The Brain

Joanna Stern

What happens when intelligent machines aren't just in our pockets but are also driving our cars, making our decisions, folding our laundry, and educating our kids? You've heard the hype: AI will make us healthier, give every child a personalized tutor, run our businesses more efficiently, return hours of free time to our overworked brains, and make discoveries previously unima...

Gee, Henry

'Brilliant' - The Times 'Hugely informative and entertaining' - New Scientist 'Put this at the head of your reading lists immediately' - Eric Idle From the winner of the 2022 Royal Society Science Book Prize, a thrilling and thought-provoking account of the rise and fall of humankind. For the first time in over ten millennia, the rate of human population growth is slowing d...

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...

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...