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"Finalist for the PROSE Award in Computing and Information Sciences, Association of American Publishers" Daniel Jackson is professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an associate director of the MIT Computer...

Franz Neumann's classic account of the governmental workings of Nazi Germany, first published in 1942, now with an introduction by the distinguished historian Peter Hayes. Neumann was one of the only early Frankfurt School thinkers to examine...

"The stars of the latest book by award-winning science writer and mathematician Robyn Arianrhod are unlikely celebrities--vectors and tensors. If you took a high school physics course, the word "vector" might remind you of the mathematics needed...

Presents a history of the human understanding of heredity and how it has shaped society, chronicling the transitions brought about by genetic research and making predictions about how evolving understandings are likely to impact the future.

Shows how to apply statistical reasoning to real-world problems. This isn't simply memorizing formulas or using the tools in a spreadsheet; Spiegelhalter emphasizes the importance of clarifying questions, assumptions, and expectations, and-- more...