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How To Think More About Sex
2023 || Paperback || Alain de Botton e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Think more about sex by thinking about it in a different way.
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How the World Made the West
A 4,000-Year History
2024 || Paperback || Quinn Josephine Quinn || Veltman Distributie Import Books
What does history look like without 'civilisations'? Josephine Quinn calls for a major reassessment of the West and the concepts that define it.
The West, history tells us, was built on the ideas and values of Ancient Greece and Rome, which disappeared from Europe during the Dark Ages and were then rediscovered by the Renaissance. In a bold and magisterial work of immense scope, Josephine Quinn argues that the true story of the West is much bigger than this established paradigm leads us to be...
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Ways of Being
Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
2023 || Paperback || James Bridle || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'Iridescently original, deeply disorientating and yet somehow radically hopeful ... worth reading and rereading' Brian Eno
'Be prepared to re-evaluate your relationship with the amazing life forms with whom we share the planet. Fascinating, innovative and thought provoking: I thoroughly recommend Ways of Being' Dr Jane Goodall, DBE
Recent years have seen rapid advances in 'artificial' intelligence, which increasingly appears to be something stranger than we ever imagined. At the same time, we...
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Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
2023 || Paperback || David J. Chalmers || Veltman Distributie Import Books
From one of our leading thinkers, a dazzling philosophical journey through virtual worlds
In the coming decades, the technology that enables virtual and augmented reality will improve beyond recognition. Within a century, world-renowned philosopher David J. Chalmers predicts, we will have virtual worlds that are impossible to distinguish from non-virtual worlds. But is virtual reality just escapism? In a highly original work of 'technophilosophy', Chalmers argues categorically, no: virtual re...