What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as
a group? How do trillions of neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as
consciousness? In this remarkably clear and companionable book, leading complex ...

This important and timely book delivers a startling analysis of the clash of faith and reason in
today's world. Harris offers a vivid historical tour of mankind's willingness to suspend reason
in favor of religious beliefs, even when those beliefs are used to justify harmful behavior ...

Can the internet solve the problem of mass education, and bring human beings to a new
level of community? Drawing on a diverse array of thinkers from Plato to Kierkegaard, On the
Internet argues that there is much in common between the disembodied, free floating web ...

Drawing on cultural theory and interviews with fans, cast members, and producers, this book
places the reality TV trend within a broader social context, tracing its relationship to the
development of a digitally enhanced, surveillance-based interactive economy and to a ...

All humans see the world in two fundamentally different ways: even babies have a rich
understanding of both the physical and social worlds. They expect objects to obey principles
of physics, and they're startled when things disappear or defy gravity. Yet they can also ...

Abstract A persistent theme in the academic literature on technological innovation is that
incumbent enterprises have great difficulty crossing the abyss created by a radical
technological innovation and, thus, go into decline, while new entrants rise to market ...

" The Moment of Complexity is a profoundly original work. In remarkable and insightful ways,
Mark Taylor traces an entirely new way to view the evolution of our culture, detailing how
information theory and the scientific concept of complexity can be used to understand ...

Abstract No topic raises more contentious debate among educators than the role of
interaction as a crucial component of the education process. This debate is fueled by surface
problems of definition and vested interests of professional educators, but is more deeply ...

What is the basis of belief in an era when globalization, multiculturalism and big business
are the new religion? Slavoj Zizek, renowned philosopher and irrepressible cultural critic
takes on all comers in this compelling and breathless new book. From'cyberspace reason' ...

Abstract George Santayana's statement," Those who cannot remember the past are
condemned to repeat it," is only half true. The past also includes successful histories. If you
haven't been made aware of them, you're often condemned not to repeat their successes. ...