A New York Times Notable BookAs late as 1999, women who succeeded in science were called “exceptional” as if it were unusual for them to be so bright. They were exceptional, not because they could...

A Favorite Book of 2016, Wall Street Journal2017 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Nonfiction (Finalist)2017 Day of Common Learning Selection, Seattle Pacific University2020 Diana Forsythe Prize...

How populism is fueled by the demise of the industrial order and the emergence of a new digital society ruled by algorithmsIn the revolutionary excitement of the 1960s, young people around the world...

An astonishing window into the inner world of plants, and the cutting-edge science in plant intelligence. Decades of research document plants' impressive abilities: they communicate with each other,...

"From facial recognition -- capable of checking people into flights or identifying undocumented residents -- to automated decision systems that inform who gets loans and who receives bail, each of us...

In The Sea We Swim In, Frank Rose leads us to a new understanding of stories and their role in our lives. For decades, experts from many fields--psychologists, economists, advertising and marketing...

A hack is any means of subverting a system's rules in unintended ways. The tax code isn't computer code, but a series of complex formulas. It has vulnerabilities; we call them "loopholes." We call...

An engaging journey into the biological principles underpinning a beloved science-fiction franchiseIn Star Trek, crew members travel to unusual planets, meet diverse beings, and encounter unique...

An introduction to the intellectual foundations and practical utility of the recent work on fairness and machine learning.Fairness and Machine Learning introduces advanced undergraduate and graduate...

A delightful intellectual feast from the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, The Order of Time, and Anaximander One of the world’s most prominent physicists and fearless free...

An electrifying biography of one of the most extraordinary scientists of the twentieth century and the world he made. The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game...

“A surprisingly fascinating scientific consideration of humanity’s most ordinary activity.” ―Ron Charles, Washington PostIn this “wonderful” (John Brandon, Forbes) book, neuroscientist Shane O’Mara...

A social history of AI that finally reveals its roots in the spatial computation of industrial factories and the surveillance of collective behaviour.What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the...

A New Scientist Best Book of 2023Featuring two hundred color plates, this history of the craft of scientific inquiry is as exquisite as the experiments whose stories it shares.This illustrated...

An indispensable guide for telling fact from fiction on the internet—often in less than 30 seconds.The internet brings information to our fingertips almost instantly. The result is that we often jump...

The neuroscience of why bad habits are so hard to break—and how evidence-based strategies can help us change our behavior more effectivelyWe all have habits we’d like to break, but for many of us it...