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Engineering (R0) eBook Series

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  • The Robotics Divide

    A New Frontier in the 21st Century?

    Edited by Antonio López Peláez ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Societies survive in their environment and compete with each other depending on the technology they develop. Economic, military and political power are directly related to the available technology, while access to technology is key to the well-being of our societies at the individual, community and national level.The Robotics Divide analyzes how robotics will shape our societies in the twenty ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

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  • Life 3.0

    Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

    by Max Tegmark ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology—and there’s nobody better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor who’s helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial.How ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • The Wisdom of Bertrand Russell

    by Philosophical Library ...
    Series series Wisdom
    An A-to-Z compendium of Russell's writingOne of the great minds of the twentieth century, Bertrand Russell explored philosophy, mathematics, and a variety of other intellectual, political, historical, and social issues in his lifetime. In this indispensable and easily accessible guide, drawn from his books and essays, readers will find Russell's fundamental principles, from objectivity to ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Words of Wisdom

    Philosophy's Most Important Quotations and Their Meaning

    by Gareth Southwell ...
    Words of Wisdom brings together 360 of Philosophy's most famous quotations, explaining their meaning and telling the stories behind them.Western philosophy may be said to have begun in ancient Greece, where, inscribed in his temple at Delphi, the words of the god Apollo commanded those who sought wisdom to first 'know thyself'. With the author's usual humour and clarity of style, the whole 2,500 ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • 21st Century Robot

    The Dr. Simon Egerton Stories

    by Brian David Johnson, Sandy Winkelman ...
    When companies develop a new technology, do they ask how it might affect the people who will actually use it? That, more or less, sums up Brian David Johnson’s duties as Intel’s futurist-in-residence. In this fascinating book, Johnson provides a collection of science fiction prototyping stories that attempt to answer the question.These stories focus on the same theme: scientists and thinkers ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • Getting Started with Adafruit Trinket

    15 Projects with the Low-Cost AVR ATtiny85 Board

    by Mike Barela ...
    Arduino's ubiquity and simplicity has led to a gigantic surge in the use of microcontrollers to build programmable electronics project. Despite the low cost of Arduino, you're still committing about $30 worth of hardware every time you build a project that has an Arduino inside. This is where Adafruit's Trinket comes in. Arduino-compatible, one-third the price, and low-power, the Trinket lets you ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy

    by Avrum Stroll ...
    Analytic philosophy is difficult to define since it is not so much a specific doctrine as a loose concatenation of approaches to problems. As well as having strong ties to scientism -the notion that only the methods of the natural sciences give rise to knowledge -it also has humanistic ties to the great thinkers and philosophical problems of the past. Moreover, no single feature characterizes the ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • A Theory of Legal Sentences

    by Manuel Atienza, J. Ruiz Manero ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Legal statements are, according to the authors, the most basic elements of the law. Nevertheless they must be considered not only as the pieces of a puzzle, but also as the components of a dynamic and highly complex reality: the law of contemporary society. The book presents an analysis of the different types of legal statements (mandatory rules, principles, power-conferring rules, definitions, ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Responsible Innovation 1

    Innovative Solutions for Global Issues

    Edited by Jeroen van den Hoven, Neelke Doorn, Tsjalling Swierstra, Bert-Jaap Koops, Henny Romijn ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book addresses the methodological issues involved in responsible innovation and provides an overview of recent applications of multidisciplinary research. Responsible innovation involves research into the ethical and societal aspects of new technologies (e.g. ICT, nanotechnology, biotechnology and brain sciences) and of changes in technological systems (e.g. energy, transport, agriculture and ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Sex Robots

    The Future of Desire

    by Jason Lee ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book reveals that the way we perceive sex robots is how we perceive ourselves, overcoming the false human/non-human binary. From Greek myths, to the film Ex Machina, to Japanese technology, non-human sexuality has been at the heart of culture. In Sex Robots, the history of this culture is explored. This text sheds new light on what the sex robot represents and signifies, examining its ... Read more

    $70.49 CAD

  • Sociality and Normativity for Robots

    Philosophical Inquiries into Human-Robot Interactions

    Edited by Raul Hakli, Johanna Seibt ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume offers eleven philosophical investigations into our future relations with social robots--robots that are specially designed to engage and connect with human beings. The contributors present cutting edge research that examines whether, and on which terms, robots can become members of human societies. Can our relations to robots be said to be "social"? Can robots enter into normative ... Read more

    $140.89 CAD

  • Moral Responsibility

    Beyond Free Will and Determinism

    Edited by Nicole A. Vincent, Ibo van de Poel, Jeroen van den Hoven ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    It is well over a decade since John Fischer and Mark Ravizza – and before them, Jay Wallace and Daniel Dennett – defended responsibility from the threat of determinism. But defending responsibility from determinism is a potentially endless and largely negative enterprise; it can go on for as long as dissenting voices remain, and although such work strengthens the theoretical foundations of these ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD