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Atlas of AI
ISBN: HB: 9780300209570, Yale University Press, March 2021
288 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm, 20 black&white illus.
What happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the planet? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? Drawing on more than a decade of original research, award-winning science and technology s...
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Clock Mirage Our Myth of Measured Time
ISBN: HB: 9780300229325, Yale University Press, June 2020
272 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 22 black&white illus.
What is time? This question has fascinated philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists for thousands of years. Why does time seem to speed up with age? What is its connection with memory, anticipation, and sleep cycles? Award-winning author and ma...
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Falling Felines and Fundamental Physics
ISBN: HB: 9780300231298, Yale University Press, December 2019
352 pp., 21x14 cm, 75 black&white illus.
The question of how falling cats land on their feet has long intrigued humans. In this playful and eye?opening history, physicist and cat parent Gregory Gbur explores how attempts to understand the cat?righting reflex have provided crucial insights i...
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Apollo's Muse The Moon in the Age of Photography
ISBN: HB: 9781588396846, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2019
192 pp., 22.9x22.9 cm, 150 colour and black&white illus.
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, "Apollo's Muse" honors the rich history of photographic representations of the moon, from rarely seen early daguerreotypes to contemporary video art. Engaging and accessible, the book explore...
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£35,00
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Nature's Giants The Biology and Evolution of the World's Largest Lifeforms
ISBN: HB: 9780300239881, Yale University Press, April 2019
224 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 350 colour illus.
The colossal plants and animals of our world – dinosaurs, whales, and even trees – are a source of unending fascination, and their sheer scale can be truly impressive. Size is integral to the way that organisms experience the world: a puddle that a h...
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Aliens Among Us How Invasive Species are Transforming the Planet and Ourselves
ISBN: HB: 9780300208900, Yale University Press, February 2018
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 45 black&white illus.
From an award-winning adventure and science journalist comes an eye-opening exploration of a burgeoning environmental phenomenon and the science coalescing around it. Leslie Anthony leads readers on adventures physical and philosophical as he explore...
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Origins of Everything in 100 Pages (More or Less)
ISBN: PB: 9780300230505, Yale University Press, February 2018
152 pp., 19.7x15.2 cm, 12 black&white illus.
<p>With wonder, wit, and flair – and in record time and space – geophysicist David Bercovici explains how everything came to be everywhere, from the creation of stars and galaxies to the formation of Earth's atmosphere and oceans, to...
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Void The Strange Physics of Nothing
ISBN: PB: 9780300230734, Yale University Press, November 2017
224 pp., 21x14 cm
The rising star author of The Physics of Wall Street explores why "nothing" may hold the key to the next era of theoretical physics James Owen Weatherall's previous book, "The Physics of Wall Street", was a New York Times best-seller and named one of...
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Einstein's Unfinished Symphony The Story of a Gamble, Two Black Holes, and a New Age of Astronomy
ISBN: PB: 9780300223392, Yale University Press, August 2017
296 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 56 black&white illus.
An updated classic that recounts the long hunt for Einstein's predicted gravitational waves – and celebrates their recent discovery. In February 2016, astronomers announced that they had verified the last remaining prediction of Einstein's general t...
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Eureka How Invention Happens
ISBN: PB: 9780300228854, Yale University Press, August 2017
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.
Tracing the long pre-history of five twentieth-century inventions which have transformed our lives, Gavin Weightman reveals a fantastic cast of scientists and inspired amateurs whose ingenuity has given us the airplane, television, bar code, personal...
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