Alex: 4765 books

A Leading Figure in the Development of the New Cosmology Explains What It All Means Among his peers, Alex Vilenkin is regarded as one of the most imaginative and creative cosmologists of our time. His contributions to our current understanding of the universe include a number of novel ideas,...

Lee Kuan Yew: The Critical Years (197178) is a facsimile edition of Alex Joseys second masterful account of Singapores formidable prime minister, first published in 1980 and simply titled Lee Kuan Yew Vol 2. In this volume, Josey tells the continuing story of Singapores remarkable development from the...

Sexy Asian Bikini Book 2, a photo book collection of sexy asian woman in sexy bikini with high quality of photography

商業周刊1617期書摘推薦 一本書，讓你我思考新科技的現在與未來， 指引我們如何善用新科技，做出更好的選擇。 ★《人工智慧的未來》作者雷．庫茲威爾、微軟執行長薩帝亞．納德拉一致推薦★ ★本書入圍《金融時報》和麥肯錫2017年度最佳商業圖書獎名單★ 透過物聯網，你家的磅秤向你家的冰箱「告狀」，叫它「鎖起來」， 不要再讓你拿冰箱中起司蛋糕，因為你體重已經嚴重超標。 藉由生物科技，你可以「篩選」更聰明的寶寶。 孩子入學後，老師竟然「不是人」，而是具有人工智慧的化身， 依據學生的程度和喜好，每個人都有不同的客製化課表。 物聯網、人工智慧、機器人、生物科技和無人載具科技（自動駕駛的汽車、飛機或船舶等）， 這些新科技推陳出新的速度愈來愈快，能讓人類的生活更健康、更方便。 不過，我們也因此面臨陷入失業、隱私不保、富人掌控新科技與違反道德等問題。 面對這些新科技，人類必須做出選擇，而這些選擇， 對於未來的科技與商業發展，還有我們的生活又會造成什麼影響？ 本書作者費維克．華德瓦（Vivek...

The most innovative and creative screenwriting book yet, from an author who knows first-hand what it takes to get a movie made. Based on an award-winning website hailed as "smart enough for professional screenwriters and accessible enough for aspiring screenwriters", Crafty Screenwriting...

Of all the states in the Confederacy, Tennessee was the most sectionally divided. East Tennesseans opposed secession at the ballot box in 1861, petitioned unsuccessfully for separate statehood, resisted the Confederate government, enlisted in Union militias, elected U.S. congressmen, and fled as refugees...

Welcome to the world of the Project, where things are seldom as they seem. Small, effective, lethal, the Project is a deep black counter terrorism team reporting only to the president. The Project Series, Books 1-3 presents the Project's first three missions, complete, as they happened.  In...

2016 Winner of the Gospel Coalition Book Awards At the time of his death, Christopher Hitchens was the most notorious atheist in the world.  And yet, all was not as it seemed.  “Nobody is not a divided self, of course,” he once told an interviewer, “but I think it’s rather strong...

Today the classics of the western canon, written by the proverbial “dead white men,” are cannon fodder in the culture wars. But in the 1950s and 1960s, they were a pop culture phenomenon. The Great Books of Western Civilization, fifty-four volumes chosen by intellectuals at the University of Chicago,...

One killer: A psychopath who flies under the radar, moving from city to city, preying on the lost and forgotten. Three investigators: Detective Stacy Killian from the New Orleans P.D., Nashville homicide lieutenant Taylor Jackson, and FBI profiler Maggie O'Dell--who witnessed some of the worst. And...

The assassination of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander "Sasha" Litvinenko in November 2006 -- poisoned by the rare radioactive element polonium -- caused an international sensation. Within a few short weeks, the fit forty-three-year-old lay gaunt, bald, and dying in a hospital, the victim...

"The authors have done a commendable and impressive job of addressing a topic of long-lasting and increasing significance in U.S. politics." ---F. Chris Garcia, University of New Mexico "This is a path-breaking book that will be read across disciplines beyond political science." ---James...

In 2006, the Wall Street pioneer and philanthropist Ray Chambers flicked through some holiday snapshots taken by his friend, development economist Jeff Sachs, and remarked on the placid beauty of a group of sleeping Malawian children. “They're not sleeping,” Sachs told him. “They're in malarial...

What is it to pursue a goal, to strive for an ideal, to follow a dream? These are the questions explored by The Balvenie in this unique collection compiled by award-winning novelist Alex Preston. The stories - from some of the brightest and most exciting voices writing today - tell of determination,...