Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming, Hardcover

Today designers often focus on making technology easy to use, sexy, and consumable. In Speculative Everything, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby propose...

Reducere. Inside this book lies a multi-future time machine, and by the time you finish reading it, you'll be plucking inventions from many possible futures-...

A powerful, breathtaking memoir about a young man's descent into madness, and how running saved his life."Voluntary or involuntary?" asked the nurs...

DescriptionHow can we re-envision the university? Too many examples of what passes for educational innovation today--MOOCs especially--focus on tra...

Reducere. Faced with the most challenging moment of his life, Mark Lichterman had to ensure his mind was in a state of positivity and gratitude. He would fin...

Reducere. In modern, beautiful Green City, the capital of South West Asia, gender selection, war and disease have brought the ratio of men to women to alarmi...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, BUZZFEED, AND SHELF AWARENESS "Ender, Katniss, and now...

Contributor(s): Author: Harry Turtledove*io9's New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books You Need to Put On Your Radar This FallFrom the modern master of altern...

Offers a sustained analysis of race and representation in young adult speculative fiction (YASF). The collection considers how characters of colour...

Reducere. SWEET DREAMS AREN'T MADE OF THIS Ever since she was a child, Stacey Hanson has had strange dreams--and sometimes they come true. Her skills and exp...

Esquire. Ford Motors. Burton Snowboards. The Obama Administration. While all of these brands are vastly different, they share at least one thing in...

DescriptionMeet the women writers who defied convention to craft some of literature's strangest tales, from Frankenstein to The Haunting of Hill Ho...

A full-color illustrated collection of riveting, inspiring, and stereotype-shattering stories that reveal the beauty, diversity, and strength of Mu...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sheree R. ThomasThis volume introduces black science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction writers to the generations o...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Jennifer M. (Lecturer, Monash University) WindtIllustration(s): 1 color illus., 4 b 5 Illustrations, unspecified...

Reducere. Dominion is the first anthology of speculative fiction and poetry by Africans and the African Diaspora. An old god rises up each fall to test his s...

My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence is an improvisational call-and-response writing performance conducted by a language artist and an AI...

Reducere. A New York Times Bestseller and National Book Award Winner Jacqueline Woodson, the acclaimed author of Another Brooklyn, tells the moving story of ...

Description12-year-old Julia keeps a diary about her life growing up in Juarez, Mexico. Life in Juarez is strange. People say its the murder capita...

Reducere. Tutu is trapped in a valley of eternal winter, populated by talking animals and ruled by an oil-sputtering robot Emperor. She's sick of doing the E...

DescriptionYour secret's safe...until it's not. Ivy's always preferred to lay low, unlike her best friend Harold, who has taken up a hundred activi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Doug CaseyAuthor: John Hunt"Halfway between Frederick Forsyth's Dogs of War and Ayn Rand's Fountainhead. The gold mine in t...

This book serves as a critical review of SOCIAL URBANISM, defined as a socio-political and practical approach to urban globalization, deriving from...

Rebel warrior Roselle St. Sismode returns in the second book of the epic Secondborn series by USA Today bestselling author Amy A. Bartol.In the Fat...

Reducere. The Handmaid's Tale meets The Hunger Games in this brilliantly imagined debut set in an ancient culture where only the queen may breed and deformit...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Paolo BacigalupiAuthor: Tobias S. BuckellFrom award-winning and New York Times bestselling authors Paolo Bacigalupi and Tob...

The debut title in a new city-based anthology series featuring all-new stories with speculative, sci-fi, and paranormal themes--each using distinct...

A celebration of failures, miscalculations, hubris and ill-advised albums, in the form of a rundown of the worst across a series of categories. Fro...

The eminent anthropologists Richard and Sally Price look back at their first years living among the Saamaka maroons in Suriname in the late 1960s, ...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom Jennifer Weiner, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Who Do You Love and In Her Shoes comes a smart, thoughtful, and timely...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Ernst Bloch's Speculative Materialism sets the record straight on one of the twentieth century's most significant critical thinkers.

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tess MartinIn a dystopian future, the government is overthrown and the new order protects animal rights with a heavy handed...

One of the great works of the twentieth century, Kafka's The Trial has been read as a study of political power, a pessimistic religious parable, or...

The idea of a waylaid time traveller having to build civilisation again from the ground up, knowing what they know as a traveller from the present,...

Plants in Science Fiction, the first-ever volume on plants (and fungi) in science fiction, allows us to speculate further on what - or who - plant ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe process of telling time has a long and fascinating history. From the ancient sundials to the invention of sophisticated mechanical c...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Rosine Jozef PerelbergNumber of pages: 150Publication date: 2000Dimensions: 155 x 229 x 14Cover type: Pap...

Reducere. The Dreaming, Paperback

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: D. J. MollesThe country has become a warzone, and with a Coalition troop surge imminent, the resistance is on the ropes. Wa...

Reducere. Matter transporters, dead worlds, and ghostly encounters. Parallel worlds, time-travel, and dangers that lurk in the shadows. Little Labyrinths br...

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Brian Willems draws on the science fiction of Cormac McCarthy, Paolo Bacigalupi, Neil Gaiman, China Mieville, Doris Lessing and Kim Stanley Robinso...

Reified Life delineates how financial and neoliberal capitalism, digital and bioengineering technologies are remaking historical concepts of the hu...

Radical Botany excavates a tradition in which plants participate in the effort to imagine new worlds and envision new futures. Modernity, the book ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PlcAuthor(s): Dr. Glyn (University of Liverpool, UK) MorganNumber of pages: 222Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 2...

DescriptionThe CrimeBiters gang got its start with help from my crime-fighting vampire dog, Abby. But now, I'm starting to wonder if she's really a...