
A World Without Work
New technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. In the past, such fears have been misplaced, and many economi...
View full detailsNew technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. In the past, such fears have been misplaced, and many economi...
View full detailsThe blueprint for our individuality lies in the 1% of DNA that differs between people. Our intellectual capacity, our introversion or extraversion,...
View full detailsThis is the ultimate master class in modern physics. World-class physicist and father of string theory Leonard Susskind and citizen-scientist Georg...
View full detailsCould there be a civilization on a mote of dust? How much of your fate have you made? Who cleans the universe? Through more than fifty Koans - plea...
View full detailsToday Google and Facebook receive 90% of the world's news ad-spending. Amazon takes half of all ecommerce in the US. Google and Apple operating sys...
View full detailsHuman beings, says Lee Smolin, author of The Trouble With Physics, have always had a problem with the boundary between reality and fantasy, confusi...
View full detailsWhat makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? Billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? A building rock when its resonant frequen...
View full detailsAI is the future - but what will that future look like? Will superhuman intelligence be our slave, or become our god? Taking us to the heart of the...
View full detailsThe creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time has produced an astounding new theory about the future of lif...
View full detailsHow did we get from the Big Bang to today's staggering complexity, in which seven billion humans are connected into networks powerful enough to tra...
View full detailsPart-history of the cosmos, part-intellectual adventure, Our Mathematical Universe travels from the Big Bang to the distant future via parallel wor...
View full detailsIn The Theoretical Minimum, world-class physicist Leonard Susskind provided a brilliant first course in classical mechanics, offering readers not a...
View full detailsDo space and time truly exist? What is reality made of? Can we understand its deep texture? Scientist Carlo Rovelli has spent his whole life explor...
View full detailsIn the first two books in his wildly popular The Theoretical Minimum series, world-class physicist Leonard Susskind provided a brilliant first cour...
View full detailsWhy do we need Statistics? What do terms like 'dispersion', 'correlation', 'normal distribution' and 'significance' actually mean? How can I learn ...
View full detailsAcclaimed as the most influential work on evolution written in the last hundred years, The Blind Watchmaker offers an inspiring and accessible intr...
View full details'Correlation does not imply causation.' For decades, this mantra was invoked by scientists in order to avoid taking positions as to whether one thi...
View full detailsDo we see the world as it truly is? In The Case Against Reality, pioneering cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman says no? we see what we need in orde...
View full detailsFor generations, scientists have struggled to make sense of this fundamental question. Life really does look like magic: even a humble bacterium ac...
View full detailsHuman civilization is on the verge of living beyond Earth. But how will it happen? World-renowned physicist Michio Kaku takes us on a journey to th...
View full details'We are time. We are this space, this clearing opened by the traces of memory inside the connections between our neurons. We are memory. We are nos...
View full details'Creativity is the unique and defining trait of our species; and its ultimate goal, self-understanding,' begins Edward Wilson's sweeping examinatio...
View full detailsGeorge Dyson's fascinating account of the early years of computers: Turing's Cathedral is the story behind how the PC, iPod, smartphone and almost ...
View full detailsWhen exactly did life begin? What really happened during the big bang--and before it? Is the universe expanding? Is dark matter real? Do we live in...
View full detailsKeats accused Newton of destroying the poetry of the rainbow by explaining the origin of its colours. In this illuminating and provocative book, Ri...
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