You, the reader, are on the spot. You're late! At first, this little bunny is deliriously excited by your arrival, but now that you're finally here, he wants to know: where were you? He's been waiting long enough to learn an accordion...
Human behavior
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Auteur:Watt, MélanieSommaire: -
Auteur:Hannigan, KatherineSommaire:A New York Times and Book Sense best-selling author, Katherine Hannigan has garnered The Parents' Choice Gold Award. In True (...Sort of) , Delly Pattison likes surpresents—presents that are a surprise. When the Boyd family...
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Auteur:Patterson, James, Tebbetts, ChristopherSommaire:With his best friend awarding him points, Rafe tries to break every rule in his school's oppressive Code of Conduct. But when Rafe's game starts to catch up with him, he'll have to decide if winning is all that matters, or if he's...
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Auteur:Boyle, T. CoraghessanSommaire:As climate change threatens the earth, eight scientists have been selected to live in a prototype of a possible off-earth colony. But as these "Terranauts" face increased scrutiny and a host of disasters, their mantra: "...
- Auteur:Taleb, NassimSommaire:
Presents the author's aphorism that touch on the ideas about the hubris of modern society presented in such earlier works as "The Black Swan" and "Fooled by Randomness."
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Auteur:Pink, SarahSommaire:The study of everyday life is fundamental to our understanding of modern society. This book provides a coherent, interdisciplinary way to engage with everyday activities and environments. Arguing for an innovative, ethnographic approach...
- Auteur:Polk, Thad A.Sommaire:
We live in a time of amazing new technologies--and an unparalleled level of surveillance. Virtually every aspect of human behavior is tracked millions of times a day through the technology that we all, often without giving it a thought...
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Auteur:Lessing, DorisSommaire:In her 1985 CBC Massey Lectures Doris Lessing addresses the question of personal freedom and individual responsibility in a world increasingly prone to political rhetoric, mass emotions, and inherited structures of unquestioned belief....
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Auteur:Hawkins, David R.Sommaire:Presents a study of kinesiology, a science based on the testing of an all-or-none muscle response stimulus, and claims that the techniques described can provide people with the means by which to calibrate levels of truth and determine...
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Auteur:McClintock, NorahSommaire:Riding the wrong way up a one-way street, Kenzie takes his eyes off the road and hits a pedestrian. And not just any pedestrian. It’s his ex-girlfriend, Stassi. Was this a freak accident? Or was it something more sinister? When the...
- Auteur:Diana, CarlaSommaire:
Your relationships with your "smart" products are about to get a lot more personal. Think how commonplace it is now for people to ask Siri for the weather forecast, deploy Roomba to clean their homes, or summon Alexa to turn on the...
- Auteur:Dahl, RoaldSommaire:
La barbe de Compère Gredin est un véritable garde-manger, garnie de miettes de ses monstrueux festins : restes de spaghetti aux vers de terre, bribes de tarte aux oiseaux ... un régal que Commère Gredin lui prépare chaque semaine....
- Auteur:Swingle, Mari K.Sommaire:
Many of us would no more go out without our cell phone than we would leave the house without clothes. We live our lives on social media, and PDAs, tablets, computers and other devices are completely integrated into our global culture....
- Auteur:Swingle, Mari K.Sommaire:
Engaging and scientifically rigorous, this fully updated edition of i-Minds explores screen-based technology's assimilation into our lives, pondering them as both godsend and plague, demonstrating how constant connectivity is changing...
- Auteur:Bregman, RutgerSommaire:
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Utopia for Realists, a "bold" (Daniel H. Pink), "provocative" (Adam Grant) argument that our innate goodness and cooperation have been the greatest factors in humanity...
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Auteur:Becker, HelaineSommaire:Robots that look, act and think like humans are no longer the stuff of science fiction - they actually exist in the real world! Hubots explores the characteristics of 10 human-like robots, examines the challenges of integrating them...
- Auteur:Yoeli, Erez, Hoffman, MosheSommaire:
Moshe Hoffman is a research scientist at the MIT Media Lab Human Dynamics Group and lecturer at Harvard's department of economics. His research focuses on using game theory, models of learning and evolution, and experimental...
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Auteur:Kolb, BryanSommaire: -
Auteur:Sommaire:Where do we come from? Who created us? Why are we here? These questions have puzzled us since the dawn of time, but when it became apparent to Jon Stewart and the writers of The Daily Show that the world was about to end, they embarked...
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Auteur:Robbins, Susan P.Sommaire:
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