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Автор: Graham Loren R.
Название: Lonely Ideas: Can Russia Compete?
ISBN: 0262019795 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262019798
Издательство: MIT Press
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An expert investigates Russia's long history of technological invention followed by commercial failure and points to new opportunities to break the pattern.

When have you gone into an electronics store, picked up a desirable gadget, and found that it was labeled "Made in Russia"? Probably never. Russia, despite its epic intellectual achievements in music, literature, art, and pure science, is a negligible presence in world technology. Despite its current leaders' ambitions to create a knowledge economy, Russia is economically dependent on gas and oil. In Lonely Ideas, Loren Graham investigates Russia's long history of technological invention followed by failure to commercialize and implement.

For three centuries, Graham shows, Russia has been adept at developing technical ideas but abysmal at benefiting from them. From the seventeenth-century arms industry through twentieth-century Nobel-awarded work in lasers, Russia has failed to sustain its technological inventiveness. Graham identifies a range of conditions that nurture technological innovation: a society that values inventiveness and practicality; an economic system that provides investment opportunities; a legal system that protects intellectual property; a political system that encourages innovation and success. Graham finds Russia lacking on all counts. He explains that Russia's failure to sustain technology, and its recurrent attempts to force modernization, reflect its political and social evolution and even its resistance to democratic principles.

But Graham points to new connections between Western companies and Russian researchers, new research institutions, a national focus on nanotechnology, and the establishment of Skolkovo, "a new technology city." Today, he argues, Russia has the best chance in its history to break its pattern of technological failure.

Автор: Graham Douglas
Название: Macleod`s Clinical Examination, 13th Edition With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access
ISBN: 0702047287 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780702047282
Издательство: Elsevier Science
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Описание: Sets out clearly and concisely how to evaluate symptoms and elicit relevant physical signs. This title describes the practical skills which every clinician must acquire and develop in order to evolve diagnostic procedures and management strategies and plans.

Автор: Ruskai, Martha
Название: Wig making & styling/for theatre & film
ISBN: 0240813200 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780240813202
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: A Complete Guide for Theatre and Film.

Автор: Hanson Robin
Название: The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life When Robots Rule the Earth
ISBN: 0198754620 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198754626
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like?
Many think the first truly smart robots will be brain emulations or "ems." Scan a human brain, then run a model with the same connections on a fast computer, and you have a robot brain, but recognizably human.
Train an em to do some job and copy it a million times: an army of workers is at your disposal. When they can be made cheaply, within perhaps a century, ems will displace humans in most jobs. In this new economic era, the world economy may double in size every few weeks.
Some say we can't know the future, especially following such a disruptive new technology, but Professor Robin Hanson sets out to prove them wrong. Applying decades of expertise in physics, computer science, and economics, he uses standard theories to paint a detailed picture of a world dominated by ems.
While human lives don't change greatly in the em era, em lives are as different from ours as our lives are from those of our farmer and forager ancestors. Ems make us question common assumptions of moral progress, because they reject many of the values we hold dear.
Read about em mind speeds, body sizes, job training and career paths, energy use and cooling infrastructure, virtual reality, aging and retirement, death and immortality, security, wealth inequality, religion, teleportation, identity, cities, politics, law, war, status, friendship and love.
This book shows you just how strange your descendants may be, though ems are no stranger than we would appear to our ancestors. To most ems, it seems good to be an em.

Автор: Graham, Alan
Название: Teach yourself statistics
ISBN: 0340966165 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780340966167
Издательство: Hodder Arnold
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Описание: Nearly all aspects of our lives can be subject to statistical analysis. Teach Yourself Statistics will show you how to interpret, analyse and present figures.