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Author: FOREWARD BY SIMON KING
The “Bird Photographer of the Year” is a competition that celebrates the artistry of bird photography from around the world, and this beautiful, large-format book showcases the best images from the contest—some of the most stunning bird photographs ever taken.
A gorgeous record of avian beauty and diversity across the globe, the book demonstrates the dedication and passion of bird photographers and the incredible quality of today’s digital imaging systems.
Author: Wassim M. Haddad
“A Dynamical Systems Theory of Thermodynamics” develops a postmodern theory of thermodynamics as part of mathematical dynamical systems theory.
This book merges the two universalisms of thermodynamics and dynamical systems theory in a single compendium, with the latter providing an ideal language for the former, to develop a new and unique framework for dynamical thermodynamics.
In particular, the book uses system-theoretic ideas to bring coherence, clarity, and precision to an important and poorly understood classical area of science.
Author: Ross Piper
“What Insects Do, and Why” takes you on an unforgettable tour of the insect world, presenting these amazing creatures as you have never seen them before.
This stunningly illustrated guide explores how insects live, ranging from elegant displays of courtship to brutal acts of predation, and provides insights into the marvelous diversity of insects all around us.
Along the way, Ross Piper discusses insect evolution, reproduction and life cycles, feeding strategies, defenses, sociality, parasite-host interactions, human impacts on insects, and more.
Author: Brian Clegg
The 2024 book “Brainjacking: The Science of Influence and Manipulation” by Brian Clegg delves into the ways science and technology influence human behavior and decision-making.
I read this fascinating 288-page book cover-to-cover in one go. The writing style is fluid and not too cumbersome.
“‘The Matrix’ film portrayed a visceral, fictional kind of brainjacking, which is the term I’m using to indicate mechanisms that enable our brains to be changed by others, often without conscious awareness that this is happening,” Clegg writes, explaining his choice in title.
“This is entirely different from brainwashing,” he continues. “Brainjacking is a more subtle, far more widespread, and more interesting activity.”
The book examines how techniques such as storytelling, advertising and political strategies are used to inform, influence, and manipulate people. The book connects hot topics like artificial intelligence, big data, and subliminal messaging to reveal both the obvious and subtle forms of manipulation in modern life.
Clegg, a writer known for making complex scientific ideas accessible to general audiences, is the perfect author for this topic. Two of the British author’s previously published books were longlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books.
With a background in physics, Clegg explores the intersections of science, technology and human behavior.
At the end of “Brainjacking,” he writes: “If there is one takeaway, I would like to stress that it is to be more aware of ‘brainjacking’ as it happens all around — both to you and by you. Embrace it where it's good; reject it where it is negative. But most of all, enjoy this particularly human activity.”
Authors: Larry Warsh and Dieter Buchhart
The great Russian modernist painter and theorist Wassily Kandinsky was one of the pioneers of abstraction in Western art.
Few documents provide more insight into his evolution from figural to abstract art—or into the development of abstraction in the early 20th century—than the pages of his sketchbooks.
Featuring previously unpublished drawings, “Wassily Kandinsky: The Sketchbooks” is a comprehensive selection of hundreds of sketches from 12 notebooks Kandinsky kept between 1889 and 1935.
Decades ago, Mumford wrote that algebraic geometry “seems to have acquired the reputation of being esoteric, exclusive, and very abstract, with adherents who are secretly plotting to take over all the rest of mathematics.”
The revolution has now fully come to pass and has fundamentally changed how we think about many fields of mathematics.
This book provides a thorough foundation in the powerful ideas that now shape the landscape, with an informal yet rigorous exposition that builds intuition for the formidable machinery.
