Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning
By: Audrey Watters
3.97
Format: 316 pages, Hardcover
How ed tech was born: Twentieth-century teaching machines--from Sidney Pressey's mechanized test-gi…
Want to Read $ 18.99If you liked the history plot in Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning by Audrey Watters , here is a list of 7 books like this:
1. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
By: Cathy O'Neil
3.97
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on mathematical modeling--a pervasive new force in socie… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Cathy O'Neil's Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy book and Audrey Watters's Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning
- nonfiction
- technology
2. The Diviners (The Diviners, #1)
By: Libba Bray
4.16
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
Evie O'Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets o… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Libba Bray's The Diviners (The Diviners, #1) book and Audrey Watters's Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning
3. The City & the City
By: China Miéville
3.90
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to … read more
Want to Read $ 4.99Similar categories in China Miéville's The City & the City book and Audrey Watters's Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning
"shit, shit, shit."-China Miéville, The City & the City
"Same weather over here as back home," I said."-China Miéville, The City & the City
"Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?"-China Miéville, The City & the City
"What had touched me sent me not into mindless silence but into a dream arena, where I was quarry."-China Miéville, The City & the City
4. Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
By: Aeschylus , Patricia E. Easterling , John Harrison , Judith Affleck , None
3.83
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this se… read more
Want to Read $ 9.90Similar categories in Aeschylus's Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1) book and Audrey Watters's Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning
"Every medicine is vain."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"A curse burns bright on crime."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"There is no avoidance in delay."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"In war, the first casualty is truth."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
5. Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
By: None
4.12
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'I see [Raworth] as the John Maynard Keynes of the 21st Century: by ref… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in None's Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist book and Audrey Watters's Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning
6. How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
By: Stewart Brand
3.67
Format: 363 pages, Paperback
Buildings have often been studied whole in space, but never before have they been studied whole in … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Stewart Brand's How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built book and Audrey Watters's Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning
7. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone (The Theban Plays, #1–3)
By: Sophocles , Robert Fitzgerald , Dudley Fitts , None
5.00
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
(1939 translation) read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Sophocles's The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone (The Theban Plays, #1–3) book and Audrey Watters's Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning
8. What Kind of Woman: Poems
By: Kate Baer
4.07
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
A stunning and honest debut poetry collection about the beauty and hardships in being a mother, a w… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Kate Baer's What Kind of Woman: Poems book and Audrey Watters's Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning
- nonfiction
"Unclasp the thought of leaving, tie it to the door."-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems
"When someone asks for the secret to a happy marriage, remember you don't know. This is not a happy ending. This is not a fairy tale. This is the beginning of a life you haven't met."-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems
"What time will you be home? What time do you think you may be home? What time should we wait for you outside on the lawn while the pasta boils over and the baby cries because he misses you? Oh, befor…"-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems
"In the morning, I take your picture in front of the sign, gaps in your teeth. I do not say a life without you is not worth living. I do not say I've memorized every inch of your frame. Instead, I wav…"-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems
9. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
By: Vincent Bevins
4.28
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next From 20… read more
Want to Read $ 18.99Similar categories in Vincent Bevins's If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution book and Audrey Watters's Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning
- nonfiction
- history
"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
10. How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes
By: Cody Cassidy
4.06
Format: 195 pages, Paperback
A detailed guide to surviving history’s most challenging threats, from outrunning dinosaurs to maki… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Cody Cassidy's How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes book and Audrey Watters's Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning
- nonfiction
- history
11. Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense
By: Rory Sutherland
4.21
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
‘A breakthrough book. Wonderfully applicable to everything in life, and funny as hell.’ Nassim Nich… read more
Want to Read $ 15.49Similar categories in Rory Sutherland's Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense book and Audrey Watters's Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning
- nonfiction
"Many pretend to despise and belittle that which is beyond their reach."-Rory Sutherland, Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense
"Not everything that makes sense works, and not everything that works makes sense."-Rory Sutherland, Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense
"All too often, what matters is not whether an idea is true or effective, but whether it fits with the preconceptions of a dominant cabal."-Rory Sutherland, Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense
"No living creature can evolve and survive in the real world by processing information in an objective, measured and proportionate manner."-Rory Sutherland, Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense
12. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in David Graeber's The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity book and Audrey Watters's Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning
- nonfiction
- history
"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
13. The Tradition
By: Jericho Brown
4.24
Format: 77 pages, Paperback
Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at … read more
Want to Read $ 9.49Similar categories in Jericho Brown's The Tradition book and Audrey Watters's Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning
"The opposite of rape is understanding."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"Nobody in this nation feels safe, and I'm still a reason why."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"There is the happiness you have And the happiness you deserve."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"We few left who listen to the radio leave Ourselves available to surprise."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
14. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
By: Cathy Park Hong
4.21
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the trut… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Cathy Park Hong's Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning book and Audrey Watters's Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning
- nonfiction
"When I hear the phrase “Asians are next in line to be white,"-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
"The avant-garde genealogy could be tracked through stories of bad-boy white artists who “got away with it,"-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
"the curse of anyone nonwhite is that you are so busy arguing what you're not that you never arrive at what you are."-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
"Hollywood is still so racist against Asians that when there’s a rare Asian extra in a film, I tense up for the chinky joke and relax when there isn’t one."-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
15. Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life
By: Dacher Keltner
3.64
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Awe is mysterious. How do we begin to quantify the goose bumps we feel when we see the Grand Canyon… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Dacher Keltner's Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life book and Audrey Watters's Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning
- nonfiction
16. Her Hidden Genius
By: Marie Benedict
3.94
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Mystery of Mrs. Christie and co-author of The Per… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Marie Benedict's Her Hidden Genius book and Audrey Watters's Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning
"There you have it. He is resentful that a woman is succeeding where he failed, and most likely, he will either continue to encroach on your territory or try to take credit for your work. Be careful."-Marie Benedict, Her Hidden Genius
"Exactly," he answers again, with that patronizing smile. Watson's approach to science contains such a vital flaw it nearly takes my breath away. How can one call oneself a scientist and begin one's i…"-Marie Benedict, Her Hidden Genius
"Science IS life, dear cousin. It is the lens through which I see and experience the and make sense of the world around me, and it is my way of giving back. In solving crucial scientific mysteries at …"-Marie Benedict, Her Hidden Genius
"It is in these moments that I wonder--despite my love of and commitment to science--if I have chosen the right track. Should I be following the long-established path carved out for me by my family, a…"-Marie Benedict, Her Hidden Genius
17. How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between
By: Bent Flyvbjerg
4.32
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to s… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Bent Flyvbjerg's How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between book and Audrey Watters's Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning
- nonfiction
18. Squire
By: Nadia Shammas
4.06
Format: 305 pages, Paperback
Aiza has always dreamt of becoming a Knight. It's the highest military honor in the once-great Bayt… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Nadia Shammas's Squire book and Audrey Watters's Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning
19. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
By: Kate Crawford
3.99
Format: 288 pages, ebook
The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality,… read more
Want to Read $ 14.40Similar categories in Kate Crawford's Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence book and Audrey Watters's Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning
- nonfiction
- technology
20. Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door-Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy
By: Christopher Mims
4.02
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In Arriving Today, Christopher Mims goes deep, far, and wide to uncover how a single product, from … read more
Want to Read $ 20.99Similar categories in Christopher Mims's Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door-Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy book and Audrey Watters's Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning
- nonfiction
- history
- technology
21. Dr. No
By: Percival Everett
3.71
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
A sly, madcap novel about supervillains and nothing, really, from an American novelist whose star k… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Percival Everett's Dr. No book and Audrey Watters's Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning
"You sound like a physicist," she said. "There's no need to be insulting."-Percival Everett, Dr. No
"When you step on the gas, do it gently, softly, slowly. Okay? All right, let's try it again. Gently. Treat it like you would a woman." "I would never step on a woman."-Percival Everett, Dr. No
"And like my BIPDIP husband, it's never been out of the state, not even to Boston." "BIPDIP?" "Born in Providence, died in Providence. We actually honeymooned in Newport. I hate him so much."-Percival Everett, Dr. No
"Now here he was, tailored iron-gray suit, thin maroon tie, a maroon handkerchief peeking out from his breast pocket. His oxblood wing tips gleamed. He looked like a supervillain or, worse, an upper-c…"-Percival Everett, Dr. No
22. When Among Crows
By: Veronica Roth
3.73
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
When Among Crows is swift and striking, drawing from the deep well of Slavic folklore and asking if… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Veronica Roth's When Among Crows book and Audrey Watters's Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning
"I don't find it painful to be ordinary."-Veronica Roth, When Among Crows
"He pinches one of the petals and breaks it away from the flower. It doesn't feel like it's as powerful as it is, but maybe that's just how powerful things are- like the zmory, like Baba Jaga herself,…"-Veronica Roth, When Among Crows
23. The Experience Machine
By: Andy Clark
3.93
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build our worldsFor as long as … read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Andy Clark's The Experience Machine book and Audrey Watters's Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning
- nonfiction
24. Menewood (The Hild Sequence, #2)
By: Nicola Griffith
4.48
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
In the much anticipated sequel to Hild, Nicola Griffith's Menewood transports readers back to seven… read more
Want to Read $ 16.99Similar categories in Nicola Griffith's Menewood (The Hild Sequence, #2) book and Audrey Watters's Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning
"I hate thorns,"-Nicola Griffith, Menewood (The Hild Sequence, #2)
"You are Christian?"-Nicola Griffith, Menewood (The Hild Sequence, #2)
"Cadwallon is like a hawk,"-Nicola Griffith, Menewood (The Hild Sequence, #2)
"If people felt safe, they stayed."-Nicola Griffith, Menewood (The Hild Sequence, #2)
25. The Crimson Fortress (The Ivory Key Duology, #2)
By: Akshaya Raman
3.75
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
In this thrilling, action-packed sequel and conclusion to the critically acclaimed Ivory Key duolog… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Akshaya Raman's The Crimson Fortress (The Ivory Key Duology, #2) book and Audrey Watters's Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning
26. Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
By: Maryanne Wolf
3.89
Format: 272 pages, ebook
The author of the acclaimed Proust and the Squid follows up with a lively, ambitious, and deeply in… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Maryanne Wolf's Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World book and Audrey Watters's Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning
- nonfiction
- teaching
- education
- technology
"Deep reading is always about *connection*: connecting what we know to what we read, what we read to what we feel, what we feel to what we think, and how we think to how we live out our lives in a con…"-Maryanne Wolf, Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
"Before two years of age, human interaction and physical interaction with books and print are the best entry into the world of oral and written language and internalized knowledge, the building blocks…"-Maryanne Wolf, Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
"When language and thought atrophy, when complexity wanes and everything becomes more and more the same, we run great risks in society politic-- whether from extremists in a religion or a political or…"-Maryanne Wolf, Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
"It is still a matter of amazement to me that what we know before we read any sentence prepares us to recognize even the visual shapes of the individual words faster and to understand their meanings m…"-Maryanne Wolf, Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
27. Black Widow, Vol. 1: The Ties That Bind
By: Kelly Thompson
4.20
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Kelly Thompson. Black Widow. 'Nuff Said! The best-selling, Eisner-nominated writer of CAPTAIN MARVE… read more
Want to Read $ 7.99Similar categories in Kelly Thompson's Black Widow, Vol. 1: The Ties That Bind book and Audrey Watters's Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning
28. Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines
By: Joy Buolamwini
4.18
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“The conscience of the AI revolution” (Fortune) explains how we’ve arrived at an era of AI harms an… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Joy Buolamwini's Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines book and Audrey Watters's Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning
- nonfiction
- education
- technology
29. The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning
By: Justin E. H. Smith
3.21
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
An original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams b… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Justin E. H. Smith's The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning book and Audrey Watters's Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning
- nonfiction
- history
- technology
30. Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning
By: Audrey Watters
3.97
Format: 316 pages, Hardcover
How ed tech was born: Twentieth-century teaching machines--from Sidney Pressey's mechanized test-gi… read more
Want to Read $ 18.99Similar categories in Audrey Watters's Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning book and Audrey Watters's Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning
- history
- teaching
- nonfiction
- education
- technology
31. The Science of Reading: Information, Media, and Mind in Modern America
By: Adrian Johns
3.80
Format: 504 pages, Hardcover
For the first time, the story of how and why we have plumbed the mysteries of reading, and why it m… read more
Want to Read $ 23.68Similar categories in Adrian Johns's The Science of Reading: Information, Media, and Mind in Modern America book and Audrey Watters's Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning
- history
- nonfiction
