Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations (Carr Nicholas)(Paperback)

Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations (Carr Nicholas)(Paperback)

With razor wit, Nicholas Carr cuts through Silicon Valley's unsettlingly cheery vision of the technological future to ask a hard question: Have we been seduced by a lie? Gathering a decade's worth of posts from his blog, Rough Type, as well as his seminal essays, Utopia Is Creepy is 'Carr's best

Glass Cage - Who Needs Humans Anyway (Carr Nicholas)(Paperback / softback)

Reveals how automation is affecting our ability to solve problems, forge memories and acquire skills. This book shows how the most important decisions of our lives are now being made by machines and the radical effect this is having on our ability to learn. It argues that we must rethink its role

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Carr Nicholas)(Paperback)

Nicholas Carr's bestseller The Shallows has become a foundational book in one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the internet's bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply? This 10th-anniversary edition includes a new afterword that brings the story up to

Anarchy State and Utopia (Nozick Robert)(Paperback / softback)

Robert Nozicka s Anarchy, State, and Utopia is a powerful, philosophical challenge to the most widely held political and social positions of our age ---- liberal, socialist and

Monstrously Funny Cartoons (Hart Christopher)(Paperback / softback)

Learn to draw the silliest and scariest monsters, zombies, vampires, witches, mummies, and other creepy cartoon favorites. Cartooning master Christopher Hart teaches aspiring artists all the drawing tips and tricks they need to create laugh-out-loud renditions of their favorite monsters and scary

Practical Utopia: Strategies for a Desirable Society (Albert Michael)(Paperback)

Michael Albert's latest work, Practical Utopia is a succinct and thoughtful discussion of ambitious goals and practical principles for creating a desirable society. It presents concepts and their connections to current society; visions of what can be in a preferred, participatory future; and an

Hex (Olde Heuvelt Thomas)(Paperback)

'This is totally, brilliantly original.' --Stephen King 'HEX is creepy and gripping and original, sure to be one of the top horror novels of 2016.' --George R.R. Martin The English language debut of the bestselling Dutch novel, Hex, from Thomas Olde Heuvelt--a Hugo and World Fantasy award

Beginner's Guide to Japan - Observations and Provocations (Iyer Pico)(Paperback / softback)

Coast of Utopia Trilogy (Stoppard Tom)(Paperback / softback)

The Coast of Utopia is an epic but also intimate drama of romantics and revolutionaries in an age of emperors. The three sequential, self-contained plays, Voyage, Shipwreck and Salvage, span the lives and loves of a group of Russian friends at home and abroad in the tumultuous years between 1833

The White People and Other Weird Stories (Machen Arthur)(Paperback)

Classic tales of the fantastic, creepy and weird, with a foreword from the award-winning director of The Shape of Water Guillermo Del Toro Machen's weird tales of the creepy and fantastic finally come to Penguin Classics. With an introduction from S.T. Joshi, editor of American Supernatural Tales,

Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays - Gilbert Keith Chesterton - e-kniha

eBook:,'We must hit Capitalism, and hit it hard, for the plain and definite reason that it is growing stronger.' Chesterton’s essays on the pitfalls of capitalism, written in the early 1900s, still strike true in the modern-day. One of England’s greatest essayists, Chesterton analyses the

Against Amazon: And Other Essays (Carrin Jorge)(Paperback)

A history of bookshops, an autobiography of a reader, a travelogue, a love letter--and, most urgently, a

Beautiful Unity (Roerich Nicholas)(Paperback)

Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947) is known first and foremost as a painter. His paintings, of which there are thousands around the world, explore the mythic origins, the natural beauty, and the spiritual strivings of humanity and of the world. But Nicholas Roerich was as prolific a writer as he was a

Diary Leaves (Roerich Nicholas)(Paperback)

Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947) is known first and foremost as a painter. His paintings, of which there are thousands around the world, explore the mythic origins, the natural beauty, and the spiritual strivings of humanity and of the world. But Nicholas Roerich was as prolific a writer as he was a

You Deserve Each Other - The perfect escapist feel-good romance (Hogle Sarah)(Paperback / softback)

Meet Naomi and Nicholas: the Perfect Couple.Their glorious, lavish wedding is coming up in three short months . . . and they are utterly, miserably sick of each other.Unfortunately, whoever backs out first will end up bearing the brunt of the wedding bill. When Naomi finds out that Nicholas has

Walking Bodies: Papers, Provocations, Actions from Walking's New Movements, the Conference (Billinghurst Helen)(Paperback)

A curated collection of papers, provocations, and actions from the 'Walking's New Movements' conference held at the University of Plymouth in November 2019. The experience and variety of walking practices have never been so broad, relevant, or unpredictable. Walking Bodies charts some of their very

Mr Creep the Crook (Ahlberg Allan)(Paperback / softback)

Mr Creep the Crook is a bad man, and all his family are bad too - even Growler, his dog. But when he escapes from jail and heads to the seaside, he finds out that being bad is not such a good idea after

A Walk to Remember (Sparks Nicholas)(Paperback)

A high school rebel and a minister's daughter find strength in each other in this star-crossed tale of 'young but everlasting love' (Chicago Sun-Times).There was a time when the world was sweeter....when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the men donned hats.... Every April,

Hide and Seek (Noakes Polly)(Paperback)

A meadow is the perfect place to play hide and seek - there are bridges to creep under and masses of wildflowers to use for cover. In grass high enough to conceal a bear, the protagonist must use all of her senses to track her animal companions She can smell them, and hear them, but she can't

Everything Is Awful: And Other Observations (Bellassai Matt)(Paperback)

Paul and Saul and the awful creepy-crawly(Paperback / softback)

Heart of Asia: Memoirs from the Himalayas (Roerich Nicholas)(Paperback)

A world-renowned artist, visionary, and humanitarian, Nicholas Roerich is most widely known for his breathtaking paintings of Himalayan landscapes and the peoples of Central Asia. In this book, he chronicles his expeditions through the Himalayas, providing one of the earliest and richest written

It Gets Worse - Adventures in Love, Loss and Penury (Lezard Nicholas)(Paperback / softback)

It Gets Worse is the second instalment of Nicholas Lezard's rueful, dissolute

Migration (Marshall Helen)(Paperback / softback)

Creepy and atmospheric, evocative of Stephen King's classic Pet Sematary, The Migration is a story of sisterhood, transformation, and the limitations of love, from a thrilling new voice in Canadian