Author: R. A. MontgomeryPublisher:
ISBN: 9780329727420
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
The reader is asked to make choices which will determine the fate of a beloved robot.
Author: R. A. MontgomeryYour Very Own Robot
Author: R. A. MontgomeryPublisher:
ISBN: 9781741690958
Category : Adventure
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Your parents are scientists. One day, they throw some pieces of a robot into the rubbish. If you can figure out how to put the pieces together, you'll have a robot of your very own! But do you know enough to control it? Or will it take over your school?
Author: Anson Montgomery
Author: R A MontgomeryKinds Of Minds
Author: Daniel C. DennettPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0786723629
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Combining ideas from philosophy, artificial intelligence, and neurobiology, Daniel Dennett leads the reader on a fascinating journey of inquiry, exploring such intriguing possibilities as: Can any of us really know what is going on in someone else's mind? What distinguishes the human mind from the minds of animals, especially those capable of complex behavior? If such animals, for instance, were magically given the power of language, would their communities evolve an intelligence as subtly discriminating as ours? Will robots, once they have been endowed with sensory systems like those that provide us with experience, ever exhibit the particular traits long thought to distinguish the human mind, including the ability to think about thinking? Dennett addresses these questions from an evolutionary perspective. Beginning with the macromolecules of DNA and RNA, the author shows how, step-by-step, animal life moved from the simple ability to respond to frequently recurring environmental conditions to much more powerful ways of beating the odds, ways of using patterns of past experience to predict the future in never-before-encountered situations. Whether talking about robots whose video-camera "eyes" give us the powerful illusion that "there is somebody in there" or asking us to consider whether spiders are just tiny robots mindlessly spinning their webs of elegant design, Dennett is a master at finding and posing questions sure to stimulate and even disturb.
Author: R. A. MontgomerySpace Pup
Author: R. A. MontgomeryPublisher: Choose Your Own Adventure ®
ISBN: 1937133435
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Readers become part of the story in this Choose Your Own Adventure title featuring 15 possible endings. Homer, a dog and the reader's best friend, visits the junk yard and brings back gifts that are becoming weirder and weirder. Homer soon arrives with a glowing blue Frisbee that translates every language. Is it a spaceship? Full color.
Dino Lab
Author: Anson MontgomeryPublisher: Choose Your Own Adventure ®
ISBN: 1937133532
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
(Ages 5-8) At the Dino Lab, dinosaurs are brought back to life. While you're visiting, two baby dinos escape! It is your job to help find them and bring them back to the lab. Are the dinos at the zoo? Should you look for them at the movies? Do dinosaurs eat popcorn?
The Holy Terror
Author: H. G. WellsPublisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473345340
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
When Cook's newborn baby entered the world, he had nothing but hope for its future. However, it was immediately clear that this was no ordinary child-it's murderous screams seemed a dark portent. As it grew, things only got worse, and the child's mother began to despair. The new parents hoped their child would grow out of it, but soon came to realise that its inauspicious beginnings were only a sign of things to come. Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946) was a prolific English writer who wrote in a variety of genres, including the novel, politics, history, and social commentary. Today, he is perhaps best remembered for his contributions to the science fiction genre thanks to such novels as "The Time Machine" (1895), "The Invisible Man" (1897), and "The War of the Worlds" (1898). "The Father of Science Fiction" was also a staunch socialist, and his later works are increasingly political and didactic. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
