How the World Ran Out of Everything by Peter S. Goodman, 2024
How does the wealthiest country on earth run out of protective gear in the middle of a public health catastrophe? How do its parents find themselves unable to locate crucially needed infant formula? How do its largest companies spend billions of dollars making cars that no one can drive for a lack of chips?
A True History of the United States: Indigenous Genocide, Racialized Slavery, Hyper-Capitalism, Militarist Imperialism and Other Overlooked Aspects of American Exceptionalism by Daniel A. Sjursen, 2021
In vivid, engaging prose, Sjursen challenges readers to think critically and to apply common sense to their understanding our nation's past, and present.
AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable by Roman V. Yampolskiy, 2024
Written by one of the founders of the field of AI safety, this book addresses some of the most fascinating questions facing humanity, including the nature of intelligence, consciousness, values, and knowledge.
Scenes of Attention: Essays on Mind, Time, and the Senses by D. Graham Burnett, 2023
This book investigates attention from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including philosophy, history, anthropology, art history, and comparative literature. Each chapter begins with a concrete scene whose protagonists are trying―and often failing―to attend.
A Crack in Everything: How Black Holes Came in From the Cold and Took Cosmic Centre Stage by Marcus Chown, 2024
As a journalist, Marcus Chown interviews many of the scientists who made the key discoveries, and, as a former physicist, he translates the most esoteric of science into everyday language. The result is a uniquely engaging page-turner that tells one of the great untold stories in modern science.
The Explorers A New History of America in Ten Expeditions by Amanda Bellows, 2024
A fascinating new history of America, told through the stories of a diverse cast of ten extraordinary—and often overlooked—adventurers, from Sacagawea to Matthew Henson to Sally Ride, who pushed the boundaries of discovery and determined our national destiny.
In this “superb” new history of American intelligence, a celebrated historian uncovers how the CIA became the foremost defender of America’s covert global empire.
Disinformation Debunked: Building Resilience Through Media and Information Literacy by Divina Frau-Meigs & Nicoleta Corbu, 2024
Offering a comparative study of 4 European national experiences (France, Romania, Spain, and Sweden), the authors also make public policy recommendations to improve the fight against disinformation.
The Astrophotography Manual: A Practical Approach to Deep-Sky Imaging by Chris Woodhouse, 2024
The Astrophotography Manual's Third Edition is the most up to date and authoritative guide for enthusiasts who want to create beautiful images of nebulas, galaxies, clusters, and the stars with the latest professional tools and techniques.
Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind by Annalee Newitz, 2024
In Stories Are Weapons, best-selling author Annalee Newitz traces the way disinformation, propaganda, and violent threats―the essential tool kit for psychological warfare―have evolved from military weapons deployed against foreign adversaries into tools in domestic culture wars.
Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism by George Monbiot & Peter Hutchison, 2024
Neoliberalism is the dominant ideology of our time. It shapes us in countless ways, yet most of us struggle to articulate what it is. Worse, we have been persuaded to accept this extreme creed as a kind of natural law. In Invisible Doctrine, journalist George Monbiot and filmmaker Peter Hutchison shatter this myth.
Big Bets: How Large-Scale Change Really Happens by Rajiv Shah, 2023
Rajiv J. Shah, president of the Rockefeller Foundation and former administrator of President Barack Obama's United States Agency for International Development, shares a dynamic new model for creating large scale change, inspired by his own involvements with some of the largest humanitarian projects of our time.
Footprints in the Woods: The Secret Life of Forest and Riverbank by John Lister-Kaye, 2023
Footprints in the Woods is John Lister-Kaye's account of a year spent observing the comings and goings of otters, beavers, badgers, weasels and pine martens. This family - #Mustelidae - all live in the wild at Aigas, the conservation and field study centre John calls home.
Wild Animal Ethics: The Moral and Political Problem of Wild Animal Suffering by Kyle Johannsen, 2020
Though many ethicists have the intuition that we should leave nature alone, Kyle Johannsen argues that we have a duty to research safe ways of providing large-scale assistance to wild animals.
The Ocean Speaks brings together more than 45 ocean culture life enthusiasts who have taken ocean protection into their own hands, documenting the unknown and telling stories that aim to connect humans with water. Stories by divers, marine biologists, surfers, influencers, conservationists, photojournalists & filmmakers.
‘He had a sarcastic turn of phrase’: discovery of 1509 book sheds new light on ‘father of utilitarianism’
“Last month, UCL academics unveiled the most significant rediscovered books left to the university in Bentham’s will, including the translation of Brandt’s Ship of Fools and a maths textbook explaining Euclid’s propositions. Their contents, together with the philosopher’s own notes, indicate how some of his radical theories were first sparked.”
This book introduces students and professional historians to the main areas of concern in the history of emotions. It discusses how the emotions intersect with other lines of historical research relating to power, practice, society and morality.