Demanding the Impossible
5 best books like Demanding the Impossible (Slavoj Žižek): iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It, Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It
| Author | Steve Wozniak |
| ISBN | 0393330435 |
"iWoz traces the life and times of a brilliant, gifted... individual whose contributions to the scientific, business and cultural realms are extensive."—Bookpage
Before slim laptops that fit into briefcases, computers looked like strange, alien vending machines. But in "the most...
Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career
Learn a new talent, stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and adapt to whatever the workplace throws your way. Ultralearning offers nine principles to master hard skills quickly. This is the essential guide to future-proof your career and maximize your competitive advantage through self-education.
In...
| Author | Walter Benjamin |
| ISBN | 0141036192 |
One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly - and what the troubling social and political implications of this are. Throughout history, some books...
The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution
| Author | Christopher Hitchens |
At the dawn of the new atheist movement, the thinkers who became known as “the four horsemen,” the heralds of religion's unraveling—Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett—sat down together over cocktails. What followed was a rigorous, pathbreaking, and...
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
| Author | Walter Benjamin |
| ISBN | 0805202412 |
Studies on contemporary art and culture by one of the most original, critical and analytical minds of this century. Illuminations includes Benjamin's views on Kafka, with whom he felt the closest personal affinity, his studies on Baudelaire and Proust (both of whom he translated), his essays on Leskov...
