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The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information
Frank Pasquale · Harvard University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Every day, corporations are connecting the dots about our personal behavior -- silently scrutinizing clues left behind by our work habits and Internet use. The data compiled and portraits created are incredibly detailed, to the point of being invasive. But who connects the dots about what... |
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The Face of Britain: A History of the Nation Through Its Portraits
Simon Schama · Oxford University Press
Pages: 632
Format: Print book
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Author of a number of celebrated works, including the bestselling The Story of the Jews and Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, Simon Schama's latest book fuses history and art to create a tour de force of narrative sweep and illuminating insight. Using images from works-paintings,... |
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A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
Jennifer A Doudna · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A trailblazing biologist grapples with her role in the biggest scientific discovery of our era: a cheap, easy way of rewriting genetic code, with nearly limitless promise and peril. Not since the atomic bomb has a technology so alarmed its inventors that they warned the world about its use.... |
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Why Knowledge Matters: Rescuing Our Children from Failed Educational Theories
E D Hirsch · Harvard Education Press
Pages: 270
Format: Print book
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In Why Knowledge Matters, influential scholar E. D. Hirsch, Jr., addresses critical issues in contemporary education reform and shows how cherished truisms about education and child development have led to unintended and negative consequences. Hirsch, author of The Knowledge Deficit,... |
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The Art of Freedom: Teaching the Humanities to the Poor
Earl Shorris · W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A conversation in a prison cell sparks an ambitious undertaking to attack the roots of long-term poverty. Seeking answers to the toughest questions about poverty in the United States, Earl Shorris had looked everywhere. At last, one resounding answer came from a conversation with a woman... |
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Richard Posner
William Domnarski · Oxford University Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Judge Richard Posner is one of the great legal minds of our age, on par with such generation-defining judges as Holmes, Hand, and Friendly. A judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the principal exponent of the enormously influential law and economics movement, he writes... |
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Becoming an Architect
Lee W Waldrep · John Wiley & Sons
Pages: 350
Format: Paperback
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"Becoming an Architect will inspire future architects, career consultants, and human resources professionals alike, providing all the information you'll need to make intelligent decisions about careers in architecture." - From the Foreword by Helene Combs Dreiling, FAIA,... |
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Brick: A World History
James W P Campbell · Thames & Hudson
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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"A brilliant collaboration . . . The hundreds of color photographs are stunning in their clarity and composition. Highly recommended." -- Library Journal This totally original architecture book -- named 2004 Choice Outstanding Academic Title -- follows the story of brick from... |
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Best 380 colleges 2017.
Princeton Review. · Random House
Pages: 880
Format: Print book : English
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CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF HELPING STUDENTS SELECT THE PERFECT COLLEGE!The Princeton Review started publishing The Best Colleges in 1992 with surveys from 30,000 students. A quarter-century and more than a million student surveys later, we stand by our claim that there is no single "best"... |
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