Science: general issues books

Discover stories of reward, cooperation and deception between plants and animals.  Read More >>

Alice and Louise are intelligent and beautiful android robots. Alice lives a sophisticated and intense life travelling...  Read More >>

With cutting-edge neuroscience, fascinating case studies and new brain exercises, Dr Hannah Critchlow shows how...  Read More >>

Discusses how the microphone is far more ubiquitous and omnipresent in everyday life than we would expect.  Read More >>

""Setting out a history of cyberspace and its relationship with the discipline that was to become digital humanities,...  Read More >>

Exploring distinctive practices in the artisanal, mercantile, and governmental sites of London, Metropolitan Science...  Read More >>

Original and impressively broad in it scope, this is the first book to fully explore the aesthetics of weather in...  Read More >>

This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of metrology for upcoming THz communications, considered a key component...  Read More >>

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Ashton has a passion for working on engines and repairing vehicles. After losing his job of thirteen years as a...  Read More >>

How the Internet lost its way and how to fix it  Read More >>

An eye-opening account of the tech arms race shaping out planet, from an award-winning journalist and AI insider...  Read More >>

Aristotle displays a keen interest in life and living beings, but he doesn’t separate the biological from the artificial,...  Read More >>

With cutting-edge neuroscience, fascinating case studies and new brain exercises, Dr Hannah Critchlow shows how...  Read More >>

This book provides a comprehensive review of the silkworm as a biofactory for the mass production of various proteins,...  Read More >>

Collects key articles by Simon Schaffer, one of the most important historians of science working today. Working...  Read More >>

Reach through time and across continents to see the history of chemistry as it's never been told  Read More >>

Step back in time and rediscover the ingenuity of ancient civilizations with Kamal, Dioptra, Volvelles. Have you...  Read More >>

我们该如何学习数学，如何塑造自己的认知和思维？有人认为，数学能力是与生俱来的，数学家的大脑结构天生和普通人的不一样，所以他们能理解复杂、高深的数学知识。然而这本书会破除这一误解：数学只是知识世界的一部分，不应当引发恐惧和误解。数学的本质植根于直觉与心理图像，而非抽象逻辑或复杂的知识结构，因此数学学习不仅是掌握知识的过程，更是一场身心参与的实践。...  Read More >>

The international bestselling author of Gut returns with a spellbinding voyage through the human body Sometimes...  Read More >>

Die Auseinandersetzung mit Positionen des Skeptizismus wurde in der Kunstgeschichte bisher geführt, indem man Thesen...  Read More >>

Between 1700 and 1800, the English-speaking world came to terms with one of modernity's most fundamental ideas:...  Read More >>

Collects key articles by Simon Schaffer, one of the most important historians of science working today. Working...  Read More >>

Far from a sudden technological revolution, everyday AI emerged through decades of cultural conditioning of smart...  Read More >>

How have people and communities of knowledge lived through periods of upheaval? A new history of Europe’s universities...  Read More >>