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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

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Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Dated February 26, 1988, inscribed and signed to the title page "L. Neil Smith." States "First Printing; December 1986." Number line complete 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 -- the first printing. If the Plague of the 14th century had been worse -- if it had depopulated Europe sufficient to delay the European "discovery" of the Americas -- who would have ruled the world? The Caliph of Rome . . . or some weird, powerful, and bloodthirsty amalgam of the Chinese and the Aztecs, on the Western shore of the Americas -- The Crystal Empire? Alternative history, science fiction. 449 pp. Reduced from $47. Jacket art by David B. Mattingly (illustratore). Inscribed by Author(s).…

paperback. Condizione: Very Good. . Posted within 1 working day. Royal Mail Tracked 24 to UK. Tracked Airmail worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 28pp. Clean copy inside & out. No inscriptions. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. The Crystal Empire by L. Neil Smith (First Edition) A sharp tight copy. Light wear to spine ends. Very minor stain to front board. Bright pictorial dust jacket. Not price-clipped. David B. Mattingly(Cover Artist) (illustratore). Stated First Edition with number line 1-0. BOOK. …

Softcover/Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Number Of Pages: 28 Release Date: 01-12-1990 EAN: 9780853724759 Languages: English Binding: Paperback Item Condition: UsedVeryGood ISBN-13: 9780853724759 ISBN-10: 085372475X.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 28pp. Very clean copy inside & out. No inscriptions. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. First edition/printing. Book and dust jacket both in As New, unread condition. Nice wraparound dj art by Mattingly. An alternate history SF novel of Europe devastated by something greater than The Plague. David B. Mattingly (illustratore). …

Condizione: New.

Paper. Condizione: Very Good. 28 pages. Very good copy. Colour and black & white photographs and illustrations. Book.

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. What if big data is the modern occult?In The Magick of Big Data, Neil Mattingly draws a bold, rigorously argued parallel between the oldest human quest for hidden patterns and the computational systems that now shape everyday life. Search queries, purchase histories, GPS trails, biometric streams, social graphs, and algorithmic rankings are treated not merely as technical artifacts but as a new table of correspondences, a living informational astral plane, a planetary scrying surface, and an emergent egregore.Across twelve tightly linked essays, the book explores how databases function as Books of Correspondences, how algorithms act as diviners complete with error bars, how recommendation engines manufacture synchronicity at industrial scale, how the panopticon becomes a quasi-autonomous collective entity, and how the statistical unconscious of civilization is now continuously recorded and fed back into the world it describes. The culminating claim is stark: once data systems close the loop from observation to intervention at planetary scale, they cease to be passive mirrors and become active co-producers of the reality they measure-a planetary magical apparatus.Written for readers of chaos magick, Jung, media theory, and critical technology studies alike, the book pairs speculative depth with practical counsel: treat data as an oracle rather than a god, discipline apophenia, sabotage predictive enclosures, maintain an analog magical diary, and use prediction itself as a rigorous magical discipline.Neither a rejection of science nor a romanticization of the occult, The Magick of Big Data offers a clear-eyed map of the hybrid territory in which contemporary consciousness now moves-where the map has entered the territory and begun to rewrite it from within. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Belief is not a dogma to defend-it is a technology to be deployed.In The Chaos Life: Chaos Magick as a Philosophy of Belief, Action, and Transformation, Neil Mattingly strips away decades of archaic occultism, literalist metaphysics, and ritualistic bloat to reveal the functional core of Chaos Magick: a practical, highly adaptable cognitive technology for self-directed change.Drawing seamlessly across modern cognitive science, cybernetics, pragmatism, and information theory, Mattingly reframes magic not as supernatural intervention, but as an empirical discipline executed upon the human nervous system. From the tactical compression of desire via Austin Osman Spare's sigil mechanics to Robert Anton Wilson's model agnosticism and the deliberate modulation of belief systems, this book presents the self as an open laboratory.Designed non-linearly to be navigated like a landscape rather than read cover-to-cover, The Chaos Life offers a suite of conceptual tools to hijack expectation, bypass internal doubt, alter perspective, and navigate complex systems. Whether approached as an epistemological inquiry, a psychological framework, or a field guide to personal transformation, Mattingly demonstrates that when belief is treated as an instrument rather than an identity, the individual ceases to be a passive recipient of consensus reality-and becomes the experimenter. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Empires do not fall because of a single villain. Markets do not crash because of one bad decision. Bodies do not fail because of one broken part. Systems fail-and reorganize-according to patterns that repeat across centuries, scales, and domains.In Pattern and Pressure, Neil Mattingly examines forty pivotal cases through the lens of complex adaptive systems. From the Roman Empire's protocol-driven expansion and third-century crisis to the interconnected trade networks that made the Bronze Age collapse possible; from the Black Death's transmission along Mongol-era routes to the positive-feedback dynamics of inflation, financial contagion, and wealth inequality; from cancer as evolution inside the body to the microbiome as an ecological network; from the internet as a nervous system to data centers as civilization's energy-dependent memory and semiconductors as a concentrated supply-chain chokepoint-these essays reveal the same underlying architecture: feedback loops, scale mismatches, efficiency-resilience trade-offs, coevolution, and the quiet redistribution of function after shock.Written with the precision of a systems analyst and the narrative force of a historian, the collection refuses both monocausal explanations and vague metaphors. It treats Polybius's mixed constitution as an early damping mechanism, the Late Bronze Age palace economies as information-processing systems with no backup, the smartphone as a cognitive prosthesis, open-source software as emergent coordination, and computation itself as applied thermodynamics. The result is a unified account of how order emerges, hardens, becomes brittle, and sometimes survives in unexpected places.For readers of complex systems science, economic history, network theory, and anyone who suspects that the deepest patterns of the past still govern the present, Pattern and Pressure offers a rigorous, wide-ranging map of the forces that shape-and fracture-civilization. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. What kind of system would behave like The Fool? Or The Magician? Or The Moon?The Cybernetic Tarot answers that question with rigorous clarity. Neil Mattingly reinterprets the entire Major Arcana through the lenses of cybernetics, information theory, complex adaptive systems, and second-order observation. Each card becomes a precise structural diagram of forces, feedback, boundaries, entropy, agency, and emergence.Drawing on Norbert Wiener, W. Ross Ashby, Claude Shannon, Gregory Bateson, Humberto Maturana & Francisco Varela, Donella Meadows, and contemporary complexity science, the book treats the tarot not as fortune-telling or Jungian archetype catalog, but as a combinatorial symbolic language for modeling dynamic situations. The Fool is maximum-entropy exploration at a critical threshold. The Magician is an autopoietic transduction engine. The High Priestess is a latent-memory buffer and second-order observer. The Empress is generative positive-feedback metabolism. The Moon is signal inversion and predictive decoupling under noise. The Sun is hyper-transparent high-throughput resonance. Judgement is a global phase transition driven by a high-amplitude control signal. The World is metastable autopoietic homeostasis.Across twenty-two essays, Mattingly maps iconography onto system diagrams, analyzes feedback architectures, identifies failure modes, examines scale invariance from neural networks to organizations to ecosystems, and reframes classic cybernetic paradoxes of control. The result is both a radical new reading of the Major Arcana and a practical toolkit for thinking about agency, adaptation, and resilience in any complex system.For systems thinkers, complexity scientists, organizational designers, AI researchers, and anyone who has ever sensed that the tarot's enduring power lies in its capacity to model the non-linear dynamics of real situations, The Cybernetic Tarot offers a rigorous, illuminating, and unexpectedly practical framework. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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