The first modern translation of the complete texts of La Mettrie's pioneering L'Homme machine and L'Homme plante, first published in 1747 and 1748, respectively

Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-51), author of Machine Man (1747), was the most uncompromising of the materialists of the eighteenth century, and the provocat

This new edition of what has become a standard account of Western expansion and technological dominance includes a new preface by the author that discusses how

From the craftsman behind the popular YouTube channel Primitive Technology comes a practical guide to building huts and tools using only natural materials from

A strikingly original exploration of what it might mean to be authentically human in the age of artificial intelligence, from the author of the critically-accla