How is the Internet Changing the Way You Think? by John Brockman (ed.)
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Category: Contemporary Thought
A lively and eclectic sequence of more than 150 concise and intellectually challenging essays in which the world's leading thinkers reflect on how the internet has changed their modes of thought. In How is the Internet Changing the Way you Think?, 154 of the world's leading intellectuals - scientists, ...Show more
Reframe: How to Solve the World's Trickiest Problems by Eric Knight
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Category: Contemporary Thought
How to solve the world's trickiest political problems?In Reframe, Eric Knight explains how a change of focus can reveal a solution that was lying just outside your frame of vision. From terrorism to global warming, from border security to high finance, he brings a new perspective that is both exhilarati ...Show more
The Conflict: Woman and Mother by Elisabeth Badinter
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Category: Contemporary Thought
Today, to be pregnant seems not far from entering into a religious order. There is an expectation that mothers will fit the bill of breastfeeding, nappy-washing, home-cooking supermums. So are mums who rely on formula, childcare and disposable nappies lazy or liberated? The conflict between a woman's i ...Show more
Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Bronte's Grave by Simon Goldhill
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Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: Culture Trails: Adventures in Travel
The Victorian era was the high point of literary tourism. Writers such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Sir Walter Scott became celebrities, and readers trekked far and wide for a glimpse of the places where their heroes wrote and thought, walked and talked. Even Shakespeare was roped in, as Victor ...Show more
Taste Matters: Why We Like the Foods We Do by John Prescott
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Category: Contemporary Thought
Why do we like the foods that we do? What happens when we eat not for nutrient intake but for sensory pleasure? How far are our food preferences determined by genetic inheritance, by maternal diet, by cultural practice? These are some of the questions that sit at the heart of John Prescott's Taste Matte ...Show more
It Chooses You by Miranda July
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Category: Contemporary Thought
In the summer of 2009, Miranda July was struggling to finish writing the screenplay for her much-anticipated second film. During her increasingly long lunch breaks, she began to obsessively read the PennySaver, the iconic clas sifieds booklet that reached everywhere and seemed to come from nowhere. Who ...Show more
The Price Of Civilization: Economics And Ethics After The Fall by Jeffrey D. Sachs
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Category: Contemporary Thought
We have less time for the needed global transformation than many had hoped or expected. Resource scarcity is already upon us in the form of soaring oil and food prices and a cascade of climate shocks. The soaring prices are not merely cyclical or the result of financial speculation - these remarkable pr ...Show more
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meanin by Chris Hedges
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Category: Contemporary Thought
As a veteran war correspondent, Chris Hedges has survived ambushes in Central America, imprisonment in Sudan, and a beating by Saudi military police. He has seen children murdered for sport in Gaza and petty thugs elevated into war heroes in the Balkans. Hedges, who is also a former divinity student, ha ...Show more
In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy
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Category: Contemporary Thought
It is best known for its search engine, but as Steven Levy explains, Google's ambitions go far beyond internet searching. It has moved into mobile phones, computer operating systems, television, and is the most powerful company in the advertising business. Its advertising business produces revenues so ...Show more
Brutal Simplicity of Thought: How it Changed the World by Maurice Nathan Saatchi
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Category: Contemporary Thought
The principles of creativity revealed in deceptively simple words and pictures by the man behind the world's most successful advertising agency. Simplicity looks easy. It's not. It's easier to complicate than simplify. This book presents stunningly simple examples of concepts that have changed the worl ...Show more
Hamlet's Blackberry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age by William Powers
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Category: Contemporary Thought
At a time when everyone, from big businesses to ordinary individuals, is trying to make sense of their connected lives, Hamlet's BlackBerry presents a bold new paradigm for understanding the devices that now demand so much of our time and attention. It shows how our computers and mobile devices are chan ...Show more