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Ben Lerner
Deftly shifting perspectives and time periods, The Topeka School is a riveting story about the challenges of raising a good son in a culture of toxic masculinity.
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Veering between the comic and tragic, the self-contemptuous and the inspired, Leaving the Atocha Station is a dazzling introduction to one of the smartest, funniest and most audacious writers of…
Shortlisted for the Folio Prize and internationally celebrated by critics and readers alike, here is a dazzling and utterly original novel about making art, love, and children during the twilight…
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From the author of the bestselling novels Leaving the Atocha Station and 10:04, here is a dazzling collection of award-winning poetry - available for the first time to readers beyond…
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The novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its nagging relevance.
From the celebrated author of The Topeka School, a collection of poetry that is dazzlingly intelligent, moving and speaks directly to our complex times.
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Included in the BEST OF GRANTA launch list for 2023: this story of a young American abroad and adrift is a hilarious, intelligent cult classic, from one of the most…
Longlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize A New Yorker Essential Read Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Vulture, NPR, Financial Times, The Telegraph, and Electric…
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Andrew Pickering, Katherine Hayles
Cybernetics for the 21st Century Vol.1 is dedicated to the epistemological reconstruction of cybernetics, consisting of a series of historical and critical reflections on the subject - which according to…
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John Ashbery
Collects five long, serial poems which the American master John Ashbery left unfinished.
Helen Garner
A captivating and deeply personal novel from one of Australia’s most respected authors, now available in a smaller and competitively priced format.
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Ben Hoare
Meerkats don't really need menus, but you can use the ones in this book to discover what ten different kinds of animals in various habitats all over the world like…
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Yuk Hui
This book is an investigation of algorithmic contingency and an elucidation of the contemporary situation that we are living in: the regular arrival of algorithmic catastrophes on a global scale…
Art and Cosmotechnics addresses the challenge of technology to the existence of art and traditional thought, especially in light of current discourses on artificial intelligence and robotics –
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How can digital objects be understood according to individualization and individuation? Yuk Hui creates a dialogue between Martin Heidegger and Gilbert Simondon and contextualizes it within the history of computing…
Yuk Hui (Leuphana University)
A systematic historical survey of Chinese thought is followed by an investigation of the historical-metaphysical questions of modern technology, asking how Chinese thought might contribute to a renewed questioning of…
In Body by God, Dr. Lerner offers a comprehensive plan for getting in touch with our bodies in four areas: nutrition, exercise, stress management, and time management. His ‘5-in-5’ plan…
Library Journal honored Lerner’s debut volume as a Book of the Year.
No more dependence on cold medicines, prescription pills, and anti-depressants. With One-Minute Wellness, you will revitalize every area of your well-being. And the bonus fiction story uniquely illustrates the authors’…
An exhilarating collection of the award-winning poetry that helped establish Ben Lerner as one of the most searching, ambitious and formally inventive writers working today
Winner of the Hayden Carruth Award uses broken sonnets to explore complex juxtapositions of contemporary culture.
National Book Award finalist’s third volume is layered with quick changes, false starts, and continuous reorientation
From a National Book Award finalist, this hilarious and profound first novel captures the angst of the young American abroad.
In The Hatred of Poetry, Lerner has crafted an entertaining, personal, and entirely original examination of a vocation no less essential for being impossible.
From the award-winning author of 10:04 and Leaving the Atocha Station comes a tender and expansive family drama set in the American Midwest at the turn of the century: a…
Ben Hui
Energy efficiency and building conservation are both key aspects of sustainability. Increasingly, the concern is not only to achieve good levels of energy efficiency by improving the fabric and the…
Andreas Broeckmann,Yuk Hui
In 1985, the French philosopher Jean-Francois Lyotard curated a groundbreaking exhibition called Les Immateriaux at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The exhibition showed how telecommunication technologies were beginning to impact…
This volume reflects on the meaning and the implications of Yuk Hui's notion of cosmotechnics, which opens up an anti-universalist and pluralist perspective on technology beyond the West.
This volume reflects on the meaning and the implications of Yuk Hui’s notion of cosmotechnics, which opens up an anti-universalist and pluralist perspective on technology beyond the West.
FINALISTA DEL PREMIO PULITZER Y DEL NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
GANADORA DE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE
UNO DE LOS MEJORES DIEZ LIBROS DEL ANO SEGUN THE NEW YORK…
"An inventive, acutely political, and deeply personal new collection by the celebrated author of 10:04 and The Topeka Schoool"--
Dr Ben Lerner
Statistically, best-selling author and doctor Ben Lerner should have ended up like his parents–sick, addicted to nicotene and dead of a heart attack or stroke by the time he hit…
A successful author, entrepreneur and chiropractor, Dr. Ben Lerner is also a self-described graduate of the school of hard knocks. But if he has his way, you will avoid some…
Originally published: New York: Faber and Faber, Inc., 2014.
Ben Hui Liu
Genomics, the mapping of the entire genetic complement of an organism, is a frontier in biology. This handbook on the statistical issues of genomics covers methods and classical approaches.
Adam Colman
A quick-witted how to manual for anyone who wants to understand autofiction Literary Nonfiction. A brave new mode of literature has been emerging in the work of Sheila Heti, Karl…
Bryan Citrin
No matter where you are in life, you may living far below your intended purpose. God is looking for big thinkers. You’re called to accomplish and experience greater things than…
Rosmarie Waldrop
A novel set in Germany, 1926. Frederika, unhappy with her husband, takes his best friend, a Jew, for a lover, triggering her husband’s anti-Semitism and involving him in conflict with…
A captivating and deeply personal novel from one of Australia’s most respected authors.
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