The smart-machines revolution is reshaping our lives and our societies. Here, Sir Nigel Shadbolt, one of the world's leading authorities …
In the author's words: "This book is an honest attempt to understand what it means to be educated in today's …
With a foreword by Nicholas Carr, author of the Pulitzer Prize–finalist The Shallows.Today, society embraces sharing like never before. Fueled …
The former Sex & Relationships Editor for Cosmopolitan and host of the wildly popular comedy show Tinder Live with Lane …
Ubiquitous, mobile supercomputing. Artificially-intelligent robots. Self-driving cars. Neuro-technological brain enhancements. Genetic editing. The evidence of dramatic change is all around …
A call-to-arms about the broken nature of artificial intelligence, and the powerful corporations that are turning the human-machine relationship on …
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Invisible Man tells you what you need to know—before …
Angela Keane addresses the work of five women writers of the 1790s and its problematic relationship with the canon of …
Every day, new warnings emerge about artificial intelligence rebelling against us. All the while, a more immediate dilemma flies under …
Why can’t our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the …
Pompey the Little, the canine narrator of this story, is a uniquely observant and witty guide to eighteenth-century culture, both …
I have read this book at least ten times. I learn something new each time. If you are trying to …
This refreshingly different introduction to media studies offers an understanding of the mass madia which is critical but which does …
The Second Edition of this book provides a comprehensive overview of the ways in which social theory has attempted to …
A comprehensive work on the art of China with the emphasis on antiquities. Many color illustrations of sculpture, ceramics and …
Publication Type: Collective monograph.First published 2015.ISBN 978-0-615-67156-7.DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.2858.1607.Publisher: KHUSAR Gr o u p.Project Manager: Khusainov R. V.Printed by: Publishing House …
Debt is one of the great subjects of our day, and understanding the way that it not only fuels economic …
This concise introduction provides an overview of the state of research on women's history in the early modern period. It …
A guide to understanding the inner workings and outer limits of technology and why we should never assume that computers …
The setting for this book is the networked community. The treatment of the subject matter is broad and interdisciplinary, with …
How should we understand the fear and fascination elicited by the accounts of communicable disease outbreaks that proliferated, following the …
In this work of paradigm changing social science, Bryce Laliberte lays out a new foundation which unifies the domains of …
In this book, Karl A. Peter perceives the Hutterites as an ongoing sociocultural entity constantly adapting to environmental, political, and …
Explores modern topics in graph theory and its applications to problems in transportation, genetics, pollution, perturbed ecosystems, urban services, and …
Since it appeared in 1971, John Rawls's A Theory of Justice has become a classic. The author has now revised …
'As one would expect from an author of Aronson's stature, The Social Animal is a book that is provocative and …
Organized to illustrate major themes of "The Social Animal", this collection of articles from psychological journals forms a companion for …
This book explains the rules of Roman law in the light of the society and economy in which it operated. …
21 Lessons for the 21st Century Yuval Noah Harari Vintage ISBN 9781473554719
The present volume is part of a general renaissance in the study of rhetoric and bears testimony to a discipline …
What position have television, radio and other electronic media like telephones and computers come to occupy in people's day-to-day lives …
This book, written in an accessible style and illustrated with drawings by the author and with many other images, discusses …
This book analyses representations of sustainable everyday life across advertising, eco-reality television, newspapers, magazines and social media. It foregrounds the …
