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Medieval Technology and Social Change

Lynn White (Jr.) - 1962 - History - Limited preview
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Machine, Platform, Crowd

Andrew Mcafee, Erik Brynjolfsson - 2017 - Business & Economics - No preview available
From the authors of the best-selling The Second Machine Age, a leader’s guide to success in a rapidly changing economy. We live in strange times. A machine plays the strategy game Go better than any human; upstarts like Apple and Google destroy ...

Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies

Geoffrey West - 2018 - Science - No preview available
Geoffrey West's research centres on a quest to find unifying principles and patterns connecting everything, from cells and ecosystems to cities, social networks and businesses. Why do organisms and ecosystems scale with size in a remarkably ...

The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt, the Lost ...

Andrea Wulf - 2016 - History - No preview available
WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2016 'A thrilling adventure story' Bill Bryson 'Dazzling' Literary Review 'Brilliant' Sunday Express 'Extraordinary and gripping' New Scientist 'A superb ...

The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will ...

Pedro Domingos - 2017 - Business & Economics - No preview available
Computer scientist Pedro Domingos, one of the field's leading lights, lifts the veil to give us a peek inside the learning machines that power Google, Amazon and your smartphone. Step by step, he assembles a blueprint for the future universal ...

Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive ...

John MacCormick - 2012 - Computers - Limited preview
Every day, we use our computers to perform remarkable feats. A simple web search picks out a handful of relevant needles from the world's biggest haystack: the billions of pages on the World Wide Web. Uploading a photo to Facebook transmits ...

Evaluation in the Extreme: Research, Impact and Politics in Violently ...

Kenneth Bush, Colleen Duggan - 2015 - Social Science - No preview available
An exploration of the ways in which research, power and politics interact in violently divided societies Over the past two decades, there has been an increase in the funding of research in and on violently divided societies. But how do we know ...

Managing for Sustainable Development Impact: An Integrated Approach to ...

Cecile Kusters, Karen Batjes - 2017 - Sustainable development - No preview available
This guide is not a comprehensive book on how to carry out evaluations. Rather, it attempts to provide an overall framework with guiding principles for conducting an evaluation. The guide draws heavily on the experiences of the Centre for ...