Once Upon A Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics And Literature by Sarah Hart
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Category: Science
‘A hugely entertaining and well-written tour of the links between math and literature. Hart’s lightness of touch and passion for both subjects make this book a delight to read. Bookworms and number-lovers alike will discover much they didn’t know about the creative interplay between stories, structure a ...Show more
Knowing What We Know - The Transmission of Knowledge: from Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic by Simon Winchester
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Category: Science
Named a Best History Book for 2023From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes--this is award winning writer Simon Winchester's brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how te ...Show more
Fevered Planet - How Diseases Emerge When We Harm Nature by John Vidal
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Category: Science
A timely and urgent investigation from John Vidal, Environment Editor of the Guardian for nearly thirty years, into how the destruction of nature is releasing disease into our societies'Urgent, fascinating and essential' GEORGE MONBIOT'A searing, vital work' BETTANY HUGHESCovid-19, mpox, bird flu, SARS, ...Show more
The Experience Machine - How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality by Andy Clark
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Category: Science
A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build our worlds'One of the most important books yet published this century' SpectatorFor as long as we've studied the mind, we've believed that information flowing from our senses determines what our mind perceives. But as our understa ...Show more
The Human Mind: A Brief Tour of Everything We Know by Paul Bloom
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Category: Science
Are you a human? Do you have a mind? Then this book is for you: a wonderfully entertaining overview of all of psychology by one of its greatest experts. 'Like having the mind's complexities untangled by a witty, eloquent and deeply knowledgeable friend' OLIVER BURKEMAN 'Really wonderful, hugely readabl ...Show more
Life As No One Knows It - The Physics of Life's Emergence by Sara Imari Walker
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Category: Science
What is life? This is among the most difficult open problems in science, right up there with the nature of consciousness and the existence of matter. All the definitions we have fall short. None help us understand how life originates or the full range of possibilities for what life on other planets migh ...Show more
Vector: A surprising story of space, time and mathematical transformation by Robyn Arianrhod
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Category: Science
A celebration of the seemingly simple idea that allowed us to imagine the world in new dimensions — sparking both controversy and discovery. A celebration of the seemingly simple idea that allowed us to imagine the world in new dimensions — sparking both controversy and discovery. Vector takes readers o ...Show more
Quantum Supremacy - How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything by Michio Kaku
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Category: Science
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An exhilarating tour of humanity's next great technological achievement--quantum computing--which may supercharge artificial intelligence, solve some of humanity's biggest problems, like global warming, world hunger, and incurable disease, and eventually illuminate the deepes ...Show more
Books do Furnish a Life by Richard Dawkins
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Category: Science
A SPECTATOR BEST BOOK OF 2021'Richard Dawkins is a thunderously gifted science writer.' Sunday Times'It may be a collection of shorter parts, but the book is in no sense Dawkins made simple. It amounts to a substantive whole which offers a unitary panoramic view across his entire intellectual life.' Spe ...Show more
The Coming Wave - The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller from the Ultimate AI Insider by Mustafa Suleyman; Michael. Bhaskar
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Category: Science
The Coming Wave: A.I., Power, and the 21st Century's Greatest Dilemma by Mustafa Suleyman
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science
Cofounder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind sounds the alarm on the unprecedented risks to global order posed by a wave of fast-developing technologies like artificial intelligence and genetic engineeringA stark and urgent warning on the unprecedented risks that a wave of fast-developing technologie ...Show more
To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Lindsey N. Walker
$54.99 AUD
Category: Science
Linked to a special mini season of the award-winning StarTalk podcast, this enlightening illustrated narrative by the world's most celebrated astrophysicist explains the universe from the solar system to the farthest reaches of space with authority and humor. No one can make the mysteries of the univers ...Show more