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  • A Mind at Play

    How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age

    Winner of the Neumann Prize for the History of Mathematics"We owe Claude Shannon a lot, and Soni & Goodman’s book takes a big first step in paying that debt." —San Francisco Review of Books"Soni and Goodman are at their best when they invoke the wonder an idea can instill. They summon the right level of awe while stopping short of hyperbole." —Financial Times"Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman make... ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Not Here

    Why American Democracy Is Eroding and How Canada Can Protect Itself

    par Rob Goodman ...
    What does it mean to live beside an eroding democracy? As this powerful and timely book argues, that question will define the next generation of Canadian politics.As a congressional staffer in the United States, Rob Goodman watched firsthand as a rising authoritarian movement disenfranchised voters, sabotaged institutions, and brought America to the brink of a coup. Now, as a political theorist ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Populism, Demagoguery, and Rhetoric in Historical Perspective

    Modifié par Giuseppe Ballacci, Rob Goodman ...
    One of the most conspicuous gaps in the now voluminous literature on populism is an understanding of populism in historical context. To what extent is contemporary populism a distinctively modern phenomenon? What are its roots and precedents in earlier periods of political history? And how can studying populism in the light of rhetoric and the history of political thought help us answer these ... En savoir plus

    $31.19 CAD

  • Rome's Last Citizen

    The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar

    " Cato, history's most famous foe of authoritarian power, was the pivotal political man of Rome; an inspiration to our Founding Fathers; and a cautionary figure for our times. He loved Roman republicanism, but saw himself as too principled for the mere politics that might have saved it. His life and lessons are urgently relevant in the harshly divided America—and world—of today. With erudition and ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD

  • Words on Fire

    Eloquence and Its Conditions

    par Rob Goodman ...
    Why is political rhetoric broken – and how can it be fixed? Words on Fire returns to the origins of rhetoric to recover the central place of eloquence in political thought. Eloquence, for the orators of classical antiquity, emerged from rhetorical relationships that exposed both speaker and audience to risk. Through close readings of Cicero – and his predecessors, rivals, and successors – ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

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    Rome's Last Citizen

    The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar

    Lu par Derek Perkins ...

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    13 heure 9 min

    Marcus Porcius Cato: aristocrat who walked barefoot and slept on the ground with his troops, political heavyweight who cultivated the image of a Stoic philosopher, a hardnosed defender of tradition who presented himself as a man out of the sacred Roman past—and the last man standing when Rome's Republic fell to tyranny. His blood feud with Caesar began in the chamber of the Senate, played out on ... En savoir plus

    $30.99 CAD

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    A Mind at Play

    How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age

    Lu par Jonathan Yen ...

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    11 heure 51 min

    Claude Shannon was a tinkerer, a playful wunderkind, a groundbreaking polymath, and a digital pioneer whose insights made the Information Age possible. He constructed fire-breathing trumpets and customized unicycles, outfoxed Vegas casinos, and built juggling robots, but he also wrote the seminal text of the digital revolution. That work allowed scientists to measure and manipulate information as ... En savoir plus

    $28.99 CAD

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    Madison's Gift

    Five Partnerships That Built America

    Lu par Grover Gardner ...

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    14 heure 29 min

    Overshadowed by his fellow Founders, David O. Stewart restores James Madison to his proper place as the most significant framer of the new nation, through his successive partnerships with mentor George Washington, co-author Alexander Hamilton, political ally Thomas Jefferson, successor James Monroe, and his wife, Dolley. Stewart makes a compelling case for Madison's centrality and tells an ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD

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    AIQ

    How People and Machines Are Smarter Together

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    8 heure 4 min

    **"There comes a time in the life of a subject when someone steps up and writes the book about it. AIQ explores the fascinating history of the ideas that drive this technology of the future and demystifies the core concepts behind it; the result is a positive and entertaining look at the great potential unlocked by marrying human creativity with powerful machines." — Steven Levitt, co-author of ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

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    Hacker Crackdown, The

    Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier

    par Bruce Sterling ...
    Lu par Tom Parks ...

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    The bestselling cyberpunk author “has produced by far the most stylish report from the computer outlaw culture since Steven Levy’s Hackers” (Publishers Weekly).Bruce Sterling delves into the world of high-tech crime and punishment in one of the first books to explore the cyberspace breaches that threaten national security. From the crash of AT&T’s long-distance switching system to corporate ... En savoir plus

    $59.08 CAD

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    Dying Every Day

    Seneca at the Court of Nero

    par James S. Romm ...
    Lu par Paul Woodson ...

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    8 heure 39 min

    James Romm seamlessly weaves together the life and written words, the moral struggles, political intrigue, and bloody vengeance that enmeshed Seneca the Younger in the twisted imperial family and the perverse, paranoid regime of Emperor Nero, despot and madman.Romm writes that Seneca watched over Nero as teacher, moral guide, and surrogate father, and, at seventeen, when Nero abruptly ascended to ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

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    Science of Liberty, The

    Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature

    par Timothy Ferris ...
    Lu par Fred Stella ...

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    13 heure 26 min

    "Ferris is a master analogist who conveys his insights on the history of cosmology with a lyrical flair." —The New York Times Book ReviewIn The Science of Liberty, award-winning author Timothy Ferris—called "the best popular science writer in the English language today" by the Christian Science Monitor and "the best science writer of his generation" by the Washington Post—makes a passionate case ... En savoir plus

    $20.60 CAD