Author: Len Fisher
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0786726938
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Praised by Entertainment Weekly as “the man who put the fizz into physics,” Dr. Len Fisher turns his attention to the science of cooperation in his lively and thought-provoking book. Fisher shows how the modern science of game theory has helped biologists to understand the evolution of cooperation in nature, and investigates how we might apply those lessons to our own society. In a series of experiments that take him from the polite confines of an English dinner party to crowded supermarkets, congested Indian roads, and the wilds of outback Australia, not to mention baseball strategies and the intricacies of quantum mechanics, Fisher sheds light on the problem of global cooperation. The outcomes are sometimes hilarious, sometimes alarming, but always revealing. A witty romp through a serious science, Rock, Paper, Scissors will both teach and delight anyone interested in what it what it takes to get people to work together.
Rock, Paper, Scissors
Author: Len Fisher
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0786726938
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Praised by Entertainment Weekly as “the man who put the fizz into physics,” Dr. Len Fisher turns his attention to the science of cooperation in his lively and thought-provoking book. Fisher shows how the modern science of game theory has helped biologists to understand the evolution of cooperation in nature, and investigates how we might apply those lessons to our own society. In a series of experiments that take him from the polite confines of an English dinner party to crowded supermarkets, congested Indian roads, and the wilds of outback Australia, not to mention baseball strategies and the intricacies of quantum mechanics, Fisher sheds light on the problem of global cooperation. The outcomes are sometimes hilarious, sometimes alarming, but always revealing. A witty romp through a serious science, Rock, Paper, Scissors will both teach and delight anyone interested in what it what it takes to get people to work together.
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0786726938
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Praised by Entertainment Weekly as “the man who put the fizz into physics,” Dr. Len Fisher turns his attention to the science of cooperation in his lively and thought-provoking book. Fisher shows how the modern science of game theory has helped biologists to understand the evolution of cooperation in nature, and investigates how we might apply those lessons to our own society. In a series of experiments that take him from the polite confines of an English dinner party to crowded supermarkets, congested Indian roads, and the wilds of outback Australia, not to mention baseball strategies and the intricacies of quantum mechanics, Fisher sheds light on the problem of global cooperation. The outcomes are sometimes hilarious, sometimes alarming, but always revealing. A witty romp through a serious science, Rock, Paper, Scissors will both teach and delight anyone interested in what it what it takes to get people to work together.
Dangerous Dilemmas
Author: Evelyn Palfrey
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 141652696X
Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
When her son faces trial for murder, Audrey soon finds herself reaching out to the arresting officer, Kirk Maxwell, who finds himself responding to her heartache with a surge of protectiveness. But soon she must decide which is more important: fighting for her child or her own heart.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 141652696X
Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
When her son faces trial for murder, Audrey soon finds herself reaching out to the arresting officer, Kirk Maxwell, who finds himself responding to her heartache with a surge of protectiveness. But soon she must decide which is more important: fighting for her child or her own heart.
Pandemic Bioethics
Author: Gregory E. Pence
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 177048809X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every human being on the planet and forced us all to reflect on the bioethical issues it raises. In this timely book, Gregory Pence examines a number of relevant issues, including the fair allocation of scarce medical resources, immunity passports, tradeoffs between protecting senior citizens and allowing children to flourish, discrimination against minorities and the disabled, and the myriad issues raised by vaccines.
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 177048809X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every human being on the planet and forced us all to reflect on the bioethical issues it raises. In this timely book, Gregory Pence examines a number of relevant issues, including the fair allocation of scarce medical resources, immunity passports, tradeoffs between protecting senior citizens and allowing children to flourish, discrimination against minorities and the disabled, and the myriad issues raised by vaccines.
Dangerous Dilemmas
Author: Evelyn Palfrey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781417718160
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
When her son faces trial for murder, Audrey soon finds herself reaching out to the arresting officer, Kirk Maxwell, who finds himself responding to her heartache with a surge of protectiveness. But soon she must decide which is more important: fighting for her child or her own heart.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781417718160
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
When her son faces trial for murder, Audrey soon finds herself reaching out to the arresting officer, Kirk Maxwell, who finds himself responding to her heartache with a surge of protectiveness. But soon she must decide which is more important: fighting for her child or her own heart.
Wrongful Convictions and the DNA Revolution
Author: Daniel S. Medwed
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108138675
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
For centuries, most people believed the criminal justice system worked - that only guilty defendants were convicted. DNA technology shattered that belief. DNA has now freed more than three hundred innocent prisoners in the United States. This book examines the lessons learned from twenty-five years of DNA exonerations and identifies lingering challenges. By studying the dataset of DNA exonerations, we know that precise factors lead to wrongful convictions. These include eyewitness misidentifications, false confessions, dishonest informants, poor defense lawyering, weak forensic evidence, and prosecutorial misconduct. In Part I, scholars discuss the efforts of the Innocence Movement over the past quarter century to expose the phenomenon of wrongful convictions and to implement lasting reforms. In Part II, another set of researchers looks ahead and evaluates what still needs to be done to realize the ideal of a more accurate system.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108138675
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
For centuries, most people believed the criminal justice system worked - that only guilty defendants were convicted. DNA technology shattered that belief. DNA has now freed more than three hundred innocent prisoners in the United States. This book examines the lessons learned from twenty-five years of DNA exonerations and identifies lingering challenges. By studying the dataset of DNA exonerations, we know that precise factors lead to wrongful convictions. These include eyewitness misidentifications, false confessions, dishonest informants, poor defense lawyering, weak forensic evidence, and prosecutorial misconduct. In Part I, scholars discuss the efforts of the Innocence Movement over the past quarter century to expose the phenomenon of wrongful convictions and to implement lasting reforms. In Part II, another set of researchers looks ahead and evaluates what still needs to be done to realize the ideal of a more accurate system.
That's Deadly!
Author: Crispin Boyer
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426320787
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
"Fatal facts that will test your fearless factor"--Cover.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426320787
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
"Fatal facts that will test your fearless factor"--Cover.
The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI
Author: Markus Dirk Dubber
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks
ISBN: 019006739X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 896
Book Description
This interdisciplinary and international handbook captures and shapes much needed reflection on normative frameworks for the production, application, and use of artificial intelligence in all spheres of individual, commercial, social, and public life.
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks
ISBN: 019006739X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 896
Book Description
This interdisciplinary and international handbook captures and shapes much needed reflection on normative frameworks for the production, application, and use of artificial intelligence in all spheres of individual, commercial, social, and public life.
Deadly
Author: Julie Chibbaro
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442420413
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Join the search for Typhoid Mary in this early twentieth-century CSI. Now in paperback! Prudence Galewski doesn’t belong in Mrs. Browning’s esteemed School for Girls. She doesn’t want an “appropriate” job that makes use of refinement and charm. Instead, she is fascinated by how the human body works—and why it fails. Prudence is lucky to land a position in a laboratory, where she is swept into an investigation of a mysterious fever. From ritzy mansions to shady bars and rundown tenements, Prudence explores every potential cause of the disease to no avail—until the volatile Mary Mallon emerges. Dubbed “Typhoid Mary” by the press, Mary is an Irish immigrant who has worked as a cook in every home the fever has ravaged. But she’s never been sick a day in her life. Is the accusation against her an act of discrimination? Or is she the first clue in solving one of the greatest medical mysteries of the twentieth century?
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442420413
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Join the search for Typhoid Mary in this early twentieth-century CSI. Now in paperback! Prudence Galewski doesn’t belong in Mrs. Browning’s esteemed School for Girls. She doesn’t want an “appropriate” job that makes use of refinement and charm. Instead, she is fascinated by how the human body works—and why it fails. Prudence is lucky to land a position in a laboratory, where she is swept into an investigation of a mysterious fever. From ritzy mansions to shady bars and rundown tenements, Prudence explores every potential cause of the disease to no avail—until the volatile Mary Mallon emerges. Dubbed “Typhoid Mary” by the press, Mary is an Irish immigrant who has worked as a cook in every home the fever has ravaged. But she’s never been sick a day in her life. Is the accusation against her an act of discrimination? Or is she the first clue in solving one of the greatest medical mysteries of the twentieth century?
Abzs of Sensuality, Society, and Sex
Author: M.D.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1514428369
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
Let me introduce myself, me as rememberer, writing about what I have done, how and when, seldom why. This book is written as a docudrama in parts, in others as poems and excerpts of commentary or assonant rhythms. Formal in content or informal in context, each part contributes to a totality greater than the sum of their separate insights. (So will yours be larger than their total by the end of your journey through these pages.)
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1514428369
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
Let me introduce myself, me as rememberer, writing about what I have done, how and when, seldom why. This book is written as a docudrama in parts, in others as poems and excerpts of commentary or assonant rhythms. Formal in content or informal in context, each part contributes to a totality greater than the sum of their separate insights. (So will yours be larger than their total by the end of your journey through these pages.)