"In an alternate-history version of England, monarchs are selected at random instead of inheriting the title. When Auberon Quin, a man who aspires to live life like a medieval adventurer, becomes king, he mandates that each of London's neighborhoods become an independent state, complete with unique local costumes. Everyone goes along with the conceit until young Adam Wayne, a born military tact…
"In Age of Auto Electric, Eisler argues that electric vehicle revival was driven not by better batteries but by the interplay between changing environmental and socio-economic conditions, energy and environmental policies, systems of energy conversion and industrial production, and material practices of innovation"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"The authors of Machines Like Us explore what it would take to endow computers with the kind of common sense that humans depend on every day--critically needed for AI systems to be successful in the world and to become trustworthy"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Conventional wisdom is that wild animals are being wiped out. But conventional wisdom skips some important details. Wildlife is rebounding. Not everywhere. Not every species. But a handful of wildlife populations have reached numbers unimaginable in a century. Red deer in Europe, bison in North America, humpback whales in the Atlantic. They have all seen their populations explode. They are bac…
"A critique of how data is used in educational settings, and a demonstration of how data can play a more just role in research and practice when approached through a broader spectrum of anonymity"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Interdisciplinary essays on music psychology that integrate scientific, humanistic, and artistic ways of knowing in transformative ways. Researchers using scientific methods and approaches to advance our understanding of music and musicality have not yet grappled with some of the perils that humanistic fields concentrating on music have long articulated. In this edited volume, established and e…
"How modern technology is influencing how humans connect with each other, how it is creating gaps in need-fulfillment, and how genuine connections can be forged in a time where technology paradoxically creates both an abundance of opportunities for connection, but fewer opportunities for real intimacy"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Translation of: Faszination Wissenschaft : 60 Begegnungen mit wegweisenden Forschern unserer Zeit."A renowned German photographer combines portraits of and interviews with the world's leading scientists that look back at the personal experiences, successes and setbacks on their way to the very top"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Responding to rising global inequality and convulsions in the financial sector, Matthew Wizinsky offers clearsighted guidelines for a post-capitalist design approach that orients the practice toward intentional systemic change"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Previously published, 1923."Bacteria inimical to plant growth spread around the world, causing a blight, Jack Flint is invited to become director of operations at Nordernholt's survivalist colony in England's Clyde Valley"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.