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In a novel written on the eve of World War I, H. G. Wells imagines a war to end all wars that begins in atomic apocalypse but ends in an enlightened utopia. Writing in 1913, on the eve of World War Is mass slaughter and long before World War IIs mushroom
A guide to the ethical questions that arise from our use of industrial robots, robot companions, self-driving cars, and other robotic devices. Does a robot have moral agency? Can it be held responsible for its actions? Do humans owe robots anything? Will
Ten laws of simplicity for business, technology, and design that teach us how to need less but get more. Finally, we are learning that simplicity equals sanity. We''re rebelling against technology that''s too complicated, DVD players with too many men
An examination of new forms of alienation in our never-off, plugged-in cultureand a clarion call for a conspiracy of estranged people. We can reach every point in the world but, more importantly, we can be reached from any point in the world. Privacy
Concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process, and presentation, from the basics of "How to Draw a Line" to the complexities of color theory. This is a book that students of architecture will want to keep in the studio and in their backpacks.
A software developers misadventures in computer programming, machine learning, and artificial intelligence reveal why we should never assume technology always get it right. In Artificial Unintelligence , Meredith Broussard argues that our collective ent
From the New York Times-bestselling author, a new volume on the history of human ingenuity and its attendant breakthroughs and busts. Included in BILL GATES's 2023 Holiday Reading List Included in Lit Hub s Most Anticipated Books of 2023 Included in Th
A fascinating, free-wheeling exploration of LEGO and what makes it such an endlessly fun toy. The perfect gift book for your favorite LEGO fan, from an expert in play design who spent years conducting research inside the company.This Is Why You Love LEGO
A guidebook to the institutional transformation of design theory and practice by restoring the long-excluded cultures of Indigenous, Black, and People of Color communities. From the excesses of world expositions to myths of better living through technolog
A comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today''s fossil fueldriven civilization. "I wait for new Smil books the way some people wait for the next ''Star Wars'' movie
A thought-provoking argument that consciousnessmore widespread than previously assumedis the feeling of being alive, not a type of computation or a clever hack In The Feeling of Life Itself , Christof Koch offers a straightforward definition of consci
Discover the colorful history of the table-top RPG phenomenon, Dungeons & Dragons , as a D&D expert examines its surprising successes, setbacks, and controversies. The battle over Dungeons & Dragons was the ultimate geek war. Wired When Dungeons
How human behavior brought our world to the brink, and how human behavior can save us. The world is a mess. Our dire predicament, from collapsing social structures to the climate crisis, has been millennia in the making and can be traced back to the err
The Design of Everyday Things 2e
How to use data as a tool for empowerment rather than oppression. Big data can be used for good, from tracking disease to exposing human rights violations, and for bad, implementing surveillance and control. Data inevitably represents the ideologies of th
A primer in urban literacy that teaches us in words and pictures what to notice if we want to understand the city. Cities speak, and this little book helps us understand their language. Considering the urban landscape not from the abstract perspective
A riveting exploration of one of the most important dilemmas of our time: will digital technology accelerate environmental degradation, or could it play a role in ecological regeneration? At the uncanny edge of the scientific frontier, Gaias Web explor
Why play is a productive, expressive way of being human, a form of understanding, and a fundamental part of our well-being. What do we think about when we think about play? A pastime? Games? Childish activities? The opposite of work? Think again: If we ar
The first volume of two in a new, updated edition of the 2012 book Playing at the World , which charts the vast and complex history of role-playing games. This new edition of Playing at the World is the first of two volumes that update the 720-page ori
A guide to long-term thinking: how to envision the far future of Earth. We live on a planet careening toward environmental collapse that will be largely brought about by our own actions. And yet we struggle to grasp the scale of the crisis, barely abl
A cartography of fragrance that charts the botany and geography of perfume composition. For perfume makers, each smell carries with it a multitude of associations and impressions that must be carefully analyzed and understood before the sum of all its par
AS SEEN IN MALCOLM GALDWELL S BLINK: Discover the groundbreaking classic business book on effective decision making! How do people really make decisions? By drawing on prior experience and using a combination of intuition and analysis. We have all se
Cutting edge strategies for thinking about data science and data ethics through an intersectional feminist lens.“Without ever finger-wagging, Data Feminism reveals inequities and offers a way out of a broken system in which the numbers are allowed t
An exploration of how design might be led by marginalized communities, dismantle structural inequality, and advance collective liberation and ecological survival. What is the relationship between design, power, and social justice? Design justice is an
How to use design as a tool to create not only things but ideas, to speculate about possible futures. Today designers often focus on making technology easy to use, sexy, and consumable. In Speculative Everything, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby propose a k
Two distinguished neuroscientists distil general principles from more than a century of scientific study, reverse engineering the brain to understand its design. Neuroscience research has exploded, with more than fifty thousand neuroscientists applyin
The surprising history of the Commodore 64, the best-selling home computer of the 1980sthe machine that taught the world that computing should be fun . The Commodore 64 (C64) is officially the best-selling desktop computer model of all time, according t
A critical history of site-specific art since the late 1960s.Site-specific art emerged in the late 1960s in reaction to the growing commodification of art and the prevailing ideals of art's autonomy and universality. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, as sit
A new edition of a classic work that originated the embodied cognition movement and was one of the first to link science and Buddhist practices. This classic book, first published in 1991, was one of the first to propose the embodied cognition approac
How to predict and calculate the positions of stars, planets, the sun, the moon, and satellites using a personal computer and high school mathematics. Our knowledge of the universe is expanding rapidly, as space probes launched decades ago begin to send i
Why The Stack—an accidental megastructure—is both a technological apparatus and the geopolitical model of our times. A tenth anniversary edition of the comprehensive political philosophy of planetary-scale computation, with a new preface from
How people judge humans and machines differently, in scenarios involving natural disasters, labor displacement, policing, privacy, algorithmic bias, and more. How would you feel about losing your job to a machine? How about a tsunami alert system that fai
A new edition of a book that details the system of transformation underlying the 14 Points for Management presented in Deming''s Out of the Crisis . It would be better if everyone would work together as a system, with the aim for everybody to win. Wh
Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences
How the computer became universal. Over the past fifty years, the computer has been transformed from a hulking scientific supertool and data processing workhorse, remote from the experiences of ordinary people, to a diverse family of devices that billions
The industry bible for communication design and illustration professionals, with updated information, listings, and pricing guidelines. Graphic Artists Guild Handbook is the industry bible for communication design and illustration professionals. A compre
A richly illustrated, encyclopedic deep dive into the history of roleplaying games. When Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson released Dungeons & Dragons in 1974, they created the first roleplaying game of all time. Little did they know that their humble box set
Essays, conversations, and archival investigations explore the paradoxes, limitations, and social ramifications of trans representation within contemporary culture. The increasing representation of trans identity throughout art and popular culture in rece
Experiments in architectural education in the postWorld War II era that challenged and transformed architectural discourse and practice. In the decades after World War II, new forms of learning transformed architectural education. These radical experimen
The second volume of two in a new, updated edition of the 2012 book Playing at the World , which charts the vast and complex history of role-playing games. This new edition of Playing at the World is the second of two volumes that update the 720-page o
The Elephant and the Blind
An introduction to a broad range of topics in deep learning, covering mathematical and conceptual background, deep learning techniques used in industry, and research perspectives.“Written by three experts in the field, Deep Learning is the only comp
An insightful and in-depth review of asset bubbleswhat they are, when and why they arise, and how macroeconomic policy should respond to them. The existing models of asset bubblesassets whose price exceeds the present discounted value of the dividends the
An authoritative, accessible, and up-to-date treatment of deep learning that strikes a pragmatic middle ground between theory and practice.Deep learning is a fast-moving field with sweeping relevance in today’s increasingly digital world. Understand
Algorithms for Optimization