William Byers is professor emeritus of mathematics and statistics at Concordia University in Montreal. He is the author of How Mathematicians Think: Using Ambiguity, Contradiction, and Paradox to Create Mathematics (Princeton). Why absolute certainty is impossible in science In today's unpredictable and chaotic world, we look to science to provide certainty and answers-and often blame it when things go wrong. The Blind Spot reveals why our faith...

Michael R. Rose is Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine. A researcher in the biology of aging, he is known for selection experiments that made fruit flies live twice as long as normal. He is also the author of The Evolutionary Biology of Aging and a coeditor of Adaptation. Extending the human life-span past 120 years. The "green" revolution. Evolution and human psychology. These subjects make today's newspaper...

"For some automation will usher in a labor-free utopia; for others it signals a disastrous age-to-come. Yet whether seen as dream or nightmare, automation, argues Munn, is ultimately a fable that rests on a set of triple fictions. There is the myth of full autonomy claiming that machines will soon take over production and supplant the human. But far from being self-acting, technical solutions are piecemeal; their support and maintenance reveals the...

"We are approaching a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change. Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. They will organize your life, operate your business, and run core government services. You will live in a world of DNA printers and quantum computers, engineered pathogens and autonomous weapons, robot assistants and abundant energy. None of us are prepared. As co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind,...

A groundbreaking, revelatory portrait of the six generations that currently live in the United States and how they connect, conflict, and compete with one another--from the acclaimed author of Generation Me and iGen"--

The Sane Society is a continuation and extension of the psychiatric concepts Erich Fromm first formulated in Escape from Freedom; it is also, in many ways, an answer to Freud's "Civilization and its discontents." Fromm examines man's escape into overconformity and the danger of robotism in contemporary industrial society: modern humanity has, he maintains, been alienated from the world of their own creation. Here Fromm offers a complete and systematic...

"A timely and impassioned exploration of how our society has commodified feminism and continues to systemically shut out women of color-perfect for fans of White Fragility and Good and Mad"--

Víctor Manuel Toledo, un destacado referente académico en el pensamiento ambiental, presenta en su libro una antología de sus contribuciones teóricas y metodológicas. Sus planteamientos se materializan en experiencias concretas, enriqueciendo el libro. Toledo analiza ecos históricos y se destaca como un crítico comprometido, iluminando posibilidades en medio de la crisis. No se conforma con la descomposición, sino que identifica resistencias...

An overdue indictment of government, industry, and faith groups that twist science for their own gain. During the next thirty years, the American public will suffer from a rampage against reason by special interests in government, commerce, and the faith industry, and the rampage has already begun. In Junk Science, Dan Agin offers a response-a stinging condemnation of the egregious and constant warping of science for ideological gain. In this provocative,...

Sinn und der Zweck des Daseins? Auf die Frage gibt es zahllose Antworten, deren wesentlichste ist, ob nicht einer bestimmten von ihnen die Qualität der ultimativen Wesentlichkeit zu eigen ist, die ihr im Vergleich mit allen anderen höchste Geltung und Bedeutung verleiht.