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  • Tissues, Cultures, Art

    by Ionat Zurr, Oron Catts ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Tissues, Cultures, Art narrates the twenty-five years of collaborative and sometimes provocative artistic practice and scholarly thought of Catts & Zurr, who pioneered the use of regenerative biology techniques to create Semi-Living art using living cells, tissues, and technological surrogate bodies. Through hands-on work in biological laboratories, the authors researched concepts such as partial ... Read more

    $70.49 CAD

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    Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

    by James Bridle ...
    Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle’s Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching exploration of different kinds of intelligence—plant, animal, human, artificial—and how they transform our understanding of humans’ place in the cosmos.What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something unique to humans or shared with other beings— beings of flesh, wood, stone, and silicon? The last few ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Half-Life of Facts

    Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date

    by Samuel Arbesman ...
    New insights from the science of scienceFacts change all the time. Smoking has gone from doctor recommended to deadly. We used to think the Earth was the center of the universe and that the brontosaurus was a real dinosaur. In short, what we know about the world is constantly changing.Samuel Arbesman shows us how knowledge in most fields evolves systematically and predictably, and how this ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Emergence

    The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software

    by Steven Johnson ...
    In the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point, Steven Johnson, acclaimed as a "cultural critic with a poet's heart" (The Village Voice), takes readers on an eye-opening journey through emergence theory and its applications.A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKA VOICE LITERARY SUPPLEMENT TOP 25 FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEARAN ESQUIRE MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEARExplaining wh... ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Dark Ecology

    For a Logic of Future Coexistence

    by Timothy Morton ...
    Series series The Wellek Library Lectures
    Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a strange loop or Möbius strip, twisted to have only one side. Deckard travels this oedipal path in Blade Runner (1982) when he learns that he might be the enemy he has been ordered to pursue. Ecological awareness takes this shape because ecological phenomena have a loop form that is also fundamental ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • SuperCooperators

    Altruism, Evolution, and Why We Need Each Other to Succeed

    by Martin Nowak, Roger Highfield ...
    EVOLUTION IS OFTEN PRESENTED AS A STRICTLY COMPETITIVE ENDEAVOR. This point of view has had serious implications for the way we see the mechanics of both science and culture. But scientists have long wondered how societies could have evolved without some measure of cooperation. And if there was cooperation involved, how could it have arisen from nature “red in tooth and claw”?Martin Nowak, one of ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Biology As Ideology

    by Richard Lewontin ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    R. C. Lewontin is a prominent scientist—a geneticist who teaches at Harvard—yet he believes that we have placed science on a pedestal, treating it as an objective body of knowledge that transcends all other ways of knowing and all other endeavours.Lewontin writes in this collection of essays, which began their life as CBC Radio's Massey Lectures Series for 1990: "Scientists do not begin life as ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind

    Origins of the Human Social Mind

    by Mark Pagel ...
    “Does an excellent job of using evolutionary biology to discuss the origins of religion, music, art, and . . . morality.”—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewA unique trait of the human species is that our personalities, lifestyles, and worldviews are shaped by an accident of birth—namely, the culture into which we are born. It is our cultures and not our genes that determine which foods we eat, ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • How to Be Animal

    A New History of What It Means to Be Human

    by Melanie Challenger ...
    What makes us human, and why are we so sure we're different from other animals?Humans are the most inquisitive, emotional, imaginative, aggressive, and baffling animals on the planet. But how well do we really know ourselves? How to Be Animal rewrites the remarkable human story and argues that at the heart of our psychology is a profound struggle with being animal.Most of our effects on the planet ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Identified Flying Objects

    A Multidisciplinary Scientific Approach to the UFO Phenomenon

    by Michael Paul Masters ...
    Could “UFOs” and “Aliens” simply be us from the future?This provocative new book cautiously examines the premise that extraterrestrials may instead be our distant human descendants, using the anthropological tool of time travel to visit and study us in their own hominin evolutionary past.Dr. Michael P. Masters, a professor of biological anthropology specializing in human evolutionary anatomy, ... Read more

    $10.29 CAD

  • Speculative Everything

    Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming

    by Anthony Dunne, Fiona Raby ...
    How to use design as a tool to create not only things but ideas, to speculate about possible futures.Today designers often focus on making technology easy to use, sexy, and consumable. In Speculative Everything, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby propose a kind of design that is used as a tool to create not only things but ideas. For them, design is a means of speculating about how things could be—to ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Richard Dawkins

    How a scientist changed the way we think

    by Alan Grafen, Mark Ridley ...
    Published to coincide with the 30th anniversary of The Selfish Gene, this sparkling collection explores the impact of Richard Dawkins as scientist, rationalist, and one of the most important thinkers alive today. Specially commissioned pieces by leading figures in science, philosophy, literature, and the media, such as Daniel C. Dennett, Matt Ridley, Steven Pinker, Philip Pullman, and the Bishop ... Read more

    $14.89 CAD