Technics and Civilization

6 best books like Technics and Civilization (Lewis Mumford): Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career, Lunch Poems, Revolution in Rojava: Democratic Autonomy and Women's Liberation in the Syrian Kurdistan, Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

Author	David Eagleman
ISBN	0307377342

At once funny, wistful and unsettling, Sum is a dazzling exploration of unexpected afterlives—each presented as a vignette that offers a stunning lens through which to see ourselves in the here and now. In one afterlife, you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. In...

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

Author	Jenny Odell
ISBN	1612197493

This thrilling critique of the forces vying for our attention re-defines what we think of as productivity, shows us a new way to connect with our environment and reveals all that we’ve been too distracted to see about our selves and our world.

When the technologies we use every day collapse...

Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career

Author

Scott H. Young

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...

Lunch Poems

Author	Frank O'Hara
ISBN	0872860353

Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, Floating Bear and stranger places.

Often this poet, strolling through the noisy splintered glare of a Manhattan noon, has paused at a sample Olivetti to type up thirty or forty lines of ruminations,...

Revolution in Rojava: Democratic Autonomy and Women's Liberation in the Syrian Kurdistan

Author	Michael Knapp
ISBN	0745336647

Given the widespread violence and suffering in Syria, it's not unreasonable that outsiders look at the situation as unrelentingly awful. And while the reality of the devastation is undeniable, there is  reason for hope in at least one small pocket of the nation: the cantons of Rojava in Syrian Kurdistan,...

Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence

Author

James Lovelock

James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time, has produced an astounding new theory about future of life on Earth. He argues that the anthropocene - the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale technologies - is, after 300 years, coming to an...