"Biological motion is the first book to study the foundational relationship between motion and life, unearthing the long history of motion as the signum of the living world from Aristotle's animal...

"A concise illustrated history of one of art's most important and elusive elements. Over the millennia, humans have used pigments to decorate, narrate, and instruct. Charred bone, ground earth,...

"Carbon is arguably humankind's most important chemical element - indeed, possibly the most important element in the universe. Created in the fiery furnaces of stars, carbon is the chemical backbone...

A new approach to the challenges surrounding artificial intelligence that argues for assessing AI actions as if they came from a human being“Elegant and erudite.”—John Thornhill, Financial...

This book offers a new account of what makes science special among other human pursuits, critically engaging with a variety of approaches, especially constructivist and relativist studies of science...

A revisionist look at Buckminster Fuller's early career, making the case that Fuller's most successful invention was that of his own image.Buckminster Fuller's fame reached its peak in the 1960s and...

Experience the drama of the explosive cosmos and the astonishing discoveries being made about the universe's wildest phenomena.The violent birth of the universe was only the first bang of a very...

1. Mark: Structure, Messianic Secret, And Genre -- 2. A Text Linguistic Method: Semantics, Pragmatics And Structure -- 3. A Linguistic Outline Of Mark -- 4. The Governing Speech Act And The Exegesis...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An exhilarating tour of humanity's next great technological achievement—quantum computing—which may supercharge artificial intelligence, solve some of humanity's biggest...

A concise introduction to cyborg theory that examines the way in which technology is situated, political, and embodied.This introduction to cyborg theory provides a critical vantage point for...

Why dominant racial and gender groups have preferential access to jobs in computing, and how feminist labor activism in computing culture can transform the field into a force that serves democracy...

In his bestselling first book, Eric Siegel explained how machine learning works. Now, in The AI Playbook, he shows how to capitalize on it."Eric Siegel delivers a robust primer on machine learning,...

Why grassroots data activists in Latin America count feminicide—and how this vital social justice work challenges mainstream data science.What isn’t counted doesn’t count. And mainstream institutions...

The fascinating, untold story of how the Chinese language overcame unparalleled challenges and revolutionized the world of computing.A standard QWERTY keyboard has a few dozen keys. How can Chinese—a...

If it can go wrong, it will--thus Murphy's Law. Science journalist Edward Tenner looks more closely at this eternal verity, named after a U.S. Air Force captain who, during a test of rocket-sled...

In this eye-opening chronicle of scientific research on the brain in the early Cold War era, the acclaimed historian Andreas Killen traces the complex circumstances surrounding the genesis of our...

Learn about the most important mathematical ideas, theorems, and movements in The Math Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy...