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The horse : a galloping history of humanity
by Timothy C. Winegard
This riveting narrative of the horse's enduring reign across human history?—?and our everyday lives?—? shows how this noble animal revolutionized the way we hunted, traded, traveled, farmed, fought, worshipped and interacted, from the thundering cavalry charges of Alexander the Great to the Great Manure Crisis of 1894 and beyond. Illustrations.
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Mastering AI : a survival guide to our superpowered future
by Jeremy Kahn
A Fortune magazine journalist draws on his expertise and extensive contacts among the companies and scientists at the forefront of artificial intelligence to offer dramatic predictions of AI's impact over the next decade, from reshaping our economy and the way we work, learn, and create to unknitting our social fabric, jeopardizing our democracy, and fundamentally altering the way we think.
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Superconvergence : how the genetics, biotech, and AI revolutions will transform our lives, work, and world
by Jamie Frederic Metzl
Integrating science, technology, history, politics and international affairs, a leading futurist and OneShared.World founder explores how AI, genome sequencing, gene editing and other groundbreaking technologies have the potential to improve our world, but if we are not careful, can also do immeasurable harm.
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This is why you dream : what your sleeping brain reveals about your waking life
by Rahul Jandial
Exploring the landscape of our subconscious, and tracing recent cutting-edge dream research and brain science, a dual-trained neurosurgeon and neuroscientist shows why humans have retained the ability to dream across millennia and how we can now harness its wondrous powers in both our sleeping and waking lives.
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| The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Hidden History of Math's Unsung Trailblazers by Kate Kitagawa and Timothy RevellIn this engaging, accessible narrative that spans six continents and begins with a 20,000-year-old bone, a math historian and a science journalist shine a light on important people who've often been ignored or forgotten in the history of mathematics. Further reading: The Art of More by Michael Brooks; The Man from the Future by Ananyo Bhattacharya. |
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Borderline : the biography of a personality disorder
by Alexander Kriss
An intimate, compassionate, and expansive portrait of Borderline Personality Disorder that rejects the conventional wisdom that the condition is untreatable and those diagnosed with it are "difficult," told by a psychologist who specializes in BPD.
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| What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World's Ocean by Helen ScalesAcclaimed marine biologist and writer Helen Scales (The Brilliant Abyss) delves into a wide array of topics in her eloquent, engaging latest, examining how humans endanger the oceans, what we might do differently, and why there's still hope. Try these next: Holly Hogan's Message in a Bottle; Christina Conklin's The Atlas of Disappearing Places. |
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