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Author | : J. Patrick Boyer |
Publisher | : Dundurn |
Total Pages | : 802 |
Release | : 2015-10-10 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1459724518 |
An inside account of the Progressive Conservative’s campaign organization. The Progressive Conservative Party’s “big blue machine” pioneered electoral techniques of centralized control, communications, campaign advertising, polling, policy-presentation, and fund-raising. Inspired by Dalton Camp and Norman Atkins, its widespread yet close-knit network of organizers and specialists changed how Canadian campaigns were fought, even as their “political machine” transformed Canadian public life itself. J. Patrick Boyer’s behind-the-scenes account reveals how and why the blue machine’s campaign innovations (most imported from the U.S.) transformed Canadian politics forever. Boyer’s direct experience in these changes, and interviews with key players from Tory backrooms, enrich his authentic and timely account. This saga of the formidable campaign organization operating inside the Progressive Conservative Party for more than four decades shows why the big blue machine deservedly became a Canadian political legend.
Author | : Helen Czerski |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2023-10-03 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1324006722 |
A scientist’s exploration of the “ocean engine”—the physics behind the ocean’s systems—and why it matters. All of Earth’s oceans, from the equator to the poles, are a single engine powered by sunlight, driving huge flows of energy, water, life, and raw materials. In The Blue Machine, physicist and oceanographer Helen Czerski illustrates the mechanisms behind this defining feature of our planet, voyaging from the depths of the ocean floor to tropical coral reefs, estuaries that feed into shallow coastal seas, and Arctic ice floes. Through stories of history, culture, and animals, she explains how water temperature, salinity, gravity, and the movement of Earth’s tectonic plates all interact in a complex dance, supporting life at the smallest scale—plankton—and the largest—giant sea turtles, whales, humankind. Most importantly, however, Czerski reveals that while the ocean engine has sustained us for thousands of years, today it is faced with urgent threats. By understanding how the ocean works, and its essential role in our global system, we can learn how to protect our blue machine.
Author | : Bruce Pandolfini |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1997-10-16 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 068484852X |
This account of the chess match between world champion Garry Kasparov and the IBM chess program, Deep Blue, offers a game-by-game analysis with explanations of every move. The book also ponders the history and future of artificial intelligence and questions what caused Kasparov's defeat.
Author | : David Goodman |
Publisher | : H3 Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1997-01-01 |
Genre | : Games |
ISBN | : 9781888281064 |
Author | : Natsuya Uesugi |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2010-09-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1453564160 |
Riuho and Faid escape from the Psi Faction and go to the Packrats for refuge. Faid unfortunately loses control of his psi and must return when he goes psi crit. Riuho becomes the interim leader of the Packrats and joins the Terror Hack in an attack against the SenseNet and the Zone Police. They infi ltrate the SenseNet and take down the installation and steal the kedek cell that allows mobile frames to teleport. Feeling a bad turn on the horizon, Riuho has his memory wiped to protect the Packrats secrets and leaves the Sprawl and goes up against Lino who is sent to capture him and bring him back to the Psi Faction. After a drawn out psychic battle Riuho is captured and they go about the painful process of reinstating his memory. Riuho is rescued from the Psi Faction by the Packrats and then goes on a rampage against Lino using the Packrats as his personal army to settle the vendetta with his half-brother. The Terror Hack along with the Packrats set off a bomb in the City that kills Linos mother. Lino is dead set to get revenge on Riuho, but Riuho has another plan in mind to violate Lino and take away his freedoms.
Author | : Garry Kasparov |
Publisher | : PublicAffairs |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2017-05-02 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 1610397878 |
Garry Kasparov's 1997 chess match against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue was a watershed moment in the history of technology. It was the dawn of a new era in artificial intelligence: a machine capable of beating the reigning human champion at this most cerebral game. That moment was more than a century in the making, and in this breakthrough book, Kasparov reveals his astonishing side of the story for the first time. He describes how it felt to strategize against an implacable, untiring opponent with the whole world watching, and recounts the history of machine intelligence through the microcosm of chess, considered by generations of scientific pioneers to be a key to unlocking the secrets of human and machine cognition. Kasparov uses his unrivaled experience to look into the future of intelligent machines and sees it bright with possibility. As many critics decry artificial intelligence as a menace, particularly to human jobs, Kasparov shows how humanity can rise to new heights with the help of our most extraordinary creations, rather than fear them. Deep Thinking is a tightly argued case for technological progress, from the man who stood at its precipice with his own career at stake.
Author | : Florence + the Machine |
Publisher | : Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-10 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781495021619 |
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). This songbook features all 11 tracks from the British singer/songwriter's 2015 album, plus 3 special deluxe edition bonus songs: Caught * Delilah * Hiding * How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful * Long & Lost * Make up Your Mind * Mother * Queen of Peace * St. Jude * Ship to Wreck * Third Eye * Various Storms and Saints * What Kind of Man * Which Witch.
Author | : Max Fisher |
Publisher | : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 419 |
Release | : 2022-09-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0316703311 |
Finalist for the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism From a New York Times investigative reporter, this “authoritative and devastating account of the impacts of social media” (New York Times Book Review) tracks the high-stakes inside story of how Big Tech’s breakneck race to drive engagement—and profits—at all costs fractured the world. The Chaos Machine is “an essential book for our times” (Ezra Klein). We all have a vague sense that social media is bad for our minds, for our children, and for our democracies. But the truth is that its reach and impact run far deeper than we have understood. Building on years of international reporting, Max Fisher tells the gripping and galling inside story of how Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social network preyed on psychological frailties to create the algorithms that drive everyday users to extreme opinions and, increasingly, extreme actions. As Fisher demonstrates, the companies’ founding tenets, combined with a blinkered focus on maximizing engagement, have led to a destabilized world for everyone. Traversing the planet, Fisher tracks the ubiquity of hate speech and its spillover into violence, ills that first festered in far-off locales, to their dark culmination in America during the pandemic, the 2020 election, and the Capitol Insurrection. Through it all, the social-media giants refused to intervene in any meaningful way, claiming to champion free speech when in fact what they most prized were limitless profits. The result, as Fisher shows, is a cultural shift toward a world in which people are polarized not by beliefs based on facts, but by misinformation, outrage, and fear. His narrative is about more than the villains, however. Fisher also weaves together the stories of the heroic outsiders and Silicon Valley defectors who raised the alarm and revealed what was happening behind the closed doors of Big Tech. Both panoramic and intimate, The Chaos Machine is the definitive account of the meteoric rise and troubled legacy of the tech titans, as well as a rousing and hopeful call to arrest the havoc wreaked on our minds and our world before it’s too late.
Author | : Helen Czerski |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2017-01-10 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0393248976 |
“[Czerski’s] quest to enhance humanity’s everyday scientific literacy is timely and imperative.”—Science Storm in a Teacup is Helen Czerski’s lively, entertaining, and richly informed introduction to the world of physics. Czerski provides the tools to alter the way we see everything around us by linking ordinary objects and occurrences, like popcorn popping, coffee stains, and fridge magnets, to big ideas like climate change, the energy crisis, or innovative medical testing. She provides answers to vexing questions: How do ducks keep their feet warm when walking on ice? Why does it take so long for ketchup to come out of a bottle? Why does milk, when added to tea, look like billowing storm clouds? In an engaging voice at once warm and witty, Czerski shares her stunning breadth of knowledge to lift the veil of familiarity from the ordinary.
Author | : Russell Rice |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1988 |
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