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Master Algorithm, The

Master Algorithm, The

‘Pedro Domingos demystifies machine learning and shows how wondrous and exciting the future will be’ Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs
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Medical Apartheid

Medical Apartheid

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner (Nonfiction) PEN/Oakland Award Winner BCALA Nonfiction Award Winner Gustavus Meyers Award Winner
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Mismeasure of Man, The

Mismeasure of Man, The

When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits. And yet the idea of innate limits-of biology as destiny-dies hard, as witness the attention dev
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Origin of Species, The

Origin of Species, The

Charles Darwin’s classic that exploded into public controversy, revolutionized the course of science, and continues to transform our views of the world. Few other books have created such a lasting storm of controversy as The Origin of Species. Darwin’s theory that species derive from other species b
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Origins

Origins

An accessible and extremely well-written exploration of the deep waters of cosmology, astrophysics, and exobiology.”–Kirkus Reviews
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OUT OF EDEN

OUT OF EDEN

Book Summary of Out Of Eden: The Peopling Of The World In 1988, “Newsweek” headlined the discovery that everyone alive on the earth can trace their maternal DNA back to one woman who lived in Africa price shown years ago. It was thought that humans populated the world through a series of migratory waves
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Professor Stewart’s Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities

Professor Stewart’s Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities

School maths is not the interesting part. The real fun is elsewhere. Like a magpie, Ian Stewart has collected the most enlightening, entertaining and vexing ‘curiosities’ of maths over the years… Now, the private collection is displayed in his cabinet.
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Professor Stewart’s Hoard Of Mathematical Treasures

Professor Stewart’s Hoard Of Mathematical Treasures

Ian Stewart, author of the bestselling Professor Stewart’s Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities, presents a new and magical mix of games, puzzles, paradoxes, brainteasers, and riddles. He mingles these with forays into ancient and modern mathematical thought, appallingly hilarious mathematical joprice shown
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Quantum Computing Since Democritus

Quantum Computing Since Democritus

Written by noted quantum computing theorist Scott Aaronson, this book takes readers on a tour through some of the deepest ideas of maths, computer science and physics. Full of insights, arguments and philosophical perspectives, the book covers an amazing array of topics. Beginning in antiquity with
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Rise And Fall Of the Third Chimpanzee

Rise And Fall Of the Third Chimpanzee

More than 98 percent of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee. The ‘third’ chimpanzee is man. Jared Diamond surveys out life-cycle, culture, sexuality and destructive urges both towards ourselves and the planet to explore the ways in which we are uniquely human yet still influenced b
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Rise of the Robots, The

Rise of the Robots, The

What are the jobs of the future? How many will there be? And who will have them? We might imagine—and hope—that today’s industrial revolution will unfold like the last: even as some jobs are eliminated, more will be created to deal with the new innovations of a new era. In Rise of the Robots, Silico
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Robot in the Next Cubicle, The

Robot in the Next Cubicle, The

An optimistic and useful look at the coming convergence of automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence, and how we can take advantage of this revolution in the workplace It’s called the Fourth Industrial Revolution–a revolution fueled by analytics and technology–that consists of data-driven sm
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Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth

Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth

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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Science in the Soul

Science in the Soul

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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SEEING FURTHER:THE STORY OF SCIENCE & SOCIETY

SEEING FURTHER:THE STORY OF SCIENCE & SOCIETY

Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, and with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, David Attenborough, Martin Rees and Richard Fortey amongst others, this volume celebrates the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society. It explore significant achievements, as well as recalling the Soci
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Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impac
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Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That’ll Improve and/or Ruin Everything

Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That’ll Improve and/or Ruin Everything

**The New York Times Bestseller**
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Spillover

Spillover

First, a horse in Brisbane falls ill: fever, swelling, bloody froth. Then thirteen others drop dead. The foreman at the stables becomes ill and the trainer dies. What is going on?
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Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science

Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science

New updated edition of the biography of a remarkable man – motor neurone disease victim and awesome intellect Stephen (A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME) Hawking Born in 1942, Stephen Hawking is no ordinary scientist. With a career that began over thirty years ago at Cambridge University, he has managed to do
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Steve Jobs L/P

Steve Jobs L/P

Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than 100 family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creat
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Story of Western Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory

Story of Western Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory

Far too often, issues based on science are decided by voters and politicians who have received their science secondhand. The Story of Science guides us back to the original texts that have changed the way we think about our world, our cosmos, and ourselves. Whether referenced individually or read to
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

A New York Times bestseller
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Ten Types of Human, The

Ten Types of Human, The

‘This book is the one. Think Sapiens and triple it.’ – Julia Hobsbawm, author of Fully Connected
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Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe

Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe

Based on a series of lectures given at Cambridge University, Professor Hawking’s work introduced “the history of ideas about the universe” as well as today’s most important scientific theories about time, space, and the cosmos in a clear, easy-to-understand way. “The Theory of Everything” presents t
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THIRD CHIMPANZEE, THE

THIRD CHIMPANZEE, THE

The Development of an Extraordinary Species
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This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

Adam Kay was a junior doctor from 2004 until 2010, before a devastating experience on a ward caused him to reconsider his future. He kept a diary throughout his training, and This Is Going to Hurt intersperses tales from the front line of the NHS with reflections on the current crisis. The result is
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Trust Me I’m Lying

Trust Me I’m Lying

You’ve seen it all before. A malicious online rumor costs a company millions. A political sideshow derails the national news cycle and destroys a candidate. Some product or celebrity zooms from total obscurity to viral sensation. What you don’t know is that someone is responsible for all this. Usual
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Universe in a Nutshell, The

Universe in a Nutshell, The

Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time was a publishing phenomenon. Translated into thirty languages, it has sold over nine million copies worldwide. It continues to captivate and inspire new readers every year. When it was first published in 1988 the ideas discussed in it were at the cutting edg
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Unmanned: Drones, Data, and the Illusion of Perfect Warfare

Unmanned: Drones, Data, and the Illusion of Perfect Warfare

Why do seemingly successful wars never seem to end? The problem centers on drones, now accumulated in the thousands, the front end of a spying and killing machine that is disconnected from either security or safety. Drones, however, are only part of the problem. William Arkin shows that security is
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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

New York Times Bestseller
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What To Do When Machines Do Everything

What To Do When Machines Do Everything

The essential playbook for the future of your business What To Do When Machines Do Everything is a guidebook to succeeding in the next generation of the digital economy. When systems running on Artificial Intelligence can drive our cars, diagnose medical patients, and manage our finances more effect
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When Breath Becomes Air

When Breath Becomes Air

At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the next he was a patient struggling to live.
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Why Don’t Penguins’ Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions

Why Don’t Penguins’ Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions

Why Don’t Penguins’ Feet Freeze? is the latest compilation of readers’ answers to the questions in the ‘Last Word’ column of New Scientist, the world’s best-selling science weekly. Following the phenomenal success of Does Anything Eat Wasps? – the Christmas 2005 surprise bestseller – this new collec
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Wisdom of Whores, The

Wisdom of Whores, The

In “The Wisdom of Whores”, epidemiologist Elizabeth Pisani brings honesty, wit and startling pragmatism to the tawdry front lines of sex and drugs. She explains how we could shut down HIV in most of the world with a few simple steps, with less money than we already have. We could do it now. But shoc
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Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World

Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World

A gloriously illustrated celebration of trailblazing women. Women in Science highlights the contributions of fifty notable women to the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, from both the ancient and modern worlds. The book also contains fascinating infographics and an ill
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Wonders of Life

Wonders of Life

In Wonders of Life: Exploring the Most Extraordinary Force in the Universe, the definitive companion to the Discovery Science Channel series, Professor Brian Cox takes us on an incredible journey to discover the most complex, diverse, and unique force in the universe: life itself.
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Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

From one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the twelve technological imperatives that will shape the next thirty years and transform our lives
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New Scientist: The Origin of (almost) Everything

New Scientist: The Origin of (almost) Everything

When Edwin Hubble looked into his telescope in the 1920s, he was shocked to find that nearly all of the galaxies he could see through it were flying away from one another. If these galaxies had always been travelling, he reasoned, then they must, at some point, have been on top of one another. This
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