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The Descent of Artificial Intelligence

|9780822947967|A Deep History of an Idea Four Hundred Years in the Making|The idea that a new technology could challenge human intelligence is as old as the warning from Socrates and

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Achy Affects

…is ethical, or even desirable. Instead, by tuning into the feeling of ache, we can resist these pressures and reclaim our agency through compositions of our own making. In the…

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Societies After Slavery

…annotations, making it the definitive resource for scholars and students engaged in research on postemancipation societies in the Americas and Africa.| Rebecca J. Scott Thomas C. Holt Frederick Cooper Aims…

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Islam, Society, and Politics in Central Asia

…corroborate and contradict findings from previous research, while also highlighting the problem of making any generalizations about Islam in individual states or the region. As such, this volume provides new…

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Recreating Newton

|9780822966371|Newtonian Biography and the Making of Nineteenth-Century History of Science|Higgitt examines Isaac Newton’s changing legacy during the nineteenth century. She focuses on 1820-1870, a period that saw the creation of…

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