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  • How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind

    The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality

    by Paul Erickson, Judy L. Klein, Lorraine Daston, Rebecca Lemov, Thomas Sturm, Michael D. Gordin ...
    In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining rationality commanded the attention of sharp minds, powerful politicians, wealthy foundations, and top military brass. Its home was the human sciences—psychology, sociology, political science, and economics, among others—and its participants enlisted in an ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • emerge 18

    The Writer's Studio Anthology

    by Carleigh Baker, Megan Frazer, Nicole Jess, Maureen Duteau, Joseph Onodi, Tamar Rubin, Matt Brandenburg, Felix Wong, Brad Akeroyd, Dianne Carruthers, Benjamin Thiede, Koreen Heaver, Carolyne Montgomery, Griffin Tedeschini, Elise Thiessen, Lorraine Erickson, Brook Warner Jensen, Evie Gold, Sareh Donaher, Dayna Mahannah, Spencer Lucas Oakes, Ann Wilson, Zahida Rahemtulla ...
    Series Book 18 - emerge
    Take a journey with our 68 writers—from rural Mexico in the ’60s to Tehran in the ’70s, to the suburbs of Vancouver in the ’80s, and to other planets in the distant future. Within these pages you will encounter a feathered heart, door-to-door salesbees, and a breathing house. In emerge 18 new and published authors present their fiction, narrative nonfiction, poetry and lyric prose, speculative ... Read more

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  • Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroads

    The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroads

    by Dee Brown ...
    A fascinating and atmospheric history of the transcontinental railroad—the nineteenth century’s greatest and most relentless feat of national expansionHear that Lonesome Whistle Blow unspools the history of the beginnings of the American railroad system. By the mid-nineteenth century, settlers in Missouri and California were separated by a vast landscape that dwarfed and isolated them, conquerable ... Read more

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  • Dawn of the New Everything

    Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality

    by Jaron Lanier ...
    The father of virtual reality explains its dazzling possibilities by reflecting on his own lifelong relationship with technology.Named one of the best books of 2017 by The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, & Vox"A deeply human, highly personal, and beautifully told story." —Dave EggersBridging the gap between tech mania and the experience of being inside the human body , Dawn of the Ne... ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

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  • Pushing the Limits

    New Adventures in Engineering

    by Henry Petroski ...
    Here are two dozen tales in the grand adventure of engineering from the Henry Petroski, who has been called America’s poet laureate of technology. Pushing the Limits celebrates some of the largest things we have created–bridges, dams, buildings--and provides a startling new vision of engineering’s past, its present, and its future. Along the way it highlights our greatest successes, like London’s ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Eccentric Orbits

    The Iridium Story

    by John Bloom ...
    "Good corporate drama . . . an enlightening narrative of how new communications infrastructures often come about." — The Economist, "A Book of the Year 2016"In the early 1990s, Motorola developed a revolutionary satellite system called Iridium that promised to be its crowning achievement. Its constellation of 66 satellites in polar orbit was a mind-boggling technical accomplishment, surely the ... Read more

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  • We Are All Stardust

    Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know

    by Stefan Klein ...
    Translated by Ross Benjamin ...
    "The dazzling clutch of scientific minds caught in mid-thought here makes for a read that provokes thought in its turn. Delights abound." —Nature"What distinguishes scientists, in your eyes?" —Stefan Klein"First and foremost, curiosity." —Roald Hoffmann, Nobel Prize–winning chemistWhen Stefan Klein, an acclaimed journalist, sits down to talk with 18 of the world's leading scientists, he finds they ... Read more

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  • A Fierce Domain: Conflict in Cyberspace, 1986 to 2012

    Edited by Jason Healey ...
    A Fierce Domain: Conflict in Cyberspace, 1986-2012 is the first book of its kind- a comprehensive, accessible history of cyber conflict. A Fierce Domain reaches back to look at the major "wake-up calls," the major conflicts that have forced the realization that cyberspace is a harsh place where nations and others contest for superiority. The book identifies the key lessons for policymakers, and, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • William S. Paley: Godfather Of Broadcasting

    by Daniel Alef ...
    In 1928 William Paley, son of one of the nation's largest cigar producers, purchased United Independent Broadcasters Inc., a collection of 16 radio stations. He renamed it the Columbia Broadcasting System and built it into one of the nation's largest radio networks before turning to television. Although NBC had the largest networks, Paley focused on providing his stations, first for radio and ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Never at Rest

    A Biography of Isaac Newton

    by Richard S. Westfall ...
    This richly detailed 1981 biography captures both the personal life and the scientific career of Isaac Newton, presenting a fully rounded picture of Newton the man, the scientist, the philosopher, the theologian, and the public figure. Professor Westfall treats all aspects of Newton's career, but his account centres on a full description of Newton's achievements in science. Thus the core of the ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • The Romantic Machine

    Utopian Science and Technology After Napoleon

    by John Tresch ...
    In the years immediately following Napoleon's defeat, French thinkers in all fields set their minds to the problem of how to recover from the long upheavals that had been set into motion by the French Revolution. Many challenged the Enlightenment's emphasis on mechanics and questioned the rising power of machines, seeking a return to the organic unity of an earlier age and triggering the artistic ... Read more

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  • America, 1908

    The Dawn of Flight, the Race to the Pole, the Invention of the Model T and the Making of a Modern Nation

    by Jim Rasenberger ...
    “An entertaining survey” (Publishers Weekly) through the highs and lows of a spectacular, pivotal year in American history—1908.A captivating look at a bygone era through the lens of a single, surprisingly momentous American year one century ago. 1908 was the year Henry Ford launched the Model T, the Wright Brothers proved to the world that they had mastered the art of flight, Teddy Roosevelt ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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