael Harris ...
    An insightful reflection on the mathematical soulWhat do pure mathematicians do, and why do they do it? Looking beyond the conventional answers—for the sake of truth, beauty, and practical applications—this book offers an eclectic panorama of the lives and values and hopes and fears of mathematicians in the twenty-first century, assembling material from a startlingly diverse assortment of ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

  • What's These Worlds Coming To?

    by Jean-Luc Nancy, Aurélien Barrau ...
    Translated by Travis Holloway, Flor Méchain ...
    Series series Forms of Living
    The eminent philosopher and an emerging astrophysicist return to the ancient art of cosmology in a study of plural worlds and their rebuilding.Our contemporary challenge, according to Jean-Luc Nancy and Aurelien Barrau, is that a new world has stolen up on us. We no longer live in a world, but in worlds. We do not live in a universe anymore, but rather in a multiverse. We no longer create; we ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Best Writing on Mathematics 2013

    Edited by Mircea Pitici ...
    Series series The Best Writing on Mathematics
    The year's finest writing on mathematics from around the world, with a foreword by Nobel Prize–winning physicist Roger PenroseThis annual anthology brings together the year's finest mathematics writing from around the world. Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in the field, The Best Writing on Mathematics 2013 makes available to a wide audience many articles not ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD