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Edizione Multilingue They say that a gesture is worth a thousand words, and when it comes to speaking with your hands, the Italians speak volumes. This quirky handbook of Italian gestures, first published in 1958 by renowned Milanese artist and graphic designer Bruno... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73172K Jonathan L. Zittrain / The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It In The Future of the And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain explores the dangers the internet faces if it fails to balance ever more tightly controlled technologies with the flow of innovation that has generated so much progress in the field of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Books about Books | sku: 73169K Sven Birkerts / The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary culture? Renowned critic Sven Birkerts believes the answer is an alarming yes. 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Edizione Multilingue They say that a gesture is worth a thousand words, and when it comes to speaking with your hands, the Italians speak volumes. This quirky handbook of Italian gestures, first published in 1958 by renowned Milanese artist and graphic designer Bruno... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73172K Jonathan L. Zittrain / The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It In The Future of the And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain explores the dangers the internet faces if it fails to balance ever more tightly controlled technologies with the flow of innovation that has generated so much progress in the field of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Books about Books | sku: 73169K Sven Birkerts / The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary culture? 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... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73143K Charles Stanley Nott / Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal Drawn from Nott's hundreds of pages of notes and diaries, this book provides a record of the expressions and actions of Gurdjieff and the profound impact of life at the Chateau du Prieure, Fontainbleau, at that time. Gurdjieff was a Russian occultist... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73141K Hilary Rose / Alas, Poor Darwin Today, genes are called upon to explain almost every aspect of our lives, from social inequalities to health, sexual preference and criminality. Based on Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection, Evolutionary Psychology with its claim that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. 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Ong / Orality and Literacy - The Technologizing of the Word MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73179K Robert Glenn Howard / Brave New Workplace America's corporate utopias - how they create new inequalities and social conflict in our working lives. 1986 All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73176K Edward J. Larson / Evolution's Workshop: God & Science on the Galápagos Islands More than any other place on Earth, the Galapagos Islands are the workshop of evolution. Isolated and desolate, they were largely overlooked by early explorers until Charles Darwin arrived there in the 1830s, pronouncing it the perfect environment in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73173K Bruno Munari / Supplemento al Dizionario Italiano. Edizione Multilingue They say that a gesture is worth a thousand words, and when it comes to speaking with your hands, the Italians speak volumes. This quirky handbook of Italian gestures, first published in 1958 by renowned Milanese artist and graphic designer Bruno... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73172K Jonathan L. Zittrain / The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It In The Future of the And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain explores the dangers the internet faces if it fails to balance ever more tightly controlled technologies with the flow of innovation that has generated so much progress in the field of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Books about Books | sku: 73169K Sven Birkerts / The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary culture? 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. 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: 73151K Sara Maitland / How to Be Alone Do you want to be alone?Our fast-paced society does not approve of solitude; being alone is literally anti-social and some even find it sinister. Why is this so when autonomy, personal freedom and individualism are more highly prized than ever before?... 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 sku: 73148K Lee Siegel / Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob Against the Machine is a fascinating look at how the Internet is reshaping the way we think about ourselves and the world. Siegel explores how the internet affects culture and social life, particularly the psychological, emotional and social cost of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73147K Peter Morfoot / Impure Blood In the heat of a French summer, Captain Paul Darac of the Nice Brigade Criminelle is called to a highly sensitive crime scene. A man has been found murdered in the midst of a Muslim prayer group, but no one saw how it was done. Then the organisers of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73143K Charles Stanley Nott / Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal Drawn from Nott's hundreds of pages of notes and diaries, this book provides a record of the expressions and actions of Gurdjieff and the profound impact of life at the Chateau du Prieure, Fontainbleau, at that time. Gurdjieff was a Russian occultist... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73141K Hilary Rose / Alas, Poor Darwin Today, genes are called upon to explain almost every aspect of our lives, from social inequalities to health, sexual preference and criminality. Based on Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection, Evolutionary Psychology with its claim that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73137K Dave Robinson / Nietzsche and Postmodernism The entire Who's Who of postmodern thought―Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, Lyotard and others, can trace their philosophical ancestry to Nietzsche's radical relativism. All of our books are second hand, and while you... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73136K George Myerson / Heidegger, Habermas and the Mobile Phone Move over e-commerce, mantra of the late 20th century... welcome in-commerce, catchword of the new millennium! Everyone remembers 'It's good to talk, the cosy slogan of the telephone at the end of the last century. But now we are witnessing a global... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Books about Books | sku: 73169K Sven Birkerts / The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary culture? 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... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73143K Charles Stanley Nott / Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal Drawn from Nott's hundreds of pages of notes and diaries, this book provides a record of the expressions and actions of Gurdjieff and the profound impact of life at the Chateau du Prieure, Fontainbleau, at that time. Gurdjieff was a Russian occultist... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73141K Hilary Rose / Alas, Poor Darwin Today, genes are called upon to explain almost every aspect of our lives, from social inequalities to health, sexual preference and criminality. Based on Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection, Evolutionary Psychology with its claim that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Books about Books | sku: 73169K Sven Birkerts / The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary culture? 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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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73143K Charles Stanley Nott / Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal Drawn from Nott's hundreds of pages of notes and diaries, this book provides a record of the expressions and actions of Gurdjieff and the profound impact of life at the Chateau du Prieure, Fontainbleau, at that time. Gurdjieff was a Russian occultist... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73141K Hilary Rose / Alas, Poor Darwin Today, genes are called upon to explain almost every aspect of our lives, from social inequalities to health, sexual preference and criminality. Based on Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection, Evolutionary Psychology with its claim that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73137K Dave Robinson / Nietzsche and Postmodernism The entire Who's Who of postmodern thought―Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, Lyotard and others, can trace their philosophical ancestry to Nietzsche's radical relativism. All of our books are second hand, and while you... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73136K George Myerson / Heidegger, Habermas and the Mobile Phone Move over e-commerce, mantra of the late 20th century... welcome in-commerce, catchword of the new millennium! Everyone remembers 'It's good to talk, the cosy slogan of the telephone at the end of the last century. But now we are witnessing a global... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73135K Evgeny Morozov / The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World In The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World Evgeny Morozov argues that our utopian, internet-centric thinking holds devastating consequences for the future of democracy.We were promised that the internet would set us free. From the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73134K Mary Midgley / The Myths We Live By Myths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract; in economics in the pursuit of self interest; and in science the idea of human beings as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73133K Michael Freeman / The Low Light Photography Field Guide Go beyond daylight to capture stunning low light images Like all the titles in this successful series, The Low Light Photography Field Guide offers advice from a respected expert and professional. In this volume, Michael Freeman looks at an area that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73131K Ivan Illich / Disabling Professions Why do we put so many resources into medicine, education and law with so little apparent benefit? Why do we hold the professions in awe and allow them to set up what are in effect monopolies? This fascinating and controversial collection of essays... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73173K Bruno Munari / Supplemento al Dizionario Italiano. Edizione Multilingue They say that a gesture is worth a thousand words, and when it comes to speaking with your hands, the Italians speak volumes. This quirky handbook of Italian gestures, first published in 1958 by renowned Milanese artist and graphic designer Bruno... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73172K Jonathan L. Zittrain / The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It In The Future of the And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain explores the dangers the internet faces if it fails to balance ever more tightly controlled technologies with the flow of innovation that has generated so much progress in the field of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Books about Books | sku: 73169K Sven Birkerts / The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary culture? 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. 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: 73151K Sara Maitland / How to Be Alone Do you want to be alone?Our fast-paced society does not approve of solitude; being alone is literally anti-social and some even find it sinister. Why is this so when autonomy, personal freedom and individualism are more highly prized than ever before?... 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 sku: 73148K Lee Siegel / Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob Against the Machine is a fascinating look at how the Internet is reshaping the way we think about ourselves and the world. Siegel explores how the internet affects culture and social life, particularly the psychological, emotional and social cost of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73147K Peter Morfoot / Impure Blood In the heat of a French summer, Captain Paul Darac of the Nice Brigade Criminelle is called to a highly sensitive crime scene. A man has been found murdered in the midst of a Muslim prayer group, but no one saw how it was done. Then the organisers of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73143K Charles Stanley Nott / Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal Drawn from Nott's hundreds of pages of notes and diaries, this book provides a record of the expressions and actions of Gurdjieff and the profound impact of life at the Chateau du Prieure, Fontainbleau, at that time. Gurdjieff was a Russian occultist... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73141K Hilary Rose / Alas, Poor Darwin Today, genes are called upon to explain almost every aspect of our lives, from social inequalities to health, sexual preference and criminality. Based on Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection, Evolutionary Psychology with its claim that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73137K Dave Robinson / Nietzsche and Postmodernism The entire Who's Who of postmodern thought―Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, Lyotard and others, can trace their philosophical ancestry to Nietzsche's radical relativism. All of our books are second hand, and while you... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73136K George Myerson / Heidegger, Habermas and the Mobile Phone Move over e-commerce, mantra of the late 20th century... welcome in-commerce, catchword of the new millennium! Everyone remembers 'It's good to talk, the cosy slogan of the telephone at the end of the last century. But now we are witnessing a global... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73135K Evgeny Morozov / The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World In The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World Evgeny Morozov argues that our utopian, internet-centric thinking holds devastating consequences for the future of democracy.We were promised that the internet would set us free. From the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73134K Mary Midgley / The Myths We Live By Myths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract; in economics in the pursuit of self interest; and in science the idea of human beings as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73133K Michael Freeman / The Low Light Photography Field Guide Go beyond daylight to capture stunning low light images Like all the titles in this successful series, The Low Light Photography Field Guide offers advice from a respected expert and professional. In this volume, Michael Freeman looks at an area that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73131K Ivan Illich / Disabling Professions Why do we put so many resources into medicine, education and law with so little apparent benefit? Why do we hold the professions in awe and allow them to set up what are in effect monopolies? This fascinating and controversial collection of essays... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: 73099K Walter J. Ong / Orality and Literacy - The Technologizing of the Word MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73179K Robert Glenn Howard / Brave New Workplace America's corporate utopias - how they create new inequalities and social conflict in our working lives. 1986 All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73176K Edward J. Larson / Evolution's Workshop: God & Science on the Galápagos Islands More than any other place on Earth, the Galapagos Islands are the workshop of evolution. Isolated and desolate, they were largely overlooked by early explorers until Charles Darwin arrived there in the 1830s, pronouncing it the perfect environment in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73173K Bruno Munari / Supplemento al Dizionario Italiano. Edizione Multilingue They say that a gesture is worth a thousand words, and when it comes to speaking with your hands, the Italians speak volumes. This quirky handbook of Italian gestures, first published in 1958 by renowned Milanese artist and graphic designer Bruno... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73172K Jonathan L. Zittrain / The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It In The Future of the And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain explores the dangers the internet faces if it fails to balance ever more tightly controlled technologies with the flow of innovation that has generated so much progress in the field of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Books about Books | sku: 73169K Sven Birkerts / The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary culture? 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. 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... 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Siegel explores how the internet affects culture and social life, particularly the psychological, emotional and social cost of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73147K Peter Morfoot / Impure Blood In the heat of a French summer, Captain Paul Darac of the Nice Brigade Criminelle is called to a highly sensitive crime scene. A man has been found murdered in the midst of a Muslim prayer group, but no one saw how it was done. Then the organisers of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73143K Charles Stanley Nott / Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal Drawn from Nott's hundreds of pages of notes and diaries, this book provides a record of the expressions and actions of Gurdjieff and the profound impact of life at the Chateau du Prieure, Fontainbleau, at that time. Gurdjieff was a Russian occultist... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73141K Hilary Rose / Alas, Poor Darwin Today, genes are called upon to explain almost every aspect of our lives, from social inequalities to health, sexual preference and criminality. Based on Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection, Evolutionary Psychology with its claim that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. 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Quick view sku: 73179K Robert Glenn Howard / Brave New Workplace America's corporate utopias - how they create new inequalities and social conflict in our working lives. 1986 All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73176K Edward J. Larson / Evolution's Workshop: God & Science on the Galápagos Islands More than any other place on Earth, the Galapagos Islands are the workshop of evolution. Isolated and desolate, they were largely overlooked by early explorers until Charles Darwin arrived there in the 1830s, pronouncing it the perfect environment in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73173K Bruno Munari / Supplemento al Dizionario Italiano. Edizione Multilingue They say that a gesture is worth a thousand words, and when it comes to speaking with your hands, the Italians speak volumes. This quirky handbook of Italian gestures, first published in 1958 by renowned Milanese artist and graphic designer Bruno... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73172K Jonathan L. Zittrain / The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It In The Future of the And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain explores the dangers the internet faces if it fails to balance ever more tightly controlled technologies with the flow of innovation that has generated so much progress in the field of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Books about Books | sku: 73169K Sven Birkerts / The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary culture? 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... 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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. 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... 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Siegel explores how the internet affects culture and social life, particularly the psychological, emotional and social cost of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73147K Peter Morfoot / Impure Blood In the heat of a French summer, Captain Paul Darac of the Nice Brigade Criminelle is called to a highly sensitive crime scene. A man has been found murdered in the midst of a Muslim prayer group, but no one saw how it was done. Then the organisers of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73143K Charles Stanley Nott / Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal Drawn from Nott's hundreds of pages of notes and diaries, this book provides a record of the expressions and actions of Gurdjieff and the profound impact of life at the Chateau du Prieure, Fontainbleau, at that time. Gurdjieff was a Russian occultist... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73141K Hilary Rose / Alas, Poor Darwin Today, genes are called upon to explain almost every aspect of our lives, from social inequalities to health, sexual preference and criminality. Based on Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection, Evolutionary Psychology with its claim that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73137K Dave Robinson / Nietzsche and Postmodernism The entire Who's Who of postmodern thought―Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, Lyotard and others, can trace their philosophical ancestry to Nietzsche's radical relativism. All of our books are second hand, and while you... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73136K George Myerson / Heidegger, Habermas and the Mobile Phone Move over e-commerce, mantra of the late 20th century... welcome in-commerce, catchword of the new millennium! Everyone remembers 'It's good to talk, the cosy slogan of the telephone at the end of the last century. But now we are witnessing a global... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73135K Evgeny Morozov / The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World In The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World Evgeny Morozov argues that our utopian, internet-centric thinking holds devastating consequences for the future of democracy.We were promised that the internet would set us free. From the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73134K Mary Midgley / The Myths We Live By Myths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract; in economics in the pursuit of self interest; and in science the idea of human beings as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73133K Michael Freeman / The Low Light Photography Field Guide Go beyond daylight to capture stunning low light images Like all the titles in this successful series, The Low Light Photography Field Guide offers advice from a respected expert and professional. In this volume, Michael Freeman looks at an area that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73131K Ivan Illich / Disabling Professions Why do we put so many resources into medicine, education and law with so little apparent benefit? Why do we hold the professions in awe and allow them to set up what are in effect monopolies? This fascinating and controversial collection of essays... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 73176K Edward J. Larson / Evolution's Workshop: God & Science on the Galápagos Islands More than any other place on Earth, the Galapagos Islands are the workshop of evolution. Isolated and desolate, they were largely overlooked by early explorers until Charles Darwin arrived there in the 1830s, pronouncing it the perfect environment in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73173K Bruno Munari / Supplemento al Dizionario Italiano. Edizione Multilingue They say that a gesture is worth a thousand words, and when it comes to speaking with your hands, the Italians speak volumes. This quirky handbook of Italian gestures, first published in 1958 by renowned Milanese artist and graphic designer Bruno... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73172K Jonathan L. Zittrain / The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It In The Future of the And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain explores the dangers the internet faces if it fails to balance ever more tightly controlled technologies with the flow of innovation that has generated so much progress in the field of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Books about Books | sku: 73169K Sven Birkerts / The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary culture? 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... 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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. 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: 73151K Sara Maitland / How to Be Alone Do you want to be alone?Our fast-paced society does not approve of solitude; being alone is literally anti-social and some even find it sinister. Why is this so when autonomy, personal freedom and individualism are more highly prized than ever before?... 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 sku: 73148K Lee Siegel / Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob Against the Machine is a fascinating look at how the Internet is reshaping the way we think about ourselves and the world. Siegel explores how the internet affects culture and social life, particularly the psychological, emotional and social cost of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73147K Peter Morfoot / Impure Blood In the heat of a French summer, Captain Paul Darac of the Nice Brigade Criminelle is called to a highly sensitive crime scene. A man has been found murdered in the midst of a Muslim prayer group, but no one saw how it was done. Then the organisers of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73143K Charles Stanley Nott / Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal Drawn from Nott's hundreds of pages of notes and diaries, this book provides a record of the expressions and actions of Gurdjieff and the profound impact of life at the Chateau du Prieure, Fontainbleau, at that time. Gurdjieff was a Russian occultist... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73141K Hilary Rose / Alas, Poor Darwin Today, genes are called upon to explain almost every aspect of our lives, from social inequalities to health, sexual preference and criminality. Based on Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection, Evolutionary Psychology with its claim that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73137K Dave Robinson / Nietzsche and Postmodernism The entire Who's Who of postmodern thought―Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, Lyotard and others, can trace their philosophical ancestry to Nietzsche's radical relativism. All of our books are second hand, and while you... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73136K George Myerson / Heidegger, Habermas and the Mobile Phone Move over e-commerce, mantra of the late 20th century... welcome in-commerce, catchword of the new millennium! Everyone remembers 'It's good to talk, the cosy slogan of the telephone at the end of the last century. But now we are witnessing a global... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73135K Evgeny Morozov / The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World In The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World Evgeny Morozov argues that our utopian, internet-centric thinking holds devastating consequences for the future of democracy.We were promised that the internet would set us free. From the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73134K Mary Midgley / The Myths We Live By Myths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract; in economics in the pursuit of self interest; and in science the idea of human beings as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73133K Michael Freeman / The Low Light Photography Field Guide Go beyond daylight to capture stunning low light images Like all the titles in this successful series, The Low Light Photography Field Guide offers advice from a respected expert and professional. In this volume, Michael Freeman looks at an area that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73131K Ivan Illich / Disabling Professions Why do we put so many resources into medicine, education and law with so little apparent benefit? Why do we hold the professions in awe and allow them to set up what are in effect monopolies? This fascinating and controversial collection of essays... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 73173K Bruno Munari / Supplemento al Dizionario Italiano. Edizione Multilingue They say that a gesture is worth a thousand words, and when it comes to speaking with your hands, the Italians speak volumes. This quirky handbook of Italian gestures, first published in 1958 by renowned Milanese artist and graphic designer Bruno... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73172K Jonathan L. Zittrain / The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It In The Future of the And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain explores the dangers the internet faces if it fails to balance ever more tightly controlled technologies with the flow of innovation that has generated so much progress in the field of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Books about Books | sku: 73169K Sven Birkerts / The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary culture? 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. 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... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73143K Charles Stanley Nott / Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal Drawn from Nott's hundreds of pages of notes and diaries, this book provides a record of the expressions and actions of Gurdjieff and the profound impact of life at the Chateau du Prieure, Fontainbleau, at that time. Gurdjieff was a Russian occultist... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73141K Hilary Rose / Alas, Poor Darwin Today, genes are called upon to explain almost every aspect of our lives, from social inequalities to health, sexual preference and criminality. Based on Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection, Evolutionary Psychology with its claim that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73137K Dave Robinson / Nietzsche and Postmodernism The entire Who's Who of postmodern thought―Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, Lyotard and others, can trace their philosophical ancestry to Nietzsche's radical relativism. All of our books are second hand, and while you... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73136K George Myerson / Heidegger, Habermas and the Mobile Phone Move over e-commerce, mantra of the late 20th century... welcome in-commerce, catchword of the new millennium! Everyone remembers 'It's good to talk, the cosy slogan of the telephone at the end of the last century. But now we are witnessing a global... 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Quick view Books about Books | sku: 73169K Sven Birkerts / The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary culture? 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. 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: 73151K Sara Maitland / How to Be Alone Do you want to be alone?Our fast-paced society does not approve of solitude; being alone is literally anti-social and some even find it sinister. Why is this so when autonomy, personal freedom and individualism are more highly prized than ever before?... 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 sku: 73148K Lee Siegel / Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob Against the Machine is a fascinating look at how the Internet is reshaping the way we think about ourselves and the world. Siegel explores how the internet affects culture and social life, particularly the psychological, emotional and social cost of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73147K Peter Morfoot / Impure Blood In the heat of a French summer, Captain Paul Darac of the Nice Brigade Criminelle is called to a highly sensitive crime scene. A man has been found murdered in the midst of a Muslim prayer group, but no one saw how it was done. Then the organisers of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73143K Charles Stanley Nott / Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal Drawn from Nott's hundreds of pages of notes and diaries, this book provides a record of the expressions and actions of Gurdjieff and the profound impact of life at the Chateau du Prieure, Fontainbleau, at that time. Gurdjieff was a Russian occultist... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73141K Hilary Rose / Alas, Poor Darwin Today, genes are called upon to explain almost every aspect of our lives, from social inequalities to health, sexual preference and criminality. Based on Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection, Evolutionary Psychology with its claim that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73137K Dave Robinson / Nietzsche and Postmodernism The entire Who's Who of postmodern thought―Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, Lyotard and others, can trace their philosophical ancestry to Nietzsche's radical relativism. All of our books are second hand, and while you... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73136K George Myerson / Heidegger, Habermas and the Mobile Phone Move over e-commerce, mantra of the late 20th century... welcome in-commerce, catchword of the new millennium! Everyone remembers 'It's good to talk, the cosy slogan of the telephone at the end of the last century. But now we are witnessing a global... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73135K Evgeny Morozov / The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World In The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World Evgeny Morozov argues that our utopian, internet-centric thinking holds devastating consequences for the future of democracy.We were promised that the internet would set us free. From the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73134K Mary Midgley / The Myths We Live By Myths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract; in economics in the pursuit of self interest; and in science the idea of human beings as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73133K Michael Freeman / The Low Light Photography Field Guide Go beyond daylight to capture stunning low light images Like all the titles in this successful series, The Low Light Photography Field Guide offers advice from a respected expert and professional. In this volume, Michael Freeman looks at an area that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73131K Ivan Illich / Disabling Professions Why do we put so many resources into medicine, education and law with so little apparent benefit? Why do we hold the professions in awe and allow them to set up what are in effect monopolies? This fascinating and controversial collection of essays... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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. 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: 73151K Sara Maitland / How to Be Alone Do you want to be alone?Our fast-paced society does not approve of solitude; being alone is literally anti-social and some even find it sinister. Why is this so when autonomy, personal freedom and individualism are more highly prized than ever before?... 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 sku: 73148K Lee Siegel / Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob Against the Machine is a fascinating look at how the Internet is reshaping the way we think about ourselves and the world. Siegel explores how the internet affects culture and social life, particularly the psychological, emotional and social cost of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73147K Peter Morfoot / Impure Blood In the heat of a French summer, Captain Paul Darac of the Nice Brigade Criminelle is called to a highly sensitive crime scene. A man has been found murdered in the midst of a Muslim prayer group, but no one saw how it was done. Then the organisers of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73143K Charles Stanley Nott / Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal Drawn from Nott's hundreds of pages of notes and diaries, this book provides a record of the expressions and actions of Gurdjieff and the profound impact of life at the Chateau du Prieure, Fontainbleau, at that time. Gurdjieff was a Russian occultist... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73141K Hilary Rose / Alas, Poor Darwin Today, genes are called upon to explain almost every aspect of our lives, from social inequalities to health, sexual preference and criminality. Based on Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection, Evolutionary Psychology with its claim that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73137K Dave Robinson / Nietzsche and Postmodernism The entire Who's Who of postmodern thought―Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, Lyotard and others, can trace their philosophical ancestry to Nietzsche's radical relativism. All of our books are second hand, and while you... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73136K George Myerson / Heidegger, Habermas and the Mobile Phone Move over e-commerce, mantra of the late 20th century... welcome in-commerce, catchword of the new millennium! Everyone remembers 'It's good to talk, the cosy slogan of the telephone at the end of the last century. But now we are witnessing a global... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73135K Evgeny Morozov / The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World In The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World Evgeny Morozov argues that our utopian, internet-centric thinking holds devastating consequences for the future of democracy.We were promised that the internet would set us free. From the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73134K Mary Midgley / The Myths We Live By Myths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract; in economics in the pursuit of self interest; and in science the idea of human beings as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73133K Michael Freeman / The Low Light Photography Field Guide Go beyond daylight to capture stunning low light images Like all the titles in this successful series, The Low Light Photography Field Guide offers advice from a respected expert and professional. In this volume, Michael Freeman looks at an area that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73131K Ivan Illich / Disabling Professions Why do we put so many resources into medicine, education and law with so little apparent benefit? Why do we hold the professions in awe and allow them to set up what are in effect monopolies? This fascinating and controversial collection of essays... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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. 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: 73151K Sara Maitland / How to Be Alone Do you want to be alone?Our fast-paced society does not approve of solitude; being alone is literally anti-social and some even find it sinister. Why is this so when autonomy, personal freedom and individualism are more highly prized than ever before?... 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 sku: 73148K Lee Siegel / Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob Against the Machine is a fascinating look at how the Internet is reshaping the way we think about ourselves and the world. Siegel explores how the internet affects culture and social life, particularly the psychological, emotional and social cost of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73147K Peter Morfoot / Impure Blood In the heat of a French summer, Captain Paul Darac of the Nice Brigade Criminelle is called to a highly sensitive crime scene. A man has been found murdered in the midst of a Muslim prayer group, but no one saw how it was done. Then the organisers of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73143K Charles Stanley Nott / Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal Drawn from Nott's hundreds of pages of notes and diaries, this book provides a record of the expressions and actions of Gurdjieff and the profound impact of life at the Chateau du Prieure, Fontainbleau, at that time. Gurdjieff was a Russian occultist... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73141K Hilary Rose / Alas, Poor Darwin Today, genes are called upon to explain almost every aspect of our lives, from social inequalities to health, sexual preference and criminality. Based on Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection, Evolutionary Psychology with its claim that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73137K Dave Robinson / Nietzsche and Postmodernism The entire Who's Who of postmodern thought―Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, Lyotard and others, can trace their philosophical ancestry to Nietzsche's radical relativism. All of our books are second hand, and while you... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73136K George Myerson / Heidegger, Habermas and the Mobile Phone Move over e-commerce, mantra of the late 20th century... welcome in-commerce, catchword of the new millennium! Everyone remembers 'It's good to talk, the cosy slogan of the telephone at the end of the last century. But now we are witnessing a global... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73135K Evgeny Morozov / The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World In The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World Evgeny Morozov argues that our utopian, internet-centric thinking holds devastating consequences for the future of democracy.We were promised that the internet would set us free. From the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73134K Mary Midgley / The Myths We Live By Myths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract; in economics in the pursuit of self interest; and in science the idea of human beings as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73133K Michael Freeman / The Low Light Photography Field Guide Go beyond daylight to capture stunning low light images Like all the titles in this successful series, The Low Light Photography Field Guide offers advice from a respected expert and professional. In this volume, Michael Freeman looks at an area that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73131K Ivan Illich / Disabling Professions Why do we put so many resources into medicine, education and law with so little apparent benefit? Why do we hold the professions in awe and allow them to set up what are in effect monopolies? This fascinating and controversial collection of essays... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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. 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: 73151K Sara Maitland / How to Be Alone Do you want to be alone?Our fast-paced society does not approve of solitude; being alone is literally anti-social and some even find it sinister. Why is this so when autonomy, personal freedom and individualism are more highly prized than ever before?... 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 sku: 73148K Lee Siegel / Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob Against the Machine is a fascinating look at how the Internet is reshaping the way we think about ourselves and the world. Siegel explores how the internet affects culture and social life, particularly the psychological, emotional and social cost of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73147K Peter Morfoot / Impure Blood In the heat of a French summer, Captain Paul Darac of the Nice Brigade Criminelle is called to a highly sensitive crime scene. A man has been found murdered in the midst of a Muslim prayer group, but no one saw how it was done. Then the organisers of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73143K Charles Stanley Nott / Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal Drawn from Nott's hundreds of pages of notes and diaries, this book provides a record of the expressions and actions of Gurdjieff and the profound impact of life at the Chateau du Prieure, Fontainbleau, at that time. Gurdjieff was a Russian occultist... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73141K Hilary Rose / Alas, Poor Darwin Today, genes are called upon to explain almost every aspect of our lives, from social inequalities to health, sexual preference and criminality. Based on Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection, Evolutionary Psychology with its claim that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73137K Dave Robinson / Nietzsche and Postmodernism The entire Who's Who of postmodern thought―Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, Lyotard and others, can trace their philosophical ancestry to Nietzsche's radical relativism. All of our books are second hand, and while you... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73136K George Myerson / Heidegger, Habermas and the Mobile Phone Move over e-commerce, mantra of the late 20th century... welcome in-commerce, catchword of the new millennium! Everyone remembers 'It's good to talk, the cosy slogan of the telephone at the end of the last century. But now we are witnessing a global... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73135K Evgeny Morozov / The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World In The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World Evgeny Morozov argues that our utopian, internet-centric thinking holds devastating consequences for the future of democracy.We were promised that the internet would set us free. From the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73134K Mary Midgley / The Myths We Live By Myths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract; in economics in the pursuit of self interest; and in science the idea of human beings as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73133K Michael Freeman / The Low Light Photography Field Guide Go beyond daylight to capture stunning low light images Like all the titles in this successful series, The Low Light Photography Field Guide offers advice from a respected expert and professional. In this volume, Michael Freeman looks at an area that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73131K Ivan Illich / Disabling Professions Why do we put so many resources into medicine, education and law with so little apparent benefit? Why do we hold the professions in awe and allow them to set up what are in effect monopolies? This fascinating and controversial collection of essays... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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. 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: 73151K Sara Maitland / How to Be Alone Do you want to be alone?Our fast-paced society does not approve of solitude; being alone is literally anti-social and some even find it sinister. Why is this so when autonomy, personal freedom and individualism are more highly prized than ever before?... 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 sku: 73148K Lee Siegel / Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob Against the Machine is a fascinating look at how the Internet is reshaping the way we think about ourselves and the world. Siegel explores how the internet affects culture and social life, particularly the psychological, emotional and social cost of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73147K Peter Morfoot / Impure Blood In the heat of a French summer, Captain Paul Darac of the Nice Brigade Criminelle is called to a highly sensitive crime scene. A man has been found murdered in the midst of a Muslim prayer group, but no one saw how it was done. Then the organisers of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73143K Charles Stanley Nott / Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal Drawn from Nott's hundreds of pages of notes and diaries, this book provides a record of the expressions and actions of Gurdjieff and the profound impact of life at the Chateau du Prieure, Fontainbleau, at that time. Gurdjieff was a Russian occultist... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73141K Hilary Rose / Alas, Poor Darwin Today, genes are called upon to explain almost every aspect of our lives, from social inequalities to health, sexual preference and criminality. Based on Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection, Evolutionary Psychology with its claim that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73137K Dave Robinson / Nietzsche and Postmodernism The entire Who's Who of postmodern thought―Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, Lyotard and others, can trace their philosophical ancestry to Nietzsche's radical relativism. All of our books are second hand, and while you... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73136K George Myerson / Heidegger, Habermas and the Mobile Phone Move over e-commerce, mantra of the late 20th century... welcome in-commerce, catchword of the new millennium! Everyone remembers 'It's good to talk, the cosy slogan of the telephone at the end of the last century. But now we are witnessing a global... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73135K Evgeny Morozov / The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World In The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World Evgeny Morozov argues that our utopian, internet-centric thinking holds devastating consequences for the future of democracy.We were promised that the internet would set us free. From the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73134K Mary Midgley / The Myths We Live By Myths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract; in economics in the pursuit of self interest; and in science the idea of human beings as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73133K Michael Freeman / The Low Light Photography Field Guide Go beyond daylight to capture stunning low light images Like all the titles in this successful series, The Low Light Photography Field Guide offers advice from a respected expert and professional. In this volume, Michael Freeman looks at an area that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73131K Ivan Illich / Disabling Professions Why do we put so many resources into medicine, education and law with so little apparent benefit? Why do we hold the professions in awe and allow them to set up what are in effect monopolies? This fascinating and controversial collection of essays... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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. 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: 73151K Sara Maitland / How to Be Alone Do you want to be alone?Our fast-paced society does not approve of solitude; being alone is literally anti-social and some even find it sinister. Why is this so when autonomy, personal freedom and individualism are more highly prized than ever before?... 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 sku: 73148K Lee Siegel / Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob Against the Machine is a fascinating look at how the Internet is reshaping the way we think about ourselves and the world. Siegel explores how the internet affects culture and social life, particularly the psychological, emotional and social cost of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73147K Peter Morfoot / Impure Blood In the heat of a French summer, Captain Paul Darac of the Nice Brigade Criminelle is called to a highly sensitive crime scene. A man has been found murdered in the midst of a Muslim prayer group, but no one saw how it was done. Then the organisers of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73143K Charles Stanley Nott / Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal Drawn from Nott's hundreds of pages of notes and diaries, this book provides a record of the expressions and actions of Gurdjieff and the profound impact of life at the Chateau du Prieure, Fontainbleau, at that time. Gurdjieff was a Russian occultist... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73141K Hilary Rose / Alas, Poor Darwin Today, genes are called upon to explain almost every aspect of our lives, from social inequalities to health, sexual preference and criminality. Based on Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection, Evolutionary Psychology with its claim that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73137K Dave Robinson / Nietzsche and Postmodernism The entire Who's Who of postmodern thought―Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, Lyotard and others, can trace their philosophical ancestry to Nietzsche's radical relativism. All of our books are second hand, and while you... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73136K George Myerson / Heidegger, Habermas and the Mobile Phone Move over e-commerce, mantra of the late 20th century... welcome in-commerce, catchword of the new millennium! Everyone remembers 'It's good to talk, the cosy slogan of the telephone at the end of the last century. But now we are witnessing a global... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73135K Evgeny Morozov / The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World In The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World Evgeny Morozov argues that our utopian, internet-centric thinking holds devastating consequences for the future of democracy.We were promised that the internet would set us free. From the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73134K Mary Midgley / The Myths We Live By Myths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract; in economics in the pursuit of self interest; and in science the idea of human beings as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73133K Michael Freeman / The Low Light Photography Field Guide Go beyond daylight to capture stunning low light images Like all the titles in this successful series, The Low Light Photography Field Guide offers advice from a respected expert and professional. In this volume, Michael Freeman looks at an area that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73131K Ivan Illich / Disabling Professions Why do we put so many resources into medicine, education and law with so little apparent benefit? Why do we hold the professions in awe and allow them to set up what are in effect monopolies? This fascinating and controversial collection of essays... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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: 73151K Sara Maitland / How to Be Alone Do you want to be alone?Our fast-paced society does not approve of solitude; being alone is literally anti-social and some even find it sinister. Why is this so when autonomy, personal freedom and individualism are more highly prized than ever before?... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73141K Hilary Rose / Alas, Poor Darwin Today, genes are called upon to explain almost every aspect of our lives, from social inequalities to health, sexual preference and criminality. Based on Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection, Evolutionary Psychology with its claim that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73137K Dave Robinson / Nietzsche and Postmodernism The entire Who's Who of postmodern thought―Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, Lyotard and others, can trace their philosophical ancestry to Nietzsche's radical relativism. 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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: 73151K Sara Maitland / How to Be Alone Do you want to be alone?Our fast-paced society does not approve of solitude; being alone is literally anti-social and some even find it sinister. Why is this so when autonomy, personal freedom and individualism are more highly prized than ever before?... 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 sku: 73148K Lee Siegel / Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob Against the Machine is a fascinating look at how the Internet is reshaping the way we think about ourselves and the world. Siegel explores how the internet affects culture and social life, particularly the psychological, emotional and social cost of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73147K Peter Morfoot / Impure Blood In the heat of a French summer, Captain Paul Darac of the Nice Brigade Criminelle is called to a highly sensitive crime scene. A man has been found murdered in the midst of a Muslim prayer group, but no one saw how it was done. Then the organisers of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73143K Charles Stanley Nott / Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal Drawn from Nott's hundreds of pages of notes and diaries, this book provides a record of the expressions and actions of Gurdjieff and the profound impact of life at the Chateau du Prieure, Fontainbleau, at that time. Gurdjieff was a Russian occultist... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73141K Hilary Rose / Alas, Poor Darwin Today, genes are called upon to explain almost every aspect of our lives, from social inequalities to health, sexual preference and criminality. Based on Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection, Evolutionary Psychology with its claim that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73137K Dave Robinson / Nietzsche and Postmodernism The entire Who's Who of postmodern thought―Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, Lyotard and others, can trace their philosophical ancestry to Nietzsche's radical relativism. All of our books are second hand, and while you... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73136K George Myerson / Heidegger, Habermas and the Mobile Phone Move over e-commerce, mantra of the late 20th century... welcome in-commerce, catchword of the new millennium! Everyone remembers 'It's good to talk, the cosy slogan of the telephone at the end of the last century. But now we are witnessing a global... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73135K Evgeny Morozov / The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World In The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World Evgeny Morozov argues that our utopian, internet-centric thinking holds devastating consequences for the future of democracy.We were promised that the internet would set us free. From the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73134K Mary Midgley / The Myths We Live By Myths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract; in economics in the pursuit of self interest; and in science the idea of human beings as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73133K Michael Freeman / The Low Light Photography Field Guide Go beyond daylight to capture stunning low light images Like all the titles in this successful series, The Low Light Photography Field Guide offers advice from a respected expert and professional. In this volume, Michael Freeman looks at an area that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73131K Ivan Illich / Disabling Professions Why do we put so many resources into medicine, education and law with so little apparent benefit? Why do we hold the professions in awe and allow them to set up what are in effect monopolies? This fascinating and controversial collection of essays... 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: 73151K Sara Maitland / How to Be Alone Do you want to be alone?Our fast-paced society does not approve of solitude; being alone is literally anti-social and some even find it sinister. Why is this so when autonomy, personal freedom and individualism are more highly prized than ever before?... 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 sku: 73148K Lee Siegel / Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob Against the Machine is a fascinating look at how the Internet is reshaping the way we think about ourselves and the world. Siegel explores how the internet affects culture and social life, particularly the psychological, emotional and social cost of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73147K Peter Morfoot / Impure Blood In the heat of a French summer, Captain Paul Darac of the Nice Brigade Criminelle is called to a highly sensitive crime scene. A man has been found murdered in the midst of a Muslim prayer group, but no one saw how it was done. Then the organisers of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73143K Charles Stanley Nott / Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal Drawn from Nott's hundreds of pages of notes and diaries, this book provides a record of the expressions and actions of Gurdjieff and the profound impact of life at the Chateau du Prieure, Fontainbleau, at that time. Gurdjieff was a Russian occultist... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73141K Hilary Rose / Alas, Poor Darwin Today, genes are called upon to explain almost every aspect of our lives, from social inequalities to health, sexual preference and criminality. Based on Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection, Evolutionary Psychology with its claim that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73137K Dave Robinson / Nietzsche and Postmodernism The entire Who's Who of postmodern thought―Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, Lyotard and others, can trace their philosophical ancestry to Nietzsche's radical relativism. All of our books are second hand, and while you... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73136K George Myerson / Heidegger, Habermas and the Mobile Phone Move over e-commerce, mantra of the late 20th century... welcome in-commerce, catchword of the new millennium! Everyone remembers 'It's good to talk, the cosy slogan of the telephone at the end of the last century. But now we are witnessing a global... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73135K Evgeny Morozov / The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World In The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World Evgeny Morozov argues that our utopian, internet-centric thinking holds devastating consequences for the future of democracy.We were promised that the internet would set us free. From the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73134K Mary Midgley / The Myths We Live By Myths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract; in economics in the pursuit of self interest; and in science the idea of human beings as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73133K Michael Freeman / The Low Light Photography Field Guide Go beyond daylight to capture stunning low light images Like all the titles in this successful series, The Low Light Photography Field Guide offers advice from a respected expert and professional. In this volume, Michael Freeman looks at an area that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73131K Ivan Illich / Disabling Professions Why do we put so many resources into medicine, education and law with so little apparent benefit? Why do we hold the professions in awe and allow them to set up what are in effect monopolies? This fascinating and controversial collection of essays... 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: 73151K Sara Maitland / How to Be Alone Do you want to be alone?Our fast-paced society does not approve of solitude; being alone is literally anti-social and some even find it sinister. Why is this so when autonomy, personal freedom and individualism are more highly prized than ever before?... 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 sku: 73148K Lee Siegel / Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob Against the Machine is a fascinating look at how the Internet is reshaping the way we think about ourselves and the world. Siegel explores how the internet affects culture and social life, particularly the psychological, emotional and social cost of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73147K Peter Morfoot / Impure Blood In the heat of a French summer, Captain Paul Darac of the Nice Brigade Criminelle is called to a highly sensitive crime scene. A man has been found murdered in the midst of a Muslim prayer group, but no one saw how it was done. Then the organisers of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73143K Charles Stanley Nott / Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal Drawn from Nott's hundreds of pages of notes and diaries, this book provides a record of the expressions and actions of Gurdjieff and the profound impact of life at the Chateau du Prieure, Fontainbleau, at that time. Gurdjieff was a Russian occultist... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73141K Hilary Rose / Alas, Poor Darwin Today, genes are called upon to explain almost every aspect of our lives, from social inequalities to health, sexual preference and criminality. Based on Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection, Evolutionary Psychology with its claim that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73137K Dave Robinson / Nietzsche and Postmodernism The entire Who's Who of postmodern thought―Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, Lyotard and others, can trace their philosophical ancestry to Nietzsche's radical relativism. All of our books are second hand, and while you... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73136K George Myerson / Heidegger, Habermas and the Mobile Phone Move over e-commerce, mantra of the late 20th century... welcome in-commerce, catchword of the new millennium! Everyone remembers 'It's good to talk, the cosy slogan of the telephone at the end of the last century. But now we are witnessing a global... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73135K Evgeny Morozov / The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World In The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World Evgeny Morozov argues that our utopian, internet-centric thinking holds devastating consequences for the future of democracy.We were promised that the internet would set us free. From the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73134K Mary Midgley / The Myths We Live By Myths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract; in economics in the pursuit of self interest; and in science the idea of human beings as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73133K Michael Freeman / The Low Light Photography Field Guide Go beyond daylight to capture stunning low light images Like all the titles in this successful series, The Low Light Photography Field Guide offers advice from a respected expert and professional. In this volume, Michael Freeman looks at an area that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73131K Ivan Illich / Disabling Professions Why do we put so many resources into medicine, education and law with so little apparent benefit? Why do we hold the professions in awe and allow them to set up what are in effect monopolies? This fascinating and controversial collection of essays... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 73151K Sara Maitland / How to Be Alone Do you want to be alone?Our fast-paced society does not approve of solitude; being alone is literally anti-social and some even find it sinister. Why is this so when autonomy, personal freedom and individualism are more highly prized than ever before?... 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 sku: 73148K Lee Siegel / Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob Against the Machine is a fascinating look at how the Internet is reshaping the way we think about ourselves and the world. Siegel explores how the internet affects culture and social life, particularly the psychological, emotional and social cost of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73147K Peter Morfoot / Impure Blood In the heat of a French summer, Captain Paul Darac of the Nice Brigade Criminelle is called to a highly sensitive crime scene. A man has been found murdered in the midst of a Muslim prayer group, but no one saw how it was done. Then the organisers of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73143K Charles Stanley Nott / Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal Drawn from Nott's hundreds of pages of notes and diaries, this book provides a record of the expressions and actions of Gurdjieff and the profound impact of life at the Chateau du Prieure, Fontainbleau, at that time. Gurdjieff was a Russian occultist... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73141K Hilary Rose / Alas, Poor Darwin Today, genes are called upon to explain almost every aspect of our lives, from social inequalities to health, sexual preference and criminality. Based on Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection, Evolutionary Psychology with its claim that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73137K Dave Robinson / Nietzsche and Postmodernism The entire Who's Who of postmodern thought―Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, Lyotard and others, can trace their philosophical ancestry to Nietzsche's radical relativism. All of our books are second hand, and while you... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73136K George Myerson / Heidegger, Habermas and the Mobile Phone Move over e-commerce, mantra of the late 20th century... welcome in-commerce, catchword of the new millennium! Everyone remembers 'It's good to talk, the cosy slogan of the telephone at the end of the last century. But now we are witnessing a global... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73135K Evgeny Morozov / The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World In The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World Evgeny Morozov argues that our utopian, internet-centric thinking holds devastating consequences for the future of democracy.We were promised that the internet would set us free. From the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73134K Mary Midgley / The Myths We Live By Myths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract; in economics in the pursuit of self interest; and in science the idea of human beings as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73133K Michael Freeman / The Low Light Photography Field Guide Go beyond daylight to capture stunning low light images Like all the titles in this successful series, The Low Light Photography Field Guide offers advice from a respected expert and professional. In this volume, Michael Freeman looks at an area that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73131K Ivan Illich / Disabling Professions Why do we put so many resources into medicine, education and law with so little apparent benefit? Why do we hold the professions in awe and allow them to set up what are in effect monopolies? This fascinating and controversial collection of essays... 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 sku: 73148K Lee Siegel / Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob Against the Machine is a fascinating look at how the Internet is reshaping the way we think about ourselves and the world. Siegel explores how the internet affects culture and social life, particularly the psychological, emotional and social cost of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73147K Peter Morfoot / Impure Blood In the heat of a French summer, Captain Paul Darac of the Nice Brigade Criminelle is called to a highly sensitive crime scene. A man has been found murdered in the midst of a Muslim prayer group, but no one saw how it was done. Then the organisers of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73143K Charles Stanley Nott / Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal Drawn from Nott's hundreds of pages of notes and diaries, this book provides a record of the expressions and actions of Gurdjieff and the profound impact of life at the Chateau du Prieure, Fontainbleau, at that time. Gurdjieff was a Russian occultist... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73141K Hilary Rose / Alas, Poor Darwin Today, genes are called upon to explain almost every aspect of our lives, from social inequalities to health, sexual preference and criminality. Based on Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection, Evolutionary Psychology with its claim that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73137K Dave Robinson / Nietzsche and Postmodernism The entire Who's Who of postmodern thought―Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, Lyotard and others, can trace their philosophical ancestry to Nietzsche's radical relativism. All of our books are second hand, and while you... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73136K George Myerson / Heidegger, Habermas and the Mobile Phone Move over e-commerce, mantra of the late 20th century... welcome in-commerce, catchword of the new millennium! Everyone remembers 'It's good to talk, the cosy slogan of the telephone at the end of the last century. But now we are witnessing a global... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73135K Evgeny Morozov / The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World In The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World Evgeny Morozov argues that our utopian, internet-centric thinking holds devastating consequences for the future of democracy.We were promised that the internet would set us free. From the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73134K Mary Midgley / The Myths We Live By Myths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract; in economics in the pursuit of self interest; and in science the idea of human beings as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73133K Michael Freeman / The Low Light Photography Field Guide Go beyond daylight to capture stunning low light images Like all the titles in this successful series, The Low Light Photography Field Guide offers advice from a respected expert and professional. In this volume, Michael Freeman looks at an area that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73131K Ivan Illich / Disabling Professions Why do we put so many resources into medicine, education and law with so little apparent benefit? Why do we hold the professions in awe and allow them to set up what are in effect monopolies? This fascinating and controversial collection of essays... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 73148K Lee Siegel / Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob Against the Machine is a fascinating look at how the Internet is reshaping the way we think about ourselves and the world. Siegel explores how the internet affects culture and social life, particularly the psychological, emotional and social cost of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73147K Peter Morfoot / Impure Blood In the heat of a French summer, Captain Paul Darac of the Nice Brigade Criminelle is called to a highly sensitive crime scene. A man has been found murdered in the midst of a Muslim prayer group, but no one saw how it was done. Then the organisers of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73143K Charles Stanley Nott / Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal Drawn from Nott's hundreds of pages of notes and diaries, this book provides a record of the expressions and actions of Gurdjieff and the profound impact of life at the Chateau du Prieure, Fontainbleau, at that time. Gurdjieff was a Russian occultist... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73141K Hilary Rose / Alas, Poor Darwin Today, genes are called upon to explain almost every aspect of our lives, from social inequalities to health, sexual preference and criminality. Based on Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection, Evolutionary Psychology with its claim that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73137K Dave Robinson / Nietzsche and Postmodernism The entire Who's Who of postmodern thought―Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, Lyotard and others, can trace their philosophical ancestry to Nietzsche's radical relativism. All of our books are second hand, and while you... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73136K George Myerson / Heidegger, Habermas and the Mobile Phone Move over e-commerce, mantra of the late 20th century... welcome in-commerce, catchword of the new millennium! Everyone remembers 'It's good to talk, the cosy slogan of the telephone at the end of the last century. But now we are witnessing a global... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73135K Evgeny Morozov / The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World In The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World Evgeny Morozov argues that our utopian, internet-centric thinking holds devastating consequences for the future of democracy.We were promised that the internet would set us free. From the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73134K Mary Midgley / The Myths We Live By Myths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract; in economics in the pursuit of self interest; and in science the idea of human beings as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73133K Michael Freeman / The Low Light Photography Field Guide Go beyond daylight to capture stunning low light images Like all the titles in this successful series, The Low Light Photography Field Guide offers advice from a respected expert and professional. In this volume, Michael Freeman looks at an area that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73131K Ivan Illich / Disabling Professions Why do we put so many resources into medicine, education and law with so little apparent benefit? Why do we hold the professions in awe and allow them to set up what are in effect monopolies? This fascinating and controversial collection of essays... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 73147K Peter Morfoot / Impure Blood In the heat of a French summer, Captain Paul Darac of the Nice Brigade Criminelle is called to a highly sensitive crime scene. A man has been found murdered in the midst of a Muslim prayer group, but no one saw how it was done. Then the organisers of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73143K Charles Stanley Nott / Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal Drawn from Nott's hundreds of pages of notes and diaries, this book provides a record of the expressions and actions of Gurdjieff and the profound impact of life at the Chateau du Prieure, Fontainbleau, at that time. Gurdjieff was a Russian occultist... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73141K Hilary Rose / Alas, Poor Darwin Today, genes are called upon to explain almost every aspect of our lives, from social inequalities to health, sexual preference and criminality. Based on Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection, Evolutionary Psychology with its claim that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73137K Dave Robinson / Nietzsche and Postmodernism The entire Who's Who of postmodern thought―Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, Lyotard and others, can trace their philosophical ancestry to Nietzsche's radical relativism. All of our books are second hand, and while you... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73136K George Myerson / Heidegger, Habermas and the Mobile Phone Move over e-commerce, mantra of the late 20th century... welcome in-commerce, catchword of the new millennium! Everyone remembers 'It's good to talk, the cosy slogan of the telephone at the end of the last century. But now we are witnessing a global... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73135K Evgeny Morozov / The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World In The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World Evgeny Morozov argues that our utopian, internet-centric thinking holds devastating consequences for the future of democracy.We were promised that the internet would set us free. From the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73134K Mary Midgley / The Myths We Live By Myths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract; in economics in the pursuit of self interest; and in science the idea of human beings as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73133K Michael Freeman / The Low Light Photography Field Guide Go beyond daylight to capture stunning low light images Like all the titles in this successful series, The Low Light Photography Field Guide offers advice from a respected expert and professional. In this volume, Michael Freeman looks at an area that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73131K Ivan Illich / Disabling Professions Why do we put so many resources into medicine, education and law with so little apparent benefit? Why do we hold the professions in awe and allow them to set up what are in effect monopolies? This fascinating and controversial collection of essays... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73143K Charles Stanley Nott / Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal Drawn from Nott's hundreds of pages of notes and diaries, this book provides a record of the expressions and actions of Gurdjieff and the profound impact of life at the Chateau du Prieure, Fontainbleau, at that time. Gurdjieff was a Russian occultist... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73141K Hilary Rose / Alas, Poor Darwin Today, genes are called upon to explain almost every aspect of our lives, from social inequalities to health, sexual preference and criminality. Based on Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection, Evolutionary Psychology with its claim that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73137K Dave Robinson / Nietzsche and Postmodernism The entire Who's Who of postmodern thought―Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, Lyotard and others, can trace their philosophical ancestry to Nietzsche's radical relativism. All of our books are second hand, and while you... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73136K George Myerson / Heidegger, Habermas and the Mobile Phone Move over e-commerce, mantra of the late 20th century... welcome in-commerce, catchword of the new millennium! Everyone remembers 'It's good to talk, the cosy slogan of the telephone at the end of the last century. But now we are witnessing a global... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73135K Evgeny Morozov / The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World In The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World Evgeny Morozov argues that our utopian, internet-centric thinking holds devastating consequences for the future of democracy.We were promised that the internet would set us free. From the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73134K Mary Midgley / The Myths We Live By Myths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract; in economics in the pursuit of self interest; and in science the idea of human beings as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73133K Michael Freeman / The Low Light Photography Field Guide Go beyond daylight to capture stunning low light images Like all the titles in this successful series, The Low Light Photography Field Guide offers advice from a respected expert and professional. In this volume, Michael Freeman looks at an area that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73131K Ivan Illich / Disabling Professions Why do we put so many resources into medicine, education and law with so little apparent benefit? Why do we hold the professions in awe and allow them to set up what are in effect monopolies? This fascinating and controversial collection of essays... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 73143K Charles Stanley Nott / Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal Drawn from Nott's hundreds of pages of notes and diaries, this book provides a record of the expressions and actions of Gurdjieff and the profound impact of life at the Chateau du Prieure, Fontainbleau, at that time. Gurdjieff was a Russian occultist... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73141K Hilary Rose / Alas, Poor Darwin Today, genes are called upon to explain almost every aspect of our lives, from social inequalities to health, sexual preference and criminality. Based on Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection, Evolutionary Psychology with its claim that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73137K Dave Robinson / Nietzsche and Postmodernism The entire Who's Who of postmodern thought―Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, Lyotard and others, can trace their philosophical ancestry to Nietzsche's radical relativism. All of our books are second hand, and while you... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73136K George Myerson / Heidegger, Habermas and the Mobile Phone Move over e-commerce, mantra of the late 20th century... welcome in-commerce, catchword of the new millennium! Everyone remembers 'It's good to talk, the cosy slogan of the telephone at the end of the last century. But now we are witnessing a global... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73135K Evgeny Morozov / The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World In The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World Evgeny Morozov argues that our utopian, internet-centric thinking holds devastating consequences for the future of democracy.We were promised that the internet would set us free. From the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73134K Mary Midgley / The Myths We Live By Myths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract; in economics in the pursuit of self interest; and in science the idea of human beings as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73133K Michael Freeman / The Low Light Photography Field Guide Go beyond daylight to capture stunning low light images Like all the titles in this successful series, The Low Light Photography Field Guide offers advice from a respected expert and professional. In this volume, Michael Freeman looks at an area that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73131K Ivan Illich / Disabling Professions Why do we put so many resources into medicine, education and law with so little apparent benefit? Why do we hold the professions in awe and allow them to set up what are in effect monopolies? This fascinating and controversial collection of essays... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 73141K Hilary Rose / Alas, Poor Darwin Today, genes are called upon to explain almost every aspect of our lives, from social inequalities to health, sexual preference and criminality. Based on Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection, Evolutionary Psychology with its claim that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73137K Dave Robinson / Nietzsche and Postmodernism The entire Who's Who of postmodern thought―Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, Lyotard and others, can trace their philosophical ancestry to Nietzsche's radical relativism. All of our books are second hand, and while you... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73136K George Myerson / Heidegger, Habermas and the Mobile Phone Move over e-commerce, mantra of the late 20th century... welcome in-commerce, catchword of the new millennium! Everyone remembers 'It's good to talk, the cosy slogan of the telephone at the end of the last century. But now we are witnessing a global... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73135K Evgeny Morozov / The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World In The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World Evgeny Morozov argues that our utopian, internet-centric thinking holds devastating consequences for the future of democracy.We were promised that the internet would set us free. From the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73134K Mary Midgley / The Myths We Live By Myths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract; in economics in the pursuit of self interest; and in science the idea of human beings as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73133K Michael Freeman / The Low Light Photography Field Guide Go beyond daylight to capture stunning low light images Like all the titles in this successful series, The Low Light Photography Field Guide offers advice from a respected expert and professional. In this volume, Michael Freeman looks at an area that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73131K Ivan Illich / Disabling Professions Why do we put so many resources into medicine, education and law with so little apparent benefit? Why do we hold the professions in awe and allow them to set up what are in effect monopolies? This fascinating and controversial collection of essays... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73137K Dave Robinson / Nietzsche and Postmodernism The entire Who's Who of postmodern thought―Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, Lyotard and others, can trace their philosophical ancestry to Nietzsche's radical relativism. All of our books are second hand, and while you... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73136K George Myerson / Heidegger, Habermas and the Mobile Phone Move over e-commerce, mantra of the late 20th century... welcome in-commerce, catchword of the new millennium! Everyone remembers 'It's good to talk, the cosy slogan of the telephone at the end of the last century. But now we are witnessing a global... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73135K Evgeny Morozov / The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World In The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World Evgeny Morozov argues that our utopian, internet-centric thinking holds devastating consequences for the future of democracy.We were promised that the internet would set us free. From the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73134K Mary Midgley / The Myths We Live By Myths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract; in economics in the pursuit of self interest; and in science the idea of human beings as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73133K Michael Freeman / The Low Light Photography Field Guide Go beyond daylight to capture stunning low light images Like all the titles in this successful series, The Low Light Photography Field Guide offers advice from a respected expert and professional. In this volume, Michael Freeman looks at an area that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73131K Ivan Illich / Disabling Professions Why do we put so many resources into medicine, education and law with so little apparent benefit? Why do we hold the professions in awe and allow them to set up what are in effect monopolies? This fascinating and controversial collection of essays... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 73137K Dave Robinson / Nietzsche and Postmodernism The entire Who's Who of postmodern thought―Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, Lyotard and others, can trace their philosophical ancestry to Nietzsche's radical relativism. All of our books are second hand, and while you... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73136K George Myerson / Heidegger, Habermas and the Mobile Phone Move over e-commerce, mantra of the late 20th century... welcome in-commerce, catchword of the new millennium! Everyone remembers 'It's good to talk, the cosy slogan of the telephone at the end of the last century. But now we are witnessing a global... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73135K Evgeny Morozov / The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World In The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World Evgeny Morozov argues that our utopian, internet-centric thinking holds devastating consequences for the future of democracy.We were promised that the internet would set us free. From the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73134K Mary Midgley / The Myths We Live By Myths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract; in economics in the pursuit of self interest; and in science the idea of human beings as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73133K Michael Freeman / The Low Light Photography Field Guide Go beyond daylight to capture stunning low light images Like all the titles in this successful series, The Low Light Photography Field Guide offers advice from a respected expert and professional. In this volume, Michael Freeman looks at an area that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73131K Ivan Illich / Disabling Professions Why do we put so many resources into medicine, education and law with so little apparent benefit? Why do we hold the professions in awe and allow them to set up what are in effect monopolies? This fascinating and controversial collection of essays... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 73136K George Myerson / Heidegger, Habermas and the Mobile Phone Move over e-commerce, mantra of the late 20th century... welcome in-commerce, catchword of the new millennium! Everyone remembers 'It's good to talk, the cosy slogan of the telephone at the end of the last century. But now we are witnessing a global... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73135K Evgeny Morozov / The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World In The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World Evgeny Morozov argues that our utopian, internet-centric thinking holds devastating consequences for the future of democracy.We were promised that the internet would set us free. From the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73134K Mary Midgley / The Myths We Live By Myths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract; in economics in the pursuit of self interest; and in science the idea of human beings as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73133K Michael Freeman / The Low Light Photography Field Guide Go beyond daylight to capture stunning low light images Like all the titles in this successful series, The Low Light Photography Field Guide offers advice from a respected expert and professional. In this volume, Michael Freeman looks at an area that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73131K Ivan Illich / Disabling Professions Why do we put so many resources into medicine, education and law with so little apparent benefit? Why do we hold the professions in awe and allow them to set up what are in effect monopolies? This fascinating and controversial collection of essays... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 73135K Evgeny Morozov / The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World In The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World Evgeny Morozov argues that our utopian, internet-centric thinking holds devastating consequences for the future of democracy.We were promised that the internet would set us free. From the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73134K Mary Midgley / The Myths We Live By Myths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract; in economics in the pursuit of self interest; and in science the idea of human beings as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73133K Michael Freeman / The Low Light Photography Field Guide Go beyond daylight to capture stunning low light images Like all the titles in this successful series, The Low Light Photography Field Guide offers advice from a respected expert and professional. In this volume, Michael Freeman looks at an area that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73131K Ivan Illich / Disabling Professions Why do we put so many resources into medicine, education and law with so little apparent benefit? Why do we hold the professions in awe and allow them to set up what are in effect monopolies? This fascinating and controversial collection of essays... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 73134K Mary Midgley / The Myths We Live By Myths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract; in economics in the pursuit of self interest; and in science the idea of human beings as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73133K Michael Freeman / The Low Light Photography Field Guide Go beyond daylight to capture stunning low light images Like all the titles in this successful series, The Low Light Photography Field Guide offers advice from a respected expert and professional. In this volume, Michael Freeman looks at an area that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73131K Ivan Illich / Disabling Professions Why do we put so many resources into medicine, education and law with so little apparent benefit? Why do we hold the professions in awe and allow them to set up what are in effect monopolies? This fascinating and controversial collection of essays... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 73133K Michael Freeman / The Low Light Photography Field Guide Go beyond daylight to capture stunning low light images Like all the titles in this successful series, The Low Light Photography Field Guide offers advice from a respected expert and professional. In this volume, Michael Freeman looks at an area that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73131K Ivan Illich / Disabling Professions Why do we put so many resources into medicine, education and law with so little apparent benefit? Why do we hold the professions in awe and allow them to set up what are in effect monopolies? This fascinating and controversial collection of essays... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 73131K Ivan Illich / Disabling Professions Why do we put so many resources into medicine, education and law with so little apparent benefit? Why do we hold the professions in awe and allow them to set up what are in effect monopolies? This fascinating and controversial collection of essays... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view