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Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences / 6th Global Edition
2024 || Paperback || Alan Agresti || Pearson
For courses in Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences . Statistical methods applied to social sciences, made accessible to all through an emphasis on concepts Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences introduces statistical methods to students majoring in social science disciplines. With an emphasis on concepts and applications, this book assumes you have no previous knowledge of statistics and only a minimal mathematical background.
It contains sufficient material for a two-semester c...
Third Millennium Thinking
Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense
2024 || Paperback || Saul Perlmutter e.a. || Hodder & Stoughton
A Nobel prize-winning physicist, a social psychologist and a philosopher on how science can help us navigate information overload, thrive amidst uncertainty and heal our fractured society.
A definitive guide to thinking clearly in a world full of overwhelming information.
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In our deluge of information, it's getting harder and harder to distinguish the revelatory from the contradictory. How do we make health decisions in the face of conflicting medical advice? How can we navigate the...
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Data Grab
The new Colonialism of Big Tech and how to fight back
2024 || Paperback || Ulises A. Mejias e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Your life online is their product.
In the past, colonialism was a landgrab of natural resources, exploitative labour and private property from countries around the world. It promised to modernise and civilise, but actually sought to control. It stole from native populations and made them sign contracts they didn’t understand. It took resources just because they were there.
Colonialism has not disappeared – it has taken on a new form.
In the new world order, data is the new oil. Big Tech c...
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If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal
What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity
2024 || Paperback || Justin Gregg || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A MYTH-BUSTING EXPOSE OF HOW HUMAN INTELLIGENCE MAY BE MORE A LIABILITY THAN A GIFT AND A REFRESHING NEW WAY TO UNDERSTAND THE ANIMAL KINGDOM AND OUR PLACE ON EARTH.
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Not the End of the World
How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
2024 || Paperback || Hannah Ritchie || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our planet? This book will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems -- and how we can solve them
'Truly essential' MARGARET ATWOOD * 'Invigorating, inspiring, often surprising' DAVID WALLACE-WELLS * 'Eye-opening and essential' BILL GATES
We are bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won't be able to support crops, fish will vanish from our oceans, that we should reconsider having children.
But in this bo...
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Ultra-Processed People
Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food … and Why Can’t We Stop?
2024 || Paperback || Chris van Tulleken || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Chosen by the SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, FT and DAILY MAIL as one of their BEST SUMMER BOOKS OF 2023
'If you only read one diet or nutrition book in your life, make it this one' Bee Wilson
'A devastating, witty and scholarly destruction of the shit food we eat and why' Adam Rutherford
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An eye-opening investigation into the science, economics, history and production of ultra-processed food.
It's not you, it's the food.
We have entered a new 'age of eating' where most of our calories come from ...
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Emotional Ignorance
Misadventures in the Science of Emotion
2024 || Paperback || Dean Burnett || Veltman Distributie Import Books
After losing his dad, a neuroscientist goes on a journey of discovery into where our emotions come from, what purpose they serve, and why they make us feel the way they do.
AI 2041
Ten Visions for Our Future
2024 || Paperback || Kai-Fu Lee e.a. || Ebury Publishing
A WALL STREET JOURNAL, WASHINGTON POST, AND FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
In this ground-breaking blend of imaginative storytelling and scientific forecasting, a pioneering AI expert and a leading writer of speculative fiction join forces to answer an imperative question: How will artificial intelligence change our world within twenty years?
AI will be the defining development of the twenty-first century. Within two decades, aspects of daily human life will be unrecognizable. AI will ...
Determined
Life Without Free Will
2024 || Paperback || Robert M Sapolsky || Vintage Publishing
One of the world’s greatest scientists of human behaviour, the bestselling author of Behave, shows that free will does not exist - and sets out the disturbing yet liberating implications of accepting this fact.
‘One of the best scientist-writers of our time’ OLIVER SACKS
What if free will is an illusion? As Robert Sapolsky shows in this masterful account of the science of human behaviour, everything we think and do is caused by the luck of our biology and the influence of our environmen...