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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 learn...

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...

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference Author:  Malcolm Gladwell The Tipping Point is an international bestseller and the debut book of Malcolm Gladwell. Gladwell was first published by Little Brown in 2000. The book tries to explain and describe the secretive sociological changes that affect our everyday lives. The book also talks about the psychological and sociological behaviour of humans. In this book the author says that ‘’ ideas and products, messages and behaviours spread like viruses do’’, for example Hush Puppies shoes were a popular brand in 1970’s, but later became a local fashion amongst the people. Afterwards numerous fashion designers merged the shoes in their shows. This book talks about many problems that people face in societies and in families. The author believes that we must get a clear understanding of what these ‘tipping points'’ are, that lead to such sudden changes in our lives. This book offers you all that you need to...

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language Author:  Steven Pinker The classic book on the development of human language by the world’s leading expert on language and the mind. In this classic, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution.  The Language Instinct  received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association and the Public Interest Award from the Linguistics Society of America. This edition includes an update on advances in the science of language since  The Language Instinct  was first published.

The God Delusion Author:  Richard Dawkins The God Delusion  caused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic, with Dawkins himself branded as either saint or sinner for presenting his hard-hitting, impassioned rebuttal of religion of all types.  His argument could hardly be more topical. While Europe is becoming increasingly secularized, the rise of religious fundamentalism, whether in the Middle East or Middle America, is dramatically and dangerously dividing opinion around the world. In America and elsewhere, a vigorous dispute between 'intelligent design' and Darwinism is seriously undermining and restricting the teaching of science. In many countries religious dogma from medieval times still serves to abuse basic human rights such as women's and gay rights. And all from a belief in a God whose existence lacks evidence of any kind.  Dawkins attacks God in all his forms. He eviscerates the major argum...