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The Mean Dream Wonder Machine

Author : Margaret McAllister
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780199192632
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book The Mean Dream Wonder Machine written by Margaret McAllister and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A further 12 Treetops titles in Oxford Reading Tree's series of fiction with built-in progression for pupils aged 7 to 11. Specially written for children who need the support of carefully monitored language levels, the stories are accessible, motivating, and humorous. The series is organizedinto Oxford Reading Tree stages (from Stage 10 to Stage 16), with each stage introducing more complex narrative forms, including flashbacks and changes in viewpoint; descriptive writing; extended reading vocabulary; and more pages, more text, and fewer illustrations.Pack E features six new stories at Stage 15, and six stories at the new Stage 16. The Stage 16 stories are real children's novels with an increased level of challenge, up to 144 pages in length.

My Guinea-pig is Innocent

Author : Margaret I. McAllister
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780199184439
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book My Guinea-pig is Innocent written by Margaret I. McAllister and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Oxford Reading Tree TreeTops Fiction: Level 15 More Pack A: The Mean Dream Wonder Machine

Author : Margaret McAllister
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780198448402
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (484 download)

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Download or read book Oxford Reading Tree TreeTops Fiction: Level 15 More Pack A: The Mean Dream Wonder Machine written by Margaret McAllister and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick tries to do the right thing but when he becomes absorbed in inventing things go wrong in The Mean Dream Wonder Machine. The trouble begins when he decides to improve the Professor's latest invention TreeTops Fiction contains engaging novels from top authors and illustrators with the variety children need to develop a love of reading!

The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media

Author : Brooke Gladstone
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393083543
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media written by Brooke Gladstone and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-05-23 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mind-opening, thought-provoking and incredibly timely… An absolutely spectacular read."—Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing A million listeners trust NPR's Brooke Gladstone to guide them through the complexities of the modern media. Bursting onto the page in vivid comics by acclaimed artist Josh Neufeld, this brilliant radio personality guides us through two millennia of media history, debunking the notion that "The Media" is an external force beyond our control and equipping us to be savvy consumers and shapers of the news. Owing to the graphic format, this book is readable only on larger screens and devices.

Sometimes I Lie

Author : Alice Feeney
Publisher : Flatiron Books
ISBN 13 : 1250144833
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Sometimes I Lie written by Alice Feeney and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name is Amber Reynolds. There are three things you should know about me: 1. I’m in a coma. 2. My husband doesn’t love me anymore. 3. Sometimes I lie. Amber wakes up in a hospital. She can’t move. She can’t speak. She can’t open her eyes. She can hear everyone around her, but they have no idea. Amber doesn’t remember what happened, but she has a suspicion her husband had something to do with it. Alternating between her paralyzed present, the week before her accident, and a series of childhood diaries from twenty years ago, this brilliant psychological thriller asks: Is something really a lie if you believe it's the truth?

The Wonder Machine

Author : Barry Timms
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781788811071
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Wonder Machine written by Barry Timms and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haven't you heard? Wolf is building a machine. A machine that makes dreams come true! "My greatest invention ever!" cheers Wolf. But what will happen when at last she turns the handle? An enchanting tale about the joys of sharing your talents, with flaps to lift and peep-through holes.

Big Machine

Author : Victor LaValle
Publisher : One World
ISBN 13 : 0385530412
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Big Machine written by Victor LaValle and published by One World. This book was released on 2009-08-11 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ricky Rice is a middling hustler with a lingering junk habit, a bum knee, and a haunted mind. A survivor of a suicide cult, he scrapes by as a porter at a bus depot in Utica, New York, until one day a mysterious letter arrives, summoning him to enlist in a band of paranormal investigators comprised of former addicts and petty criminals, all of whom had at some point in their wasted lives heard what may have been the voice of God. Infused with the wonder of a disquieting dream and laced with Victor LaValle’s fiendish comic sensibility, Big Machine is a mind-rattling mystery about doubt, faith, and the monsters we carry within us.

The Soft Machine

Author : William S. Burroughs
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802197213
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Soft Machine written by William S. Burroughs and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-02-24 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs revealed his genius. In The Soft Machine he begins an adventure that will take us even further into the dark recesses of his imagination, a region where nothing is sacred, nothing taboo. Continuing his ferocious verbal assault on hatred, hype, poverty, war, bureaucracy, and addiction in all its forms, Burroughs gives us a surreal space odyssey through the wounded galaxies in a book only he could create.

Last Lecture

Author : Perfection Learning Corporation
Publisher : Turtleback
ISBN 13 : 9781663608192
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Last Lecture written by Perfection Learning Corporation and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Dream Machine

Author : M. Mitchell Waldrop
Publisher : Stripe Press
ISBN 13 : 1953953360
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (539 download)

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Download or read book The Dream Machine written by M. Mitchell Waldrop and published by Stripe Press. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the man who instigated the work that led to the internet—and shifted our understanding of what computers could be. Behind every great revolution is a vision and behind perhaps the greatest revolution of our time, personal computing, is the vision of J.C.R. Licklider. He did not design the first personal computers or write the software that ran on them, nor was he involved in the legendary early companies that brought them to the forefront of our everyday experience. He was instead a relentless visionary that saw the potential of the way individuals could interact with computers and software. At a time when computers were a short step removed from mechanical data processors, Licklider was writing treatises on "human-computer symbiosis", "computers as communication devices", and a now not-so-unfamiliar "Intergalactic Network." His ideas became so influential, his passion so contagious, that Waldrop called him "computing's Johnny Appleseed. In a simultaneously compelling personal narrative and comprehensive historical exposition, Waldrop tells the story of the man who not only instigated the work that led to the internet, but also shifted our understanding of what computers were and could be. Included in this edition are also the original texts of Licklider's three most influential writings: 'Man-computer symbiosis' (1960), which outlines the vision that inspired the personal computer revolution of the 1970s; his 'Intergalactic Network' memo (1963), which outlines the vision that inspired the internet; and "The computer as a communication device" (1968, co-authored with Robert Taylor), which amplifies his vision for what the network could become.

Klara and the Sun

Author : Kazuo Ishiguro
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0593318188
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Klara and the Sun written by Kazuo Ishiguro and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Once in a great while, a book comes along that changes our view of the world. This magnificent novel from the Nobel laureate and author of Never Let Me Go is “an intriguing take on how artificial intelligence might play a role in our futures ... a poignant meditation on love and loneliness” (The Associated Press). • A GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick! Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her. Klara and the Sun is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental question: what does it mean to love?

Machines Like Me

Author : Ian McEwan
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385545126
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Machines Like Me written by Ian McEwan and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement—”a sharply intelligent novel of ideas” (The New York Times) that asks whether a machine can understand the human heart, or whether we are the ones who lack understanding. Set in an uncanny alternative 1982 London—where Britain has lost the Falklands War, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power, and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence—Machines Like Me powerfully portrays two lovers who will be tested beyond their understanding. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first generation of synthetic humans. With Miranda's assistance, he codesigns Adam's personality. The near-perfect human that emerges is beautiful, strong, and smart—and a love triangle soon forms. Ian McEwan's subversive, gripping novel poses fundamental questions: What makes us human—our outward deeds or our inner lives? Could a machine understand the human heart? This provocative and thrilling tale warns against the power to invent things beyond our control. Don’t miss Ian McEwan’s new novel, Lessons, coming in September!

Tell the Machine Goodnight

Author : Katie Williams
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525533133
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Tell the Machine Goodnight written by Katie Williams and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FINALIST FOR 2018 KIRKUS PRIZE NAMED ONE OF THE "BEST LITERARY FICTION OF 2018' BY KIRKUS REVIEWS "Sci-fi in its most perfect expression…Reading it is like having a lucid dream of six years from next week, filled with people you don't know, but will." —NPR "[Williams’s] wit is sharp, but her touch is light, and her novel is a winner." – San Francisco Chronicle "Between seasons of Black Mirror, look to Katie Williams' debut novel." —Refinery29 Smart and inventive, a page-turner that considers the elusive definition of happiness. Pearl's job is to make people happy. As a technician for the Apricity Corporation, with its patented happiness machine, she provides customers with personalized recommendations for greater contentment. She's good at her job, her office manager tells her, successful. But how does one measure an emotion? Meanwhile, there's Pearl's teenage son, Rhett. A sensitive kid who has forged an unconventional path through adolescence, Rhett seems to find greater satisfaction in being unhappy. The very rejection of joy is his own kind of "pursuit of happiness." As his mother, Pearl wants nothing more than to help Rhett--but is it for his sake or for hers? Certainly it would make Pearl happier. Regardless, her son is one person whose emotional life does not fall under the parameters of her job--not as happiness technician, and not as mother, either. Told from an alternating cast of endearing characters from within Pearl and Rhett's world, Tell the Machine Goodnight delivers a smartly moving and entertaining story about the advance of technology and the ways that it can most surprise and define us. Along the way, Katie Williams playfully illuminates our national obsession with positive psychology, our reliance on quick fixes. What happens when these obsessions begin to overlap? With warmth, humor, and a clever touch, Williams taps into our collective unease about the modern world and allows us see it a little more clearly.

Making AI Intelligible

Author : Herman Cappelen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192894722
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Making AI Intelligible written by Herman Cappelen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can humans and artificial intelligences share concepts and communicate? One aim of Making AI Intelligible is to show that philosophical work on the metaphysics of meaning can help answer these questions. Cappelen and Dever use the externalist tradition in philosophy of to create models of how AIs and humans can understand each other. In doing so, they also show ways in which that philosophical tradition can be improved: our linguistic encounters with AIs revel that our theories of meaning have been excessively anthropocentric. The questions addressed in the book are not only theoretically interesting, but the answers have pressing practical implications. Many important decisions about human life are now influenced by AI. In giving that power to AI, we presuppose that AIs can track features of the world that we care about (e.g. creditworthiness, recidivism, cancer, and combatants.) If AIs can share our concepts, that will go some way towards justifying this reliance on AI. The book can be read as a proposal for how to take some first steps towards achieving interpretable AI. Making AI Intelligible is of interest to both philosophers of language and anyone who follows current events or interacts with AI systems. It illustrates how philosophy can help us understand and improve our interactions with AI.

The Centauri Device

Author : M. John Harrison
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 0575088052
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book The Centauri Device written by M. John Harrison and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2010-12-30 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Truck was to outward appearances just another lowlife spaceship captain. But he was also the last of the Centaurans, or at least half of him was, which meant that he was the only person who could operate the Centauri Device, a sentient bomb which might hold the key to settling a vicious space war. M. John Harrison's classic novel turns the conventions of space opera on their head, and is written with the precision and brilliance for which is famed.

Goddess in the Machine

Author : Lora Beth Johnson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1984835939
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Goddess in the Machine written by Lora Beth Johnson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andra wakes up from a cryogenic sleep 1,000 years later than she was supposed to, forcing her to team up with an exiled prince to navigate an unfamiliar planet in this smart, thrilling sci-fi adventure, perfect for fans of Renegades and Aurora Rising. When Andra wakes up, she's drowning. Not only that, but she's in a hot, dirty cave, it's the year 3102, and everyone keeps calling her Goddess. When Andra went into a cryonic sleep for a trip across the galaxy, she expected to wake up in a hundred years, not a thousand. Worst of all, the rest of the colonists--including her family and friends--are dead. They died centuries ago, and for some reason, their descendants think Andra's a deity. She knows she's nothing special, but she'll play along if it means she can figure out why she was left in stasis and how to get back to Earth. Zhade, the exiled bastard prince of Eerensed, has other plans. Four years ago, the sleeping Goddess's glass coffin disappeared from the palace, and Zhade devoted himself to finding it. Now he's hoping the Goddess will be the key to taking his rightful place on the throne--if he can get her to play her part, that is. Because if his people realize she doesn't actually have the power to save their dying planet, they'll kill her. With a vicious monarch on the throne and a city tearing apart at the seams, Zhade and Andra might never be able to unlock the mystery of her fate, let alone find a way to unseat the king, especially since Zhade hasn't exactly been forthcoming with Andra. And a thousand years from home, is there any way of knowing that Earth is better than the planet she's woken to?

The Vertical Plane

Author : Ken Webster
Publisher : Iris Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780955983153
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book The Vertical Plane written by Ken Webster and published by Iris Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vertical Plane: The Mystery of the Dodleston Messages: A unique supernatural detective story.