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A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World

A sweeping narrative history of world trade--from Mesopotamia in 3000 B.C. to the firestorm over globalization today--that brilliantly explores trade's colorful and contentious past and provides new insights into its future

Adam Smith wrote that man has an intrinsic "propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for...

The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century

With his classics of social commentary The Geography of Nowhere and Home from Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler has established himself as one of the great commentators on American space and place. Now, with The Long Emergency, he offers a shocking vision of a post-oil future. As a result of artificially cheap fossil-fuel energy, we have...

Dr.Riemann's Zeros
Dr.Riemann's Zeros

In 1859 Bernhard Riemann, a shy German mathematician, wrote an eight-page article, suggesting an answer to a problem that had long puzzled mathematicians. For the next 150 years, the world's mathematicians have longed to confirm the Riemann hypothesis. So great is the interest in its solution that in 2001, an American foundation offered a...

Computer Vision and Action Recognition: A Guide for Image Processing and Computer Vision Community for Action Understanding
Computer Vision and Action Recognition: A Guide for Image Processing and Computer Vision Community for Action Understanding

The book is about computer vision and action recognition & understanding. If you have a basic knowledge on image processing and would like to study or to do research on action/activity understanding and recognition in computer vision and related arenas – then this is the book for you!

Throughout my endeavor to write...

Agent-based Ubiquitous Computing (Atlantis Ambient and Pervasive Intelligence)
Agent-based Ubiquitous Computing (Atlantis Ambient and Pervasive Intelligence)
Ubiquitous computing names the third wave in computing, where the personal computing era appears when technology recedes into the background of our lives. The widespread use of new mobile technology implementing wireless communications such as personal digital assistants (PDAs) and smart phones enables a new type of advanced...
Proceedings of the Second Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (Arlington, March 2009)
Proceedings of the Second Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (Arlington, March 2009)
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) research focuses on the original and ultimate goal of AI – to create broad human-like and transhuman intelligence, by exploring all available paths, including theoretical and experimental computer science, cognitive science, neuroscience, and innovative interdisciplinary methodologies....
Integration of World Knowledge for Natural Language Understanding (Atlantis Thinking Machines)
Integration of World Knowledge for Natural Language Understanding (Atlantis Thinking Machines)

This book concerns non-linguistic knowledge required to perform computational natural language understanding (NLU). The main objective of the book is to show that inference-based NLU has the potential for practical large scale applications. First, an introduction to research areas relevant for NLU is given. We review approaches to linguistic...

Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam

“An extraordinary feat of journalism . . . full of emotion and color.”―Karl Marlantes, Wall Street Journal

The first battle book from Mark Bowden since his #1 New York Times bestseller Black Hawk Down, Hue 1968 is the story of the centerpiece of the Tet Offensive and a turning...

 
   
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