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  • How We Disappear

    A Personal History of Information

    by Thomas S. Mullaney ...
    A brilliant foray into the nature of information, of history, and of making meaning in the face of death and decay.When world-renowned scholar Thomas S. Mullaney “lost” both his parents, he began thinking of how information—all the stuff that makes us, that we make, and that we leave behind—ultimately disappears. The information that makes up our lives, from mundane official documents, poignant ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Chinese Computer

    A Global History of the Information Age

    by Thomas S. Mullaney ...
    The fascinating, untold story of how the Chinese language overcame unparalleled challenges and revolutionized the world of computing.A standard QWERTY keyboard has a few dozen keys. How can Chinese—a language with tens of thousands of characters and no alphabet—be input on such a device? In The Chinese Computer, Thomas S. Mullaney sets out to resolve this paradox, and in doing so, discovers that ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • The Chinese Typewriter

    A History

    by Thomas S. Mullaney ...
    How Chinese characters triumphed over the QWERTY keyboard and laid the foundation for China's information technology successes today.Chinese writing is character based, the one major world script that is neither alphabetic nor syllabic. Through the years, the Chinese written language encountered presumed alphabetic universalism in the form of Morse Code, Braille, stenography, Linotype, punch cards ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Where Research Begins

    Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World)

    by Thomas S. Mullaney, Christopher Rea ...
    Learn how to choose a research project that matters to you and yields results that matter to other people."An innovative and insightful primer for anyone about to embark on a research project. This is a book anyone teaching research methods, introduction to research, or an undergraduate research program needs to make use of and assign to their students." —Harry Elam, Jr., President of Occidental ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Coming to Terms with the Nation

    Ethnic Classification in Modern China

    by Thomas Mullaney ...
    Series Book 18 - Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes
    China is a vast nation comprised of hundreds of distinct ethnic communities, each with its own language, history, and culture. Today the government of China recognizes just 56 ethnic nationalities, or minzu, as groups entitled to representation. This controversial new book recounts the history of the most sweeping attempt to sort and categorize the nation's enormous population: the 1954 Ethnic ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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    How We Disappear

    A Personal History of Information

    by Thomas S. Mullaney ...
    Narrated by James D. Sasser ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 41 min

    A brilliant foray into the nature of information, of history, and of making meaning in the face of death and decay.Our lives are collections of information—from mundane official documents, poignant family photos, and random artifacts to the cues embodied in our genes. Never is this more evident than in the wake of a parent's death. Yet from all these elusive, even evanescent, data points, history ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Your Computer Is on Fire

    Edited by Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks, Kavita Philip ...
    Techno-utopianism is dead: Now is the time to pay attention to the inequality, marginalization, and biases woven into our technological systems.This book sounds an alarm: after decades of being lulled into complacency by narratives of technological utopianism and neutrality, people are waking up to the large-scale consequences of Silicon Valley-led technophilia. This book trains a spotlight on the ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

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  • Kingdom of Characters (Pulitzer Prize Finalist)

    The Language Revolution That Made China Modern

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  • Fluke

    Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

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