
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 detailsAn accessible introduction to the basics of macroeconomics and how it affects the local and global economies. Macroeconomics takes a broad perspect...
View full detailsAn accessible, nontechnical overview of active touch sensing, from sensory receptors in the skin to tactile surfaces on flat screen displays. Hapti...
View full detailsA short, informal account of our ever-increasing dependence on a complex multiplicity of messages, records, documents, and data. We live in an info...
View full detailsA biography of two troublesome words. Isn't it ironic? Or is it? Never mind, I'm just being sarcastic (or am I?). Irony and sarcasm are two of the ...
View full detailsA concise overview of machine learning-computer programs that learn from data-which underlies applications that include recommendation systems, fac...
View full detailsA concise and accessible guide to techniques for detecting doctored and fake images in photographs and digital media. Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Mussolin...
View full detailsAn accessible introduction to the history, fundamental concepts, challenges, and controversies of the fMRI by one of the pioneers in the field. The...
View full detailsA comprehensive overview of developments in augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality-and how they could affect every part of our lives...
View full detailsWhy cloud computing represents a paradigm shift for business, and how business users can best take advantage of cloud services. Most of the informa...
View full detailsHow networked technology enables the emergence of a new collaborative society. Humans are hard-wired for collaboration, and new technologies of com...
View full detailsA compact and accessible history, from punch cards and calculators to UNIVAC and ENIAC, the personal computer, Silicon Valley, and the Internet. Th...
View full detailsA concise introduction to crowdsourcing that goes beyond social media buzzwords to explain what crowdsourcing really is and how it works. Ever sinc...
View full detailsWhat happens when people turn their everyday experience into data: an introduction to the essential ideas and key challenges of self-tracking. Peop...
View full detailsA concise history of spaceflight, from military rocketry through Sputnik, Apollo, robots in space, space culture, and human spaceflight today. Spac...
View full detailsKey concepts, definitions, examples, and historical contexts for understanding smart cities, along with discussions of both drawbacks and benefits ...
View full detailsEverything you always wanted to know about MOOCs: an account of massive open online courses and what they might mean for the future of higher educa...
View full detailsA concise introduction to the basics of open access, describing what it is (and isn't) and showing that it is easy, fast, inexpensive, legal, and b...
View full detailsAn exploration of quantum entanglement and the ways in which it contradicts our everyday assumptions about the ultimate nature of reality. Quantum ...
View full detailsAn overview of recycling as an activity and a process, following different materials through the waste stream. Is there a point to recycling? Is re...
View full detailsAn accessible and engaging account of robots, covering the current state of the field, the fantasies of popular culture, and implications for life ...
View full detailsEverything we need to know about metadata, the usually invisible infrastructure for information with which we interact every day. When "metadata" b...
View full detailsTaking "Gangnam Style" seriously: what Internet memes can tell us about digital culture. In December 2012, the exuberant video "Gangnam Style" beca...
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 detailsHow food pantries stigmatize their clients through a discourse that emphasizes hard work, self help, and economic productivity rather than food jus...
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 detailsIn Artificial Unintelligence, Meredith Broussard argues that our collective enthusiasm for applying computer technology to every aspect of life has...
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...
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