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Science & Geography
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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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Underbug : An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology€16.99
With all due respect to bees, the termite stands as the world's most important insect.
Popular science, Insects (entomology), Wildlife: butterflies, other insects & spiders
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Into the Grey Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death€11.50
Through cutting edge research and case studies that are poignant, tragic and uplifting, Dr Owen maps this inner universe of the self, showing us what it means to be alive and human.
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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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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs : The Untold Story of a Lost World€16.99
'Thrilling . . . the best book on the subject written for the general reader since the 1980s.' The Sunday Times 66 million years ago the dinosaurs were wiped from the face of the earth.
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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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Now You're Talking : Human Conversation from the Neanderthals to Artificial Intelligence€22.99
Being able to speak is what makes us human. If you've ever felt the shock of listening to a recording of your own voice, you realise how important your voice is to your personal identity.
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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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Other Minds : The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life€11.99
What if intelligent life on Earth evolved not once, but twice? The octopus is the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien.
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Phycology€55.00
Phycology is the study of algae, the primary photosynthetic organisms in freshwater and marine food chains.