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"On a clear night, if you're lucky, you can look up at the sky and spot what looks like a star moving very fast. It is hard to fathom, but this is actually the International Space Station, traveling...

A new edition of a great, underappreciated classic of our timeBeryl Markham's West with the Night is a true classic, a book that deserves the same acclaim and readership as the work of her...

Ada Lovelace, the daughter of the famous romantic poet, Lord Byron, develops her creativity through science and math. When she meets Charles Babbage, the inventor of the first mechanical computer,...

For most of the last century, popular and scholarly common sense has equated American evangelicalism with across-the-board social, economic, and political conservatism. However, if a growing chorus...

This volume provides a concise and readable analysis of British tort law. Presenting the rules of tort against the background of other parallel systems of compensation, Dias and Markesinis explore...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more...

The works of Samuel Johnson, whom many consider the father of English criticism, are themselves the object of thousands of pages of critical commentary and analysis. Edward Tomarken's study traces...

Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present and future, and through the physics, astronomy and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his...

An acclaimed economist's fully revised and expanded guide to how resilient thinking helps us thrive in a world filled with unknown risks Risks are ubiquitous in our world. In recent years, a...

Named one of Lit Hub's most anticipated books of the year. A searing reflection on the last day of the Vietnam War and the beginning of the end of foreign reporting in the nation's daily newspapers...

Henri Matisse (1869–1954) is one of the most original and beloved French artists, his colorfully luminescent paintings a stirring affirmation of life, levity, and sensitivity. This book reproduces a...

Many consider the nature of human consciousness to be one of the last great unsolved mysteries. Why should the light turn on, so to speak, in human beings at all? And how is the electrical storm of...

A Modern Legal Ethics proposes a wholesale renovation of legal ethics, one that contributes to ethical thought generally. Daniel Markovits reinterprets the positive law governing lawyers to identify...

Torso is an amazing collection of work spanning 16 years, that documents the burgeoning tattoo phenomenon across the United States and Pacific Islands; these photographs are slick and darkly...

Where did we come from? What does it all mean? The world does not exist. But, that does not mean that nothing exists. With vivid examples, experiments, mental acuity and provocative spirit, the...

In 2013 California, environmental scientist Tony Pietrus, after receiving a death threat, is linked to a colorful cast of characters, including a brazen young activist who, in the mountains of...

Die friedliche Revolution in der DDR hatte bekanntlich viele Väter, und zu ihnen gehörte auch, so sieht das jedenfalls Hans Modrow, der langjährige DDR-Spionagechef Markus Wolf. Es mag ja heute...

Our massive, global system of consumption is broken. Our individual relationship with our stuff is broken. In each of our homes, some stuff is broken. And the strain of rampant consumerism and...