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Science: General Issues
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Scale : The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies€11.05
Geoffrey West's research centres on a quest to find unifying principles and patterns connecting everything, from cells and ecosystems to cities, social networks and businesses.
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Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins (Paperback)€13.99
In this breakthrough book, Kasparov tells his side of the story of Deep Blue for the first time - what it was like to strategize against an implacable, untiring opponent - the mistakes he made and the reasons the odds were against him.
But more than that, he tells his story of AI more generally, and how he's evolved to embrace it, taking part in an urgent debate with philosophers worried about human values, programmers creating self-learning neural networks, and engineers of cutting edge robotics
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Thing Explainer : Complicated Stuff in Simple Words€17.99
Funny, interesting, and always understandable, this book is for anyone -- age 5 to 105 -- who has ever wondered how things work, and why.
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Scale€17.99
Scale is a thrilling scientific adventure story about the elemental natural laws that bind us together in simple but profound ways. Through the brilliant mind of Geoffrey West, we can envision how cities, companies and biological life alike are dancing to the same simple, powerful tune, however diverse and unrelated they are to each other.
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Eureka! The Birth of ScienceSpecial Price €8.99 Regular Price €10.99
Andrew Gregory, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at University College London, unravels the genesis of science in this fascinating exploration of the origins of Western civilisation, and our desire for a rational, legitimating system of the world.
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Fungi: A Very Short Introduction€10.99
The variety of the mycological world is far greater than most people imagine. Tens of thousands of fungal species have been described and many more are known only from the abundance of their genes in soil and water.
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What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions€13.99
They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion.