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Artificial Intelligence: Modern Magic or Dangerous Future?, the Illustrated Edition
$29.95 Read moreA fascinating, richly illustrated journey through the history of artificial intelligence–and an honest assessment of our future alongside it.
Artificial intelligence has long been a mainstay of scien- Author: Wilks, Yorick A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0262545454
- Language: English
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Happiness
$16.95 Add to cart“A short, reader-friendly treatment of happiness from a leading figure in positive psychology”–
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Lomas, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0262544202
- Language: English
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Democracy in a Hotter Time: Climate Change and Democratic Transformation
$24.95 Read moreThe first major book to deal with the dual crises of democracy and climate change as one interrelated threat to the human future and to identify a path forward.
Democracy in a Hotter Time calls for re- Author: Orr, David W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0262048590
- Language: English
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The Beauty of Games
$24.95 Read more“A general-readership book about games as an aesthetic form – how to think about the ways in which they create beauty and meaning and exploring the special role they have to play in our present histor
- Series: Playful Thinking
- Author: Lantz, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: October 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 0262048531
- Language: English
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Critical Thinking
$17.95 Add to cartAn insightful guide to the practice, teaching, and history of critical thinking–from Aristotle and Plato to Thomas Dewey–for teachers, students, and anyone looking to hone their critical thinking sk
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Haber, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 07, 2020
- ISBN10: 0262538288
- Language: English
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Algorithms
$16.95 Add to cartAn accessible introduction to algorithms, explaining not just what they are but how they work, with examples from a wide range of application areas.
Digital technology runs on algorithms, sets of instr
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Louridas, Panos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 262539020
- Language: English
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A Theory of Everyone: The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going
$32.95 Read moreA blueprint for a better future that offers a unified theory of human behavior, culture, and society.
Playing on the phrase “a theory of everything” from physics, Michael Muthukrishna’s ambitious, ori- Author: Muthukrishna, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 31, 2023
- ISBN10: 026204837X
- Language: English
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Cloud Computing, Revised and Updated Edition
$16.95 Add to cart“Why cloud computing represents a paradigm shift for business, and how business users can best take advantage of cloud services”–
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Ruparelia, Nayan B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0262546477
- Language: English
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Post-Truth
$16.95 Add to cartHow we arrived in a post-truth era, when “alternative facts” replace actual facts, and feelings have more weight than evidence.
Are we living in a post-truth world, where “alternative facts” replace ac
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: McIntyre, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: February 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0262535041
- Language: English
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The Curie Society, Volume 2: Eris Eternal
$22.95 Add to cart“Maya, Taj, and Simone are supposed to be spending their summer broadening their horizons, but their plans take a strange and puzzling turn when the Curie Society’s original chapter at the Sorbonne in… [more below]
- Series: The Curie Society
- Author: Einhorn, Heather
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0262544377
- Language: English
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The Phantom Scientist
$24.95 Read moreA mind-bending graphic novel that teases devious thrills from the mysteries of systems theory.
An isolated institute laid out in a Fibonacci sequence, hidden deep in the forest. Twenty-four labs. Twen- Author: Cousin, Robin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 0262047861
- Language: English
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Graphic Artists Guild Handbook, 16th Edition: Pricing & Ethical Guidelines
$49.95 Add to cartThe industry bible for communication design and illustration professionals, with updated information, listings, and pricing guidelines.
Graphic Artists Guild Handbook is the industry bible for communi- Author: The Graphic Artists Guild
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 0262542390
- Language: English
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The Myth That Made Us: How False Beliefs about Racism and Meritocracy Broke Our Economy (and How to Fix It)
$34.95 Read moreHow our false narratives about post-racism and meritocracy have been used to condone egregious economic outcomes–and what we can do to fix the system.
The Myth That Made Us exposes how false narrativ- Author: Fuhrer, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 12, 2023
- ISBN10: 0262048396
- Language: English
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Seeing the Mind: Spectacular Images from Neuroscience, and What They Reveal about Our Neuronal Selves
$36.95 Read moreA lavishly illustrated and accessibly explained deep dive into the major new findings from cognitive neuroscience.
Who are we? To this age-old question, contemporary neuroscience gives a simple answer- Author: Dehaene, Stanislas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0262048442
- Language: English
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The Agony of Eros
$14.95 Add to cartAn argument that love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other.
Byung-Chul Han is one of the most widely read philosophers in Europe today, a member of the new
- Series: Untimely Meditations #1
- Author: Han, Byung-Chul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: April 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0262533375
- Language: English
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The Invincible
$18.95 Add to cartA space cruiser, in search of its sister ship, encounters beings descended from self-replicating machines.
In the grand tradition of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, Stanislaw Lem’s The Invincible tells th
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Lem, Stanislaw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: 18-Feb-20
- ISBN10: 0262538474
- Language: English
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101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
$19.95 Add to cartConcise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process, and presentation, from the basics of “How to Draw a Line” to the complexities of color theory.
This is a book that students of architecture wil
- Series: 101 Things I Learned
- Author: Frederick, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: August 31, 2007
- ISBN10: 0262062666
- Language: English
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Deep Learning
$18.95 Add to cartAn accessible introduction to the artificial intelligence technology that enables computer vision, speech recognition, machine translation, and driverless cars.
Deep learning is an artificial intellige
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Kelleher, John D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0262537559
- Language: English
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AI Ethics
$17.95 Add to cartThis overview of the ethical issues raised by artificial intelligence moves beyond hype and nightmare scenarios to address concrete questions–offering a compelling, necessary read for our ChatGPT era… [more below]
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Coeckelbergh, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0262538199
- Language: English
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Notebooks of a Wandering Monk
$39.95 Read moreThe memoirs of renowned Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard and his extraordinary journey toward inner freedom and compassion in action.
Matthieu Ricard began his spiritual transformation at the age of twen- Author: Ricard, Matthieu
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0262048299
- Language: English
