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Weapons of Math Destruction
How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
2021 || Paperback || Cathy O'Neil || Crown
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A former Wall Street quant sounds the alarm on Big Data and the mathematical models that threaten to rip apart our social fabric with a new afterword
A manual for the twenty-first-century citizen . . . relevant and urgent. Financial Times
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review The Boston Globe Wired Fortune Kirkus Reviews The Guardian Nature On Point
We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasing...
Elements of Journalism / 4th edition
What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect
2021 || Paperback || Bill Kovach e.a. || Crown
A timely new edition of the classic journalism text, now featuring updated material on the importance of reporting in the age of media mistrust and fake news and how journalists can use technology to navigate its challenges
More than two decades ago, the Committee of Concerned Journalists gathered some of America's most influential newspeople and asked them, "What is journalism for?" Through exhaustive research, surveys, interviews, and public forums, the committee identified the essential el...
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Hardcover || Douglas Adams || Crown
Seconds before the Earth is demolished for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is saved by Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised Guide. Together they stick out their thumbs to the stars and begin a wild journey through time and space.The Restaurant at the End of the UniverseThe moment before annihilation at the hands of warmongers is a curious time to crave tea. It could only happen to the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his comrades as they hurtle across the galaxy in a desperate searc...
Made Up, But Still True
2024 || Hardcover || Donald Sutherland || Crown