Justin Smith-Ruiu

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Pennsylvania

A History, a Philosophy, a Warning

An original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it—and explains why they have died today Many think of the internet as an unprecedented and overwhelmingly positive achievement of modern human technology. But is it? In The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is, Justin Smith offers an original deep history of the internet, from the ancient to the modern world—uncovering its surprising origins in nature and centuries-old dreams of radically improving human life by outsourcing thinking to machines and communicating across vast distances. Yet, despite the internet’s continuing potential, Smith argues, the utopian hopes behind it have finally died today, killed by the harsh realities of social media, the global information economy, and the attention-destroying nature of networked technology. Ranging over centuries of the history and philosophy of science and technology, Smith shows how the “internet” has been with us much longer than we usually think. He draws fascinating connections between internet user experience, artificial intelligence, the invention of the printing press, communication between trees, and the origins of computing in the machine-driven looms of the silk industry. At the same time, he reveals how the internet’s organic structure and development root it in the natural world in unexpected ways that challenge efforts to draw an easy line between technology and nature. Combining the sweep of intellectual history with the incisiveness of philosophy, The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is cuts through our daily digital lives to give a clear-sighted picture of what the internet is, where it came from, and where it might be taking us in the coming decades.

The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is

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Paul Cobley

A Graphic Guide

Introducing Semiotics

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Angus Gellatly

Oscar Zarate

This book traces the historical development of ideas about the brain and its function from antiquity to the age of neuro-imaging.

Introducing Mind and Brain

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Christopher Kul-Want

A clear and insightful graphic guide to this important branch of philosophy.

Introducing Aesthetics

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Margot Leitman

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A Workbook for the Storyteller in All of Us

Whether you want to give a memorable toast, nail a business presentation, or perform onstage, this workbook will have you brainstorming ideas, developing them into fully fleshed-out stories, and telling them aloud in no time A complement to the hit storytelling guide Long Story Short, this useful and inspiring workbook contains all-new exercises and prompts that walk you through creating a story from idea to performance. Includes lists and guided prompts for generating ideas, story templates for developing your stories, and bonus content geared toward performance. Perfect for aspiring storytellers, including The Moth performers, comics, memoirists, and public speakers, as well as readers hoping to use the power of storytelling for their brand or business.

What's Your Story?

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The journal to go with Untamed, a book of empowerment. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

How to Quit Pleasing & Start Living

Get Untamed: the Journal kit

Lauren Groff

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A Novel

A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited girl alone in the wilderness, trying to survive “Extraordinary… staggering…with wrenching beauty…This is a triumph.” ­–Publishers Weekly, Starred Review “Must be read…The writing is inspired, the imaginative power near mystic.” ­–Kirkus Reviews A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her. Lauren Groff’s new novel is at once a thrilling adventure story and a penetrating fable about trying to find a new way of living in a world succumbing to the churn of colonialism. The Vaster Wilds is a work of raw and prophetic power that tells the story of America in miniature, through one girl at a hinge point in history, to ask how—and if—we can adapt quickly enough to save ourselves.

The Vaster Wilds

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Peter Carey

“I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dear daughter you are presently too young to understand a word I write but this history is for you and will contain no single lie may I burn in Hell if I speak false.”

In True History of the Kelly Gang, the legendary Ned Kelly speaks for himself, scribbling his narrative on errant scraps of paper in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose as he flees from the police. To his pursuers, Kelly is nothing but a monstrous criminal, a thief and a murderer. To his own people, the lowly class of ordinary Australians, the bushranger is a hero, defying the authority of the English to direct their lives. Indentured by his bootlegger mother to a famous horse thief (who was also her lover), Ned saw his first prison cell at 15 and by the age of 26 had become the most wanted man in the wild colony of Victoria, taking over whole towns and defying the law until he was finally captured and hanged. Here is a classic outlaw tale, made alive by the skill of a great novelist.


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