What the Body Knows
A Guide to the New Science of Our Immune System
ISBN: HB: 9780300277050,
Yale University Press,
October 2024
400 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 7 figures
400 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 7 figures
A leading scientist's guide to the way our immune system protects us – but only most of the time.
What is our immune system, and how does it work? A vast array of cells, proteins and chemicals spring into action whenever our bodies are damaged, but...
HB:
20.00 GBP
QTY:
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...
HB:
25.00 GBP
QTY:
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...
HB:
20.00 GBP
QTY:
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...
HB:
25.00 GBP
QTY:
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...
PB:
12.99 GBP
QTY:
Clock Mirage
Our Myth of Measured Time
ISBN: HB: 9780300229325,
Yale University Press,
June 2020
272 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 22 black&white illus.
272 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 22 black&white illus.
What is time? This question has fascinated philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists for thousands of years. Why does time seem to speed up with age? What is its connection with memory, anticipation, and sleep cycles?
Award-winning author and ma...
HB:
22.50 GBP
QTY:
Falling Felines and Fundamental Physics
ISBN: HB: 9780300231298,
Yale University Press,
December 2019
352 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 75 black&white illus.
352 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 75 black&white illus.
The question of how falling cats land on their feet has long intrigued humans. In this playful and eye‑opening history, physicist and cat parent Gregory Gbur explores how attempts to understand the cat‑righting reflex have provided crucial insights i...
HB:
19.99 GBP
QTY:
Origins of Everything in 100 Pages (More or Less)
ISBN: PB: 9780300230505,
Yale University Press,
February 2018
152 pp., 19,7x15,2 cm, 12 black&white illus.
152 pp., 19,7x15,2 cm, 12 black&white illus.
With wonder, wit, and flair – and in record time and space – geophysicist David Bercovici explains how everything came to be everywhere, from the creation of stars and galaxies to the formation of Earth's atmosphere and oceans, to the origin of life...
PB:
10.99 GBP
QTY:
Intelligence in the Flesh
Why Your Mind Needs Your Body Much More Than it Thinks
ISBN: PB: 9780300223477,
Yale University Press,
September 2016
344 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
344 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
An enthralling exploration that upends the prevailing view of consciousness and demonstrates how intelligence is literally embedded in the palms of our hands If you think that intelligence emanates from the mind and that reasoning necessitates the su...
PB:
14.99 GBP
QTY:
Black Hole
How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled on by Hawking Became Loved
ISBN: PB: 9780300219661,
Yale University Press,
May 2016
256 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 27 black&white illus.
256 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 27 black&white illus.
For more than half a century, physicists and astronomers engaged in heated dispute over the possibility of black holes in the universe. The weirdly alien notion of a space-time abyss from which nothing escapes-not even light-seemed to confound all lo...
PB:
14.99 GBP
QTY: