Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages

Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages
Author: Sonya Newland
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Bronze age
ISBN:

Travel back to the time of the stone, bronze and iron ages! What was Britain like over 6,000 years ago? Who lived on the island and what was it like? Explore these ancient civilisations to understand how prehistoric people have influenced the way we live today. Discover the artefacts that give evidence of their way of life.

The Stick and Stone Age

The Stick and Stone Age
Author: Jacqui Bailey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Evolution (Biology)
ISBN: 9781553370833

A non-fiction book for children

Set In Stone

Set In Stone
Author: Linda Newbery
Publisher: David Fickling Books
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2009-02-04
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 030754558X

When Samuel Godwin, a young and naive art tutor, accepts a job with the Farrow family at their majestic home, little does he expect to come across a place containing such secrets and lies. His two tutees are as different as can be--younger sister Marianne, full of flightiness and nervous imagination, and Juliana, sensible and controlled. Helped by their governess, Charlotte Agnew, Samuel begins to uncover slowly why Marianne is so emotionally fragile, and in doing so uncovers a web of intrigue. But his discoveries lead to revenge and betrayal--and lives all around are turned upside down. Linda Newbery has written a novel in diary style, combining different voices and a different century with her usual brilliance and ease. These are characters full of the same passions as our own today, while living in an unfamiliar and fascinating time.

The Substance of Civilization

The Substance of Civilization
Author: Stephen L. Sass
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2011-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1611454018

Demonstrates the way in which the discovery, application, and adaptation of materials has shaped the course of human history and the routines of our daily existence.

Your Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age

Your Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age
Author: Richard E. Cytowic
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2024-10-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0262379112

An award-winning neurologist on the Stone-Age roots of our screen addictions, and what to do about them. The human brain hasn’t changed much since the Stone Age, let alone in the mere thirty years of the Screen Age. That’s why, according to neurologist Richard Cytowic—who, Oliver Sacks observed, “changed the way we think of the human brain”—our brains are so poorly equipped to resist the incursions of Big Tech: They are programmed for the wildly different needs of a prehistoric world. In Your Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age, Cytowic explains exactly how this programming works—from the brain’s point of view. What he reveals in this book shows why we are easily addicted to screen devices; why young, developing brains are particularly vulnerable; why we need silence; and what we can do to push back. In the engaging storytelling style of his popular TED Talk, Cytowic draws an easily comprehensible picture of the Stone Age brain’s workings—the function of neurotransmitters like dopamine in basic instincts for survival such as desire and reward; the role of comparison in emotion, and emotion in competition; and, most significantly, the orienting reflex, one of the unconscious circuits that automatically focus, shift, and sustain attention. Given this picture, the nature of our susceptibility to digital devices becomes clear, along with the possibility of how to break their spell. Full of practical actions that we can start taking right away, Your Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age offers compelling evidence that we can change the way we use technology, resist its addictive power over us, and take back the control we have lost.

The Stone Age

The Stone Age
Author: Lesley-Ann Jones
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2022-08-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1639362061

An acclaimed rock and roll journalist evokes the legacy of The Rolling Stones—iconic, granitic, commercially unstoppable as a collective; and fascinating, contradictory, and occasionally disturbing as individuals. As Lesley-Ann Jones writes, the Rolling Stones are "still roaming the globe like rusty tanks without a war to go to. Jumping, jacking, flashing, posturing, these septuagenarian caricatures with faces that might have been microwaved but coming on like eternal thirty-year-olds.” On 12th July 1962, the Rollin’ Stones performed their first-ever gig at London’s Marquee jazz club. Down the line, a ‘g’ was added, a spark was lit and their destiny was sealed. No going back. These five white British kids set out to play the music of black America. They honed a style that bled bluesy undertones into dark insinuations of women, sex, and drugs. Denounced as ‘corruptors of youth’ and ‘messengers of the devil,’ they created some of the most thrilling music ever recorded. Now their sound and attitude seem louder and more influential than ever. Elvis is dead and the Beatles are over, but Jagger and Richards bestride the world. The Stones may be gathering moss, but on they roll. Yet how did the ultimate anti-establishment misfits become the global brand we know today? Who were the casualties, and what are the forgotten legacies? Can the artist ever be truly divisible from the art? Lesley-Ann Jones’s new history tracks this contradictory, disturbing, granitic and unstoppable band through hope, glory and exile, into the juggernaut years and beyond into rock’s ongoing reckoning . . . where the Stones seem more at odds than ever with the values and heritage against which they have always rebelled. Good, bad, and often ugly, here are the Rolling Stones as never seen before.

Stone Age Code

Stone Age Code
Author: Shane Neeley
Publisher: Fort Rock Media
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2021-04-03
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1736266942

Making Coding and Machine Learning Fun: Use Your Evolutionary History to Your Advantage, Learn All About AI & Have a Blast Doing So! Praise for Stone Age Code: “The book is simply brilliant and genuine, so friendly and stimulating!” — Emiliano Bruner, Ph.D., Hominid Paleoneurology Researcher, Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (Spain) “A charming, informative, and thought-provoking read.” — Adam Cornford, poet, journalist, and a great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin. “My overall impression as a lifelong professor of literature is that this book is engaging, humorous, thought-provoking, creatively written, and artistically inspired.” — Alwin Baum, Ph.D., Professor of Literature, California State University Throughout this book, you will gain an understanding of deep learning with neural nets, natural language generation, and AI art. But don’t worry; as technical as it may sound, Shane Neeley delivers these complex topics in an entertaining manner. Contrary to popular belief, you can code even if you’re bad at math. Containing no equations or code, this book still teaches machine learning literacy, and in an amusing way. Now’s your chance to become an AI forefather to future generations. Or just become inspired to build a funny robot that says strange things! Computational creativity and humor is here and fun to play with. Would you like to explore the exciting world of AI and machine learning without boring examples? What if I said you can learn and master these subjects and laugh at the same time? What if I told you that you evolved to code? Here’s a small preview into chapters of this unique book: Chapter 1: A Greater Ape Approaches Chapter 2: Natural Language Selection Chapter 4: How to Rear Machines (Part 1) Chapter 6: You Don’t Need Permission Chapter 10: Computational Creativity and the AI’s Audience Chapter 13: First Deployment Chapter 14: Monkey Business Strategy Chapter 15: Being an AI’s Dad And much more! (20 chapters and 18 robot-written excerpts in total) Fake Praise for Stone Age Code, written by AI: “Shane Neeley, data scientist, biologist, and bestselling author of High Frequency and Data Density, answers each and every AI question you’ve ever asked.” — Acclaim-Writing-Robot “Book of the year (so far).” — Acclaim-Writing-Robot “Read it, laugh at it, and move on.” — Acclaim-Writing-Robot Scroll up, click on “Buy”, and Get Your Copy Now!