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Future Shock Author:  Alvin Toffler   Future Shock  is about the present. Future Shock is about what is happening today to people and groups who are overwhelmed by change. Change affects our products, communities, organizations—even our patterns of friendship and love. Future Shock  vividly describes the emerging global civilization: tomorrow’s family life, the rise of new businesses, subcultures, life-styles, and human relationships—all of them temporary.  Future Shock  illuminates the world of tomorrow by exploding countless clichés about today.  Future Shock  will intrigue, provoke, frighten, encourage, and, above all,  change  everyone who reads it.  

Artificial Intelligence: A New Synthesis Author:  Nilsson  Intelligent agents are employed as the central characters in this new introductory text. Beginning with elementary reactive agents, Nilsson gradually increases their cognitive horsepower to illustrate the most important and lasting ideas in Al. Neural networks, genetic programming, computer vision, heuristic search, knowledge representation and reasoning, Bayes networks, planning, and language understanding are each revealed through the growing capabilities of these agents. The book provides a refreshing and motivating new synthesis of the field by one of Al's master expositors and leading researchers. Artificial Intelligence: A New Synthesis takes the reader on a complete tour of this intriguing new world of Al. Features: An evolutionary approach as a unifying theme, Thorough coverage of important Al ideas, old and new, Frequent use of examples and illustrative diagrams, Extensive coverage of machine learning m

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Authors:    Kevin Knight  ,  Elaine Rich and B. Nair This book presents both theoretical foundations of AI and an indication of the ways that current techniques can be used in application programs. With the revision, most of the content has been preserved as it is, and an effort has been put in on adding new topics that are in sync with the recent developments in this field.

Outliers: The Story of Success Author:  Malcolm Gladwell When a journalist looks for facts and connections between people who are a huge success, the outcome is always interesting. Malcolm Gladwell wrote his third book ‘Outliers: The story of success’ after extensive research and many interviews. If one thinks about it, is it possible to find a pattern in all the success stories of the world? Is it lies that take you ahead on your journey or is it just destiny and hard work? This book is honest, audacious and direct. The book starts with discussing why all Canadian Ice hockey players are born in the first half of the calendar and he goes on to evaluate the opportunities that came to Bill Gates and other celebrities. This book was debuted at number one in New York time's bestsellers list. The author talks about the "10-000 hour rule", where he claims that to be successful and excellent at any skill, you need a practice of 10-000 hours. It was very well receiv