A copiously illustrated global history of magic books, from ancient papyri to pulp paperbacks

Learning in and through the arts can develop complex and subtle aspects of the mind, argues Elliot Eisner in this book. Offering an array of examples, he describes different approaches to the teaching of the arts and shows how these refine forms of thinking that are valuable in dealing with our daily life.

A new approach to the challenges surrounding artificial intelligence that argues for assessing AI actions as if they came from a human being

John Lukacs asserts that now, even at the end of the modern age, our understanding of the universe is based on what we fallible human beings have imagined and defined in a historical continuum; it is religion that is the source of the highest form of knowledge.

The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy and freedom