The Road to Conscious Machines by Michael Wooldridge
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science & Nature | Series: Pelican Bks.
In this mythbusting guide to AI past and present, one of the world's leading researchers shows why our fears for the future are misplaced The ultimate dream of artificial intelligence is to build machines that are like us: conscious and self-aware. While this remains a remote possibility, rapid progres ...Show more
Climate Change and the Nation State - The Nationalist Case by Anatol Lieven
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Category: Science & Nature
In the past two centuries we have experienced wave after wave of overwhelming change. Entire continents have been resettled; there are billions more of us; the jobs done by countless people would be unrecognizable to their predecessors; scientific change has transformed us all in confusing, terrible and ...Show more
Our Universe - An Astronomer's Guide by Jo Dunkley
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Category: Science & Nature | Series: Pelican Bks.
For many years now, we have known the story of the Solar System, and the Earth's place in it. We have mapped out the stars in the night sky, and have known that we live in a disk of stars that makes up the Milky Way galaxy. But, in the past few decades, huge steps have been taken in the field of astrono ...Show more
Future of Humanity by Michio Kaku
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Category: Science & Nature
Human civilization is on the verge of spreading beyond Earth. More than a possibility, it is becoming a necessity- whether our hand is forced by climate change and resource depletion or whether future catastrophes compel us to abandon Earth, one day we will make our homes among the stars.World-renowned ...Show more
The Human Body Book by DK
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Category: Science & Nature
An all-in-one illustrated guide to human anatomy with encyclopedic coverage from bones and muscles to systems and processes. This in-depth manual to the human body's physical structure, chemical workings, and potential problems is a must-have reference to help further your studies or knowledge of how ou ...Show more
How to Give Up Plastic by Will McCallum
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Category: Science & Nature
As read by James Corden, Fearne Cotton, Jim Chapman and Dougie Poytner. 'We have a responsibility, every one of us' David Attenborough Around 12.7 million tonnes of plastic are entering the ocean every year, killing over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals. By 2050 there could be more plastic ...Show more
Explanatorium of Science: Where the Wonders of the World are Revealed by DK
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Category: Science & Nature
The only science encyclopedia for children you'll ever need, with amazing photography that shows and explains how chemistry, physics, and biology work. Watch as mixtures merge and matter changes state. Discover how some chemical changes can be reversed, yet others can't, and why some reactions go with a ...Show more
The Wisdom of Wolves: Understand How Wolves Can Teach Us to Be More Human by Elli H. Radinger
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Category: Science & Nature
In this unforgettable book, wolf expert and naturalist Elli Radinger draws on her 25 years of first-hand experience among the wolves of Yellowstone National Park to tell us their remarkable stories. Wolves aren't wolfish. They can die of broken hearts, show tenderness to their young and elderly, and the ...Show more
Life Lessons from a Brain Surgeon: The New Science and Stories of the Brain by Rahul Jandial
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Category: Science & Nature
A Latina English teacher must choose between losing her mother tongue or her profession. A former TV exec, now homeless, discovers that his life-altering despondency comes from a tumour. A fainting teen learns that deep breathing could be the difference between life and death. Is recovery possible? In a ...Show more
Origin Story - A Big History of Everything by David Christian
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Category: Science & Nature
How did we get from the Big Bang to today's staggering complexity, in which seven billion humans are connected into networks powerful enough to transform the planet? And why, in comparison, are our closest primate relatives reduced to near-extinction? Big History creator David Christian gives the answe ...Show more
Exercised: The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health by Daniel Lieberman
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Category: Science & Nature
In industrialized nations, our sedentary lifestyles have led to skyrocketing rates of obesity and diseases like diabetes. The answer, we are told, is exercise - voluntary physical activity for the sake of health. However, most of us struggle to stay fit, and we are plagued by misconceptions and anxietie ...Show more
Good Reasons for Bad Feelings - Reports from the Frontier of Evolutionary Medicine by Randolph Nesse
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Category: Science & Nature
With his classic book Why We Get Sick, Randolph Nesse established the field of evolutionary medicine. Now he returns with a book that transforms our understanding of mental disorders by exploring a fundamentally new question. Instead of asking why certain people suffer from mental illness, Nesse asks wh ...Show more