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    Stories & Visions for a Better Future

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    Hieroglyph: Stories & Visions for a Better Future is an anthology of optimistic science fiction from some of today's most hopeful visionaries."This collection could be the shot in the arm our imaginations need. It's an important book and not just for the fiction." — Wall Street JournalBorn of an initiative at the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University, this remarkable ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Canada after Harper

    His ideology-fuelled attack on Canadian society and values, and how we can now work to create the country we want

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    Most Canadians know that Stephen Harper has had a tremendous impact on the country since becoming prime minister in 2006. But few have the in-depth knowledge of how far his transformation has gone -- what has already been done, and what the consequences will be in the future.This book brings together Canadian experts in a wide variety of areas. They document key changes put in place by the Harper ... En savoir plus

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  • How to Change the Future

    Unleashing the Power of Collaborative Imagination

    par Ed Finn ...
    A playful field guide to imagination: humanity’s greatest superpower and our only hope for surviving the twenty-first century.How to Change the Future tackles the biggest problem facing the human species: our broken relationship with the future. If looming crises—from AI disruption and the wealth gap to the collapse of democratic norms—overwhelm us with anxiety, fear, even despair, we are ... En savoir plus

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  • Frankenstein

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    The original 1818 text of Mary Shelley's classic novel, with annotations and essays highlighting its scientific, ethical, and cautionary aspects.Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has endured in the popular imagination for two hundred years. Begun as a ghost story by an intellectually and socially precocious eighteen-year-old author during a cold and rainy summer on the shores of Lake Geneva, the ... En savoir plus

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  • Climate Imagination

    Dispatches from Hopeful Futures

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  • What Algorithms Want

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    The gap between theoretical ideas and messy reality, as seen in Neal Stephenson, Adam Smith, and Star Trek.We depend on—we believe in—algorithms to help us get a ride, choose which book to buy, execute a mathematical proof. It's as if we think of code as a magic spell, an incantation to reveal what we need to know and even what we want. Humans have always believed that certain invocations—the ... En savoir plus

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  • Imagining Transmedia

    How the blurring of media forms—transmedia—became the default for how we experience narratives, and how that cultural transformation has redefined the worlds of education, entertainment, and our increasingly polarized public discourse.Over the past decade, the power of narrative has been unleashed with awesome and terrifying consequences, and it has been consumed in its blurred media forms by ... En savoir plus

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    Hieroglyph

    Stories and Visions for a Better Future

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    24 heure 25 min

    Inspired by New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson, an anthology of stories, set in the near future, from some of today’s leading writers, thinkers, and visionaries that reignites the iconic and optimistic visions of the golden age of science fiction.In his 2011 article “Innovation Starvation,” Neal Stephenson argued that we—the society whose earlier scientists and engineers witnessed ... En savoir plus

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    What Algorithms Want

    Imagination in the Age of Computing

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    We depend on--we believe in--algorithms to help us get a ride, choose which book to buy, execute a mathematical proof. It's as if we think of code as a magic spell, an incantation to reveal what we need to know and even what we want. Humans have always believed that certain invocations--the marriage vow, the shaman's curse--do not merely describe the world but make it. Computation casts a cultural ... En savoir plus

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    As Kinnall Darival writes "I" in his journal, he knows this pronoun is forbidden by his people of Manneran because it is too personal. But through the use of a powerful, mind-altering drug, he has learned to understand what people are really feeling and to speak for himself. Now he is compelled to share his message of liberation, regardless of the risk. This science fiction classic is a cult ... En savoir plus

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    The Book of Magic

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    A new anthology celebrating the witches and sorcerers of epic fantasy—featuring stories by George R. R. Martin, Scott Lynch, Megan Lindholm, and many others!Hot on the heels of Gardner Dozois’s acclaimed anthology The Book of Swords comes this companion volume devoted to magic. How could it be otherwise? For every Frodo, there is a Gandalf . . . and a Saruman. For every Dorothy, a Glinda . . . and ... En savoir plus

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    Darkest Year, The

    The American Home Front, 1941-1942

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    The Darkest Year is acclaimed author William K. Klingaman’s narrative history of the American home front from December 7, 1941 through the end of 1942, a psychological study of the nation under the pressure of total war.For Americans on the home front, the twelve months following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor comprised the darkest year of World War Two. Despite government attempts to ... En savoir plus

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