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023307
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New York, Seagull Books, 2015.
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131pPink Spine
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A volume of newly translated essays by Barthes (1915–1980), written between 1950 and 1977, is their freshness.
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9780857422392 Hb.
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024512
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London, Jonathan Cape, 2018.
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xv, 352pWhite spine
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Popular science
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In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the present to make sense of today's most pressing issues. How do computers and robots change the meaning of being human? How do we deal with the epidemic of fake news? Are nations and religions still relevant? What should we teach our children? Yuval Noah Harari's 21 Lessons for the 21st Century is a probing and visionary investigation into today's most urgent issues as we move into the uncharted territory of the future.
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9781787330672 Hb.
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| I02311 | 909.82/HAR | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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020400
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New York, Vintage, 1991.
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205pBrown spine
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This successor to John Berger's 'Ways of Seeing', written over the last ten years, searches for meaning within and beyond what is looked at. Why do zoos disappoint children? Why do we take snapshots of those we love? How do the media use photographs of agony? When an animal looks us in the eyes, what does that look mean? Berger describes how a sixteenth-century masterpiece he saw in the 1960s comes to look different to him a decade later. He discusses how a forest looks to a woodcutter; how fields look to a peasant; how the world looks to a nineteenth-century barber's son; how New York looked to immigrants; and how each of these perspectives was reflected in the struggles of a particular painter. Every painting he considers, whether by Millet, Courbet, Turner, Magritte, Fasanella, or Francis Bacon, is evidence of an experience which belongs as fully to life as to art.
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9780679736554 Pb.
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| I01777 | 701.15/BER | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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016736
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London, Abacus, 2012.
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310pRed Spine
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Everything we know about solving the world's problems is wrong. Out: Plans, experts and above all, leaders. In: Adapting - improvise rather than plan; fail, learn, and try again In this groundbreaking new book, Tim Harford shows how the world's most complex and important problems - including terrorism, climate change, poverty, innovation, and the financial crisis - can only be solved from the bottom up by rapid experimenting and adapting. From a spaceport in the Mojave Desert to the street battles of Iraq, from a blazing offshore drilling rig to everyday decisions in our business and personal lives, this is a handbook for surviving - and prospering - in our complex and ever-shifting world.
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9780349121512 Pb.
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| I00883 | 153.43/HAR | Main | On Shelf | General | |
| I02136 | 153.43/HAR | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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005999
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New York, Random House, 1996.
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xiii, 354pBlue Spine
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The Age of
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Describes the short period between 1848 and 1875 when the world was conquered by a relatively small army composed of sober men in sober clothes, spreading respectability and faith in private enterprise, along with gasworks, railroad lines and loans.
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0679772545 Pb.
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005998
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New York, Random House, 1989.
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406pRed Spine
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The Age of
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Re-creatas the epoch that laid the basis for the twentieth century, for all those who wish to understand the world and who believe history is important for this purpose.
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0679721754 Pb.
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020392
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London, Abacus, 1994.
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xii, 627pWhite spine
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9780349106717 Pb.
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006010
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New York, Random House, 1996.
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x, 356pWhite and Green Spine
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The Age of
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A brilliant and unexpected interpretation of the two vast upheavals between 1789 and 1848. The impact of the Industrial Revolution in England and the French Revolution in France- catapulted the world into modernity
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0679772537 Pb.
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019058
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London, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010.
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448pWhite spine
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Explodes the myth that maths is best left to the geeks. Covering subjects from adding to algebra, from set theory to statistics, and from logarithms to logical paradoxes, this title explains how mathematical ideas underpin just about everything in our lives. It also explains the strategy of how best to gamble in a casino.; In this richly entertaining and accessible book, Alex Bellos explodes the myth that maths is best left to the geeks. Covering subjects from adding to algebra, from set theory to statistics, and from logarithms to logical paradoxes, he explains how mathematical ideas underpin just about everything in our lives. Alex explains the surprising geometry of the 50p piece, and the strategy of how best to gamble it in a casino. He shines a light on the mathematical patterns in nature, and on the peculiar predictability of random behavior. He eats a potato crisp whose revolutionary shape was unpalatable to the ancient Greeks, and he shows the deep connections between maths, religion and philosophy. Alex weaves a journey from primary school to university level maths, from ancient history to the computing frontline, and from St Louis, Missouri, to Braintree, Essex. He meets the world's fastest mental calculators in Germany, consults a numerologist in the US desert, meets a startlingly numerate chimpanzee in Japan, and seeks advice from a venerable Hindu sage in India. An unlikely but exhilarating cocktail of history, reportage and mathematical proofs, Alex's dispatches from 'Numberland' show the world of maths to be a much friendlier and more colourful place than you might have imagined.
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9781408809594 Pb.
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022474
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New Delhi, Penguin Books, 2011.
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xviii, 252pPale green spine
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This book brings together all of Arundhati Roy's political writings so far. This revised paperback edition includes two new essays, written in early 2002: 'Democracy: Who's She When She's Not at Home', which examines the horrific communal violence in Gujarat, and 'War Talk: Summer Games with Nuclear Bombs', about the threat of nuclear war in the Subcontinent.
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9780143419280 Pb.
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018602
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London, London, 2013.
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309pWhite spine
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Famous for his radical new vision of Darwinism, Richard Dawkins paints a colorful, richly textured canvas of his early life from innocent child to charismatic world-famous scientist.
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9780552779050 Pb.
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019967
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Gurgaon, Penguin Books, 2013.
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317pGreen spine
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Brings together fourteen essays in which Arundhati Roy draws a thread through seemingly unconected ideas, revealing the growing threat of corporate power and a corporatized media, the role of NGOs and the consolidation of caste and communal politics in India. Meticulusly researched and carefully argued, this collection crafts a way of understanding one of the most difficult and complex periods in recent history. The time period covered is 2002 - 2004.
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9780143419310 Pb.
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| I01692 | 302.230973/ROY | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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019403
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Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2013.
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xii, 297pPurple spine
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Brings together art, aesthetics, design, science and technology in surprising ways, highlighting the wellspring of creativity that flows across these disciplines.
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9781935623137 Hb.
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| I01549 | 701.05/COL | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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022264
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New Delhi, Navayana Publishing, 1936.
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415pBlue spine
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A hindu reformed group in 1936 invited B.R. Ambedkar to deliver their presidential address and chart a path to end the cast esystem. When he argued that the immorality of caste was sustained by the Vedas and shastras, and without 'dynamiting' them there could be no reform, they withdrew their invitation.
Ambedkar published the text on his own. Mahatma Gandhi responded to the provocation. The hatchet was never buried. It has generated inevitable questions about political representation, caste, privilege and power in Indian society.
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9788189059675 Pb.
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| I01998 | 305.51220954/AMB | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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016132
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London, Allen Lane, 2012.
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xix, 519pPink and blue spine
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Nicholas Nassim Taleb takes a big step with a deceptively simple concept: the "antifragile." Like the Greek hydra that grows two heads for each one it loses, people, systems, and institutions that are antifragile not only withstand shocks, they benefit from them. In a modern world dominated by chaos and uncertainty, Antifragile is a revolutionary vision from one of the most subversive and important thinkers of our time.
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9781846141560 Hb.
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016942
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New York, Crown Business, 1951.
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341pRed Spine
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Moves beyond the simplistic embrace of aggression by sociobiologists of the past and the management cliches of today. Conniff effortlessly draws upon updated insights from theology, economics, psychology and the arts to apply factual insights to current headlines and everyday business life.
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Yes, it is a goddam jungle out there (Why acting like an animal comes so easy)
Nice monkey (The search for the unselfish gene)
Being negative (Why things look worse than they probably are)
Rough beasts (Moore's Law meets monkey law)
Donut dominance (Why hierarchy works)
Tooth and claw (How we wage dominance contests on the job)
Bending the knee (Strategies for subordinates)
Chatter in the monkey house (Gossip and the beastly nature of "Oh, my God, tell me more")
Bang bang, kiss kiss (The natural history of "I'm sorry")
Making faces (A field guide to facial expression)
Facial predestination (How the shape of your face can make or break your career)
Monkey see (The power of imitation)
Bunnies for lunch (On being a corporate predator)
A landscape of fear (Why do jerks seem to prosper?)
Running with the pack (Why lone wolves are losers)
Epilogue: leadership lessons of highly effective apes
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140005219X Hb.
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012942
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New York, Vintage, 2010.
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245pBlack and White Spine
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Comparable to Sartre's 'Search for a method', and in direct opposition to it, Foucault's work is a noteworthy effort at a theory of history in the last fifty years. It excavates the hidden assumptions that govern the way we live and think. Beginning at the level of "things aid", it illuminates the connections between knowledge, language and action in a style at once profound and personal.
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Pt. I. Introduction
Pt. II. The Discursive Regularities
1. The Unities of Discourse
2. Discursive Formations
3. The Formation of Objects
4. The Formation of Enunciative Modalities
5. The Formation of Concepts
6. The Formation of Strategies
7. Remarks and Consequences
Pt. III. The Statement and the Archive
1. Defining the Statement
2. The Enunciative Function
3. The Description of Statements
4. Rarity, Exteriority, Accumulation
5. The Historical a priori and the Archive
Pt. IV. Archaeological Description
1. Archaeology and the History of Ideas
2. The Original and the Regular
3. Contradictions
4. The Comparative Facts
5. Change and Transformations
6. Science and Knowledge
Pt. V. Conclusion.
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9780394711065 Pb.
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021301
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Rhinebeck, Monkfish Book Publishing Company, 2016.
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vii, 169pGrey spine
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Two controversial authors debate the nature and methods of science, its dogmas and its future. Sheldrake argues that science needs to be free of materialistic dogma while Michael Shermer contends that science is a materialistic enterprise. Issues discussed include materialism and its role in science, whether belief in God is compatible with a scientific perspective and parapsychology.
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9781939681577 Pb.
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018651
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London, Icon Books, 2001.
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176pGreen spine
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Introducing
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Aristotle was a foundational thinker in almost every field of inquiry: logic, metaphysics, rational psychology, political science, sociology, aesthetics, ethics and more. This book guides the reader through an explosion of theories, from the establishment of systematic logic to the earliest rules of science. Aristotle's authority extended beyond his own lifetime to influence Islamic philosophy and medieval scholasticism. For fifteen centuries he remained the paradigm of knowledge itself. But can Aristotelian realism still be used to underpin our conception of the world today? This series of graphic guides covers every key thinker and topic in philosophy, psychology, science, politics, religion, cultural studies, linguistics and more. Written by experts and illustrated by leading graphic artists, there is no better way to acquaint yourself with the biggest and best ideas humanity has ever come up with.
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9781848311695 Pb.
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Melbourne, Arthur A. Levine Books, 2007.
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132pChoclate Brown Spine
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What drives so many to leave everything behind and journey to a mysterious country; a place without family or friends, where everything is nameless and the future is unknown? This silent graphic novel is the story of every migrant, every refugee, every displaced person, and a tribute to those who have made the journey.
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