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Influence Without Authority is the classic guide to getting what you need from people you don't control. Getting things done requires collaboration, and convincing others to contribute requires political skill; this book introduces the Exchange Model, in which you get what you need by offering something of value in return. The key lies in knowing what the other person values--that's their "currency," and it's your immediate tool for coaxing their cooperation. This model has been proven over decades, as...

Marginalized by the scientific age the lessons of the senses have been overtaken by the dominance of language and the information revolution. With The Five Senses Serres traces a topology of human perception, writing against the Cartesian tradition and in praise of empiricism, he demonstrates repeatedly, and lyrically, the sterility of systems of knowledge divorced from bodily experience. The fragile empirical world, long resistant to our attempts to contain and catalog it, is disappearing beneath the relentless accumulations of late capitalist society and information technology....

In this book, Edward N. Zalta tackles the issues that arise in connection with intensional logic - a formal system for representing and explaining the apparent failures of certain important principles of inference - and intentional states - mental states such as beliefs, hopes, and desires, that are directed toward the world.His theory not only offers a unified explanation of the various kinds of inferential failures associated with intensional logic, but also unifies the study of intensional contexts and intentional states by grounding the explanation of both phenomena in a single...

Nine short story 'covers' of classic Tragically Hip songs, with evocative photos of the band and Canadiana in large-format hardcover.

From a Huron tribal village in 1633 to a high school cottage party outside Winnipeg, Tragically Hip, Twisted includes haunting, funny, touching, sexy and weird short story versions of Hip classics, including Locked in the Trunk of a Car, Looking for a Place to Happen, Scared, and more. Includes the National Post eBook of the Week, Lionized & Little Bones.

The stories were written over a span of...