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A Pattern Language
Towns, Buildings, Construction
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction. After...
America's Church
The National Shrine and Catholic Presence in the Nation's Capital
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
The National Shrine in Washington, DC has been deeply loved, blithely ignored, and passionately criticized. It has been praised as a "dazzling jewel" and dismissed as a "towering Byzantine beach ball." In this intriguing and inventive book, Thomas Tweed shows that the Shrine is...
by Theda Perdue, Michael D. Green
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? What were their agricultural, spiritual, and hunting practices? How did their societies evolve and what challenges do they face today? Eminent...
Moral Machines
Teaching Robots Right from Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Computers are already approving financial transactions, controlling electrical supplies, and driving trains. Soon, service robots will be taking care of the elderly in their homes, and military robots will have their own targeting and firing protocols. Colin Allen and Wendell Wallach argue that as...
by Anany Levitin, Maria Levitin
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
While many think of algorithms as specific to computer science, at its core algorithmic thinking is defined by the use of analytical logic to solve problems. This logic extends far beyond the realm of computer science and into the wide and entertaining world of puzzles. In Algorithmic Puzzles, Anany...
by Sophocles, Reginald Gibbons, Charles Segal
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2003
Oedipus, the former ruler of Thebes, has died. Now, when his young daughter Antigone defies her uncle, Kreon, the new ruler, because he has prohibited the burial of her dead brother, she and he enact a primal conflict between young and old, woman and man, individual and ruler, family and state, courageous...
by James Steichen
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
In 1933 choreographer George Balanchine and impresario Lincoln Kirstein embarked on an elusive quest to found a ballet company and school in the United States. Though their efforts would eventually result in the creation of the New York City Ballet and the School of American Ballet, the first decade...
Flicker
Your Brain on Movies
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
How is it that a patch of flickering light on a wall can produce experiences that engage our imaginations and can feel totally real? From the vertigo of a skydive to the emotional charge of an unexpected victory or defeat, movies give us some of our most vivid experiences and most lasting memories....
All Shook Up
How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2003
The birth of rock 'n roll ignited a firestorm of controversy--one critic called it "musical riots put to a switchblade beat"--but if it generated much sound and fury, what, if anything, did it signify? As Glenn Altschuler reveals in All Shook Up, the rise of rock 'n roll--and the outraged reception...
Artificial Intelligence
What Everyone Needs to Know
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Over the coming decades, Artificial Intelligence will profoundly impact the way we live, work, wage war, play, seek a mate, educate our young, and care for our elderly. It is likely to greatly increase our aggregate wealth, but it will also upend our labor markets, reshuffle our social order, and...
Language, Cognition, and Human Nature
Selected Articles
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Language, Cognition, and Human Nature collects together for the first time much of Steven Pinker's most influential scholarly work on language and cognition. Pinker's seminal research explores the workings of language and its connections to cognition, perception, social relationships, child development,...
by Ted Gioia
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
Ted Gioia's History of Jazz has been universally hailed as a classic--acclaimed by jazz critics and fans around the world. Now Gioia brings his magnificent work completely up-to-date, drawing on the latest research and revisiting virtually every aspect of the music, past and present. Gioia tells the...
The Learning Brain:Memory and Brain Development in Children
Memory and Brain Development in Children
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Despite all our highly publicized efforts to improve our schools, the United States is still falling behind. We recently ranked 15th in the world in reading, math, and science. Clearly, more needs to be done. In The Learning Brain, Torkel Klingberg urges us to use the insights of neuroscience to improve...
You and Your Aging Parent
A Family Guide to Emotional, Social, Health, and Financial Problems
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2008
First published in 1976, You and Your Aging Parent is a classic--the first book to shed light on the challenging relationship between adult children and their aging parents, illuminating the emotional, health, and financial difficulties that elderly parents and their children face during the senior...