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Science: General Issues
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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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Tesla : The Man, the Inventor, and the Father of Electricity€24.99
Known as the father of modern electricity, Nikola Tesla's work transformed the world. The scientist and engineer was devoted to discovery, registering over 700 patents in his lifetime
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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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Brief Answers to the Big Questions : the final book from Stephen Hawking€16.99
Is there a God? How did it all begin? Can we predict the future? What is inside a black hole? Is there other intelligent life in the universe? Will artificial intelligence outsmart us? How do we shape the future? Will we survive on Earth? Should we colonise space?
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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.
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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.