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A rich, narrative explanation of the mathematics that has brought us machine learning and the ongoing explosion of artificial intelligenceMachine learning systems are making life-altering decisions for us: approving mortgage loans, determining whether a...List Price $22.00List Price $22.00 -
An indelible, deeply reported human narrative of contemporary China in which the country’s carefully regulated internet offers a lens into the broader national tension between freedom and controlIn the late 1990s, as the world was waking up to the power...List Price $30.00List Price $30.00 -
Collected in one astonishing volume, Toni Morrison’s explorations of the American literary canonPerhaps no novelist has meant more to contemporary fiction than Toni Morrison. And in addition to being a Nobel Prize–winning novelist, Morrison spent...List Price $32.00List Price $32.00 -
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORKER, THE ATLANTIC, NPR • The powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs...List Price $21.00List Price $21.00 -
From the inaugural winner of the Yale Nonfiction Book Prize, a riveting exploration of illness and medicine that imagines a more humane form of care "What was wrong with them? That's what we wanted to know." So begins Jonathan Gleason's prizewinning...List Price $28.00List Price $28.00 -
"[A]n outrageously funny satire of race relations and racism, US history, contemporary sexual mores and behavior, academia, and the publishing industry . . . It could become a cult-classic . . . Highly recommended."--Library Journal "The story's...List Price $18.95List Price $18.95 -
A leading sociologist's groundbreaking three-decade study challenges outdated views of crime and character, revealing that traditional risk factors alone poorly predict children's futures. Between 1970 and 2020, the United States experienced a dramatic...List Price $29.95List Price $29.95 -
An elegant biography of a prescient author whose novels portray Black women's experiences across the African diaspora Growing up in World War II-era Brooklyn among West Indian immigrants, Paule Marshall (1929-2019) was fiercely driven to become a...List Price $30.00List Price $30.00 -
As recently as 1928, a vast swath of Asia stretching from the Red Sea to the borders of Thailand was bound together under a single imperial banner, an entity known officially as the "Indian Empire." It was the British Empire's crown jewel, home to a...List Price $39.99List Price $39.99 -
T.S. Eliot was arguably the greatest English-language poet of the twentieth century. T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life portrays the vexed, tormented emotional life of the poet and the man, dissolving the myth of impersonal poetry that Eliot worked so hard to...List Price $45.00List Price $45.00 -
“The searing strokes of this book remind me of the infinitude inside every life.” —Leslie JamisonParis Review Staff Pick, one of Chicago Tribune’s 25 Hot Books of Summer, and one of The A.V. Club’s 15 Most Anticipated Books of 2019A stark, elegiac...List Price $17.00List Price $17.00 -
In 1934, a young José Revueltas traveled to Tamaulipas to support the cotton workers’ strike in Estación Camarón, which became the basis of his landmark novel Human Mourning. In her own groundbreaking novel, Autobiography of Cotton, Cristina Rivera Garza...List Price $17.00List Price $17.00 -
From alchemy to wellness culture, from antisemitism to disposable plastic, a gripping account of how getting sick has shaped humanity.Anti-science, anti-vaccine, anti-reason beliefs seem to be triumphing over common sense today. How did we get here? The...List Price $30.00List Price $30.00 -
From the coauthor of Algorithms to Live By, an exploration of the quest to use mathematics to describe the ways we think, from its origins three hundred years ago to the ideas behind modern AI systems and the ways in which they still differ from human...List Price $31.99List Price $31.99 -
One of Literary Hub's most anticipated books of 2024. Winner of the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. Finalist for the 2025 Zora Awards. Dionne Brand explores English and American literature, and the colonial aesthetic that shaped her...List Price $19.00List Price $19.00 -
Spanning decades of seismic change in post-Cultural Revolution China, And The Ancestors Sing is a sweeping, multigenerational novel of resilience, sacrifice, and the unbreakable pull of home, perfect for fans of Pachinko and The Island of Sea Women.In...List Price $18.99List Price $18.99 -
The “gripping” (The Atlantic) story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how we might set ourselves free from a crisis that could haunt American life for generations.“Excellent . . . This is the intimate side of...List Price $18.00List Price $18.00 -
A wise, playful, electric novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo, taking place at the bedside of an oil company CEO in the twilight hours of his life as he is ferried from this world into the...List Price $28.00List Price $28.00 -
A wise and subtle work that explores the refractive power of memory, and what it means to exist in the lives of others–from one of the most highly regarded writers working in Germany today. When Judith Hermann runs into her psychoanalyst in the middle of...List Price $18.00List Price $18.00 -
From CNN legal analyst Elliot Williams, a revelatory account of how one man, four teenagers, and a struggling city collided over race, vigilantism, and public safety . . . exposing the fault lines of a nationOn a dirty New York subway car on December 22,...List Price $32.00List Price $32.00
