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The AI Conundrum: Harnessing the Power of AI for Your Organization--Profitably and Safely

Caleb Briggs - The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover

A timely, practical guide to AI - its strengths, weaknesses, and real-world applications - for business professionals and policymakers.. Artificial intelligence, or AI, can recognize a pattern from any set of data it is given, which is what makes it such an extraordinarily powerful tool....
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Lucid Dying: The New Science Revolutionizing How We Understand Life and Death

Sam Parnia MD PhD - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

From internationally renowned expert in resuscitation and New York Times bestselling author Sam Parnia, MD, PhD, comes a groundbreaking look at what happens to us when we die, based on the largest-ever research study run on recalled experiences of death.. Today, for the first time in history,...
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Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist

Jasmin Graham - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover

The uplifting story of a young Black scientist's challenging journey to flourish outside the traditional confines of academia, inspired by her innate connection to nature's most misunderstood animal - the shark.. Sharks have been on this planet for over 400 million years, so there...
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Digitally Invisible: How the Internet Is Creating the New Underclass

Nicol Turner Lee - Brookings Institution Press
Format: Hardcover

Billions of people around the world lack internet access. No one cared until the whole world had to go online.President Joe Biden has repeatedly said that the United States would close the digital divide under his leadership. However, the divide still affects people and communities across...
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Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks

Marcia Bjornerud - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

Earth is vibrantly alive and full of wisdom for those who learn to listen.. Earth has been reinventing itself for more than four billion years, keeping a record of its experiments in the form of rocks. Yet most of us live our lives on the planet with no idea of its extraordinary history,...
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I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine

Daniel J. Levitin - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

Neuroscientist and New York Times best-selling author of This Is Your Brain on Music Daniel J. Levitin reveals the deep connections between music and healing.Music is one of humanity's oldest medicines. From the Far East to the Ottoman Empire, Europe to Africa and the pre-colonial Americas,...
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Climate and Society: Transforming the Future

Robin Leichenko

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Probably the Best Book on Statistics Ever Written: How to Beat the Odds and Make Better Decisions

Haim Shapira - Watkins Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Taking an amusing and digestible look at the usually dry world of probability and statistics, this is the ultimate guide to how you can incorporate them into everyday life, from one of the world's most sought-after experts in game theory.. This is the only book you need to become a statistics...
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