The Embedding opens in a research institute where Chris Sole is teaching a
strange form of language whose grammar can be “self-embedded” by computers to
create an artificially complex means of communication that opens up the vast
potential of...
"This small and admirable memoir records the experiences of a young Dutch student who spent a year and a half as a novice monk in aJapanese Zen Buddhist monastery. As might be expected, the author shows a deep respect for the teachings of Zen....
Offers more than six hundred alphabetically arranged entries covering the history, treatment, diagnosis, and current medical research on psychotic disorders.
Categories: Education\Encyclopedia
Year: 2006
Edition: 3
Publisher: Facts on File
Language:...
On the eve of World War I, the art of submarine warfare was barely a dozen years old; no nation had submarine-qualified officers serving at the senior staff level and no nation had developed any method for detecting submarines, or attacking them if...
A lavishly illustrated compendium of military hardware covers everything that fought in the air, on the ground, and on the seas during World War II. There are more than 500 separate items of equipment used between 1939 and 1945, from combat handguns...
In 1995, Rifkin contended that worldwide unemployment would increase as information technology eliminated tens of millions of jobs in the manufacturing, agricultural and service sectors. He predicted devastating impact of automation on blue-collar,...