On The Origin Of Species (Concise Edition)

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An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance—from a co-founder of the pioneering artificial intelligence company DeepMind"A fascinating, well-written, and important book."—Yuval Noah Harari"Essential reading."—Daniel Kahneman"An excellent guide for navigat...

Brian Merchant

Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the YearThe "rich and gripping" true story of the first time machines came for human jobs—and how the Luddite uprising explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech and AI today (Naomi Klein)The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural England, when workers known as th...

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An intersectional primer for saving the planet: place-based perspectives and community-led tools for fighting climate change—for readers of The Intersectional Environmentalist and All We Can Save"An essential, inspired chorus of voices echoing the urgency of action in the fight against climate change." —Kirkus ReviewsIn Climate Resilience, climate justice and resilience strateg...

Graham Hancock

LEGO® Heroes is a collection of twelve remarkable? stories featuring everyday heroes using the LEGO® system in innovative ways to solve global challenges. Meet twelve visionary builders from around the globe who have turned LEGO® play into life-altering innovations through immense curiosity, creativity, passion, and a handful of LEGO bricks. From a wheelchair for an injured tur...

Stephen Webb

Around the World in 80 Ways offers a (sometimes opinionated) discussion of 80 data-driven maps of our planet. Taken together, the maps tell a story about the physical world; about the impact our species is having on the world; and about how people live in the world - or at least how we lived immediately before the emergence of Covid-19. The maps lie. All maps lie. But the origi...

Michael Inglis

Astrophysics is often -with some justification - regarded as incomprehensible without the use of higher mathematics. Consequently, many amateur astronomers miss out on some of the most fascinating aspects of the subject. Astrophysics Is Easy! cuts through the difficult mathematics and explains the basics of astrophysics in accessible terms. Using nothing more than plain arithme...

Charles Darwin

When the young naturalist Darwin set sail on a round-the-world expedition at the end of 1831, it was only with a vague notion that the relationships between all life forms, both present and extinct, were more complex than the Christian version of the world's creation purported them to be. During his five-year voyage of discovery on board HMS Beagle and more than two decades sub...

Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin (Shrewsbury, Inglaterra, 1809-Kent, Inglaterra, 1882) al publicar su obra EL ORIGEN DE LAS ESPECIES en 1859, presentó su teoría de la evolución mediante la selección natural que, pasados ciento cincuenta años, continúa siendo la base de la interpretación de la naturaleza de la biología moderna. El libro tuvo un gran éxito desde su primera edición, suscitó grandes...

Charles Darwin

These pages include the final edition of Charles Darwin's groundbreaking work that introduced the theory of evolution by means of natural selection.First published in 1859, Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species introduced the scientific theory of evolution by means of natural selection, a revolutionary idea at the time. Fiercely debated on its release, Darwin's famous work ...

Charles Darwin

A doscientos años del nacimiento de Charles Darwin (1809-1882) y ciento cincuenta de la publicación de El origen de las especies (1859), su vigencia continúa siendo extraordinaria: como naturalista, cambió la percepción del mundo, y conmocionó la filosofía de las religiones al eliminar la noción del hombre como ente único y especial, cuestionando así las tranquilas certezas de ...

Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin