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Focusing on the entanglement of art technology and culture The Quantum Revolution illuminates the contemporary scientific imagination as a new way of understanding everyday life

The story of the artistic collaboration between the originators of the ecosex movement their diverse communities and the Earth What s sexy about saving the planet Funny you should ask Because that is precisely or perhaps broadly what Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens have spent many years bringing to light in their live art exhibitions and films In 2008 Sprinkle and Stephens married the Earth which set them on the path to explore the realms of ecosexuality as they became lovers with the Earth and made their mutual pleasure an embodied expression of passion for the environment Ever since they have been not just pushing but obliterating the boundaries circumscribing biology and ecology creating ecosexual art in their performance of an environmentalism that is feminist queer sensual sexual posthuman materialist exuberant and steeped in humor Assuming the Ecosexual Position tells of childhood moments that pointed to a future of ecosexuality for Annie in her family swimming pool in Los Angeles for Beth savoring forbidden tomatoes from the vine on her grandparents Appalachian farm The book describes how the two came together as lovers and collaborators how they took a stand against homophobia and xenophobia and how this union led to the miraculous

An astonishing tour of the key astronomical events of the past century and of all the accidents and human error involved in our pursuit of asteroids radio waves new stars and alien life Now updated to include a new Afterword A riveting real life Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy Telegraph An enjoyable tour of astronomical discoveries His excellent book is a layman s guide to the surprises Daily Mail Lintott s boundless enthusiasm for everything cosmic makes it hard to put this book away once you start reading BBC Sky at Night Magazine Entertaining and enlightening The Idler The BBC presenter of Sky at Night and Gresham Professor of Astronomy Chris Lintott takes us on an astonishing tour of bizarre accidents big characters and human error to tell the story of some of the most important astronomical events of the past hundred years Our first views of the earliest galaxies were brought to us by the Hubble Space Telescope when it was pointed at absolutely nothing The ice covered Enceladus one of Saturn s nearly one hundred moons was revealed as a

What would dogs ask for if they knew how In the Sunday Times bestseller In Defence of Dogs John Bradshaw an anthropologist at Bristol University who has been at the centre of the latest research into what makes dogs tick gives us the answers Overturning the most common myths about dogs emotions and behaviour this book shows how we should really treat our pets and stands up for dogdom not the wolf in canine clothes not the small furry child not the trophy winner but the real dog who wants to be part of the family and enjoy life mankind s closest friend This is the real science that every dog lover needs to know

Since the dawn of human civilization forests have provided us with food resources and energy The history of human development is also one of forest loss and transformation and yet even in our increasingly urbanized societies we remain surprisingly dependent on forests for a wide range of goods and services Moreover forests still retain a remarkable hold on our environmental values In an era of continuing tropical deforestation and temperate forest resurgence and in the midst of uncertainties of climate and land use changes it is more important than ever to understand what forests are how they contribute to our livelihoods and how they underpin our cultural histories and futures In this Very Short Introduction Jaboury Ghazoul explores our contrasting interactions with forests as well as their origins dynamics and the range of goods and services they provide to human society Ghazoul concludes with an examination of the recent history of deforestation transitions to reforestation and the future outlook for forests particularly in the context of expected climate change 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

Galaxies are the building blocks of the Universe standing like islands in space each is made up of many hundreds of millions of stars in which the chemical elements are made around which planets form and where on at least one of those planets intelligent life has emerged Our own galaxy the Milky Way is just one of several hundred million other galaxies that we can now observe through our telescopes Yet it was only in the 1920s that we realised that there is more to the Universe than the Milky Way and that there were in fact other islands out there In many ways modern astronomy began with this discovery and the story of galaxies is therefore the story of modern astronomy Since then many exciting discoveries have been made about our own galaxy and about those beyond how a supermassive black hole lurks at the centre of every galaxy for example how enormous forces are released when galaxies collide how distant galaxies provide a window on the early Universe and what the formation of young galaxies can tell us about the mysteries of Cold Dark Matter In this Very Short Introduction renowned science writer John Gribbin describes the extraordinary things that astronomers are learning about galaxies and explains how this can shed light on the origins a

Connectome by Sebastian Seung is One of the most eagerly awaited scientific books of the year intellectually exhilarating beautifully written exquisitely precise yet still managing to be inspirational Irish Times What really makes us who we are In this groundbreaking book pioneering neuroscientist Sebastian Seung shows that our identity does not lie in our genes but in the connections between our brain cells our own particular wiring or connectomes Everything about us emotions thoughts memories is encoded in these tangled patterns of neural connections and now Seung and a dedicated team are mapping them in order to uncover the basis of personality explain disorders such as autism and depression and even enable us to upload our brains This book reveals the secrets of the brain showing how our connectome makes each of us uniquely ourselves With the first person flavour of James Watson s Double Helix Connectome gives a sense of the excitement on the cutting edge of neuroscience New Scientist Witty and exceptionally clear beautifully explained the best lay book on brain science I ve ever read Wall Street Journal Seung is about to revolutionise brain science The Times The reader is swept along with his enthusias

An earthquake shatters Haiti and a hurricane slices through Texas We hear that nature runs rampant seeking to destroy us through these natural disasters Science recounts a different story however disasters are not the consequence of natural causes they are the consequence of human choices and decisions We put ourselves in harm s way we fail to take measures which we know would prevent disasters no matter what the environment does This can be both hard to accept and hard to unravel A complex of factors shape disasters They arise from the political processes dictating where and what we build and from social circumstances which create and perpetuate poverty and discrimination They develop from the social preference to blame nature for the damage wrought when in fact events such as earthquakes and storms are entirely commonplace environmental processes We feel the need to fight natural forces to reclaim what we assume is ours and to protect ourselves from what we perceive to be wrath from outside our communities This attitude distracts us from the real causes of disasters humanity s decisions as societies and as individuals It stops us accepting the real solutions to disasters making better decisions This book explores stories of some of our wo

A Crack in Everything is the story of how black holes came in from the cold and took cosmic centre stage As a journalist Marcus Chown interviews many of the scientists who made the key discoveries and as a former physicist he translates the most esoteric of science into everyday language The result is a uniquely engaging page turner that tells one of the great untold stories in modern science What is space What is time Where did the universe come from The answers to mankind s most enduring questions may lie in science s greatest enigma black holes A black hole is a region of space where gravity is so strong that nothing not even light can escape This can occur when a star approaches the end of its life Unable to generate enough heat to maintain its outer layers it shrinks catastrophically down to an infinitely dense point When this phenomenon was first proposed in 1916 it defied scientific understanding so much that Albert Einstein dismissed it as too ridiculous to be true But scientists have since proven otherwise In 1971 Paul Murdin and Louise Webster discovered the first black hole Cygnus X 1 Later in the 1990s astronomers found that not only do black holes exist supermassive black holes lie at the heart of almost every galaxy It would

A brand new and updated edition for 2024 including the latest insights on diet and weight management drugs gene editing cancer testing anti ageing ultra processed foods and much more Professor Tim Spector number one bestselling author of SPOON FED and FOOD FOR LIFE reveals the astonishing new science that is changing everything we thought we knew about genes and identity Since the discovery of DNA scientists have believed that genes are fixed entities that cannot be changed by environment Spector s pioneering epigenetics studies and the latest genetic research show that our genes are more like plastic able to change shape and evolve and these changes can be passed on to future generations This dazzling guide to the hidden world of our genes will make you rethink everything from sexuality to religion cancer to autism politics to pubic hair clones to bacteria and what it is that makes us all so unique and quintessentially human Tim Spector s book turns genetics on its head Lucid surprising and with a very human face It brings epigenetics alive It is a great read Michael Mosley

Everything you need to know about the most cutting edge theories in biology

Creation by Adam Rutherford tells the entire spellbinding story of life in two gripping narratives Prepare to be astounded There are moments when this book is so gripping it reads like a thriller Mail on Sunday The Origin of Life is a four billion year detective story that uses the latest science to explain what life is and where it first came from offering answers to the very grandest of questions before arriving at a thrilling solution A superbly written explanation Brian Cox This same science has led to a technological revolution the ability to create entirely new life forms within the lab known as synthetic biology The Future of Life introduces these remarkable innovations explains how they work and presents a powerful argument for their benefit to humankind The reader s sense of awe at the well nigh inconceivable nature of nature is suitably awakened The extraordinary science and Rutherford s argument are worth every reader s scrutiny Fascinating Sunday Telegraph One of the most eloquent and genuinely thoughtful books on science over the past decade You will not find a better more balanced or up to date take on the origin of life or synthetic biology Essential reading for anyone interested in the coming revolution which could inde

Rule of the Robots explores the future implications of artificial intelligence as a uniquely scalable and potentially disruptive technology

Real science can be far stranger than science fiction and much more satisfying Will artificial intelligence outsmart us Is there other intelligent life in the universe Throughout his extraordinary career Stephen Hawking expanded our understanding of the universe and unravelled some of its greatest mysteries Will Artificial Intelligence Outsmart Us considers the threat of artificial super intelligence as well as the likelihood of intelligent life beyond our planet Modest profound and sometimes very funny Sunday Times Brief Answers Big Questions this stunning paperback series offers electrifying essays from one of the greatest minds of our age taken from the original text of the No 1 bestselling Brief Answers to the Big Questions

Brilliant and fundamental this is the necessary book about our prime global emergency Ian McEwan The news is full of hotly debated and divergent claims about the impacts and risks of climate change Lawrence Krauss one of the world s most respected physicists and science popularizers cuts through the confusion by succinctly presenting the underlying science of climate change The Physics of Climate Change provides a clear accurate and accessible perspective on climate science and the risks of global inaction Krauss s narrative explores the history of how scientists progressed to our current understanding of the Earth s climate and its future Its generous complement of informative diagrams and illustrations allows readers to assess which climate predictions are securely based on analysis of empirical data and which are more speculative The Physics of Climate Change is required reading for anyone interested in understanding humanity s role in the future of our planet

La presente colección, que pretende resultar útil tanto a los estudiantes universitarios como al público interesado en el desarrollo del fenómeno histórico- científico, se presenta en conjunto como un panorama general de la Ciencia desde la prehistoria hasta nuestro tiempo, relacionando de manera significativa los avances cientificos y tecnologico con el desarrollo social, historico y cultural de las civilizaciones en que se produjeron. La obra, profusamente ilustrada y acompañada de textos, graficos, documentos originales, bibliografias y cronologias, ha sido realizada por profesores universitarios, todos ellos destacados investigadores, aunando el imprescindible rigor cientifico con la claridad expositiva y metodologica necesarias para posibilitar su utilizacion por los lectores.

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