[PDF] Proceedings Of The Academy Of Natural Sciences Vol 138 No 1 December 24 1986 eBook

Author : Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
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Page : 620 pages
File Size : 33,62 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic journals
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"Publications of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia": v. 53, 1901, p. 788-794.

Author : David Quammen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 29,37 MB
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1439125430

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From “one of the most fascinating and thought-provoking writers of natural history” (The Seattle Times), a collection of enduring essays that form a bestiary of wondrous creatures and a gallery of the human faces that peer at them. The Boilerplate Rhino brings together twenty-six of David Quammen’s most thoughtful and engaging essays from his column for Outside magazine, gifting readers with an irrepressible assortment of ideas to explore, conundrums to contemplate, and wondrous creatures to behold. In lucid, penetrating, and often quirkily idiosyncratic prose, David Quammen takes his readers with him as he explores the world. His travels lead him to rattlesnake handlers in Texas; a lizard specialist in Baja; the dinosaur museum in Jordan, Montana; and halfway across Indonesia in search of the perfect Durian fruit. He ponders the history of nutmeg in the southern Moluccas, meditates on bioluminescent beetles while soaking in the waters of the Amazon, and delivers “The Dope on Eggs” from a chicken ranch near his hometown in Montana. Quammen's travels are always jumping-off points to explore the rich and sometimes horrifying tension between humankind and the natural world, in all its complexity and ambivalence. The result is another irrepressible assortment of ideas to explore, conundrums to contemplate, and wondrous creatures to behold.

Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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Page : 1060 pages
File Size : 39,43 MB
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Category : Medicine
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First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.

Author : Bill Addis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 10,52 MB
Release : 2005-06-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1135806136

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This illustrated study explores the life and work of Sir Edmund (Ted) Happold. It acknowledges the role he played during a professional life spanning some 30 years, and examines the relationship between engineering, architecture and design.

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Page : pages
File Size : 20,22 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Medicine
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First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.

Author : Herbert A. Simon
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 36,20 MB
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262537532

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Herbert Simon's classic work on artificial intelligence in the expanded and updated third edition from 1996, with a new introduction by John E. Laird. Herbert Simon's classic and influential The Sciences of the Artificial declares definitively that there can be a science not only of natural phenomena but also of what is artificial. Exploring the commonalities of artificial systems, including economic systems, the business firm, artificial intelligence, complex engineering projects, and social plans, Simon argues that designed systems are a valid field of study, and he proposes a science of design. For this third edition, originally published in 1996, Simon added new material that takes into account advances in cognitive psychology and the science of design while confirming and extending the book's basic thesis: that a physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for intelligent action. Simon won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1978 for his research into the decision-making process within economic organizations and the Turing Award (considered by some the computer science equivalent to the Nobel) with Allen Newell in 1975 for contributions to artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing. The Sciences of the Artificial distills the essence of Simon's thought accessibly and coherently. This reissue of the third edition makes a pioneering work available to a new audience.