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The Future is Faith

Exploring Spirituality in Troubled Times

by Patrick Dixon ...

We all place our trust in things we cannot fully prove - and we do it every day. We trust that a plane will land safely, and that the food we eat will nourish rather than harm us. Life runs on belief long before it reaches certainty. Yet when it comes to spirituality, why do some people embrace faith with confidence while others struggle to believe at all?As a physician, Patrick Dixon has seen how ... Read more

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We all place our trust in things we cannot fully prove - and we do it every day. We trust that a plane will land safely, and that the food we eat will nourish rather than harm us. Life runs on belief long before it reaches certainty. Yet when it comes to spirituality, why do some people embrace faith with confidence while others struggle to believe at all?As a physician, Patrick Dixon has seen how
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How AI Will Change Your Life

A Futurist's Guide to a Super-Smart World

by Patrick Dixon ...

Artificial Intelligence will create gigantic benefits for humankind but will become more powerful than many governments, with purposes and plans of its own, and the ability to alter the very basis of life on earth. Many believe that AI poses a threat to human dominance.In this punchy, follow-up to his bestselling The Future of (Almost) Everything, leading futurist Patrick Dixon has written an in ... Read more

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Artificial Intelligence will create gigantic benefits for humankind but will become more powerful than many governments, with purposes and plans of its own, and the ability to alter the very basis of life on earth. Many believe that AI poses a threat to human dominance.In this punchy, follow-up to his bestselling The Future of (Almost) Everything, leading futurist Patrick Dixon has written an in
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Nuggets of Gold

Further Processed Chicken and the Making of the American Diet

by Patrick Dixon ...

Series Book 35 - Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South
For McDonald’s, the Chicken McNugget, the flagship product of further processed chicken, represented a once-in-a-generation innovation, a snack item that quickly evolved into a meal, spawned a legion of imitators, and gained a large share of the global poultry market. Yet, almost as soon as the McNugget made its North American debut, it quickly became the subject of opprobrium and ridicule, taking ... Read more

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For McDonald’s, the Chicken McNugget, the flagship product of further processed chicken, represented a once-in-a-generation innovation, a snack item that quickly evolved into a meal, spawned a legion of imitators, and gained a large share of the global poultry market. Yet, almost as soon as the McNugget made its North American debut, it quickly became the subject of opprobrium and ridicule, taking
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Salt in the Blood

Two philosophers go to sea

by Patrick Dixon, Sheila Dixon ...

“Everything creaks and bends in heavy seas – what will not bend will simply snap. So many times I wondered how much load we could carry in a powerful storm without breaking apart. If we flooded any faster I would drown in seconds.”Patrick Dixon spent years working as a doctor at University College Hospital, while his wife Sheila was a magistrate – high-pressure careers that demanded long hours ... Read more

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“Everything creaks and bends in heavy seas – what will not bend will simply snap. So many times I wondered how much load we could carry in a powerful storm without breaking apart. If we flooded any faster I would drown in seconds.”Patrick Dixon spent years working as a doctor at University College Hospital, while his wife Sheila was a magistrate – high-pressure careers that demanded long hours
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Sustainagility

How Smart Innovation and Agile Companies will Help Protect our Future

by Patrick Dixon, Johan Gorecki ...

Sustainagility is about the ability to solve some of the world's most complex sustainability challenges with rapidly evolving business innovations, applications, methods, products and processes, adapted to changing situations. The book looks at how innovation and agility can save the world from the environmental disasters that face it. In addition, it sets forth positive ways in which businesses ... Read more

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Sustainagility is about the ability to solve some of the world's most complex sustainability challenges with rapidly evolving business innovations, applications, methods, products and processes, adapted to changing situations. The book looks at how innovation and agility can save the world from the environmental disasters that face it. In addition, it sets forth positive ways in which businesses
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Salt in the Blood

Two philosophers go to sea

by Patrick Dixon, Sheila Dixon ...

Narrated by Patrick Dixon, Sheila Dixon ...

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Bloomsbury presents Salt in the Blood by Patrick Dixon and Sheila Dixon, read by Patrick Dixon and Sheila Dixon.“Everything creaks and bends in heavy seas – what will not bend will simply snap. So many times I wondered how much load we could carry in a powerful storm without breaking apart. If we flooded any faster I would drown in seconds.”Patrick Dixon spent years working as a doctor at ... Read more

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Bloomsbury presents Salt in the Blood by Patrick Dixon and Sheila Dixon, read by Patrick Dixon and Sheila Dixon.“Everything creaks and bends in heavy seas – what will not bend will simply snap. So many times I wondered how much load we could carry in a powerful storm without breaking apart. If we flooded any faster I would drown in seconds.”Patrick Dixon spent years working as a doctor at
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Gambling

Behavior Theory, Research, and Application

Edited by Mark Dixon, PhD, Patrick Ghezzi, PhD, Charles Lyons, PhD, Ginger Wilson ...

The rise in legalized gambling in the United States over the last fifteen years has led to much debate among scientists and practitioners about how to conceptualize and study the phenomenon, treat persons who experience difficulties controlling their level of play, and prevent individuals from becoming problem or 'pathological' gamblers. The current volume brings together a group of basic and ... Read more

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The rise in legalized gambling in the United States over the last fifteen years has led to much debate among scientists and practitioners about how to conceptualize and study the phenomenon, treat persons who experience difficulties controlling their level of play, and prevent individuals from becoming problem or 'pathological' gamblers. The current volume brings together a group of basic and
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India

A Portrait

by Patrick French ...

Narrated by Walter Dixon ...

Unabridged

17 hours 12 min

A monumental biography of the subcontinent from the award-winning author of The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul.Second only to China in the magnitude of its economic miracle and second to none in its potential to shape the new century, India is fast undergoing one of the most momentous transformations the world has ever seen. In this dazzlingly panoramic book, ... Read more

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A monumental biography of the subcontinent from the award-winning author of The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul.Second only to China in the magnitude of its economic miracle and second to none in its potential to shape the new century, India is fast undergoing one of the most momentous transformations the world has ever seen. In this dazzlingly panoramic book,
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Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Feedback Control

A Lyapunov-Based Approach

by Rushikesh Kamalapurkar, Patrick Walters, Joel Rosenfeld, Warren Dixon ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Feedback Control develops model-based and data-driven reinforcement learning methods for solving optimal control problems in nonlinear deterministic dynamical systems. In order to achieve learning under uncertainty, data-driven methods for identifying system models in real-time are also developed. The book illustrates the advantages gained from the use of a model ... Read more

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Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Feedback Control develops model-based and data-driven reinforcement learning methods for solving optimal control problems in nonlinear deterministic dynamical systems. In order to achieve learning under uncertainty, data-driven methods for identifying system models in real-time are also developed. The book illustrates the advantages gained from the use of a model
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AI Superpowers

China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

by Kai-Fu Lee ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER"Kai-Fu Lee believes China will be the next tech-innovation superpower and in AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order, he explains why. Taiwan-born Lee is perfectly positioned for the task."—New York MagazineIn this thought-provoking book, Lee argues powerfully that because of the unprecedented developments in ... Read more

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THE NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER"Kai-Fu Lee believes China will be the next tech-innovation superpower and in AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order, he explains why. Taiwan-born Lee is perfectly positioned for the task."—New York MagazineIn this thought-provoking book, Lee argues powerfully that because of the unprecedented developments in
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Fast Food Nation 25th Anniversary Edition

The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

by Eric Schlosser ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELELR"A fine piece of muckraking, alarming without being alarmist. . . . Schlosser makes it hard to go on eating fast food in blissful ignorance.” – New York Times“One of the most important books on the precarious nature of the modern American food system.” – The ObserverIn 2001, Fast Food Nation was published to critical acclaim and became an international bes... ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELELR"A fine piece of muckraking, alarming without being alarmist. . . . Schlosser makes it hard to go on eating fast food in blissful ignorance.” – New York Times“One of the most important books on the precarious nature of the modern American food system.” – The ObserverIn 2001, Fast Food Nation was published to critical acclaim and became an international bes...
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MATLAB for Neuroscientists

An Introduction to Scientific Computing in MATLAB

by Pascal Wallisch, Michael E. Lusignan, Marc D. Benayoun, Tanya I. Baker, Adam Seth Dickey, Nicholas G. Hatsopoulos ...

MATLAB for Neuroscientists: An Introduction to Scientific Computing in MATLAB is the first comprehensive teaching resource and textbook for the teaching of MATLAB in the Neurosciences and in Psychology. MATLAB is unique in that it can be used to learn the entire empirical and experimental process, including stimulus generation, experimental control, data collection, data analysis and modeling. ... Read more

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MATLAB for Neuroscientists: An Introduction to Scientific Computing in MATLAB is the first comprehensive teaching resource and textbook for the teaching of MATLAB in the Neurosciences and in Psychology. MATLAB is unique in that it can be used to learn the entire empirical and experimental process, including stimulus generation, experimental control, data collection, data analysis and modeling.
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