The Brain

Metzl, Jamie

From a leading futurist and OneShared.World founder, a "brilliant" (Sanjay Gupta) book that explores how artificial intelligence and other revolutionary technologies are transforming our lives-and our future New technologies have the potential to improve our health, feed billions of people, supercharge our economies, store essential information for millions of years, and save ...

Isett, Brian

Interweaving science and storytelling, spirituality and art, a neuroscientist and an artist guide us toward a deeper understanding of how radically interconnected all of life is. A Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview selection! Starting from science, while reaching for spiritual truth, The Forgotten Teachers charts the evolution of life on Earth under the mentorship of six teachers: O...

Nathalie A. Cabrol

One of the world's leading astrobiologists takes us on an awe-inspiring journey across the cosmos to investigate some of humanity's most profound questions: Are we alone in the universe? And how did life on Earth begin?We are in a golden age in astronomy, living on the cusp of breakthroughs that will revolutionize our understanding of our place in the cosmos. Yet a profound que...

Tom Zeller Jr.

"Required reading for anyone with a head."--Mary Roach, New York Times bestselling author of Stiff and FuzzFor the many millions of headache sufferers, a deeply reported, sometimes harrowing, and frequently humorous journey into the author's own excruciating headaches, and the science behind these surprisingly mysterious disorders that may, finally, offer relief. Virtually ever...

Jeremy Kahn

A Fortune magazine journalist draws on his expertise and extensive contacts among the companies and scientists at the forefront of artificial intelligence to offer dramatic predictions of AI's impact over the next decade, from reshaping our economy and the way we work, learn, and create to unknitting our social fabric, jeopardizing our democracy, and fundamentally altering the ...

Tim Smedley

The Times Book of the Year pick‘Smart, sobering, and scholarly. ' - Steve Brusatte, the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of DinosaursA gripping, thought-provoking and ultimately optimistic investigation into the world's next great climate crisis - the scarcity of water.Water scarcity is the next big climate crisis. Water stress - not just scarcity, but also ...

Eagleman, David

Un fascinante viaje a la infinita capacidad de aprendizaje, remodelación y autorregeneración del cerebro.El cerebro y sus misterios, el cerebro y sus maravillas. David Eagleman, prestigioso neurocientífico y profesor de la Universidad de Stanford, nos ofrece en este libro una nueva exploración sobre este órgano: un recorrido fascinante en torno a la plasticidad del cerebro, cap...

Eagleman, David

Si la mente consciente ?la parte que consideramos nuestro «yo»? no es más que la punta del iceberg, ¿qué es lo que hace, entretanto, el resto?En su nuevo libro, brillante y provocativo, David Eagleman, un reconocido científico que trabaja en el campo de las neurociencias, navega por las profundidades del cerebro subconsciente para iluminar misterios soprendentes: ¿por qué nuest...

Eagleman, David

Después de desentrañarnos «las vidas secretas del cerebro» en su libro anterior, Incógnito, David Eagleman, uno de los más reconocidos neurocientíficos de la actualidad, vuelve a sorprendernos con esta nueva exploración de la ciencia?del cerebro, esa extraña materia computacional que hay dentro de nuestro cráneo y que constituye la maquinaria perceptiva mediante la cual nos mov...