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Science: General Issues
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Our Final Invention : Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era€13.99
First published ten years ago, Our Final Invention predicted much of the artificial 'intelligence explosion' that is now ripping through our culture, and was named by Elon Musk as one of five books everyone should read about the future. Now updated with an urgent new preface
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American Prometheus : The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer€15.99
Physicist and polymath, as familiar with Hindu scriptures as he was with quantum mechanics, J. Robert Oppenheimer - director of the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb - was the most famous scientist of his generation.
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The Hidden Spring : A Journey to the Source of Consciousness€16.99
Join Solms on a voyage into the extraordinary realms beyond. More than just a philosophical argument, The Hidden Spring will forever alter how you understand your own experience.
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Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Paperback)€13.99
The world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the universe's biggest questions in this brilliant posthumous work.
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The Astronaut Selection Test Book : Do You Have What it Takes for Space?€17.99
Have YOU got what it takes to be an astronaut? This book will help readers of all ages find out.
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The Wizard and the Prophet : Science and the Future of Our Planet€14.99
Two Groundbreaking Scientists and Their Conflicting Visions of the Future of Our Planet' Does the earth's finite carrying capacity mean economic growth has to stop?
Population & demography, Human geography, Environmentalist thought & ideology
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Caesar's Last Breath : The Epic Story of The Air Around Us€16.99
It's invisible. It's ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story to tell.
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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.