Posts from the ‘Technology’ Category

New Books

• Futuristic cars and space bicycles : contesting the road in American science fiction / Jeremy Withers
  Given the extensive influence of the 'transport revolution' on the past two centuries (a time when trains, trams, omnibuses, bicycles, cars, airplanes, and so forth were invented), and given science fiction's overall obsession with machines and technologies of all kinds, it is surprising that scholars have not paid more attention to transporta […]
• The art of Torah cantillation : Ta-amei Hamikra = Ṭaʻame ha-Miḳra : a step-by-step guide to chanting Torah / Marshall Portnoy, Josée Wolff
• The Elgar companion to John Maynard Keynes / edited by Robert W. Dimand, Harald Hagemann
  The most influential and controversial economist of the twentieth century, John Maynard Keynes was the leading founder of modern macroeconomics, and was also an important historical figure as a critic of the Versailles Peace Treaty after World War I and an architect of the Bretton Woods international monetary system after World War II. This comprehensive Com […]
• Food studies : a hands-on guide / Willa Zhen
  Traditional food studies textbooks tend to emphasize theoretical concepts and text-based approaches. Yet food is sensor, tactile, and experiential. Food Studies: A Hands-On Guide is the first book to provide a practical introduction to food studies. Offering a unique, innovative approach to learning and teaching, Willa Zhen presents creative hands-on activit […]
• Stress less, accomplish more : the 15-minute meditation programme for extraordinary performance / Emily Fletcher
  You know you should be meditating, so what's stopping you? This entertaining and enlightening book by the founder of Ziva Meditation will finally take meditation mainstream. Filled with fascinating real-life transformations, interactive exercises, and practical knowledge, Emily Fletcher introduces you to a relevatory daily practice and shows you how to […]