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Nigel Toon – How AI Thinks

Dorset Museum High West Street, Dorchester

Those who understand how AI thinks are about to win big. Leading British AI entrepreneur Nigel Toon explains why it’s so exciting and how it can be controlled. How AI Thinks shows us how we can harness the electrifying intelligence of machines. Unlike other books on AI which often scare us, through storytelling that shows ... Nigel Toon – How AI Thinks

£6.00 – £12.00

Jim Down – Life in the Balance

Dorset Museum High West Street, Dorchester

A Doctor’s Stories of Intensive Care Dr Jim Down brings us to the very heart of the intensive care unit – the section of the hospital where the sickest patients are brought to be cared for until their condition improves. With honesty, humility and a streak of dark humour, Dr Down describes the quietly heroic ... Jim Down – Life in the Balance

£6.00 – £12.00

Tim Spicer – A Suspicion of Spies

Dorset Museum High West Street, Dorchester

The compelling first biography of Wilfred ‘Biffy’ Dunderdale – a ruthless and effective spymaster whose career spanned the Russian Revolution to the Cold War and beyond. A Suspicion of Spies is filled with stories of adventure, bravery,and glamour, revealing the complicated intrigues of the world of British intelligence. A lifelong friend of Ian Fleming,Biffy is ... Tim Spicer – A Suspicion of Spies

£6.00 – £12.00

Sir Robin Niblett – The New Cold War

Dorset Museum High West Street, Dorchester

How the contest between the US and China will shape our century An urgent and essential assessment of the global contest between the US and China, and how looking to history will help us to navigate it, from former Director of Chatham House We have entered a new Cold War, even if most people choose ... Sir Robin Niblett – The New Cold War

£6.00 – £12.00

Tracy Chevalier – The Glassmaker

The Dorford Centre 2 Bridport Road, Dorchester

A vivid, inventive, spellbinding virtuoso portrait of a woman, a family and a city that are as everlasting as their glass by a master of her craft. Venice, 1486. Across the lagoon lies Murano. Time flows differently here – like the glass the island’s maestros spend their lives learning to handle. Women are not meant ... Tracy Chevalier – The Glassmaker

£6.00 – £12.00