How inclusive methods can build elegant design solutions that work for all.Sometimes designed objects reject their users: a computer mouse that doesn't work for left-handed people, for example, or a touchscreen payment system that only works for people wh Zobraziť viac
A cartography of fragrance that charts the botany and geography of perfume composition... Zobraziť viac
A comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel-driven civilization... Zobraziť viac
How to use design as a tool to create not only things but ideas, to speculate about possible futures. Today designers often focus on making technology easy to use, sexy, and consumable... Zobraziť viac
Oil is the lifeblood of the modern world. Without it, there would be no planes, no plastic, no exotic produce, and a global political landscape few would recognise... Zobraziť viac
How legacy firms can combine their traditional strengths with the power of data and digital ecosystems to forge a new competitive strategy for the digital era... Zobraziť viac
The first English translation of a nonfiction work by Stanisław Lem, which was "conceived under the spell of cybernetics" in 1957 and updated in 1971... Zobraziť viac
MIT Press: This is a book that students of architecture will want to keep in the studio and in their backpacks. It is also a... Zobraziť viac
Twelve stories by science fiction master Stanisław Lem, nine of them never before published in English.Of these twelve short stories by science fiction master Stanisław Lem, only three have previously appeared in English, making this... Zobraziť viac
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 Zobraziť viac
How human behavior brought our world to the brink, and how human behavior can save us... Zobraziť viac
What if modern society put a priority on the material security of its citizens and the ecological integrity of its resource base? What if it took ecological constraint as a given, not a hindrance but a source of long-term economic security? How would... Zobraziť viac
Connections and clashes between new and old media, as told by interviewees ranging from the founder of Twitter to the publisher of the New York Times... Zobraziť viac
By pure chance, scientists detect a signal from space that may be communication from rational beings. How can people of Earth understand this message, knowing nothing about the senders—including whether or not they even exist?... Zobraziť viac
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... Zobraziť viac
The extraordinary life and death-defying work of one of the most important and pioneering performance artists in contemporary art... Zobraziť viac
