Mathematica
A Secret World of Intuition and Curiosity
ISBN: HB: 9780300270884,
Yale University Press,
August 2024
336 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 40 black&white illus.
336 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 40 black&white illus.
A fascinating look into how the transformative joys of mathematical experience are available to everyone, not just specialists.
Math has a reputation for being inaccessible. People think that it requires a special gift or that comprehension is a ma...
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£25.00
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Brief Guide to Aliens
From Myth to Modern Science
Astrophysicist Adam Frank guides us through the search for extraterrestrial life and the questions we stand ready to answer.
Everyone is curious about life in the Universe, UFOs and whether ET is out there. Over the course of his thirty-year career...
HB:
£19.99
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As If Human
Ethics and Artificial Intelligence
ISBN: HB: 9780300268294,
Yale University Press,
May 2024
272 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
272 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
A new approach to the challenges surrounding artificial intelligence that argues for assessing AI actions as if they came from a human being.
Intelligent machines present us every day with urgent ethical challenges. Is the facial recognition softwa...
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£20.00
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Algorithm
How AI Can Hijack Your Career and Steal Your Future
ISBN: HB: 9781805260981,
Hurst Publishers,
February 2024
336 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
336 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
For sale in CIS only!
A shocking expose of how AI controls the world of work.
Artificial intelligence is being used, on a massive scale, to decide who gets hired, fired and promoted. Through whistleblower exclusives, leaked internal documents and a...
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£22.00
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Bosniaks
Nationhood After Genocide
ISBN: PB: 9781805260462,
Hurst Publishers,
December 2023
240 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
240 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
For sale in CIS only!
A compelling exploration of Bosniak political identity, chronicling the development of a nation and its people in the wake of catastrophe.
For the first time in nearly two centuries, one ethnic group now constitutes an absolut...
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£27.50
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Plastics: Just a Load of Rubbish?
Uncovering the Secrets of Seaweed and How It Can Help Save the Planet
A decade to save the planet.
That's the current call to arms. Targets are set, governments vow to do their bit and on a societal level we are encouraged to do ours by choosing to forego all things plastic. The question is whether this is the right de...
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£14.99
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Invisibility
The History and Science of How Not to Be Seen
ISBN: HB: 9780300250428,
Yale University Press,
May 2023
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 50 black&white illus.
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 50 black&white illus.
A lively exploration of how invisibility has gone from science fiction to fact.
Is it possible for something or someone to be made invisible? This question, which has intrigued authors of science fiction for over a century, has become a headline-gr...
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£25.00
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Seaweed Revolution
How Seaweed Has Shaped Our Past and Can Save Our Future
The seaweed revolution is a fresh hope for tomorrow.
Seaweed develops in water everywhere, from the eternal glaciers to lagoons heated by the sun, from seas saturated with salt to the fresh water of our rivers. Yet we only know how to cultivate a fe...
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£18.99
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Atlas of AI
ISBN: PB: 9780300264630,
Yale University Press,
October 2022
336 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 31 black&white illus.
336 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 31 black&white illus.
What happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the planet? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? Drawing on more than a decade of original research, award-winning science and technology s...
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£12.99
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Beat of Life
ISBN: PB: 9781915054517,
ISBN: HB: 9781800316058,
Legend Times Group,
Hero,
August 2022
288 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
288 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
The heart is our most important – and perhaps most mysterious – organ.
Every day it pumps 9000 litres of blood and beats around 100,000 times. But the heart is more than just a pump. In all major human cultures, it is seen as the source of love, sym...
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£10.99
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£14.99
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