When Silicon Valley ‘moves fast and breaks things’, the world interprets the chaos as a necessary cost of innovation. Gil Durán reveals something far more sinister afoot: a decades-long campaign to replace elected governments with corporate rule... Zobraziť viac
Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue represents the beginning of crime fiction. The mystery was first published in Graham's Magazine in 1841 and has been recognized as the first detective story. Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of... Zobraziť viac
In USERS, legislator and campaigner Beeban Kidron takes you on a journey from the halls of Parliament and the UN to the White House and Silicon Valley. Through her encounters with specialist police officers, bereaved parents, lobbyists and tech bros,... Zobraziť viac
Make your northern lights bucket list dreams come true. You’ve seen the stunning photographs and the breathtaking videos, and now it’s time to experience the magic of the northern lights for yourself. But where on earth can you see them? When’s the... Zobraziť viac
Two people are firefighters and do the same job. When one is asked what they do for a living, their response is met with: 'That's amazing, you ahome at 15, going through extreme personal adversity and a period of homelessness, Sabrina gained first-hand... Zobraziť viac
One of the most inspiring thinkers of our age, the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics transforms the way we think about the world with his reflections on science, history and humanity. In this collection of writings, the logbook of... Zobraziť viac
From biochemistry to myth, medicine and meaning – discover the species that shaped rituals, rewired minds and transformed societies. What connects Siberian shamans, Amazonian healers, medieval monks and Silicon Valley biohackers?... Zobraziť viac
Discover more than a century of automotive excellence in this photographic celebration of Rolls-Royce. Since 1906, Rolls-Royce has been at the pinnacle of ultra-luxurious motoring, with the famous "Spirit of Ecstasy" figure proudly displayed on... Zobraziť viac
How can you achieve victory in war if you don't have a clear idea of your political aims and a vision of what victory means? In this provocative challenge to US political aims and strategy, Donald Stoker argues that America endures endless wars... Zobraziť viac
Monografie sleduje míru nepřímé harmonizace pravidel územního plánování a rozhodování o výstavbě v právu Evropské unie a požadavky, které z toho vyplývají pro členské státy. Popisuje vývoj evropské legislativy, její vzájemné souvislosti i rozdíly... Zobraziť viac
By the end of this decade, AI will exceed human levels of intelligence. During the 2030s, it will become ‘superintelligent’, vastly outstripping our capabilities by almost every measure and enabling dramatic new interventions in our bodies... Zobraziť viac
With a foreword by McLaren CEO Zak Brown and written with inside access, this is the real-time, unfolding story of one of F1’s greatest ever teams, as they rise back up from oblivion. Few names in motorsports carry the same authority as McLaren and... Zobraziť viac
In 1879, King Leopold II of Belgium launched an ambitious plan to plunder Africa’s resources. The key to cracking open the continent, or so he thought, was its elephants ― if only he could train them. And so he commissioned the charismatic Irish... Zobraziť viac
The extraordinary story of the inventive and astonishing ways trees have shaped our natural world. Over hundreds of millions of years, from the prehistoric forests to those standing tall over us today, trees have evolved to sculpt the environments... Zobraziť viac
This deluxe gift edition of Charles Darwin''s On the Origin of Species is presented with gold-embossed cover design with decorative page-edges and beautiful endpapers.The controversial theory of natural selection proposed in this book made Darwin... Zobraziť viac
In his 25-year career as a motor journalist, Watson has driven and tested every vehicle under the sun - from engineering marvels such as the Bugatti Chiron and Ferrari F40, to the grand-touring stalwarts of highways and motorways the world over... Zobraziť viac
From the winner of the 2022 Royal Society Science Book Prize, a thrilling and thought-provoking account of the rise and fall of humankind. For the first time in over ten millennia, the rate of human population growth is slowing down... Zobraziť viac
Have tech companies created artificial minds? Are they going to replace all our jobs? Will they take over the world? The answers to these questions, as the expert authors of The AI Con make clear, are ‘no’, ‘they wish’ and ‘LOL, definitely not’... Zobraziť viac
Henry Becquerel’s accidental discovery, in Paris in 1896, of a faint smudge on a photographic plate sparked a chain of discoveries which would unleash the atomic age. Destroyer of Worlds is the story of how pursuit of this hidden source of nuclear... Zobraziť viac
