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What's Science Ever Done For Us: What the Simpsons Can Teach Us About Physics, Robots, Life, and the Universe
What's Science Ever Done For Us: What the Simpsons Can Teach Us About Physics, Robots, Life, and the Universe
A playful and entertaining look at science on The Simpsons

This amusing book explores science as presented on the longest-running and most popular animated TV series ever made: The Simpsons. Over the years, the show has examined such issues as genetic mutation, time travel, artificial intelligence, and even aliens.
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Introducing Erlang
Introducing Erlang

If you’re new to Erlang, its functional style can seem difficult, but with help from this hands-on introduction, you’ll scale the learning curve and discover how enjoyable, powerful, and fun this language can be.

Author Simon St. Laurent shows you how to write simple Erlang programs by teaching you one basic...

Inside the Mind of the Turtles: How the World's Best Traders Master Risk
Inside the Mind of the Turtles: How the World's Best Traders Master Risk

“I like risk. I embrace risk.” -Turtle trader Curtis Faith

Risk is scary, to be sure, but it's a fundamental aspect of the investing world. Without it, profit would not exist. The trick is to accept, anticipate, manage, and mitigate risk. In other words, master it.

In Way of the...

Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism
Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism

Tourism, fast becoming the largest global business, employs one out of twelve persons and produces $6.5 trillion of the world’s economy. In a groundbreaking book, Elizabeth Becker uncovers how what was once a hobby has become a colossal enterprise with profound impact on countries, the environment, and cultural heritage.

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Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell: Techniques for Multicore and Multithreaded Programming
Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell: Techniques for Multicore and Multithreaded Programming

If you have a working knowledge of Haskell, this hands-on book shows you how to use the language’s many APIs and frameworks for writing both parallel and concurrent programs. You’ll learn how parallelism exploits multicore processors to speed up computation-heavy programs, and how concurrency enables you to write programs...

Everything but the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks
Everything but the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks
Everything but the Coffee casts a fresh eye on the world's most famous coffee company, looking beyond baristas, movie cameos, and Paul McCartney CDs to understand what Starbucks can tell us about America. Bryant Simon visited hundreds of Starbucks around the world to ask, Why did Starbucks take hold so quickly with consumers?...
Think Like Zuck: The Five Business Secrets of Facebook's Improbably Brilliant CEO Mark Zuckerberg
Think Like Zuck: The Five Business Secrets of Facebook's Improbably Brilliant CEO Mark Zuckerberg

Wall Street Journal Bestseller

Make Your Mark in the World with the Five Success Principles of the World-Changing Social Media Site

If Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest in the world.
Facebook accounts for one of every seven minutes spent online.
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Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream
Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream
The untold story of how America once created the most successful economy the world has ever seen and how we can do it again.

The American economy glitters on the outside, but the reality is quite different. Job opportunities and economic growth are increasingly concentrated in a few crowded coastal enclaves.
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Lincoln Road Trip: The Back-Roads Guide to America's Favorite President
Lincoln Road Trip: The Back-Roads Guide to America's Favorite President

America's favorite president sure got around. Before Abraham Lincoln's sojourned to the Oval Office, he grew up in Kentucky and began his career as a lawyer in Illinois. In fact, Lincoln toured some amazing places throughout the Midwest in his lifetime. In Lincoln Road Trip: The Back-Roads Guide to America's...

Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You
Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You
At the beginning of the twentieth century, H. G. Wells predicted that statistical thinking would be as necessary for citizenship in a technological world as the ability to read and write. But in the twenty-first century, we are often overwhelmed by a baffling array of percentages and probabilities as we try to navigate in a world dominated...
The I Love My Air Fryer Keto Diet Recipe Book: From Veggie Frittata to Classic Mini Meatloaf
The I Love My Air Fryer Keto Diet Recipe Book: From Veggie Frittata to Classic Mini Meatloaf
175 fast, easy, and delicious meals combining the hottest diet trend—the low-carb, high-fat keto diet—with the latest must-have kitchen appliance—the air fryer.

While an appliance that promises a lower-fat cooking method like the air fryer may seem counterintuitive to the high-fat keto diet,
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Neoliberalism in Context: Governance, Subjectivity and Knowledge
Neoliberalism in Context: Governance, Subjectivity and Knowledge

Neoliberalism in Context adopts a processual, relational and contextual framework, bringing together contributions from diverse national and disciplinary contexts, and bridging theoretical and methodological approaches to critiquing neoliberalism. 

The book presents arguments on the extent to which we are...

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