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Now You Read Recycling for Death: Coffin Reuse and the Theban Royal Caches by Kara Cooney  Download Now Read Now Descriptions : . LEARN MORE

Now You Read The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics by Benjamin J.B. Lipscomb  Download Now Read Now Descriptions : . LEARN MORE

Now You Read Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Paul Scharre  Download Now Read Now Descriptions : One of the Next Big Idea Club's Must-Read BooksAn award-winning defense expert tells the story of today?s great power rivalry?the struggle to control artificial intelligence. A new industrial revolution has begun. Like mechanization or electricity before it, artificial intelligence will touch every aspect of our lives?and cause profound disruptions in the balance of global power, especially among the AI superpowers: China, the United States, and Europe. Autonomous weapons expert Paul Scharre takes readers inside the fierce competition to develop and implement this game-changing technology and dominate the future. Four Battlegrounds argues that four key elements define this struggle: data, computing power, talent, and institutions. Data is a vital resource like coal or oil, but it must be collected and refined. Advanced computer chips are the essence of computing power?control over chip supply chains grants leverage over rivals. Talent is about people: which country attracts the best . LEARN MORE

Now You Read Cellular and Molecular Neurophysiology by Constance Hammond  Download Now Read Now Descriptions : . LEARN MORE

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Now You Read The Ecology of British and American Empire Writing, 1704?1894 (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Atlantic Literatures and Cultures) by Louis Kirk McAuley  Download Now Read Now Descriptions : . LEARN MORE

Now You Read A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back by Bruce Schneier  Download Now Read Now Descriptions : It?s not just computers?hacking is everywhere.Legendary cybersecurity expert and New York Times best-selling author Bruce Schneier reveals how using a hacker?s mindset can change how you think about your life and the world. A hack is any means of subverting a system?s rules in unintended ways. The tax code isn?t computer code, but a series of complex formulas. It has vulnerabilities; we call them ?loopholes.? We call exploits ?tax avoidance strategies.? And there is an entire industry of ?black hat? hackers intent on finding exploitable loopholes in the tax code. We call them accountants and tax attorneys. In A Hacker?s Mind , Bruce Schneier takes hacking out of the world of computing and uses it to analyze the systems that underpin our society: from tax laws to financial markets to politics. He reveals an array of powerful actors whose hacks bend our economic, political, and legal systems to their advantage, at the expense of everyone else. Once you learn how to notice hacks, you?ll . LEARN MORE

Now You Read The Sage Handbook of Online Higher Education by Safary Wa-Mbaleka  Download Now Read Now Descriptions : . LEARN MORE

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Now You Read An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South by Robert K.D. Colby  Download Now Read Now Descriptions : The Confederate States of America was born in defense of slavery and, after a four-year struggle to become an independent slaveholding republic, died as emancipation dawned. Between Fort Sumter to Appomattox, Confederates bought and sold thousands African American men, women, and children. These transactions in humanity made the internal slave trade a cornerstone of Confederate society, a bulwark of the Rebel economy, and a central part of the experience of the Civil War for all inhabiting the American South.As An Unholy Traffic shows, slave trading helped Southerners survive and fight the Civil War, as well as to build the future for which they fought. They mitigated the crises the war spawned by buying and selling enslaved people, using this commerce to navigate food shortages, unsettled gender roles, the demands of military service, and other hardships on the homefront. Some Rebels speculated wildly in human property, investing in slaves to ward off inflation and to buy shares in . LEARN MORE