*An Economist, Financial Times, Guardian, Prospect and Sunday Times Book of the Year*Shortlisted for the FT and Schroders Business Book of the YearThis is the only book you need to understand our new world – from the ultimate AI insider, the CEO of Microsoft AI and co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind.'If you want to understand the rise of AI, this is the best book to read' BILL GATES'Important' YUVAL NOAH HARARI'Astonishing' STEPHEN FRY'Stunning' RORY STEWARTSoon you will live surrounded by AIs. In a world of quantum computers, robot assistants and abundant energy, they will organise your life, operate your business, and run government services.None of us are prepared.Mustafa Suleyman has been at the centre of this revolution. The next decade, he explains, will be defined by a wave of powerful, fast-proliferating new technologies. These will create immense prosperity but also present risks.How do we ensure the flourishing of humankind? How do we maintain control over these technologies? And how do we find the narrow path to a successful future? In this groundbreaking book we learn how to think about the essential challenge of our age.Be prepared. Read The Coming Wave.**CHOSEN AS ONE OF BILL GATES' BOOKS TO KEEP YOU WARM THIS HOLIDAY SEASON****A New York Times and Instant Sunday Times bestseller, Sept 2023** Read more

**THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER**Sapiens showed us where we came from. In our increasingly uncertain times, Homo Deus shows us where we're going.'Spellbinding' GuardianThe world-renowned historian and intellectual Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century and beyond - from overcoming death to creating artificial life.It asks the fundamental questions: how can we protect this fragile world from our own destructive power? And what does our future hold?'Even more readable, even more important, than his excellent Sapiens' Kazuo Ishiguro'Homo Deus will shock you. It will entertain you. It will make you think in ways you had not thought before' Daniel Kahneman, bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow Read more

**THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER**Sapiens showed us where we came from. In our increasingly uncertain times, Homo Deus shows us where we're going.'Spellbinding' GuardianThe world-renowned historian and intellectual Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century and beyond - from overcoming death to creating artificial life.It asks the fundamental questions: how can we protect this fragile world from our own destructive power? And what does our future hold?'Even more readable, even more important, than his excellent Sapiens' Kazuo Ishiguro'Homo Deus will shock you. It will entertain you. It will make you think in ways you had not thought before' Daniel Kahneman, bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow Read more

'I couldn’t put down this thriller . . . a book so compelling that I couldn't turn away' – Bill Gates'A story so incredible you'd think it was fiction' – James PattersonWinner of the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.The shocking true story of the breathtaking rise and collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes, written by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end.Seen as the female Steve Jobs, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup ‘unicorn’ promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood testing significantly faster and easier. Backed by wealthy investors, Theranos sold shares that valued the company at more than $9 billion.There was just one problem: the technology didn’t work . . .Despite threats of legal action, brave whistleblowers started to talk. They revealed a culture of intimidation and secrecy, technology that repeatedly failed, results sent to real patients that were incorrect but upon which life-changing medical decisions were being made, with devastating consequences.The riveting story behind The Dropout, in Bad Blood, John Carreyrou investigates the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a tale of ambition and scandal set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley.'A tale of corporate fraud and legal browbeating that reads like a crime thriller' –TIME, The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the Year Read more

**A Sunday Times, Economist, Prospect and Financial Times Book of the Year****SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023**AI. SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY. QUANTUM COMPUTING. Everything is about to change. This is the only book you need to understand this new world.From the ultimate AI insider, Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind, part of Google.'Fascinating, well-written, and important' Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens'Deeply rewarding and consistently astonishing' Stephen Fry'An excellent guide for navigating unprecedented times' Bill GatesSoon you will live surrounded by AIs. They will organise your life, operate your business, and run core government services. You will live in a world of DNA printers and quantum computers, engineered pathogens and autonomous weapons, robot assistants and abundant energy.None of us are prepared.As co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind, part of Google, Mustafa Suleyman has been at the centre of this revolution. The coming decade, he argues, will be defined by this wave of powerful, fast-proliferating new technologies.In The Coming Wave, Suleyman shows how these forces will create immense prosperity but also threaten the nation-state, the foundation of global order. As our fragile governments sleepwalk into disaster, we face an existential dilemma: unprecedented harms on one side and the threat of overbearing surveillance on the other.Can we forge a narrow path between catastrophe and dystopia?This ground-breaking book from the ultimate AI insider establishes 'the containment problem' - the task of maintaining control over powerful technologies - as the essential challenge of our age.'A stunning book by a man at the very centre of the AI revolution' Rory Stewart'Essential reading' Daniel Kahneman‘Confused by the current furore about AI? This book is a good place to start…’ Financial Times, Books of the Year 2023**A Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller, Sept 2023** Read more

What existential threats does humanity face? And how can we secure our future?'The Precipice is a powerful book . . . Ord's love for humanity and hope for its future is infectious' Spectator'Ord's analysis of the science is exemplary . . . Thrillingly written' Sunday TimesWe live during the most important era of human history. In the twentieth century, we developed the means to destroy ourselves - without developing the moral framework to ensure we won't. This is the Precipice, and how we respond to it will be the most crucial decision of our time.Oxford moral philosopher Toby Ord explores the risks to humanity's future, from the familiar man-made threats of climate change and nuclear war, to the potentially greater, more unfamiliar threats from engineered pandemics and advanced artificial intelligence.With clear and rigorous thinking, Ord calculates the various risk levels, and shows how our own time fits within the larger story of human history. We can say with certainty that the novel coronavirus does not pose such a risk. But could the next pandemic? And what can we do, in our present moment, to face the risks head on?A major work that brings together the disciplines of physics, biology, earth and computer science, history, anthropology, statistics, international relations, political science and moral philosophy, The Precipice is a call for a new understanding of our age: a major reorientation in the way we see the world, our history, and the role we play in it. Read more

“RFK Jr. exposes the decades of lies.”―Luc Montagnier, Nobel laureateFrom the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Publishers Weekly bestselling author of The Real Anthony Fauci comes an explosive exposé of the cover-up behind the true origins of COVID-19. “Gain-of-function” experiments are often conducted to deliberately develop highly virulent, easily transmissible pathogens for the stated purpose of developing preemptive vaccines for animal viruses before they jump to humans. More insidious is the “dual use” nature of this research, specifically directed toward bioweapons development.The Wuhan Cover-Up pulls back the curtain on how the US government's increase in biosecurity spending after the 2001 terror attacks―facilitated by Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)―set in motion a plan to transform the NIAID into a de facto Defense Department agency. While Dr. Fauci zealously funded and pursued gain-of-function research, concern grew among some scientists and government officials about the potential for accidental or deliberate release of weaponized viruses from labs that might trigger worldwide pandemics. A moratorium was placed on this research, but true to form, Dr. Fauci found ways to continue unperturbed―outsourcing some of the most controversial experiments offshore to China and providing federal funding to Wuhan Institute of Virology's (WIV's) leading researchers for gain-of-function studies in partnership with the Chinese military and the Chinese Communist Party. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose meticulously researched and rigorously sourced analysis, leads readers on a staggering journey to learn about: the key enablers and henchmen pushing for gain-of-function research the economic motives behind gain-of-function research successfully engineered “chimeric viruses” that can infect and kill humans the coordinated effort to silence speculation of COVID-19’s laboratory genesis the complicity of scientific journals to hide the origins of COVID-19 the role of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China’s biowarfare/biodefense program the relationships between US health, military, and intelligence bureaucracies and scientists and their Chinese counterparts the roles of Bill Gates and Sir Jeremy Farrar in helping to orchestrate China’s global cover-up The Wuhan Cover-Up unveils a global conspiracy of epic proportion and lethal consequence. Read more

‘I couldn’t put down this thriller’ – Bill GatesWinner of the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.The shocking true story of the breathtaking rise and collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes, written by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end.Seen as the female Steve Jobs, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup ‘unicorn’ promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood testing significantly faster and easier. Backed by wealthy investors, Theranos sold shares that valued the company at more than $9 billion.There was just one problem: the technology didn’t work . . .Despite threats of legal action, brave whistleblowers started to talk. They revealed a culture of intimidation and secrecy, technology that repeatedly failed, results sent to real patients that were incorrect but upon which life-changing medical decisions were being made, with devastating consequences.The riveting story behind The Dropout, in Bad Blood, John Carreyrou investigates the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a tale of ambition and scandal set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley.'A tale of corporate fraud and legal browbeating that reads like a crime thriller' - The 10 Best Nonfiction Books, TIME Read more

Do you feel that life has held you back from achieving all that you had hoped for?Do you feel that every door closes on you and you cannot find a solution?Are you unhappy within yourself and within your relationships?Do you wish you had the answers to the never-ending questions life throws at you?This book has been written so that you can find the solutions that will aid you to conquer your doubts and questions. Helping you to achieve the highest possible outcome, making you richer in every aspect within your life. The book covers topics such as ‘Money’, learn how to maximise your potential with the problems everyday life creates. Clever and practical solutions are offered that you can implement into your financial field.Master Your Life gives you the tools to create your own reality. You are in control of who and what you want to be, so begin your journey by delving into this self-help book! Dare to dream!Nina Aouilk has been described as a triple threat being an International Motivational Speaker, Tedx Speaker and Life Coach. She made history as the first British person to be chosen to speak on America’s number one platform for motivational speakers. She has been in publications such as The New York Weekly newspaper and the CEO Weekly magazine.Nina Aouilk has written this book knowing that it will change the lives of those who read it. She teaches empowerment to you through her words so that you can access your personal power to face whatever comes your way. Free yourself of any limiting beliefs so that you can live the life of your dreams!Find out more about Nina Aouilk at ninaaouilk.com Read more

A revolutionary approach to the human mind imagines a future when humans have fully incorporated their tools and technologies into the biological reality of being human. Read more

Is it possible that plants have shaped the very trajectory of human cultures? Using riveting stories of fieldwork in remote villages, two of the world’s leading ethnobotanists argue that our past and our future are deeply intertwined with plants. Creating massive sea craft from plants, indigenous shipwrights spurred the navigation of the world’s oceans. Today, indigenous agricultural innovations continue to feed, clothe, and heal the world’s population. One out of four prescription drugs, for example, were discovered from plants used by traditional healers. Objects as common as baskets for winnowing or wooden boxes to store feathers were ornamented with traditional designs demonstrating the human ability to understand our environment and to perceive the cosmos. Throughout the world, the human body has been used as the ultimate canvas for plant-based adornment as well as indelible design using tattoo inks. Plants also garnered religious significance, both as offerings to the gods and as a doorway into the other world. Indigenous claims that plants themselves are sacred is leading to a startling reformulation of conservation. The authors argue that conservation goals can best be achieved by learning from, rather than opposing, indigenous peoples and their beliefs. KEY FEATURES• An engrossing narrative that invites the reader to personally engage with the relationship between plants, people, and culture• Full-color illustrations throughout―including many original photographs captured by the authors during fieldwork• New to this edition―"Plants That Harm," a chapter that examines the dangers of poisonous plants and the promise that their study holds for novel treatments for some of our most serious diseases, including Alzheimer’s and substance addiction• Additional readings at the end of each chapter to encourage further exploration• Boxed features on selected topics that offer further insight• Provocative questions to facilitate group discussionDesigned for the college classroom as well as for lay readers, this update of Plants, People, and Culture entices the reader with firsthand stories of fieldwork, spectacular illustrations, and a deep respect for both indigenous peoples and the earth’s natural heritage. Read more

The First Book To Truly Make Chemistry Easy - Special Launch Price!This book includes over 300 illustrations to help you visualize what is necessary to understand chemistry at it's core. While Chemistry is a huge topic, it's not necessary to spend years studying it unless it's your major in college. For most of us, we need a clear grasp on the subject to progress through school.This book has you covered. You will surely not be a chemistry newbie after reading this. You will learn that chemistry is about matter. You can break matter down a great deal—all the way down to molecules, atoms, and subatomic particles. The smaller the matter, the more fascinating it gets.Click the cover to see what's inside. Then get yours now by clicking the "Buy Now" button! Read more

Are you ready to take the first step towards a rewarding career in the healthcare field? Are you aspiring to become a certified pharmacy technician but don't know where to start? Do you want to ace the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) exam on your first try with no effort? If yes, then Pharmacy Technician Study Guide is your ultimate guide to success.This comprehensive study guide is designed to help you understand the complex world of pharmacy and prepare for the PTCB exam. It offers a step-by-step approach to becoming a certified pharmacy technician, making it an essential resource for anyone serious about their career in the healthcare industry.The book begins by providing a detailed understanding of the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) exam, its structure, and the strategies to crack it. It demystifies the PTCE (Pharmacy Technician Certification Exam) and provides tips and tricks to help you navigate the exam with ease.Next, it delves into the role of a pharmacy technician, giving you a clear picture of what to expect in your career. It covers everything from the daily tasks of a pharmacy technician to the ethical and legal responsibilities that come with the role. This section will equip you with the knowledge and skills necessary to excel in your job.The book then moves on to medications, providing a comprehensive overview of the different types of drugs, their uses, side effects, and interactions. This section is crucial for anyone looking to work in a pharmacy, as it will give you a solid foundation in pharmacology.Patient safety and quality of care are paramount in the healthcare industry, and this book covers these topics in depth. It provides practical advice on how to ensure patient safety, maintain quality of care, and adhere to regulations and standards.The book also includes a section on order entry and processing, a key aspect of a pharmacy technician's job. It offers practical tips and strategies to help you manage orders efficiently and accurately.Finally, the book includes a practice test that mimics the actual PTCB exam. This test will give you a chance to apply what you've learned and get a feel for the exam format. It will also help you identify areas where you might need further study. Read more

A Science Friday pick for book of the year, 2019One of America's top doctors reveals how AI will empower physicians and revolutionize patient care Medicine has become inhuman, to disastrous effect. The doctor-patient relationship--the heart of medicine--is broken: doctors are too distracted and overwhelmed to truly connect with their patients, and medical errors and misdiagnoses abound. In Deep Medicine, leading physician Eric Topol reveals how artificial intelligence can help. AI has the potential to transform everything doctors do, from notetaking and medical scans to diagnosis and treatment, greatly cutting down the cost of medicine and reducing human mortality. By freeing physicians from the tasks that interfere with human connection, AI will create space for the real healing that takes place between a doctor who can listen and a patient who needs to be heard.Innovative, provocative, and hopeful, Deep Medicine shows us how the awesome power of AI can make medicine better, for all the humans involved. Read more

'Startling in scope and bravado' The New York TimesIn his now-classic and hugely influential exploration of the evolving union of human and machine, world-renowned inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil foresees the dawning of a new civilisation where humans will transcend our biological limitations and amplify our creativity by combining our aptitudes with the vastly greater capacity, speed and knowledge-sharing abilities of Artificial Intelligence. This melding of human and machine is what he terms 'the singularity'.On the eve of publication of his latest book, The Singularity is Nearer, this new edition of the first instalment of his ground breaking vision offers a fascinating and thought-provoking perspective on decades of innovation - and what still lies ahead.*** PRAISE FOR THE SINGULARITY IS NEAR *** 'Artfully envisions a breathtakingly better world' Los Angeles Times'Elaborate, smart and persuasive' The Boston Globe'A pleasure to read' The Wall Street JournalAn Amazon Best Science Book of 2005A CBS News Best Autumn Books of 2005A St Louis Post-Dispatch Best Nonfiction Book of 2005 Read more

A neural chip capable of digitising the human consciousness? Technological immortality? Look at how the super-rich are already behaving... of course governments and polycorps will kill for it!Eric Thorne had an almost idyllic life; a thriving tech business, a big house on Manhattan Beach, and a reputation as one of the world's leading wetware engineers.But all that changes when a woman he doesn’t know shows up on his doorstep telling him he’s been abducted, that his consciousness is immersed in a looping digital prison — and his old pal, the billionaire he’d been helping, was responsible…… and that’s just the tip of the mind-bending madness that unfolds over the following 24 hours. Because although Eric doesn’t know it yet, he’s become the unwitting focus of several seperate plots underpinned by corporate greed and political ambition.But as killers and thieves with differing orders, priorities and allegiances pursue the hapless wetware specialist through both digital and physical realities, not everything, including Eric himself, is necessarily what it seems.If you're a fan of original cyberpunk or technothriller science fiction, and love the books of William Gibson, Walter Jon Williams, Philip K Dick and Rudy Rucker or their modern variations by authors like Blake Crouch, Neal Asher and Daniel Suarez — this tense, action-packed technothriller IS PERFECT FOR YOU!***What other readers are saying***Technothriller / Tech Noir / Cyberpunk ... FabulousSet in a near future I think we can all see coming, where huge corporations control everything we see (and therefore believe), and government is little more than a thin veneer covering individual ambitions and dynasties - this book does a masterful job of painting a picture of what happens when someone says 'No.' But there's much, much more to the stories woven into the pages than that: an android reaching autonomy, a washed up intelligence operative reaching the end of his tether, the morality of technological enhancement, transhumanism ... the list goes on, and the author does a brilliant job of drawing them all together in a rather satisfying finale!”Couldn't put it down!!!Really great plot, couldn't stop reading, plenty of twists and turns to keep you guessing followed up by a superb ending which did not disappoint.What a cracking good readGhost in the Machine is a brutally close approximation to where many of us feel society is currently heading: corporate fatcats dictating what we see and don't see, government a sad reflection of democracy - and a world changing to fast, and all for the worse.A great read, looking forward to book twoThis is the first book of this genre I have picked up, honestly wasn’t sure if it would be my thing. However, the author has created a world of words that totally enthrals, superbly descriptive, with distinct characters and plenty of plot twists and turns that keep you guessing right up to the last page. Can't wait for book two to be published. Read more

AI is about to transform medicine. Here's what you need to know right now.''The development of AI is as fundamental as the creation of the personal computer. It will change the way people work, learn, and communicate--and transform healthcare. But it must be managed carefully to ensure its benefits outweigh the risks. I'm encouraged to see this early exploration of the opportunities and responsibilities of AI in medicine.''--Bill GatesJust months ago, millions of people were stunned by ChatGPT's amazing abilities -- and its bizarre hallucinations. But that was 2022. GPT-4 is now here: smarter, more accurate, with deeper technical knowledge. GPT-4 and its competitors and followers are on the verge of transforming medicine. But with lives on the line, you need to understand these technologies -- stat.What can they do? What can't they do -- yet? What shouldn't they ever do? To decide, experience the cutting edge for yourself. Join three insiders who've had months of early access to GPT-4 as they reveal its momentous potential -- to improve diagnoses, summarize patient visits, streamline processes, accelerate research, and much more. You'll see real GPT-4 dialogues -- unrehearsed and unfiltered, brilliant and blundering alike -- all annotated with invaluable context, candid commentary, real risk insights, and up-to-the-minute takeaways.Preview a day in the life of a doctor with a true AI assistant.See how AI can enhance doctor-patient encounters at the bedside and beyond.Learn how modern AI works, why it can fail, and how it can be tested to earn trust.Empower patients: improve access and equity, fill gaps in care, and support behavior change.Ask better questions and get better answers with "prompt engineering."Leverage AI to cut waste, uncover fraud, streamline reimbursement, and lower costs.Optimize clinical trials and accelerate cures with AI as a research collaborator.Find the right guardrails and gain crucial insights for regulators and policymakers.Sketch possible futures: What dreams may come next?There has never been technology like this. Whether you're a physician, patient, healthcare leader, payer, policymaker, or investor, AI will profoundly impact you -- and it might make the difference between life or death. Be informed, be ready, and take charge -- with this book. Read more

Explore the benefits of a mindful approach to life Cutting-edge studies in neuroscience have in recent years proved what many doctors, therapists and other health professionals had long suspected: simple, repetitive tasks, performed with focus and attention - mindfulness, in other words - can not only quieten our noisy thought processesand help us relax but also improve our outlook on life and protect us against a range of life-threatening illnesses.A cognitive neuroscientist and a leading authority on mental performance, Stan Rodski sets out the science behind these remarkable discoveries in simple terms, and explains how you in turn can benefit from them. As well as examining the potentially pivotal role of mindfulness in alleviating stress and managing energy, Stan highlights the most effective mindfulness activities, guides you through quick and easy exercises, and shows you how to harness the power of mindfulness over the long term to forge mental and physical resilience - and create a happier, healthier, more compelling future. Read more