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
In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome grew into the Mediterranean's premier military... Zobraziť viac
In this fifth edition of Basic Economics , Thomas Sowell revises and updates his popular book on common sense economics... 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
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
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
Trauma and Recovery is the foundational text on understanding trauma survivors... 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
An eminent psychologist argues that gesture, long overlooked, is essential to how we think We all know people who talk with their hands-but do they know what they're saying with them? ... Zobraziť viac
Across the world today, people of all ages are doing fascinating, creative, messy things with gender. These people have a rich history - but one that is often left behind by narratives of trans lives that focus on people with... 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
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
Neanderthal Man tells the story of geneticist Svante Paabo's mission to answer this question: what can we learn from the genomes of our closest evolutionary relatives? Beginning with the study of DNA in Egyptian mummies in the early 1980s and... Zobraziť viac
We've decided by consensus that consensus is good. In In Defense of Troublemakers, psychologist Charlan Nemeth argues that... Zobraziť viac
In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia presents a lively, accessible introduction to the art of listening to jazz... Zobraziť viac
Around 2000, people began to believe that books were on verge of extinction. Their obsolescence, in turn, was expected to doom the habits of mind that longform print had once prompted: the capacity to follow a demanding idea from start to finish, to look Zobraziť viac
In The Interpretation of Cultures, the most original anthropologist of his generation moved far beyond the traditional confines of his discipline to develop an important new concept of culture. This groundbreaking book, winner of the 1974 Sorokin Awa Zobraziť viac
What happens when a young child is traumatized? How does terror affect a child's mind-and how can that mind recover... Zobraziť viac
The principles of the French Revolution remain the only possible basis for a just society — even if, after more than two hundred years, they are more contested than ever before. In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account... Zobraziť viac
