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How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
Stanislas Dehaene · Viking
Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover
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An illuminating dive into the latest science on our brain's remarkable learning abilities and the potential of the machines we program to imitate themThe human brain is an extraordinary machine. Its ability to process information and adapt to circumstances by reprogramming itself is unparalleled... |
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Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World
Matt Parker · Riverhead Books
Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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This entertaining tour of real-world mathematical disasters reveals the importance of math in our everyday lives An international bestseller Our whole world is built on math, from the code running a website to the equations enabling the design of skyscrapers and bridges. Most of the time... |
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SAM: One Robot, a Dozen Engineers, and the Race to Revolutionize the Way We Build
Jonathan Waldman · Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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A true story of innovation, centered on a scrappy team of engineers - far from the Silicon Valley limelight - and their quest to achieve a surprisingly difficult technological feat: building a robot that can lay bricks.Humans have landed men on the moon, programmed cars to drive themselves,... |
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The Angel and the Assassin: The Tiny Brain Cell That Changed the Course of Medicine
Donna Jackson Nakazawa · Ballantine Books
Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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A thrilling story of scientific detective work and medical potential that illuminates the newly understood role of microglia - an elusive type of brain cell that is vitally relevant to our everyday lives. "The rarest of books: a combination of page-turning discovery and remarkably... |
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Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class
Charles Murray · Twelve
Pages: 528 Format: Hardcover
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All people are equal but, as Human Diversity explores, all groups of people are not the same -- a fascinating investigation of the genetics and neuroscience of human differences.The thesis of Human Diversity is that advances in genetics and neuroscience are overthrowing an intellectual... |
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The Healthy Deviant: A Rule Breaker's Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World
Gerasimo, Pilar · NORTH ATLANTIC BOOKS
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Want to be a healthy, happy person in an unhealthy world? Get ready to start breaking some rules. Pilar Gerasimo, founding editor of Experience Life magazine, argues that in an unhealthy society like ours, being a healthy person requires choices and patterns so unconventional, they amount... |
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