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Dodge novels volume 2
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seveneves, Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon returns with a wildly inventive and entertaining science fiction thriller—Paradise Lost by way of Phillip K. Dick—that unfolds in the near future, in parallel worlds.
In his youth, Richard “Dodge” Forthrast founded Corporation 9592, a gaming company that made him a multibillionaire. Now in his middle years, Dodge appreciates his comfortable, unencumbered...
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This profound and accessible book details how science is studying nature's best ideas to solve our toughest 21st-century problems.
If chaos theory transformed our view of the universe, biomimicry is transforming our life on Earth. Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature - taking advantage of evolution's 3.8 billion years of R&D since the first bacteria. Biomimics study nature's best ideas: photosynthesis, brain power, and shells - and adapt...
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How do you choose the colors of your clothes? How can clothing save lives? How can fashion choices protect the planet? The answers to all those questions-and more-are in science . . . and in this book. Take a walk down the runway-or just into your closet-and find out how science plays a part in how clothes are made, how we dress, and how technology impacts fashion. And it's not just fashion-science is all around us, every hour of every day. Discover...
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How do curveballs curve? Why do golfers need engineers? Why do quarterbacks need to know physics? How is chemistry helping athletes heal? The answers to all those questions- and more-are in science . . . and in this book. Science is as much a part of sports as balls, uniforms, and coaches. New developments are helping athletes succeed and thrive. And it's not just sports-science is all around us, every hour of every day. Discover more ways that science...
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A New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Amazon Bestseller
Reverse Innovation is the new business idea everyone is talking about. Why? Because it presents the blueprint for scaling growth in emerging markets, and importing low-cost and high impact innovations to mature ones.
Innovation is no longer the exclusive domain of the Silicon Valley elite. Reverse Innovation will open your eyes to the fact that the dynamics of global innovation...
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"A scorching, hair-raising glimpse into a new kind of criminal who's altogether terrifying because he's altogether real." —Dennis Lehane, #1 New York Times–bestselling author
With a foreword by four-time Oscar nominated filmmaker Michael Mann
Paul LeRoux was born in Zimbabwe and raised in South Africa. After a first career as a pioneering cybersecurity entrepreneur, he plunged hellbent into the dark side, starting...
With a foreword by four-time Oscar nominated filmmaker Michael Mann
Paul LeRoux was born in Zimbabwe and raised in South Africa. After a first career as a pioneering cybersecurity entrepreneur, he plunged hellbent into the dark side, starting...
8) Car science
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Why do engines make cars go? What is horsepower and why is it important? How can the sun power new cars? The answers to all those questions-and more-are in science . . . and in this book. Look under the hood and in the driver's seat to find out how cars and science are linked. And it's not just cars-science is all around us, every hour of every day. Discover more ways that science is a part of our lives in SCIENCE 24–7!
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"Drawing on interviews with stakeholders at the intersection of climate science, energy technology, and public policy, Paul McKendrick's investigation traces more than 20 years of technological development with direct air capture, from Biosphere 2; to multi-million dollar promises from Richard Branson, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk; to the opening of Orca, the world's largest commercial direct air capture facility, in Iceland in 2021. Figuring prominently...
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From the author of Proust and the Squid, a lively, ambitious, and deeply informative epistolary book that considers the future of the reading brain and our capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection as we become increasingly dependent on digital technologies.
A decade ago, Maryanne Wolf's Proust and the Squid revealed what we know about how the brain learns to read and how reading changes the way we think and feel. Since then, the...
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In the spirit of Nickel and Dimed, a necessary and revelatory expose of the invisible human workforce that powers the web-and that foreshadows the true future of work.
Hidden beneath the surface of the web, lost in our wrong-headed debates about AI, a new menace is looming. Anthropologist Mary L. Gray and computer scientist Siddharth Suri team up to unveil how services delivered by companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Uber can only function...
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In 2011 a computer named Watson outscored two human competitors on the TV quiz show Jeopardy! and snagged the million-dollar prize. Watson isn't the only machine keeping up with humans. The field of artificial intelligence (AI) is booming, with drones, robots, and computers handling tasks that once only humans could perform. Such advances raise challenging questions. Do Watson and other computers really think? Can machines acquire self-awareness?...
13) This Eden
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When his coder girlfriend dies, Michael Atarian headhunted by a sinister tech company. He and a reluctant spy find themselves tricked into joining a war-gamer's quest to save the world. Hunted at every turn the two find themselves on the run across the globe.
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A billionaire has an idea for reversing global warmig, but will it work? And what will the consequences for the planet be? A disparate group of characters from around the globe fight to solve the problem of global warming, but some of their ideas may be worse than climate change itself.
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Tells the story of the maverick engineers and computer experts who triggered the autonomous vehicle revolution, and how self-driving vehicles will help reshape our society by liberating us from driving and owning vehicles, providing freedom of mobility to the elderly and disabled, and decreasing our dependence on fossil fuels.
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The subject of immense hope, hype, and confusion, crypto has amassed countless headlines in recent years. With cryptocurrencies, NFTs and metaverse markets crashing, the underlying blockchain technology is still promised to solve global development challenges, whilst revolutionising every industry. But is the technology really a silver bullet? 'Let Them Eat Crypto' puts blockchain, cryptocurrency and 'Web3' under the microscope like never before....
17) The night market
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"The book's tone is Chandleresque, the conspiracy worrying Carver and Jenner expands to Pynchonian proportions, and the physical ick they encounter might have oozed out of a Cronenberg movie."—Washington Post
"It's Miami Vice meets The Matrix, and George Orwell is hosting the party."—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
It's late Thursday and Inspector Ross Carver is at a crime scene: a dead man covered in an unknown substance...
"It's Miami Vice meets The Matrix, and George Orwell is hosting the party."—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
It's late Thursday and Inspector Ross Carver is at a crime scene: a dead man covered in an unknown substance...
18) Code 6: a novel
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"A screenwriter working on a script about the dark side of Big Data is pulled into a far-reaching conspiracy and coverup after a childhood friend is kidnapped while under investigation by the Justice Department"--
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When the lights go out one night, no one panics. Not yet. The lights always come back on soon, don't they? Surely, it is a glitch, a storm, a malfunction. But something seems strange about this night. Across Europe, controllers watch in disbelief as electrical grids collapse. There is no power, anywhere. A former hacker and activist, Piero investigates a possible cause of the disaster. The authorities don't believe him, and he soon becomes a prime...
20) Golden State
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In a strange alternate society that values law and truth above all else, Laszlo Ratesic is a nineteen-year veteran of the Speculative Service. He lives in the a nation standing where California once did, a place where like-minded Americans retreated after the erosion of truth and the spread of lies made public life and governance impossible. In the nation knowingly contradicting the truth is the greatest crime, and stopping those crimes is Laz's job....
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