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- John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 200 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-1-5095-4881-1
EAN 9781509548811
One of the most persistent concerns about the future is whether it will be dominated by the predictive algorithms of AI - and, if so, what this will mean for our behaviour, for our institutions and for what it means to be human. AI changes our experience of time and the future and challenges our ...
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Acemoglu, Daron; Johnson, Simon
Power and Progress
Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
- John Murray, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-1-399-80446-2
EAN 9781399804462
Throughout history, technological change - whether in the form of agricultural improvements in the Middle Ages, the Industrial Revolution, or today's artificial intelligence - has been viewed as a main driver of prosperity, working in the public interest. The reality, though, is that technology is shaped by what powerful people want and believe, generating riches, ...
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- Profile Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-055-1
EAN 9781788160551
'One of my favourite science writers' Bill Gates'Hugely important' Jim Al-Khalili'A profound meditation on metabolism, the Krebs cycle x{0026} the origin of life' Anil SethFor decades, biology has been dominated by information - the power of genes. Yet there is no difference in information content between a living cell and one that died a moment ...
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- Profile Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 22,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-296-8
EAN 9781788162968
There are more than 100 billion brain cells in our heads, and every single one represents a fragment of thought and feeling. And yet each cell is a mystery of beauty, with branching, intricate patterns like shattered glass. Richard Wingate has been scrutinizing them for decades, yet he is still moved when he looks at ...
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Quantum Supremacy
How Quantum Computers will Unlock the Mysteries of Science and Address Humanity's Biggest Challenges
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-55566-8
EAN 9780241555668
An exhilarating guide to the astonishing future of quantum computing, from The New York Times bestselling physicistThe runaway success of the microchip processor may be nearing its end, with profound implications for our economy, society and way of life, even leaving Silicon Valley as a new Rust Belt, its technology obsolete. Step forward the quantum ...
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- Hodder & Stoughton, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5293-3106-6
EAN 9781529331066
You've got questions: about space, time, gravity, and the odds of meeting your older self inside a wormhole. All the answers you need are right here. As a species, we may not agree on much, but one thing brings us all together: a need to know.We all wonder, and deep down we all have the ...
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- Random House, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 20,25 €
ISBN 978-0-593-72262-6
EAN 9780593722626
Perhaps the biggest question Stephen Hawking tried to answer in his extraordinary life was how the universe could have created conditions so perfectly hospitable to life. In order to solve this mystery, Hawking studied the big bang origin of the universe, but his early work ran into a crisis when the math predicted many big ...
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- Transworld, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 20,25 €
ISBN 978-1-911709-09-1
EAN 9781911709091
A new theory of the universe, twenty years in the making, by Stephen Hawking and his close collaborator Thomas Hertog.Perhaps the biggest question Stephen Hawking tried to answer in his extraordinary life was how the universe could have created conditions so perfectly hospitable to life.Pondering this mystery led Hawking to study the big bang origin ...
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Write a Winning Research Proposal
How to Generate Grant Ideas and Secure Funding Using Research Project Canvas
- Peer Recognized, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 146 páginas
PVP: 34,35 €
ISBN 978-3-907363-19-5
EAN 9783907363195
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- MIT Press, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 232 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-0-262-54519-8
EAN 9780262545198
A nontechnical guide to the basic ideas of modern causal inference, with illustrations from health, the economy, and public policy.Which of two antiviral drugs does the most to save people infected with Ebola virus? Does a daily glass of wine prolong or shorten life? Does winning the lottery make you more or less likely to ...
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- Hoac, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 166 páginas
PVP: 83,20 €
ISBN 978-1-4612-8468-0
EAN 9781461284680
"Medical scientists use the word iatrogenic' to refer to disabilities that are the consequence of medical treatment. We believe that some such word might be coined to refer to philosophical difficulties for which philosophers themselves are responsible" Sir Peter Medawar Arguing that quantum theory as it stands is perhaps the most comprehensive, well-verified, and successful ...
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I, Human
AI, Automation, and the Quest to Reclaim What Makes Us Unique
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-64782-055-8
EAN 9781647820558
Will artificial intelligence improve the way we work and live, or will it alienate us? The choice is ours. What will we decide?It's no secret that AI is changing the way we live, work, love, and entertain ourselves. Dating apps are using AI to pick our potential partners.Retailers are using AI to predict our behavior ...
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Anaximander
And the Nature of Science
- Penguin UK, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-63504-9
EAN 9780241635049
Now widely available in English for the first time, this is Carlo Rovelli's first book: the thrilling story of a little-known man who created one of the greatest intellectual revolutions Over two thousand years ago, one man changed the way we see the world. Since the dawn of civilization, humans had believed in the heavens ...
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Horizons
A Global History of Science
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-98626-4
EAN 9780241986264
A radical retelling of the history of science that foregrounds the scientists erased from historyIn this major retelling of the history of science from 1450 to the present day, James Poskett explodes the myth that science began in Europe.The blinkered Western gaze focusing on individual 'genius' - Copernicus, Newton, Darwin, Einstein - was only one ...
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- McGraw-Hill Education, 2023
Libro · 1280 páginas
PVP: 54,78 €
ISBN 978-1-260-46341-5
EAN 9781260463415
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Invention and Innovation
A Brief History of Hype and Failure
- Penguin USA, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 232 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-0-262-04805-7
EAN 9780262048057
From the New York Timesbestselling author, a new volume on the history of human ingenuityx{0026}mdashand its attendant breakthroughs and busts.Included in BILL GATES's 2023 Holiday Reading List Included in Lit Hubx{0026}rsquos Most Anticipated Books of 2023 Included in The Next Big Idea Clubx{0026}rsquos February 2023 MustRead Books"Every Smil book that I own is marked up ...
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Reality +
Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
From one of our leading thinkers, a dazzling philosophical journey through virtual worldsIn the coming decades, the technology that enables virtual and augmented reality will improve beyond recognition. Within a century, world-renowned philosopher David J. Chalmers predicts, we will have virtual worlds that are impossible to distinguish from non-virtual worlds. But is virtual reality just ...
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Eight Improbable Possibilities
The Mystery of the Moon, and Other Implausible Scientific Truths
- Icon Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-979-3
EAN 9781785789793
'Gribbin casts a wide net and displays his breadth of knowledge in packing a lot into each chapter . . .a brief read, but one that may inspire readers to dig deeper.' Giles Sparrow, BBC Sky at Night MagazineA mind-warping excursion into the wildly improbable truths of science. Echoing Sherlock Holmes' famous dictum, John Gribbin ...
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This Way to the Universe
A Journey into Physics
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-99203-6
EAN 9780241992036
'Extraordinary' Leonard Susskind'A rare event' Sean Carroll When leading theoretical physicist Professor Michael Dine was asked where you could find an accessible and authoritative book that would teach you about the Big Bang, Dark Matter, the Higgs boson and the cutting edge of physics now, he had nothing he could recommend. So he wrote it ...
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Firmament
The Hidden Science of Weather, Climate Change and the Air That Surrounds Us
- Hodder & Stoughton, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5293-6231-2
EAN 9781529362312
Compelling . . .Clark's enthusiasm shines through on every page' Sunday Times'An engaging and lively history' Financial Times A thin, invisible layer of air surrounds the Earth, sustaining all known life on the planet and creating the unique climates and weather patterns that make each part of the world different. In Firmament, atmospheric scientist and ...
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