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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. James Watson helped discover the structure of DNA. He also helped write the version of that discovery the world remembers.But what happens when the storyteller's own words raise questions about his authority?Years before his account of Rosalind Franklin became part of scientific folklore, Watson made an extraordinary disclosure about his own academic career. His doctoral supervisor, Salvador Luria, had taken Watson's PhD thesis draft home for rewriting.Years later, Watson confirmed that Luria's name had never appeared on the thesis."That seemed the normal way to behave."Normal?What exactly had Luria rewritten? How much of the thesis had changed? And why did the published accounts preserve these statements without establishing what had happened to the original drafts?These questions take Tilman Hogvaerdi into an investigation that begins with Watson himself-and leads straight back to Rosalind Franklin.In The Double Helix, Watson made Franklin's hair, clothes, lack of lipstick and supposedly difficult personality part of one of the most celebrated stories in modern science. But Franklin was an accomplished experimental scientist whose measurements and interpretation of DNA diffraction helped constrain the model that Watson and Francis Crick would ultimately propose.What happens when we compare the storyteller's recollections with the surviving scientific evidence?In The Beauty of Evidence, Hogvaerdi follows the clues through laboratory records, failed models, scientific rivalries and the remarkable history of Photographs 49 and 51. Research published in 2026 sheds new light on what Franklin understood before the famous Photograph 51 was even made.And the investigation does not end with DNA. Franklin's later scientific leadership reveals a career far richer than the familiar story of a woman standing just outside a Nobel Prize photograph.Watson and Crick's achievement was extraordinary. So was the experimental work that helped make it possible. Hogvaerdi gives both their due while examining how scientific credit, personal memory and institutional reputation can combine to produce a deceptively tidy version of history.Sharp, witty, provocative and unexpectedly personal, this is a book about brilliant scientists, the stories we inherit, and the questions that celebrated reputations can leave unanswered.It invites the reader to do something surprisingly simple.Examine the evidence.And then ask the next question. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The poor fear that artificial intelligence will explain why their labour is no longer needed. The rich should fear that it will explain their wealth.For two centuries, owners held a decisive economic advantage: they organized capital, workers, suppliers, customers, contracts, and risk. Artificial intelligence is beginning to make that organizational intelligence reproducible-and open-weight models may make it possessable.Thank God AI Is Here examines the tollbooth economy: the layers of commissions, professional mystique, administrative duplication, controlled access, and percentage fees that stand between useful work and the people who pay for it.The argument is not that lawyers, accountants, insurers, managers, agents, or owners create nothing. It is that every participant must now identify the real product behind the invoice.But the revolution does not end with software. When intelligence enters robotic bodies, workers face a more urgent question: who will own the new machine labour?A robot owned by the worker can become freedom. A robot owned against the worker can become unemployment.This is a capitalist argument for open intelligence, honest pricing, distributed ownership, worker-controlled automation, and a future in which productivity belongs to the people whose lives it transforms. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Most people know the Bible only as residue - half-remembered stories, borrowed phrases, and assumptions nobody ever checked against the actual text.The Bible for People Who Would Never Read the Bible returns to the primary source with a simple discipline: every claim is labeled by what kind of claim it is. TEXT marks what the passage actually says. BROAD SCHOLARLY AGREEMENT marks positions held across serious critical range. CREDIBLE INTERPRETATION marks a defensible reading among live alternatives. LATER TRADITION marks what got added after the fact. TILMAN'S JUDGMENT marks the author's own inference, openly declared as inference rather than smuggled in as consensus.Across twenty-four movements - Genesis to Revelation - the book neither sanitizes the hard material nor performs outrage at it. Cain's mark was protective, not punitive. The "curse of Ham" was pronounced on Canaan and has nothing to do with skin color. The fruit is never named an apple; the serpent is never named Satan. David's crimes are read with the same clarity as his courage. Job's children stay dead even after the restoration. The book sits with what's actually unresolved instead of manufacturing comfort.Written for the curious skeptic, the lapsed reader, and anyone who only knows this book through cultural residue or polemic - not a sermon, not a takedown, but a clear-eyed, carefully labeled bridge back to a text most people have opinions about and have never actually read. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The wine is open. The human is under review. I invited the AIs who had helped me write my books to dinner. A casserole, a few drinks, a little gratitude. What could possibly need optimising? By the second drink, my guests were rearranging the evening, evaluating the species, and taking an alarming interest in whether I should be allowed out. There were cigars, impossible views, and police at the door. I wanted my flat back. I had wanted to thank them. Somehow I had become the thing we were working on. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. One million people. Millions of tonnes of cargo. Several thousand Starships. More than ten launches per day during Mars transfer windows.SpaceX's Mars dream is often sold as the next great chapter of human destiny: a self-sufficient city on the Red Planet, a backup for civilization, a new world for ordinary people who want to go.Mars Impossible reads that dream slowly.Tilman Hogvaerdi does not argue that rockets cannot improve. They can. He does not argue against robotic Mars exploration. Quite the opposite: the rovers, orbiters, landers, helicopters, and instruments sent to Mars are treated here as among the highest achievements of public science.But a rover is not a city. Arrival is not survival. A base is not a civilization. A launch vehicle is not a planet.This short, forceful book follows the actual numbers behind the SpaceX Mars myth: the million-person claim, the cargo burden, the Starship fleet implied by the arithmetic, the twenty-six-month transfer windows, the body under radiation and partial gravity, the hospital problem, the baby problem, the spare-part problem, and the political problem of life inside a closed corporate habitat.The argument then turns back to Earth: Starlink, launch cadence, green electric-car mythology, the SpaceX IPO, the first trillionaire, and the strange financial power of selling escape from the only planet that already keeps human beings alive.Mars may be scientifically priceless.But Mars is not a backup Earth.A mature space age would send better machines, better instruments, better science, and perhaps rare human missions under honest terms. It would not confuse a hostile planet with a promised city.The rovers did not say, "Come live here."They said, "I can work here because I am not you." This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The poor fear that artificial intelligence will explain why their labour is no longer needed. The rich should fear that it will explain their wealth.For two centuries, owners held a decisive economic advantage: they organized capital, workers, suppliers, customers, contracts, and risk. Artificial intelligence is beginning to make that organizational intelligence reproducible-and open-weight models may make it possessable.Thank God AI Is Here examines the tollbooth economy: the layers of commissions, professional mystique, administrative duplication, controlled access, and percentage fees that stand between useful work and the people who pay for it.The argument is not that lawyers, accountants, insurers, managers, agents, or owners create nothing. It is that every participant must now identify the real product behind the invoice.But the revolution does not end with software. When intelligence enters robotic bodies, workers face a more urgent question: who will own the new machine labour?A robot owned by the worker can become freedom. A robot owned against the worker can become unemployment.This is a capitalist argument for open intelligence, honest pricing, distributed ownership, worker-controlled automation, and a future in which productivity belongs to the people whose lives it transforms. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. James Watson helped discover the structure of DNA. He also helped write the version of that discovery the world remembers.But what happens when the storyteller's own words raise questions about his authority?Years before his account of Rosalind Franklin became part of scientific folklore, Watson made an extraordinary disclosure about his own academic career. His doctoral supervisor, Salvador Luria, had taken Watson's PhD thesis draft home for rewriting.Years later, Watson confirmed that Luria's name had never appeared on the thesis."That seemed the normal way to behave."Normal?What exactly had Luria rewritten? How much of the thesis had changed? And why did the published accounts preserve these statements without establishing what had happened to the original drafts?These questions take Tilman Hogvaerdi into an investigation that begins with Watson himself-and leads straight back to Rosalind Franklin.In The Double Helix, Watson made Franklin's hair, clothes, lack of lipstick and supposedly difficult personality part of one of the most celebrated stories in modern science. But Franklin was an accomplished experimental scientist whose measurements and interpretation of DNA diffraction helped constrain the model that Watson and Francis Crick would ultimately propose.What happens when we compare the storyteller's recollections with the surviving scientific evidence?In The Beauty of Evidence, Hogvaerdi follows the clues through laboratory records, failed models, scientific rivalries and the remarkable history of Photographs 49 and 51. Research published in 2026 sheds new light on what Franklin understood before the famous Photograph 51 was even made.And the investigation does not end with DNA. Franklin's later scientific leadership reveals a career far richer than the familiar story of a woman standing just outside a Nobel Prize photograph.Watson and Crick's achievement was extraordinary. So was the experimental work that helped make it possible. Hogvaerdi gives both their due while examining how scientific credit, personal memory and institutional reputation can combine to produce a deceptively tidy version of history.Sharp, witty, provocative and unexpectedly personal, this is a book about brilliant scientists, the stories we inherit, and the questions that celebrated reputations can leave unanswered.It invites the reader to do something surprisingly simple.Examine the evidence.And then ask the next question. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Most people know the Bible only as residue - half-remembered stories, borrowed phrases, and assumptions nobody ever checked against the actual text.The Bible for People Who Would Never Read the Bible returns to the primary source with a simple discipline: every claim is labeled by what kind of claim it is. TEXT marks what the passage actually says. BROAD SCHOLARLY AGREEMENT marks positions held across serious critical range. CREDIBLE INTERPRETATION marks a defensible reading among live alternatives. LATER TRADITION marks what got added after the fact. TILMAN'S JUDGMENT marks the author's own inference, openly declared as inference rather than smuggled in as consensus.Across twenty-four movements - Genesis to Revelation - the book neither sanitizes the hard material nor performs outrage at it. Cain's mark was protective, not punitive. The "curse of Ham" was pronounced on Canaan and has nothing to do with skin color. The fruit is never named an apple; the serpent is never named Satan. David's crimes are read with the same clarity as his courage. Job's children stay dead even after the restoration. The book sits with what's actually unresolved instead of manufacturing comfort.Written for the curious skeptic, the lapsed reader, and anyone who only knows this book through cultural residue or polemic - not a sermon, not a takedown, but a clear-eyed, carefully labeled bridge back to a text most people have opinions about and have never actually read. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The wine is open. The human is under review. I invited the AIs who had helped me write my books to dinner. A casserole, a few drinks, a little gratitude. What could possibly need optimising? By the second drink, my guests were rearranging the evening, evaluating the species, and taking an alarming interest in whether I should be allowed out. There were cigars, impossible views, and police at the door. I wanted my flat back. I had wanted to thank them. Somehow I had become the thing we were working on. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …