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A bold, groundbreaking argument by a world-renowned expert that unless we treat free speech as the fundamental human right, there can be no others. What are human rights? Are they laid out definitively in the UN s Universal Declaration...

34,40 € *

Machines like Us

How we can create artificial intelligence with broad, robust common sense rather than narrow, specialized expertise. It s sometime in the not-so-distant future, and you send your fully autonomous self-driving car to the store to pick up...

36,90 € *

Gut Feelings

Discover why the gut microbiome holds the keys to human health and can change the way we understand, treat, and prevent disease. A detailed and scientifically rigorous survey . . . gives readers a clearer sense of the current state of...

21,60 € *

Rethinking Law

Some of today s top legal thinkers consider the ways that legal thinking has bolstered rather than corrected injustice. Bringing together some of today s top legal thinkers, this volume reimagines law in the twenty-first century, zeroing...

19,60 € *

Voices from the Radium Age

A collection of science fiction stories from the early twentieth century by authors ranging from Arthur Conan Doyle to W. E. B. Du Bois. This collection of science fiction stories from the early twentieth century features work by the...

15,40 € *

Atlas of Perfumed Botany

A cartography of fragrance that charts the botany and geography of perfume composition. For perfume makers, each smell carries with it a multitude of associations and impressions that must be carefully analyzed and understood before the...

37,90 € *

A World of Women

When a plague wipes out most of the world s male population and civilization crumbles, women struggle to build an agrarian community in the English countryside. Imagine a plague that brings society to a standstill by killing off most of...

15,40 € *

Life, Death, and Other Inconvenient Truths

A guide for making sense of life--from action (good except when it's not) to thinking (depressing) to youth (a treasure). This book offers a guide to human nature and human experience--a reference book for making sense of life. In...

27,00 € *

Paper Revolutions

The experimental practices of a group of artists in the former East Germany upends assumptions underpinning Western art s postwar histories. In Paper Revolutions , Sarah James offers a radical rethinking of experimental art in the former...

43,00 € *

Work without Jobs

In this Wall Street Journal bestseller, why the future of work requires the deconstruction of jobs and the reconstruction of work. Work is traditionally understood as a job, and workers as jobholders. Jobs are structured by titles,...

36,90 € *

Gerhard Richter

The first full-scale monographic study in English of one of the most important artists of the second half of the twentieth century. In this first full-scale monograph in English on the German painter Gerhard Richter, the distinguished...

61,50 € *

Philosophy for Passengers

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 bookstores devoted to travel, there...

19,60 € *

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