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Big Data by Timandra Harkness
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $14.01What is Big Data, and why should you care? Big data knows where you've been and who your friends are. It knows what you like and what makes you angry. It can predict what you'll buy, where you'll... -
Quantum Computing (WIRED guides): How It Works and How It Could Change the World by Amit Katwala
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.81Quantum computing has been hailed as a technological game-changer. But what precisely is it and what is its true potential?In this superbly insightful, one-stop guide WIRED journalist Amit Katwala... -
The Age of Unreason: What happens when emotion trumps facts by Rachael Jolley 9781526476395
Booksplease Price: $14.78In this issue, we ask whether we are letting our emotions cloud our judgement when we weigh up decisions and if this is anything new. Has the world become more unreasonable? Writers including Julian... -
Intact: A Defence of the Unmodified Body by Clare Chambers 9780141992501
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91'A must-read for psychotherapists, doctors and everyone else who enjoys connecting ideas' Philippa Perry'Compassionate and challenging, warmly human and coolly rigorous. . . I am now thinking afresh... -
Unlocked: The Real Science of Screen Time (and how to spend it better) Pete Etchells 9780349432946
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35'A welcome counterpoint to the technopanic that screen time is causing a mental health crisis' Bruce Hood'A rare mix of trustworthy science, practical advice, and human stories ... I'm going to... -
Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe by Hugo Mercier 9780691208923
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.10Why people are not as gullible as we thinkNot Born Yesterday explains how we decide who we can trust and what we should believe-and argues that we're pretty good at making these decisions. In this... -
Bring Back the King: The New Science of De-extinction by Helen Pilcher 9781472912275
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.74If you could bring back just one animal from the past, what would you choose? It can be anyone or anything from history, from the King of the Dinosaurs, T. rex, to the King of Rock 'n' Roll, Elvis... -
Outnumbered: From Facebook and Google to Fake News and Filter-bubbles - The Algorithms That Control Our Lives David Sumpter 9781472947413
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.98'Fascinating' - Financial Times Algorithms are running our society, and as the Cambridge Analytica story has revealed, we don't really know what they are up to. Our increasing reliance on...