Artificial intelligence (WIRED Guides): How Machine Learning will Shape the Next Decade

Matthew Burgess; WIRED

The past decade has witnessed extraordinary advances in artificial intelligence. But what precisely is it and where does its future lie?In this brilliant, one-stop guide WIRED journalist Matt Burgess explains everything you need to know about AI. He describes how it works. He looks at the ways in which ...

How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present, and Future

Vaclav Smil

Delightfully contrarian, this is the one book you need to read to understand our modern world.  We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperi...

Overgrown: Practices between Landscape Architecture and Gardening

Julian Raxworthy

A call for landscape architects to leave the office and return to the garden.Addressing one of the most repressed subjects in landscape architecture, this book could only have been written by someone who is both an experienced gardener and a landscape architect. With Overgrown, Julian Raxworthy offers a...