Author: Scott Rosenberg Publisher: Crown Currency ISBN: 1400082471 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 415
Book Description
Our civilization runs on software. Yet the art of creating it continues to be a dark mystery, even to the experts. To find out why it’s so hard to bend computers to our will, Scott Rosenberg spent three years following a team of maverick software developers—led by Lotus 1-2-3 creator Mitch Kapor—designing a novel personal information manager meant to challenge market leader Microsoft Outlook. Their story takes us through a maze of abrupt dead ends and exhilarating breakthroughs as they wrestle not only with the abstraction of code, but with the unpredictability of human behavior— especially their own.
Author: Emily Arnold McCully Publisher: Candlewick Press ISBN: 1536204064 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 175
Book Description
This illuminating biography reveals how the daughter of Lord Byron, Britain’s most infamous Romantic poet, became the world’s first computer programmer. Even by 1800s standards, Ada Byron Lovelace had an unusual upbringing. Her strict mother worked hard at cultivating her own role as the long-suffering ex-wife of bad-boy poet Lord Byron while raising Ada in isolation. Tutored by the brightest minds, Ada developed a hunger for mental puzzles, mathematical conundrums, and scientific discovery that kept pace with the breathtaking advances of the industrial and social revolutions taking place in Europe. At seventeen, Ada met eccentric inventor Charles Babbage, a kindred spirit. Their ensuing collaborations resulted in ideas and concepts that presaged computer programming by almost two hundred years, and Ada Lovelace is now recognized as a pioneer and prophet of the information age. Award-winning author Emily Arnold McCully opens the window on a peculiar and singular intellect, shaped — and hampered — by history, social norms, and family dysfunction. The result is a portrait that is at once remarkable and fascinating, tragic and triumphant.
Author: Adam Thompson Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers ISBN: 0768488788 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 562
Book Description
The Divinity Code to Understanding your Dreams and Visions Stop wondering what your dreams and visions mean—and start living the meanings! The Divinity Code to Understanding your Dreams and Visions is a Bible-based guide to dream interpretation that reveals the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven. With this set of Master keys, you can unlock the unseen realm! Led by the Holy Spirit, you can manifest God’s Kingdom on earth through Jesus Christ by knowing what your dreams and visions mean. The Divinity Code to Understanding your Dreams and Visions contains: The most extensive Christian dream dictionary on the market (with Scripture support). An important dictionary of names and places. A critical chapter on counterfeit interpretations by the occult. 101 interpreted dreams providing credible evidence. A fascinating metaphor dictionary. Embrace your supernatural communications with God and go deeper into the things of the Spirit—today!
Author: Dr Golder Publisher: IntWell ISBN: Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 53
Book Description
Picking Winning Lottery Numbers can be hard. Many people have complicated mathematical systems that use historical data (maybe a birthday, or what they are lucky numbers). Some people use the same numbers every time they play. Others just let the system spit out random numbers. Very often the results are disappointing or totally random. This book goes back to the grand tradition of fusing our own dreams and modern numerology—coding this dream imagery into usable, meaningful numbers. For instance, are you dreaming of Pizza every other night? Well this could mean something (apart from waking up hungry every morning!). Why not use this in your choice of number? The tables in this Modern Lottery Dream Book will give you something usable from that dream to actually use in the Lottery of your choice. The number to choose for Pizza would be 65 if you are playing Power Ball. In this book, you will Learn how to remember your dreams Learn how to Transcode Proper Nouns Create complete sets of Lottery Numbers from your Dreams Over 1000 common items included - all with their own numbers ** While no Winning is Guaranteed, this book can make the numbers directly connect with your dreams. Tables and descriptions valid for Mega Millions (US), Powerball (US), UK National Lottery (UK), Euro Jackpot (EU) and Euro Millions (EU).
Author: Scott Rosenberg Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA) ISBN: 0307451372 Category : Blogs Languages : en Pages : 418
Book Description
Explores the complex network of blogging and provides insights into the new medium with discussions on privacy, self-expression, authority, and community, and includes close-ups of blogging innovators, including Evan Williams of Blogger.
Author: Aimee Lucido Publisher: Versify ISBN: 0358040825 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 417
Book Description
Sixth-grader Emmy tries to find her place in a new school and to figure out how she can create her own kind of music using a computer.
Author: Ian Wallace Publisher: ISBN: 0711257051 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 194
Book Description
Discover the power of dreams, gain the tools to decode them and be inspired to take meaningful actions in waking life to make these come true with renowned psychologist Ian Wallace. You create and encode your dreams to process your emotions and intentions, so the best person to decode them is you. First equip yourself with tips and tricks to remembering them and unpacking their significance. Next, dig into the detail with over 90 dream scenarios. Finally, connect your dreams to waking-life truths to grow self-awareness and address deep-seated desires, fears and intentions – the key to manifesting your goals and realising your potential.
Author: Antonio Zadra Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 1324002840 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 336
Book Description
"A truly comprehensive, scientifically rigorous and utterly fascinating account of when, how, and why we dream. Put simply, When Brains Dream is the essential guide to dreaming." —Matthew Walker, author of Why We Sleep Questions on the origins and meaning of dreams are as old as humankind, and as confounding and exciting today as when nineteenth-century scientists first attempted to unravel them. Why do we dream? Do dreams hold psychological meaning or are they merely the reflection of random brain activity? What purpose do dreams serve? When Brains Dream addresses these core questions about dreams while illuminating the most up-to-date science in the field. Written by two world-renowned sleep and dream researchers, it debunks common myths that we only dream in REM sleep, for example—while acknowledging the mysteries that persist around both the science and experience of dreaming. Antonio Zadra and Robert Stickgold bring together state-of-the-art neuroscientific ideas and findings to propose a new and innovative model of dream function called NEXTUP—Network Exploration to Understand Possibilities. By detailing this model’s workings, they help readers understand key features of several types of dreams, from prophetic dreams to nightmares and lucid dreams. When Brains Dream reveals recent discoveries about the sleeping brain and the many ways in which dreams are psychologically, and neurologically, meaningful experiences; explores a host of dream-related disorders; and explains how dreams can facilitate creativity and be a source of personal insight. Making an eloquent and engaging case for why the human brain needs to dream, When Brains Dream offers compelling answers to age-old questions about the mysteries of sleep.
Author: William H. Calvin Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 9780262531542 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 266
Book Description
The Cerebral Code is a new understanding of how Darwinian processes could operate in the brain to shape mental images in only seconds, starting with shuffled memories no better than the jumble of our nighttime dreams, but evolving into something of quality, such as a sentence to speak aloud. Jung said that dreaming goes on continuously but you can't see it when you are awake, just as you can't see the stars in the daylight because it is too bright. Calvin's is a theory for what goes on, hidden from view by the glare of waking mental operations, that produces our peculiarly human type of consciousness with its versatile intelligence. As Piaget emphasized in 1929, intelligence is what we use when we don't know what to do, when we have to grope rather than using a standard response. Calvin tackles a mechanism for doing this exploration and improvement offline, as we think before we act or practice the art of good guessing. Surprisingly, the subtitle's mosaics of the mind is not a literary metaphor. For the first time, it is a description of a mechanism of what appears to be an appropriate level of explanation for many mental phenomena, that of hexagonal mosaics of electrical activity that compete for territory in the association cortex of the brain. This two-dimensional mosaic is predicted to grow and dissolve much as the sugar crystals do in the bottom of a supersaturated glass of iced tea. A Bradford Book
Author: G. William Domhoff Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 0262544210 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 387
Book Description
A comprehensive neurocognitive theory of dreaming based on the theories, methodologies, and findings of cognitive neuroscience and the psychological sciences. G. William Domhoff’s neurocognitive theory of dreaming is the only theory of dreaming that makes full use of the new neuroimaging findings on all forms of spontaneous thought and shows how well they explain the results of rigorous quantitative studies of dream content. Domhoff identifies five separate issues—neural substrates, cognitive processes, the psychological meaning of dream content, evolutionarily adaptive functions, and historically invented cultural uses—and then explores how they are intertwined. He also discusses the degree to which there is symbolism in dreams, the development of dreaming in children, and the relative frequency of emotions in the dreams of children and adults. During dreaming, the neural substrates that support waking sensory input, task-oriented thinking, and movement are relatively deactivated. Domhoff presents the conditions that have to be fulfilled before dreaming can occur spontaneously. He describes the specific cognitive processes supported by the neural substrate of dreaming and then looks at dream reports of research participants. The “why” of dreaming, he says, may be the most counterintuitive outcome of empirical dream research. Though the question is usually framed in terms of adaptation, there is no positive evidence for an adaptive theory of dreaming. Research by anthropologists, historians, and comparative religion scholars, however, suggests that dreaming has psychological and cultural uses, with the most important of these found in religious ceremonies and healing practices. Finally, he offers suggestions for how future dream studies might take advantage of new technologies, including smart phones.
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