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What is Chatgpt Doing... and Why Does it Work? by Wolfram S 9781579550813
RRP: $16.71$11.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781579550813Author Stephen WolframFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Wolfram Media IncPublisher Wolfram Media Inc -
1001 Inventions: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Civilization by National Geographic
RRP: $25.79$20.851001 Inventions provides unique insight into a significant time period in Muslim history that has been looked over by much of the world. A time where discoveries were made and inventions were created that have impacted how Western civilization and the... -
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird 9781838959708
RRP: $16.76$11.56***THE INSPIRATION FOR CHRISTOPHER NOLAN'S NEW FILM OPPENHEIMER***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION'Reads like a thriller, gripping and terrifying' Sunday TimesPhysicist and polymath, as familiar with Hindu... -
Nuts and Bolts: How Tiny Inventions Make Our World Work by Roma Agrawal 9781529340112
RRP: $16.76$11.09*SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2023**AS HEARD ON RADIO 4 START THE WEEK, OFF AIR WITH FI AND JANE AND 99% INVISIBLE*'Delightful' TIM HARFORD, FINANCIAL TIMES'Appeals to the nerdy side of just about all of us... a great book to... -
The Road to Conscious Machines: The Story of AI by Michael Wooldridge
RRP: $14.18$10.02'A terrific book - essential reading for everyone seeking to make sense of Artificial Intelligence' Professor Sir Adrian Smith, Director and Chief Executive of the Alan Turing InstituteIn this myth-busting guide to AI past and present, one of the world's... -
Small Inventions that Made a Big Difference: From Prehistory to the Present by Helen Pilcher 9781787397873 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.34$7.59Pockets, matches, spectacles, postage stamps. Whether it's the stitches that hold our clothes together or the syringes that deliver life-saving vaccines, small things really do make a big difference. Yet these modest but essential components of everyday... -
Small Inventions That Made a Big Difference Helen Pilcher 9781787397873
RRP: $19.34$13.16Pockets, matches, spectacles, postage stamps. Whether it's the stitches that hold our clothes together or the syringes that deliver life-saving vaccines, small things really do make a big difference. Yet these modest but essential components of everyday... -
The Pattern Seekers: A New Theory of Human Invention by Simon Baron-Cohen
RRP: $14.18$10.02'Celebrates human cognitive diversity, and is rich with empathy and psychological insight' Steven Pinker 'Bold, intriguing, profound' Jay Elwes, Spectator Why can humans alone invent? In this book, psychologist and world renowned autism expert Simon... -
How Innovation Works by Matt Ridley
RRP: $14.18$9.35'Ridley is spot-on when it comes to the vital ingredients for success' Sir James Dyson Building on his bestseller The Rational Optimist, Matt Ridley chronicles the history of innovation, and how we need to change our... -
Leonardo da Vinci: The Complete Works by Leonardo da Vinci 9780715324530
RRP: $16.76$11.07Leonardo Da Vinci is considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived, responsible for the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, The Madonna of the Carnation and Vitruvian Man. Leonardo... -
Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future by Ashlee Vance
RRP: $16.76$11.73South African born Elon Musk is the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity. Musk wants to save our planet; he wants to send citizens into space, to form a colony on Mars; he wants to make money while doing these... -
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner
RRP: $12.89$9.17From its beginnings in the 1920s until its demise in the 1980s, Bell Labs-officially, the research and development wing of AT&T-was the biggest, and arguably the best, laboratory for new ideas in the world. From the transistor to the laser, from digital... -
Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era James Barrat 9781529434620
RRP: $14.18$8.35'I wish it was science fiction, but I know it's not.' Jaan Tallinn, co-founder of Skype'If you read just one book that makes you confront scary high-tech realities that we'll soon have no choice but to address, make it this one.' Washington Post... -
Engineers: From the Great Pyramids to Spacecraft by Adam Hart-Davis
RRP: $32.25$24.79Full of incredible tales of achievement and ingenuity, Engineers celebrates the greatest engineers that ever lived and the stamp they have left on our world. Learn all about how engineering projects have changed the course of history and added to human... -
The Everything Blueprint: The Microchip Design that Changed the World James Ashton 9781529394054
RRP: $32.25$21.65**A Financial Times Best Summer Book 2023**Out now: a gripping look at the rise of the microchip and the British tech company behind the blueprint to it all.'A gripping and inspiring read.' Sir James Dyson'A revealing and insightful biography of the... -
Mr. Gibson's Ticket Machine: The Complete Story 1944-1993 by Anthony Cross 9781854144652
RRP: $21.87$21.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854144652Author Anthony CrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Capital Transport PublishingPublisher Capital Transport Publishing -
Nostalgia Nerd's Gadgets, Gizmos & Gimmicks: A Potted History of Personal Tech by Peter Leigh
RRP: $21.92$15.40In this eagerly-awaited new book from the author of the best-selling Nostalgia Nerd's Retro Tech, Peter Leigh takes a fun, informative and irreverent romp through the history of more than forty pieces of personal tech, charting the successes, failures... -
Where Is My Flying Car? by J Storrs Hall
RRP: $23.21$16.38From an engineer and futurist, an impassioned account of technological stagnation since the 1970s and an imaginative blueprint for a richer, more abundant future. The science fiction of the 1960s promised us a future remade by technological... -
Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle (Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 2023) by Jody Rosen 9780099593591
RRP: $14.18$10.02**SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023**'Full of delightful anecdotes and interviews and fascinating historical tales' Mail on SundayA panoramic portrait of the wonderous vehicle whose passenger is also its engine.A toy, a tool, a... -
Fusion 360 for Makers, 2e by Lydia Sloan Cline
RRP: $30.95$20.34Learn how to use Autodesk Fusion 360 to digitally model your own original projects for a 3D printer or a CNC device.About the AuthorLydia Sloan Cline teaches digital modeling and 3D printing at Johnson County Community College. She is a 3D printing... -
Life Hacks: Handy Tips to Make Life Easier Dan Marshall 9781849536448
RRP: $12.89$8.77Ever accidentally used your thumb as a hammer cushion while putting up a picture hook?Do you become enraged at the uncontrollable bobbing of the straw in your drinks can?Are you yearning to find a way to make your toilet roll tube enhance your music... -
The Radical Potter: Josiah Wedgwood and the Transformation of Britain by Tristram Hunt 9780141984629
RRP: $16.76$11.73*Longlisted for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History, 2022*A spectacular biography of the great designer, entrepreneur, abolitionist and beacon of the Industrial Revolution, from acclaimed historian and Director of the Victoria and Albert... -
Inventions A Children's Encyclopedia DK 9780241317822
RRP: $25.79$18.36Discover the amazing inventions throughout history that have shaped the world as we know it.This stunning visual guide explores and explains the greatest inventions, ideas, and discoveries throughout the ages, and introduces their inventors. From fire,... -
A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence: What It Is, Where We Are, and Where We Are Going by Michael Wooldridge 9781250770745
RRP: $37.40$26.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250770745Author Michael WooldridgeFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Flatiron BooksPublisher Flatiron BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 224mm *... -
Physics of the Future: The Inventions That Will Transform Our Lives by Michio Kaku 9780141044248
RRP: $14.18$10.02Michio Kaku's Physics of the Future: The Inventions that will Transform our Lives is a hypothetical journey through the next 100 years of scientific innovation, as told by the scientists who are making it happen. We all wish we could predict the future,... -
The Roaring 2020s: How the Cloud Will Unleash History's Biggest Economic Boom by Mark P. Mills
RRP: $33.53$22.38The conventional wisdom on how technology will change the future is wrong. Mark Mills lays out a radically different and optimistic vision for what's really coming.The mainstream forecasts fall into three camps. One considers today as the "new normal,"... -
The Lunar Men: The Inventors of the Modern World 1730-1810 by Jenny Uglow
RRP: $21.92$14.94Led by Erasmus Darwin, the Lunar Society of Birmingham was formed from a group of amateur experimenters, tradesmen and artisans who met and made friends in the Midlands in the 1760s. Most came from humble families, all lived far from the centre of... -
Engines That Move Markets: Technology Investing from Railroads to the Internet and Beyond by Alisdair Nairn
RRP: $64.49$56.44Engines That Move Markets is a comprehensive history of market-shaping industries and their impact on how we invest today. Now in its second edition, this modern investing classic highlights the history of industrial development and its impact on... -
Frank Pantridge MC: Japanese Prisoner of War and Inventor of the Portable Defibrillator Cecil Lowry 9781399002929
RRP: $19.34$14.13Countless thousands of men and women around the world have good reason to be thankful that Frank Pantridge survived three and a half years of brutal Japanese captivity. Had he not, they too would in all probability have died too. Taken prisoner at the... -
Innovation: A Very Short Introduction by Mark Dodgson
RRP: $11.60$8.53What is innovation? How is innovation used in business? How can we use it to succeed? Innovation, the ways ideas are made valuable, plays an essential role in economic and social development, and is an increasingly topical issue. Over the last 150... -
Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism by Jillian York
RRP: $21.92$15.58What is the impact of surveillance capitalism on our right to free speech? The Internet once promised to be a place of extraordinary freedom beyond the control of money or politics, but today corporations and platforms exercise more control over our... -
Great Victorian Inventions: Novel Contrivances and Industrial Revolutions by Caroline Rochford
RRP: $14.18$9.35Who invented the flying machine? Was the Titanic really the first 'unsinkable' ship? How would one use a phonoscope? Using old Victorian documents, Caroline Rochford takes the reader on a guided tour of hundreds of fascinating nineteenth-century... -
The Real World of Victorian Steampunk: Steam Planes and Radiophones by Webb, Simon 9781526732859
RRP: $16.76$11.73In the last few decades, steampunk has blossomed from being a rather obscure and little-known subgenre of science fiction into a striking and distinctive style of fashion, art, design and even music. It is in the written word however that steampunk has... -
My Inventions and Other Writings by Nikola Tesla
RRP: $16.76$11.73Nikola Tesla's life is as interesting for his idiosyncrasy as it is for his brilliance. The inventor's mind knew no limits and his incredible sense of possibility rings through his memoir. This authorative volume of My Inventions includes three... -
Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers who Turned the Tide in the Second World War by Paul Kennedy
RRP: $16.76$11.73From Paul Kennedy, author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, one of the most acclaimed history books of recent decades, Engineers of Victory is a new account of how the tide was turned against the Nazis by the Allies in the Second World War. In... -
Cold Fusion Presents: New Thinking: From Einstein to SpaceX, The Technology and Science that Transformed Our World by Dagogo Altraide 9781633537507
RRP: $21.92$15.05#1 New Release in History of Technology, Globalization, and Engineering ColdFusion's New Thinking About Technology and ScienceWhat can history's greatest breakthroughs in science and technology teach us about the future? New Thinking: As each new... -
Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle by Jody Rosen 9781847923073
RRP: $32.25$21.32**SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023** A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twenty-first-century world.'The real feat of this book is that it takes us on a ride-across the... -
Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure by Vaclav Smil
RRP: $29.67$19.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048057Author Vaclav SmilFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts by Silvia Ferrara 9781529064780
RRP: $14.18$9.18'Ferrara's book is an introduction to writing as a process of revelation, but it's also a celebration of these things still undeciphered, and many other tantalising mysteries besides.' - The SpectatorThis book tells the story of our greatest invention... -
It Began with Babbage: The Genesis of Computer Science by Subrata Dasgupta 9780199309412
RRP: $61.91$45.94As a field, computer science occupies a unique scientific space, in that its subject matter can exist in both physical and abstract realms. An artifact such as software is both tangible and not, and must be classified as something in between, or...