A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age

A prize-winning biography of one of the foremost intellects of the twentieth century: Claude Shannon, the neglected architect of the Information Age.

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A brilliant, revelatory account of the Cold War origins of the data-mad, algorithmic twenty-first century, from the acclaimed and internationally b...

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The very things we do to control anxiety can make anxiety worse. This unique guide offers a cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)-based approach to he...

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DescriptionPropaganda in the Information Age is a collaborative volume which updates Herman and Chomsky's propaganda model for the twenty-first-cen...

The author also furthers considerations of how the political process can provide meaning and new visions of justice in a globalized world, and adva...

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A collection of essays about conflict in the information age that show how the information revolution is altering the nature of conflict.

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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, a radical investigation into the bird way of being, and the recent scientific re...

Drawing on brand new research, this is an examination of rest and why it matters from Radio 4's voice of psychology

A richly detailed graveyard history of the Florentine poet whose dead body shaped Italy from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the Risorgiment...

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Using espionage as a test case, The End of Intelligence criticizes claims that the recent information revolution has weakened the state, revolution...

Silent Mind Golf removes the mystery behind the mental prowess that lies at the heart of peak performance.

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DescriptionIs it possible that the most famous critic of quantum mechanics actually invented most of its fundamentally important concepts? Besides ...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, a radical investigation into the bird way of being, and the recent scientific re...

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Written for introductory distance education courses for preservice or in- service teachers, and for training programs that discuss teaching distant...

International Education Inquiries is a book series dedicated to realizing the global vision of Education 2030. This vision involves "ensuring inclu...

Combining lively prose with a balanced, nonpartisan portrait of Obama's successes and failures, The Black President will be required reading not on...

A new popular psychology title looking at where video games come from, why we play them, and taking a balanced, clinical view of whether they are h...

Notwithstanding its provocative title, The Woman Racket is a serious scientific investigation into one of the key myths of our age - that women are...