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Object Lessons eBook Series

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  • Glass

    by Professor John S. Garrison ...
    Series series Object Lessons
    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Pause and look around: you will see that you are surrounded by glass. It reflects and refracts light through your windows; it encircles a glowing filament above you; it's in a mirror hanging on the wall; it lies shattered in a dented corner of an iPhone-you're drinking water out of a pint ... Read more

    $14.21 CAD

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    Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room

    by David Weinberger ...
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    Was $15.99 CAD Now $2.99 CAD

  • The Most Human Human

    What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive

    by Brian Christian ...
    **A playful, profound book that is not only a testament to one man's efforts to be deemed more human than a computer, but also a rollicking exploration of what it means to be human in the first place.“Terrific. ... Art and science meet an engaged mind and the friction produces real fire.” —The New Yorker**Each year, the AI community convenes to administer the famous (and famously controversial) ... Read more

    Was $15.99 CAD Now $13.99 CAD

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  • Everything Is Miscellaneous

    The Power of the New Digital Disorder

    by David Weinberger ...
    A provocative exploration of how the digital revolution is radically changing the way we make sense of our lives.Human beings are information omnivores: we are constantly collecting, labeling, and organizing data. But the ongoing shift from the physical to the digital is mixing, burning, and ripping our lives apart. In the past, everything had its one place—the physical world demanded it—but now ... Read more

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  • Thoughts on Design

    by Paul Rand ...
    One of the seminal texts of graphic design, Paul Rand's Thoughts on Design is now available for the first time since the 1970s. Writing at the height of his career, Rand articulated in his slender volume the pioneering vision that all design should seamlessly integrate form and function. This facsimile edition preserves Rand's original 1947 essay with the adjustments he made to its text and ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • Overcomplicated

    Technology at the Limits of Comprehension

    by Samuel Arbesman ...
    Why did the New York Stock Exchange suspend trading without warning on July 8, 2015? Why did certain Toyota vehicles accelerate uncontrollably against the will of their drivers? Why does the programming inside our airplanes occasionally surprise its creators?After a thorough analysis by the top experts, the answers still elude us.You don’t understand the software running your car or your iPhone. ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $6.99 CAD

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  • The Age of Earthquakes

    A Guide to the Extreme Present

    by Douglas Coupland, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Shumon Basar ...
    A highly provocative, mindbending, beautifully designed, and visionary look at the landscape of our rapidly evolving digital era.50 years after Marshall McLuhan's ground breaking book on the influence of technology on culture in The Medium is the Massage, Basar, Coupland and Obrist extend the analysis to today, touring the world that’s redefined by the Internet, decoding and explaining what they ... Read more

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  • Magic and Loss

    The Internet as Art

    by Virginia Heffernan ...
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  • Uncreative Writing

    Managing Language in the Digital Age

    by Kenneth Goldsmith ...
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  • Write Poetry Now

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    Edited by Robert Lee Brewer ...
    Robert Brewer, editor of Writer's Market and author of the popular poetry blog Poetic Asides, compiles in this book all of his best, most popular and thought-provoking writing prompts for poets. The goal is to create new poems and this book provides 366 - enough for every day of the year! The world needs more poets. So get inspired, get creative, and start writing poetry - now! ... Read more

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  • Infinite Possibility

    Creating Customer Value on the Digital Frontier

    by B. Joseph Pine, Kim C. Korn ...
    Discover how to provide experiences for your customers that combine the real with the virtual.Joseph Pine and Jim Gilmore's classic The Experience Economy identified a seismic shift in the business world: to set yourself apart from your competition, you need to stage experiences—memorable events that engage people in inherently personal ways. But as consumers increasingly experience the world ... Read more

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  • Small Pieces Loosely Joined

    A Unified Theory Of The Web

    by David Weinberger ...
    The Web has not been hyped enough. That's the startling thesis of this one-of-a-kind book that's sure to become a classic work of social commentary. Just as Marshall McLuhan forever altered our view of broadcast media, Weinberger shows that the new medium of the Web is not only altering social institutions such as business and government but, more important, is transforming bedrock concepts of our ... Read more

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