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The Islands and the Stars: A History of Japan's Space Programs

The Islands and the Stars: A History of Japan's Space...

Author: Subodhana Wijeyeratne
ISBN: 9781503644144
Format: Hardback
$323.00

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is among the six largest national space agencies in the world, along...  Read More >>

Drone Cultures: From Surveillance and Warfare to Literature and Art

Drone Cultures: From Surveillance and Warfare to Literature...

Author: John Muthyala (University of Southern Maine, USA)
ISBN: 9781350530454
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Expanding on common perceptions of the drone as a tool of war and surveillance, this book argues that they are also...  Read More >>

Perspectives on Logics for Data-driven Reasoning

Perspectives on Logics for Data-driven Reasoning

Author: Hykel Hosni ,  Jürgen Landes
ISBN: 9783031778940
Format: Paperback
$369.57

This book calls for a rethinking of logic as the core methodological tool for scientific reasoning in the context...  Read More >>

Listening In: How Audio Surveillance Became Artificial Intelligence

Listening In: How Audio Surveillance Became Artificial...

Author: Toby Heys (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) ,  David Jackson (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350340398
Format: Paperback
$36.99

Using a series of colourful case studies, this book traces a short history of covert listening and audio surveillance...  Read More >>

The Nature Delusion: Why We Can’t Fix the World Without Fixing Ourselves

The Nature Delusion: Why We Can’t Fix the World Without...

Author: Tom Oliver (University of Reading)
ISBN: 9781529244472
Format: Hardback
$41.95

A one-of-a-kind book offering a unique perspective on how our connection with nature relates to the current environmental...  Read More >>

Perilous Waters: Settlers, Swamps, and the State, 1775–1920

Perilous Waters: Settlers, Swamps, and the State, 1775–1920...

Author: Anthony E. Carlson
ISBN: 9781469694795
Format: Hardback
$229.00

Wetlands—particularly swamps—have evoked contradictory responses from different groups in the United States from...  Read More >>

Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed

Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed

Author: Quinn Slobodian ,  Ben Tarnoff
ISBN: 9780241805114
Format: Hardback
$59.99

A pyrotechnic examination of Elon Musk as a symptom and avatar of our postliberal age Who on earth is Elon Musk...  Read More >>

Bridging Benjamin Volume 68: A Philosophy of Technology, Place, and Education

Bridging Benjamin Volume 68: A Philosophy of Technology,...

Author: Dominic Smith
ISBN: 9781517919641
Format: Hardback
$270.00

Walter Benjamin reimagined through the forgotten power of radio Philosopher and cultural critic Walter Benjamin...  Read More >>

Success by Design

Success by Design

Author: Lewis Daniels
ISBN: 9783916971510
Format: Paperback
$55.44

Success by Design reveals the invisible code running you. Lewis shows how beliefs, body-states and hidden patterns...  Read More >>

The Arts Of Eminent Scientists: Essential Connections Between Art And Science

The Arts Of Eminent Scientists: Essential Connections...

Author: Robert Root-bernstein (Michigan State University, Usa)
ISBN: 9789819820054
Format: Hardback
$310.50

Scientists as artists?! The idea may sound strange, even unlikely, yet The Arts of Eminent Scientists demonstrates...  Read More >>

Techno-Negative: A Long History of Refusing the Machine

Techno-Negative: A Long History of Refusing the Machine...

Author: Thomas Dekeyser
ISBN: 9781517917722
Format: Hardback
$270.00

A radical history of technology told through acts of resistance, not progress The history of technology is often...  Read More >>

Return to Launch: Florida and America's Space Industry

Return to Launch: Florida and America's Space Industry...

Author: Stephen C. Smith
ISBN: 9781683406563
Format: Hardback
$87.99

This book tells the story of how Cape Canaveral's ""second space age"" reshaped the trajectory of the US space program...  Read More >>

Darwin's Philosophy of Emotion

Darwin's Philosophy of Emotion

Author: Trip Glazer (University of Dayton, Ohio)
ISBN: 9781009538244
Format: Hardback
$245.81

This book contributes to two interdisciplinary topics with broad appeal, namely Darwin studies and emotions research....  Read More >>

Connected Cartographies: World Geography and the Sino-Western Translation of Knowledge, 1580-1842

Connected Cartographies: World Geography and the Sino-Western...

Author: Florin-Stefan Morar (National University of Singapore)
ISBN: 9781009636032
Format: Hardback
$316.80

This essential history tells the fascinating story of encounters between Chinese and Western traditions of world...  Read More >>

Drone Cultures: From Surveillance and Warfare to Literature and Art

Drone Cultures: From Surveillance and Warfare to Literature...

Author: John Muthyala (University of Southern Maine, USA)
ISBN: 9781350530461
Format: Hardback
$130.00

Expanding on common perceptions of the drone as a tool of war and surveillance, this book argues that they are also...  Read More >>

Deleuze and Slowness: Against Accelerationist Thinking

Deleuze and Slowness: Against Accelerationist Thinking...

Author: Dr Krzysztof Skonieczny (University of Warsaw, Poland)
ISBN: 9781350525481
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The first book-length treatment of the problem of slowness in Deleuze’s philosophy and its uses in understanding...  Read More >>

Where Are The Little Green Men?, The Adair Hypothesis

Where Are The Little Green Men?, The Adair Hypothesis...

Author: Terry Adair
ISBN: 9798902225324
Format: Paperback
$55.41

In a universe teeming with trillions of planets, why is there no evidence of other technological civilizations?...  Read More >>

Foreign Astral Sciences in China: From the Six Dynasties to the Northern Song

Foreign Astral Sciences in China: From the Six Dynasties...

Author: Bill M. Mak (Kyoto University, Japan)
ISBN: 9781138477599
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book explores the history of foreign astral science in China from the unique viewpoint of the knowledge introduced...  Read More >>

Resurgent Commons: Feminist Political Ecologies in the European South

Resurgent Commons: Feminist Political Ecologies in the...

Author: Miriam Tola
ISBN: 9781531512538
Format: Paperback
$73.99

Resurgent Commons shows how a reconsideration of a supposedly obsolete mode of shared ownership can enable new modes...  Read More >>

Soil Carbon Fractionation: Techniques and Protocols

Soil Carbon Fractionation: Techniques and Protocols...

Author: Santosh Kale ,  Rakesh S
ISBN: 9789819540679
Format: Hardback
$263.97

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Digital Afterlife: The Immortality You Didn't Ask For

Digital Afterlife: The Immortality You Didn't Ask For...

Author: Drift Holloway
ISBN: 9798233976674
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Digital Afterlife The Immortality You Didn't Ask For By Drift Holloway Digital Afterlife is a journey into the...  Read More >>

Albert the Great and the Medieval Scientific Knowledge

Albert the Great and the Medieval Scientific Knowledge...

Author: William Ford
ISBN: 9798233649561
Format: Paperback
$47.49

Albert the Great stands as one of the most remarkable figures in the history of Western thought, yet he remains...  Read More >>

AI Transparency & Explainability: Making Black-Box Algorithms Accountable

AI Transparency & Explainability: Making Black-Box Algorithms...

Author: Joe Correa
ISBN: 9798295566905
Format: Paperback
$52.77

AI Transparency & Explainability: Making Black-Box Algorithms Accountable is the definitive guide to understanding,...  Read More >>

The Revolution of Magellan: How 500-Year-Old Rocket Science Changed the World

The Revolution of Magellan: How 500-Year-Old Rocket...

Author: Romeu Gaspar
ISBN: 9783032107961
Format: Paperback
$73.89

In 1492, Columbus stumbled across the Americas while looking for an eastern route to Asia. Thirty years later, Magellan...  Read More >>

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