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Virtually Human: The Promise and the Peril of Digital Immortality
Martine Rothblatt · St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Virtually Human explores what the not-too-distant future will look like when cyberconsciousness--simulation of the human brain via software and computer technology--becomes part of our daily lives. Meet Bina48, the worlds most sentient robot, commissioned by Martine Rothblatt and created... |
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Quantum Fuzz: The Strange True Makeup of Everything Around Us
Michael S Walker · Prometheus Books
Pages: 420
Format: Print book
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Quantum physics has turned our commonsense notion of reality on its head. This accessible book describes in layperson's terms the strange phenomena that exist at the quantum level--a world of tiny dimensions where nothing is absolutely predictable, where we rethink causality, and information... |
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Totality: The Great American Eclipses of 2017 and 2024
MARK LITTMANN · OXFORD UNIV Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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Totality: The Great American Eclipses is a complete guide to the most stunning of celestial sights, total eclipses of the Sun. It focuses on the eclipses of August 21, 2017 and April 8, 2024 that pass across the United States. The U.S. mainland has not experienced a total solar eclipse... |
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The Age of Entanglement: When Quantum Physics Was Reborn
Louisa Gilder · Vintage Books
Pages: 443
Format: Paperback
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In The Age of Entanglement, Louisa Gilder brings to life one of the pivotal debates in twentieth century physics. In 1935, Albert Einstein famously showed that, according to the quantum theory, separated particles could act as if intimately connected-a phenomenon which he derisively described... |
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How the Zebra Got Its Stripes: Darwinian Stories Told Through Evolutionary Biology
Leo Grasset · Pegasus Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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France's brightest young scientist lucidly explains the intricacies of the animal kingdom through the lens of evolutionary biology. Why do giraffes have such long necks? Why are zebras striped? And why does the clitoris of the female hyena exactly resemble and in most respects function... |
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The Future, Declassified: Megatrends That Will Undo the World Unless We Take Action
Mathew Burrows · Palgrave Macmillan Trade
Format: Hardcover
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Twenty-five years ago when Mathew Burrows went to work for the CIA as an intelligence analyst, the world seemed frozen. Then came the fall of the Berlin Wall and the implosion of the Soviet Union; suddenly, unpredictability became a universal theme and foresight was critical. For the past... |
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Maps: their untold stories
Rose Mitchell · Adlard Coles Trade
Format: Hardcover
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A map is a snapshot of a place, a city, a nation or even the world at a given point in time-fascinating for what they tell us about the way our ancestors saw themselves, their neighbours and their place in the world. This magnificent collection, drawn from seven centuries of maps held in the National... |
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Lab Girl
Hope Jahren · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 290
Format: Print book
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A New York Times 2016 Notable BookNational Best SellerNamed one of TIME magazine's "100 Most Influential People"An Amazon Top 20 Best Book of 2016A Washington Post Best Memoir of 2016A TIME and Entertainment Weekly Best Book of 2016 So Far An illuminating debut memoir of a woman... |
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Death at SeaWorld: Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales in Captivity
David Kirby · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Evidence of Harm and Animal Factory -- a groundbreaking scientific thriller that exposes the dark side of SeaWorld, America's most beloved marine mammal park Death at SeaWorld centers on the battle with the multimillion-dollar marine park industry... |
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Earthquake Prediction: Dawn of the New Seismology
David Nabhan · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
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An epoch-changing work on scientific developments which can save countless lives.Each year the world faces thousands of earthquakes of magnitude 5.0 or greater, resulting in devastating property destruction and tragic loss of life. To help avert these catastrophes, scientists have long... |
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