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Object Lessons eBook Series

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  • Glass

    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

    R39,75

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  • Solitude

    In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World

    The author of The End of Absence shares a "gorgeously written and fascinating" inquiry into the transformative power of being alone (Michael Finkel, New York Times best-selling author of True Story).The capacity to be alone, properly alone, is one of life's subtlest skills. Real solitude is a crucial ingredient for a rich interior life. It inspires reflection, allows creativity to flourish, and ... Read more

    R255,98

  • Too Big to Know

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

    "If anyone knows anything about the web, where it's been and where it's going, it's David Weinberger. . . . Too Big To Know is an optimistic, if not somewhat cautionary tale, of the information explosion." -- Steven Rosenbaum, ForbesWith the advent of the Internet and the limitless information it contains, we're less sure about what we know, who knows what, or even what it means to know at all. ... Read more

    Was R156,85 Now R30,81

  • Everything Is Miscellaneous

    The Power of the New Digital Disorder

    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

    R62,66

  • 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

    R236,08

  • Overcomplicated

    Technology at the Limits of Comprehension

    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

    R93,60

  • Uncreative Writing

    Managing Language in the Digital Age

    Can techniques traditionally thought to be outside the scope of literature, including word processing, databasing, identity ciphering, and intensive programming, inspire the reinvention of writing? The Internet and the digital environment present writers with new challenges and opportunities to reconceive creativity, authorship, and their relationship to language. Confronted with an unprecedented ... Read more

    R366,72

  • Write Poetry Now

    366 Prompts for Inspiring Your Poems

    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

    R120,62

  • Infinite Possibility

    Creating Customer Value on the Digital Frontier

    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

    R223,66 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Small Pieces Loosely Joined

    A Unified Theory Of The Web

    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

    R156,85

  • Macbeth: Teacher Lesson Plans

    by LessonCaps ...
    Following Common Core Standards, this lesson plan for William Shakespeare’s, "Macbeth" is the perfect solution for teachers trying to get ideas for getting students excited about a book.BookCaps lesson plans cover five days worth of material. It includes a suggested reading schedule, discussion questions, essay topics, homework assignments, and suggested web resources. ... Read more

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  • On the Internet

    Series series Thinking in Action
    Can the internet solve the problem of mass education, and bring human beings to a new level of community? Drawing on a diverse array of thinkers from Plato to Kierkegaard, On the Internet argues that there is much in common between the disembodied, free floating web and Descartes' separation of mind and body. Hubert Dreyfus also shows how Kierkegaard's insights into the origins of a media-obsessed ... Read more

    R771,86