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A Good Time to Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future
Hardcover
The fight against child mortality that transformed parenting, doctoring and the way we live.
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
Hardcover
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
A jaw-dropping exploration of everything that goes wrong when we build AI systems and the movement to fix them.
The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science
Hardcover
• Why is science so powerful?
• Why did it take so long—two thousand years after the invention of philosophy and mathematics—for the human race to...
Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything
Paperback
A Science News Favorite Book of 2019
An earth scientist reveals the dynamic biography of the most resonant—and most necessary—chemical element on Earth.
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: And Other Questions About Dead Bodies
Paperback
New York Times Bestseller
Winner of a Goodreads Choice Award
“Funny, dark, and at times stunningly existential.” —Marianne Eloise, Guardian