Silence: ... In the Age of Noise
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Behind a cacophony of traffic noise, iPhone alerts and our ever-spinning thoughts, an elusive notion...
Stephen Fry in His Own Words
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In a fascinating collection of archive interviews with the celebrated writer, presenter and...
So, You Think You're Clever?: Taking on the Oxford and Cambridge Questions
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From the ever-curious mind that brought you the bestselling Do You Think You're Clever? comes a...
The Blind Roadmaker
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If the starting point for a number of poems in Ian Duhig's richly varied new collection is Sterne's...
The Three Hostages
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'Buchan showed the way. His pace and drive always spelled adventure, always writ large' - Graham...
China's Transition to Modernity: The New Classical Vision of Dai Zhen
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The figure of Dai Zhen (17241777) looms large in modern Chinese intellectual history. Dai was a...
The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name: Seven Days with Second-Order Cybernetics
Heinz Von Foerster, Karl H. Muller, Albert Muller and Elinor Rooks
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Heinz von Foerster was the inventor of second-order cybernetics, which recognizes the investigator...
A Place for Utopia: Urban Designs from South Asia
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Exploring several utopian imaginaries and practices, A Place for Utopia ties different times...
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
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George Dyson's fascinating account of the early years of computers: Turing's Cathedral is the story...
How to Think Like Da Vinci
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Famed for creating some of the most iconic images in European art - including Mona Lisa and The Last...