"A scientific analysis of agency in the real world-which animal types have it and which don't-written by the top researcher in the field"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Digital technologies are making the scarcities on which higher education is based disappear. Smith outlines how universities can take advantage of educational abundance to create a system that is more fair and just"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Instead of arguing for a specific animal model, Striedter will review the history and philosophy of animal models in biomedical research, examining their various advantages and limitations"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
A philosophical guide to passengerhood, with reflections on time, space, existence, boredom, our sense of self, and our sense of the senses. While there are entire bookstore sections--and even entire bookstores--devoted to travel, there have been few books on the universal experience of being a passenger. With this book, philosopher Michael Marder fills the gap, offering a philosophical guide t…
"This book re-focuses media design for material as well as human needs. It provides examples, critical discussions, and defining criteria for media that do not serve humans alone anymore"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A history of how computers are being used to simulate cities which in turn are increasingly being built from those same computers which are being embedded into the city's social and economic fabric"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Written by Michael Jacobson, Ph.D., one of the most prominent advocates for sodium reduction since the 1970s, this book is a clarion call for radical change in America's relationship to salt"-- Provided by publisher.How food industry lobbyists and a small group of scientists have successfully fought government efforts to reduce dangerous levels of sodium in our food.A high-sodium diet is deadl…
Originally published as G?os Pana in 1967."His Master's Voice is one of Lem's most polished and fully realized novels. It is told in the voice of Peter Hogarth, an eminent mathematician, who admits in the initial chapter that "the fundamental traits of my character I consider to be cowardice, malice, and pride." Hogarth recounts how he was conscripted to join the secret Master's Voice project -…
"How does Netflix know just what to suggest you watch next? How does Amazon determine what a "customer like you" has also purchased? The answer is recommender systems, the technological concept that lies at the heart of most of the successful companies in the digital economy. Michael Schrage starts with the origins of recommender systems, which go back further than you think (see: the Oracle at…
An accessible introduction to the behavioral insights approach, which applies evidence about human behavior to practical problems. Our behavior is strongly influenced by factors that lie outside our conscious awareness, although we tend to underestimate the power of this "automatic" side of our behavior. As a result, governments make ineffective policies, businesses create bad products, and ind…