Topic: Psychology & Psychiatry

Just in Time

Just in Time

Literature and neuroscience come together to illuminate the human experience of beauty, which unfolds in time. How does beauty exist in time? This is Gabrielle Starr's central concern in Just in...
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256 pages
2023-06-06 Published
Context Changes Everything

Context Changes Everything

From the influential author of Dynamics in Action, how the concepts of constraints provide a way to rethink relationships, opening the way to intentional, meaningful causation. Grounding her work in the...
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280 pages
2023-06-20 Published
Evolvability

Evolvability

Essays on evolvability from the perspectives of quantitative and population genetics, evolutionary developmental biology, systems biology, macroevolution, and the philosophy of science. Evolvability—the capability of organisms to evolve—wasn't recognized as...
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448 pages
2023-06-27 Published
Veridical Data Science

Veridical Data Science

Using real-world data case studies, this innovative and accessible textbook introduces an actionable framework for conducting trustworthy data science. Most textbooks present data science as a linear analytic process involving...
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526 pages
2024-10-15 Published
Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning

Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning

A comprehensive and self-contained introduction to Gaussian processes, which provide a principled, practical, probabilistic approach to learning in kernel machines. Gaussian processes (GPs) provide a principled, practical, probabilistic approach to...
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272 pages
2006-01-10 Published
Open Minded

Open Minded

A provocative look at the unconscious mind that challenges contemporary perceptions and exposes the indefensible science that fostered them. How much of a role does the unconscious play in our...
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232 pages
2023-08-08 Published
Kids Across the Spectrums

Kids Across the Spectrums

An ethnographic study of diverse children on the autism spectrum and the role of media and technology in their everyday lives. In spite of widespread assumptions that young people on...
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328 pages
2023-08-15 Published
Families on the Edge

Families on the Edge

An intimate account of rural New England families living on the edge of homelessness, as well as the practices and policies of care that fail them. Families on the Edge is...
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192 pages
2023-08-15 Published
Real Life in Real Time

Real Life in Real Time

The cultural ramifications of online live streaming, including its effects on identity and power in digital spaces. Some consider live streaming—the broadcasting of video and/or audio footage live online—simply an...
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352 pages
2023-08-22 Published
Understanding Deep Learning

Understanding Deep Learning

An authoritative, accessible, and up-to-date treatment of deep learning that strikes a pragmatic middle ground between theory and practice. Deep learning is a fast-moving field with sweeping relevance in today's...
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496 pages
2023-12-05 Published
Evolution On Purpose

Evolution On Purpose

A unique exploration of teleonomy—also known as “evolved purposiveness”—as a major influence in evolution by a broad range of specialists in biology and the philosophy of science. The evolved purposiveness...
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400 pages
2023-08-22 Published
Person, Thing, Robot

Person, Thing, Robot

Why robots defy our existing moral and legal categories and how to revolutionize the way we think about them. Robots are a curious sort of thing. On the one hand,...
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240 pages
2023-09-05 Published