Steven Johnson
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"How did a single manhunt spark the modern era of multinational capitalism? Henry Avery was the seventeenth century's most notorious pirate. The press published wildly popular--and wildly inaccurate--reports of his nefarious adventures. The British government offered enormous bounties for his capture, alive or (preferably) dead. But Steven Johnson argues that Avery's most lasting legacy was his inadvertent triggering of a new model for the global...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Emergence is what happens when an interconnected system of relatively simple elements self-organizes to form more intelligent, more adaptive higher-level behavior. It's a bottom-up model rather than being engineered by a general or a master planner, emergence begins at the ground level. Systems that at first glance seem vastly different--ant colonies, human brains, cities, immune systems--all turn out to follow the rules of emergence. In each of these...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Did you know that the word dinosaur means "terrible lizard", the heaviest dinosaur weighed as much as 17 African elephants, and that Stegosaurus had a brain the size of a walnut? Learn more surprising facts in this lively and fascinating picture book all about dinosaurs.
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