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Togetherness
Symbiosis and the Hidden Story of Life’s Greatest Collaborations
AvRowan Hooper
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
266 kr
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Change the way you see the world - and our place in it'Absolutely enthralling' BILL BRYSON'Stunning' GUARDIAN'Beautifully written and meticulously researched . . . Vivid and powerful' RICHARD DAWKINS'The revelations in this book made me rethink the world' CHRIS PACKHAMFrom evolution to capitalism, ‘survival of the fittest’ has shaped our view of the world. But we got it wrong – and our mistake has brought us to the brink.For the history of life on Earth is much more than a story of competition. The natural world has been forged and sustained by small miracles of co-operation between animals and plants, insects and fungi, fish and bacteria – these partnerships are ubiquitous, lifelong and an essential guide for a better future.In Togetherness, Rowan Hooper reveals the intimate connectedness of nature through these remarkable stories of symbiosis. From the female wasp venturing deep inside a fig and the intricate relationship between corals and the algae that sustain them to the symbiotic gut microbes that influence our moods, he explores how co-operation is fundamental to life itself and to protecting our shared future.Togetherness will change the way you see the world, our place in it and our obligation to its hidden wonders.
Empire of AI
Inside the reckless race for total domination
AvKaren Hao
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
3,7 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(3)
147 kr
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A New York Times and Sunday Times BestsellerWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award 2025Longlisted for the 2025 Financial Times & Schroders Business Book of the YearShortlisted for Foyles Non Fiction Book of the Year 2025An eye-opening account of the tech arms race shaping out planet, from an award-winning journalist and AI insider to the world of Sam Altman and OpenAIWhen longtime AI expert and journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought they were the good guys. Founded as a nonprofit with safety enshrined as its core mission, it was meant, its leader Sam Altman told us, to act as a check against more purely market forces.But the core truth of this massively disruptive sector is that it requires an unprecedented amount of proprietary resources: the ‘compute’ power of scarce high-end chips, the sheer volume of data that needs to be amassed at scale, the humans on the ground ‘cleaning it up’ for sweatshop wages throughout the Global South, and a truly alarming spike in the need for energy and water underlying everything. We have entered a new, ominous age of empire with OpenAI setting a breakneck pace, as a small group of the most valuable companies in human history try to chase it down.In exhilarating prose and with unparalleled access to those closest to Sam Altman, Hao recounts the meteoric rise of OpenAI and shows us the sinister impact that this industry is having on society.
Nyhet
Natural Intelligence and the Logic of Consciousness
What It Is, How It Is Made and Why It Matters
AvAntonio Damasio
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
189 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
The age-old mystery of consciousness - our capacity to experience our own existence and have a sense of ourselves - remains unsolved despite the extensive efforts of neurobiologists and philosophers. What if the secret to consciousness lies not in abstract thought, but in the very feelings that pulse beneath our awareness?In this groundbreaking work, renowned neuroscientist Antonio Damasio overturns centuries of thinking about consciousness by demonstrating how it emerges not from the highest functions of the brain but from the humble functions of the nervous system. Damasio shares his cutting-edge research on human neurology and psychology, and explains how brain, mind and body come together to generate consciousness.He explores the profound implications for understanding human creativity, morality and culture - and confronts the existential questions raised by the extraordinary new capabilities of artificial intelligence, in an impassioned defence of human consciousness as a unique force which must be understood and valued if we are to progress as a society.
Nyhet
On the Equality of All Things
Physics and Philosophy
AvCarlo Rovelli
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
214 kr
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The global bestselling superstar ‘poet of physics’ returns with a dazzling philosophical exploration of our place in the universeWhat can we really know about the world around us? Or is there beauty in daring not to know?With clarity and lightness, acclaimed physicist Carlo Rovelli takes us on a journey of enlightenment, to the speculative frontiers of modern physics and the boundaries of thought. There is no fear in testing their limits, he suggests – not least because there may be no final ground to reach.Here Rovelli shows us that electrons and minds, stones and laws, judgements and galaxies are not essentially different in nature from one another, but rather ideas that illuminate each other. Reality, he reveals, is shaped by a continuous play of reflections. From this emerges his visionary insight: the equality of all things.Like the ancient Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi, who dreams he is a butterfly and wakes unsure whether he is Zhuangzi dreaming to be a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming to be Zhuangzi, Rovelli invites us to see reality anew, recognizing that our knowledge is coherent but also uncertain and circular. We are made of the same stuff as the rest of reality – and so we are, in a deep sense, home in the world.
Breath
The New Science of a Lost Art
AvJames Nestor
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(8)
127 kr
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AN UPDATED EDITION OF THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE AS HEARD ON STEVEN BARTLETT'S 'DIARY OF A CEO''Who would have thought something as simple as changing the way we breathe could be so revolutionary for our health, from snoring to allergies to immunity? A fascinating book, full of dazzling revelations' Dr Rangan ChatterjeeThere is nothing more essential to our health and wellbeing than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat 25,000 times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences.In Breath, a book that has changed countless lives, James Nestor travels the world to discover the hidden science behind ancient breathing practices, discovering that if we make even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale, we can:Jump-start athletic performanceReduce anxiety and stress, and boost productivityHalt snoring, allergies, asthma and autoimmune diseaseEase headaches and sinus problemsNone of this should be possible, and yet it is. Drawing on thousands of years of ancient wisdom and cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head.You will never breathe the same again.*Cover and copy may vary*
Immune
A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive - from YouTube's KURZGESAGT IN A NUTSHELL
AvPhilipp Dettmer
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(4)
335 kr
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**The instant Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller from the creator of the wildly popular science YouTube channel, KURZGESAGT - IN A NUTSHELL**A deeply entertaining and fully illustrated dive into the immune system, which will change how you think about your body forever. __________'Reads as if it's a riveting sci-fi novel' TIM URBAN, creator of Wait But WhyYou wake up and feel a tickle in your throat. Your head hurts. You're mildly annoyed as you get the kids ready for school and dress for work yourself. Meanwhile, an utterly epic war is being fought, just below your skin. Millions are fighting and dying for you to be able to complain as you drink your cup of tea and head out the door. So what, exactly, IS your immune system?Second only to the human brain in its complexity, it is one of the oldest and most critical facets of life on Earth. Without it, you would die within days. In Immune, Philipp Dettmer takes readers on a journey through the fortress of the human body and its defences. There is a constant battle of staggering scale raging within us, full of stories of invasion, strategy, defeat, and noble self-sacrifice. In fact, in the time you've been reading this, your immune system has probably identified and eradicated a cancer cell that started to grow in your body.Each chapter delves deeply into an element of the immune system, including defences like antibodies and inflammation as well as threats like viruses, bacteria, allergies and cancer, as Dettmer reveals why boosting your immune system is actually nonsense, how parasites sneak their way past your body's defences, how viruses - including the coronavirus - work, and what goes on in your wounds when you cut yourself.Enlivened by engaging full-colour graphics and immersive descriptions, Immune turns one of the most intricate, interconnected, and confusing subjects - immunology - into a gripping adventure through an astonishing alien landscape.Challenging what you know and think about your own body and how it defends you against all sorts of maladies and how it might also eventually be your own downfall, Immune is a vital and remarkably fun crash course in what is arguably, and increasingly, the most important system in the body.__________'Fast-paced and full of wonder.' SCIENCE'A truly brilliant introduction to the human body's vast system for fighting infections and other threats'JOHN GREEN, bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars
Nexus : en kort historik över informationsnätverk från stenåldern till AI
AvYuval Noah Harari
Häftad, Svenska, 2026
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(2)
239 kr
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”Harari sätter samman världen i en lysande form som väcker engagemang”Telegraph

”En mästerlig berättare”Guardian

”Fängslande… En diagnos och en uppmaning till handling… Om Nexus säljer i närheten av lika bra som Sapiens gjorde, kommer vi att vara något bättre rustade som art att hantera maskinernas uppgång"Observer

”Hararis narrativ är engagerande, och hans inramning är slående originell” The Economist

Ny bok av författaren till världssuccén Sapiens!

De senaste 100 000 årens alla upptäckter, uppfinningar och erövringar har gjort människan enormt mäktig. Ändå befinner vi oss i en existentiell kris. Världen står inför en ekologisk kollaps, mängden desinformation ökar, och vi kastar oss huvudstupa in i AI-ålderns nya informationsnätverk som hotar att förinta oss.

Om vi är så kloka – hur kan vi vara så självdestruktiva? I Nexus skildrar Yuval Noah Harari hur informationsflöden har skapat vår värld och oss själva. Han leder oss från stenåldern genom Bibeln, tidigmoderna häxjakter, stalinism och nazism till vår egen tids populism. Han får oss att begrunda skillnaderna mellan information och sanning, byråkrati och mytologi, vishet och makt. Han utforskar hur historiens samhällen och politiska system på gott och ont använt information för att nå sina mål.Och han ställer den angelägna frågan hur vi ska agera när icke-mänsklig intelligens hotar vår existens.

Information är inte enbart sanningens råmaterial. Inte heller är det uteslutande ett vapen. Nexus utforskar den hoppingivande vägen mellan dessa ytterligheter, och hur den i sin tur kan leda mänskligheten till en ny sorts samhörighet.

”Fantastisk, tankeväckande och så väldigt välargumenterad. Harari ger oss visionen av en snabbt annalkande framtid som är på samma gång spännande och skrämmande. Om det finns en bok jag skulle uppmana alla att läsa – särskilt våra ledare i politiken, företagsvärlden och kulturen – så är det Nexus” Stephen Fry

”Harari bär på ett av vår tid mest anmärkningsvärda intellekt – djärv, originell, lärd, provokativ och förtrollande. Hans senaste bok omtolkar allt från läskunnighet till AI och – liksom alla hans böcker – förändrar i grunden ens syn på världen” Rory Stewart

”Harari har en unik förmåga att förena både historiens mest finkorniga detaljer och dess största megatrender i en enda blick. Denna djupt viktiga bok kommer vid en kritisk tidpunkt då vi alla funderar över AI:s implikationer” Mustafa Suleyman
Calling Bullshit
The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World
AvJevin D. West,Carl T. Bergstrom
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
147 kr
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'A necessary book for our times. But also just great fun' Saul Perlmutter, Nobel LaureateThe world is awash in bullshit, and we're drowning in it. Politicians are unconstrained by facts. Science is conducted by press release. Start-up culture elevates hype to high art. These days, calling bullshit is a noble act.Based on a popular course at the University of Washington, Calling Bullshit gives us the tools to see through the obfuscations, deliberate and careless, that dominate every realm of our lives. In this lively guide, biologist Carl Bergstrom and statistician Jevin West show that calling bullshit is crucial to a properly functioning social group, whether it be a circle of friends, a community of researchers, or the citizens of a nation. Through six rules of thumb, they help us recognize bullshit whenever and wherever we encounter it - even within ourselves - and explain it to a crystal-loving aunt or casually racist grandfather.
Animal Behaviour
A Very Short Introduction
AvTristram D. Wyatt
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
95 kr
How animals behave is crucial to their survival and reproduction. The application of new molecular tools such as DNA fingerprinting and genomics is causing a revolution in the study of animal behaviour, while developments in computing and image analysis allow us to investigate behaviour in ways never previously possible. By combining these with the traditional methods of observation and experiments, we are now learning more about animal behaviour than ever before.In this Very Short Introduction Tristram D. Wyatt discusses how animal behaviour has evolved, how behaviours develop in each individual (considering the interplay of genes, epigenetics, and experience), how we can understand animal societies, and how we can explain collective behaviour such as swirling flocks of starlings. Using lab and field studies from across the whole animal kingdom, he looks at mammals, butterflies, honeybees, fish, and birds, analysing what drives behaviour, and exploring instinct, learning, and culture. Looking more widely at behavioural ecology, he also considers some aspects of human behaviour.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Sapiens
THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER
AvYuval Noah Harari
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
4,7 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(57)
200 kr
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'Interesting and provocative... It gives you a sense of how briefly we've been on this Earth' Barack ObamaWhat makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers, Yuval Noah Harari challenges everything we know about being human.Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it: us.In this bold and provocative book, Yuval Noah Harari explores who we are, how we got here and where we're going.**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**PRAISE FOR SAPIENS:'Jaw-dropping from the first word to the last... It may be the best book I've ever read' Chris Evans'Startling... It changes the way you look at the world' Simon Mayo'I would recommend Sapiens to anyone who's interested in the history and future of our species' Bill GatesOver 2 million copies sold since publication [Nielsen BookScan UK, Circana BookScan US, April 2024]
Tänk om ... : seriösa vetenskapliga svar på absurda hypotetiska frågor
AvRandall Munroe
Pocket, Svenska, 2016
4,3 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(18)
89 kr
INTERNATIONELL BÄSTSÄLJARE UTGIVEN PÅ 30+ SPRÅK Miljontals människor besöker varje vecka xkcd.com för att ta del av Randall Munroes nätserie. Munroes streckgubbar som funderar på vetenskap, teknologi, språk och kärlek (bland mycket annat) har blivit omåttligt populära, och lika uppskattade är hans svar på läsarnas mest absurda frågor. Från vilken höjd behöver man släppa en köttbit för att den ska vara färdiggrillad när den når marken? Kan man använda uppochnervända kulsprutor som en jetpack? Går det att bygga en bro av Lego över Atlanten? I jakten på svar använder Munroe avancerade datorsimuleringar, gräver djupt i militära arkiv, pratar med kärnkraftstekniker, analyserar Star Wars-filmerna med ett stoppur, ringer sin mamma och bildgooglar djur. Munroes svar är precisa och underhållande när han förklarar allt ifrån möjligheten att hitta en eventuell själsfrände, till de många hemska sätt du kan dö på om du blandar alla grundämnen. En väldigt kul bok för människor som tycker om vetenskap, filosofi och allting som rör den här stora jorden. Magnus Utvik i Gomorron Sverige "Underbar! Randall Munroe måste vara världens näst roligaste vetenskapskomiker." Jesper Rönndahl, vetenskapskomiker och programledare för Institutet i P3 Randall Munroe var tidigare anställd vid amerikanska NASA. Han fick nyligen en asteroid uppkallad efter sig Munroe 4942 som är stor nog att orsaka en massiv katastrof om den skulle krocka med jorden. Tänk om har blivit en global succé och ges ut i fler än 30 länder.
Behave
The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
AvRobert M Sapolsky
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
4,8 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(4)
145 kr
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Why do human beings behave as they do? 'Awe-inspiring... You will learn more about human nature than in any other book I can think of' Henry Marsh, bestselling author of And Finally.We are capable of savage acts of violence but also spectacular feats of kindness: is one side of our nature destined to win out over the other?Every act of human behaviour has multiple layers of causation, spiralling back seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years, even centuries, right back to the dawn of time and the origins of our species.In the epic sweep of history, how does our biology affect the arc of war and peace, justice and persecution? How have our brains evolved alongside our cultures?This is the exhilarating story of human morality and the science underpinning the biggest question of all: what makes us human?'One of the best scientist-writers of our time' Oliver Sacks
Food for Life
Your Guide to the New Science of Eating Well
AvTim Spector
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
146 kr
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'Life-changing' DAVINA McCALL'A must-read' Dr RUPY AUJLA'Fascinating' NIGELLA LAWSON'Empowering' LIZ EARLE**As seen on Channel 4’s What Not to Eat****THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE FOOD FOR LIFE COOKBOOK**Food For Life is the original guidebook for readers looking to understand the research and science behind eating well. For recipes, please see The Food For Life Cookbook (ISBN: 9781787335233).Food is our greatest ally for good health, but the question of what to eat in the age of ultra-processed food has never seemed so complicated.Drawing on cutting-edge research and personal insights, Professor Tim Spector offers clear answers in this definitive, easy-to-follow guide to the new science of eating well.Empowering and practical, Food for Life is nothing less than a new approach to how to eat - for our health and the health of the planet.‘No fads, no nonsense, just practical, science-based advice on how to eat well’ Daily Mail, Books of the Year'A rigorously academic book that welcomes the layperson with open arms' The Times** A THE TIMES and SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR**** WINNER OF THE FORTNUM & MASON SPECIAL AWARD **Food for Life is the ultimate gift for anyone who wants to eat better and feel better in 2026.Number 1 Sunday Times bestseller, February 2024
En berättelse om Sverige
AvAlasdair Skelton,My Schüldt
Häftad, Svenska, 2025
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(4)
273 kr
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Välkommen till Sverige! Visste du att berg höga som Anderna en gång stod där Stockholm nu ligger? Eller att stora delar av Stockholms skärgård består av förstenad aska från gigantiska urtida vulkaner?
Marken vi går på bär på en lång historia. Idag kan vi stå på uråldrig havsbotten bland vårt lands högsta toppar, eftersom kolossala krafter en gång i tiden har skjutit upp Sveriges fjällkedja och lagt den ovanpå en ännu äldre bergskedja.
I Vättern kan du se stenbumlingar som byggdes av jordens äldsta livsformer och rovdinosaurier i Skåne har efterlämnat fotspår.
Sverige har utsatts för både dödlig kyla och outhärdlig hetta, och berggrunden är naturens klimatstabilisator. Det vet vi tack vare geologin. Vad kan då geologi lära oss om den pågående klimatförändringen?En berättelse om Sverige tar dig med på en resa genom tre miljarder år, där geologiska krafter gång på gång har format landskapet, skapat rikedomar av malm och mineral och lagt grunden för vårt välstånd. Det är både en historielektion i geologisk tid och en hyllning till den mäktiga svenska naturen.

BTJ ger omdömet "Mycket bra"
"[...] Boken är kunnigt och intresseväckande skriven, och rekommenderas för den allmänintresserade, men även för lärare som vill göra exkursioner, eller för sällskap med intresse för – bokstavligt talat – marken de står på. [...]"
Lektör Jens Jakobsson, BTJ-häfte nr 3, 2026
Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum
AvLeonard Susskind,Art Friedman
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(2)
141 kr
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'Quantum mechanics for real. This is the good stuff, the most mysterious aspects of how reality works, set out with crystalline clarity. The place to start' Sean Carroll, physicist, California Institute of Technology, author of The Particle at the End of the UniverseThis is the ultimate practical introduction to quantum mechanics. World-renowned physicist Leonard Susskind and data engineer Art Friedman give you the basic skills you need to tackle this famously difficult topic yourself.They provide clear, lively explanations of basic concepts, introduce the key fields of quantum mechanics and include step-by-step exercises. Making a complex subject 'as simple as possible, but no simpler', this is a practical toolkit for amateur scientists that you won't find anywhere else.
Superintelligence
Paths, Dangers, Strategies
AvNick Bostrom
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(4)
170 kr
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The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer brains. If machine brains one day come to surpass human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become very powerful. As the fate of the gorillas now depends more on us humans than on the gorillas themselves, so the fate of our species then would come to depend on the actions of the machine superintelligence. But we have one advantage: we get to make the first move. Will it be possible to construct a seed AI or otherwise to engineer initial conditions so as to make an intelligence explosion survivable? How could one achieve a controlled detonation? To get closer to an answer to this question, we must make our way through a fascinating landscape of topics and considerations. Read the book and learn about oracles, genies, singletons; about boxing methods, tripwires, and mind crime; about humanity's cosmic endowment and differential technological development; indirect normativity, instrumental convergence, whole brain emulation and technology couplings; Malthusian economics and dystopian evolution; artificial intelligence, and biological cognitive enhancement, and collective intelligence. This profoundly ambitious and original book picks its way carefully through a vast tract of forbiddingly difficult intellectual terrain. Yet the writing is so lucid that it somehow makes it all seem easy. After an utterly engrossing journey that takes us to the frontiers of thinking about the human condition and the future of intelligent life, we find in Nick Bostrom's work nothing less than a reconceptualization of the essential task of our time.
Power of Life
The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
AvJessica Riskin
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
336 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2026“A truly remarkable achievement.” —Jill Lepore“A gorgeous story of human nature and animal behavior—and of the way science itself evolves.” —Dava SobelThe tumultuous life and radical science of a revolutionary thinker, and the history of an idea that changed the worldIn the early nineteenth century, the French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck proposed the first evolutionary theory of life and, with it, a new science: biology. Yet for centuries, evolutionary theorists have endeavored to discredit Lamarck and his theory of self-transforming organisms, rejecting the idea that animals play an active role in shaping their own evolution. In his lifetime, he was mocked by his adversaries and personally insulted by Napoleon. In this virtuosic melding of biography, history, politics, and science, Jessica Riskin sets out to correct the record. Riskin tells the story of Lamarck’s life and work as an intense struggle between rival forces to answer questions that remain foundational to our modern worldview: What is a living being, and what is science?New findings suggest Lamarck’s basic claim was, in many ways, right, and a reconsideration of his life and work is long overdue. Denying the agency of living beings has informed two centuries of eugenic policies and environmental destruction, allowing people to regard the living world as so much raw material to shape and exploit for economic, industrial, and imperial gain.Deeply researched, strikingly original, and beautifully written, The Power of Life shines a much-needed light on an underappreciated biologist whose radical ideas offered a more inclusive, collaborative, and enlightened approach to science.
Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
AvLisa Feldman Barrett
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
136 kr
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'Highly accessible, content-rich and eminently readable . . . Fascinating and informative . . . popular science at its best.' - The ObserverHave you ever wondered why you have a brain? Let renowned neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett, bestselling author of How Emotions Are Made, demystify that big grey blob between your ears . . .In seven short chapters (plus a brief history of how brains evolved), this slim, entertaining, and accessible book reveals mind-expanding lessons from the front lines of neuroscience research. You’ll learn where brains came from, how they’re structured (and why it matters), and how yours works in tandem with other brains to create everything you experience. Along the way, you’ll also learn to dismiss popular myths such as the idea of a 'lizard brain' and the alleged battle between thoughts and emotions, or even between nature and nurture, to determine your behaviour.Sure to intrigue casual readers and scientific veterans alike, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain is full of surprises, humour, and important implications for human nature - a gift of a book about our most complex and crucial organ.'Subtly radical . . . It presents a revelatory model of consciousness that will be completely new to most readers' - The Guardian
Helgoland
The Strange and Beautiful Story of Quantum Physics
AvCarlo Rovelli
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
147 kr
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The instant Sunday Times bestseller -- a beautiful story of rebellion and science'A triumph. . . We are left in a world that is not disenchanted by science, but even more magical' Financial TimesIn June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, had retreated to the treeless, wind-battered island of Helgoland in the North Sea in order to think. Walking all night, by dawn he had wrestled with an idea that would transform the whole of science and our very conception of the world.In Helgoland Carlo Rovelli tells the story of the birth of quantum physics and its bright young founders who were to become some of the most famous Nobel winners in science. It is a celebration of youthful rebellion and intellectual revolution. An invitation to a magical place.Here Rovelli illuminates competing interpretations of this science and offers his own original view, describing the world we touch as a fabric woven by relations. Where we, as every other thing around us, exist in our interactions with one another, in a never-ending game of mirrors.A dazzling work from a celebrated scientist and master storyteller, Helgoland transports us to dizzying heights, reminding us of the many pleasures of the life of the mind.Translated by Erica Segre and Simon CarnellChosen as a Book of the Year by The Times, Financial Times, Sunday Times, Guardian and ProspectShortlisted for the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize
How to Invent Everything
Rebuild All of Civilization (with 96% fewer catastrophes this time)
AvRyan North
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
267 kr
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***One of BBC Focus magazine's top books of 2018***Get ready to make history better... on the second try.Imagine you are stranded in the past (your time machine has broken) and the only way home is to rebuild civilization yourself. But you need to do it better and faster this time round. In this one amazing book, you will learn How to Invent Everything.Ryan North -- bestselling author, programmer and comic book legend -- provides all the science, engineering, mathematics, art, music, philosophy, facts and figures required for this challenge. Thanks to his detailed blueprint, humanity will mature quickly and efficiently – instead of spending 200,000 years stumbling around in the dark without language, not realising that tying a rock to a string would mean we could navigate the entire world. Or thinking disease was caused by weird smells.Fascinating and hilarious, How To Invent Everything is an epic, deeply researched history of the key technologies that made each stage of human history possible (from writing and farming to buttons and birth control) – and it's as entertaining as a great time-travel novel.So if you’ve ever secretly wondered if you could do history better yourself, now is your chance to find out how.
Order of Time
AvCarlo Rovelli
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
4,6 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(5)
144 kr
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THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLEROne of TIME's Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade'Captivating, fascinating, profoundly beautiful. . . Rovelli is a wonderfully humane, gentle and witty guide for he is as much philosopher and poet as he is a scientist' John Banville'We are time. We are this space, this clearing opened by the traces of memory inside the connections between our neurons. We are memory. We are nostalgia. We are longing for a future that will not come'Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explored its meaning while scientists have found that its structure is different from the simple intuition we have of it. From Boltzmann to quantum theory, from Einstein to loop quantum gravity, our understanding of time has been undergoing radical transformations. Time flows at a different speed in different places, the past and the future differ far less than we might think, and the very notion of the present evaporates in the vast universe.With his extraordinary charm and sense of wonder, bringing together science, philosophy and art, Carlo Rovelli unravels this mystery. Enlightening and consoling, The Order of Time shows that to understand ourselves we need to reflect on time -- and to understand time we need to reflect on ourselves.Translated by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre
Moonwalking with Einstein
The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
AvJoshua Foer
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
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'Be prepared to be amazed' GuardianCan anyone get a perfect memory?Joshua Foer used to be like most of us, forgetting phone numbers and mislaying keys. Then he learnt the art of memory training, and a year later found himself in the finals of the US Memory Championship. He also discovered a truth we often forget: that, even in an age of technology, memory is the key to everything we are.In Moonwalking with Einstein he takes us on an astonishing journey through the mind, from ancient 'memory palace' techniques to neuroscience, from the man who can recall nine thousand books to another who constantly forgets who he is. In doing so, Foer shows how we can all improve our memories.'Captivating ... engaging ... smart and funny' The New York Times'Delightful ... uplifting ... it shows that our minds can do extraordinary things' Wall Street Journal'Great fun ... a book worth remembering' Independent'A lovely exploration of the ways that we preserve our lives and our world in the golden amber of human memory' New Scientist
Del 5 - Bryson
Short History of Nearly Everything
AvBill Bryson
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
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The ultimate eye-opening journey through time and space, A Short History of Nearly Everything is the biggest-selling popular science book of the 21st century and has sold over 2 million copies.'Possibly the best scientific primer ever published.' Economist'Truly impressive...It's hard to imagine a better rough guide to science.' Guardian'A travelogue of science, with a witty, engaging, and well-informed guide' The TimesBill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us.Bill Bryson's challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, like geology, chemistry and particle physics, and see if there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science. As a result, A Short History of Nearly Everything reveals the world in a way most of us have never seen it before.
Min europeiska familj : de senaste 54 000 åren
AvKarin Bojs
Ljudbok
Svenska, 2017
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(22)
99 kr
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Vinnare av Augustpriset 2015 och utnämnd till "Årets bok om svensk historia 2015" av Nättidningen Svensk Historia
Vetenskapsjournalisten Karin Bojs bestämde sig för att släktforska på djupet och låta DNA-trådarna knyta ihop henne själv med forntidens människor. Hon läste studier, intervjuade forskare och reste i ett tiotal länder för att följa spåren bakåt. Sedan 1980-talet har DNA-tekniken genomgått en enastående utveckling. Den har revolutionerat såväl kriminalteknikers arbete som biologisk och medicinsk forskning, och har på senare år börjat bidra till ny kunskap inom arkeologi och historia. Till och med släktforskande privatpersoner har börjat använda DNA som verktyg. Med hjälp av små variationer i DNA-sekvensen går det numera att hitta kusiner, sysslingar och bryllingar, och även släktingar som levde för mycket länge sedan – under den senaste istiden och ännu längre tillbaka. Resultatet av Karin Bojs arbete blev en bok om hennes ursprung och hennes familj. Men också om oss andra. Vi är ju släkt. Någonstans, någon gång levde vår senaste gemensamma förmoder och förfader. DNA-trådarna knyter ihop oss alla.
Mind for Numbers
How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)
AvBarbara Oakley
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
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The companion book to COURSERA®'s wildly popular massive open online course "Learning How to Learn"Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarking on a career change that requires a new skill set, A Mind for Numbers offers the tools you need to get a better grasp of that intimidating material. Engineering professor Barbara Oakley knows firsthand how it feels to struggle with math. She flunked her way through high school math and science courses, before enlisting in the army immediately after graduation. When she saw how her lack of mathematical and technical savvy severely limited her options—both to rise in the military and to explore other careers—she returned to school with a newfound determination to re-tool her brain to master the very subjects that had given her so much trouble throughout her entire life.In A Mind for Numbers, Dr. Oakley lets us in on the secrets to learning effectively—secrets that even dedicated and successful students wish they’d known earlier. Contrary to popular belief, math requires creative, as well as analytical, thinking. Most people think that there’s only one way to do a problem, when in actuality, there are often a number of different solutions—you just need the creativity to see them. For example, there are more than three hundred different known proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem. In short, studying a problem in a laser-focused way until you reach a solution is not an effective way to learn. Rather, it involves taking the time to step away from a problem and allow the more relaxed and creative part of the brain to take over. The learning strategies in this book apply not only to math and science, but to any subject in which we struggle. We all have what it takes to excel in areas that don't seem to come naturally to us at first, and learning them does not have to be as painful as we might think.
Tänk om ... 2 : nya vetenskapliga svar på absurda hypotetiska frågor
AvRandall Munroe
Inbunden, Svenska, 2022
141 kr
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Författaren som toppat New York Times bästsäljarlista med böckerna Tänk om och Gör så här levererar nu sina allra bästa svar på de konstigaste frågorna du aldrig tänkt på att ställa.
Miljoner människor över hela världen läste och älskade Tänk om , och de har fler frågor som faktiskt är ännu konstigare. Tack och lov är xkcd-skaparen Randall Munroe tillbaka för att reda ut saker och ting. Funderar du på att glida nerför en stång från månen till jorden? Det svåraste är att sätta landningen. Hoppas du kunna kyla ner atmosfären genom att få alla att öppna sina frysar samtidigt? Då är det nog dags för en kort introduktion till termodynamikens underbara värld. Vill du veta vad som skulle hända om du höll dig fast i rotorbladet på en helikopter, byggde en skyskrapa med en miljard våningar, gjorde en lavalampa av lava eller hoppade ner i en gejser just när den får ett utbrott? Okej, om du envisas så ...
Innan du ger dig ut på en kosmisk roadtripp, utfodrar dinosaurier i New York med stadens invånare eller proppar varenda helgedom på hela klotet full med bananer, bör du konsultera den här praktiska guiden för ytterst opraktiska idéer. Oavsett hur absurt det kan börja (eller sluta), bjuder Randall på de senaste forskningsrönen om allt från hur de fysiska lagarna kommer överens med en gungställning till design av flygplanskatapulter, för att klart och koncist svara på läsarnas frågor. Som bonus lär du dig en hel massa när du undersöker hur den vanliga världen fungerar under mycket ovanliga, för att inte säga extrema, omständigheter.
Fylld med galen vetenskap, gränslös nyfikenhet och Randalls karaktäristiska streckgubbar kommer Tänk om 2 lika säkert som naturlagarna att blixtsnabbt bli en klassiker som älskas av nyfikna läsare i alla åldrar.
Läsa liv : biografin, en levnadsteckning
AvIngrid Elam
Inbunden, Svenska, 2026
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
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Vår nyfikenhet på andra är gränslös. Det kan förklara varför aptiten på biografier aldrig tycks mättas. Några av världens äldsta texter är biografier. Men till en början handlade det inte om att stilla nyfikenhet, utan om helt andra syften.
Ingrid Elam, som aldrig riktigt ryckts med i biografislukandet, har nu fallit till föga och gjort en djupdykning i historiens lager för att försöka förstå vilka drivkrafter som funnits bakom att läsa liv. Vilka har bevärdigats biografier? Kan en person få två helt olika, men lika sanna, biografier? Vem ska anses vara auktoriteten på en annans liv? Vad avslöjar biografier om tiden och sammanhanget de skrevs i?
På vägen möter hon så vitt skilda personer som Jesus, drottning Kristina, Adolf Hitler, Zelda Fitzgerald, Booker T. Washington, Taylor Swift och Zlatan Ibrahimović. "Elam förmedlar kunskap med stil"Göteborgs-Posten"Ingrid Elam lyfter blicken från detaljerna, skönjer mönster och drar slutsatser. Det är modigt och spännande."Dagens Nyheter"Lärd och roande djupdykning i biografins fostrande värld."Uppsala Nya tidning"Det höga kunskapsinnehållet förmedlas med en smittande läsglädje som väcker nyfikenhet"BTJ Helhetsbetyg 5/5
How to Solve It
A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
AvGeorge Polya
Häftad, Engelska, 1990
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The definitive guide to mathematical problem solving, from one of the great teachers of the twentieth centuryGeorge Pólya's perennial bestseller has inspired generations around the world to think more clearly. Brilliantly showing how 'there is a grain of discovery in the solution of any problem', his strategies for mathematical problem-solving - from finding weak points to squeezing the data - will help get to the bottom of any puzzle.'A superb book on how to think fresh thoughts ... A walk inside Pólya's mind as he builds up maxims on how to comprehend a problem, how to build up a strategy, and then how to test it' David Bodanis, Guardian'Everyone should know the work of George Polya on how to solve problems' Marvin Minsky'A classic ... It is the outcome of careful and informed deliberation by one of the great teachers among the ranks of research mathematicians' Ian Stewart, author of Does God Play Dice?'Every prospective teacher should read it' E. T. Bell
Book of Why
The New Science of Cause and Effect
AvJudea Pearl,Dana Mackenzie
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
3,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(2)
147 kr
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The hugely influential book on how the understanding of causality revolutionized science and the world, by the pioneer of artificial intelligence'Wonderful ... illuminating and fun to read' Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize-winner and author of Thinking, Fast and Slow'Correlation does not imply causation.' For decades, this mantra was invoked by scientists in order to avoid taking positions as to whether one thing caused another, such as smoking and cancer, or carbon dioxide and global warming. But today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, sparked by world-renowned computer scientist Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion and placed cause and effect on a firm scientific basis. Now, Pearl and science journalist Dana Mackenzie explain causal thinking to general readers for the first time, showing how it allows us to explore the world that is and the worlds that could have been. It is the essence of human and artificial intelligence. And just as Pearl's discoveries have enabled machines to think better, The Book of Why explains how we too can think better.'Pearl's accomplishments over the last 30 years have provided the theoretical basis for progress in artificial intelligence and have redefined the term "thinking machine"' Vint Cerf
Something Deeply Hidden
Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
AvSean Carroll
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
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Quantum physics is not mystifying. The implications are mind-bending, and not yet fully understood, but this revolutionary theory is truly illuminating. It stands as the best explanation of the fundamental nature of our world.‘An authoritative and beautifully written account of the quest to understand quantum theory and the origin of space and time.’ Professor Brian Cox Spanning the history of quantum discoveries, from Einstein and Bohr to the present day, Something Deeply Hidden is the essential guide to the most intriguing subject in science. Acclaimed physicist and writer Sean Carroll debunks the myths, resurrects and reinstates the Many-Worlds interpretation, and presents a new path towards solving the apparent conflict between quantum mechanics and Einstein’s theory of general relativity. In doing so, he fills a gap in the science that has existed for almost a century.A magisterial tour, Something Deeply Hidden encompasses the cosmological and everyday implications of quantum reality and multiple universes. And – finally – it all makes sense.***'Carroll takes us by the hand and with a benign smile and a chatty style, leads us to a place where… at every instant an almost infinite number of copies of you are splitting off to live alternative lives… a wild conceptual ride.' The Sunday Times, BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Like all great writers, Carroll has the remarkable ability of putting the reader utterly at ease with his lucid and addictive prose. He leads you so gently and comfortably into his quantum world that you quickly forget you are being given access to the most profound ideas about the nature of reality.' Jim Al-Khalili'Sean Carroll’s immensely enjoyable Something Deeply Hidden brings readers face-to-face with the fundamental quantum weirdness of the universe – or should I say universes? And by the end, you may catch yourself finding quantum weirdness not all that weird.' Jordan Ellenberg

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Togetherness
Symbiosis and the Hidden Story of Life’s Greatest Collaborations
AvRowan Hooper
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
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Change the way you see the world - and our place in it'Absolutely enthralling' BILL BRYSON'Stunning' GUARDIAN'Beautifully written and meticulously researched . . . Vivid and powerful' RICHARD DAWKINS'The revelations in this book made me rethink the world' CHRIS PACKHAMFrom evolution to capitalism, ‘survival of the fittest’ has shaped our view of the world. But we got it wrong – and our mistake has brought us to the brink.For the history of life on Earth is much more than a story of competition. The natural world has been forged and sustained by small miracles of co-operation between animals and plants, insects and fungi, fish and bacteria – these partnerships are ubiquitous, lifelong and an essential guide for a better future.In Togetherness, Rowan Hooper reveals the intimate connectedness of nature through these remarkable stories of symbiosis. From the female wasp venturing deep inside a fig and the intricate relationship between corals and the algae that sustain them to the symbiotic gut microbes that influence our moods, he explores how co-operation is fundamental to life itself and to protecting our shared future.Togetherness will change the way you see the world, our place in it and our obligation to its hidden wonders.
Empire of AI
Inside the reckless race for total domination
AvKaren Hao
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
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A New York Times and Sunday Times BestsellerWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award 2025Longlisted for the 2025 Financial Times & Schroders Business Book of the YearShortlisted for Foyles Non Fiction Book of the Year 2025An eye-opening account of the tech arms race shaping out planet, from an award-winning journalist and AI insider to the world of Sam Altman and OpenAIWhen longtime AI expert and journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought they were the good guys. Founded as a nonprofit with safety enshrined as its core mission, it was meant, its leader Sam Altman told us, to act as a check against more purely market forces.But the core truth of this massively disruptive sector is that it requires an unprecedented amount of proprietary resources: the ‘compute’ power of scarce high-end chips, the sheer volume of data that needs to be amassed at scale, the humans on the ground ‘cleaning it up’ for sweatshop wages throughout the Global South, and a truly alarming spike in the need for energy and water underlying everything. We have entered a new, ominous age of empire with OpenAI setting a breakneck pace, as a small group of the most valuable companies in human history try to chase it down.In exhilarating prose and with unparalleled access to those closest to Sam Altman, Hao recounts the meteoric rise of OpenAI and shows us the sinister impact that this industry is having on society.
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Natural Intelligence and the Logic of Consciousness
What It Is, How It Is Made and Why It Matters
AvAntonio Damasio
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
189 kr
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The age-old mystery of consciousness - our capacity to experience our own existence and have a sense of ourselves - remains unsolved despite the extensive efforts of neurobiologists and philosophers. What if the secret to consciousness lies not in abstract thought, but in the very feelings that pulse beneath our awareness?In this groundbreaking work, renowned neuroscientist Antonio Damasio overturns centuries of thinking about consciousness by demonstrating how it emerges not from the highest functions of the brain but from the humble functions of the nervous system. Damasio shares his cutting-edge research on human neurology and psychology, and explains how brain, mind and body come together to generate consciousness.He explores the profound implications for understanding human creativity, morality and culture - and confronts the existential questions raised by the extraordinary new capabilities of artificial intelligence, in an impassioned defence of human consciousness as a unique force which must be understood and valued if we are to progress as a society.
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On the Equality of All Things
Physics and Philosophy
AvCarlo Rovelli
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
214 kr
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The global bestselling superstar ‘poet of physics’ returns with a dazzling philosophical exploration of our place in the universeWhat can we really know about the world around us? Or is there beauty in daring not to know?With clarity and lightness, acclaimed physicist Carlo Rovelli takes us on a journey of enlightenment, to the speculative frontiers of modern physics and the boundaries of thought. There is no fear in testing their limits, he suggests – not least because there may be no final ground to reach.Here Rovelli shows us that electrons and minds, stones and laws, judgements and galaxies are not essentially different in nature from one another, but rather ideas that illuminate each other. Reality, he reveals, is shaped by a continuous play of reflections. From this emerges his visionary insight: the equality of all things.Like the ancient Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi, who dreams he is a butterfly and wakes unsure whether he is Zhuangzi dreaming to be a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming to be Zhuangzi, Rovelli invites us to see reality anew, recognizing that our knowledge is coherent but also uncertain and circular. We are made of the same stuff as the rest of reality – and so we are, in a deep sense, home in the world.
Breath
The New Science of a Lost Art
AvJames Nestor
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
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AN UPDATED EDITION OF THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE AS HEARD ON STEVEN BARTLETT'S 'DIARY OF A CEO''Who would have thought something as simple as changing the way we breathe could be so revolutionary for our health, from snoring to allergies to immunity? A fascinating book, full of dazzling revelations' Dr Rangan ChatterjeeThere is nothing more essential to our health and wellbeing than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat 25,000 times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences.In Breath, a book that has changed countless lives, James Nestor travels the world to discover the hidden science behind ancient breathing practices, discovering that if we make even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale, we can:Jump-start athletic performanceReduce anxiety and stress, and boost productivityHalt snoring, allergies, asthma and autoimmune diseaseEase headaches and sinus problemsNone of this should be possible, and yet it is. Drawing on thousands of years of ancient wisdom and cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head.You will never breathe the same again.*Cover and copy may vary*
Immune
A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive - from YouTube's KURZGESAGT IN A NUTSHELL
AvPhilipp Dettmer
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
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**The instant Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller from the creator of the wildly popular science YouTube channel, KURZGESAGT - IN A NUTSHELL**A deeply entertaining and fully illustrated dive into the immune system, which will change how you think about your body forever. __________'Reads as if it's a riveting sci-fi novel' TIM URBAN, creator of Wait But WhyYou wake up and feel a tickle in your throat. Your head hurts. You're mildly annoyed as you get the kids ready for school and dress for work yourself. Meanwhile, an utterly epic war is being fought, just below your skin. Millions are fighting and dying for you to be able to complain as you drink your cup of tea and head out the door. So what, exactly, IS your immune system?Second only to the human brain in its complexity, it is one of the oldest and most critical facets of life on Earth. Without it, you would die within days. In Immune, Philipp Dettmer takes readers on a journey through the fortress of the human body and its defences. There is a constant battle of staggering scale raging within us, full of stories of invasion, strategy, defeat, and noble self-sacrifice. In fact, in the time you've been reading this, your immune system has probably identified and eradicated a cancer cell that started to grow in your body.Each chapter delves deeply into an element of the immune system, including defences like antibodies and inflammation as well as threats like viruses, bacteria, allergies and cancer, as Dettmer reveals why boosting your immune system is actually nonsense, how parasites sneak their way past your body's defences, how viruses - including the coronavirus - work, and what goes on in your wounds when you cut yourself.Enlivened by engaging full-colour graphics and immersive descriptions, Immune turns one of the most intricate, interconnected, and confusing subjects - immunology - into a gripping adventure through an astonishing alien landscape.Challenging what you know and think about your own body and how it defends you against all sorts of maladies and how it might also eventually be your own downfall, Immune is a vital and remarkably fun crash course in what is arguably, and increasingly, the most important system in the body.__________'Fast-paced and full of wonder.' SCIENCE'A truly brilliant introduction to the human body's vast system for fighting infections and other threats'JOHN GREEN, bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars
Nexus : en kort historik över informationsnätverk från stenåldern till AI
AvYuval Noah Harari
Häftad, Svenska, 2026
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239 kr
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”Harari sätter samman världen i en lysande form som väcker engagemang”Telegraph

”En mästerlig berättare”Guardian

”Fängslande… En diagnos och en uppmaning till handling… Om Nexus säljer i närheten av lika bra som Sapiens gjorde, kommer vi att vara något bättre rustade som art att hantera maskinernas uppgång"Observer

”Hararis narrativ är engagerande, och hans inramning är slående originell” The Economist

Ny bok av författaren till världssuccén Sapiens!

De senaste 100 000 årens alla upptäckter, uppfinningar och erövringar har gjort människan enormt mäktig. Ändå befinner vi oss i en existentiell kris. Världen står inför en ekologisk kollaps, mängden desinformation ökar, och vi kastar oss huvudstupa in i AI-ålderns nya informationsnätverk som hotar att förinta oss.

Om vi är så kloka – hur kan vi vara så självdestruktiva? I Nexus skildrar Yuval Noah Harari hur informationsflöden har skapat vår värld och oss själva. Han leder oss från stenåldern genom Bibeln, tidigmoderna häxjakter, stalinism och nazism till vår egen tids populism. Han får oss att begrunda skillnaderna mellan information och sanning, byråkrati och mytologi, vishet och makt. Han utforskar hur historiens samhällen och politiska system på gott och ont använt information för att nå sina mål.Och han ställer den angelägna frågan hur vi ska agera när icke-mänsklig intelligens hotar vår existens.

Information är inte enbart sanningens råmaterial. Inte heller är det uteslutande ett vapen. Nexus utforskar den hoppingivande vägen mellan dessa ytterligheter, och hur den i sin tur kan leda mänskligheten till en ny sorts samhörighet.

”Fantastisk, tankeväckande och så väldigt välargumenterad. Harari ger oss visionen av en snabbt annalkande framtid som är på samma gång spännande och skrämmande. Om det finns en bok jag skulle uppmana alla att läsa – särskilt våra ledare i politiken, företagsvärlden och kulturen – så är det Nexus” Stephen Fry

”Harari bär på ett av vår tid mest anmärkningsvärda intellekt – djärv, originell, lärd, provokativ och förtrollande. Hans senaste bok omtolkar allt från läskunnighet till AI och – liksom alla hans böcker – förändrar i grunden ens syn på världen” Rory Stewart

”Harari har en unik förmåga att förena både historiens mest finkorniga detaljer och dess största megatrender i en enda blick. Denna djupt viktiga bok kommer vid en kritisk tidpunkt då vi alla funderar över AI:s implikationer” Mustafa Suleyman
Calling Bullshit
The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World
AvJevin D. West,Carl T. Bergstrom
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
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'A necessary book for our times. But also just great fun' Saul Perlmutter, Nobel LaureateThe world is awash in bullshit, and we're drowning in it. Politicians are unconstrained by facts. Science is conducted by press release. Start-up culture elevates hype to high art. These days, calling bullshit is a noble act.Based on a popular course at the University of Washington, Calling Bullshit gives us the tools to see through the obfuscations, deliberate and careless, that dominate every realm of our lives. In this lively guide, biologist Carl Bergstrom and statistician Jevin West show that calling bullshit is crucial to a properly functioning social group, whether it be a circle of friends, a community of researchers, or the citizens of a nation. Through six rules of thumb, they help us recognize bullshit whenever and wherever we encounter it - even within ourselves - and explain it to a crystal-loving aunt or casually racist grandfather.
Animal Behaviour
A Very Short Introduction
AvTristram D. Wyatt
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
95 kr
How animals behave is crucial to their survival and reproduction. The application of new molecular tools such as DNA fingerprinting and genomics is causing a revolution in the study of animal behaviour, while developments in computing and image analysis allow us to investigate behaviour in ways never previously possible. By combining these with the traditional methods of observation and experiments, we are now learning more about animal behaviour than ever before.In this Very Short Introduction Tristram D. Wyatt discusses how animal behaviour has evolved, how behaviours develop in each individual (considering the interplay of genes, epigenetics, and experience), how we can understand animal societies, and how we can explain collective behaviour such as swirling flocks of starlings. Using lab and field studies from across the whole animal kingdom, he looks at mammals, butterflies, honeybees, fish, and birds, analysing what drives behaviour, and exploring instinct, learning, and culture. Looking more widely at behavioural ecology, he also considers some aspects of human behaviour.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Sapiens
THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER
AvYuval Noah Harari
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
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200 kr
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'Interesting and provocative... It gives you a sense of how briefly we've been on this Earth' Barack ObamaWhat makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers, Yuval Noah Harari challenges everything we know about being human.Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it: us.In this bold and provocative book, Yuval Noah Harari explores who we are, how we got here and where we're going.**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**PRAISE FOR SAPIENS:'Jaw-dropping from the first word to the last... It may be the best book I've ever read' Chris Evans'Startling... It changes the way you look at the world' Simon Mayo'I would recommend Sapiens to anyone who's interested in the history and future of our species' Bill GatesOver 2 million copies sold since publication [Nielsen BookScan UK, Circana BookScan US, April 2024]
Tänk om ... : seriösa vetenskapliga svar på absurda hypotetiska frågor
AvRandall Munroe
Pocket, Svenska, 2016
4,3 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(18)
89 kr
INTERNATIONELL BÄSTSÄLJARE UTGIVEN PÅ 30+ SPRÅK Miljontals människor besöker varje vecka xkcd.com för att ta del av Randall Munroes nätserie. Munroes streckgubbar som funderar på vetenskap, teknologi, språk och kärlek (bland mycket annat) har blivit omåttligt populära, och lika uppskattade är hans svar på läsarnas mest absurda frågor. Från vilken höjd behöver man släppa en köttbit för att den ska vara färdiggrillad när den når marken? Kan man använda uppochnervända kulsprutor som en jetpack? Går det att bygga en bro av Lego över Atlanten? I jakten på svar använder Munroe avancerade datorsimuleringar, gräver djupt i militära arkiv, pratar med kärnkraftstekniker, analyserar Star Wars-filmerna med ett stoppur, ringer sin mamma och bildgooglar djur. Munroes svar är precisa och underhållande när han förklarar allt ifrån möjligheten att hitta en eventuell själsfrände, till de många hemska sätt du kan dö på om du blandar alla grundämnen. En väldigt kul bok för människor som tycker om vetenskap, filosofi och allting som rör den här stora jorden. Magnus Utvik i Gomorron Sverige "Underbar! Randall Munroe måste vara världens näst roligaste vetenskapskomiker." Jesper Rönndahl, vetenskapskomiker och programledare för Institutet i P3 Randall Munroe var tidigare anställd vid amerikanska NASA. Han fick nyligen en asteroid uppkallad efter sig Munroe 4942 som är stor nog att orsaka en massiv katastrof om den skulle krocka med jorden. Tänk om har blivit en global succé och ges ut i fler än 30 länder.
Behave
The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
AvRobert M Sapolsky
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
4,8 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(4)
145 kr
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Why do human beings behave as they do? 'Awe-inspiring... You will learn more about human nature than in any other book I can think of' Henry Marsh, bestselling author of And Finally.We are capable of savage acts of violence but also spectacular feats of kindness: is one side of our nature destined to win out over the other?Every act of human behaviour has multiple layers of causation, spiralling back seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years, even centuries, right back to the dawn of time and the origins of our species.In the epic sweep of history, how does our biology affect the arc of war and peace, justice and persecution? How have our brains evolved alongside our cultures?This is the exhilarating story of human morality and the science underpinning the biggest question of all: what makes us human?'One of the best scientist-writers of our time' Oliver Sacks
Food for Life
Your Guide to the New Science of Eating Well
AvTim Spector
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
146 kr
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'Life-changing' DAVINA McCALL'A must-read' Dr RUPY AUJLA'Fascinating' NIGELLA LAWSON'Empowering' LIZ EARLE**As seen on Channel 4’s What Not to Eat****THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE FOOD FOR LIFE COOKBOOK**Food For Life is the original guidebook for readers looking to understand the research and science behind eating well. For recipes, please see The Food For Life Cookbook (ISBN: 9781787335233).Food is our greatest ally for good health, but the question of what to eat in the age of ultra-processed food has never seemed so complicated.Drawing on cutting-edge research and personal insights, Professor Tim Spector offers clear answers in this definitive, easy-to-follow guide to the new science of eating well.Empowering and practical, Food for Life is nothing less than a new approach to how to eat - for our health and the health of the planet.‘No fads, no nonsense, just practical, science-based advice on how to eat well’ Daily Mail, Books of the Year'A rigorously academic book that welcomes the layperson with open arms' The Times** A THE TIMES and SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR**** WINNER OF THE FORTNUM & MASON SPECIAL AWARD **Food for Life is the ultimate gift for anyone who wants to eat better and feel better in 2026.Number 1 Sunday Times bestseller, February 2024
En berättelse om Sverige
AvAlasdair Skelton,My Schüldt
Häftad, Svenska, 2025
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(4)
273 kr
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Välkommen till Sverige! Visste du att berg höga som Anderna en gång stod där Stockholm nu ligger? Eller att stora delar av Stockholms skärgård består av förstenad aska från gigantiska urtida vulkaner?
Marken vi går på bär på en lång historia. Idag kan vi stå på uråldrig havsbotten bland vårt lands högsta toppar, eftersom kolossala krafter en gång i tiden har skjutit upp Sveriges fjällkedja och lagt den ovanpå en ännu äldre bergskedja.
I Vättern kan du se stenbumlingar som byggdes av jordens äldsta livsformer och rovdinosaurier i Skåne har efterlämnat fotspår.
Sverige har utsatts för både dödlig kyla och outhärdlig hetta, och berggrunden är naturens klimatstabilisator. Det vet vi tack vare geologin. Vad kan då geologi lära oss om den pågående klimatförändringen?En berättelse om Sverige tar dig med på en resa genom tre miljarder år, där geologiska krafter gång på gång har format landskapet, skapat rikedomar av malm och mineral och lagt grunden för vårt välstånd. Det är både en historielektion i geologisk tid och en hyllning till den mäktiga svenska naturen.

BTJ ger omdömet "Mycket bra"
"[...] Boken är kunnigt och intresseväckande skriven, och rekommenderas för den allmänintresserade, men även för lärare som vill göra exkursioner, eller för sällskap med intresse för – bokstavligt talat – marken de står på. [...]"
Lektör Jens Jakobsson, BTJ-häfte nr 3, 2026
Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum
AvLeonard Susskind,Art Friedman
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(2)
141 kr
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'Quantum mechanics for real. This is the good stuff, the most mysterious aspects of how reality works, set out with crystalline clarity. The place to start' Sean Carroll, physicist, California Institute of Technology, author of The Particle at the End of the UniverseThis is the ultimate practical introduction to quantum mechanics. World-renowned physicist Leonard Susskind and data engineer Art Friedman give you the basic skills you need to tackle this famously difficult topic yourself.They provide clear, lively explanations of basic concepts, introduce the key fields of quantum mechanics and include step-by-step exercises. Making a complex subject 'as simple as possible, but no simpler', this is a practical toolkit for amateur scientists that you won't find anywhere else.
Superintelligence
Paths, Dangers, Strategies
AvNick Bostrom
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(4)
170 kr
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The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer brains. If machine brains one day come to surpass human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become very powerful. As the fate of the gorillas now depends more on us humans than on the gorillas themselves, so the fate of our species then would come to depend on the actions of the machine superintelligence. But we have one advantage: we get to make the first move. Will it be possible to construct a seed AI or otherwise to engineer initial conditions so as to make an intelligence explosion survivable? How could one achieve a controlled detonation? To get closer to an answer to this question, we must make our way through a fascinating landscape of topics and considerations. Read the book and learn about oracles, genies, singletons; about boxing methods, tripwires, and mind crime; about humanity's cosmic endowment and differential technological development; indirect normativity, instrumental convergence, whole brain emulation and technology couplings; Malthusian economics and dystopian evolution; artificial intelligence, and biological cognitive enhancement, and collective intelligence. This profoundly ambitious and original book picks its way carefully through a vast tract of forbiddingly difficult intellectual terrain. Yet the writing is so lucid that it somehow makes it all seem easy. After an utterly engrossing journey that takes us to the frontiers of thinking about the human condition and the future of intelligent life, we find in Nick Bostrom's work nothing less than a reconceptualization of the essential task of our time.
Power of Life
The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
AvJessica Riskin
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
336 kr
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A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2026“A truly remarkable achievement.” —Jill Lepore“A gorgeous story of human nature and animal behavior—and of the way science itself evolves.” —Dava SobelThe tumultuous life and radical science of a revolutionary thinker, and the history of an idea that changed the worldIn the early nineteenth century, the French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck proposed the first evolutionary theory of life and, with it, a new science: biology. Yet for centuries, evolutionary theorists have endeavored to discredit Lamarck and his theory of self-transforming organisms, rejecting the idea that animals play an active role in shaping their own evolution. In his lifetime, he was mocked by his adversaries and personally insulted by Napoleon. In this virtuosic melding of biography, history, politics, and science, Jessica Riskin sets out to correct the record. Riskin tells the story of Lamarck’s life and work as an intense struggle between rival forces to answer questions that remain foundational to our modern worldview: What is a living being, and what is science?New findings suggest Lamarck’s basic claim was, in many ways, right, and a reconsideration of his life and work is long overdue. Denying the agency of living beings has informed two centuries of eugenic policies and environmental destruction, allowing people to regard the living world as so much raw material to shape and exploit for economic, industrial, and imperial gain.Deeply researched, strikingly original, and beautifully written, The Power of Life shines a much-needed light on an underappreciated biologist whose radical ideas offered a more inclusive, collaborative, and enlightened approach to science.
Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
AvLisa Feldman Barrett
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
136 kr
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'Highly accessible, content-rich and eminently readable . . . Fascinating and informative . . . popular science at its best.' - The ObserverHave you ever wondered why you have a brain? Let renowned neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett, bestselling author of How Emotions Are Made, demystify that big grey blob between your ears . . .In seven short chapters (plus a brief history of how brains evolved), this slim, entertaining, and accessible book reveals mind-expanding lessons from the front lines of neuroscience research. You’ll learn where brains came from, how they’re structured (and why it matters), and how yours works in tandem with other brains to create everything you experience. Along the way, you’ll also learn to dismiss popular myths such as the idea of a 'lizard brain' and the alleged battle between thoughts and emotions, or even between nature and nurture, to determine your behaviour.Sure to intrigue casual readers and scientific veterans alike, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain is full of surprises, humour, and important implications for human nature - a gift of a book about our most complex and crucial organ.'Subtly radical . . . It presents a revelatory model of consciousness that will be completely new to most readers' - The Guardian
Helgoland
The Strange and Beautiful Story of Quantum Physics
AvCarlo Rovelli
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
147 kr
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The instant Sunday Times bestseller -- a beautiful story of rebellion and science'A triumph. . . We are left in a world that is not disenchanted by science, but even more magical' Financial TimesIn June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, had retreated to the treeless, wind-battered island of Helgoland in the North Sea in order to think. Walking all night, by dawn he had wrestled with an idea that would transform the whole of science and our very conception of the world.In Helgoland Carlo Rovelli tells the story of the birth of quantum physics and its bright young founders who were to become some of the most famous Nobel winners in science. It is a celebration of youthful rebellion and intellectual revolution. An invitation to a magical place.Here Rovelli illuminates competing interpretations of this science and offers his own original view, describing the world we touch as a fabric woven by relations. Where we, as every other thing around us, exist in our interactions with one another, in a never-ending game of mirrors.A dazzling work from a celebrated scientist and master storyteller, Helgoland transports us to dizzying heights, reminding us of the many pleasures of the life of the mind.Translated by Erica Segre and Simon CarnellChosen as a Book of the Year by The Times, Financial Times, Sunday Times, Guardian and ProspectShortlisted for the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize
How to Invent Everything
Rebuild All of Civilization (with 96% fewer catastrophes this time)
AvRyan North
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
267 kr
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***One of BBC Focus magazine's top books of 2018***Get ready to make history better... on the second try.Imagine you are stranded in the past (your time machine has broken) and the only way home is to rebuild civilization yourself. But you need to do it better and faster this time round. In this one amazing book, you will learn How to Invent Everything.Ryan North -- bestselling author, programmer and comic book legend -- provides all the science, engineering, mathematics, art, music, philosophy, facts and figures required for this challenge. Thanks to his detailed blueprint, humanity will mature quickly and efficiently – instead of spending 200,000 years stumbling around in the dark without language, not realising that tying a rock to a string would mean we could navigate the entire world. Or thinking disease was caused by weird smells.Fascinating and hilarious, How To Invent Everything is an epic, deeply researched history of the key technologies that made each stage of human history possible (from writing and farming to buttons and birth control) – and it's as entertaining as a great time-travel novel.So if you’ve ever secretly wondered if you could do history better yourself, now is your chance to find out how.
Order of Time
AvCarlo Rovelli
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
4,6 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(5)
144 kr
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THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLEROne of TIME's Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade'Captivating, fascinating, profoundly beautiful. . . Rovelli is a wonderfully humane, gentle and witty guide for he is as much philosopher and poet as he is a scientist' John Banville'We are time. We are this space, this clearing opened by the traces of memory inside the connections between our neurons. We are memory. We are nostalgia. We are longing for a future that will not come'Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explored its meaning while scientists have found that its structure is different from the simple intuition we have of it. From Boltzmann to quantum theory, from Einstein to loop quantum gravity, our understanding of time has been undergoing radical transformations. Time flows at a different speed in different places, the past and the future differ far less than we might think, and the very notion of the present evaporates in the vast universe.With his extraordinary charm and sense of wonder, bringing together science, philosophy and art, Carlo Rovelli unravels this mystery. Enlightening and consoling, The Order of Time shows that to understand ourselves we need to reflect on time -- and to understand time we need to reflect on ourselves.Translated by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre
Moonwalking with Einstein
The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
AvJoshua Foer
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(4)
127 kr
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'Be prepared to be amazed' GuardianCan anyone get a perfect memory?Joshua Foer used to be like most of us, forgetting phone numbers and mislaying keys. Then he learnt the art of memory training, and a year later found himself in the finals of the US Memory Championship. He also discovered a truth we often forget: that, even in an age of technology, memory is the key to everything we are.In Moonwalking with Einstein he takes us on an astonishing journey through the mind, from ancient 'memory palace' techniques to neuroscience, from the man who can recall nine thousand books to another who constantly forgets who he is. In doing so, Foer shows how we can all improve our memories.'Captivating ... engaging ... smart and funny' The New York Times'Delightful ... uplifting ... it shows that our minds can do extraordinary things' Wall Street Journal'Great fun ... a book worth remembering' Independent'A lovely exploration of the ways that we preserve our lives and our world in the golden amber of human memory' New Scientist
Del 5 - Bryson
Short History of Nearly Everything
AvBill Bryson
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
4,8 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(4)
142 kr
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The ultimate eye-opening journey through time and space, A Short History of Nearly Everything is the biggest-selling popular science book of the 21st century and has sold over 2 million copies.'Possibly the best scientific primer ever published.' Economist'Truly impressive...It's hard to imagine a better rough guide to science.' Guardian'A travelogue of science, with a witty, engaging, and well-informed guide' The TimesBill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us.Bill Bryson's challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, like geology, chemistry and particle physics, and see if there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science. As a result, A Short History of Nearly Everything reveals the world in a way most of us have never seen it before.
Min europeiska familj : de senaste 54 000 åren
AvKarin Bojs
Ljudbok
Svenska, 2017
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(22)
99 kr
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Vinnare av Augustpriset 2015 och utnämnd till "Årets bok om svensk historia 2015" av Nättidningen Svensk Historia
Vetenskapsjournalisten Karin Bojs bestämde sig för att släktforska på djupet och låta DNA-trådarna knyta ihop henne själv med forntidens människor. Hon läste studier, intervjuade forskare och reste i ett tiotal länder för att följa spåren bakåt. Sedan 1980-talet har DNA-tekniken genomgått en enastående utveckling. Den har revolutionerat såväl kriminalteknikers arbete som biologisk och medicinsk forskning, och har på senare år börjat bidra till ny kunskap inom arkeologi och historia. Till och med släktforskande privatpersoner har börjat använda DNA som verktyg. Med hjälp av små variationer i DNA-sekvensen går det numera att hitta kusiner, sysslingar och bryllingar, och även släktingar som levde för mycket länge sedan – under den senaste istiden och ännu längre tillbaka. Resultatet av Karin Bojs arbete blev en bok om hennes ursprung och hennes familj. Men också om oss andra. Vi är ju släkt. Någonstans, någon gång levde vår senaste gemensamma förmoder och förfader. DNA-trådarna knyter ihop oss alla.
Mind for Numbers
How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)
AvBarbara Oakley
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(3)
187 kr
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The companion book to COURSERA®'s wildly popular massive open online course "Learning How to Learn"Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarking on a career change that requires a new skill set, A Mind for Numbers offers the tools you need to get a better grasp of that intimidating material. Engineering professor Barbara Oakley knows firsthand how it feels to struggle with math. She flunked her way through high school math and science courses, before enlisting in the army immediately after graduation. When she saw how her lack of mathematical and technical savvy severely limited her options—both to rise in the military and to explore other careers—she returned to school with a newfound determination to re-tool her brain to master the very subjects that had given her so much trouble throughout her entire life.In A Mind for Numbers, Dr. Oakley lets us in on the secrets to learning effectively—secrets that even dedicated and successful students wish they’d known earlier. Contrary to popular belief, math requires creative, as well as analytical, thinking. Most people think that there’s only one way to do a problem, when in actuality, there are often a number of different solutions—you just need the creativity to see them. For example, there are more than three hundred different known proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem. In short, studying a problem in a laser-focused way until you reach a solution is not an effective way to learn. Rather, it involves taking the time to step away from a problem and allow the more relaxed and creative part of the brain to take over. The learning strategies in this book apply not only to math and science, but to any subject in which we struggle. We all have what it takes to excel in areas that don't seem to come naturally to us at first, and learning them does not have to be as painful as we might think.
Tänk om ... 2 : nya vetenskapliga svar på absurda hypotetiska frågor
AvRandall Munroe
Inbunden, Svenska, 2022
141 kr
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Författaren som toppat New York Times bästsäljarlista med böckerna Tänk om och Gör så här levererar nu sina allra bästa svar på de konstigaste frågorna du aldrig tänkt på att ställa.
Miljoner människor över hela världen läste och älskade Tänk om , och de har fler frågor som faktiskt är ännu konstigare. Tack och lov är xkcd-skaparen Randall Munroe tillbaka för att reda ut saker och ting. Funderar du på att glida nerför en stång från månen till jorden? Det svåraste är att sätta landningen. Hoppas du kunna kyla ner atmosfären genom att få alla att öppna sina frysar samtidigt? Då är det nog dags för en kort introduktion till termodynamikens underbara värld. Vill du veta vad som skulle hända om du höll dig fast i rotorbladet på en helikopter, byggde en skyskrapa med en miljard våningar, gjorde en lavalampa av lava eller hoppade ner i en gejser just när den får ett utbrott? Okej, om du envisas så ...
Innan du ger dig ut på en kosmisk roadtripp, utfodrar dinosaurier i New York med stadens invånare eller proppar varenda helgedom på hela klotet full med bananer, bör du konsultera den här praktiska guiden för ytterst opraktiska idéer. Oavsett hur absurt det kan börja (eller sluta), bjuder Randall på de senaste forskningsrönen om allt från hur de fysiska lagarna kommer överens med en gungställning till design av flygplanskatapulter, för att klart och koncist svara på läsarnas frågor. Som bonus lär du dig en hel massa när du undersöker hur den vanliga världen fungerar under mycket ovanliga, för att inte säga extrema, omständigheter.
Fylld med galen vetenskap, gränslös nyfikenhet och Randalls karaktäristiska streckgubbar kommer Tänk om 2 lika säkert som naturlagarna att blixtsnabbt bli en klassiker som älskas av nyfikna läsare i alla åldrar.
Läsa liv : biografin, en levnadsteckning
AvIngrid Elam
Inbunden, Svenska, 2026
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
249 kr
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Vår nyfikenhet på andra är gränslös. Det kan förklara varför aptiten på biografier aldrig tycks mättas. Några av världens äldsta texter är biografier. Men till en början handlade det inte om att stilla nyfikenhet, utan om helt andra syften.
Ingrid Elam, som aldrig riktigt ryckts med i biografislukandet, har nu fallit till föga och gjort en djupdykning i historiens lager för att försöka förstå vilka drivkrafter som funnits bakom att läsa liv. Vilka har bevärdigats biografier? Kan en person få två helt olika, men lika sanna, biografier? Vem ska anses vara auktoriteten på en annans liv? Vad avslöjar biografier om tiden och sammanhanget de skrevs i?
På vägen möter hon så vitt skilda personer som Jesus, drottning Kristina, Adolf Hitler, Zelda Fitzgerald, Booker T. Washington, Taylor Swift och Zlatan Ibrahimović. "Elam förmedlar kunskap med stil"Göteborgs-Posten"Ingrid Elam lyfter blicken från detaljerna, skönjer mönster och drar slutsatser. Det är modigt och spännande."Dagens Nyheter"Lärd och roande djupdykning i biografins fostrande värld."Uppsala Nya tidning"Det höga kunskapsinnehållet förmedlas med en smittande läsglädje som väcker nyfikenhet"BTJ Helhetsbetyg 5/5
How to Solve It
A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
AvGeorge Polya
Häftad, Engelska, 1990
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The definitive guide to mathematical problem solving, from one of the great teachers of the twentieth centuryGeorge Pólya's perennial bestseller has inspired generations around the world to think more clearly. Brilliantly showing how 'there is a grain of discovery in the solution of any problem', his strategies for mathematical problem-solving - from finding weak points to squeezing the data - will help get to the bottom of any puzzle.'A superb book on how to think fresh thoughts ... A walk inside Pólya's mind as he builds up maxims on how to comprehend a problem, how to build up a strategy, and then how to test it' David Bodanis, Guardian'Everyone should know the work of George Polya on how to solve problems' Marvin Minsky'A classic ... It is the outcome of careful and informed deliberation by one of the great teachers among the ranks of research mathematicians' Ian Stewart, author of Does God Play Dice?'Every prospective teacher should read it' E. T. Bell
Book of Why
The New Science of Cause and Effect
AvJudea Pearl,Dana Mackenzie
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
3,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(2)
147 kr
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The hugely influential book on how the understanding of causality revolutionized science and the world, by the pioneer of artificial intelligence'Wonderful ... illuminating and fun to read' Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize-winner and author of Thinking, Fast and Slow'Correlation does not imply causation.' For decades, this mantra was invoked by scientists in order to avoid taking positions as to whether one thing caused another, such as smoking and cancer, or carbon dioxide and global warming. But today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, sparked by world-renowned computer scientist Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion and placed cause and effect on a firm scientific basis. Now, Pearl and science journalist Dana Mackenzie explain causal thinking to general readers for the first time, showing how it allows us to explore the world that is and the worlds that could have been. It is the essence of human and artificial intelligence. And just as Pearl's discoveries have enabled machines to think better, The Book of Why explains how we too can think better.'Pearl's accomplishments over the last 30 years have provided the theoretical basis for progress in artificial intelligence and have redefined the term "thinking machine"' Vint Cerf
Something Deeply Hidden
Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
AvSean Carroll
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
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Quantum physics is not mystifying. The implications are mind-bending, and not yet fully understood, but this revolutionary theory is truly illuminating. It stands as the best explanation of the fundamental nature of our world.‘An authoritative and beautifully written account of the quest to understand quantum theory and the origin of space and time.’ Professor Brian Cox Spanning the history of quantum discoveries, from Einstein and Bohr to the present day, Something Deeply Hidden is the essential guide to the most intriguing subject in science. Acclaimed physicist and writer Sean Carroll debunks the myths, resurrects and reinstates the Many-Worlds interpretation, and presents a new path towards solving the apparent conflict between quantum mechanics and Einstein’s theory of general relativity. In doing so, he fills a gap in the science that has existed for almost a century.A magisterial tour, Something Deeply Hidden encompasses the cosmological and everyday implications of quantum reality and multiple universes. And – finally – it all makes sense.***'Carroll takes us by the hand and with a benign smile and a chatty style, leads us to a place where… at every instant an almost infinite number of copies of you are splitting off to live alternative lives… a wild conceptual ride.' The Sunday Times, BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Like all great writers, Carroll has the remarkable ability of putting the reader utterly at ease with his lucid and addictive prose. He leads you so gently and comfortably into his quantum world that you quickly forget you are being given access to the most profound ideas about the nature of reality.' Jim Al-Khalili'Sean Carroll’s immensely enjoyable Something Deeply Hidden brings readers face-to-face with the fundamental quantum weirdness of the universe – or should I say universes? And by the end, you may catch yourself finding quantum weirdness not all that weird.' Jordan Ellenberg

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