philosophy

"Where does math come from? From a textbook? From rules? From deduction? From logic? Not really, Eugenia Cheng writes in Is Math Real?: it comes from curiosity, from instinctive human curiosity, 'from people not being satisfied with answers and always wanting to understand more.' And most importantly, she says, 'it comes from questions:': not from answering them, but from posing them. Nothing could seem more at odds from the way most of us were taught math: a rigid and autocratic model which taught us to follow specific steps to reach specific answers. Instead of encouraging a child who asks why 1+1 is 2, our methods of education force them to accept it. Instead of exploring why we multiply before we add, a textbook says, just to get on with the order of operations"--Provided by publisher.

Pete Carril, coach of the Princeton University Tigers at the time of their victory over the national champion UCLA Bruins, outlines his philosophy for basketball success.

Explores the possible political consequences of a decline in the Islamic civilization.

In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an eighteenth-century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a crucial question for our age: Who gets to live in paradise, and how can we share it while there's still time? Moving between real and imagined gardens, from Milton's Paradise Lost to John Clare's enclosure elegies, from a wartime sanctuary in Italy to a grotesque aristocratic pleasure ground funded by slavery, Laing interrogates the sometimes shocking cost of making paradise on earth. But it's also a place of rebel outposts and communal dreams.

Contains a collection of essays that explore reasons people read, including to feel seen, stave off boredom, and because they were forced to. Through the essays, the author also explores topics including poorly written books, elitism in publishing, and character stereotypes in genre publishing.

"Author Waka T. Brown and artist Yuko Jones join forces for this picture book about a young girl who learns to appreciate life's imperfections when her grandmother teachers her about the Japanese art form kintsugi"--Amazon.

Contains readings on literary relationships in works published between the sixteenth and the twentieth centuries from Harold Bloom, examining works by William Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, and mapping connections between John Milton, Percy Bysshe, Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, John Ashbury, Amy Clampitt, Charles Wright, and others.

"Dr. Joy Buolamwini explains how we've arrived at an era of artifical intelligence harms and oppression, and what we can do to avoid its pitfalls"--Provided by publisher.

"Explores how English authors altered and transformed the English language and forms of writing. Describes prominent authors' works and how those works were influenced by, and in turn influenced, historical contexts and literary contexts"--Provided by publisher.

"The former Los Angeles Times book critic expands his short book on the importance of reading to include considerations of fake news, siloed information, and the necessity of critical thinking as a key component of engaged citizenship and resistance. Ulin builds the case in favor of slow reading in this distracted and troubled time"--Back cover.