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Book review: ‘Confessions of an AI Brain’

E&T

The first is that by the time you’ve written it, the glacial pace of the book publishing world has effectively rendered your work obsolete before the ink has dried. Second, there are simply so many books produced on the subject that it’s virtually impossible to find a differentiating niche. bullet points.

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Book review: ‘The Battle of the Beams’ by Tom Whipple

E&T

As I was reading this book, a succession of seemingly far-fetched associations and recollections were projected - or perhaps should I say ‘beamed’ - onto my mind. With a good radio voice and engaging presentation manner that is just like his writing style, he is always a joy to listen to.

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Book interview: Fusion’s Promise

E&T

In the preface to their book – wonderfully subtitled ‘How Technology Breakthroughs in Nuclear Fusion Can Conquer Climate Change on Earth (And Carry Humans to Mars, Too)’ – we’re told that Moynihan answered Bortz’s question in the negative, insisting that the technology was within reach.

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The Lean Toolbox Sixth Edition: A Sourcebook for Process Improvement

Chris Hohmann

Published by Picsie Books on the very first days of January 2023, the new book counts 360 pages compared to the 342 pages of the previous edition and weighs 617 grams (1.36 The Lean Toolbox Sixth Edition: A Sourcebook for Process Improvement by John Bicheno and Matthias Holweg is out.

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Book review: ‘Positive People Leadership’ by Nigel Rowe

E&T

But Nigel Rowe has, and as his debut book ‘Positive People Leadership’ (The Book Guild, £9.99, ISBN 9781914471704) posits, there’s a lot to be learned from such data. The fifty chapters are presented over one hundred pages, and within an hour you’re done.

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Book review: ‘Age of the City’ by Ian Goldin and Tom Lee-Devlin

E&T

There are just two points I’d like to take issue with the authors and editors of this topical and otherwise beautifully written book about. I would have changed it to something like ‘Our Cities: Present, Past and Future’. Let me explain. It can be either bright or bleak. And what is meant by ‘together’? With each other?

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Book review: ‘There Are No Facts’

E&T

This book is an effort to better understand the topography of these conditions and how to navigate their contingent territories.” If this sounds a little opaque to the lay reader, that would be because – like many of the best and worst works in social sciences – it is. “In

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