739 results for '"Baum, Matthew A.'

A controversial new look at a turning point in modern European historyIn 1898, the Dreyfus Affair plunged French society into a year-long frenzy. In small villages and big cities, angry crowds...

Few developments in the intellectual life of the past quarter-century have provoked more controversy than the attempt to engineer human-like intelligence by artificial means. Born of computer...

This elementary introduction to probability theory and information theory provides a clear and systematic foundation to the subject; the author pays particular attention to the concept of probability...

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Ancient Sculpture history

Prier pour le roi, l'empereur, l'État, c'est à chaque fois le bénir en espérant sa protection inspirée par l'Éternel. C'est estimer que seule cette alliance peut protéger de la vindicte populaire qui...

Since at least the high point of the civil rights movement, African American Christianity has been widely recognized as a potent force for social change. Most attention to the political significance...

North Americans love eating meat. Despite the increased awareness of the meat industry's harms–violence against animals, health problems, and associations with environmental degradation–the rate of...

From a New York Times media correspondent, a dishy history of the Condé Nast magazine empire, home of Vogue, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and more, focusing on its glitzy heyday from the 1980s...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WITH A NEW PREFACE • From the Pulitzer-prize winning author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should...

A powerful indictment from within of the current state of feminism, and a passionate call to armsFrom Lilith Fair to Buffy the Vampire Slayer to the WNBA--everywhere you look, girl culture is clearly...

How the fear of a shortage in American science talent fuels cycles in the technical labor marketIs the United States falling behind in the global race for scientific and engineering talent? Are U.S...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open...

In 1965, the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan--then a high-ranking official in the Department of Labor--sparked a firestorm when he released his report "The Negro Family," which came to be...

We have long since lost our faith in the idea that human beings could achieve human happiness in some future ideal state—a state that Thomas More, writing five centuries ago, tied to a topos, a fixed...

Life in Fragments is a continuation of the themes and motifs explored in Zygmunt Bauman's acclaimed study, Postmodern Ethics (Blackwell, 1993). Described by Richard Sennett as a major event in social...

A debut poetry collection from a writer whose vivid verse explores the connections and relationships that make us humanSometimes I like to feel sexy. Sometimes I don’t. Sometimes I like to be very...

Three prominent economists focus new attention on the essential role of entrepreneurship in capitalismIn this important book, three prominent economists propose that there are different varieties of...