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  • Professional CUDA C Programming

    par John Cheng, Max Grossman, Ty McKercher ...
    Break into the powerful world of parallel GPU programming with this down-to-earth, practical guideDesigned for professionals across multiple industrial sectors, Professional CUDA C Programming presents CUDA -- a parallel computing platform and programming model designed to ease the development of GPU programming -- fundamentals in an easy-to-follow format, and teaches readers how to think in ... En savoir plus

    $46.99 CAD

  • Astounding Wonder

    Imagining Science and Science Fiction in Interwar America

    par John Cheng ...
    When physicist Robert Goddard, whose career was inspired by H. G. Wells's War of the Worlds, published "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes," the response was electric. Newspaper headlines across the country announced, "Modern Jules Verne Invents Rocket to Reach Moon," while people from around the world, including two World War I pilots, volunteered as pioneers in space exploration. Though ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD

  • Astounding Wonder

    Imagining Science and Science Fiction in Interwar America

    par John Cheng ...
    When physicist Robert Goddard, whose career was inspired by H. G. Wells's War of the Worlds, published "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes," the response was electric. Newspaper headlines across the country announced, "Modern Jules Verne Invents Rocket to Reach Moon," while people from around the world, including two World War I pilots, volunteered as pioneers in space exploration. Though ... En savoir plus

    $50.39 CAD

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  • The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State

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    **INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLonglisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the YearBest Books of August: Barnes & Noble, GoodreadsA New York Times New and Notable Title“Lepore is our best scholar of the culture of governance, and our most vital historian. Here she repudiates the prospect of AI as a replacement for democracy. This is the issue of our times, and Lepore is the voice of ... En savoir plus

    $31.19 CAD

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  • Speculative Whiteness

    Science Fiction and the Alt-Right

    par Jordan S. Carroll ...
    Collections series Forerunners: Ideas First
    Reveals the alt-right’s project to claim science fiction and—by extension—the futureFascists such as Richard Spencer interpret science fiction films and literature as saying only white men have the imagination required to invent a high-tech future. Other white nationalists envision racist utopias filled with Aryan supermen and all-white space colonies. Speculative Whiteness traces these ideas ... En savoir plus

    $6.19 CAD

  • Science Fiction

    A Very Short Introduction

    par David Seed ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    Science Fiction has proved notoriously difficult to define. It has been explained as a combination of romance, science and prophecy; as a genre based on an imagined alternative to the reader's environment; and as a form of fantastic fiction and historical literature. It has also been argued that science fiction narratives are the most engaged, socially relevant, and responsive to the modern ... En savoir plus

    $4.79 CAD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction

    Modifié par Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Science fiction is at the intersection of numerous fields. It is a literature which draws on popular culture, and which engages in speculation about science, history, and all types of social relations. This volume brings together essays by scholars and practitioners of science fiction, which look at the genre from these different angles. After an introduction to the nature of science fiction, ... En savoir plus

    $40.99 CAD

  • A Century of Tomorrows

    How Imagining the Future Shapes the Present

    par Mr. Glenn Adamson ...
    An acclaimed cultural historian takes readers on an intellectual thrill ride through the kaleidoscopic story of futurology, a surprisingly powerful force in the modern world.For millennia, predicting the future was the province of priests and prophets, the realm of astrologers and seers. Then, in the twentieth century, futurologists emerged, claiming that data and design could make planning into a ... En savoir plus

    $24.09 CAD

  • The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction

    Modifié par Mark Bould, Sherryl Vint, Andrew M. Butler, Adam Roberts ...
    Collections series Routledge Literature Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction is a comprehensive overview of the history and study of science fiction. It outlines major writers, movements, and texts in the genre, established critical approaches and areas for future study. Fifty-six entries by a team of renowned international contributors are divided into four parts which look, in turn, at:history – an integrated chronological ... En savoir plus

    $100.99 CAD

  • The Alternate History

    Refiguring Historical Time

    par Hellekson ...
    The Alternate History: Refiguring Historical Time examines alternate history science fiction using the eschatological, genetic, entropic, and teleological historical models. Hellekson’s original approach explains much of the appeal of alternate history and distinguishes among the many varieties of the genre. In her measured consideration of a range of writers, Hellekson displays a deep and broad ... En savoir plus

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon

    Modifié par Inger H. Dalsgaard, Luc Herman, Brian McHale ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The most celebrated American novelist of the past half-century, an indispensable figure of postmodernism worldwide, Thomas Pynchon notoriously challenges his readers. This Companion provides tools for meeting that challenge. Comprehensive, accessible, lively, up-to-date and reliable, it approaches Pynchon's fiction from various angles, calling on the expertise of an international roster of ... En savoir plus

    $29.99 CAD

  • Human-Built World

    How to Think about Technology and Culture

    par Thomas P. Hughes ...
    Collections series science.culture
    To most people, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons; we speak of "technological progress" in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our television screens. In Human-Built World, thankfully, Thomas Hughes restores to technology the conceptual richness and depth it deserves by chronicling the ideas about technology expressed by influential Western ... En savoir plus

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