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  • The Gods Must Be Crazy! DRAGON vs. EAGLE

    The Trillion-Dollar Autonomous Demolition Derby

    by Saji Madapat, Tiger Rider ...
    Series Book 2 - The Gods Must Be Crazy!
    Two civilizations are building the same technology through entirely different logics. One is gilded and theatrical. The other is turbid and relentless. Most investors are watching only one river.Dragon vs. Eagle is a contrarian strategic forecast that exposes how China's autonomous vehicle manufacturing machine-led by BYD, XPeng, Huawei, and a new generation of pure-play operators like WeRide and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Derby: A Potted History

    by Michael Smith ...
    Series series A Potted History
    The area around Derby has been inhabited for millennia – from prehistory, through Roman, Anglo-Saxon and Viking settlements. The Mercian queen Ethelflaeda won a significant victory against the Vikings at Derby and the town became an important monastic centre in the Middle Ages and was in the front line of later conflicts during the Civil War and the Jacobite Rebellion. The eighteenth and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Suffragette Derby

    by Michael Tanner ...
    On Wednesday 4 June 1913, fledgling newsreel cameras captured just over two-and-a-half minutes of neverto-be-forgotten British social and sporting history. The 250,000 people thronging Epsom Downs carried with them a quartet of combustible elements: a fanatical, publicity-hungry suffragette; a scapegoat for the Titanic disaster and the pillar of the Establishment who bore him a personal grudge; a ... Read more

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  • Celebrating Derby

    by Michael Smith ...
    Series series Celebrating
    Derby has been variously described as the ‘crossroads of history’, ‘the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution’, ‘the real ale capital of the world’, ‘Jubilee City’ and ‘the most haunted place in the country’. It is all of these and much, much more. For over a century it was an important railway-manufacturing centre, and the city has made a significant contribution to the artistic and cultural ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Red Hand

    Secret of the Suffragette Derby

    by Michael Tanner ...
    Britons watched the opening months of 1913 unfold with a sense of foreboding. On the continent, they saw a brutal conflict in the Balkans increase the prospect of a war engulfing the whole of Europe. On their doorstep, they observed the thorny issue of Irish home rule edge the island toward civil war as Ulsters Protestant Loyalists, led by Sir Edward Carson, vow they will fight to remain part of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Place, Being, Resonance

    A Critical Ecohermeneutic Approach to Education

    by Michael W. Derby ...
    Series Book 18 - Critical Qualitative Research
    How do we begin to move beyond a use-relation with «natural resources» towards resonance with a deeply interrelated ecology? Place, Being, Resonance brings insights from the hermeneutic tradition, ecopoetics and indigenous epistemologies of place to bear on education in a world of ecological emergency. An ecohermeneutic pedagogy draws on both critical and lyrical ways of thinking to make a free ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

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  • GODS MUST BE CRAZY! Farmer ↔ Hunter

    Century of Humiliation ↔ Century of AI Rejuvenation

    by Saji Madapat, Tiger Rider, EPM Mavericks ...
    Series Book 1 - The Gods Must Be Crazy!
    "In the final sense - a theft." - President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953.He was a Republican. A warrior. The man who won the last war America actually won. And in 1953, he named the pattern this book maps across thirteen domains: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Meaning in Life and Why It Matters

    by Susan Wolf, John Koethe, Nomy Arpaly, Jonathan Haidt, Robert McC. Adams ...
    Series series The University Center for Human Values Series
    A fresh reflection on what makes life meaningfulMost people, including philosophers, tend to classify human motives as falling into one of two categories: the egoistic or the altruistic, the self-interested or the moral. According to Susan Wolf, however, much of what motivates us does not comfortably fit into this scheme. Often we act neither for our own sake nor out of duty or an impersonal ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Modernity and Self-Identity

    Self and Society in the Late Modern Age

    by Anthony Giddens ...
    This major study develops a new account of modernity and its relation to the self. Building upon the ideas set out in The Consequences of Modernity, Giddens argues that 'high' or 'late' modernity is a post traditional order characterised by a developed institutional reflexivity. In the current period, the globalising tendencies of modern institutions are accompanied by a transformation of day-to ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Matters of Care

    Speculative Ethics in More than Human Worlds

    by María Puig de la Bellacasa ...
    Series series Posthumanities
    To care can feel good, or it can feel bad. It can do good, it can oppress. But what is care? A moral obligation? A burden? A joy? Is it only human? In Matters of Care, María Puig de la Bellacasa presents a powerful challenge to conventional notions of care, exploring its significance as an ethical and political obligation for thinking in the more than human worlds of technoscience and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Great Tales from English History

    The Truth About King Arthur, Lady Godiva, Richard the Lionheart, and More

    by Robert Lacey ...
    First in a three-volume exploration of English history from the historical consultant of Netflix's award-winning series, The Crown .From ancient times to the present day, the story of England has been laced with drama, intrigue, courage and passion—a rich and vibrant narrative of heroes and villains, kings and rebels, artists and highwaymen, bishops and scientists. Now, in Great Tales from ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Satan Bug

    by Alistair MacLean ...
    Gripping and tense story of secret agents, even more secret government facilities, and a deadly virus, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.HELL IS ABOUT TO BE UNLEASHED…Five strands of high-voltage wire, 200 yards of bare ground and double barbed wire fences patrolled by armed guards with dogs separated Mordon Research Centre from the outside world.Yet behind the locked doors of E ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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