Joshua: 1696 books

Warfare in the Ancient World explores how civilizations and cultures made war on the battlefields of the Near East and Europe between the rise of civilization in Mesopotamia in the late fourth millenium BC and the fall of Rome.Through a exploration of twenty-six selected battles, military historian...

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到底該如何應用AI、找出創造新價值的機會？ 了解人工智慧最強大的力量，就在預測， 用經濟學的分析架構，設計出最佳的策略選擇！ 「AI 對你的企業有什麼意義？看這本書就知道。」 －－Google首席經濟學家哈爾．韋瑞安 自動駕駛、物體辨識、語言翻譯、詐騙偵測… AI的應用正快速滲入每一個領域，人工智慧大普及的時代即將來臨。但是，能夠利用AI脫穎而出的企業屈指可數。AI科技對企業到底有什麼影響？ 備受科技界與決策領導人推崇的多倫多大學羅特曼管理學院的三位教授艾格拉瓦、格恩斯、高德法布，是專門研究科技影響的經濟學家。在本書中，他們解答經理人該如何思考AI影響的各種問題。 ●對企業來說，AI到底是什麼？AI是預測的科技，而預測是決策的生產要素。 ●AI的關鍵影響是什麼？AI的重大經濟意義，就是使得預測變得更便宜。可以被人工智慧預測取代的都會貶值；與人工智慧預測互補的都會升值。未來無可取代的就是資料與判斷。 ●當預測便宜到人人可以負擔，企業的工作流程、事業規模與範圍、商業模式、策略選擇全都會改變。三位教授發展出一套評量AI策略的AI...

Children add joy, purpose, and meaning to our lives. They provide optimism, hope, and love. They bring smiles, laughter, and energy into our homes. They also add clutter. As parents, balancing life and managing clutter may appear impossible—or at the very least, never-ending. But what if...

A popular minimalist blogger and author of The More of Less shows you how to methodically turn your home into a place of peace, contentment, and purposeful living. One of today's most influential minimalist advocates takes us on a decluttering tour of our own houses and apartments, showing...

"This fascinating, massive, wide-ranging collection that editors Christopher K. Coffman and Daniel Lukes have gathered together into William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion will soon be recognized as one of those rare critical books for which that egregiously overused term 'groundbreaking' is fully...

Machines Like Us is part love story, part dreamscape, part exploration of self. For the characters (Speaker, Boy, and Historian), love is dangerous, disorienting, self-erasing. To understand themselves as individuals, they must investigate the boundaries separating each from the other.Boy finds a spot...

Earth Is The Lords is a riveting portrayal of a bygone culture of Jews in Eastern Europe by one of the foremost Jewish thinkers of the century.

Yoshe Kalb fu pubblicato inizialmente a puntate sul Jewish Daily Forward nel 1932 ed ebbe un successo clamoroso. Nello stesso anno l'opera venne pubblicata in volume a Varsavia e nel 1933 tradotta in inglese. È la storia di un uomo scomparso quindici anni prima in modo misterioso che riappare improvvisamente...

Lisbeth Salander, heroine of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and its sequels, is one of the most compelling, complex characters of our time. Is she an avenging angel? A dangerous outlaw? What makes Salander tick, and why is our response to her-and to Larsson’s Millennium trilogy-so...

TO UNDERSTAND a people—and through it, humankind—is to see its life whole. This has been a peculiarly difficult task where Jews are concerned, for the vision of the world has been obscured by darkly bias-tinted spectacles. If, on the one hand, Christological and anti-Semitic prejudices have revealed...

It's 1977. Jacob Green, a Jewish kid from suburban New Jersey, sits on the stairs during his family's housewarming party, waiting for his father, Abram--charming host, everyone's best friend, and amateur emcee--to introduce him to the crowd. Housewarming parties, Annie Hall parties, and bar mitzvah...

On Christmas Eve 1999, all the Jews in the world die in a strange, millennial plague, with the exception of the firstborn males, who are soon adopted by a cabal of powerful people in the American government. By the following Passover, however, only one is still alive: Benjamin Israelien; a kindly, innocent,...