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Renowned critic Sven Birkerts believes the answer is an alarming yes. In The Gutenberg Elegies, he explores the impact of technology on the experience of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73168K Daniel Cohen / Our Modern Times: The New Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age The "modern times" of the early twentieth century saw the rise of the assembly line and the belief that standardization would make the world a better place. Yet along with greater production efficiency came dehumanization, as the division of labor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73167K Institute of Ideas / Science: Can We Trust the Experts? Controversies surrounding a plethora of issues, from the MMR vaccine to mobile phones, from BSE to genetically-modified foods, have led many to ask how the public's faith in government advice can be restored. At the heart of the matter is the role of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73165K Elizabeth Knowles / The Oxford Dictionary of Twentieth Century Quotations The Oxford Dictionary of Twentieth Century Quotations brings together quotations crucial to a picture of the twentieth century, offering the reader an overview of the social, political, cultural, and scientific concerns of succeeding decades. It... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73163K Paolo Martegani / Digital Design The era of digitalisation is bringing about radical changes. We are surrounded by objects which are causing our relationship with the world around us to become increasingly intangible and virtual. Even the work of the designer is coupled with the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73162K Yi-Fu Tuan / Cosmos and Hearth In a volume that represents the culmination of his life's work in considering the relationship between culture and landscape, eminent scholar Yi-Fu Tuan argues that "cosmos" and "hearth" are two scales that anchor what it means to be fully and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73161K Allen Kurzweil / A Case of Curiosities Tells of the bizarre adventures of an 18th-century watchmaker and mechanical wizard - Claude Page. Maimed by surgery at the age of 12, his manual dexterity destines him to become one of Europe's most gifted inventors when he acquires the skills of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73156K Louis Menand / The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. 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Quick view sku: 73161K Allen Kurzweil / A Case of Curiosities Tells of the bizarre adventures of an 18th-century watchmaker and mechanical wizard - Claude Page. Maimed by surgery at the age of 12, his manual dexterity destines him to become one of Europe's most gifted inventors when he acquires the skills of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73156K Louis Menand / The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73155K John Heskett / Toothpicks and Logos: Design in Everyday Life Design touches virtually every aspect of our lives, imbuing the most humdrum of objects with meaning. In Toothpicks and Logos , John Heskett illuminates a subject as vast and complex as human life itself, ranging from the earliest found implements in our... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73152K Derek Beaven / Acts of Mutiny The second novel from the author of the critically acclaimed Newton’s Niece (1994).On an ocean liner travelling to Australia in 1959, a young boy witnesses a courtship between two of its passengers, a relationship that begins to unsettle the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 73156K Louis Menand / The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73155K John Heskett / Toothpicks and Logos: Design in Everyday Life Design touches virtually every aspect of our lives, imbuing the most humdrum of objects with meaning. In Toothpicks and Logos , John Heskett illuminates a subject as vast and complex as human life itself, ranging from the earliest found implements in our... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73152K Derek Beaven / Acts of Mutiny The second novel from the author of the critically acclaimed Newton’s Niece (1994).On an ocean liner travelling to Australia in 1959, a young boy witnesses a courtship between two of its passengers, a relationship that begins to unsettle the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 73155K John Heskett / Toothpicks and Logos: Design in Everyday Life Design touches virtually every aspect of our lives, imbuing the most humdrum of objects with meaning. In Toothpicks and Logos , John Heskett illuminates a subject as vast and complex as human life itself, ranging from the earliest found implements in our... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73152K Derek Beaven / Acts of Mutiny The second novel from the author of the critically acclaimed Newton’s Niece (1994).On an ocean liner travelling to Australia in 1959, a young boy witnesses a courtship between two of its passengers, a relationship that begins to unsettle the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 73152K Derek Beaven / Acts of Mutiny The second novel from the author of the critically acclaimed Newton’s Niece (1994).On an ocean liner travelling to Australia in 1959, a young boy witnesses a courtship between two of its passengers, a relationship that begins to unsettle the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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