The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything (Vigna Paul)(Paperback)

The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything (Vigna Paul)(Paperback)

Views differ on bitcoin, but few doubt the transformative potential of Blockchain technology. The Truth Machine is the best book so far on what has happened and what may come along. It demands the attention of anyone concerned with our economic future. --Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot

Algorithms, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency: Implications for the Future of the Workplace (Brown Gavin)(Paperback)

The convergence of Algorithms, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency has the potential to fundamentally disrupt the current world of work. This book investigates the effects of this on the worker, the organisation and the economy, by considering a future where the traditional power relationships between

Human/Machine: The Future of Our Partnership with Machines (Newman Daniel)(Paperback)

Will the workplace of the future be overrun by machines and robots? Are the new frontiers of artificial intelligence (AI) on the cusp of dethroning us in efficiency, intelligence and innovative potential? Automation and AI will augment our human world and potential. The winners of the future of

Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (Yadav Satya Prakash)(Paperback / softback)

Provides a detailed analysis of the effect of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency in the current market. The booked is designed to facilitate students in understanding the working behind the technology, and gives easy access to the complex terminologies revolving around the

The End of Money: The Story of Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies and the Blockchain Revolution (New Scientist)(Paperback)

The Future of Everything: The Science of Prediction (Orell David)(Paperback)

For centuries, scientists have strived to predict the future. But to what extent have they succeeded? Can past events-Hurricane Katrina, the Internet stock bubble, the SARS outbreak-help us understand what will happen next? Will scientists ever really be able to forecast catastrophes, or will we

A Crack in Everything: Welcome to the Other Side (Long Ruth Frances)(Paperback)

Izzy learns the truth about the secret world of the Sidhe coexisting alongside the human one, and the angels and demons who watch over the affairs of mortals, making their own plans. She becomes a pawn in this game, and it almost costs her everything. Only by taking matters into her own hands can

Blockchain: Hype or Innovation (Gayvoronskaya Tatiana)(Paperback)

This book focuses on the innovation of blockchain technology and the advantages it offers. It provides a clear and comprehensive overview of blockchain technology and its possibilities, and thereby helps readers to form an opinion and draw their own conclusions about its potential exploitations.The

Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future (McAfee Andrew)(Paperback)

In The Second Machine Age, Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson predicted some of the far-reaching effects of digital technologies on our lives and businesses. Now they've written a guide to help readers make the most of our collective future. Machine Platform Crowd outlines the opportunities and

Complete and Essential Jack the Ripper (Begg Paul)(Paperback / softback)

Discover the truth behind the myth in The Complete Jack the Ripper by Paul Begg and John Bennett. Whitechapel, 1988: a spate of brutal murders becomes the most notorious criminal episode in London's history. The killer, chillingly nicknamed 'The Whitechapel Murderer', 'Leather Apron' and, most

The Blockchain and the New Architecture of Trust (Werbach Kevin)(Pevná vazba)

How the blockchain--a system built on foundations of mutual mistrust--can become trustworthy.The blockchain entered the world on January 3, 2009, introducing an innovative new trust architecture: an environment in which users trust a system--for example, a shared ledger of information--without

Blockchain Data Analytics for Dummies (Solomon Michael G.)(Paperback)

Get ahead of the curve--learn about big data on the blockchain Blockchain came to prominence as the disruptive technology that made cryptocurrencies work. Now, data pros are using blockchain technology for faster real-time analysis, better data security, and more accurate predictions. Blockchain

Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman (Wallace Michele)(Paperback)

Originally published in 1978, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman caused a storm of controversy. Michele Wallace blasted the masculine biases of the black politics that emerged from the sixties. She described how women remained marginalized by the patriarchal culture of Black Power,

Alexander the Great - The Truth Behind the Myth (Cartledge Paul)(Paperback / softback)

The acclaimed biography of one of history's greatest icons, Alexander the Great. The acclaimed biography of one of history's greatest icons, Alexander the

Demon in the Machine - How Hidden Webs of Information Are Finally Solving the Mystery of Life (Davies Paul)(Paperback / softback)

When Darwin set out to explain the origin of species, he made no attempt to answer the deeper question: what is life?For generations, scientists have struggled to make sense of this fundamental question. Life really does look like magic: even a humble bacterium accomplishes things so dazzling that

137: Jung, Pauli, and the Pursuit of a Scientific Obsession (Miller Arthur I.)(Paperback)

Is there a number at the root of the universe? A primal number that everything in the world hinges on? This question exercised many great minds of the twentieth century, among them the groundbreaking physicist Wolfgang Pauli and the famous psychoanalyst Carl Jung. Their obsession with the power of

Everything but the Truth (McAllister Gillian)(Paperback / softback)

Robot - Meet the Machines of the Future (DK)(Pevná vazba)

Once and Future King (White T. H.)(Paperback / softback)

The classic novel of King Arthur.A beautiful paperback edition of The Once and Future King, White's masterful retelling of the Arthurian legend.T.H. White's masterful retelling of the Arthurian legend is an abiding classic. Here all five volumes that make up the story are published together in a

Man Who Loved Only Numbers - The Story of Paul Erdoes and the Search for Mathematical Truth (Hoffman Paul)(Paperback / softback)

The biography of a mathematical genius. Paul Erdos was the most prolific pure mathematician in history and, arguably, the strangest too.'A mathematical genius of the first order, Paul Erdos was totally obsessed with his subject - he thought and wrote mathematics for nineteen hours a day until he

Clear Bright Future: A Radical Defence of the Human Being (Mason Paul)(Paperback)

A passionate defence of humanity and a work of radical optimism from the international bestselling author of Postcapitalism How do we preserve what makes us human in an age of uncertainty? Are we now just consumers shaped by market forces? A sequence of DNA? A collection of base instincts? Or will

The Digital Renaissance of Work: Delivering Digital Workplaces Fit for the Future (Miller Paul)(Paperback)

Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War (Scharre Paul)(Paperback)

The era of autonomous weapons has arrived. Today around the globe, at least thirty nations have weapons that can search for and destroy enemy targets all on their own. Paul Scharre, a leading expert in next-generation warfare, describes these and other high tech weapons systems--from Israel's Harpy

Truth: A Guide for the Perplexed (Blackburn Simon)(Paperback / softback)

Tells about truth, and the enemies of truth, and the wars that are fought between them. This guide looks at relativism and absolutism, toleration and belief, objectivity and knowledge, science and pseudo-science, and the moral and political implications, as well as the nuances, of all