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  • Audiobook

    Non-Computable You

    What You Do That Artificial Intelligence Never Will

    by Robert Marks ...
    Narrated by Larry Nobles ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 3 min

    Will machines someday replace attorneys, physicians, computer programmers, and world leaders? What about composers, painters, and novelists? Will tomorrow’s supercomputers duplicate and exceed humans? Are we just wetware, natural computers doomed to obsolescence by tomorrow’s ultra-powerful artificial intelligence? In Non-Computable You: What You Do That Artificial Intelligence Never Will, Robert ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Case for Killer Robots, The

    by Robert Marks ...
    Narrated by Peter Lawrence ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 17 min

    Doomsday headlines warn that the age of "killer robots" is upon us, and that new military technologies based on artificial intelligence (AI) will lead to the annihilation of the human race. What's fact and what's fiction? In The Case for Killer Robots: Why America's Military Needs to Continue Development of Lethal AI, artificial intelligence expert Robert J. Marks investigates the potential ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Non-Renewable Resources and Disequilibrium Macrodynamics

    by Robert Marks ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
    This study, first published in 1979, continues by examining the question of whether a competitive economy can efficiently allocate a stock of non-renewable natural resources through time. Long-run analyses of competitive economies with such resources have concluded that, without perfect foresight or a complete set of future markets extending infinitely far into the future, there is no economic ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Mom ... Let's Talk

    Poetry by Robert Mark Schaeberle, Memoir by Jeanne Schaeberle What does a son do when he hears voices? Withdraw? Or use his sword, poetry to defend himself? How does a mother handle family life and death and work through horrible grief? Mom...Let's Talk offers insight to the power of healing through writing and the sense of chaos revealed in the poetry. visit website JeanneSchaeberle.com ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Qualitative Research Methods for Community Development

    The second edition of Qualitative Research Methods for Community Development teaches the basic skills, tools, and methods of qualitative research with special attention to the needs of community practitioners. This book teaches students entering planning, community development, nonprofit management, social work, and similar applied fields the core skills necessary to conduct systematic research ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Doing Business in Minority Markets

    Black and Korean Entrepreneurs in Chicago's Ethnic Beauty Aids Industry

    Series series Garland Studies in Entrepreneurship
    This book examines black and Korean entrepreneurship in Chicago's ethnic beauty aids industry. In the case of each entrepreneurial group, business activities are heavily influenced by the economic conditions found on the South Side of Chicago. For instance, both groups provide goods and services to black consumers, both groups modify their business practices in response to the depressed incomes ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Affordable Housing in US Shrinking Cities

    From Neighborhoods of Despair to Neighborhoods of Opportunity?

    Given the rapid urbanisation of the world’s population, the converse phenomenon of shrinking cities is often overlooked and little understood. Yet with almost one in ten post-industrial US cities shrinking in recent years, efforts by government and anchor institutions to regenerate these cities is gaining policy urgency, with the availability and siting of affordable housing being a key concern ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    NeuroWisdom

    The New Brain Science of Money, Happiness, and Success

    Unabridged

    7 hours 47 min

    From a course they created for professionals, Mark Waldman and Chris Manning adapted their lectures, and present simple brain exercises, based on the latest neuroscience research, to guide listeners on what makes us happy, wealthy, and wise.The promise of their original class—and now of this book—is to help people create more “wealth” in their lives, defined as the combination of money, happiness, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Poverty Paradox

    Understanding Economic Hardship Amid American Prosperity

    The paradox of poverty amidst plenty has plagued the United States throughout the 21st century--why should the wealthiest country in the world also have the highest rates of poverty among the industrialized nations? Based on his decades-long research and scholarship, one of the nation's leading authorities provides the answer. In The Poverty Paradox, Mark Robert Rank develops his unique ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Origins of the Modern World

    A Global and Environmental Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century

    Series series World Social Change
    This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the present. Unlike most studies, which assume that the “rise of the West” is the story of the coming of the modern world, this history, drawing upon new scholarship on Asia, Africa, and the New World and upon the maturing field of environmental history, constructs a story in which ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    For A Greater Purpose

    The Life and Legacy of Walter Bradley

    Unabridged

    7 hours 31 min

    Walter Bradley made a deal with God: he would unashamedly share his faith with students and faculty, and he would not let academic ambition prevent him from giving his faith and family the time they deserve. The day he could no longer keep that deal, he would leave the academy. He never had to.From his days as a determined graduate assistant sharing his love for Jesus with his first class, to ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Deep Time in the Mono Lake Basin

    Nature and History over the Last 10,000 Years

    Ten millennia in the Mono Lake Basin, showing how this complex ecosystem came to be what it is today.Nestled at the base of the Sierra Nevada in eastern California sits a stunning landscape overlooking a saline lake with picturesque tufa towers and flocks of phalarope birds. This is the Mono Lake Basin.In this sweeping history, Robert B. Marks examines the forces that have shaped the Mono Lake ... Read more

    $27.99 USD