In The Last Book Written by a Human, tech entrepreneur Jeff Burningham delivers a profound and urgent exploration of what it truly means to be human in the age of AIchallenging us to embrace wisdom, love, and deep human connection as we navigate an uncertain future alongside machines.
In contrast to the wave of noisy polemics around AI, AI For Good explores how, in practice, it can actually improve our lives and tells the stories of everyday citizens at the forefront of this new ';AI entrepreneurship.
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.
AFTER 2030: The Future Nobody Is Preparing ForWhat happens when artificial intelligence, automation, biotechnology, digital economies, climate change, and human enhancement begin transforming society simultaneously?
'Profound and timely' Tony Juniper'A tour de force' Lorna GibbA panoramic history of life, revealing the forces that have shaped our world and could shape it againLife evolved in two phases.
In The Abundance Dispatch, Ravinder Nath Bhalla, MD — board-certified in child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry, with forty years of clinical practice — delivers a series of open letters to the people whose choices will determine the next decade: world leaders, power-concentrating oligarchs, the architects of a new UN Charter, corporate boards, and the engineers building artificial intelligence.
Beyond Solitude: The Science and Mystery of Cosmic Civilisations is your smart, accessible companion to the biggest live investigation in science: the search for life and intelligence beyond Earth.
'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.
SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time has produced an astounding new theory about the future of life on Earth.
When Machines Think is a bold, human‑first exploration of artificial intelligence, written for a world standing at the crossroads of progress and purpose.
From bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Robert Wright comes a sweeping new view of artificial intelligence as an evolutionary force that will pose deep political and spiritual challenges and could, in the process, give our species a unifying sense of purpose.
The English Opening is typically a solid and reliable opening for White, one where both sides develop their pieces to reasonable squares before the combat begins in earnest.
In Mazukevich's Madness, Black stuns White with a piece sacrifice on move 5, completely changing the direction of the game of this otherwise solid and rather predictable opening.
THE PATTERN OF REALITY: Dynamic Cyclical Movement Across Scales Governed by Relational Balance is a large-scale philosophical and civilizational work exploring the deeper structural patterns governing existence, consciousness, ecological systems, civilization, psychology, science, and the future of humanity.
A brilliant young neuroscientist explains how to preserve our minds indefinitely, enabling future generations to choose to revive usJust as surgeons once believed pain was good for their patients, some argue today that death brings meaning to life.
WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024ONE OF THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW SCIENTIST BEST SCIENCE BOOKS OF THE YEARGUARDIAN BEST SCIENCE AND NATURE BOOK 2024A HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST RELATED WORK 2024THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERTHE #2 MOST GIFTED BOOK IN THE SOLAR SYSTEMFrom the bestselling authors of Soonish, a brilliant and hilarious off-world investigation into space settlementEarth is not well.
A radical retelling of human history through collapse from the dawn of our species to the urgent existential threats of the twenty-first century and beyond.
