A "thrilling biography of one of the 20th century's greatest minds" (David Eagleman): Francis Crick, codiscoverer of the structure of DNA, pioneering neuroscientist, and audacious genius What are the moments that make a life? In Francis Crick's, the...

Tim Wu explores how today’s dominant platforms manipulate attention, extract wealth, and deepen inequality—urging us to recognize their influence and reclaim control to create a balanced economy that works for all.“The magic of Tim Wu’s The Age of...

How playwrights from Alfred Jarry and Samuel Beckett to Tom Stoppard and Simon McBurney brought the power of mathematics to life on the stageThe discovery of alternate geometries, paradoxes of the infinite, incompleteness, and chaos theory revealed that,...

The first career guide specifically tailored to the unique needs of international STEM PhDs   For foreign-born scientists holding temporary visas in the US, building a career while navigating the antiquated and restrictive American immigration system...

A bold and thought-provoking journey into AI's power to transform human creativity In Creative Machines: AI, Art & Us, world-renowned AI researcher and generative AI pioneer, Maya Ackerman, takes you on a thrilling journey into the rise of creative AI,...

Scientists around the world rise up for climate and ecological justice In April 2022, hundreds of scientists rose in civil disobedience, breaking the law in more than twenty-eight countries. Risking arrest, they glued their hands to roads, blocked...

This is the periodic table as you've never seen it before. By presenting the elements in the order in which they were discovered, The Elements also tells the story of chemistry. Now iconic, the table was invented in the 1800s, long before anyone knew...

An eye-opening examination of how power--not technology--will define life with AI. AI is inescapable, from its mundane uses online to its increasingly consequential decision-making in courtrooms, job interviews, and wars. The ubiquity of AI is so...

A disarmingly personal account of the new science of memory manipulation by one of today’s leading pioneers in the fieldAs a graduate student at MIT, Steve Ramirez successfully created false memories in the lab. Now, as a neuroscientist working at the...

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S RECOMMENDED BOOKS ON AI * FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOKS OF 2023From Dr. Fei-Fei Li, one of TIME's 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL in AI, comes "a powerful plea for keeping humanity at the centre of our latest technological transformation"...

A landmark account of the dynamics of living systems and the methods for studying themRandom Walks in Biology provides a lucid, straightforward introduction to the concepts and techniques of statistical physics that students of biology, biochemistry, and...

A "fascinating romp" (Johnjoe McFadden) and stirring account of the mathematicians who went looking for the bedrock philosophical foundations of their field and witnessed a house of cards collapse instead As the nineteenth century ended,...

An Oxford physicist "seeks to shatter complacency" (David Deutsch) in modern physics and show why five revolutionary experiments in quantum physics promise to open the gates separating us from a true understanding of the universe For the last...

An accessible journey through the seam that connects the digital world of the Internet to our physical world.The stack—the conduit between our digital and physical worlds—is the elusive, mysterious, and least-understood part of the Internet. In the five...

An in-depth history of Large Language Models—and what their ubiquity, disruption, and creativity mean from a wider sociopolitical perspective.In November 2022, ChatGPT swept the globe with a mixed frenzy of excitement and anxiety. Was this a step closer...

What intelligence really is, and how AI’s emergence is a natural consequence of evolution.It has come as a shock to some AI researchers that a large neural net that predicts next words seems to produce a system with general intelligence. Yet this is...

When the long-awaited day dawns and the aliens finally arrive on Earth, they might eat us and destroy the planet--or, just maybe, they might share the secrets of the Universe with us. When that time comes, will we be able to cross the communication...

A Seminary Co-op Notable Book "A big picture perspective on the mind, decision-making, and consciousness...Provocative and stimulating." --Philosophical Psychology "LeDoux's aim is to provide a new theory of being human by dividing our evolutionary past...

He wanted to know where our world comes from and where it was going. He wanted to understand how the remote stillness of the heavens relates to the erratic, ever-changing events here on earth. Above all, he wanted to know if the answers to these...

Are we on the verge of solving the riddle of creation using Einstein's "greatest blunder"?In a work that is at once lucid, exhilarating and profound, renowned mathematician Dr. Amir Aczel, critically acclaimed author of Fermat's Last Theorem, takes us...