This collection of an important architectural theorist's essays considers and compares designs żeby Palladio and Le Corbusier, discusses mannerism and modern architecture, architectural...
Category theory is a branch of pure mathematics that is becoming an increasingly important tool in theoretical computer science, especially in programming language semantics, domain theory, and...
A concise overview of machine learning--computer programs that learn from data--the basis of such applications as voice recognition and driverless cars.Today, machine learning underlies a range of...
A reprint of the now-scarce collection of Wolfe's classic early short stories, this companion volume to "Castle of Days" presents "some of the best American short stories of the...
In this book, Sanjoy Mahajan shows us that the way to master complexity is through insight rather than precision. Precision can overwhelm us with information, whereas insight connects seemingly...
Miranda Castro introduces readers to the many safe, effective, inexpensive, and nonmedical remedies that homeopathy has to offer women in this very important period. The book explains the...
Among architects and preservationists, the writings of Viollet-le-Duc (1814-1879) have long been considered major resources. They inspired a generation of American architects, including Frank...
Writing, according to Panayotis Tournikiotis, has always exerted a powerful influence on architecture. Indeed, the study of modern architecture cannot be separated from a fascination with the texts...
The conceptual history of cognitive science remains for the most part unwritten. In this groundbreaking book, Jean-Pierre Dupuy--one of the principal architects of cognitive science in...
A funny and poignant debut middle-grade novel about a foster-care girl who is placed with a family in the witness protection program, and finds that hiding in plain sight is complicated and dangerous.
For con man Rodrick and his talking sword Hrym, life is all about taking what you can and getting away clean. But when the pair are arrested, their only hope lies in a secret government program in...
Category theory was invented in the 1940s to unify and synthesize different areas in mathematics, and it has proven remarkably successful in enabling powerful communication between disparate fields...
An early realist novel żeby Stanislaw Lem, taking place in a Polish psychiatric hospital during World War II.Taking place within the confines of a psychiatric hospital, Stanislaw Lem's The...
Learn to use your most precious commodity--time--to truly live.Arnold Bennett's classic book, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, has been changing the way people use and consider their time since...
New York Times bestselling author Paula Brackston's return to her trademark blend of magic and romance is guaranteed to enchant. An antique shop haunted by a ghost.A silver treasure with an...
Already recognized as a master of adventure writing for his classic "Death in the Long Grass, "former big-game hunter Capstick now turns from his own exploits to those of some of the...
The idea that human history is approaching a żsingularityżżthat ordinary humans will someday be overtaken by artificially intelligent machines or cognitively enhanced biological intelligence, or...
A philosophical guide to passengerhood, with reflections on time, space, existence, boredom, our sense of self, and our sense of the senses.While there are entire bookstore sections and even entire...
P. Dj l Clark returns to the historical fantasy universe of "A Dead Djinn in Cairo", with the otherworldly adventure novella The Haunting of Tram Car 015.Cairo, 1912: The case started as a...
I Am Perfectly Designed is an exuberant celebration of loving who you are, exactly as you are, from Karamo Brown, the Culture Expert of Netflix's hit series Queer Eye, and Jason...
Katherine Center's Happiness for Beginners is an exuberant novel in which a thirty-something-year-old woman embarks on a wilderness survival course and discovers that sometimes you have to...