Everything Conceivable
How the Science of Assisted Reproduction Is Changing Our World
Written by Liza Mundy
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $15.95
Award-winning journalist Liza Mundy captures the human narratives, as well as the science, behind the controversial, multibillion-dollar fertility industry, and examines how this huge social experiment is transforming our most basic relationships and even our destiny as a species.
Skyrocketing infertility rates and dizzying technological advances are revolutionizing American families and changing...
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Flesh and Machines
How Robots Will Change Us
Written by Rodney Brooks
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: February 4, 2003
Price: $14.00
Are we really on the brink of having robots to mop our floors, do our dishes, mow our lawns, and clean our windows? And are researchers that close to creating robots that can think, feel, repair themselves, and even reproduce?
Rodney A. Brooks, director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory believes...
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Flesh and Machines
How Robots Will Change Us
Written by Rodney Brooks
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 9, 2002
Price: $14.00
Flesh and Machines explores the startlingly reciprocal connection between humans and their technological brethren, and explains how this relationship is being redefined as humans develop increasingly complex machines. The impetus to build machines that exhibit lifelike behaviors stretches back centuries, but for the last fifteen years much of this work has...
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Faster
The Acceleration of Just About Everything
Written by James Gleick
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: September 5, 2000
Price: $14.00
From the bestselling, National Book Award-nominated auhtor of
Genius and
Chaos, a bracing new work about the accelerating pace of change in today's world.
Most of us suffer some degree of "hurry sickness." a malady that has launched us into the "epoch of the nanosecond," a need-everything-yesterday sphere dominated by cell phones...
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