Offers instructions for fifteen unusual projects including a rocket-propelled toy car, an automatic dog feeder, storm-predicting bells, and a mechanical snowball thrower.
Offers instructions for fifteen unusual projects including a rocket-propelled toy car, an automatic dog feeder, storm-predicting bells, and a mechanical snowball thrower.
The stranger-than-fiction story of the ingenious creation and loss of an artificially intelligent android of science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick In late January 2006, a young robotocist on the way to Google headquarters lost an overnight bag on a flight somewhere between Dallas and Las Vegas. In it was a fully functional head of the android replica of Philip K. Dick, cult science-fiction writer and counterculture guru. It has never been recovered. In a story that echoes some of the most paranoid fantasies of a Dick novel, readers get a fascinating inside look at the scientists and technology that made this amazing android possible. The author, who was a fellow researcher at the University of Memphis Institute of Intelligent Systems while the android was being built, introduces readers to the cutting-edge technology in robotics, artificial intelligence, and sculpture that came together in this remarkable machine and captured the imagination of scientists, artists, and science-fiction fans alike. And there are great stories about Dick himself—his inspired yet deeply pessimistic worldview, his bizarre lifestyle, and his enduring creative legacy. In the tradition of popular science classics like Packing for Mars and The Disappearing Spoon, How to Build an Android is entertaining and informative—popular science at its best.
The studio people thought the title was not catchy enough, so they called it Blade
Runner. As is always the case, the movie is rather different from its source
material. Deckard's wife is out of the picture, and there are no electric sheep
living on ...
Before Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich begins a summer job at a law firm in Louisiana, working on the retrial defence of death-row convicted murderer and child molester, Ricky Langley, she thinks her position is clear. The child of two lawyers, she is staunchly anti death penalty. But the moment Ricky's face flashes on the screen as she reviews old tapes, the moment she hears him speak of his crimes, she is overcome with the feeling of wanting him to die. Shocked by her reaction, she digs deeper and deeper into the case, realizing that despite their vastly different circumstances, something in his story is unsettlingly, uncannily familiar. Crime, even the darkest and most unspeakable acts, can happen to any one of us, and as Alexandria pores over the facts of the murder, she finds herself thrust into the complicated narrative of Ricky's childhood. And by examining minute details of Ricky's case, she is forced to face her own story, to unearth long-buried family secrets, to reckon with how her own past colours her view of his crime. As enthralling as true-crime classics such as In Cold Blood and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and broadcast phenomena such as Making a Murderer and Serial, The Fact of a Body is a groundbreaking, heart-stopping investigation into how the law is personal, composed of individual stories and proof that arriving at the truth is more complicated, and powerful, than we could ever imagine.
This is a profound and riveting book’ Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You The gripping true story of a young law student, an unspeakable crime and a past that refuses to stay buried When Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich begins a ...
Design and Conduct of Research in Tax, Law and Accounting provides a comprehensive guide to the design and conduct of robust social research in a range of business contexts including tax, law and accounting. This book addresses not only the theoretical underpinnings of research, and how they shape methodological choices and design, but also the practicalities of writing, conducting, analysing and reporting. The book's focus is on assisting researchers to make sound choices in order to effectively address their research objective, as poorly designed research can lead to insupportable arguments and misinformed claims. With a style that stimulates critical thinking and reflection this book facilitates the identification of skills that are needed, and how best to acquire and employ them. It is particularly useful where researchers need to bridge new disciplines of knowledge. Design and Conduct of Research in Tax, Law and Accounting is an essential acquisition for all postgraduate, academic and professional researchers.
This book addresses not only the theoretical underpinnings of research, and how they shape methodological choices and design, but also the practicalities of writing, conducting, analysing and reporting.
A scholarly study of Richard's life and political career is devoid of moral judgment
A scholarly study of Richard's life and political career is devoid of moral judgment I have tried to indicate clearly, either in the text or in the notes, what is fact and what is my own conjecture; and for conjectures of any importance I ...
