Eating Culture: An Anthropological Guide to Food, Second Edition, Crowther Gillian

Автор: Crowther Robert
Название: Robert Crowther`s Amazing Pop-Up Big Machines
ISBN: 0763649589 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780763649586
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1654.00 р.
Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.

Описание: Come to the construction site and try your hand at operating the big machines with the help of amazing pop-ups, pull-out play pieces, and plenty more.
When is a pop-up book not a pop-up book? When it's also a play space, promising hours of fun Master paper engineer Robert Crowther has outdone himself with this celebration of captivating machines, each commanding its own space: a dump truck, bulldozer, tractor, forklift, and tower crane. Included on each spread:
* One giant pop-up machine with movable parts (and some smaller machines, too)
* A fascinating description of what the machine is and what it can do
* A fact file of cool details such as measurements and weights
* A pouch containing pull-out, easy-to-construct items such as boxes and bricks
* Tips on how to work the big machine -- and get busy playing (Sound effects to be happily provided by users.)

Автор: Crowther, Peter
Название: We Think, Therefore We Are
ISBN: 0756405335 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780756405335
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Цена: 735.00 р.
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Описание: Fifteen original stories about our fear of and fascination with artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence has captured the imaginations of writers, readers, and scientists alike, from Karl Capek's R.U.R. to Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, from Robby the Robot to The Terminator and The Bicentennial Man, and?of course?Arthur C. Clarke's Hal 9000.

Now some of the most innovative thinkers in science fiction offer an intriguing variety of tales featuring the many forms of AI, from frightening to funny. These authors confront one of contemporary mankind's deepest concerns?what do we do when the machines we created evolve beyond us?