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Nowadays, computers are no longer given commands; instead we enter into dialogues with them and create virtual realities. This one-to-one person/machine relationship has blossomed into a global communication network, the...

Does the crooked gene give rise to the crooked thought? Satirical aphorisms apart, the revolution in molecular genetics has indeed given rise to the heady optimism that biology will soon...

Richard Butler, the retiring head of UNSCOM, the organisation set up by the UN after the Gulf War to monitor, identify and isolate Saddam Hussein's military capacity, on how he...

A detailed study of the mechanical, physiological, and technical aspects of bicycle design, construction, and use, describing and picturing past, present, and experimental models.

The world of computation according to Turing, an interactive tutoring program, as told to star-crossed lovers- a novel.Our hero is Turing, an interactive tutoring program and namesake (or virtual emanation?)...

This book is the companion volume to Rethinking Innateness- A Connectionist Perspective on Development (The MIT Press, 1996), which proposed a new theoretical framework to answer the question "What does...

Taking a stand midway between Piaget's constructivism and Fodor's nativism, Annette Karmiloff-Smith offers an exciting new theory of developmental change that embraces both approaches. She shows how each can enrich...

The core of John Forester's concept of effective cycling is that bicyclists fare best when they act, and are treated in return, as drivers of vehicles, with the same rights...

"Sociomedia" continues the assessment of hypertext and hypermedia systems begun in "Text, Context, and HyperText" and "The Society of Text". It examines the use of integrated multimedia to support social...

A guide to today's urban cycling renaissance, with information on cycling's health benefits, safety, bikes and bike equipment, bike lanes, bike sharing, and other topics. Bicycling in cities is booming,...

An updated edition of a classic handbook for cyclists from beginner to expert. Effective Cycling is an essential handbook for cyclists from beginner to expert, whether daily commuters or weekend...

How does the brain work? How do billions of neurons bring about ideas, sensations, emotions, and actions? Why do children learn faster than elderly people? What can go wrong in...

"Made-up Minds" addresses fundamental questions of learning and concept invention by means of a computer program that is based on the cognitive-developmental theory of psychologist Jean Piaget. Drescher uses Piaget's...

Connectionist approaches, Andy Clark argues, are driving cognitive science toward a radical reconception of its explanatory endeavour. At the heart of this reconception lies a shift toward a new and...

People today have more romantic options than at any point in human history, and thanks to social media, smartphones and online dating, our abilities to connect with these options are...

In a novel of international intrigue, an American lawyer, Damon Pierce, attempts to save Bobby Okari, the West African leader of a protest movement, from execution by the country's corrupt...

This book is a balanced and up-to-date introduction to the philosophy of science. It covers all the main topics in the area, as well as introducing the student to the...

What is it that allows human beings to think the way we do? What enables us to communicate with one another through the use of speech? Is the difference between...

Rabbi Milton Steinberg's Basic Judaism is "one of the best presentations of essential Judaism" ( Christian Century ). Concise and elegant, this is a book about the faith, ideals, and...

This magical novel about three daughters struggling with divorce, dislocation, and the radical new lifestyle their mother adopts introduces an exceptional new author. Bold and wonderfully written, Bright Angel Time...

Do dogs dream? Does tail-wagging always show that a dog is happy? Is a pug really related to a wolf? Can a dog be trained to ride a horse? For...

How many diets have you tried that haven't worked for you? The Total Wellbeing Diet, developed by Australia CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation), is not just another diet,...

I Can Jump Puddles is Alan Marshall's story of his childhood - a happy world in which, despite his crippling poliomyelitis, he plays, climbs, fights, swims, rides and laughs. I...

This sequel to the acclaimed A Time for Dancing finds Samantha Russell mourning her best friend, Juliana. Sammie soon meets Mona, a Jules-lookalike, and the girls must face the most...

1586 - London, England Sixteen-year-old Mercy Hart is the daughter of one of London's richest - and strictest - cloth merchants. Kit Turner is an actor and the illegitimate son...

1584 - Surrey, England When Lady Jane Rievaulx begins service to the Queen at Richmond Palace, she is thrilled at the court's newest arrival . . . Master James Lacey....

For many people watching football is mere entertainment; to some it's more like a ritual; but to others, its highs and lows provide a narrative to life itself. For Nick...

An intimate biography of the Prophet and a compelling meditation on Islam in the modern world The life of the Prophet Muhammad, to whom the Angel Gabriel revealed the verses...

Set partly in the United States, this novel includes a searing satire on mid-nineteenth-century America. Martin Chuzzlewit is the story of two Chuzzlewits, Martin and Jonas, who have inherited the...

A scholarly but exhilarating examination of why we devote so much time and energy to language games. LANGUAGE PLAY shows how professionals - from comedians and copy writers to theologians...

Hosftadter and his colleagues at The Fluid Analogies Research Group have developed computer models that help describe and explain human discovery, creation and analogical thought. The key issue of perception...

The American long-distance telephone network crashes, and millions of calls go unanswered. A computer hacker reprogrammes a switching station, and calls to a Florida probation office are shunted to a...

The inside story of a thoroughly modern monarch, as told by the bestselling and acclaimed biographer, Robert Hardman ________ The bestselling and acclaimed biography of Queen Elizabeth II. With new...

By the author of the bestselling THE WOMAN WARRIOR, a magical book- a literature of peace built on the stories of war.Divided into four sections - 'Fire', 'Paper', 'Water' and...

From the author of the Raj Quartet - dramatised for Radio Four The winner of the Booker Prize 'A rich and joyful book' - Sunday Times Tusker and Lily Smalley...

A New York Time bestseller. A bestselling story of suspense, I'll Be Seeing You is a masterful psychological crime thriller from the world's most successful writer of suspense novels. Young...

The Portobello area of West London has a rich personality vibrant, brilliant in colour, noisy, with graffiti that approach art, bizarre and splendid. An indefinable edge to it adds a...