It is no secret that the world is drowning in text and data. This causes real problems for everyday users who need to make sense of all the information available, and software engineers who want to make their text-based applications more useful and user-friendly. Whether you're building a search engine for a corporate website, automatically organizing email, or extracting impor...(展开全部)

The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Think Like a Monk offers a revelatory guide to every stage of romance, drawing on ancient wisdom and new science. Nobody sits us down and teaches us how to love. So we're often thrown into relationships with nothing but romance movies and pop culture to help us muddle through. Until now. Instead of presenting love as an ethereal co...(展开全部)

Mankind now has within its grasp the power to synthesize true artificial life, playing out Dr Frankenstein's dream in both cyberspace and the real world. In this book, Steve Grand, a leading exponent of artificial life, provides the first authoritative and comprehensive tour of the frontiers of this burgeoning new creation. He surveys what has been achieved so far and looks at ...(展开全部)

This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquityand reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovationand facilitating unsettling new kinds of control. IPods, iPhones, Xboxes, and ...(展开全部)

Working mostly alone, almost single-handedly writing 250,000 lines of computer code, Steve Grand produced Creatures[registered], a revolutionary computer game that allows players to create living beings complete with brains, genes, and hormonal systems - creatures that live and breathe and breed in real time on an ordinary desktop computer. Enormously successful, the game inevi...(展开全部)

Working mostly alone, almost single-handedly writing 250,000 lines of computer code, Steve Grand produced Creatures®, a revolutionary computer game that allowed players to create living beings complete with brains, genes, and hormonal systems--creatures that would live and breathe and breed in real time on an ordinary desktop computer. Enormously successful, the game inevit...(展开全部)

Proofs play a central role in advanced mathematics and theoretical computer science, and this bestselling texts' third edition will help students transition from solving problems to proving theorems by teaching them the techniques needed to read and write proofs, with a new chapter on number theory and 150+ new exercises.

A life-affirming book about the British countryside, the cycle of nature, solitude and contentment, through the prism of a brilliant new nature writer’s experience working as a traditional mole-catcher, and why he gave it up. I have been catching moles in gardens and farms for years and I have decided that I am not going to do it any more. Molecatching is a traditional skill th...(展开全部)

You have a genie that will grant your wishes. But, your genie will not grant wishes simply by rubbing a lamp or uncorking a magical bottle. The genie is your subconscious mind, and you must know how to it works and how to use it before it will be your powerful servant. This book is your instruction manual. The Genie Within is not "feel-good" stories and "have-faith" platitudes....(展开全部)

Informal, friendly, and humorous, this little book has inspired thousands since its 1925 publication. Its practical examples show how positive attitudes can make you a "winner" in life. Self-improvement expert Norman Vincent Peale endorsed it as an essential guide, helping readers to "find prosperity, solve problems, have better health."