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  • A Theory of Architecture

    by Nikos A. Salingaros ...
    More than a decade in the making, this is a textbook of architecture, useful for every architect: from first-year students, to those taking senior design studio, to graduate students writing a Ph.D. dissertation in architectural theory, to experienced practicing architects. It is very carefully written so that it can be read even by the beginning architecture student. The information contained ... Read more

    $14.08 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unified Architectural Theory

    A COMPANION TO CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER’S THE PHENOMENON OF LIFE — THE NATURE OF ORDER, BOOK 1

    by Nikos Salingaros ...
    We are on the threshold of a new way of thinking about, learning, and practicing architecture. Ready to abandon design based on often-irrelevant images for a more meaningful paradigm, we find answers in combining timeless truths with recent scientific results. These explain how architecture can re-attach itself to nature.Unified Architectural Theory re-invents architecture by uncovering its ... Read more

    $14.08 CAD

  • Design Patterns & Living Architecture

    by Nikos A. Salingaros ...
    This collection of articles describes how to use design patterns to create better — more emotionally-responsive and human — architectural environments. The pattern concept was introduced by Christopher Alexander and his collaborators in 1977, and has enjoyed wide success outside architectural culture. For various reasons, this design method and its accompanying philosophy of adaptation have not ... Read more

    $7.05 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Design for a Living Planet

    by Michael Mehaffy, Nikos Salingaros ...
    In this brief, accessible volume, the authors — an urban philosopher and a mathematician-physicist — explain the surprising new findings from the sciences that are beginning to transform environmental design in the modern era. Authors Michael Mehaffy and Nikos Salingaros explore fractals, networks, self-organization, dynamical systems and other revolutionary ideas, describing them to non-science ... Read more

    $14.08 CAD

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    One of the world’s leading philosophers offers aspiring thinkers his personal trove of mind-stretching thought experiments.Over a storied career, Daniel C. Dennett has engaged questions about science and the workings of the mind. His answers have combined rigorous argument with strong empirical grounding. And a lot of fun.Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking offers seventy-seven of Dennett ... Read more

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  • From Bacteria to Bach and Back

    The Evolution of Minds

    by Daniel C. Dennett ...
    "A supremely enjoyable, intoxicating work." —NatureHow did we come to have minds? For centuries, poets, philosophers, psychologists, and physicists have wondered how the human mind developed its unrivaled abilities. Disciples of Darwin have explained how natural selection produced plants, but what about the human mind?In From Bacteria to Bach and Back, Daniel C. Dennett builds on recent ... Read more

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  • The Age of Spiritual Machines

    When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence

    by Ray Kurzweil ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Bold futurist Ray Kurzweil, author of The Singularity Is Near, offers a framework for envisioning the future of machine intelligence—“a book for anyone who wonders where human technology is going next” (The New York Times Book Review).“Kurzweil offers a thought-provoking analysis of human and artificial intelligence and a unique look at a future in which the capabilities of ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Darwin's Dangerous Idea

    Evolution and the Meaning of Life

    by Daniel C. Dennett ...
    In a book that is both groundbreaking and accessible, Daniel C. Dennett, whom Chet Raymo of The Boston Globe calls "one of the most provocative thinkers on the planet," focuses his unerringly logical mind on the theory of natural selection, showing how Darwin's great idea transforms and illuminates our traditional view of humanity's place in the universe. Dennett vividly describes the theory ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • What We Believe but Cannot Prove

    Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty

    by John Brockman ...
    Series Book 3 - Edge Question Series
    More than one hundred of the world's leading thinkers write about things they believe in, despite the absence of concrete proofScientific theory, more often than not, is born of bold assumption, disparate bits of unconnected evidence, and educated leaps of faith. Some of the most potent beliefs among brilliant minds are based on supposition alone -- yet that is enough to push those minds toward ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Spaces Speak, Are You Listening?

    Experiencing Aural Architecture

    by Barry Blesser, Linda-Ruth Salter ...
    How we experience space by listening: the concepts of aural architecture, with examples ranging from Gothic cathedrals to surround sound home theater.We experience spaces not only by seeing but also by listening. We can navigate a room in the dark, and "hear" the emptiness of a house without furniture. Our experience of music in a concert hall depends on whether we sit in the front row or under ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Summa Technologiae

    Translated by Joanna Zylinska ...
    by Stanis aw Lem ...
    Series Book 40 - Electronic Mediations
    The Polish writer Stanisław Lem is best known to English-speaking readers as the author of the 1961 science fiction novel Solaris, adapted into a meditative film by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972 and remade in 2002 by Steven Soderbergh. Throughout his writings, comprising dozens of science fiction novels and short stories, Lem offered deeply philosophical and bitingly satirical reflections on the ... Read more

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  • Science Fiction and Philosophy

    From Time Travel to Superintelligence

    Edited by Susan Schneider ...
    A timely volume that uses science fiction as a springboard to meaningful philosophical discussions, especially at points of contact between science fiction and new scientific developments.Raises questions and examines timely themes concerning the nature of the mind, time travel, artificial intelligence, neural enhancement, free will, the nature of persons, transhumanism, virtual reality, and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD