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Mindless: The Human Condition in the Machine Age
Robert Skidelsky - Other Press
Format: Hardcover
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This sweeping history of humanity's relationship with machines illuminates how we got here and what happens next, with AI, climate change, and beyond.. Faith in technological fixes for our problems is waning. Automation, which promised relief from toil, has reactivated the long-standing... |
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Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
John Grisham - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * In John Grisham's first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, "the master of the legal thriller" (Associated Press) teams up with Jim McCloskey, "the godfather of the innocence movement" (Texas Monthly) , to share ten harrowing... |
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At Every Depth: Our Growing Knowledge of the Changing Oceans
Tessa Hill - Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The world's oceans are changing at a drastic pace. Beneath the waves and along the coasts, climate change and environmental degradation have spurred the most radical transformations in human history. In response, the people who know the ocean most intimately are taking action for the sake... |
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Deep Water: The World in the Ocean
James Bradley - HarperOne
Format: Paperback
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"Deep Water is a major achievement....Bradley's skills both as novelist and essayist converge here to create this wise, compassionate and urgent book, characterized throughout by a clarity of prose and a bracing moral gaze that searches water, self and reader." - ROBERT MACFARLANE,... |
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Handmade: A Scientist's Search for Meaning through Making (Bloomsbury Sigma)
Anna Ploszajski - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Paperback
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A fresh and entertaining perspective on materials science involving the craftspeople who have built their careers around working with materials such as clay, stone, steel and wool.. From atomic structures to theories about magnetic forces, scientific progress has given us a good grasp on the properties... |
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Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
Anthony Harkins - West Virginia Univ Pr
Format: First Edition
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2020 American Book Award winner, Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award Weatherford Award winner, nonfiction. With hundreds of thousands of copies sold, a Ron Howard movie in the works, and the rise of its author as a media personality, J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family... |
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The Trilobite Collector's Guide
Andy Secher - Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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For more than 250 million years, the primeval oceans of the Paleozoic teemed with trilobites. These hardy invertebrates evolved into an astonishing array of separate species -- more than 25,000 at last count -- and much remains unknown about these once-ubiquitous creatures. Fossil enthusiasts... |
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I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine
Daniel J. Levitin - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Neuroscientist and New York Times best-selling author of This Is Your Brain on Music Daniel J. Levitin reveals the deep connections between music and healing.Music is one of humanity's oldest medicines. From the Far East to the Ottoman Empire, Europe to Africa and the pre-colonial Americas,... |
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Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
Serhii Plokhy - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A chilling account of more than half a century of nuclear catastrophes, by the author of the "definitive" (Economist) Cold War history, Nuclear Folly.Almost 145,000 Americans fled their homes in and around Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in late March 1979, hoping to save themselves... |
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Mountains of Fire: The Menace, Meaning, and Magic of Volcanoes
Clive Oppenheimer - University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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Meeting with volcanoes around the world, a volcanologist interprets their messages for humankind. In Mountains of Fire, Clive Oppenheimer invites readers to stand with him in the shadow of an active volcano. Whether he is scaling majestic summits, listening to hissing lava at the crater's... |
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