Author: Ray Kurzweil
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140282023
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The inventor of the most innovative and compelling technology of our era, an international authority on artificial intelligence, and bestselling author of The Singularity is Nearer now offers a framework for envisioning the twenty-first century in The Age of Spiritual Machines--an age in which the marriage of human sensitivity and artificial intelligence fundamentally alters and improves the way we live. Kurzweil's prophetic blueprint for the future takes us through the advances that inexorably result in computers exceeding the memory capacity and computational ability of the human brain by the year 2020 (with human-level capabilities not far behind); in relationships with automated personalities who will be our teachers, companions, and lovers; and in information fed straight into our brains along direct neural pathways. Optimistic and challenging, thought-provoking and engaging, The Age of Spiritual Machines is the ultimate guide on our road into the next century.
The Age of Spiritual Machines
Author: Ray Kurzweil
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140282023
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The inventor of the most innovative and compelling technology of our era, an international authority on artificial intelligence, and bestselling author of The Singularity is Nearer now offers a framework for envisioning the twenty-first century in The Age of Spiritual Machines--an age in which the marriage of human sensitivity and artificial intelligence fundamentally alters and improves the way we live. Kurzweil's prophetic blueprint for the future takes us through the advances that inexorably result in computers exceeding the memory capacity and computational ability of the human brain by the year 2020 (with human-level capabilities not far behind); in relationships with automated personalities who will be our teachers, companions, and lovers; and in information fed straight into our brains along direct neural pathways. Optimistic and challenging, thought-provoking and engaging, The Age of Spiritual Machines is the ultimate guide on our road into the next century.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140282023
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The inventor of the most innovative and compelling technology of our era, an international authority on artificial intelligence, and bestselling author of The Singularity is Nearer now offers a framework for envisioning the twenty-first century in The Age of Spiritual Machines--an age in which the marriage of human sensitivity and artificial intelligence fundamentally alters and improves the way we live. Kurzweil's prophetic blueprint for the future takes us through the advances that inexorably result in computers exceeding the memory capacity and computational ability of the human brain by the year 2020 (with human-level capabilities not far behind); in relationships with automated personalities who will be our teachers, companions, and lovers; and in information fed straight into our brains along direct neural pathways. Optimistic and challenging, thought-provoking and engaging, The Age of Spiritual Machines is the ultimate guide on our road into the next century.
The Satanic Verses
Author: Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 030778665X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[A] torrent of endlessly inventive prose, by turns comic and enraged, embracing life in all its contradictions. In this spectacular novel, verbal pyrotechnics barely outshine its psychological truths.”—Newsday Winner of the Whitbread Prize One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie’s best-known and most galvanizing book. Set in a modern world filled with both mayhem and miracles, the story begins with a bang: the terrorist bombing of a London-bound jet in midflight. Two Indian actors of opposing sensibilities fall to earth, transformed into living symbols of what is angelic and evil. This is just the initial act in a magnificent odyssey that seamlessly merges the actual with the imagined. A book whose importance is eclipsed only by its quality, The Satanic Verses is a key work of our times. Praise for The Satanic Verses “Rushdie is a storyteller of prodigious powers, able to conjure up whole geographies, causalities, climates, creatures, customs, out of thin air.”—The New York Times Book Review “Exhilarating, populous, loquacious, sometimes hilarious, extraordinary . . . a roller-coaster ride over a vast landscape of the imagination.”—The Guardian (London) “A novel of metamorphoses, hauntings, memories, hallucinations, revelations, advertising jingles, and jokes. Rushdie has the power of description, and we succumb.”—The Times (London)
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 030778665X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[A] torrent of endlessly inventive prose, by turns comic and enraged, embracing life in all its contradictions. In this spectacular novel, verbal pyrotechnics barely outshine its psychological truths.”—Newsday Winner of the Whitbread Prize One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie’s best-known and most galvanizing book. Set in a modern world filled with both mayhem and miracles, the story begins with a bang: the terrorist bombing of a London-bound jet in midflight. Two Indian actors of opposing sensibilities fall to earth, transformed into living symbols of what is angelic and evil. This is just the initial act in a magnificent odyssey that seamlessly merges the actual with the imagined. A book whose importance is eclipsed only by its quality, The Satanic Verses is a key work of our times. Praise for The Satanic Verses “Rushdie is a storyteller of prodigious powers, able to conjure up whole geographies, causalities, climates, creatures, customs, out of thin air.”—The New York Times Book Review “Exhilarating, populous, loquacious, sometimes hilarious, extraordinary . . . a roller-coaster ride over a vast landscape of the imagination.”—The Guardian (London) “A novel of metamorphoses, hauntings, memories, hallucinations, revelations, advertising jingles, and jokes. Rushdie has the power of description, and we succumb.”—The Times (London)
Astro Mouse and Light Bulb Vol. 3
Author: Fermin Solis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1545811628
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Astro Mouse is depressed. He misses his family and home. They have been drifting in space for so long they hardly remember when they last saw Earth! Light Bulb, Lamp, Astro-Chicken and the soldiers from planet Bubblegum try to cheer their friend up. Nothing works until they find a strange planet that looks like…Wait! It’s Earth! Unfortunately, Earth has changed a lot and it’s overrun with dinosaurs…Where have our space heroes landed? Are they in the past or…the future? Will Astro Mouse reunite with his family ever again?
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1545811628
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Astro Mouse is depressed. He misses his family and home. They have been drifting in space for so long they hardly remember when they last saw Earth! Light Bulb, Lamp, Astro-Chicken and the soldiers from planet Bubblegum try to cheer their friend up. Nothing works until they find a strange planet that looks like…Wait! It’s Earth! Unfortunately, Earth has changed a lot and it’s overrun with dinosaurs…Where have our space heroes landed? Are they in the past or…the future? Will Astro Mouse reunite with his family ever again?
The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You Vol. 2
Author: Rikito Nakamura
Publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment
ISBN: 1685790453
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Aijo Rentaro has 100 soulmates! That's what the God of Love told him. That, and if he doesn't return their feelings, they'll die horrible deaths. Aijo is determined to save them all! But his next soulmate thinks love is an inefficient waste of time. What's the most efficient way to convince someone that love is valuable? This is a matter of life and death!
Publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment
ISBN: 1685790453
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Aijo Rentaro has 100 soulmates! That's what the God of Love told him. That, and if he doesn't return their feelings, they'll die horrible deaths. Aijo is determined to save them all! But his next soulmate thinks love is an inefficient waste of time. What's the most efficient way to convince someone that love is valuable? This is a matter of life and death!
Lola's Super Club Vol. 2
Author: Christine Beigel
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1545808481
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
Join Lola and her quirky and hilarious super club of crocodiles, sharks, dinosaurs (in undies), skeletons, and her cat Hot Dog, for a death-defying adventure to… her elementary school. When Lola’s teacher is out sick due to a “small accident,” a miserable substitute takes over her history class. Weird things start happening like resident Friendly Falls middle-aged villain, Max Imum, joining the class and calling the sub “Mommy,” students disappearing, and the class adding real monsters to the curriculum. Today’s lesson is simple… survive until the bell.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1545808481
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
Join Lola and her quirky and hilarious super club of crocodiles, sharks, dinosaurs (in undies), skeletons, and her cat Hot Dog, for a death-defying adventure to… her elementary school. When Lola’s teacher is out sick due to a “small accident,” a miserable substitute takes over her history class. Weird things start happening like resident Friendly Falls middle-aged villain, Max Imum, joining the class and calling the sub “Mommy,” students disappearing, and the class adding real monsters to the curriculum. Today’s lesson is simple… survive until the bell.
The dragon of unwise children
Author:
Publisher: Richard W Custer
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
Publisher: Richard W Custer
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
1947: the Greys’ Odyssey to Earth
Author: Gus V.
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1480884170
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
It is 2065, and a year has passed since the people of Earth formally established relations with several extraterrestrial races. Appearances suggest that a new age of peace, economic prosperity, and enlightenment has begun. One group of aliens in particular, the Greys, are an advanced and peaceful race. Human journalist C. A. Wyatt is in the process of writing a book about the Greys’ odyssey from their home world, planet Zeta, to Earth and their crash landing near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. Their journey begins with the invasion of Zeta in 1944 by an aggressive alien species called Reptoids, just as the Greys’ spaceship, Zeta’s Hope, is about to be launched on an expedition to the uninhabited planet of Avalonia with fifty colonists—made up of both Greys and their human-like allies from planet Amigo. As crew of the ship voyages to various planets, they face a variety of problems, both internal and external, but eventually they set out to meet the humans of Earth, hoping for form a new alliance. But when those plans go awry, the fates of the Greys and of humanity will change forever. In this science fiction novel, set in 2065, aliens known as Greys recall their journey to Earth in the 1940s through interviews with a human journalist.
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1480884170
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
It is 2065, and a year has passed since the people of Earth formally established relations with several extraterrestrial races. Appearances suggest that a new age of peace, economic prosperity, and enlightenment has begun. One group of aliens in particular, the Greys, are an advanced and peaceful race. Human journalist C. A. Wyatt is in the process of writing a book about the Greys’ odyssey from their home world, planet Zeta, to Earth and their crash landing near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. Their journey begins with the invasion of Zeta in 1944 by an aggressive alien species called Reptoids, just as the Greys’ spaceship, Zeta’s Hope, is about to be launched on an expedition to the uninhabited planet of Avalonia with fifty colonists—made up of both Greys and their human-like allies from planet Amigo. As crew of the ship voyages to various planets, they face a variety of problems, both internal and external, but eventually they set out to meet the humans of Earth, hoping for form a new alliance. But when those plans go awry, the fates of the Greys and of humanity will change forever. In this science fiction novel, set in 2065, aliens known as Greys recall their journey to Earth in the 1940s through interviews with a human journalist.
Astro Mouse and Light Bulb Vol. 1
Author: Fermin Solis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1545808023
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Join Astro Mouse, the insightful Light Bulb, and their… er… pet Caca, as they battle intergalactic potatoes, (delicious) astro chickens, and solve a civil war between mint and fruit flavored chewing gum. Getting lost in space has never been so ridiculous!
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1545808023
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Join Astro Mouse, the insightful Light Bulb, and their… er… pet Caca, as they battle intergalactic potatoes, (delicious) astro chickens, and solve a civil war between mint and fruit flavored chewing gum. Getting lost in space has never been so ridiculous!
Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Trademarks
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Trademarks
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
A Salty Piece of Land
Author: Jimmy Buffett
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0759512922
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
Wander to "where the song of the ocean / Meets the salty piece of land" with Tully Mars, washed up from Margaritaville and in the mood for monkeyshines, in a shimmering Caribbean epic by the late king of tropical rock, Jimmy Buffett. It's not on any chart, but the tropical island of Cayo Loco is the perfect place to run away from all your problems. Waking from a ganja buzz on the beach in Tulum, Tully can't believe his eyes when a 142-foot schooner emerges out of the ocean mist. At its helm is Cleopatra Highbourne, the eccentric 101-year-old sea captain who will take him to a lighthouse on a salty piece of land that will change his life forever. From a lovely sunset sail in Punta Margarita to a wild spring-break foam party in San Pedro, Tully encounters an assortment of treasure hunters, rock stars, sailors, seaplane pilots, pirates, and even a ghost or two.
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0759512922
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
Wander to "where the song of the ocean / Meets the salty piece of land" with Tully Mars, washed up from Margaritaville and in the mood for monkeyshines, in a shimmering Caribbean epic by the late king of tropical rock, Jimmy Buffett. It's not on any chart, but the tropical island of Cayo Loco is the perfect place to run away from all your problems. Waking from a ganja buzz on the beach in Tulum, Tully can't believe his eyes when a 142-foot schooner emerges out of the ocean mist. At its helm is Cleopatra Highbourne, the eccentric 101-year-old sea captain who will take him to a lighthouse on a salty piece of land that will change his life forever. From a lovely sunset sail in Punta Margarita to a wild spring-break foam party in San Pedro, Tully encounters an assortment of treasure hunters, rock stars, sailors, seaplane pilots, pirates, and even a ghost or two.