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An account of the life and work of the architect Minoru Yamasaki that leads the author to consider how (and for whom) architectural history is written. ...

Twelve stories by science fiction master Stanisław Lem, nine of them never before published in English. Of these twelve short stories by...

More than eighty designs—iconic, archaic, quotidian, and taboo—that have defined arc of human reproduction. While birth often brings great...

Documenting the artistic practice of Rita Keegan: from exhibitions at major venues to everyday life as a working Black female artist. From...

How sound leaves a fundamental imprint on who we are. Making sense of sound is one of the hardest jobs we ask our brains to do. In Of Sound...

An argument for a design philosophy of better, not more. Never have we wanted, owned, and wasted so much stuff. Our consumptive path through...

How posthumanist design enables a world in which humans share center stage with nonhumans, with whom we are entangled. Over the past forty...

How Wittgenstein sought a more effective way of reaching his audience by a poetic style of doing philosophy. Ludwig Wittgenstein once said,...

An argument that we should be optimistic about the capacity of “methodologically omnivorous” geologists, paleontologists, and archaeologists to uncover...

A collection of quirky, entertaining, and reader-friendly short pieces on philosophical topics that range from a theory of jerks to the ethics of ethicists. ...

The future of the university as an open knowledge institution that institutionalizes diversity and contributes to a common resource of knowledge: a...

The first English translation of a nonfiction work by Stanisław Lem, which was “conceived under the spell of cybernetics” in 1957 and updated in 1971. ...

Why technology is most transformative when it is playful, and innovative spatial design happens only when designers are both tinkerers and dreamers. ...

What contemporary prostate angst tells us about how we understand masculinity, aging, and sexuality. We are all suffering an acute case of...

How ed tech was born: Twentieth-century teaching machines—from Sidney Pressey's mechanized test-giver to B. F. Skinner's behaviorist bell-ringing box. ...

The power of art and design to create a life worth living: designs, inventions, and artworks from the Azraq Refugee Camp in Jordan. This book...

5.0 out of 5 stars An outstanding refresh of the base Kindle at an affordable price By Professor Nishanth on April 15, 2019 Original review: April 15, 2019,...

The first English translation of the book that established Paolo Virno as one of the most influential Italian thinkers of his generation. ...

How America's individual inventors persisted alongside corporate R&D labs as an important source of inventions. During the nineteenth...

The body in dreams, myths, legends, and anecdotes of the fantastic as expressions of human corporeality. In The Body Fantastic, Frank...

An argument for a design philosophy of better, not more. Never have we wanted, owned, and wasted so much stuff. Our consumptive path through...

The story of the most abundant substance on Earth, from its origins in the birth of stars billions of years ago to its importance in the living world. ...

Why our obsession with truth—the idea that some undeniable truth will make politics unnecessary—is driving our political polarization. In The...

Scientific philosophers examine the nature and significance of levels of organization, a core structural principle in the biological sciences. ...

In 1937, H. G. Wells proposed a predigital, freely available World Encyclopedia to represent a civilization-saving World Brain. In a series...

An examination of the sources Helmholtz drew upon for his formulation of the conservation of energy and the impact of his work on nineteenth-century physics....

Cannabis consumption, commerce, and control in global history, from the nineteenth century to the present day. This book gathers together...

How we became so burdened by red tape and unnecessary paperwork, and why we must do better. We've all had to fight our way through...

Recent advances in the area of lifted inference, which exploits the structure inherent in relational probabilistic models. Statistical...

How organized resistance to new fossil fuel infrastructure became a political force and how this might affect the transition to renewable energy. ...

The pixel as the organizing principle of all pictures, from cave paintings to Toy Story. The Great Digital Convergence of all media types...

How computer graphics transformed the computer from a calculating machine into an interactive medium, as seen through the histories of five technical...

Sex Ecologies explores pleasure, affect, and the powers of the erotic in the human and more-than-human worlds. Arguing for the positive and constructive role...

A covert team of young women—members of the Curie society, an elite organization dedicated to women in STEM—undertakes high-stakes missions to save the...

Why we don't live in a post-truth society but rather a myside society: what science tells us about the bias that poisons our politics. In The...

An investigation of the work and workers in fossil preparation labs reveals the often unacknowledged creativity and problem-solving on which scientists rely....

A new conception of housing justice grounded in moral principles that appeal to the home's special connection to American life. In response...

Why gender is strange, even when it's played straight, and how race and money are two of its most dramatic ingredients. In this volume in the...

A lively graphic narrative reports on censorship of political cartoons around the world, featuring interviews with censored cartoonists from Pittsburgh to...

Reimagining the scholarly book as living and collaborative—not as commodified and essentialized, but in all its dynamic materiality. In this...

The life and times of the Smart Wife—feminized digital assistants who are friendly and sometimes flirty, occasionally glitchy but perpetually available. ...

Diary, memoir, poem, fiction? Autopsy, crime scene, hagiography, hymn? The chronicle of an obsessive love. In the middle of the night between...

Reimagining the scholarly book as living and collaborative—not as commodified and essentialized, but in all its dynamic materiality. In this...

How Vera Rubin convinced the scientific community that dark matter might exist, persevering despite early dismissals of her work. We now know...

The new edition of a milestone work on the global history of technology. This milestone history of technology, first published in 1990 and...

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An analysis of how findings in behavioral economics challenge fundamental assumptions of medical ethics, integrating the latest research in both fields. ...

The creative collaborations of engineers, artists, scientists, and curators over the past fifty years. Artwork as opposed to experiment?...

Examining the work of contemporary Black artists who are dismantling the white gaze and demanding that we see—and see Blackness in particular—anew. ...

Experts from disciplines that range from computer science to philosophy consider the challenges of building AI systems that humans can trust. ...