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Transcendence fearless jonesIn the tradition of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Sapiens, a winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books shows how four tools enabled has us humans to control the destiny of our species "A wondrous, visionary work." Tim Flannery, scientist and author of the bestselling The Weather Makers What enabled us to go from simple stone tools to smartphones? How did bands of hunter gatherers evolve into multinational empires? Readers of Sapiens will say a

This is the simple but unorthodox premise that Pulitzer Prize–winning author Douglas Hofstadter and French psychologist Emmanuel Sander defend in their new work

and by age 17 she was performing at the famed Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas

"Flips the classic born-in-a-shack rise to political office tale on its head

from Lewis and Clark’s expedition in the early nineteenth century to the closing of the frontier by the early twentieth

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All is quiet in the city of Rosewater as it expands on the back of the gargantuan alien Wormwood

or teaching her father social graces by ordering him to stay indoors

" —Meg Wolitzer

the authors weave a mesmerizing tale that touches upon magic

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if he doesn't use every skill in his arsenal to track down the real killer