Finding a New Midwestern History
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The cultures and histories of the Midwest assayed from dozens of different vantage points, displaying a huge region of the United States that's often written off.
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Dungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana: A Visual History
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One long and heavily-illustrated Victory Dance of the Nerds.
Read MoreEscaping the Rabbit Hole by Mick West
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How to deal with people who believe bunk, falsehoods, mistakes, and outright lies
Read MoreLikeWar by P.W. Singer & Emerson T. Brooking
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Technology, politics, and war have merged into a new battlefield where strategies are played out on smartphones.
Read MoreFuture Politics by Jamie Susskind
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Outlines how emerging technologies shape our democracy and culture, and how this might look in the future.
Read MoreTwitterbots by Tony Veale & Mike Cook
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A fascinating and fun account of the lives of autonomous software systems in the social media universe.
Read MoreWhy We Need Religion by Stephen T. Asma
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A Darwinian view of whether religion is meaningful and beneficial to society.
Read MoreMessing with the Enemy by Clint Watts
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The author is uniquely qualified to show how misinformation campaigns, social media trolling, and electronic espionage have become tools of modern warfare.
Read MoreTen Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier
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One of the architects the digital world in the 1980s takes aim at social media.
Read MoreSupernatural: Death, Meaning, and the Power of the Invisible World by Clay Routledge
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Is a belief in the supernatural because of an evolutionarily-ingrained need to create meaning?
Read MoreI Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing by A. D. Jameson
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This book explores a broad range of geekish enthusiasms, from comic books to SFF movies of all types.
Read MoreThe Known Citizen by Sarah E. Igo
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This author covers broad stretches of legal and social history, and charts the changing nature of privacy in the public eye.
Read MoreInto the Raging Sea by Rachel Slade
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A chilling, detailed account of a deadly clash between the power of nature and the fallibility of human judgement.
Read MoreBelief by James E. Alcock
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An examination of our thoughts and feelings about the world as we believe it to be.
Read MoreWonder Beyond Belief: On Christianity by Navid Kermani
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This translation of Ungläubiges Staunen: Über das Christentum is a collection of Kermani's vivid encounters with various works of Christianity-inspired artwork.
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