Product Description: Using comic-book style illustration combined with accessible but authoritative text, the Introducing Graphic Guide series is a uniquely brilliant way to get your head around some of humankind's most thrilling ideas. In 1859, Charles Darwin shocked the world with a radical theory - evolution by natural selection...read more

Can machines really think? Is the mind just a complicated computer program? This work focuses on the major issues behind one of the hardest scientific problems ever undertaken. It explains the advances made, from Alan Turing's influential groundwork to cutting edge robotics and the New Al.

Provides an accessible introduction to Martin Heidegger's notoriously abstruse thinking, mapping out its historical contexts and exploring its resonances in ecology, theology, art, architecture, literature and other fields.

Presents an introduction to consciousness with information on such topics as the relationship between mind and matter, neural mechanisms, and cerebral computations.