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• The Emperor's Nightingale: Restoring the Integrity of the Corporation in the Age of Shareholder Activism, by Robert A. G. Monks (PDF files at ragm.com)
• The Evolving Mind (prepublication edition), by Ben Goertzel (HTML at goertzel.org)

• Microbial Evolution and Co-Adaptation: A Tribute to the Life and Scientific Legacies of Joshua Lederberg (2009), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (HTML and page images at NAP)

• Man: An Adaptive Mechanism (New York: Macmillan, 1916), by George Washington Crile, ed. by Annette Austin (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Nutritional Needs in Cold and in High-Altitude Environments (1996), ed. by Bernadette M. Marriott and Sydne J. Carlson (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Inert Gases in the Control of Museum Insect Pests (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c1998), by Charles Selwitz and Shin Maekawa (PDF and page images at getty.edu and Google)

• Stemming the Tide: Controlling Introductions of Nonindigenous Species by Ships' Ballast Water (1996), by National Research Council Marine Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Alien Plant Invasions in Native Ecosystems of Hawai'i: Management and Research (1992), ed. by Charles P. Stone, Clifford W. Smith, and J. Timothy Tunison (PDF and RTF files at hear.org)

• Predicting Invasions of Nonindigenous Plants and Plant Pests (2002), by National Research Council Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources and National Research Council Board on Life Sciences (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Effect of Environment on Nutrient Requirements of Domestic Animals (1981), by National Research Council Committee on Animal Nutrition (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Snooze... or Lose! 10 "No-War" Ways to Improve Your Teen's Sleep Habits (2006), by Helene A. Emsellem and Carol Whiteley (HTML and page images with commentary at NAP)

• Sleep Disorders and Sleep Deprivation: An Unmet Public Health Problem (2006), ed. by Harvey R. Colten and Bruce M. Altevogt
  • HTML and page images with commentary at NAP
  • HTML and page images with commentary at NAP

• Sleep and Sleeplessness (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1920), by H. Addington Bruce (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Adaptive Control: Stability, Convergence, and Robustness (c1994), by Shankar Sastry and Marc Bodson (PDF files with commentary at Utah)

• Realizing the Promise and Minimizing the Perils of AI for Science and the Scientific Community (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, c2025), ed. by Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Bill Kearney, and Anne-Marie Mazza (HTML with commentary at manifoldapp.org)
• AI for Everyone? Critical Perspectives (London: University of Westminster Press, c2021), ed. by Pieter Verdegem (multiple formats with commentary at University of Westminster Press)
• Artificial Intelligence and Games (2018), by Georgios N. Yannakakis and Julian Togelius (PDF with commentary at gameaibook.org)
• Artificial Intelligence and Responsive Optimization (second edition, 2003), by Mohammad Khosnevisan, Sukanto Bhattacharya, and Florentin Smarandache (PDF at UNM)
• Are We Spiritual Machines? Ray Kurzweil vs. the Critics of Strong A.I. (c2002), ed. by Jay W. Richards, contrib. by Ray Kurzweil, John R. Searle, Michael J. Denton, William A. Dembski, Thomas S. Ray, and George F. Gilder (at kurzweilai.net)
• Artificial Intelligence (third edition, reprinted with corrections; Reading, MA et al.: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1993), by Patrick Henry Winston (PDF at MIT)
• The Age of Intelligent Machines (c1992), by Ray Kurzweil (at kurzweilai.net)
• The Boundaries of Humanity: Humans, Animals, Machines (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), ed. by James J. Sheehan and Morton Sosna (HTML at UC Press)
• Artificial Intelligence Through Prolog (1988), by Neil C. Rowe (HTML at nps.edu)
• How Mobile Robots can Self-Organise a Vocabulary (Berlin: Language Science Press, c2015), by Paul Vogt
  • PDF with commentary at langsci-press.org
  • PDF at OAPEN
• Applications of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence to Reduce Risk and Improve Effectiveness: A Study for the United States Army (1983), by National Research Council Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems (page images with commentary at NAP)
• When Things Start to Think (c1999), by Neil A. Gershenfeld (HTML with commentary at kurzweilai.net)
• Elements of Robotics (Cham: Springer Open, c2018), by M. Ben-Ari and Francesco Mondada (PDF and EPub with commentary at EPFL and Springer)
• Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp (c1992), by Peter Norvig (multiple formats with commentary at Github)
• From Bricks to Brains: The Embodied Cognitive Science of LEGO Robots (Edmonton: AU Press, c2010), by Michael Robert William Dawson, Brian Dupuis, and Michael Wilson (PDF with commentary at AU Press)
• The Computer Revolution in Philosophy: Philosophy, Science and Models of Mind (1978, with added notes and corrections), by Aaron Sloman (HTML and PDF with commentary in the UK)
• The Origin and Its Meaning, by Roger Ellman (PDF files at the-origin.org)

• The Future Computed: Artificial Intelligence and its Role in Society (2018), by Microsoft Corporation (PDF at microsoft.com)

• Accelerando (2005), by Charles Stross (multiple formats with commentary at antipope.org)
• Old Soldiers (included on a Baen CD image; c2005), by David Weber
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 183 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 185 MB
• Bolo! (included on a CD image), by David Weber, contrib. by Keith Laumer
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 151 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 152 MB
• The Fourth "R", by George O. Smith
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at durendal.org
• Halo, by Tom Maddox (HTML at dthomasmaddox.com)

• What Was Artificial Intelligence? (with a new introduction; Bethlehem, PA: Mediastudies.press, 2022), by Sue Curry Jansen (multiple formats with commentary at mediastudies.press)
• This Could Be Important: My Life and Times with the Artificial Intelligentsia (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2019), by Pamela McCorduck (HTML with commentary at pressbooks.com)

• Realizing the Promise and Minimizing the Perils of AI for Science and the Scientific Community (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, c2025), ed. by Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Bill Kearney, and Anne-Marie Mazza (HTML with commentary at manifoldapp.org)
• Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: Case Studies and Options for Addressing Ethical Challenges (Cham: Springer, c2023), by Bernd Carsten Stahl, Doris Schroeder, and Rowena Rodrigues
  • multiple formats with commentary at Springer
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
• The Future Computed: Artificial Intelligence and its Role in Society (2018), by Microsoft Corporation (PDF at microsoft.com)

• Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (1993-) (full serial archives)

• Can We Trust AI? (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2022), by Rama Chellappa, contrib. by Eric Niiler (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Future Computed: Artificial Intelligence and its Role in Society (2018), by Microsoft Corporation (PDF at microsoft.com)

• Defending AI Research: A Collection of Essays and Reviews (c1996), by John McCarthy (PDF at Stanford)

• Towards a New Enlightenment? A Transcendent Decade (Madrid: BBVA, c2018), contrib. by Francisco González Rodríguez, Martin J. Rees, José M. Sánchez Ron, María Martinón-Torres, Alex Pentland, Sandeep Tiwari, Joanna J. Bryson, Ramon López de Mántaras, José M. Mato, Daniela Rus, Samuel H. Sternberg, Peter Kalmus, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, Victoria Robinson, Barry J. Eichengreen, Michelle Baddeley, Nancy H. Chau, S. M. Ravi Kanbur, Vivien Ann Schmidt, Diana Marie Owen, Yang Xu, Carlo Ratti, and Amos N. Guiora (multiple formats with commentary at bbvaopenmind.com)
• Artificial Communication: How Algorithms Produce Social Intelligence (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2022), by Elena Esposito (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• The Amazing Journey of Reason: From DNA to Artificial Intelligence (Cham: Springer, c2020), by Mario Alemi (PDF and Epub with commentary at Springer)
• The Future Computed: Artificial Intelligence and its Role in Society (2018), by Microsoft Corporation (PDF at microsoft.com)
• Realizing the Promise and Minimizing the Perils of AI for Science and the Scientific Community (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, c2025), ed. by Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Bill Kearney, and Anne-Marie Mazza (HTML with commentary at manifoldapp.org)

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