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Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
Mitchell, Melanie · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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No recent scientific enterprise has proved as alluring, terrifying, and filled with extravagant promise and frustrating setbacks as artificial intelligence. The award-winning author Melanie Mitchell, a leading computer scientist, now reveals its turbulent history and the recent surge of apparent... |
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The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini
Posnanski, Joe · Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Joe Posnanski enters the world of Harry Houdini and his legions of devoted fans in an immersive, entertaining, and magical work on the illusionist's impact on American culture - and why his legacy endures to this day.Harry... |
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A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind
Washington, Harriet A. · Little, Brown Spark
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful indictment of the notion of hereditary intelligence, A Terrible Thing to Waste shows how environmental racism drives the black-white IQ gap and explains what can be done to remedy its toxic effects on marginalized communities. The 1994 publication of the The Bell Curve and its controversial... |
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Exonerated: The Failed Takedown of President Donald Trump by the Swamp
Bongino, Dan · Post Hill Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of SPYGATE "No Collusion, No Obstruction, Complete and Total EXONERATION. KEEP AMERICA GREAT!" - President Donald J. TrumpAn explosive, whistle-blowing exposé, Exonerated: The Failed Takedown of Donald Trump by the Swamp reveals how Deep... |
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Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have
Schlossberg, Tatiana · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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From former New York Times Science writer Tatiana Schlossberg comes Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have, a fascinating and unexpectedly entertaining look at the way climate change and environmental pollution are intimately involved in our everyday... |
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On Fire: The
Klein, Naomi · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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#1 international and New York Times bestselling author Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything, makes the case for a Green New Deal - explaining how bold climate action can be a blueprint for a just and thriving society.For more than twenty years, Naomi Klein... |
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Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change
Dawson, Ashley · Verso
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
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A cutting exploration of how cities drive climate change while being on the frontlines of the coming climate crisisHow will climate change affect our lives? Where will its impacts be most deeply felt? Are we doing enough to protect ourselves from the coming chaos? In Extreme Cities, Ashley... |
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How to Fight Anti-Semitism
Bari Weiss · Crown
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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The prescient New York Times writer delivers an urgent wake-up call to all Americans exposing the alarming rise of anti-Semitism in this country - and explains what we can do to defeat it. "Stunning . . . Bari Weiss is heroic, fearless, brilliant and big-hearted. Most importantly,... |
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Pleased to Meet Me: Genes, Germs, and the Curious Forces That Make Us Who We Are
Bill Sullivan · National Geographic
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Why are you attracted to a certain "type?" Why are you a morning person? Why do you vote the way you do? From a witty new voice in popular science comes a clever, life-changing look at what makes you you."I can't believe I just said that." "What possessed me to do that?"... |
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