(Izdošanas datums: 16-Sep-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691233079)
How 1,000 years of global history show why technological and economic progress is often followed by stagnation and even collapseIn How Progress Ends, Carl Benedikt Frey challenges the conventional belief that economic and technological progress is i...Lasīt vairāk
A humanist manifesto for the age of AIArtificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our time. As AIs power grows, so does the need to figure out whatand whothis technology is really for. AI Needs You...Lasīt vairāk
This book investigates the ways that technological, and especially mechanical, strategies were integrated into ancient Greek religion. By analysing a range of evidence, from the tragic use of the deus ex machina to Hellenistic epigrams to ancient mec...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 24-Jul-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009331685)
For the first time investigates the ways that technological, and especially mechanical, strategies were integrated into ancient Greek religion. Presents in full the evidence from the fifth century BCE to the second century CE, thereby revealing the s...Lasīt vairāk
From the critically acclaimed author of Dead Girls (stylish and inspired, New York Times Book Review), an intensely insightful and provocative collection of essays that explore the strange career of popular feminism and cult of online identity--...Lasīt vairāk
We Have Never Been Human boldly reimagines what it means to be human, challenging the traditional notions that bind our identity to biology and culture. From ancient mythologies to modern technologies, this book reveals a dynamic, ever-evol...Lasīt vairāk
We Have Never Been Human boldly reimagines what it means to be human, challenging the traditional notions that bind our identity to biology and culture. From ancient mythologies to modern technologies, this book reveals a dynamic, ever-evolving huma...Lasīt vairāk
André Leroi-Gourhan is undoubtedly one of the most acclaimed figures of twentieth-century anthropology and archaeology. In France, his intellectual importance rivals that of the Claude Lévi-Strauss, yet Leroi-Gourhan’s major...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 03-Jun-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Random House USA Inc, ISBN-13: 9780593449783)
Growing up in an isolated cabin in Montana in the mid-1990s, Jane knows only the world that she and her father live in: the woodstove that heats their home, the vegetable garden where they try to eke out a subsistence existence, the books of ninetee...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-May-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478031253)
The contributors to Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen examine new and emerging technologies that are often referred to as creepy to outline the possibilities for a politics and ethics of technological relations that do not reduce...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-May-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478028031)
The contributors to Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen examine new and emerging technologies that are often referred to as creepy to outline the possibilities for a politics and ethics of technological relations that do not reduce...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-May-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 9781517918767)
How users experience and influence technological changewhen so much of that change feels out of our control Every day, we casually employ one of the most complex tools ever created, using it to read the news, plan our day, and conne...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-May-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 9781517918774)
How users experience and influence technological changewhen so much of that change feels out of our control Every day, we casually employ one of the most complex tools ever created, using it to read the news, plan our day, and conne...Lasīt vairāk
This innovative and wide-ranging volume is the first systematic exploration of the multifaceted relationship between human bodies and machines in classical antiquity. It examines the conception of the body and bodily processes in mechanical terms in...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Apr-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House Inc, ISBN-13: 9780593593974)
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chancefrom a co-founder of the pioneering arti...Lasīt vairāk
We are living in times of deep and disruptive change. Perhaps the most powerful vector of this change can be described by three related catchphrases: digitalization, artificial intelligence, and dataism. Drawing on considerable expertise from a wide...Lasīt vairāk
We are living in times of deep and disruptive change. Perhaps the most powerful vector of this change can be described by three related catchphrases: digitalization, artificial intelligence, and dataism. Drawing on considerable expertise from a wide...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Feb-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: The Bodley Head Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781847928528)
**THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** **THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** A sweeping indictment of the Wests culture of complacency and a passionate call to wake up to our new reality from the bold thinkers behind tech giant Palantir ...Lasīt vairāk
A brilliantly original exploration of humanitys intimate relationship with technology, from the emergence of our species to the emergence of AI and beyond....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 06-Feb-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, ISBN-13: 9780802884091)
Why were people in the Victorian age fascinated with the archaeological mysteries of the Holy Land? In this engaging study, Allan Chapman shows how the Holy Land took on new meaning for Europeans during the Victorian era. Previously...Lasīt vairāk
A prominent historian spans the whole of human history, from the first humans to walk the earth to the radicaland sometimes devastatingbreakthroughs of the Cognitive, Agricultural, and Scientific Revolutions, integrating history and science to chal...Lasīt vairāk
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA new masterpiece from one of my favorite authors… ( How The World Really Works) is a compelling and highly readable book that leaves readers with the fundamental grounding needed to he...Lasīt vairāk
From the author of The Shallows comes an exploration of how social media has warped our sense of self and society. SuperbloomA celebrated commentator on the human consequences of technology, Nicholas Carr reorients the conversation arou...Lasīt vairāk
One of the BBCs most anticipated books for 2024 An i-D non-fiction book of 2024 A Stylist non-fiction book of 2024 An essential book i-D What happens when our cultural and artistic lives are dictated to us by an algorithm?...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the relationship between the state and war within the context of seismic technological change. As we experience a fourth industrial revolution, technology already exerts a huge impact on the character of war and military...Lasīt vairāk
This volume explores the broad and rich spectrum of contemporary phenomenological engagement with digital technologies. By focusing on plural forms of the digital, it offers arobust and flexible framework for contemporary phenomenological investig...Lasīt vairāk
