Brynjolfsson, Erik.
Summary: A pair of technology experts describe how humans will have to keep pace with machines in order to become prosperous in the future and identify strategies and policies for business and individuals to use to combine digital processing power with human ingenuity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 BRYRid, Thomas
Summary: "Springing from the febrile mind of mathematician Norbert Wiener amid the devastation of World War II, the cybernetic vision underpinned a host of seductive myths about the future of machines. This vision would radically transform the postwar world, ushering in sweeping cultural change. From the Cold War's monumental SAGE bomber defense system to enhanced humans, Wiener's scheme turned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 600 RIDGraham, Benjamin
Summary: Benjamin Graham taught the philosophy of "value investing" -- which shields investors from substantial error and teaches them to develop long-term strategies. Over the years, market developments have proven Graham's strategies. While preserving Graham's original text, this revised edition includes updated commentary by financial journalist Jason Zweig, whose perspective incorporates the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperBusiness Essentials 2003
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.6 GRAShadbolt, Nigel
Summary: The smart-machines revolution is reshaping our lives and our societies, but we are not about to be elbowed aside by a rebel army of super-intelligent robots of our own creation. We were using tools before we became Homo Sapiens, and will continue to build and master them, no matter how complicated they become. How we exercise that control - in our private lives, in employment, in politics - and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 006.301 SHAWebb, Amy
Summary: "Synthetic biology is the promising and controversial technology platform that combines biology and artificial intelligence, opening up the potential to program biological systems much as we program computers. Synthetic biology enables us not just to readand edit DNA - the technique of CRISPR - but also write it. Rather than life being "a beautiful game of chance", synthetic biology creates the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 572.8 WEBMeyer, Stephen C.
Summary: Charles Darwin knew that there was a significant event in the history of life that his theory did not explain. In what is known today as the "Cambrian explosion," 530 million years ago many animals suddenly appeared in the fossil record without apparent ancestors in earlier layers of rock. In Darwin's Doubt Stephen C. Meyer tells the story of the mystery surrounding this explosion of animal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2013
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Summary: Shows heavy-duty machinery in action, including a grape harvester, a ladle crane and a printing press.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NCircle Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MIGHockfield, Susan
Summary: Outlines the next technology revolution and how it will change human life, drawing on the latest discoveries in biology and engineering to profile such innovations as computer-engineered crops, protein-based water filters, and cancer-detecting nanoparticles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 660.6 HOCSmith, Siân.
Summary: Brief text and photographs examine a wide range of machines used at the airport, including airplanes, staircases on wheels, scanners, conveyor belts, and radar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Heinemann Library 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629 SMISexton, Colleen A.
Summary: "The sun sets, and an aye-aye wakes up! Learn all about how the awesome aye-aye survives the forest at night"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Publishing Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.8 SEXHusain, Amir
Summary: Explores universal questions about humanity's capacity for living and thriving in the coming age of sentient machines and AI, examining debates from opposing perspectives while discussing emerging intellectual diversity and its potential role in enabling a positive life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303 HUSShetterly, Margot Lee
Summary: Before John Glenn orbited the Earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as "Human Computers," calculating the flight paths that would enable these historic achievements. Among these were a coterie of bright, talented African-American women. Segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws, these "colored computers," as they were known, used slide...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 920 LEERoss, John F.
Summary: The true story of Eddie Rickenbacker, America's greatest flying ace, who showed a nation the way forward in its quest for speed, endurance and courage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RICKENBACKER, EDDIE ROSStine, Megan
Summary: The Age of Dinosaurs began about 250 million years ago. In the beginning they were quite small but over time they evolved into the varied and fascinating creatures that captivate our imaginations today. What we know about dinosaurs is evolving, too! We've learned that some dinosaurs were good parents, that dinosaurs could grow new teeth when old ones fell out, and that most dinosaurs walked on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2017
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Summary: An introduction to the Age of Exploration covers the nautical practices of fifteenth-century Europe, Henry the Navigator's fateful new sea routes, and the impact of European advancement on ancient civilizations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2021
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Summary: "What jobs should be automated? How should our legal systems handle autonomous systems? How likely is the emergence of suprahuman intelligence? A.I. is the future of science, technology, and business--and there is no person better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark. What has A.I. brought us? Where will it lead us? The story of A.I. is the story of intelligence--of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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Summary: An account of the decade-long battle between the FBI and America's revolutionary counterculture documents terrorist activities stemming from radical beliefs, tracing the stories of such groups as the Weathermen and the Black Liberation Army.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 BURSummary: "Hundreds of years ago, long before Waterdeep had been built, Halaster Blackcloak carved a vast dungeon beneath Mount Waterdeep and stocked it with all manner of creatures from across the planes. Over time Halaster has gone quite insane and the dungeon he carved, now dubbed Undermountain, is a labyrinthine death trap for those bold enough to venture within. Precious few have returned from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wizards of the Coast LLC 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 AMEDowning, David C.
Contents: Introduction : the overlooked Lewis -- The mystique of mysticism -- Mystical elements in Lewis's life -- Christian mysticism as Lewis knew it -- The mystical way in the space trilogy -- Finding words to explore the mind of God -- Mystical elements in the Narnia chronicles -- Lewis's critique of mysticism -- Learning from the mystical way -- Appendix : a brief timeline of Christian mystics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: InterVarsity Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.22 DOWBeyer, Kurt.
Summary: Hopper made herself "one of the boys" in Howard Aiken's wartime Computation Laboratory at Harvard, then moved on to the Eckert and Mauchly Computer Corporation. Both rebellious and collaborative, she was influential in male-dominated military and business organzations at a time when women were encouraged to devote themselves to housework and childbearing. Her greatest technical achievement was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOPPER, GRACE BEYMacaulay, David
Summary: Text and numerous detailed illustrations introduce and explain the scientific principles and workings of hundreds of machines.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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Summary: As Mark V. Barrow Jr. reveals in "Nature's Ghosts", the threat of species loss has haunted Americans since the early days of the republic. Barrow shows how Americans came to understand that it was not only possible for entire species to die out, but that humans themselves could be responsible for their extinction. These fascinating stories of endangered animals and the dedicated individuals...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 2009