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Awkward intelligence :where AI goes wrong, why it matters, and what we can do…
"If you want to know what artificial intelligence can do and what it cannot do, in this book you will find all the information that you need in an entertaining fashion. The book covers mysterious terms like algorithm and machine learning, in an approachable manner. It enables you to join the discussions on good and bad AI: Do we want machines to judge your face? Is image recognition by the comp…
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Economics in the Age of COVID-19
A guide to the pandemic economy: essential reading about the long-term implications of our current crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed a firehose of information (much of it wrong) and an avalanche of opinions (many of them ill-founded). Most of us are so distracted by the everyday awfulness that we don't see the broader issues in play. In this book, economist Joshua Gans steps back from…
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A woman's right to know :pregnancy testing in twentieth-century Britain
"Tells the story of pregnancy testing-one of the most significant and least studied technologies of reproduction"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Work without jobs :how to reboot your organization's work operating system
"A practical guide for business leaders to rethink work so that it is organized around "tasks" more than "jobs.""--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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The new fire :war, peace, and Democracy in the age of AI
"Is AI a force for ill or for good? How does it work? This book analyzes the potential of AI in many sectors, including global security"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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What's that smell :a philosophy of the olfactory
How our sense of smell engages with philosophy, psychoanalysis, and political economy -- and how it can help enrich our understanding of the nature of truth, language, economy, and sexuality. Why is it that, in Indo-European languages at least, we have no language to describe smells, leaving us (and famously Juliet) no choice but to call the scent of a rose simply "sweet" In What's That Smell ,…
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Viruses, pandemics, and immunity
Includes index."Informed and accessible overview of viruses and pandemics, how our immune system combats them, and how diagnostic tests, vaccines, and antiviral therapies work to form the foundation of public health"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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The evidence liberal arts needs :lives of consequence, inquiry, and accomplis…
"Detweiler's research statistically tests the relationship between specific liberal arts practices and later adult life, and considers the implications of those findings for higher education"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Constructing student mobility :how universities recruit students and shape pa…
"The book examines how the higher education sectors in California and South Korea have created new admissions pathways for South Korean students, reframing student mobility as not solely an individual pursuit but one shaped by institutional opportunities"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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The human disease :how we create pandemics, from our bodies to our beliefs
"The COVID pandemic won't be our last because what makes us human also makes us vulnerable to pandemics; as this book explains, though, if we are the problem, then we're also the solution"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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