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The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World
Author: Ziya Tong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Our naked eyes see only a thin sliver of reality. We are blind in comparison to the x-rays that...
Echo of Worlds: Book Two of the Pandominion
'A GENUINE TREAT FOR SF FANS: AN EPIC MULTIVERSE TALE THAT MOVES LIKE A THRILLER' Kirkus on Infinity Gate'AN IMMENSE ACHIEVEMENT: AN IMPECCABLY CRAFTED BOOK' New York Times on Infinity...
Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology
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Author: Ellen Ullman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Named one of the best books of 2017 by The New York Times Book Review, GQ, Slate, San Francisco Chronicle, Bookforum,...
The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
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Author: Toby Ord Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time. If all...
Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science
Author: Jimena Canales Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 How scientists through the ages have conducted thought experiments using imaginary entities - demons - to test the laws of nature...
Ask: Tap Into the Hidden Wisdom of People Around You for Unexpected
Too often, we don't find out what's truly on others' hearts and minds because we don't know how to ask the right questions in the right ways. Co-founder of Transcend...
Unnatural Death: The rollercoaster new Kay Scarpetta thriller
THE BREATHTAKING NEW KAY SCARPETTA THRILLER FROM THE 120-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLERTwo mauled bodies in the woods. Two top secret autopsies. The most chilling case of Scarpetta's career . . .In this...
Toward Eternity: A Novel
Author: Anton HurFormat: Paperback, 142mm x 211mm, 231g, 256 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2024 "A love story spanning multiple millenniums, life-forms and variations on immortality, the book posits...
How to Build an Android: The True Story of Philip K. Dick's Robotic Resurrection
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Author: David F Dufty Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 In this remarkable behind-the-scenes narrative, David F. Dufty follows a group of scientists on their mission to create "Phil," a...
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient
'A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter' New York Times'An ebullient, irrepressible spirit invests this book. It is erudite and...
Future Superhuman: Our transhuman lives in a make-or-break century
Author: Elise Bohan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 We're hurtling towards a superhuman future - or, if we blunder, extinction. The only way out of our existential crises, from...
The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider
Author: Michiko KakutaniFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 216mm, 420g, 256 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today's world - from the...
The Perfect Wife
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Human Frontiers : The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking
Author: Michael Bhaskar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Where next for humanity? Is our future one of endless improvement in all areas of life, from technology and travel to medicine,...
Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity
Author: Douglas Rushkoff Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Why doesn't the explosive growth of companies like Facebook and Uber deliver more prosperity for everyone? What is the systemic problem...
Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things
"Timely... a crucial foundation for building a more empathetic and informed society." - Daniel H. Pink "An important book for those who want to understand... the increasingly complex world." -...
The Girl in the Spider's Web: A Dragon Tattoo story
Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist have not been in touch for some time.Then Blomkvist is contacted by renowned Swedish scientist Professor Balder. Warned that his life is in danger, but...
The Great Philosophers: Turing
Author: Andrew Hodges Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 From WW2 code-breaker to Artificial Intelligence - a fascinating account of the remarkable Alan Turing. Alan Turing's 1936 paper On Computable...
Good Arguments: What the art of debating can teach us about listening better and disagreeing well
Author: Bo Seo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 At a time when every disagreement turns toxic, world champion debater Bo Seo reveals the timeless secrets of effective communication and...
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to
From renowned historian and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari comes the story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world From renowned historian and #1...
Proxima
How would you survive on a planet that doesn't spin?An awe-inspiring Planetary Romance from Terry Pratchett's co-author on the Long Earth BooksThe very far future: The Galaxy is a drifting...
Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and
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Awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics, Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson overturn conventional wisdom about how economies work--revealing the untold story of who wins and who loses the rewards...
Skinned
In a future obsessed with virtual reality and fantasy, two star-crossed lovers will do whatever it takes to bring down the OccupEye system and free cView City from its virtual...
Meganets: How Digital Forces Beyond Our Control Commandeer Our Daily Lives and Inner Realities
Author: David B. Auerbach Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 How the autonomous digital forces jolting our lives - as uncontrollable as the weather and plate tectonics - are transforming...
The Loop: How AI Is Creating a World Without Choices and How to [...]
Artificial intelligence is about to amplify the most primitive version of who we are, and spit it back at us for entertainment and profit. That's the warning from award-winning technology...
The Singularity is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
The legendary oracle of technological change explains how AI will transform our species beyond recognition within two decades By the end of this decade, AI will exceed human levels of...
Stolen Earth
Environmental disasters and uncontrolled AI armies have caused the human population of Earth to flee. They lie scattered across innumerable space stations and colonies, overcrowded and suffering. The Earth is...
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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A.I. is the future of science, technology, and business - and there's no one better to explore that future than Max Tegmark We stand at the beginning of a new...
The Hummingbird Effect
An epic, kaleidoscopic story of four women connected across time and place by an invisible thread and their determination to shape their own stories, from the acclaimed author of The...
From Darkest Skies
After a five year sabbatical following the tragic death of his wife and fellow agent Alysha, Keon Rause returns to the distant colony world of Magenta to resume service with...
The Teenage Guide to Digital Wellbeing: Learn healthy tech habits,
The ultimate guide to digital wellbeing and living your best life - offline and on!Digital wellbeing is all about finding the balance between the digital world and the real world...
2084 and the AI Revolution, Updated and Expanded Edition: How
Will technology change what it means to be human You don't have to be a computer scientist to have discerning conversations about artificial intelligence and technology. We all wonder where...
How Super Cool Tech Works
New and updated for 2020. Covers the latest technology and the possibilities for where tech might go. Discover the mind-blowing high-tech inventions of the future! Incredible images reveal the secret...
The Knowledge Gene: The incredible story of the supergene that gives us human creativity
Over 500,000 years ago, a single gene mutated. It spread over time, becoming critical in the journey that transformed our earliest ancestors into fully modern humans, capable of navigating the...
AI & U: Reimagine Business
AI is no longer a futuristic concept, it is transforming businesses right now. The challenge for business owners isn't whether AI will impact them, but how they will respond. AI...
Inference and Learning from Data: Volume 1: Foundations
This extraordinary three-volume work, written in an engaging and rigorous style by a world authority in the field, provides an accessible, comprehensive introduction to the full spectrum of mathematical and...
Creation: The Quest to Create Artificial Life
Mankind now has within its grasp the power to synthesize true artificial life, playing out Dr Frankenstein's dream in both cyberspace and the real world. In this book, Steve Grand,...
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
Author: Brian MerchantFormat: Hardback, 160mm x 236mm, 740g, 496 pagesPublished: Little, Brown & Company, United States, 2023Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the YearThe most urgent story in...
The ChatGPT Revolution: Get Curious, Get Productive and Get Creative
Learn how to simplify your life with AI in this essential guide - now fully updated and revised, with even more ideas to spark creativity and boost efficiency The ChatGPT...
The Robots of Dawn
Isaac Asimov's Robot series - from the iconic collection I, Robot to four classic novels - contains some of the most influential works in the history of science fiction. Establishing...