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A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age: Scientific Habits of Mind
D J Helfand · Columbia University Press
Pages: 344
Format: Print book
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We live in the Information Age, with billions of bytes of data all just two swipes away. But how much of this is of value? How much is mis-, or even dis-information? Lots. And your search engine cannot tell the difference. As a result, an avalanche of misinformation threatens to overwhelm... |
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Maker Pro
John Baichtal · Maker Media, Inc; 1 edition
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Maker Pro is a book of essays by more than a dozen prominent and up-and-coming professional makers (Maker Pros). Each essay includes advice and stories on topics such as starting a kit-making business, taking a hardware project open-source, and plenty of encouragement to "quit your... |
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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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Making Contact: Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Sarah Scoles · Pegasus Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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For anyone who has ever looked up at the night sky and wondered, "Are we alone?" A brilliant examination of the science behind the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and its pioneer, Jill Tarter, the inspiration for the main character in Carl Sagan's Contact. Jill Tarter... |
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You Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future
Jonathon Keats · Oxford University Press, USA
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
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A compelling call to apply Buckminster Fuller's creative problem-solving to present-day problemsA self-professed "comprehensive anticipatory design scientist," the inventor Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was undoubtedly a visionary. Fuller's creations often bordered... |
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Web Words That Work: Writing Online Copy That Sells
Michael Miller · Pearson P T R
Pages: 283
Format: Print book
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Write great search-optimized, customer-optimized web copy! (No experience? No problem!) Need to put together a website? Or post to your company's Facebook page? Or write a great Google AdWords ad? You know it's important. Your image is at stake. Maybe a lot ofmoney, too. But you're... |
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The end of sex and the future of human reproduction
Henry T Greely · Harvard University Press
Pages: 381
Format: Print book
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Within twenty, maybe forty, years most people in developed countries will stop having sex for the purpose of reproduction. Instead, prospective parents will be told as much as they wish to know about the genetic makeup of dozens of embryos, and they will pick one or two for implantation,... |
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Beyond Earth: Our Path to a New Home in the Planets
Charles P Wohlforth · Pantheon Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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From a leading planetary scientist and an award-winning science writer: a propulsive account of the developments and initiatives that have transformed the dream of space colonization into something that may well be achievable.We are at the cusp of a golden age in space science, as increasingly... |
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Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations
Brandon L. Garrett · Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover
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American courts routinely hand down harsh sentences to individual convicts, but a very different standard of justice applies to corporations. Too Big to Jail takes readers into a complex, compromised world of backroom deals, for an unprecedented look at what happens when criminal charges... |
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Lesson Plan: An Agenda for Change in American Higher Education
William G Bowen · Princeton University Press
Pages: 184
Format: Print book
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American higher education faces some serious problems--but they are not the ones most people think. In this brief and accessible book, two leading experts show that many so-called crises--from the idea that typical students are drowning in debt to the belief that tuition increases are being... |
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Biophilic design : the theory, science, and practice of bringing buildings to life
Stephen R Kellert; Judith Heerwagen; Martin Mador · Wiley
Pages: 432
Format: Book
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Biophilic design is a new approach to sustainable development that incorporates the positive experience of nature into the design of the built environment. The definitive guide to this emerging practice of biophilic design, this book contains original and timely contributions from world-renowned... |
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