Joan Darc
Translated by Sylvain Gallais and Cynthia Hogue
Scuffing up the surface of history by scuffing up that of language, Nathalie Quintane manages to get at the myth of Joan of Arc from the inside, turning it from myth to immediate…
Sun Devil Shelf Life
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What Algorithms Want
Subtitle
Imagination in the Age of Computing
We depend on—we believe in—algorithms to help us get a ride, choose which book to buy, execute a mathematical proof. It’s as if we think of code as a magic spell, an incantation to…
Frankenstein
Subtitle
Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds
Edited by Jason Scott Robert, Ed Finn and David H. Guston
Mary Shelley’s "Frankenstein" has endured in the popular imagination for two hundred years. Begun as a ghost story by an intellectually and socially precocious eighteen-year-old…
Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities
Subtitle
A Collection of Space Futures
Edited by Joey Eschrich and Ed Finn
Why should we go to space? To learn more about the universe and our place in it? To extract resources and conduct commerce? To demonstrate national primacy and technological…
The Rightful Place of Science
Subtitle
Future Conflict & Emerging Technologies
The newest book in The Rightful Place of Science series from Arizona State University's Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes, Future Conflict & Emerging Technologies…