An engaging exploration of beauty in physics, with a foreword by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger PenroseThe concept of symmetry has widespread manifestations and many diverse applications-from architecture to mathematics to science.
Some morning soon, before you were fully awake, you reached for a glowing rectangle and pulled downward with your thumb, and a river of other people's lives began to scroll past.
A Waterstones and Financial Times Book of the Year 2025The instant Sunday Times bestseller'Charming, clever, self-effacing, interesting and thoughtful' - The Observer'Visionary .
Once considered niche, fringe, and the hobby of only outsiders or loners, video games have rapidly become one of the most popular and influential artistic forms of this century.
Once considered niche, fringe, and the hobby of only outsiders or loners, video games have rapidly become one of the most popular and influential artistic forms of this century.
The Gospel Coaltion Award of Distinction-Christian LivingOutreach Resource of the YearThe digital age is in the business of commodifying our attention.
For months, increasingly capable artificial systems have been described as if a new kind of actor has entered the world—one that plans, deceives, persists, protects itself, crosses boundaries, and seeks freedom.
*New York Times bestseller*How a force that s hard to name, but which we all feel, is reshaping what it means to be humanIn Against the Machine, furiously gifted (The Washington Post) novelist, poet, and essayist Paul Kingsnorth presents a wholly original and terrifying account of the technological-cultural matrix enveloping all of us.
America's most renowned social philosopher John Dewey shines his powerful intellect on the serious public and cultural issues surrounding the place of the individual in a technologically advanced society.
UNREASON: Exploring Pseudoscience, Conspiracies, and Extraordinary Claims is a collection of forty-five of the best articles the legendary Skeptical Inquirer magazine has published in the past decade.
UNREASON: Exploring Pseudoscience, Conspiracies, and Extraordinary Claims is a collection of forty-five of the best articles the legendary Skeptical Inquirer magazine has published in the past decade.
In this enlightening and entertaining book, author and Skeptical Inquirer editor Kendrick Frazier takes readers on a journey to the contentious boundary zone between science and its antagonists: pseudoscience (pretend science) and anti-science (open hostility to science).
In this enlightening and entertaining book, author and Skeptical Inquirer editor Kendrick Frazier takes readers on a journey to the contentious boundary zone between science and its antagonists: pseudoscience (pretend science) and anti-science (open hostility to science).
Internet es el mayor instrumento de registro que la humanidad ha desarrollado hasta la fecha, lo que explica la importancia de los cambios que ha desencadenado.
En un contexto en el que la inteligencia artificial (IA) está pasando de los universos de la ciencia ficción a formar parte de nuestras vidas cotidianas, resulta imprescindible entender cuáles son las amenazas que esta plantea a corto y medio plazo, así como de qué manera afecta positiva y negativamente a nuestras instituciones.
Si lo primero que se te viene a la mente cuando piensas en «física» es un científico con bata mirando por un telescopio o investigando sobre gatos cuánticos en cajas ¡este libro es perfecto para ti!
'A fascinating and enticing vision of the utopian New World that Robert Zubrin believes could and should be created on the Red Planet Martin ReesThe world's leading expert on the human settlement of Mars explains what Martian societies will look like - sooner than we thinkWithin a few years, humans will be able to voyage to Mars.
Making Mice blends scientific biography, institutional history, and cultural history to show how genetically standardized mice came to play a central role in contemporary American biomedical research.
An accessible illustrated introducton to the networks we use every day, from Facebook and Google to WiFi and the InternetWhat makes WiFi faster at home than at a coffee shop?
Computer-centered networks and technologies are reshaping social relations and constituting new social domains on a global scale, from virtually borderless electronic markets and Internet-based large-scale conversations to worldwide open source software development communities, transnational corporate production systems, and the global knowledge-arenas associated with NGO networks.
