For however smart your Roomba or Alexa might seem, historically, robots have been fairly dumb. They are only able to do their jobs when given a narrow set of tasks, confined in a controlled environment, and overseen by a human operator... Zobraziť viac
From a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe, a new history of Russian imperialism. In 2014, Russia annexed the Crimea and attempted to seize a portion of Ukraine. While the world watched in outrage... Zobraziť viac
In So You Want to Talk About Race, editor-at-large of The Establishment Ijeoma Oluo offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in America, addressing head-on such issues as privilege... Zobraziť viac
In Never Home Alone, biologist Rob Dunn takes us to the edge of biology's latest frontier: our own homes. Every house is a wilderness — from the Egyptian meal moths in our kitchen cupboards and the yeast in a sourdough starter, to the camel crickets... Zobraziť viac
A global history of free speech, from the ancient world to today... Zobraziť viac
The whole thing was basically an experiment, Richard Feynman said late in his career, looking back on the origins of his lectures. The experiment turned out to be hugely successful, ... Zobraziť viac
In this fifth edition of Basic Economics , Thomas Sowell revises and updates his popular book on common sense economics... Zobraziť viac
Data, data, data: It's all one ever hears about these days. Science is all about big data. Our bosses call out for analytics, whatever those might be.And everyone wants to predict what will happen next. Can we accurately predict if a company's ... Zobraziť viac
First published in 1999, Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks and the coffee crisis of the 21st century. Mark Pendergrast uses coffee production, trade, ... Zobraziť viac
In the book that he was born to write, provocateur and best-selling author Christopher Hitchens inspires future generations... Zobraziť viac
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was the sixteenth emperor of Rome — and by far the most powerful and wealthy man in the world. Yet he was also an intensely private person, with a rich interior life and deep reservoirs of personal insight... Zobraziť viac
A leading conservative thinker argues that a nationalist order is the only realistic safeguard of liberty in the world today. Nationalism is the issue of our age. From Donald Trump's "America First" ... Zobraziť viac
We've decided by consensus that consensus is good. In In Defense of Troublemakers, psychologist Charlan Nemeth argues that... Zobraziť viac
Europe is caught in its greatest crisis since the Second World War. The catalogue of ills seems endless: an economic crisis... Zobraziť viac
A visit to a physician these days is cold: physicians spend most of their time typing at computers, making minimal eye contact. Appointments generally last only a few minutes, with scarce time for the doctor to connect to a patient's story, ... Zobraziť viac
In this "provocative" book (New York Times), a contrarian physicist argues that her field's modern obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but bad science... Zobraziť viac
We have long been suspicious of corporations recklessly pursuing profit and amassing wealth and power... Zobraziť viac
In 2014, California suffered the largest and deadliest outbreak of pertussis, also known as "whooping cough," in more than fifty years. This tragedy was avoidable. An effective vaccine has been available since the 1940s... Zobraziť viac
A radical new proposal for creating community and purpose in the post-pandemic workplace from one of the foremost thinkers in business and organisations... Zobraziť viac
Playing on the phrase "a theory of everything" in physics, Michael Muthukrishna's ambitious, original and deeply hopeful book, offers a unified theory of human behavior, culture, and society - a theory of everyone... Zobraziť viac
