The Relativistic Brain: How It Works and Why It Cannot Be Simulated by a Turing Machine, Paperback - Miguel Nicolelis

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Despite its reputation as a language only of spies and hackers, cryptography plays a critical role in our everyday lives. Though often invisible, i...

Despite its reputation as a language only of spies and hackers, cryptography plays a critical role in our everyday lives. Though often invisible, i...

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Bill Bryson meets Thomas Frank in this deeply insightful, unexpectedly hilarious story of how politicians hijacked American democracy and how we ca...

He describes the competing efforts of the likes of Google, Microsoft and Chinese companies Tencent and Alibaba to create a viable quantum computer,...

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Economists are widely reviled and their profession has become a favourite punching bag in the aftermath of the financial crisis. Yet their services...

Based on Stanford University psychologist Kelly McGonigal's wildly popular course "The Science of Willpower, " The Willpower Instinct is the first ...

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Paul Thagard explores the physiological workings and metaphorical resonance of balance in the brain, the body, and society. Bridging philosophy, ps...

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'Beyond Budgeting' has been around for nearly twenty years now. Although it has helped transform many businesses and its has begun to become part o...

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It is no secret that the opera industry is contracting and that there are fewer professional opportunities. But what causes one singer to be in dem...

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In 2014, Apple announced something called CarPlay. At the time it wasn't met with much fanfare because to play it, you needed a radio in your car t...

Research-based insights and practical advice about effective learning strategies In this new edition of the highly regarded Why Don't Students Like...

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Informed by deep economic research and political access at the highest level, the book is a no-holds-barred critique of the UK's chronic housing sh...

Informed by deep economic research and political access at the highest level, the book is a no-holds-barred critique of the UK's chronic housing sh...

Are you an authentic leader? Too many companies are managed not by leaders but by mere role players and faceless bureaucrats. What would it take to...

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The new and updated edition of this classic book presents an authoritative introduction to the Enneagram; a curiously accurate system of knowledge ...