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Samuel Tokmak

What Can Be Learned from the Lehman  Brothers Case Through the Lens of Principal Agent and Stewardship Theory?

From the coauthor of Algorithms to Live By, an exploration of the quest to use mathematics to describe the ways we think, from its origins three hundred years ago to the ideas behind modern AI systems and the ways in which they still differ from human minds.Everyone has a basic understanding of how the physical world works. We learn about physics and chemistry in school, letting us explain the world around us in terms of concepts like force, acceleration, and gravity-the Laws of Nature. But we don't have the same fluency with concepts needed to understand the world inside us-the Laws of Thought. While the story of how mathematics has been used to reveal the mysteries of the universe is familiar, the story of how it has been used to study the mind is not.There is no one better to tell that story than Tom Griffiths, the head of Princeton's AI Lab and a renowned expert in the field of cognitive science. In this groundbreaking book, he explains the three major approaches to formalizing thought-rules and symbols, neural networks, and probability and statistics-introducing each idea through the stories of the people behind it. As informed conversations about thought, language, and learning become ever more pressing in the age of AI, The Laws of Thought is an essential read for anyone interested in the future of technology.

The Quest for a Mathematical Theory of the Mind

The Laws of Thought

Whether on Caribbean plantations in the seven­teenth century or in Amazon warehouses today, the powerful have constantly developed new techniques to control workers—and new justifications for doing so. Ideas of control perfected on the factory floor have expanded to dictate our personal lives, polit­ical rights, national policy, and the global economy. Seventeenth-century intellectuals such as William Petty and John Locke argued that human beings were selfish machines who had to be controlled for their own good. A century later, Jeremy and Samuel Bentham tried to do exactly that with their infamous Panopticon prison. When nineteenth-century Japa­nese elites imported European factory technologies, they came up with new theories of political control to justify this development. After the Second World War, the General Electric Corporation created an in­ternal propaganda department to fight unions, then pitched that propaganda to the country with the help of an actor, the future President Ronald Reagan. Ex­tending these practices, billionaires today dream of extending the algorithmic control of Amazon ware­houses into every corner of our lives. Blending intellectual, economic, and labor history, Control Science is a thrilling and lucid work of his­tory. Henry Snow reveals how common sense about work, the economy, and human nature was fabricated and must now be challenged.

How Management Made the Modern World

Control Science

“Step aside Tom Friedman, Sam Huntington, and Amy Chua. Franklin Foer’s dark and witty tale of the soccer world reveals the meaning of globalization in all its joys and horrors.”—Robert KaganJust in time for the 2026 World Cup in North America—a reissue of the bestselling sports classic, featuring a new preface from the author.With the 2026 World Cup in all three nations of North America, the power and scope of soccer has truly become global. In this remarkably insightful, wide-ranging work, Franklin Foer argues that soccer is much more than a game, or even a way of life. It is a unique window into the crosscurrents of modern globalization, with all of its benefits and pitfalls. Soccer clubs don’t represent geographic areas; they stand for social classes and political ideologies. Unlike baseball or tennis, soccer is freighted with ancient hatreds and history. It’s a sport with real stakes—a catalyst capable of ruining regimes and launching liberation movements.Foer takes us on a surprising tour through the world of soccer, shattering myths and dire predictions. Instead of destroying local cultures, as the left warned, globalization has revived tribalism. Far from the triumph of capitalism that the right anticipated, it has entrenched corruption. From Brazil to Bosnia, Italy to Iraq, How Soccer Explains the World is an eye-opening chronicle of how a beautiful sport and its fanatical followers can illuminate the fault lines of a society, whether it’s terrorism, poverty, anti-Semitism, authoritarianism, or radical Islam—issues that continue to affect all of us. At a time when globalization is under attack and many Americans yearn for retrenchment and retreat from the world, this remarkable book—filled with blazing intelligence, colorful characters, wry humor, and an equal passion for soccer and humanity—continues to make sense of our troubled times.

An Unlikely Theory of Globalization

How Soccer Explains the World

Over the last twenty-five years, the concept of per-sonhood has become central to many contentious debates. Corporations have won free speech protections, as if they were individuals. The right to life or freedom has been claimed on behalf of fetuses, trees, and elephants. The fund of human rights is spilling over into the nonhuman. The Problem of Personhood reveals the unsettling consequences of granting rights to imagined persons, such as Sophia the robot citizen or New Zealand’s Whanganui River. Synthesizing the political and phil­osophical debates on personhood and drawing on a varied cast of thinkers that includes Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, and Dr. Seuss, Lisa Siraganian un­covers the disturbing impact of this contemporary development. Awarding rights to robots and rivers all too easily becomes a legal tool to turn people into capital. When robot Sophia is made a citizen, "she" is transformed into a subject in the law without the corre­sponding legal duties that protect us from her. At the root of this trend is the US Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling that grants First Amendment rights to corporations as if they were individuals. The result has not been the transformation of things into humans so much as humans into things, when animals and the environment would be better protected with reference to our humanity rather than to theirs.

Giving Rights to Trees, Corporations and Robots

The Problem of Personhood

<div>Embark on a profound inner journey of reconnection to your true Self and restore balance and wholeness to your inner world.&nbsp; &nbsp; We all have a body–mind system made of parts; some that carry unconscious wounds and others that work tirelessly to protect us. Within this inner ecology lies the wisdom for deep healing and transformation. Somatic Healing offers a practical, compassionate way to access that wisdom through embodied Self¿leadership.&nbsp; &nbsp; Grounded in Internal Family Systems (IFS) and integrated with somatic awareness, breath, and mindful movement, practitioner Rasika Danielle Lella guides you through a four¿step framework—Reconnect, Relate, Repair, Restore—that helps you soothe the nervous system, meet your inner parts with care, and gently release the burdens of stress, trauma, and limiting beliefs.&nbsp; &nbsp; In this illustrated, how-to guide, you will find:&nbsp;<ul><li>30 gentle movements to connect body and brain, with step-by-step instructions and visuals.&nbsp;</li><li>Five somatic movement routines such as a routines to soothe anxiety and ease guilt.&nbsp;</li><li>Five somatic meditations to soothe and revitalize the mind, body, and soul.&nbsp;</li><li>Daily prompts and nature¿based resourcing to sustain integration.&nbsp;</li></ul> The benefits of somatic healing include improved emotional resilience, reduced stress and tension, greater mind¿body connection, and a renewed sense of vitality and presence.&nbsp; &nbsp; Whether you’ve tried talking therapy, mindfulness or piecemeal somatic tools, this book brings it all together, so insight becomes embodied change and healing becomes a lived experience. Welcome home to your embodied Self.&nbsp;</div>

A Body-Based Guide to Parts Work

Somatic Healing

What happens when a president convinces the world he might just do the unthinkable? In US grand strategy and the Madman Theory, James D. Boys argues that projecting calculated irrationality can terrify adversaries into submission, but at enormous risk. From Nixon's secret Cold War gambit to Trump's chaotic, tweet-driven diplomacy, he explores how these two leaders weaponised unpredictability to keep allies guessing and enemies off balance. But where does strategy end and madness begin? In an era where perception can dictate power, unpredictability becomes a weapon and fear its sharpest edge. This book reveals how calculated chaos reshapes diplomacy, destabilises norms and forces nations to question whether the next move is genius or catastrophe.

From Nixon to Trump

Us Grand Strategy and the Madman Theory

Why does your shopping cart suddenly contain more than you planned? Why can buying a new smartphone feel like an existential necessity—while taking out supplementary dental insurance does not? And why does a brand sometimes convince us more than an objectively better product?This book takes you into the world of consumer behavior—not in a dry way, but as it really is: contradictory, emotional, only occasionally rational, yet always fascinating and insightful. At the heart of its didactic concept are Lea and Ben, who accompany you through real-life consumer situations—from impulse purchases to luxury consumption. Their experiences provide a practical stage for theories, models, and empirical studies that explain consumer behavior.
 You will learn
 
 how motivation, emotion, and cognition shape purchasing decisions,
 
 why the social, media, and physical environment subtly influences our behavior, and
 
 how these processes are reflected in different forms of consumption—from digital and sustainable to collaborative and health-conscious consumption, as well as luxury consumption.
 This book helps you understand how consumer decisions arise—both in others and in yourself. Case studies, research findings, self-assessments, and digital content ensure that learning is not only informative but also engaging.The Authors 
 Prof. Dr. Stefan Hoffmann is Professor of Marketing at Kiel University (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel).
 
 Prof. Dr. Payam Akbar is a business psychologist and Professor of Marketing Intelligence at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences and Technology (HTW Berlin).
 The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence. A&nbsp;subsequent&nbsp;human revision was done primarily in terms of content. 
 This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.

Understanding Consumers – Designing Marketing Activities

Consumer Behavior

*A Financial Times and Waterstones Book of the Year 2025*Many artists are unaware of the mathematics that bubble beneath their craft, while some consciously use it for inspiration. Our instincts might tell us that these two subjects are incompatible forces with nothing in common, but what if we're wrong?Marcus du Sautoy, acclaimed mathematician and Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford, looks to art, music, design and literature to uncover the key mathematical structures that underpin both human creativity and the natural world.Blueprints takes us from the earliest stone circles to the modernist architecture of Le Corbusier, from Bach's circular compositions to Radiohead's disruptive soundscapes, and from Shakespeare's hidden numerical clues to the Dada artists who embraced randomness. Instead of polar opposites we find a complementary relationship that spans a vast historical and geographic landscape.Whether we are searching for meaning in an abstract painting or deciphering poetry, there are blueprints everywhere: prime numbers, symmetry, fractals and the weirder worlds of Hamiltonian cycles and hyperbolic geometry. Nature similarly exploits these structures to achieve the wonders of our universe.In this innovative and delightfully bold exploration of creativity, Marcus explains how we make art, why a creative mindset is vital for discovering new mathematics and how a fundamental connection to the natural world intrinsically links these two subjects.'Blueprints is an extraordinary book which shows us how mathematics and art are connected through structures. Du Sautoy shows us how to bridge the divide of science and the humanities and proves that we can only face and solve the big challenges of the twenty-first century if we go beyond the fear of pooling knowledge' Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, Serpentine Galleries

How Mathematics Shapes Creativity

Blueprints

Totems
 brings together ten texts by architect, historian, and critic Irénée Scalbert. Written between 2001 and 2025, they reflect nearly three decades of critical engagement with architecture and its cultural contexts. Ranging in length and register-from concise meditations to extended analytical essays-the collection captures the evolution of Scalbert's thinking as a critic, teacher, and participant in architectural discourse.
 Organized thematically into sections on buildings, cities, and the environment, Totems traces a loosely autobiographical arc. Earlier pieces echo Scalbert's formative years in London during a period of architectural ferment are marked by the work of James Stirling and Norman Foster, influential figures from Europe such as Aldo Rossi, as well as his close association with a generation of contemporaries including Peter St John (Caruso St John Architects), and Tom Emerson and Stephanie Macdonald (6a architects). Later texts expand outward, both geographically and conceptually, as Scalbert brings a speculative and at times personal lens to questions of urbanism, nature, and meaning in contemporary architecture.

Selected Essays on Architecture

Totems

Verso's Southern Questions

A committed communist and anti-apartheid activist, Ruth First dedicated her life to African liberation struggles until her assas­sination by South Africa’s Special Branch in 1982. The Barrel of a Gun establishes First’s position in the canon of post-colonial revolutionary thought.

Political Power in Africa and the Coup d'État

The Barrel of a Gun

This charming rom-com is filled with Chinese traditions, second chances, and a luck-changing love story that will appeal to readers of Helen Hoang, Jasmine Guillory, and Sarah Adams.     "Deeply romantic, real, funny, and heartfelt." —Christina Lauren, New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners  &nbsp; A stroke of luck.   Hazel Yen would love to be that person who doesn’t believe in bad luck. But having lost her job, her mom, her optimism, and even her dim-sum leftovers, she’s sitting in a fortune teller’s booth, desperate for a sign—any sign—that her luck might change. Which is when fate crashes into her, disguised as Logan Wells and his utterly chaotic cat. Except after one spontaneous and mind-melting kiss, Hazel’s terrible misfortune starts taking a turn for the miraculous. Money problems vanish. A new job lands in her lap. And she’s crushing—hard—on the guy who started it all.   Only there’s a problem: Logan’s luck has taken a turn for the worse. A shared lottery ticket could be just the answer they’re seeking or a disaster waiting to happen. Has Hazel’s fortune truly changed? And if so, could winning at life mean losing at love?   “What an original, emotionally rich and truly romantic novel The Fortune Flip was. I was utterly charmed by this gorgeous tale of luck and love.“ ―Kirsty Greenwood, USA Today bestselling author of The Love of My Afterlife &nbsp; "The Fortune Flip enchanted me from page one. I fell in love with Hazel and Logan as they were falling in love with each other and adored watching them navigate life’s lucky and unlucky breaks as a team. An absolute delight of a story." ―Lily Chu, author of Drop Dead and The Takedown&nbsp;

The Fortune Flip

Iconic Filmmakers Series

Celebrate the life and work of iconic filmmaker, Sofia Coppola. &nbsp; &nbsp; Raised inside filmmaking’s strange machinery, Sofia Coppola appeared in&nbsp;The Godfather films and grew up surrounded by cinema, yet her work rejects Hollywood bombast.&nbsp; &nbsp; From The Virgin Suicides through Lost in Translation, Marie Antoinette and Priscilla, Coppola’s films explore youth, alienation, fathers and daughters, beauty and loss—each in a visually curated style that is unmistakably her own. &nbsp; &nbsp; This illustrated and comprehensive guide to Sofia Coppola includes:&nbsp;<ul><li>A film¿by¿film exploration of Coppola’s complete directorial career.&nbsp;</li><li>The personal and artistic influences shaping her distinctive aesthetic.&nbsp;</li><li>Key recurring themes and visual motifs across her films.&nbsp;</li><li>Insight into her personal life following her evolution from ‘Francis Ford Coppola’s daughter’ to auteur. Is destiny inherited, or is it claimed?&nbsp;</li></ul> Calm, precise and ‘super opinionated’, she has crafted a body of work that is instantly recognizable.&nbsp; &nbsp; Written by industry expert Ian Nathan, this is the essential guide for film lovers seeking to understand—and celebrate—Sofia Coppola’s enduring influence.

The Iconic Filmmaker and Her Work

Sofia Coppola

What Can Be Learned from the Lehman Brothers Case Through the Lens of Principal Agent and Stewardship Theory?

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