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Kluge by Gary Marcus
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A 'kluge' is an engineering term for a makeshift solution, an inelegant construction that somehow works. This is Gary Marcus's analogy for the way the human mind has evolved. Arguing against a whole... -
Guitar Zero by Gary Marcus 9780143122784
Booksplease Price: £18.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143122784Author Gary MarcusPage Count 288Imprint -
Guitar Zero: The Science of Learning to be Musical by Gary Marcus 9781851689620
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.83On the eve of his fortieth birthday, renowned cognitive scientist Gary Marcus decided to fulfil a lifelong dream and learn to play the guitar. He had tried many times before - failing miserably. This... -
Kluge: The Haphazard Evolution of the Human Mind by Gary Marcus 9780547238241
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547238241Author Gary MarcusFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint -
The Future of the Brain: Essays by the World's Leading Neuroscientists by Gary Marcus 9780691258829
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.67The world's top experts take readers to the very frontiers of brain scienceIncludes a chapter by 2014 Nobel laureates May-Britt Moser and Edvard MoserAn unprecedented look at the quest to unravel the... -
Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust by Gary Marcus
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525566045Author Gary MarcusFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint -
Cold War Canada: The Making of a National Insecurity State, 1945-1957 by Gary Marcuse 9780802079503
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £28.18Canadians might expect that a history of Canada's participation in the Cold War would be a self-congratulatory exercise in documenting the liberality and moderation of Canada set against the... -
The Algebraic Mind: Integrating Connectionism and Cognitive Science by Gary F. Marcus 9780262632683
Booksplease Price: £30.21In The Algebraic Mind, Gary Marcus attempts to integrate two theories about how the mind works, one that says that the mind is a computer-like manipulator of symbols, and another that says that the... -
Music Cognition: The Basics by Henkjan Honing
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.38Why do people attach importance to the wordless language we call music? Music Cognition: The Basics considers the role of our cognitive functions, such as perception, memory, attention, and... -
The Great Brain Debate: Nature or Nurture? by John E. Dowling 9780691133102
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Whether our personality, intelligence, and behavior are more likely to be shaped by our environment or our genetic coding is not simply an idle question for today's researchers. There are tremendous... -
Child Language Acquisition: Contrasting Theoretical Approaches by Ben Ambridge 9780521768047
Booksplease Price: £95.79Is children's language acquisition based on innate linguistic structures or built from cognitive and communicative skills? This book summarises the major theoretical debates in all of the core... -
More than Nature Needs: Language, Mind, and Evolution by Derek Bickerton 9780674724907
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £30.56The human mind is an unlikely evolutionary adaptation. How did humans acquire cognitive capacities far more powerful than anything a hunting-and-gathering primate needed to survive? Alfred Russel... -
The Myth of Mirror Neurons: The Real Neuroscience of Communication and Cognition by Gregory Hickok 9780393089615
RRP: £37.50Booksplease Price: £34.26In The Myth of Mirror Neurons, neuroscientist Gregory Hickok re-examines the mirror neuron story and finds that it is built on a tenuous foundation-a pair of co-dependent assumptions about mirror... -
Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World by Parmy Olson 9781035038244
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Winner of the Financial Times Business Book of the Year AwardUpdated edition with a new preface from the author.The astonishing story of the people fighting to control the future of generative... -
Architects of Intelligence: The truth about AI from the people building it by Martin Ford 9781789954531
Booksplease Price: £32.32Book DescriptionHow will AI evolve and what major innovations are on the horizon? What will its impact be on the job market, economy, and society? What is the path toward human-level machine... -
The Architecture of the Mind: Massive Modularity and the Flexibility of Thought by Peter Carruthers 9780199207077
Booksplease Price: £56.00This book is a comprehensive development and defense of one of the guiding assumptions of evolutionary psychology: that the human mind is composed of a large number of semi-independent modules. The... -
Architects of Intelligence: The truth about AI from the people building it by Martin Ford 9781789131512
Booksplease Price: £19.99Financial Times Best Books of the Year 2018TechRepublic Top Books Every Techie Should ReadBook DescriptionHow will AI evolve and what major innovations are on the horizon? What will its impact be on... -
How Can the Human Mind Occur in the Physical Universe? by John R. Anderson 9780195324259
Booksplease Price: £77.80"The question for me is how can the human mind occur in the physical universe? We now know that the world is governed by physics. We now understand the way biology nestles comfortably within that... -
Taming Silicon Valley: How to Protect Our Jobs, Safety, and Society in the Age of AI Gary F. Marcus 9780262551069
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38How Big Tech is taking advantage of us, how AI is making it worse, and how we can create a thriving, AI-positive world. On balance, will AI help humanity or harm it? AI could revolutionize science,... -
Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience by Sally L. Satel
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.86What can't neuroscience tell us about ourselves? Since fMRI,functional magnetic resonance imaging,was introduced in the early 1990s, brain scans have been used to help politicians understand and... -
The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock 'n' Roll by Ian S. Port 9781501141737
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.35"A hot-rod joy ride through mid-20th-century American history" (The New York Times Book Review), this one-of-a-kind narrative masterfully recreates the rivalry between the two men who innovated the...