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1. Physical intelligence: the science of how the body and the mind guide each other through life

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Author:
Grafton, Scott T.
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date:
[2020]
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English
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2. Physical and Chemical Bases of Intelligence and Cognition

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Author:
Day-Brown, Jonathan D.
Publisher:
Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date:
2018
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English
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Gale Researcher Guide for: Physical and Chemical Bases of Intelligence and Cognition is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

3. Complexity Challenges in Cyber Physical Systems: Using Modeling and Simulation (M&S) to Support Intelligence, Adaptation and Autonomy

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Wiley
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2020
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English
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Offers a one-stop reference on the application of advanced modeling and simulation (M&S) in cyber physical systems (CPS) engineering. This book provides the state-of-the-art in methods and technologies that aim to elaborate on the modeling and simulation support to cyber physical systems (CPS) engineering across many sectors such as healthcare, smart grid, or smart home. It presents a compilation of simulation-based methods, technologies, and approaches...

4. Quantum Physics and Artificial Intelligence in the 21st Century - Lessons Learned From China

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Author:
Krikke, Jan
Publisher:
Joshua Books
Pub. Date:
2021
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English
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Chinese inventions like the magnetic compass, gunpowder, seismograph, and paper money changed the world. Physicists like Niels Bohr and author Fritjof Capra (The Tao of Physics) have shown that the Chinese conceptually also anticipated the quantum physics.A closer look shows that the Chinese also anticipated the binary logic that forms the basis of digital computing and Artificial Intelligence. In an engaging and accessible style, this book sheds...

5. Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy

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2012
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English
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At the height of the Cold War, a precarious operation goes deadly wrong, and the head of British Intelligence wonders if a double agent is leaking vital secrets. Brought out of retirement to expose the potential mole, master spy George Smiley is the only one who can be trusted to expose one of their own. Or can he? As the emotional and physical tolls mount on the high-ranking suspects, Smiley will be forced into the ultimate international spy game...

6. All the light we cannot see: a novel

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Author:
Doerr, Anthony, 1973-
Pub. Date:
2014
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English
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"From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six,...

7. The mysterious Benedict Society

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Author:
Stewart, Trenton Lee
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Mysterious Benedict Society volume 1
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English
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After passing a series of mind-bending tests, four children are selected for a secret mission that requires them to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only rule is that there are no rules.

8. Jane Eyre

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Author:
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855
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840L
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English
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This is a story of a woman of passion and intelligence who refuses to be satisfied with her "place" in society, and asserts her identity and aspirations with defiance and dignity. In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret.

9. The soul of an octopus: a surprising exploration into the wonder of consciousness

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Montgomery, Sy
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English
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"An investigation of the emotional and physical world of the octopus"--

10. The one man

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Gross, Andrew, 1952-
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"1944. Physics professor Alfred Mendl is separated from his family and sent to the men's camp, where all of his belongings are tossed on a roaring fire. His books, his papers, his life's work. The Nazis have no idea what they have just destroyed. And without that physical record, Alfred is one of only two people in the world with his particular knowledge. Knowledge that could start a war, or end it. Nathan Blum works behind a desk at an intelligence...

11. Teach yourself electricity and electronics

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Gibilisco, Stan
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"A fully updated, easy-to-follow guide to electricity and electronicsTeach Yourself Electricity and Electronics, Fifth Edition helps you grasp the fundamentals of electricity and electronics--including theory--without formal training. Concise content along with a conversational writing tone enhance the pedagogy. Beginners and intermediate students will benefit most, but engineers and technicians will find this work useful as well. Practical, real-world...

12. Elon Musk

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Isaacson, Walter
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"From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era--a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter"--

13. Ethan Frome and other stories

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Author:
Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937
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Dover thrift editions
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1090L
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English
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4 stars
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Upon encountering the limping Ethan Frome, a visitor becomes curious about the striking man's back story. Using extended flashbacks, author Edith Wharton paints a picture of a man who continually sacrifices his aspirations in order to care for the needy people in his life. After abandoning his goal of higher education to assist his ailing parents on their farm, Ethan's return to Starkfield results in a loveless marriage of service to Zeena, an older...

14. A perfect life: a novel

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Steel, Danielle
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Brilliance Audio on compact disc
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"A heartwarming and inspirational novel about a mother and daughter who face challenges, cope with celebrity, and overcome tragedy while maintaining the outward appearance of . . . A Perfect Life. The epitome of intelligence, high-powered energy, and grace, Blaise McCarthy is an icon in the world of television news, asking the tough questions and taking on the emotionally charged issues of world affairs and politics with courage and insight. A single...

15. Tarzan of the apes

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Author:
Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950
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Dover thrift editions
Oxford world's classics
Tarzan volume 1
Tantor unabridged classics
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1200L
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English
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3 stars
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A central figure in American popular culture, Tarzan first came swinging through the jungle in the pages of a pulp-fiction magazine in 1912, and subsequently appeared in the novel that went on to spawn numerous film, full-length cartoon, and theatrical adaptations. The infant Tarzan, lost on the coast of West Africa, is adopted by an ape-mother and grows up to become a model of physical strength and natural prowess, and eventually leader of his tribe....

16. Uncommon type: some stories

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Author:
Hanks, Tom
Pub. Date:
2017
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English
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"A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country's civil war. A man who loves to bowl rolls a perfect game--and then another and then another and then many more in a row until he winds up ESPN's newest celebrity, and he must decide if the combination of perfection and celebrity has ruined the thing he loves. An eccentric billionaire and his faithful executive assistant...

17. The sea-wolf

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Author:
London, Jack, 1876-1916
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World's best reading
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1020L
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English
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An epic of action-filled excitement. Rescued from drowning, a pampered gentlleman awakes in a special kind of hell. He's aboard the Ghost, a sealing schooner outbound for months of hunting. Wolf Larson, the devilish captain, a feindish crew, the cruel sea, and unlikely love make this tale immortal.

18. Physics of the future: how science will shape human destiny and our daily lives by the year 2100

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Author:
Kaku, Michio
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1200L
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English
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The New York Times bestselling author of "Physics of the Impossible" offers a stunning and provocative vision of the future and explains how science will shape human destiny and everyone's daily life by the year 2100.

19. Of human bondage

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Author:
Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965
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Everyman's library volume 369
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Modern Library classics
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English
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From a tormented orphan with a clubfoot, Philip Carey grows into an impressionable young man with a voracious appetite for adventure and knowledge. His cravings take him to Paris at age eighteen to try his hand at art, then back to London to study medicine. But even so, nothing can sate his nagging hunger for experience. Then he falls obsessively in love, embarking on a disastrous relationship that will change his life forever.

20. Shadows in flight

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Author:
Card, Orson Scott
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Ender Wiggin Shadow Saga
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English
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Ender's Shadow explores the stars in this all-new novel...
At the end of Shadow of the Giant, Bean flees to the stars with three of his children—the three who share the engineered genes that gave him both hyper-intelligence and a short, cruel physical life. The time dilation granted by the speed of their travel gives Earth's scientists generations to seek a cure, to no avail. In time, they are forgotten—a fading ansible signal

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