This will book will broaden your horizons ... We cannot hope to understand the diversity of the universe if we fail to accept the diversity of what it is to be a human being - Robin Ince What if the world around us is far richer than we can perceiv...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 19-May-2026, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231563703)
For thousands of years, people have believed that the configuration of stars and planets in the sky influences earthly events. Today, astrology is a lucrative global market, with newspaper columns, mobile apps, and professional counselors weighing in...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 19-May-2026, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231566230)
For thousands of years, people have believed that the configuration of stars and planets in the sky influences earthly events. Today, astrology is a lucrative global market, with newspaper columns, mobile apps, and professional counselors weighing in...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 19-May-2026, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691224671)
How vaccine hesitancy can be understood as religious expressionVaccine hesitancy in America didnt begin with the uproar over the mRNA vaccines for Covid-19. The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries saw resistance to a wide variety of vacc...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 19-May-2026, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691287720)
How vaccine hesitancy can be understood as religious expressionVaccine hesitancy in America didnt begin with the uproar over the mRNA vaccines for Covid-19. The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries saw resistance to a wide variety of vacc...Lasīt vairāk
Jacopo Morelli, Daniel Pińeiro Rodriguez, Francesco Barzetta
(Izdošanas datums: 19-May-2026, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040656280)
On the one hand AI is hailed as a driver of unprecedented progress, with the potential to alleviate poverty, expand access to education, and improve healthcare outcomes, and on the other, critics highlight risks such as bias, surveillance, erosion of...Lasīt vairāk
Jacopo Morelli, Daniel Pińeiro Rodriguez, Francesco Barzetta
(Izdošanas datums: 19-May-2026, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040524817)
On the one hand AI is hailed as a driver of unprecedented progress, with the potential to alleviate poverty, expand access to education, and improve healthcare outcomes, and on the other, critics highlight risks such as bias, surveillance, erosion of...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-May-2026, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501786686)
Vital Ties depicts an emergent form of intimacy with the dead mediated by digital technologies. In southern Australia, a game developer crafts a virtual reality experience, reuniting his best friend with an avatar of his late father. In Northern Cali...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-May-2026, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501786679)
Vital Ties depicts an emergent form of intimacy with the dead mediated by digital technologies. In southern Australia, a game developer crafts a virtual reality experience, reuniting his best friend with an avatar of his late father. In Northern Cali...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-May-2026, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Distributed via Draft2Digital, ISBN-13: 9781764605809)
"e;One idea can change the course of humanity."e;A single thought, born quietly in the mind of an individual, can ripple outward and reshape the world.Featuring a foreword by Duvvuri Subbarao, who served as Governor of the Reserve Bank of Ind...Lasīt vairāk
A teleoperated robot roaming in the streets of Mumbai enables anyone to put oneself in the place of the Hindu god Ganesha and have a conversation. Initially conceived as an anthropological experiment, the machine was launched in 2014 and became a co...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 12-May-2026, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691288543)
A human perspective on the nature of friendship in the age of artificial intelligenceIs friendship with a chatbot as good as friendship with an actual person? Is there something about human friendships that eludes simulation? If so, what? And how muc...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 12-May-2026, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691285405)
A human perspective on the nature of friendship in the age of artificial intelligenceIs friendship with a chatbot as good as friendship with an actual person? Is there something about human friendships that eludes simulation? If so, what? And how muc...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 12-May-2026, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040609163)
This volume explores how cultural influences between the West and East shape how science is communicated. It traces how the use of language has played an essential role in the dissemination of science and the development of ideas about science from t...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 12-May-2026, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040581957)
This volume explores how cultural influences between the West and East shape how science is communicated. It traces how the use of language has played an essential role in the dissemination of science and the development of ideas about science from t...Lasīt vairāk
This book is a gem, witty, entertaining, insightful, and deeply informativea must-read for anyone interested in birds or brains. JENNIFER ACKERMAN, New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, What an Owl Knows, and The Bird WayA vivid b...Lasīt vairāk
Collins British Bird Identifier is a revolution in bird identification. It brings together exceptional new artwork, with a unique, practical and comprehensive guide to the 5 essential features needed to identify every species of British bird.A new ap...Lasīt vairāk
A bold new history of psychology that uncovers the lost legacies of the women who shaped our understanding of what it is to be humanIf asked to name a psychologist, who springs to mind? No doubt Freud, perhaps Pavlov and his dog, maybe Jung or Piaget...Lasīt vairāk
One of the most accomplished and important science writers of our time ED YONGChanda Prescod-Weinstein brings light to our universe ROBIN INCEIn The Edge of Space-Time, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein takes readers to the boundaries of the universe, inv...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 05-May-2026, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520413269)
Smart as a Cityprovides a rich ethnographic investigation into how smartness is received and negotiated in a midsize US city. Burcu Baykurt follows the work of civic entrepreneurs, local residents, and city officials in Kansas City, Missouri, where G...Lasīt vairāk
