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  • Madagascar: The Eighth Continent: Life, Death and Discovery in a Lost World

    by Peter Tyson ...
    Madagascar is a land where lizards scream and monkey-like lemurs sing songs of inexpressible beauty. KKnown as the Great Red Island, it is a place where fossa and tenrecs, vangas and aye ayes thrive in a true 'Lost World' alongside bizarre plants like the octopus tree and the three-cornered palm. And where the ancestors of the Malagasy, as the island's 18 tribes are collectively known, come alive ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Standards Under Pressure

    by Peter H Tyson ...
    STANDARDS UNDER PRESSURE: Critical Thinking When Lives Depend On ItStandards Under Pressure examines 37 historical situations—from Tenerife to Three Mile Island, from the Challenger disaster to the sinking of the Titanic—through a single lens: which of the 15 intellectual standards of sound reasoning failed, how, and what it cost. Drawn from the domains of aviation, engineering, medicine, military ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Flight Test: the Discipline

    A Comprehensive Exploration of the Basic Tenets of Flight Test as a Discipline and Profession.

    by Peter Tyson ...
    Why Flight Test? Since the Wright Brothers first flew at Kitty Hawk, aerodynamicists, engineers, and mathematicians have conquered the equations of flight. So, we should be able to know everything from wind tunnels, simulation, and computation, right? No. The dynamics of flight require in air test. It is impossible to replicate all the flight conditions on the ground. Or there may be specific ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • New Directions in Theology and Science

    Beyond Dialogue

    Edited by Peter Harrison, Paul Tyson ...
    Series series Routledge Science and Religion Series
    This book sets out a new agenda for science-theology interactions and offers examples of what that agenda might look like when implemented. It explores, in innovative ways, what follows for science-theology discussions from recent developments in the history of science. The contributions take seriously the historically conditioned nature of the categories ‘science’ and ‘religion’ and consider the ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Global-Regional Linkages in the Earth System

    Edited by Peter D. Tyson, Roland Fuchs, Congbin Fu, Louis Lebel, Hermine Vloemans, Eric Odada, John Perry, Will Steffen, Hassan Virji ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Global environmental change occupies a central niche in the pantheon of modern sciences. There is an urgent need to know and understand the way in which global biogeochemical cycles have changed over different time scales in the past and are likely to do so in the future. Equally important, it is necessary to determine the extent to which natural variability and that induce by anthropogenic ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • The Alchemy of Research-Creation

    On Pataphysical Experimentation, Dark Infrastructures, and Antifascist Studio Practices

    by Tyson E. Lewis, Peter B. Hyland ...
    Offers a radical new interpretation of research-creation, connecting current practices to their lost alchemical predecessors.Research-creation is an attempt to suspend the operative divisions that define Western modernity—divisions between the head and the hand, knowledge and pleasure, science and art. Yet this practice, which has so much promise, has often fallen prey to facile, fashionable ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Studies in Culture Contact

    Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology

    by Kathleen Deagan, Prudence M. Rice, Robert L. Schuyler, Ann F. Ramenofsky, Edward M. Schortman, Patricia A. Urban, Jonathan D. Hill, Theresa A. Singleton, John Edward Terrell, Gil J. Stein, Stuart Tyson Smith, Michael Dietler, Peter S. Wells, Susan Toby Evans, Christopher R. DeCorse, Douglas V. Armstrong, Rebecca Saunders, Mark J. Wagner, Joel W. Palka, Rani T. Alexander ...
    People have long been fascinated about times in human history when different cultures and societies first came into contact with each other, how they reacted to that contact, and why it sometimes occurred peacefully and at other times was violent or catastrophic.Studies in Culture Contact: Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology, edited by James G. Cusick,seeks to define the role of culture ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Studious Drift

    Movements and Protocols for a Postdigital Education

    by Peter Hyland, Tyson E. Lewis ...
    Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
    What kind of university is possible when digital tools are not taken for granted, but hacked for a more experimental future?The global pandemic has underscored contemporary reliance on digital environments. This is particularly true among schools and universities, which, in response, shifted much of their instruction online. Because the rise of e-learning logics, ed-tech industries, and enterprise ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Investing For Dummies

    9th Edition

    by Eric Tyson, MBA ...
    Narrated by Peter Lerman ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 54 min

    Investing for your future is wise and essential. Of course, you want to make solid investment choices and minimize mistakes. This updated, bestselling guide educates you on investing concepts and lingo so you can make the best decisions in all economies and markets. Understanding how to find and make smart investments is a skill that can be learned, and this book by money-pro Eric Tyson will help ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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    Romanticism, Information Technology, and the End of the Machine

    by Mark Coeckelbergh ...
    An account of the complex relationship between technology and romanticism that links nineteenth-century monsters, automata, and mesmerism with twenty-first-century technology's magic devices and romantic cyborgs.Romanticism and technology are widely assumed to be opposed to each other. Romanticism—understood as a reaction against rationalism and objectivity—is perhaps the last thing users and ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • The Postdigital Membrane

    by Robert Pepperell, Michael Punt ...
    To what extent is our time characterised by the ‘digital’? Does it announce a bright new age of technological progress, or is it not much more than a marketing tag for manufacturers? What is clear is that much of the cultural theory we have so far accumulated is showing signs of strain as it struggles to cope with the global dynamics of the ‘wired world’. This book offers a timely intellectual ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • The Philosophy of Play as Life

    Edited by Wendy Russell, Emily Ryall, Malcolm MacLean ...
    It is now widely acknowledged that play is central to our lives. As a phenomenon, play poses important questions of reality, subjectivity, competition, inclusion and exclusion. This international collection is the third in a series of books (including The Philosophy of Play and Philosophical Perspectives on Play) that aims to build paradigmatic bridges between scholars of philosophy and scholars ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD