Books

An accessible guide to the major issues and arguments surrounding school choice. The issues and arguments surrounding school choice are sometimes h...

What 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 ...

The idea of technological singularity, and what it would mean if ordinary human intelligence were enhanced or overtaken by artificial intelligence....

A concise, nontechnical overview of the development of machine translation, including the different approaches, evaluation issues, and major player...

A concise history of GPS, from its military origins to its commercial applications and ubiquity in everyday life. GPS is ubiquitous in everyday lif...

How the future has been imagined and made, through the work of writers, artists, inventors, and designers. The future is like an unwritten book. It...

A 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...

What extremism is, how extremist ideologies are constructed, and why extremism can escalate into violence. A rising tide of extremist movements thr...

In this provocative book, Robert Atkinson and Michael Lind argue that small business is not, as is widely claimed, the basis of American prosperity...

Photographs have been doctored since photography was invented. Dictators have erased people from photographs and from history. Politicians have man...

An 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...

Translated by Michael Kandel A playful, witty, reflective memoir of childhood by the science fiction master Stanislaw Lem. With Highcastle, Stanisl...

Translated by Bill Johnston A space cruiser, in search of its sister ship, encounters beings descended from self-replicating machines. In the grand...

Translated by William Brand An early realist novel by Stanislaw Lem, taking place in a Polish psychiatric hospital during World War II. Taking plac...

Translated by Michael Kandel Scientists attempt to decode what may be a message from intelligent beings in outer space. By pure chance, scientists ...

The many books on globalization published over the past few years range from claims that the world is flat to an unlikely rehabilitation of Genghis...

Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim of our individual and collective striving. It governs the lives of microorganisms and galaxies...

Most 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...

In The Spider's Thread, Keith Holyoak looks at metaphor as a microcosm of the creative imagination. Holyoak, a psychologist and poet, draws on the ...

In this provocative book, Ramesh Srinivasan describes the internet as both an enabler of frictionless efficiency and a dirty tangle of politics, ec...

Twitter offers a unique medium for creativity and curiosity for humans and machines. The tweets of Twitterbots, autonomous software systems that se...

Finding 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...

The debate over genetically modified organisms: health and safety concerns, environmental impact, and scientific opinions. Since they were introduc...

In the vibrant downtown Manhattan art scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Taiwanese-American artist Tehching Hsieh made a series of extrao...

Everybody 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...