The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger muscles or ... 続きを読む
Gary Smith argues that we should not be intimidated into thinking that computers are infallible, that data-mining is knowledge discovery, that black boxes should to be trusted. Let's trust ourselves t ... 続きを読む
Provides an authoritative overview of the business of book publishing: its history, its present-day practices, and where it's going, in an accessible question-and-answer format
Explains the digit ... 続きを読む
Provides an authoritative overview of the business of book publishing: its history, its present-day practices, and where it's going, in an accessible question-and-answer format
Explains the digit ... 続きを読む
Looks at how the computer has affected the world that we live in, describing the technologies involved and the applications that have emerged
Explains the basic architecture of the computer and h ... 続きを読む
Employment law has increasingly struggled to adapt to complex modern work arrangements, from agency work to corporate groups. This book suggests that the reason for this failure can be found in our co ... 続きを読む
The Geography of Insight argues that the issues of the humanities and sciences are different in kind and that inquiries into these issues also have different characteristics as do the resulting insigh ... 続きを読む
Researchers believe that the universe is vast and old enough that life has evolved and become intelligent and technological many times on different worlds - yet we have seen no trace of extraterrestri ... 続きを読む
The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universi ... 続きを読む
The Internet Revolution in the Sciences and Humanities takes a new look at C.P. Snow's distinction between the two cultures, a distinction that provides the driving force for a book that contends tha ... 続きを読む