Algorithms have risen to become one, if not the central technology for producing, circulating, and evaluating knowledge in multiple societal arenas. In this book, scholars from the social sciences, humanities, and computer science argue that this shift has, and will continue to have, profound implications for how knowledge is produced and what and whose knowledge is valued and deemed valid. To attend to this fundamental change, the authors propose the concept of algorithmic regimes and dem...

This book explores how predictive policing transforms police work. Police departments around the world have started to use data-driven applications to produce crime forecasts and intervene into the future through targeted prevention measures. Based on three years of field research in Germany and Switzerland, this book provides a theoretically sophisticated and empirically detailed account of how the police produce and act upon criminal futures as part of their everyday work practices....

The Collected Poems of F. Scott Fitzgerald gathers the lyrical fragments, occasional verses, songs, and polished poems of an author more commonly associated with the modern American novel. These poems reveal Fitzgerald's fascination with beauty, youth, theatricality, romance, and loss—the same emotional architecture that underlies This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby. Stylistically, they range from light society verse to more wistful, finely cadenced meditations, placing him within t...

The Collected Stories of 1926–1934 gathers 38 short fictions from Fitzgerald's crucial middle years, between The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night. These stories display his lyrical precision, polished dialogue, and acute sense of social performance, tracing debutantes, strivers, lovers, and disillusioned idealists through resorts, colleges, hotels, and drawing rooms. In literary context, the collection reveals Fitzgerald's movement from Jazz Age radiance toward Depression-era irony, sh...

Taps at Reveille, Fitzgerald's fourth and final story collection published during his lifetime, gathers eighteen stories that trace the glitter and disillusion of modern American life after the Jazz Age. Moving from prep-school comedies and romantic initiations to Hollywood satire and the chastened masterpiece "Babylon Revisited," the volume displays Fitzgerald's lucid lyricism, social acuity, and gift for dramatizing moral consequence beneath elegance and charm. In its 1935 context, it st...

In 'The Argonauts of the Air & Other Stories', H. G. Wells showcases his mastery of science fiction with 17 captivating tales that explore futuristic concepts and imaginative scenarios. Wells' fluid literary style makes his stories easily digestible yet thought-provoking, drawing readers into the realms of alternate universes and advanced technology. Set against the backdrop of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Wells' work reflects a time of rapid scientific advancement and societal ...

The Poem of Hashish brings together decadent poetics, psychological observation, and proto-modernist inquiry into altered consciousness through Charles Baudelaire's influential meditation on intoxication, here presented in Aleister Crowley's complete translation. Part literary essay, part moral anatomy, the work explores hashish as both imaginative catalyst and perilous illusion, moving between lyric intensity, philosophical speculation, and clinical description. Its significance lies in t...

The Collected Essays and Articles of F. Scott Fitzgerald gathers the novelist's nonfiction—literary criticism, cultural commentary, autobiographical reflection, and professional counsel—into a revealing companion to his fiction. Written with the same elegance, irony, and rhythmic precision that animate The Great Gatsby, these pieces illuminate the Jazz Age from within: its glamour, commodified youth, artistic ambition, and moral exhaustion. They also situate Fitzgerald among modernist writ...

"Absolution" is among F. Scott Fitzgerald's most revealing short fictions, a psychologically acute tale of Catholic guilt, youthful self-invention, and the perilous glamour of imagined identities. Centered on Rudolph Miller, a sensitive boy whose secret inner life strains against religious discipline and middle-class constraint, the story employs Fitzgerald's characteristic lyrical precision and moral ambiguity. Often described as a discarded or transformed beginning for The Great Gatsby, ...

The Collected Parody and Humor Prose of F. Scott Fitzgerald gathers the author's comic sketches, burlesques, playful essays, and satirical pastiches, revealing a writer whose wit was as central to his art as his lyric melancholy. These pieces illuminate Fitzgerald's command of voice, social observation, and literary mimicry, placing him within the vibrant magazine culture of the 1910s and 1920s, where parody, topical comedy, and urbane satire shaped public taste. Beneath the lightness lies...

The setting: Hollywood: the character: Pat Hobby, a down-and-out screenwriter trying to break back into show business, but having better luck getting into bars. Written between 1939 and 1940, when F. Scott Fitzgerald was working for Universal Studios, the seventeen Pat Hobby stories were first published in Esquire magazine and present a bitterly humorous portrait of a once-successful writer who becomes a forgotten hack on a Hollywood lot. "This was not art" Pat Hobby often said, "this was ...

The Collected Stories of 1920–1925 gathers fourteen early, previously uncollected tales from the most formative phase of F. Scott Fitzgerald's career, when his fiction was helping to define the glamour and disquiet of the Jazz Age. Written for the lively magazine culture of the period, these stories display his characteristic blend of social comedy, romantic yearning, and moral unease. Their polished surfaces—bright dialogue, fashionable settings, and youthful protagonists—often conceal sh...