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Google必修的圖表簡報術 by 柯爾・諾瑟鮑姆・娜菲克
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDon't simply show your data--tell a story with it! "Storytelling with Data" teaches you the fundamentals of data visualization and how to communicate effectively with data. You'll discover the power of storytelling and the way to make data a pivotal point in your story... -
![Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How It Affects Us All by Laura Bates]()
Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How It Affects Us All by Laura Bates
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe first comprehensive undercover look at the terrorist movement no one is talking about.Men Who Hate Women examines the rise of secretive extremist communities who despise women and traces the roots of misogyny across a complex spider web of groups. It includes eye-opening interviews with former members of these communities, the academics studying this movement, and the men fighting back...Categorized as:
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![You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America by Paul Kix]()
You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America by Paul Kix
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom journalist Paul Kix, the riveting story, never before fully told, of the 1963 Birmingham Campaign―ten weeks that would shape the course of the Civil Rights Movement and the future of America.It’s one of the iconic photographs of American A Black teenager, a policeman and his lunging German Shepherd. Birmingham, Alabama, May of 1963... -
![The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future by Andrew Yang]()
The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future by Andrew Yang
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsFrom 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, a captivating account of how "a skinny Asian kid from upstate" became a successful entrepreneur, only to find a new mission: calling attention to the urgent steps America must take, including Universal Basic Income, to stabilize our economy amid rapid technological change and automation... -
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![Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell, Мелани Митчелл]()
Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell, Мелани Митчелл
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNo recent scientific enterprise has proved as alluring, terrifying, and filled with extravagant promise and frustrating setbacks as artificial intelligence. The award-winning author Melanie Mitchell, a leading computer scientist, now reveals AI’s turbulent history and the recent spate of apparent successes, grand hopes, and emerging fears surrounding it... -
![The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World by Max Fisher]()
The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World by Max Fisher
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom a New York Times investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist, “an essential book for our times” (Ezra Klein), tracking the high-stakes inside story of how Big Tech’s breakneck race to drive engagement—and profits—at all costs fractured the worldWe all have a vague sense that social media is bad for our minds, for our children, and for our democracies...Categorized as:
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![The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values by Brian Christian]()
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values by Brian Christian
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA jaw-dropping exploration of everything that goes wrong when we build AI systems and the movement to fix them. Today’s "machine-learning" systems, trained by data, are so effective that we’ve invited them to see and hear for us—and to make decisions on our behalf. But alarm bells are ringing. Recent years have seen an eruption of concern as the field of machine learning advances... -
![Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time by Jeff Speck]()
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time by Jeff Speck
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsJeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability. The very idea of a modern metropolis evokes visions of bustling sidewalks, vital mass transit, and a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly urban core... -
![How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between by Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner]()
How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between by Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to space exploration—by the world’s leading expert on megaprojects “This book is important, timely, instructive, and entertaining. What more could you ask for?”—Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize–winning author of Thinking, Fast and Slow “Over-budget and over-schedule is an inevitability... -
![Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction by Richard S. Sutton, Andrew G. Barto]()
Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction by Richard S. Sutton, Andrew G. Barto
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRichard Sutton and Andrew Barto provide a clear and simple account of the key ideas and algorithms of reinforcement learning. Their discussion ranges from the history of the field's intellectual foundations to the most recent developments and applications... -
![How to Create a Vegan World: A Pragmatic Approach by Tobias Leenaert]()
How to Create a Vegan World: A Pragmatic Approach by Tobias Leenaert
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this thought-provoking book, Tobias Leenaert leaves well-trodden animal advocacy paths and takes a fresh look at the strategies, objectives, and communication of the vegan and animal rights movement. He argues that, given our present situation, with entire societies dependent on using animals, we need a very pragmatic approach...Categorized as:
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![The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? by Michael J. Sandel]()
The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? by Michael J. Sandel
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThese are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favour of the already fortunate. Stalled social mobility and entrenched inequality give the lie to the promise that "you can make it if you try"... -
![White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era by Shelby Steele]()
White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era by Shelby Steele
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn 1955 the killers of Emmett Till, a black Mississippi youth, were acquitted because they were white. Forty years later, despite the strong DNA evidence against him, accused murderer O. J. Simpson went free after his attorney portrayed him as a victim of racism. The age of white supremacy has given way to an age of "white guilt" and neither has been good for African Americans... -
![A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains by Max Solomon Bennett]()
A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains by Max Solomon Bennett
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsEqual parts Sapiens, Behave, and Superintelligence, but wholly original in scope, A Brief History of Intelligence offers a paradigm shift for how we understand neuroscience and AI. Artificial intelligence entrepreneur Max Bennett chronicles the five "breakthroughs" in the evolution of human intelligence and reveals what brains of the past can tell us about the AI of tomorrow... -
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![Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds by Michael J. Knowles]()
Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds by Michael J. Knowles
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratings“Every single American needs to read Michael Knowles’s Speechless. I don’t mean ‘read it eventually.’ I stop what you’re doing and pick up this book.” —CANDACE OWENS "The most important book on free speech in decades—read it!” —SENATOR TED CRUZ A New We Win, They Lose The Culture War is over, and the culture lost... -
![The Mathematical Theory of Communication by Claude Shannon, Warren Weaver]()
The Mathematical Theory of Communication by Claude Shannon, Warren Weaver
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsScientific knowledge grows at a phenomenal pace--but few books have had as lasting an impact or played as important a role in our modern world as The Mathematical Theory of Communication, published originally as a paper on communication theory more than fifty years ago. Republished in book form shortly thereafter, it has since gone through four hardcover and sixteen paperback printings... -
![The Conversation: How Seeking and Speaking the Truth About Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations by Robert Livingston]()
The Conversation: How Seeking and Speaking the Truth About Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations by Robert Livingston
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn essential tool for individuals, organizations, and communities of all sizes to jump-start dialogue on racism and bias and to transform well-intentioned statements on diversity into concrete actions--from a leading Harvard social psychologist."Livingston has made the important and challenging task of addressing systemic racism within an organization approachable and achievable... -
![The New Age of Sexism: How the AI Revolution is Reinventing Misogyny by Laura Bates]()
The New Age of Sexism: How the AI Revolution is Reinventing Misogyny by Laura Bates
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMisogyny is being hardwired into our future. Can we stop it?We like to believe we’re moving closer to equality, riding the wave of technological progress into a brighter, fairer future. But beneath the glossy surface of innovation lies a chilling truth: new technologies are not just failing to solve age-old inequalities—they’re deepening them...Categorized as:
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![Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas by Seymour Papert]()
Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas by Seymour Papert
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsComputers have completely changed the way we teach children. We have Mindstorms to thank for that. In this book, pioneering computer scientist Seymour Papert uses the invention of LOGO, the first child-friendly programming language, to make the case for the value of teaching children with computers... -
![Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change by Victor Papanek]()
Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change by Victor Papanek
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDesign for the Real World has, since its first appearance twenty-five years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design... -
![The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium by Martin Gurri]()
The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium by Martin Gurri
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn the words of economist and scholar Arnold Kling, Martin Gurri saw it coming.Technology has categorically reversed the information balance of power between the public and the elites who manage the great hierarchical institutions of the industrial age government, political parties, the media...Categorized as:
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![Education for Critical Consciousness by Paulo Freire]()
Education for Critical Consciousness by Paulo Freire
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratings...Categorized as:
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![Them: Why We Hate Each Other - and How to Heal by Ben Sasse]()
Them: Why We Hate Each Other - and How to Heal by Ben Sasse
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing American Adult, an intimate and urgent assessment of the existential crisis facing our nation.Something is wrong. We all know it.American life expectancy is declining for a third straight year. Birth rates are dropping. Nearly half of us think the other political party isn’t just wrong; they’re evil...Categorized as:
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![Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Stuart Russell, Peter Norvig]()
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Stuart Russell, Peter Norvig
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFor one or two-semester, undergraduate or graduate-level courses in Artificial Intelligence. The long-anticipated revision of this best-selling text offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the theory and practice of artificial intelligence. *NEW-Nontechnical learning material-Accompanies each part of the book... -
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![Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship by Clementine Ford]()
Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship by Clementine Ford
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratings‘Everyone’s afraid that their daughters might be hurt. No one seems to be scared that their sons might be the ones to do it … This book … is the culmination of many years of writing about power, abuse, privilege, male entitlement and rape culture. After all that, here’s what I’ve learned: we should be f*cking terrified...Categorized as:
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![Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation by Joseph Weizenbaum]()
Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation by Joseph Weizenbaum
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA classic text by the author who developed ELIZA, a natural-language processing system... -
![Patriarchy Stress Disorder: The Invisible Inner Barrier to Women's Happiness and Fulfillment by Valerie Rein]()
Patriarchy Stress Disorder: The Invisible Inner Barrier to Women's Happiness and Fulfillment by Valerie Rein
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDespite checking off the boxes of worldly accomplishments, most high-achieving women are secretly dissatisfied. They feel stuck in lives that look perfect on the outside, yet on the inside, they're unfulfilled, plagued by the nagging feeling that there's got to be more. They feel guilty and ungrateful for feeling trapped in lives that are so good...Categorized as:
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![The Sciences of the Artificial by Herbert A. Simon]()
The Sciences of the Artificial by Herbert A. Simon
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsContinuing his exploration of the organization of complexity and the science of design, this new edition of Herbert Simon's classic work on artificial intelligence adds a chapter that sorts out the current themes and tools -- chaos, adaptive systems, genetic algorithms -- for analyzing complexity and complex systems. There are updates throughout the book as well... -
![Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn by Richard Hamming]()
Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn by Richard Hamming
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHighly effective thinking is an art that engineers and scientists can be taught to develop. By presenting actual experiences and analyzing them as they are described, the author conveys the developmental thought processes employed and shows a style of thinking that leads to successful results is something that can be learned... -
![Audience of One: Television, Donald Trump, and the Fracturing of America by James Poniewozik]()
Audience of One: Television, Donald Trump, and the Fracturing of America by James Poniewozik
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn incisive cultural history that captures a fractious nation through the prism of television and the rattled mind of a celebrity president.Television has entertained America, television has ensorcelled America, and with the election of Donald J. Trump, television has conquered America...Categorized as:
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