Within the next five years, Jeremy Kahn predicts, AI will disrupt almost every industry and enterprise, with vastly increased efficiency and productivity. It will restructure the workforce, making AI copilots a must for every knowledge worker. It will revamp education, meaning children around the world can have personal, portable tutors. It will revolutionize health care, making individualized,…
In The Math of Life and Death , Yates takes us on a “dizzying, dazzling” ( Nature ) tour of everyday situations and grand-scale applications of mathematical concepts, including exponential growth and decay, optimization, statistics and probability, and number systems. Along the way he reveals the mathematical undersides of controversies over DNA testing, Ponzi schemes, viral marketing, and …
365 CURIOUS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS " IS YOUR DAILY DOSE OF SURPRISING FACTS. IT OFFERS ONE SMART QUESTION, ONE SHARP ANSWER, EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR. FROM SPACE AND THE HUMAN BODY TO NATURE AND TECHNOLOGY, THIS SERIES UNCOVERS FASCINATING INFORMATION THAT WILL AMAZE READERS OF ALL AGES. EASY TO READ, HARD TO FORGET, THIS SERIES IS PERFECT TO KEEP YOUR CURIOSITY THRIVING.
In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical - and accessible plan how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe.
A gorgeous children's activity series that explores a wide range of artists' work while encouraging children to develop their own skills and techniques, Get into Art! is perfect for active young artists of all abilities. Art projects are varied, intriguing and clearly explained and will act as a springboard for plenty of artistic experiments. Readers can combine their practical activity and cre…
Where in the world do bananas grow? How are fish and seafood caught? What happens to milk before we drink it? Lift the flaps to find out the answers to questions about how the food you eat is grown, raised and processed. Many people aren't quite sure where their food comes from and this fascinating book is packed with amazing facts that brings food production to life! Informative and entertaini…
The well-known "a bee in a cathedral" analogy describes the size of an atom and its nucleus in understandable terms. The analogy goes that if an atom were expanded to the size of a cathedral, the nucleus would be only about the size of a bee. The Big Book of Science uses analogies to demonstrate 100 basic scientific truths and principles in new and exciting ways, describing the unbelievably …
The threat to liberal democracy isn't just autocrats - it's a lack of effective action by so-called progressives. We have the means to build an equitable world without hunger, fuelled by clean energy. Instead, we have a politics driven by scarcity, lives defined by unaffordability and public institutions that no longer deliver on big ideas. It's time for change. Bestselling authors Ezra K…