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: The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the ultimate AI insider 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
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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
Determined - A Science of Life Without Free Will by Robert M. Sapolsky
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Category: Science
The instant New York Times bestseller "Excellent...Outstanding for its breadth of research, the liveliness of the writing, and the depth of humanity it conveys." - Wall Street Journal One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the science and philoso ...Show more
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? by Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
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Category: Science
From the bestselling authors of Soonish, a brilliant and hilarious off-world investigation into space settlement Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away - no climate change, no war, no Twitter - beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp. Or is it ...Show more
Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet by Chris Dixon
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Category: Science
A playbook for the future of the internet written by the world's most successful blockchain investor What will the internet of the future look like? The internet of today is a far cry from its early promise of a decentralized, democratic network of unbridled innovation. In the past decade, the interne ...Show more
Co-Intelligence - Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick
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Category: Science
Consumer AI arrived with a bang in November 2022 when OpenAI released ChatGPT. Within four months it hit 1 billion users, and media pundits were forecasting the end of jobs and a knowledge revolution. Wharton professor Ethan Mollick immediately understood what ChatGPT really meant- after millions of yea ...Show more
AI Needs You: How We Can Change AI's Future and Save Our Own by Verity Harding
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A humanist manifesto for the age of AI Artificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our time. As AI’s power grows, so does the need to figure out what—and who—this technology is really for. AI Needs You argues that it is critical for society to take the lead in answering this urg ...Show more
Escape from Shadow Physics: the quest to end the dark ages of quantum theory by Adam Forrest Kay
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Category: Science
An engaging and razor-sharp attack on the orthodoxy of modern physics, and a bold new idea about the structure of reality. For 70 years, mathematical physicist Adam Kay argues, physics has laboured under delusions. 'When it comes to atoms,' the founding quantum physicist Neils Bohr once wrote, 'languag ...Show more
The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes by Donald D. Hoffman
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Category: Science
SHORTLISTED FOR THE PHYSICS WORLD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 'One of the deepest and most original thinkers of his generation of cognitive scientists. His startling argument has implications for philosophy, science and how we understand the world around us' Steven Pinker 'Is reality virtual? It's a questio ...Show more
Love Triangle: The Life-changing Magic of Trigonometry by Matt Parker
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Explore the life-changing magic of trigonometry with Matt Parker, stand-up mathematician and No. 1 bestselling author of Humble Pi Why do mobile phones work when you're on a train? What happens when you pull a pop song apart into pure sine waves and play it back on a piano? And what did mathematicians ...Show more