Seeing a red screen tells us a fact about something in the world. But it also creates a new fact — a sensation in each of our minds, the feeling of redness. And that’s the …

Finally, we are learning that simplicity equals sanity. We’re rebelling against technology that’s too complicated. DVD players with too many menus, and software accompanied by 75-megabyte “read me” manuals. The iPod’s clean gadgetry has made …

In Aesthetic Computing, key scholars and practitioners from art, design, computer science, and mathematics lay the foundations for a discipline that applies the theory and practice of art to computing. Aesthetic computing explores the way …

We have all been to Web sites that welcome us by name, offering us discounts, deals, or special access to content. For the most part, it feels good to be wanted — to be valued …

After the long period of cultural decline known as the Dark Ages, Europe experienced a rebirth of scholarship, art, literature, philosophy, and science and began to develop a vision of Western society that remains at …

As nations around the world struggle with the threat of militant Islam, Vali Nasr, one of the leading scholars on the Middle East, provides us with a rare opportunity of understanding the political and theological …

Artificial life, or a-life, is an interdisciplinary science focused on artificial systems that mimic the properties of living systems. In the 1990s, new media artists began appropriating and adapting the techniques of a-life science to …

Software platforms are the invisible engines that have created, touched, or transformed nearly every major industry for the past quarter century. They power everything from mobile phones and automobile navigation systems to search engines and …

Byzantium: the successor of Greece and Rome, this magnificent empire bridged the ancient and modern worlds for more than a thousand years. Without Byzantium, the works of Homer and Herodotus, Plato, and Aristotle, Sophocles and …

Gaia theory tells us that the entire Earth, including the atmosphere, oceans, biosphere and upper layers of rock, functions as a single living superorganism, regulating its internal environment much as an animal regulates its body …

This book presents an ardent defense of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution against its many critics by one of the leading experts on this subject. Offering a clear and comprehensive exposition of the thinking of …

Science has always been a collective endeavor. In A People’s History of Science the attention is at last turned to hunter-gatherers, peasant farmers, sailors, miners, blacksmiths, folk healers, and others who wrested the means of …

Together these twenty-one articles on a wide range of today’s most leading topics in science, from Dennis Overbye, Jonathan Weiner, and Richard Preston, among others, represent the full spectrum of scientific inquiry, proving once again …

Bill Pfleging — a respected computer and Web consultant — and Minda Zetlin — a veteran business writer — explore in this insightful, witty, and very instructive book, the culture clash that pervades nearly every …

Since Enron, Worldcom and other high-profile cases of management and leadership misconduct, those involved in business leadership have become increasingly aware that one of the core challenges, if not the challenge, in business today is …

What about your organization? Does it “walk the talk” when it comes to proving to employees that they matter? Even the most well-intentioned companies fall short in their efforts to recognize and reward excellence. Sometimes …