Assault on Reason - Our Information Ecosystem, from the Age of Print to the Age of Trump (Gore Al)(Paperback / softback)

Assault on Reason - Our Information Ecosystem, from the Age of Print to the Age of Trump (Gore Al)(Paperback / softback)

A powerful indictment of the Bush-led radical Right's disdain for the principles of reasoned decision-making, and a rallying cry for a return to reason-based policies at home and

In Athena's Camp - Preparing for Conflict in the Information Age (Arquilla John)(Paperback / softback)

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

The Evolution of God (Wright Robert)(Paperback)

In this sweeping narrative that takes us from the Stone Age to the Information Age, Robert Wright unveils an astonishing discovery: there is a hidden pattern that the great monotheistic faiths have followed as they have evolved. Through the prisms of archaeology, theology, and evolutionary

The Portable Enlightenment Reader (Various)(Paperback)

The Age of Enlightenment of the 18th century, also called the Age of Reason, was so named for an intellectual movement that shook the foundations of Western civilization. In championing radical ideas such as individual liberty and an empirical appraisal of the universe through rational inquiry and

Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age (Throp Claire)(Paperback / softback)

Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age is a fascinating account of British history from a period that begins around 840,000 when hunter-gatherers were just beginning to use tools, up to 55BC when the Romans first arrived in

Master Switch - The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Wu Tim (Atlantic Books))(Paperback / softback)

At the heart of this fascinating book is one of the central questions of our age - rendered more urgent by recent events in the Arab world: is the internet a revolutionary innovation that will overthrow the established order... or will it turn out to have been an unruly technology, that will never

Yes We (Still) Can - Politics in the age of Obama, Twitter and Trump (Pfeiffer Dan)(Paperback / softback)

The fightback starts here: this timely book offers a glimmer of hope in the darkness of the age, and a contribution to the anti-Trump resistance. The author was President Obama's communications director and senior

Pathfinders - The Golden Age of Arabic Science (Al-Khalili Jim)(Paperback / softback)

For over 700 years the international language of science was Arabic. Surveying the golden age of Arabic science, the author reintroduces such figures as the Iraqi physicist Ibn al-Haytham, who practised the modern scientific method over half a century before

Ethics, Law and the Politics of Information: A Guide to the Philosophy of Luciano Floridi (Durante Massimo)(Paperback)

The information age we inhabit brings to completion our self-understanding as informational systems that produce, process, and exchange information with other informational systems, in an environment that is itself made up of

Making Of The British Landscape - From the Ice Age to the Present (Crane Nicholas)(Paperback / softback)

The history of 12,000 years of the British landscape, from the Ice Age to the twenty-first century, by prizewinning author Nicholas Crane, co-presenter of

Twilight of American Sanity: A Psychiatrist Analyzes the Age of Trump (Frances Allen)(Paperback)

'Unravel[s] the national psyche that brought our politics to this moment.' -- Evan Osnos, The New YorkerA landmark book, from 'one of the world's most prominent psychiatrists' (The Atlantic): Allen Frances analyzes the nation, viewing the rise of Donald J. Trump as darkly symptomatic of a deeper

Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror (Hayden Michael V.)(Paperback)

From the bestselling author of The Assault on Intelligence, an unprecedented high-level master narrative of America's intelligence wars, demonstrating in a time of new threats that espionage and the search for facts are essential to our democracy For General Michael Hayden, playing to the edge

Travels with Epicurus - Meditations from a Greek Island on the Pleasures of Old Age (Klein Daniel)(Paperback / softback)

Our society worships at the fountain of youth. Each year, we try to delay the arrival of old age, using everything at our disposal, from extreme exercise and botox to pilates and cosmetic dentistry. But in the process, are we missing out on a distinct and extraordinarily valuable stage of

Lost Mars - The Golden Age of the Red Planet(Paperback / softback)

These ten short stories from the golden age of science fiction feature classic SF writers including H.G. Wells, Ray Bradbury and J.G. Ballard, as well as lesser-known writers from the genre. They reveal much about how we understand our place in the universe. Lost Mars is the first volume in the

Menace of the Monster - Classic Tales of Creatures from Beyond(Paperback / softback)

In this compelling new collection of short stories from SF's classic age our visions of `other' are shown in a myriad of forms - beings from other worlds, corrupted lifeforms from our own planet and entities from unimaginable

Fistful of Shells - West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution (Green Toby)(Paperback / softback)

History of Magic - From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present (Gosden Chris)(Paperback / softback)

Golden Age - Number 7 in series (Vidal Gore)(Paperback / softback)

* The magnificent concluding volume of Vidal's epic NARRATIVES OF EMPIRE, embodying the passage of American

The Golden Age (Vidal Gore)(Paperback)

The Golden Age is Vidal's crowning achievement, a vibrant tapestry of American political and cultural life from 1939 to 1954, when the epochal events of World War II and the Cold War transformed America, once and for all, for good or ill, from a republic into an empire. The sharp-eyed and

The Quantum Age: How the Physics of the Very Small Has Transformed Our Lives (Clegg Brian)(Paperback)

The Stone Age, the Iron Age, and the steam and electrical ages all saw the reach of humankind transformed by new technology. Now we are living in the Quantum Age, a revolution in everyday life led by our understanding of the very, very small.Quantum physics account for 30 percent of American GDP

Stone Age to the Bronze Age - The Lives of Ancient People (Owen Ruth)(Paperback / softback)

We're Doomed. Now What?: Essays on War and Climate Change (Scranton Roy)(Paperback)

An American Orwell for the age of Trump, Roy Scranton faces the unpleasant facts of our day with fierce insight and honesty. We're Doomed. Now What? penetrates to the very heart of our time. Our moment is one of alarming and bewildering change--the breakup of the post-1945 global order, a

RESET - A Leader's Guide to Work in an Age of Upheaval (Taylor Johnny C.)(Paperback / softback)

The forward-thinking guide to talent management in the new age of remote work, from the CEO of SHRM, the world's largest HR membership

Faith and Resistance in the Age of Trump (De La Torre Miguel A.)(Paperback)

Many people of faith have identified the election of Donald Trump as a confessional crisis--a moment that calls into question the deepest meaning of our religious claims and values. This book gathers reflections by a range of scholars and activists from numerous religious and denominational