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ISBN 978-1-80206-491-9
EAN 9781802064919
For thousands of years, humans have wondered whether we're alone in the cosmos. Now, for the first time, we have the technology to investigate. The question should have an obvious answer: yes or no. But once you try to find life elsewhere, you realize it is not so simple. How do you find it over ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-5294-0048-9
EAN 9781529400489
The dramatic, globe-spanning and meticulously-researched story of two scientific rivals and their race to survey all life. In the 18th century, two men dedicated their lives to the same daunting task: identifying and describing all life on Earth. Their approaches could not have been more different.Carl Linnaeus, a pious Swedish doctor with a huckster's flair, ...
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Muldoon, James/Graham, Mark/Cant, Callum
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ISBN 978-1-83726-184-0
EAN 9781837261840
Big Tech has sold us the illusion that artificial intelligence is a frictionless technology that will bring wealth and prosperity to humanity. But hidden beneath this smooth surface lies the grim reality of a precarious global workforce of millions that labour under often appalling conditions to make AI possible. Feeding the Machine presents an urgent, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-300-28340-2
EAN 9780300283402
The thrilling story of archaeological adventure, and astonishing discoveries around the globe Archaeology tells the story of our ancestors: how they lived, what they believed in and how their cultures developed over millennia. Brian Fagan introduces us to pharaohs' tombs, Mayan ruins, the first colonial settlements at Jamestown, mysterious Stonehenge, and Pompeii the city buried ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-300-28321-1
EAN 9780300283211
A lively and engaging introduction to the progress of science over the ages Science is key to understanding the infinite distances of space, the tiniest living organisms body and the history of our planet. From Hippocrates and Aristotle to Isaac Newton and Stephen Hawking, men and women have asked how things work, and through experiments ...
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ISBN 978-0-226-83747-5
EAN 9780226837475
A new theory of mind that includes nonhuman and artificial intelligences. The much-lauded superiority of human intelligence has not prevented us from driving the planet into ecological disaster. For N.Katherine Hayles, the climate crisis demands that we rethink basic assumptions about human and nonhuman intelligences. In Bacteria to AI, Hayles develops a new theory of ...
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Shortlisted for the Womens Prize for Non-Fiction AI is changing what it means to be human. This is the unrivalled investigation into the impact of AI on how we live now.The intimate investigation of AI that weve been waiting for, and it arrives not a moment too soon. Shoshana Zuboff, author of The Age of ...
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The global population is forecast to begin declining in the second half of this century, and in , years time, our species will likely be extinct.In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, Henry Gee shows how we arrived at this crucial moment in our history, beginning his story deep in the palaeolithic past ...
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ISBN 978-1-5299-3134-1
EAN 9781529931341
In 1811, a twelve-year-old girl uncovered some strange-looking bones in Britain's southern shoreline. They belonged to no known creature and were buried beneath a hundred feet of rock. Over the next two decades, as several more of these impossible monsters' emerged from the soil, the leading scientists of the day were forced to confront a ...
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ISBN 978-1-4721-4842-1
EAN 9781472148421
'Who said science was dry? Certainly not Tim James' New York Post 'James writes with infectious enthusiasm and optimism' Kirkus Reviews 'A science teacher by profession, Mr. James knows how to get his audience's attention' Wall Street Journal 'Humorous, yet deep' Professor Charles AntoineA rip-roaring adventure through science gone wrong, and accidentally changing humanity (mostly) ...
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ISBN 978-1-3996-0960-9
EAN 9781399609609
The received wisdom in quantum physics is that, at the deepest levels of reality, there are no actual causes for atomic events. This idea led to the outlandish belief that quantum objects - indeed, reality itself - aren't real unless shaped by human measurement. Einstein mocked this idea, asking whether his bed spread out across ...
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ISBN 978-1-80206-304-2
EAN 9781802063042
Now widely available in English for the first time, this is Carlo Rovelli's first book: the thrilling story of a littleknown man who created one of the greatest intellectual revolutionsOver two thousand years ago, one man changed the way we see the world.Since the dawn of civilization, humans had believed in the heavens above and ...
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ISBN 979-8-217-04632-4
EAN 9798217046324
The fascinating, untold story of the air we breathe, the hidden life it contains, and invisible dangers that can turn the world upside downEvery day we draw in two thousand gallons of airand thousands of living things. From the ground to the stratosphere, the air teems with invisible life. This last great biological frontier remains ...
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ISBN 978-1-0354-0218-2
EAN 9781035402182
Do you feel like we're living in the end times? Does it seem like everything is on fire, and one disaster follows another? Here's a small comfort: you're not the first to feel that way. If there's one thing that people throughout history have agreed on, it's that history wasn't going to be around for ...
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ISBN 978-0-571-38102-9
EAN 9780571381029
From an award-winning and internationally-renowned expert, a wonderfully illuminating romp through the world of manufacturing and its transformational influence on our lives - and the world around us. Your Life is Manufactured reveals the seismic impact manufacturing has had on our lives and the natural world, exploring how it could offer us a path to ...
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ISBN 978-1-80499-597-6
EAN 9781804995976
Those who understand how AI thinks are about to win big. We are used to thinking of computers as being a step up from calculators - very good at storing information, and maybe even at playing a logical game like chess. But up to now they haven't been able to think in ways that are ...
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ISBN 978-1-5293-4282-6
EAN 9781529342826
Every living being throughout history, across time and geography, has gazed up at the same moon.bFrom the first prehistoric life that crawled onto land guided by the power of the tides, to the division of time into months and seasons for the first humans, the moon has driven the expansion and development of our world.It ...
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ISBN 978-1-80206-086-7
EAN 9781802060867
A rich, narrative explanation of the mathematics that has brought us machine learning and the ongoing explosion of artificial intelligenceMachine-learning systems are making life-altering decisions for us: approving mortgage loans, determining whether a tumour is cancerous, or deciding whether someone gets bail. They now influence discoveries in chemistry, biology and physics - the study of ...
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ISBN 978-0-593-24184-4
EAN 9780593241844
To most of us, it seems like recent developments in artificial intelligence emerged out of nowhere to pose unprecedented threats to humankind. But to Dr. Joy Buolamwini, who has been at the forefront of AI research, this moment has been a long time in the making.
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