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Robot-Proof, Revised and Updated Edition: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
$24.95 Add to cartA fresh look at a “robot-proof” education in the new age of generative AI.
In 2017, Robot-Proof, the first edition, foresaw the advent of the AI economy and called for a new model of higher education
- Author: Aoun, Joseph E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0262549859
- Language: English
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Dream Machine: A Portrait of Artificial Intelligence
$29.95 Read moreA graphic novel about the promises and perils of AI.
Hugo, a Parisian entrepreneur, has launched his startup on Large Language Model technology at the heart of the revolution embodied by ChatGPT. On t- Author: Appupen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0262551292
- Language: English
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Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure
$19.95 Read more“Smil presents the long history and modern infatuation with invention and innovation. Meticulous as always, these vast realms of human ingenuity are organized into sensible categories: inventions that… [more below]
- Author: Smil, Vaclav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0262551012
- Language: English
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Endangered Languages
$16.95 Add to cartA concise, accessible introduction to language endangerment and why it is one of the most urgent challenges of our times.
58% of the world’s languages–or, approximately 4,000 languages–are endangere
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Adamou, Evangelia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0262548704
- Language: English
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101 Things to Learn in Art School
$16.95 Add to cartLessons, demonstrations, definitions, and tips on what to expect in art school, what it means to make art, and how to think like an artist.
What is the first thing to learn in art school? “Art can be
- Author: White, Kit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0262547465
- Language: English
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The Lies of the Artists: Essays on Italian Art, 1450-1750
$39.95 Read moreLuminous essays on artists of the Italian Renaissance by one of our most inspired writers on the history and making of art.
In the three centuries from 1450 to 1750 painters, sculptors, and architects
- Author: Rowland, Ingrid D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: December 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0262549093
- Language: English
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Hunting: A Cultural History
$16.95 Read moreThe history of hunting, from Stone Age hunter-gatherers to today’s sport hunters.
Hunting has a long history, beginning with our hominid ancestors. The invention of the spear allowed early humans to g- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Dizard, Jan E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 026254329X
- Language: English
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The Cost of Conviction: How Our Deepest Values Lead Us Astray
$29.95 Add to cartA timely and important perspective on how people frame decisions and how relying on sacred values unwittingly leads to social polarization.
When you are faced with a decision, do you consider the best- Author: Sloman, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0262049821
- Language: English
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The Saucerian: Ufos, Men in Black, and the Unbelievable Life of Gray Barker
$32.95 Read moreThe strange, but true biography of the colorful founder of Saucerian Books, a central purveyor and promoter of flying saucer and conspiracist knowledge in the mid-twentieth century.
Gray Barker (1925-- Author: McKee, Gabriel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 0262049546
- Language: English
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The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience
$22.95 Add to cartA compelling argument for including the human perspective within science, and for how human experience makes science possible.
“This is by far the best book I’ve read this year.”
–Michael Pollan, Prof- Author: Frank, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0262553031
- Language: English
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Target Earth: Meteorites, Asteroids, Comets, and Other Cosmic Intruders That Threaten Our Planet
$21.95 Add to cartAn acclaimed science writer tells the story of cosmic projectiles that may be on a collision course with our Earth.
The impact of an asteroid led to the extinction of the dinosaurs. Could another gian- Author: Schilling, Govert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0262551349
- Language: English
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Raising AI: An Essential Guide to Parenting Our Future
$32.95 Add to cartFrom the pioneer of translation AIs like Google, Yahoo, and Bing translate, an accessible and authoritative guide to AI–as well as a framework of empowerment for a future with our artificial children… [more below]
- Author: Kai, de
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 262049767
- Language: English
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Ruth Asawa and the Artist-Mother at Midcentury
$49.95 Add to cartHow a group of artist-mothers in postwar San Francisco refused the centuries-old belief that a woman could not make art while also raising children.
For most of modern history, to be an artist and a m- Author: Troeller, Jordan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 026204949X
- Language: English
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Particles of Truth: A Story of Discovery, Controversy, and the Fight for Healthy Air
$29.95 Add to cartA compelling, real-life account of how scientists uncovered air pollution’s deadly impact on human health–and the contentious battles to use key scientific evidence in the critical fight for clean ai… [more below]
- Author: Pope, C. Arden
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0262551675
- Language: English
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Mother Media: Hot and Cool Parenting in the Twentieth Century
$34.95 Add to cartAn essential history for understanding how we mother now, and how motherhood itself became a medium–winner of the Brooke Hindle Award from the Society for the History of Technology.
From the nursery- Author: Zeavin, Hannah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0262049554
- Language: English
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An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions
$39.95 Add to cartA searing indictment of the American public health, media, and political establishments’ decision-making process behind pandemic school closures.
An Abundance of Caution is a devastating account of th- Author: Zweig, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 262549158
- Language: English
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More Butch Heroes
$24.95 Read moreThe much-anticipated sequel to Butch Heroes, an ingenious retelling of history that combines portraits and texts to recover–and celebrate–queer subjects from around the world.
Ingeniously conceived,- Author: Brodell, Ria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0262049872
- Language: English
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Her Space, Her Time: How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe
$22.95 Add to cartAn exciting new title in the vein of Hidden Figures, which tells the inspiring stories of long-overlooked women physicists and astronomers who discovered the fundamental rules of the universe and resh… [more below]
- Author: Ghose, Shohini
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 026255299X
- Language: English
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The Computer Always Wins: A Playful Introduction to Algorithms Through Puzzles and Strategy Games
$22.95 Add to cartAn engaging and approachable resource for beginning-to-intermediate coders eager to learn advanced ideas in computer programming.
In The Computer Always Wins, Elliot Lichtman will teach you some of co- Author: Lichtman, Elliot
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0262551691
- Language: English
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The Urban Naturalist: How to Make the City Your Scientific Playground
$32.95 Add to cartA manifesto–and a field guide–for a new dawn of natural history, practiced by community scientists in their own urban jungle.
Imagine taking your smartphone-turned-microscope to an empty lot and dis- Author: Schilthuizen, Menno
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0262049090
- Language: English
