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Reyner Banham / Theory and Design in the First Machine Age (Large Paperback)

First published in 1960, Theory and Design in the First Machine Age has become required reading in numerous courses on the history of modern architecture and is widely regarded as one of the definitive books on the modern movement. It has influenced...

Steen Eiler Rasmussen / Experiencing Architecture (Large Paperback)

Profusely illustrated with fine instances of architectural experimentation through the centuries, Experiencing Architecture manages to convey the intellectual excitement of superb design. From teacups, riding boots, golf balls, and underwater...

James Howard Kunstler / Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century (Large Paperback)

In his landmark book The Geography of Nowhere James Howard Kunstler visited the "tragic sprawlscape of cartoon architecture, junked cities, and ravaged countryside" America had become and declared that the deteriorating environment was not...

James Fadiman / The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys (Large Paperback)

Psychedelics for spiritual, therapeutic, and problem-solving use- Presents practices for safe and successful psychedelic voyages, including the benefits of having a guide and how to be a guide- Reviews the value of psychedelics for healing and...

Larry Cuban / Teachers and Machines: The Classroom of Technology Since 1920 (Large Paperback)

Film and radio, television, and computers have each been heralded by reformers as a way to revolutionize classroom instruction by increasing productivity. “The promises implied in these aids caught educators’ individualized instruction,...

Margaret A. Boden / Computer Models of Mind: Computational approaches in theoretical psychology (Large Paperback)

What is the mind? How does it work? How does it influence behavior? Some psychologists hope to answer such questions in terms of concepts drawn from computer science and artificial intelligence. They test their theories by modeling mental processes...

Davide Nicolini / Practice Theory, Work, and Organization: An Introduction (Large Paperback)

What is practice theory? Where do practice theories come from? What do they say? Do they really offer something new to the study of work and organization?In setting out to answer these questions, this book provides a rigorous yet accessible introduction...

Donald A. Norman / Turn Signals Are The Facial Expressions Of Automobiles (Large Paperback)

From water faucets and airplane cockpits to the concept of ”real time” and the future of memory, this wide-ranging tour through technology provides a new understanding of how the gadgets that surround us affect our lives. Donald Norman...

Rachel Charlotte Smith / Design Anthropological Futures (Large Paperback)

A major contribution to the field, this ground-breaking book explores design anthropology's focus on futures and future-making. Examining what design anthropology is and what it is becoming, the authors push the frontiers of the discipline and reveal...

Hans-Georg Gadamer / Reason in the Age of Science (Large Paperback)

The essays in this book deal broadly with the question of what form reasoning about life and society can take in a culture permeated by scientific and technical modes of thought. They attempt to identify certain very basic types of questions that...

Victor Turner / The Anthropology of Performance (Large Paperback)

Turner is all over the globe as he addresses issues of cultural performance, carnival, film, theatre, and "performing ethnography" to break new ground in anthropological thinking about event, spectacle, and audience. One of his last writings, "Body,...

Stephen J. Pyne / The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica (Large Paperback)

Stephen Pyne's overwhelming fascination with Antarctica is the compelling force behind this major book on this stark and largely unknown continent. It combines a geophysical examination of the ice with an inspirational survey of how one of the most...

Jörn Rüsen / Thinking Utopia: Steps into Other Worlds (Large Paperback)

After the breakdown of socialist and communist systems in the East, it had become fashionable to declare the so-called "end of utopia" ("end of history," "end of narratives"). The authors of this volume do not share this view but think that it is...

Fons Trompenaars / Riding the Waves of Culture : Understanding Cultural Diversity in Business (Large Paperback)

International management guru, Fons Trompenaar's best-selling Riding the Waves of Culture has become an essential guide for managers and trainers in multinational organizations, as well as anyone who conducts business overseas. This thoroughly...

Donald A. Norman / Things That Make Us Smart (Large Paperback)

In Things That Make Us Smart, Donald A. Norman explores the complex interaction between human thought and the technology it creates, arguing for the development of machines that fit our minds, rather than minds that must conform to the machine.Humans...

Kees Dorst / Understanding Design: 175 Reflections on Being a Designer (Large Paperback)

The 150 mini-essays in this book provide a panoramic view of the subject of design. Fundamental questions are raised about the nature of design, about designers themselves and about the role of design in the broader contexts of a company and society...

W. Terrence Gordon / Marshall McLuhan: Escape Into Understanding (Large Paperback)

The originator of such widely used phrases as “the global village” and “the medium is the message,” Marshall McLuhan—the prescient media guru—is finally, attracting the critical attention he deserves. In the 1960s...

Jean Baudrillard / The Illusion of the End (Large Paperback)

In this book Jean Baudrillard, one of the most celebrated and controversial contemporary social theorists, argues that the notion of the end of history is an illusion, and that we are now engaged in a gigantic process of historical revisionism...

Ian Hacking / Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science (Large Paperback)

This 1983 book is a lively and clearly written introduction to the philosophy of natural science, organized around the central theme of scientific realism. It has two parts. 'Representing' deals with the different philosophical accounts of scientific...

Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Eugene Halton / The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols and the Self (Large Paperback)

The meaning of things is a study of the significance of material possessions in contemporary urban life, and of the ways people carve meaning out of their domestic environment. Drawing on a survey of eighty families in Chicago who were interviewed on...

Jerome Bruner / Actual Minds, Possible Worlds (Large Paperback)

In this characteristically graceful and provocative book, Jerome Bruner, one of the principal architects of the cognitive revolution, sets forth nothing less than a new agenda for the study of mind. According to Professor Bruner, cognitive science has...

Richard E. Sclove / Democracy and Technology (Large Paperback)

This eye-opening book describes how modern technologies--such as computers, automobiles, machine tools, hybrid crops, nuclear reactors, and others--contribute to vexing social problems ranging from the continued subordination of women and workers to...

Michel Serres / Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time: Michel Serres with Bruno Latour (Large Paperback)

Although elected to the prestigious French Academy in 1990, Michel Serres has long been considered a maverick--a provocative thinker whose prolific writings on culture, science and philosophy have often baffled more than they have enlightened. In these...

Jerome Bruner / The Process of Education (Large Paperback)

In this classic argument for curriculum reform in early education, Jerome Bruner shows that the basic concepts of science and the humanities can be grasped intuitively at a very early age. He argues persuasively that curricula should he designed to...

Ivan Illich / H2O and the Waters of Forgetfulness (Large Paperback)

Reflections on the Historicity of StuffIn the course of this brilliant essay the author traces the way water has been shorn of its mythic associations and reduced to an urban cleaning fluid. The histories of medicine, art, mythology, architecture,...

Jerome Bruner / Toward a Theory of Instruction (Large Paperback)

This country’s most challenging writer on education presents here a distillation, for the general reader, of half a decade’s research and reflection. His theme is how children learn, and how they can best be helped to learn―how they can be...

Jerome Bruner / On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand (Large Paperback)

The left hand has traditionally represented the powers of intuition, feeling, and spontaneity. In this classic book, Jerome Bruner inquires into the part these qualities play in determining how we know what we do know; how we can help others to know―that...

Henry Petroski / The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance (Large Paperback)

Henry Petroski traces the origins of the pencil back to ancient Greece and Rome, writes factually and charmingly about its development over the centuries and around the world, and shows what the pencil can teach us about engineering and technology...

David D. Hall / Cultures of Print: Essays in the History of the Book (Large Paperback)

How did people in early America understand the authority of print and how was this authority sustained and contested? These questions are at the heart of this set of pathbreaking essays in the history of the book by one of America's leading practitioners...

John H. Zammito / A Nice Derangement of Epistemes: Post-positivism in the Study of Science from Quine to Latour (Large Paperback)

Since the 1950s, many philosophers of science have attacked positivism—the theory that scientific knowledge is grounded in objective reality. Reconstructing the history of these critiques, John H. Zammito argues that while so-called postpositivist...

Victor Papanek / Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Large Paperback)

This is a completely revised second edition of Design for the Real World, which has since its first appearance twenty years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design. In...

Ivan Illich / Celebration of Awareness: A Call for Institutional Revolution (Large Paperback)

The book consists of 12 essays on the following themes: Vietnam & the resistance; the war on poverty; Latin America, Puerto Rico & immigration to the US mainland; Catholic Church problems; the Church's role in social change & development; the...

Lee Hoinacki / The Challenges of Ivan Illich: A Collective Reflection (Large Paperback)

This unique collection examines the man Utne Reader has called "the greatest social critic of the twentieth century." The essays--all by people Illich has influenced personally--discuss how his life and thought have affected conceptualization, study,...

Jean Lave / Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics and Culture in Everyday Life (Large Paperback)

In this innovative study, Jean Lave moves the analysis of one particular form of cognitive activity--arithmetic problem-solving--out of the laboratory and into the domain of everyday life. In so doing, she shows how mathematics in the "real world",...

Karl E. Weick / Sensemaking in Organizations (Large Paperback)

The teaching of organization theory and the conduct of organizational research have been dominated by a focus on decision-making and the concept of strategic rationality. However, the rational model ignores the inherent complexity and ambiguity of...

Michael Cole / Mind, Culture, and Activity: Seminal Papers from the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition (Large Paperback)

This volume brings together articles from The Quarterly Newsletter of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition. The selected articles are important benchmarks in the recent history of research and theory on the cultural and contextual...

Hans Jonas / The Imperative of Responsibility: In Search of an Ethics for the Technological Age (Large Paperback)

Hans Jonas here rethinks the foundations of ethics in light of the awesome transformations wrought by modern technology: the threat of nuclear war, ecological ravage, genetic engineering, and the like. Though informed by a deep reverence for human...

Michael Heim / The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality (Large Paperback)

Computers have dramatically altered life in the late twentieth century. Today we can draw on worldwide computer links, speeding up communications by radio, newspapers, and television. Ideas fly back and forth and circle the globe at the speed of...

Gerald M. Weinberg / Weinberg on Writing: The Fieldstone Method (Large Paperback)

Gerald M. Weinberg -- author of more than forty books and more than 400 articles over a forty-year career -- reveals his secrets for gathering, organizing, and discarding writing ideas. Drawing an analogy to the stone-by-stone method of building...

Terry Eagleton / The Illusions of Postmodernism (Large Paperback)

In this brilliant critique, Terry Eagleton explores the origins and emergence of postmodernism, revealing its ambivalences and contradictions. Above all he speaks to a particular kind of student, or consumer, of popular "brands" of postmodern thought...

John F. Lebaron / Technology in Its Place: Successful Technology Infusion in Schools (Large Paperback)

Technology in Its Place is a practical resource that features diverse approaches for improving teaching and learning through the use of technology. The contributors are a blue-ribbon panel of experts in the field who cover a broad range of topics...

Richard Rhodes / Visions of Technology: A Century of Vital Debate About Machines Systems and the Human World (Large Paperback)

Technology was the blessing and the bane of the twentieth century. Human life span nearly doubled in the West, but in no century were more human beings killed by new technologies of war. Improvements in agriculture now feed increasing billions, but...

Lucy A. Suchman / Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human-Machine Communication (Large Paperback)

This lively and original book offers a provocative critique of the dominant assumptions regarding human action and communication which underlie recent research in machine intelligence. Lucy Suchman argues that the planning model of interaction...

Erik Jampa Andersson / Unseen Beings: How We Forgot the World Is More Than Human (Large Paperback)

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Simon Scarrow / Dead of Night (Large Paperback)

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John Le Carré / The Constant Gardener (Large Paperback)

The beautiful Tessa Quayle is murdered near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya, the birthplace of mankind. And her putative African lover and travelling companion has vanished from the scene of the crime. Tessa’s husband, a career diplomat and...

James Nagel / Ernest Hemingway: The Oak Park Legacy (Large Paperback)

Ernest Hemingway: The Oak Park Legacy is the first extensive examination of the relationship of Hemingway to his hometown, Oak Park, Illinois, and the influence its people, places, and underlying values had on his early work. In this volume, 11...

Barbara Rogoff / Apprenticeship in Thinking: Cognitive Development in Social Context (Large Paperback)

This interdisciplinary work presents an integration of theory and research on how children develop their thinking as they participate in cultural activity with the guidance and challenge of their caregivers and other companions. The author, a leading...

F. David Peat / Infinite Potential: The Life and Times of David Bohm (Large Paperback)

Infinite Potential is the first biography of David Bohm—brilliant physicist, explorer of consciousness, student of Oppenheimer, friend to Einstein, and enemy of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Although he battled bouts of...

Nicholas Evans / The Divide (Large Paperback)

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Mary Douglas / How Institutions Think (Large Paperback)

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James V. Wertsch / Culture, Communication, and Cognition: Vygotskian Perspectives (Large Paperback)

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