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The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society by Norbert Wiener
RRP: €15.46€10.23Only a few books stand as landmarks in social and scientific upheaval. Norbert Wiener's classic is one in that small company. Founder of the science of cybernetics,the study of the relationship between computers and the human nervous system,Wiener was... -
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka 9781788706988
RRP: €20.22€13.23'The story told here is instrumental to your own' - Jared Lanier 'Timely, erudite, important' - Ayad Akhtar What happens when our cultural and artistic lives are dictated to us by an algorithm? What does it mean when shareability supersedes innovation?... -
Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom by Katherine Eban
RRP: €26.18€20.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062338792Author Katherine EbanFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 454g -
I Think You'll Find It's a Bit More Complicated Than That by Ben Goldacre
RRP: €15.46€10.09The very best journalism from one of Britain's most admired and outspoken science writers, author of the bestselling Bad Science and Bad Pharma. In Bad Science, Ben Goldacre hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks... -
How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality by Adam Rutherford
RRP: €10.70€7.38THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERAS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'The ultimate anti-racism guide' Caroline Criado Perez'Seriously important' Bill Bryson'A fascinating debunking of racial pseudoscience' GuardianRacist pseudoscience may be on the rise,... -
2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity by John C. Lennox
RRP: €17.84€11.54Will technology change what it means to be human? You don't have to be a computer scientist to have discerning conversations about artificial intelligence and technology. We all wonder where we're headed. Even now, technological innovations and machine... -
War on Ivermectin: The Early Treatment that Could Have Saved the World from COVID by Pierre Kory 9781510773868
RRP: €38.68€24.74Big Pharma and health agencies cry "Don't take ivermectin!" A media storm follows. Why then, does the science say the opposite?Ivermectin is a dirty word in the media. The drug has been derided and declared useless. Doctors have earnestly recorded pleas... -
Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini 9780008293864
RRP: €13.08€8.63Financial Times Book of the Year Telegraph Top 50 Books of the Year Guardian Book of the Year New Statesman Book of the Year ... -
The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology by Nita A. Farahany
RRP: €30.93€21.40Imagine a world where your brain can be interrogated to learn your political beliefs, thought crimes are punishable by law, and your own feelings can be used against you. Where perfumers create customised fragrances to perfectly suit your emotions, and... -
Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science by Stuart Ritchie
RRP: €13.08€9.25'Required reading for everyone' Adam RutherfordShortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2021 Medicine, education, psychology, economics - wherever it really matters, we look to science for guidance. But what if science itself can't always be... -
Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive by Carl Zimmer 9781529069433
RRP: €11.89€8.65'This book is not just about life, but about discovery itself. It is about error and hubris, but also about wonder and the reach of science. And it is bookended with the ultimate question: How do we define the thing that defines us?' - Siddhartha... -
Moral AI: And How We Get There by Jana Schaich Borg 9780241454749
RRP: €29.75€20.97A balanced and thought-provoking guide to all the big questions about AI and ethics Can computers understand morality? Can they respect privacy? And what can we do to make AI safe and fair? The artificial intelligence revolution has begun. Today, there... -
Your Face Belongs to Us: The Secretive Startup Dismantling Your Privacy by Kashmir Hill 9781398509177
RRP: €23.80€15.30'A parable for our times' FINANCIAL TIMES Best Books of 2023'In a gripping - and sometimes creepy - book, Hill explores the repercussions of [facial recognition] technology and finds out who is behind it' THE TIMES Best Technology Books of... -
Lies My Gov't Told Me: And the Better Future Coming by Robert W. Malone
RRP: €29.75€19.33A WALL STREET JOURNALNATIONAL BESTSELLER*AS SEEN ON TUCKER CARLSON TODAY AND THE JOE ROGAN EXPERIENCE*A guide for the times-breaking down the lies about COVID-19 and shedding light on why we came to believe them. When he invented the original mRNA... -
The Emergence of Biolaw: The European Experience and the Evolutionary Approach by Takis Vidalis 9783031023613
RRP: €65.44€55.16This book introduces "biolaw" as an integrated and distinct field in contemporary legal studies. Corresponding to the legal dimension of bioethics, the term "biolaw" is already in use in academic and research activities to denote legal issues emerging... -
Urban Regeneration in the UK by Andrew Tallon
RRP: €42.83€38.19This textbook provides an accessible and critical synthesis of urban regeneration in the UK, incorporating key policies, approaches, issues, debates and case studies. The central objective of the textbook is to place the historical and contemporary... -
The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: Principles, Challenges, and Opportunities by Luciano Floridi 9780198883098
RRP: €35.70€30.88The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence has two goals. The first goal is meta-theoretical and is fulfilled by Part One, which comprises the first three chapters: an interpretation of the past (Chapter 1), the present (Chapter 2), and the future of AI... -
Robot Ethics by Mark Coeckelbergh
RRP: €19.03€13.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544092Author Mark CoeckelberghFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Is This OK?: One Woman's Search For Connection Online by Harriet Gibsone
RRP: €20.22€14.61'Persistently funny, ill-advisedly honest and deadly accurate' - Caitlin Moran'This book is a delight - very real and very entertaining' - Bob MortimerMusic journalist and self-professed creep, Harriet Gibsone, lives in fear of her internet searches... -
Philosophy of Time: A Contemporary Introduction by Sean Enda Power
RRP: €42.83€38.19As a growing area of research, the philosophy of time is increasingly relevant to different areas of philosophy and even other disciplines. This book describes and evaluates the most important debates in philosophy of time, under several subject areas:... -
The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology by Amy Webb 9781541797925
RRP: €20.22€13.73Synthetic biology is the technique that enables us not just to read and edit but also write DNA to program living biological structures as though they were tiny computers. Unlike cloning Dolly the sheep-which cut and copied existing genetic material-the... -
The Genetic Age: Our Perilous Quest To Edit Life by Professor Matthew Cobb
RRP: €29.75€20.97A TIMES ENVIRONMENT AND SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 'Brilliant .. I cannot recommend this book strongly enough' - Henry Marsh, New Statesman (about The Idea of the Brain) A new gene editing technology, invented just seven years ago, has turned... -
How to Grow a Human: Adventures in Who We Are and How We Are Made by Philip Ball
RRP: €11.89€7.76A cutting-edge examination of what it means to be human and to have a 'self' in the face of new scientific developments in genetic editing, cloning and neural downloading. After seeing his own cells used to grow clumps of new neurons -... -
The Genetic Age: Our Perilous Quest To Edit Life by Professor Matthew Cobb 9781788167017
RRP: €15.46€10.82A TIMES ENVIRONMENT AND SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 'The ideal guide to what is not just a fiendishly complex area of science but also an ethical minefield' Mail on Sunday A new gene editing technology, invented just seven years ago, has turned... -
Online Counselling: An essential guide by Sarah Worley-James
RRP: €22.60€21.31After many years on the fringe, online counselling has rapidly become mainstream practice, propelled by the Covid-19 pandemic. Yet too often practitioners assume they can transition from in-person counselling without need for further training. In this... -
Sex Robots & Vegan Meat: Adventures at the Frontier of Birth, Food, Sex & Death by Jenny Kleeman
RRP: €14.27€10.23'Like Louis Theroux channelling Margaret Atwood' - New Statesman'A tour of the lurid fringes of the tech world' - The Times'A moreish page-turner of a book' - HeraldImagine if it was possible to have the perfect sexual relationship without compromise,... -
The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology by Amy Webb
RRP: €29.75€19.97Synthetic biology will revolutionize how we define family, how we identify disease and treat aging, where we make our homes, and how we nourish ourselves. This fast-growing field-which uses computers to modify or rewrite genetic code-has created... -
How to Love Animals: In a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance
RRP: €11.89€8.46A far-reaching, urgent, and thoroughly engaging exploration of our relationship with animals - from the acclaimed Financial Times journalist.This might be the worst time in history to be an animal. But is there a happier way?Factory farms, climate... -
The Decision Trap: Genetic Education and Its Social Consequences by Silja Samerski 9781845407766
€21.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845407766Author Silja SamerskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 200g -
Why Vegan? by Peter Singer
RRP: €7.13€5.31'So the only question is: do animals other than man suffer?'One of the great moral philosophers of the modern age, Peter Singer asks unflinching questions about how we should live our lives. The ideas collected in these writings, arguing that human... -
Don't Be Evil: The Case Against Big Tech by Rana Foroohar
RRP: €13.08€9.25A TIMES BEST CURRENT AFFAIRS BOOK OF THE YEARThe award-winning Financial Times columnist exposes the threat that Big Tech poses to our democracies, our economies and ourselves'Powerful' Sunday Times Google and Facebook receive 90% of the world's news... -
The Uses and Abuses of Humour in Social Work by Stephen Jordan
RRP: €46.40€40.72In recent years, social work academics and practitioners have highlighted the need to "re-claim" methodologies which unpack creativity and resourcefulness. In the bleakest of times many turn to humour to survive. Making a unique contribution to social... -
Systems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in a Complex World by Georgina Voss 9781839760556
RRP: €20.22€16.78Systems Ultra explores how we experience complex systems: the mesh of things, people, and ideas interacting to produce their own patterns and behaviours.What does it mean when a car which runs on code drives dangerously? What does massmarket graphics... -
The Playbook: How to Deny Science, Sell Lies, and Make a Killing in the Corporate World by Jennifer Jacquet
RRP: €20.22€13.41'This brilliantly subversive and witty book lays bare the techniques of manipulation and disinformation that keep the rich and powerful rich and powerful. . . A landmark book' Brian Eno'Very funny, as satire should be, until you realise it's deadly... -
The Playbook: How to Deny Science, Sell Lies, and Make a Killing in the Corporate World by Jennifer Jacquet 9780141982342
RRP: €13.08€9.25'This brilliantly subversive and witty book lays bare the techniques of manipulation and disinformation that keep the rich and powerful rich and powerful. . . A landmark book' Brian Eno'Very funny, as satire should be, until you realise it's deadly... -
Is This Wi-Fi Organic? by Dave Farina
RRP: €20.17€13.86How to Separate Real Scientific Truths from Fake News"Scientific literacy is our best defense in an age of increasing disinformation." Kellie Gerardi, Aerospace Professional and Author of Not Necessarily Rocket Science #1 New Release in Safety & First... -
Human-Centered Data Science: An Introduction by Cecilia Aragon
RRP: €39.27€26.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262543217Author Cecilia AragonFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Stem Cells For Dummies by Lawrence S.B. Goldstein
RRP: €17.84€12.14The first authoritative yet accessible guide to this controversial topic Stem Cell Research For Dummies offers a balanced, plain-English look at this politically charged topic, cutting away the hype and presenting the facts clearly for you, free from... -
Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity by Jamie Metzl
RRP: €15.46€10.82"A gifted and thoughtful writer, Metzl brings us to the frontiers of biology and technology, and reveals a world full of promise and peril." -Siddhartha Mukherjee MD, New York Times bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The... -
Feminist AI: Critical Perspectives on Algorithms, Data, and Intelligent Machines by Jude Browne 9780192889898
RRP: €77.35€70.16Chapters 5, 12, and 18 of this work are available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International open access licence. These parts of the work are free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected...