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Hitting the Books: How NASA helped JFK build his 'Nation of Immigrants'
After Apollo: Cultural Legacies of the Race to the Moon, explores the myriad ways that putting a man on the moon changed the American Experience.
Hitting the Books: Amazon's unique 'threat' to digital commerce
In Winner Sells All, journalist Jason Del Rey recounts the titanic battles both between and within these titans of industry as Amazon and Walmart spend big to further entrench their market positions.
Hitting the Books: How SNAP's digital services became an online quagmire
Jennifer Pahlka, founder of Code for America, takes an unflinching view at the many missteps committed by our government in the pursuit of bureaucratic efficiency in "Recoding America."
Hitting the Books: How hackers turned cybercrime into a commercial service
In "Fancy Bear Goes Phishing", Yale Law professor Dr. Scott J Shapiro traces the internet's illicit history through five of the biggest attacks on digital infrastructure ever recorded.
Hitting the Books: Why AI won't be taking our cosmology jobs
In "The Universe in a Box" cosmologist Andrew Pontzen discusses how recent advances in supercomputing technology are revolutionizing our capability to model the complexities of the cosmos on a smaller scale.
Hitting the books: Why you shouldn't blog about asking a cop to go shopping for you
In "Swipe Up for More!" Stephanie McNeal takes an unflinching look at the the public personas and private lives of three of the internet's most influential lifestyle bloggers.
Hitting the Books: Why we like bigger things better
In "Size," Dr Vaclav Smil takes readers on a multidiscipline tour of the social quirks, economic intricacies, and biological peculiarities that result from our function following our form.
Hitting the Books: How music chords hack your brain to elicit emotion
In their new book "Every Brain Needs Music," Dr. Larry S Sherman and Dr. Dennis Plies, a music professor at Warner Pacific University, explore the fascinating interplay between our brains, our instruments, our audiences, and the music they make together.
Hitting the Books: The abrupt and ignoble downfall of Sam Bankman-Fried
In SBF: How the FTX Bankruptcy Unwound Crypto’s Very Bad Good Guy, veteran crypto reporter Brady Dale provides a scintillating and clarifying narrative of the entire FTX/Alameda Ventures saga.
Hitting the Books: Why a Dartmouth professor coined the term 'artificial intelligence'
In their new book, professors Chris Wiggins and Matthew L Jones examine how data acts as the lifeblood of modern society, shaping everything from our political views and social mores to our military responses and economic activities.
Hitting the Books: Who's excited to have their brainwaves scanned as a personal ID?
In her new book, The Battle for Your Brain, Duke University Professor of Law, Nita A. Farahany, examines the legal, ethical, and moral threats that tomorrow's mind-monitoring neurotechnologies could pose.
Hitting the Books: We'd likely have to liquidate Jupiter to build a Dyson Sphere around the Sun
In "The Possibility of Life," science journalist Jaime Green examines humanity's intriguing history of looking to the stars and finding ourselves reflected in them.
Hitting the Books: Why nobody knows Hiram Maxim, inventor of the incandescent lightbulb
In "The Things We Make, Dr. Bill Hammack, recounts the tale of Hiram Maxim, an irrepressible engineer whose novel filament production method would have made him a household name — had Thomas Edison not helped himself to Maxim's design.
Hitting the Books: Tech can't fix what's broken in American policing
'More than a Glitch' from data journalist Dr. Meredith Broussard examines the myriad failings of modern automation and the price BIPOC people pay for them.
Hitting the Books: Sputnik's radio tech launched a revolution in bird migration research
In Flight Paths, science author Rebecca Heisman details the fascinating history of modern bird migration research and the pioneering ornithologists that helped the field take off.
Hitting the Books: How the 'Godfather of Cybercrime' got his start on eBay
"Fool Me Once" from forensic accounting expert Dr. Kelly Richmond Pope explores some of the most heinous financial crimes in internet history, explaining the hows and whys of these grifts' success.
Hitting the Books: During World War II, even our pigeons joined the fight
In "The Celluloid Specimen," Seattle University's Dr. Ben Schultz-Figueroa, reexamines historic animal behavior archives from the 1930s and '40s.
Hitting the Books: How 20th century science unmade Newton's universe
Animaxander isn't often mentioned alongside other greats of Greek philosophy but his influence on the scientific method cannot be denied, argues NYT bestselling author, Carlo Rovelli, in "Animaxander and the Birth of Science," out now from Riverhead Books.
Hitting the Books: AI is making people think faster, not smarter
I, HUMAN, the latest from ManpowerGroup CIO, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, explores the myriad ways that AI systems now govern our daily lives and interactions.
Hitting the Books: Could we zap our brains into leading healthier lives?
In "We Are Electric," Sally Adee delves into two centuries of research into an often misunderstood and maligned branch of scientific discovery, guiding readers from the pioneering works of Alessandro Volta to the life-saving applications that might become possible once doctors learn to communicate directly with our body's cells.