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“patchen barss”

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  • The Impossible Man

    Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius

    by Patchen Barss ...
    **A New Yorker Best Book of 2024A Globe and Mail Best Book of 2024A Financial Times Best Book of 2024A Kirkus Best Book of 2024A Daily Telegraph Best Book of 2024A "beautifully composed and revealing" (Financial Times) biography of the dazzling and painful life of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Roger Penrose—"a stunning achievement" (Kai Bird, American Prometheus).**When he was six yea... ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • The Erotic Engine

    How Pornography has Powered Mass Communication, from Gutenberg to Google

    by Patchen Barss ...
    Pornography: The force for change that has been written out of the history of world culture.From cave painting to photography to the internet, pornography has always been at the cutting edge in adopting and exploiting new developments in mass communication. And in so doing, it has helped to promote and propel those developments in ways that are rarely acknowledged. Without pornography, the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Smarter Than Us

    Superintelligence and the Future of Humanity

    by Geoffrey Hinton, Patchen Barss ...
    The Nobel Prize–winning "godfather of AI" delivers a landmark reckoning with the technology he helped create—and what humanity must do before it surpasses us.Geoffrey Hinton is one of the architects of modern artificial intelligence. His pioneering work on neural networks laid the foundation for systems like ChatGPT and helped ignite the AI revolution—work that earned him the Nobel Prize in ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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    The Impossible Man

    Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius

    by Patchen Barss ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Beville ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 34 min

    The first biography—“a stunning achievement” (Kai Bird, American Prometheus)—of the dazzling and painful life of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Roger PenroseWhen he was six years old, Roger Penrose discovered a sundial in a clearing near his house. Through that machine made of light, shadow, and time, Roger glimpsed a “world behind the world” of transcendently beautiful geometry. It spurred him on ... Read more

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    Smarter Than Us

    Superintelligence and the Future of Humanity

    by Geoffrey Hinton, Patchen Barss ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours

    The Nobel Prize–winning "godfather of AI" delivers a landmark reckoning with the technology he helped create—and what humanity must do before it surpasses us.Geoffrey Hinton is one of the architects of modern artificial intelligence. His pioneering work on neural networks laid the foundation for systems like ChatGPT and helped ignite the AI revolution—work that earned him the Nobel Prize in ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

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    How the Universe Got Its Spots

    Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space

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    In this audiobook, astrophysicist Janna Levin blends memoir and visionary science to provide a groundbreaking personal account of her life and ideasIs the universe infinite or just really big? With this question, cosmologist Janna Levin announces the central theme of this book, which established her as one of the most direct, unorthodox, and creative voices in contemporary science. As Levin sets ... Read more

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    The Secret Lives of Numbers

    A Hidden History of Math’s Unsung Trailblazers

    by Timothy Revell, Kate Kitagawa ...
    Narrated by Daphne Kouma ...

    Unabridged

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    A new history of mathematics focusing on the marginalized voices who propelled the discipline, spanning six continents and thousands of years of untold stories.""A book to make you love math."" —Financial TimesMathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation as the study of fundamental truths, the stories we have been told about it are wrong—warped like the sixteenth-century ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    Cycles of Time

    An Extraordinary New View of the Universe

    by Roger Penrose ...
    Narrated by Bruce Mann ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 22 min

    From the best-selling author of The Emperor’s New Mind and The Road to Reality, a groundbreaking book that provides new views on three of cosmology’s most profound questions: What, if anything, came before the Big Bang? What is the source of order in our universe? What is its ultimate future?Current understanding of our universe dictates that all matter will eventually thin out to zero density, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    Pillars of Creation

    How the James Webb Telescope Unlocked the Secrets of the Cosmos

    by Richard Panek ...
    Narrated by Ray Porter ...

    Unabridged

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    The James Webb Space Telescope is transforming the universe right before our eyes—and here, for the first time, is the inside account of how the mission originated, how it performs its miracles of science, and what its revolutionary images are revealing.Pillars of Creation tells the story of one of the greatest scientific achievements in the history of civilization, a $10 billion instrument with a ... Read more

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  • My Brief History

    by Stephen Hawking ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLERStephen Hawking has dazzled readers worldwide with a string of bestsellers exploring the mysteries of the universe. Now, for the first time, perhaps the most brilliant cosmologist of our age turns his gaze inward for a revealing look at his own life and intellectual evolution.**My Brief History recounts Stephen Hawking’s improbable journey, from his postwar London boyhood to ... Read more

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  • Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

    The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

    by James Gleick ...
    An illuminating portrayal of Richard Feynman—a giant of twentieth century physics—from his childhood tinkering with radios, to his vital work on the Manhattan Project and beyondRaised in Depression-era Rockaway Beach, physicist Richard Feynman was irreverent, eccentric, and childishly enthusiastic—a new kind of scientist in a field that was in its infancy. His quick mastery of quantum mechanics ... Read more

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  • Black Holes

    by Stephen Hawking ...
    The legendary physicist explores his favorite subject in a pair of enlightening, accessible, and cleverly illustrated essays for curious readers, originally delivered as BBC lectures.“It is said that fact is sometimes stranger than fiction, and nowhere is that more true than in the case of black holes. Black holes are stranger than anything dreamed up by science-fiction writers, but they are ... Read more

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