The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity (Webb Amy)(Paperback)

The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity (Webb Amy)(Paperback)

A call-to-arms about the broken nature of artificial intelligence, and the powerful corporations that are turning the human-machine relationship on its head. We like to think that we are in control of the future of 'artificial' intelligence. The reality, though, is that we -- the everyday people

The Dictionary of Dreams and Their Meanings (Craze Richard)(Paperback)

This title helps you learn how humanity has viewed dreams through the centuries, and what their significance is for us today. It is an exploration of the many types of dreams including lucid dreaming, dream archetypes, nightmares, recurring dreams, erotic dreams and dream logic. You can begin a

Thinking Big: How the Evolution of Social Life Shaped the Human Mind (Gamble Clive)(Paperback)

When and how did the brains of our hominin ancestors become human minds? When and why did our capacity for language, art, music and dance evolve? This pathbreaking book proposes that it was the need for early humans to live in ever-larger social groups over greater distances--the ability to 'think

The Logic Against Humanity: The Myth of Science and the Path of Thinking (Scaligero Massimo)(Paperback)

The Logic Against Humanity is considered by many to be Massimo Scaligero's most important work. It examines the difficulties faced by modern-day philosophers and scientists who employ 'discursive' thinking to explain the mystery of human existence. 'Discursive' thinking, which accounts for the

Child Language: Acquisition and Development (Saxton Matthew)(Paperback)

Presented with the latest thinking and research on how children acquire their first language, this new Second Edition helps readers develop the skills to engage with key debates and current research in the field of child language. This practical text assumes the reader has no background knowledge

The World Is a Nice Place: How to Overcome Adversity, Joyfully (Molloy Amy)(Paperback)

Imagine if you could hope for the best, even after the worst. Imagine if your past could become your superpower. Imagine if you could be happy, regardless. When life is hard, The World is a Nice Place offers a new way of thinking. We all have the power to fall in love with our lives--even when

Big History and the Future of Humanity (Spier Fred)(Paperback)

Featuring a variety of updates and revisions, Big History andthe Future of Humanity, Second Edition, presents anaccessible and original overview of the entire sweep of historyfrom the origins of the universe and origins of life on Earth up tothe present day.Provides an accessible and original

The Nine Waves of Creation: Quantum Physics, Holographic Evolution, and the Destiny of Humanity (Calleman Carl Johan)(Paperback)

In the Zone: How Champions Think and Win Big (Brolin Clyde)(Paperback)

How do champions suppress their fear of failure and find the belief to win? What separates those who live their dreams from those who don't? What exactly is 'The Zone,' and how do you get there? Drawing on more than 100 exclusive interviews with the world's elite stars of sports including Novak

Tech Titans of China: How China's Tech Sector Is Challenging the World by Innovating Faster, Working Harder, and Going Global (Fannin Rebecca)(Paperback)

Sliver award winner in International Business/Globalization 2020 Axiom Business Book Awards The rise of China's tech companies and intense competition from the sector is just beginning. This will present an ongoing management and strategy challenge for companies for many years to come. Tech Titans

Who's Afraid of Ai?: Fear and Promise in the Age of Thinking Machines (Ramge Thomas)(Paperback)

A penetrating guide to artificial intelligence: what it is, how it works, and the ways it will define our lives--for better and worse Computer programs can recognize human faces more reliably than humans. They beat us at board games, they bluff better than the best poker players in the world, and

The Chocolate Dog - Holly Webová

A gorgeous story about family from bestselling authorHolly Webb.Amy and Laura aren't lookingforward to the arrival of their new brother or sister. There doesn'tseem to be any room for them any more. But at least they stillhave their gorgeous dog Choc - he always knows how to makethem feel better

This Is How You Die: Stories of the Inscrutable, Infallible, Inescapable Machine of Death (Bennardo Matthew)(Paperback)

If a machine could predict how you would die, would you want to know? This is the tantalizing premise of This Is How You Die, the brilliant follow-up anthology to the self-published bestseller, Machine of Death. THIS IS HOW YOU DIEStories of the Inscrutable, Infallible, Inescapable Machine of Death

The Prince and the Pauper (Twain Mark)(Paperback)

Tom Canty and Edward Tudor could have been identical twins. Their birthdays and their faces match, but there the likeness stops. For Edward is prince, heir to King Henry VIII of England, whilst Tom is a miserable pauper. But fate intervenes, and their identities become confused. Soon the prince is

Valerian and Laureline (Lupano Wilfrid)(Paperback)

Valerian and Laureline are forced to fix a blunder by the Shingouz one that could cost Humanity... Earth

Withered + Sere (Klune Tj)(Paperback)

Once upon a time, humanity could no longer contain the rage that swelled within, and the world ended in a wave of fire. One hundred years later, in the wasteland formerly known as America, a broken man who goes only by the name of Cavalo survives. Purposefully cutting himself off from what remains

Their Darkest Hour - People Tested to the Extreme in WWII (Rees Laurence)(Paperback / softback)

How could Nazi killers shoot Jewish women and children at close

People Vs Tech - How the internet is killing democracy (and how we save it) (Bartlett Jamie)(Paperback / softback)

`This book could not have come at a better moment... The People Vs Tech makes clear that there is still time - just - for us to take back control.' - Camilla Cavendish, Sunday Times The internet was meant to set us free.Tech has radically changed the way we live our lives. But have we unwittingly

Machine Crusade - Legends of Dune 2 (Herbert Brian)(Paperback / softback)

The breathtaking vision and incomparable storytelling of Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson's Dune: The Butlerian Jihad, a prequel to Frank Herbert's classic Dune, propelled it to the ranks of speculative fiction's classics in its own right. Now, with all the color, scope, and fascination of the

Memory Warp: How the Myth of Repressed Memory Arose and Refuses to Die (Pendergrast Mark)(Paperback)

In Memory Warp, Mark Pendergrast sounds a clarion call to stop the ongoing pseudoscience of 'repressed memory therapy,' which has destroyed millions of families and continues to do so. In the 1990s, Pendergrast's book Victims of Memory helped to debunk the repressed memory craze. Now, more than

How Vocabulary Is Learned (Webb Stuart)(Paperback / softback)

How Vocabulary Is Learned presents the major issues that relate to the teaching and learning of vocabulary. Written by leading voices in the field of second language acquisition, the book evaluates a wide range of practical activities designed to help boost students' vocabulary learning. How many

Ethiopia and the Origin of Civilization (Jackson John G.)(Paperback)

The history of Ethiopia could also be called the history of humanity. The question is not if this history is well documented, but why it is not thought widely in schools. The time necessary to study the tomes that refer to the Nubians as the forbearers of our civilization is enormous. The world

Shinoy and the Chaos Crew: Could you live in the past? - Band 11/Lime (Kerrigan Juliet)(Paperback / softback)

Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Book banded for guided and independent reading, there are reading notes in the back, comprehensive

Stop Hurting the Woman You Love: Breaking the Cycle of Abusive Behavior (Donaldson Charlie)(Paperback)

A first-ever how-to book to help abusive men change their behavior by changing their thinking. End the cycle of abuse - for good. Authors Charlie Donaldson, Randy Flood and Elaine Eldridge uncover a proven action plan that violent men can use to change their behavior. Filled with insightful