In twenty-one bite-sized lessons, Yuval Noah Harari explores what it means to be human in an age of bewilderment.
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In the classic Women Who Run With The Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes tells us about the 'wild woman', the wise and ageless presence in the female psyche that gives women their creativity, energy and
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We are used to thinking of computers as being a step up from calculators - very good at storing information, and maybe even at playing a logical game like chess. But up to now they haven't been able
Długookresowe strategie już nie działają – stawia tezę Nassim Nicholas Taleb. W dzisiejszym świecie przeważa to, co nieznane, przypadkowe i zmienne. Jak przetrwać w tej niepewności, oswoić nieoblicza
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Imagine a setting in which a man wearing a dress might be as habitual as a woman in trousers. Where a woman exposing herself in public wasn
We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and
Our everyday lives are filled with a massive flow of information that we must interpret in order to understand the world we live in. Considering the complex variety of data floating around us, someti
We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinary contrap
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What is artificial intelligence (AI)? How does AI affect death matters and the digital beyond? How are death and dying handled in our digital age?
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In Rutherford and Fry’s comprehensive guidebook, they tell the complete story of the universe and absolutely everything in it – skipping over some of the boring parts. This is a celebration of the we
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A lively and accessible book for teens on the history, pioneers, theories, questions, arguments, and daily reality of feminism today.
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A pioneer of artificial intelligence shows how the study of causality revolutionized science and the world
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"Civilization rests on a series of successful conversations." Sam Harris
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