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Listening In: How Audio Surveillance Became Artificial Intelligence
In 1945, W. Averell Harriman, US Ambassador to the Soviet Union, was presented with a carved wooden plaque of the Great Seal of the United States as a 'gesture of...
Six Minutes to Winter: Nuclear War and How to Avoid It
'Terrifying and timely, this is a book everyone should read and heed' - George Monbiot 'Urgent, gripping and sobering, Six Minutes to Winter is a hair-raising wake-up call' - David...
Modernist Impulses in the Human Sciences, 1870-1930
These essays examine modernism in the human sciences and adjacent areas of philosophy and natural science. Among the contributors, David Hollinger expands his important work on the cognitive/aesthetic divide to...
The Impossible Bomb: The Hidden History of British Scientists and the
The remarkable story of the forgotten British scientists who enabled the Manhattan Project to create the atomic bomb Atomic weaponry is widely understood as a story of American scientific achievement-but...
Food or War
Ours is the Age of Food. Food is a central obsession in all cultures, nations, the media, and society. Our future supply of food is filled with risk, and history...
Falling Upwards: Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture The
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING EDDIE REDMAYNE AND FELICITY JONES A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A DAILY TELEGRAPH BEST...
The Big Hop: The First Non-stop Flight Across the Atlantic and Into
The powerful true story of the first flight across the Atlantic - and of the ordinary heroes who risked their lives to race in pursuit of progress 'David Rooney is...
Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics
Richard Feynman was the most brilliant and influential physicist of our time. Architect of quantum theories, enfant terrible of the atomic bomb project, caustic inquisitor on the space shuttle commission,...
Signor Marconi's Magic Box: The Invention That Sparked the Radio
Marconi himself was the son of an Italian father and an Irish mother (from the Jameson whiskey family); he grew up in Italy and was fluent in Italian and English,...
Destroyer of Worlds: The Deep History of the Nuclear Age: 1895-1965
The first full history for forty years of the development of nuclear power and the extraordinary minds behind it Henry Becquerel's accidental discovery, in Paris in 1896, of a faint...
The Naked Diplomat: Understanding Power and Politics in the Digital
Previously published as Naked Diplomacy . Who will be in power in the 21st century? Governments? Big business? Internet titans? And how do we influence the future? Digital technology is...
Space: The Human Story
The first human history of space travel - from the Apollo missions to our journey to Mars - by Britain's beloved astronaut From bestselling author and British astronaut Tim Peake,...
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in
Hacking, espionage, war and cybercrime as you've never read about them before Fancy Bear was hungry. Looking for embarrassing information about Hillary Clinton, the elite hacking unit within Russian military...
Too Hot to Handle: Story of the Race for Cold Fusion
The extraordinary story of the Pons and Fleischmann "discovery" of cold fusion in Salt Lake City in 1988, the enormous world-wide media excitement their announcement generated, and the military, political...
Helgoland: The Strange and Beautiful Story of Quantum Physics
The instant Sunday Times bestseller -- a dazzling story of rebellion and science In June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, had retreated to the treeless, wind-battered island...
Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy
An explosive new vision of geopolitics from two trail-blazing political scientists Deep beneath our feet, vast and sprawling, lies one of the most sophisticated empires the world has ever known....
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in
Hacking, espionage, war and cybercrime as you've never read about them before Fancy Bear was hungry. Looking for embarrassing information about Hillary Clinton, the elite hacking unit within Russian military...
Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy
An explosive new vision of geopolitics from two trail-blazing political scientists Deep beneath our feet, vast and sprawling, lies one of the most sophisticated empires the world has ever known....