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Cyberiad - Fables for the Cybernetic Age (Lem Stanislaw)(Paperback / softback)

'Most cosmic civilizations long for things, in the depths of their souls, they would never openly admit to...' Trurl and Klapaucius are 'constructors' - they travel around the universe creating machines of astonishing inventiveness and power and visiting a bewildering variety of violent, peculiar

Cyberiad - Fables for the Cybernetic Age (Lem Stanislaw)(Paperback / softback)

'A giant of twentieth-century science fiction' Guardian One of the world's most beloved science fiction writers, Stanislaw Lem was famed for his wryly comic, outlandish imaginings of the relationship between humans and technology. In this playful cosmic fantasia, two 'constructors' compete to dream

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Futurological Congress (Lem Stanislaw)(Paperback / softback)

The Cybernetic Hypothesis (Tiqqun)(Paperback)

An early text from Tiqqun that views cybernetics as a fable of late capitalism, and offers tools for the resistance.The cybernetician's mission is to combat the general entropy that threatens living beings, machines, societies--that is, to create the experimental conditions for a continuous

Dialogues (Lem Stanislaw)(Paperback)

The first English translation of a nonfiction work by Stanislaw Lem, which was conceived under the spell of cybernetics in 1957 and updated in 1971. In 1957, Stanislaw Lem published Dialogues, a book conceived under the spell of cybernetics, as he wrote in the preface to the second edition

Hospital of the Transfiguration (Lem Stanislaw)(Paperback)

An early realist novel by Stanislaw Lem, taking place in a Polish psychiatric hospital during World War II.Taking place within the confines of a psychiatric hospital, Stanislaw Lem's The Hospital of the Transfiguration tells the story of a young doctor working in a Polish asylum during World War

Stanislaw Lem: Philosopher of the Future (Swirski Peter)(Paperback)

Stanislaw Lem: Philosopher of the Future brings a welter of unknown elements of Lem's life, career, and literary legacy to light. Part One traces the context of his cultural influence, telling the story of one of the greatest writers and thinkers of the century. It includes a comprehensive critical

Aesop's Fables - The Cruelty of the Gods (Gebler Carlo)(Paperback / softback)

The greatest collection of fables ever written, updated for our turbulent

Memoirs of a Space Traveler: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy (Lem Stanislaw)(Paperback)

The travels of Ijon Tichy, a Gulliver of the space age, who encounters faulty time machines, intelligent washing machines, suicidal potatoes, and other puzzling phenomena.Memoirs of a Space Traveler follows the adventures of Ijon Tichy, a Gulliver of the space age, who leads readers through strange

More Tales of Pirx the Pilot (Lem Stanislaw)(Paperback)

Commander Pirx, who drives space vehicles for a living in the galaxy of the future, here faces a new series of intriguing adventures in which robots demonstrate some alarmingly human characteristics. Translated by Louis Iribarne, assisted by Magdalena Majcherczyk and Michael Kandel. A Helen and

Opening Repertoire: The Queens Gambit (Lemos Damien)(Paperback)

Grandmaster Damian Lemos presents a repertoire for White in the Queen's Gambit, one of the most famous chess openings. The Queen's Gambit enjoys a long and illustrious past. It has been played by virtually all the strongest grandmasters in the history of chess, and today it remains a popular choice

Lion and the Mouse (Pinkney Jerry)(Paperback / softback)

A stunning, wordless version of one of Aesop's best-loved fables, from one of America's most acclaimed

Elizabeth Gaskell (Uglow Jenny)(Paperback / softback)

Elizabeth Gaskell wrote some of the most enduring novels of the Victorian age. This biography traces Elizabeth's youth in rural Knutsford, her married years in the tension-ridden city of Manchester and her wide network of friends, her religious and feminist arguments of nineteenth century Britain,

Wood Age (Ennos Roland)(Paperback)

Roland Ennos' The Wood Age is a love-letter to the world's most vital and yet most threatened material. It is the story of how wood has shaped our human experience from the earliest foragers to the modern four poster bed. 'A stunning book on the incalculable debt humanity owes wood...' John Carey,

The Chain of Chance (Lem Stanislaw)(Paperback)

A former astronaut turned private detective is dispatched to Naples to discover the pattern in a mysterious series of deaths and disappearances occurring at a seaside spa. A Helen and Kurt Wolff

Animal Farm (Orwell George)(Paperback / softback)

Animal Farm is a beast fable, in the form of a satirical allegorical novella, by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. It tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and

Solaris (Lem Stanislaw)(Paperback)

'A fantastic book.' --Steven Soderbergh When psychologist Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he finds himself confronting a painful memory embodied in the physical likeness of a past lover. Kelvin learns that he is not alone in this and that other

Star Diaries (Lem Stanislaw)(Paperback / softback)

Written over a period of twenty years, this book features adventures of space traveller Ijon

The Climate of History in a Planetary Age (Chakrabarty Dipesh)(Paperback)

For the past decade, historian Dipesh Chakrabarty has been one of the most influential scholars addressing the meaning of climate change. Climate change, he argues, upends long-standing ideas of history, modernity, and globalization. The burden of The Climate of History in a Planetary Age is to

Dragon Age - The Masked Empire (Weekes Patrick)(Paperback / softback)

Empress Celene of Orlais rose to the throne of the most powerful nation in Thedas through wisdom, wit, and ruthless manipulation. But her empire is under threat from within by imminent war. Alliances are forged and promises broken as the battle for the throne of Orlais

Christopher Columbus and the Age of Exploration for Kids (Reis Ronald A.)(Paperback)

An NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young PeopleChristopher Columbus is one of the most famous people in world history, yet few know the full story of the amazing, resourceful, and tragic Italian explorer. Christopher Columbus and the Age of Exploration for Kids portrays the 'Admiral of