
School Choice
An accessible guide to the major issues and arguments surrounding school choice. The issues and arguments surrounding school choice are sometimes h...
View full detailsAn accessible guide to the major issues and arguments surrounding school choice. The issues and arguments surrounding school choice are sometimes h...
View full detailsWhat beliefs are, what they do for us, how we come to hold them, and how to evaluate them. Our beliefs constitute a large part of our knowledge of ...
View full detailsThe idea of technological singularity, and what it would mean if ordinary human intelligence were enhanced or overtaken by artificial intelligence....
View full detailsA concise, nontechnical overview of the development of machine translation, including the different approaches, evaluation issues, and major player...
View full detailsA concise history of GPS, from its military origins to its commercial applications and ubiquity in everyday life. GPS is ubiquitous in everyday lif...
View full detailsHow the future has been imagined and made, through the work of writers, artists, inventors, and designers. The future is like an unwritten book. It...
View full detailsA guided tour through the Internet of Things, a networked world of connected devices, objects, and people that is changing the way we live and work...
View full detailsWhat extremism is, how extremist ideologies are constructed, and why extremism can escalate into violence. A rising tide of extremist movements thr...
View full detailsIn this provocative book, Robert Atkinson and Michael Lind argue that small business is not, as is widely claimed, the basis of American prosperity...
View full detailsPhotographs have been doctored since photography was invented. Dictators have erased people from photographs and from history. Politicians have man...
View full detailsAn astronaut returns to Earth after a ten-year mission and finds a society that he barely recognizes. Stanislaw Lem's Return from the Stars recount...
View full detailsTranslated by Michael Kandel A playful, witty, reflective memoir of childhood by the science fiction master Stanislaw Lem. With Highcastle, Stanisl...
View full detailsTranslated by Bill Johnston A space cruiser, in search of its sister ship, encounters beings descended from self-replicating machines. In the grand...
View full detailsTranslated by William Brand An early realist novel by Stanislaw Lem, taking place in a Polish psychiatric hospital during World War II. Taking plac...
View full detailsTranslated by Michael Kandel Scientists attempt to decode what may be a message from intelligent beings in outer space. By pure chance, scientists ...
View full detailsThe many books on globalization published over the past few years range from claims that the world is flat to an unlikely rehabilitation of Genghis...
View full detailsGrowth has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim of our individual and collective striving. It governs the lives of microorganisms and galaxies...
View full detailsMost of us feel at home in front of a computer; we own smartphones, tablets, and laptops; we look things up online and check social media to see wh...
View full detailsIn The Spider's Thread, Keith Holyoak looks at metaphor as a microcosm of the creative imagination. Holyoak, a psychologist and poet, draws on the ...
View full detailsIn this provocative book, Ramesh Srinivasan describes the internet as both an enabler of frictionless efficiency and a dirty tangle of politics, ec...
View full detailsTwitter offers a unique medium for creativity and curiosity for humans and machines. The tweets of Twitterbots, autonomous software systems that se...
View full detailsFinding opportunities for innovation on the path between farmer and table. Even if we think we know a lot about good and healthy food--even if we b...
View full detailsThe debate over genetically modified organisms: health and safety concerns, environmental impact, and scientific opinions. Since they were introduc...
View full detailsIn the vibrant downtown Manhattan art scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Taiwanese-American artist Tehching Hsieh made a series of extrao...
View full detailsEverybody eats. We may even consider ourselves experts on the topic, or at least Instagram experts. But are we aware that the shrimp in our freezer...
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