"Wonderfully erudite, humorous, and easy to read." --KDNuggets In the world's top research labs and universities, the race is on to invent the ultimate learning algorithm: one capable of discovering any knowledge from data, and doing anything we want, before we even ask. In The Master Algorithm, Pedro Domingos lifts the veil to give us a peek inside the learning machines that power Google, anazon, and your smartphone. He assembles a blueprint for the future universal learner--the Master Algorithm--and discusses what it will mean for business, science, and society. If data-ism is today's philosophy, this book is its bible.

一个没有身体的妖精和一个没有脸的怪物。 一个足智多谋的武士和一个忠诚的女儿。 月亮的精灵和龙王。 这本收录了15个日本传统民间故事的合集，将读者带入了一个充满冒险和魅力的时代。民俗学家拉夫卡迪奥 赫恩和耶狄奥多拉 奥扎基的作品中，这些故事时而恐怖，时而振奋人心，时而充满诗意。每一个故事都包含当代日本艺术家千叶光太郎创作生动的插画。如果你对日本丰富的历史和文化感兴趣，那你不应该错过它。

对古埃及人在日常生活中变魔术的方式的有趣介绍。 Hardcover: 224 pages Publisher: Thames and Hudson (April 7 2020) Language: English ISBN-10: 0500052123 ISBN-13: 978-0500052129 Product Dimensions: 14 x 2.3 x 20.8 cm Shipping Weight: 440 g 在古代世界，埃及的魔术师被认为是*好的。但是魔术是无害的乐趣，发自内心的希望还是更黑暗的东西呢？无论你是需要爱情的魅力，与已故妻子聊天，还是能像鸟一样飞翔，埃及魔术师都能满足你。Christina Riggs探索了埃及人如何看待魔术，魔术的表演者以及表演魔术的原因，还帮助读者理解了为什么我们*初会以这种神秘，神奇的方式想到古埃及。 本书用严肃的态度对待埃及魔术，使用古老的文字和图像探讨魔术，宗教和医学之间的模糊区别。在此过程中，读者将学习如何治愈蝎子叮咬，为什么你可能想要弄断填充玩具河马的双

Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: Thames and Hudson; Reprint edition (June 2 2020) Language: English ISBN-10: 0500295530 ISBN-13: 978-0500295533 Product Dimensions: 13.2 x 2.5 x 19.8 cm Shipping Weight: 322 g 在过去的二十年中，恐龙研究已从自然历史变为可检验的科学。新技术揭示了被锁在骨头里的秘密，这是以前没人预料到的，我们现在可以弄清楚出恐龙的颜色，它们的咬合力，速度和亲代抚育以及它们如何慢慢灭绝的。这本开创性的书说明了科学如何取代了推测以及我们对恐龙及其世界的理解如何彻底改变的。这个主题从来没有像现在这样充满活力，从来没有变化得如此之快，并且从未吸引过这么多人。 Startling new fossil finds are the lifeblood of modern palaeobiology. Giant sauropod dinosaur skeletons from Patagonia, dinosaurs with feathers from China, and even a tiny dinosaur tail in Burmese amber complete down to every detail of its filament-l

Paperback: 144 pages Publisher: Thames and Hudson (April 21 2020) Language: English ISBN-10: 0500295301 ISBN-13: 978-0500295304 Product Dimensions: 15.2 x 1.3 x 23.1 cm Shipping Weight: 299 g 通过气候变化，全世界都感受到了全球变暖的影响，我们的河流和海洋被塑料阻塞的图像激起了本能的恐怖反应。作为回应，政府，公司和个人开始改变他们的政策和行为 但这些是否太少，太迟了呢？是否有可能扭转我们对地球造成的损害，或者我们已经到了只能处理造成的问题和破坏的地步了呢？这本引人入胜且精辟的著作对包括森林砍伐，全球变暖和一次性塑料在内的一系列关键问题进行了深刻的分析，同时评估了是否有可能以及如何修复我们的地球。 The effects of global warming are being felt around the world through climate change, and images of our rivers and oceans choking with plastic have provoked an instinctive horrifi

过去的60年里，人工智能已经慢慢渗透到我们的日常生活中，如社交媒体，Netflix,无人驾驶汽车和人形机器人等, 使我们在与世界互动的方式上发生了*大变化。人类会被AI取代吗？人工智能是否可以改善社会和人类的发展？ The past sixty years have witnessed astonishing growth in the field of artifical intelligence. From social media to Netflix, AI has already infiltrated our daily lives, while driverless cars and humanoid robots are starting to make seismic shifts in the ways we interact with our world. Are we on the threshold of an AI-dominated reality? How will the ethics of this expanding field be enforced in practice? Will humans be superseded by AI? This astute and disquieting review, replete with astonishing up-to-the-minute imagery a trademark of the Big Idea series evaluates whether AI can transform society and humanity for the better or whether its enormous capability will bring about a dystopian AI-controlled future for t

我们应该支持素食主义吗？从 纯素食主义的演变 到 为什么今天要做素食主义？ 书中研究了现在主流的以植物为基础的饮食的演变， 纯素食主义的挑战 调查了纯素生活方式的营养和误解，设想了素食主义的未来及其对地球的影响。 An insightful look at the arguments for and against universal adoption of a vegan diet and lifestyle. As concern grows over the environmental costs and ethical implications of intensive factory farming, an increasing number of people are embracing diets and lifestyles free from animal products. Should We All Be Vegan? gives a fluid and engaging account of the evolution of veganism. Over the course of four easily digestible chapters, food writer Molly Watson reveals the truth about veganism s impact on our health, the planet, and the global economy. Chapters like The Evolution of Veganism and Why Go Vegan Today? examine the development of veganism from the earliest meat-free human

本书探讨了现代医学的现状，研究了医学，医保和它们对现代生活的影响，围绕当今的逐步上升的医学成本（包括财物的和道德的）进行了讨论，适合对道德和哲学感兴趣的人以及在医学领域工作的人。 This fascinating entry in The Big Idea series lays out the ethical implications and the costs of modern medicine. Over the course of human history, medicine has achieved incredible successes―but at what cost? This latest book in The Big Idea series explores the state of modern medicine, examining the ethics of medical and healthcare practices and the impact they have on modern life. This fascinating analysis engages with the debate surrounding the escalating costs, both financial and ethical, of medicine today. Intelligent and provocative, Is Medicine Still Good for Us? dissects common assumptions about medicine, helping the reader create their own informed opinion about its extraordinary achievements, limitations, injustices, and inev

随着MeToo运动以及女权主义和男权运动的热潮，传统的男性气质已经成为激烈争论的话题。本书围绕男子气概以及如何适应性别角色的变化，改变我们对21世纪男性气质的态度。 This timely title weighs masculinity s capacity for good against its potential for destruction in the context of contemporary debates on the topic. In the wake of the MeToo movement and the upsurge in both feminist and men s rights activism, traditional masculinity has become the topic of impassioned debate. Is Masculinity Toxic? interrogates the myths surrounding modern manhood, asking whether―and how―we need to change our attitudes toward masculinity in the twenty-first century. Therapist Andrew Smiler addresses the topic of masculinity in four chapters: Evolving Understandings of Masculinity, which examines the history of ideas about masculinity, Male Power to Harm, which dissects the societal impacts of toxic masculinity, including bullying beh

动物解剖术正被人们需要，不管是在公寓还是奢侈品店都能找到动物的影子。博物馆和当代艺术家也开始办这类的展出。这本书介绍了从它作为自然历史研究的工具开始再到皮制产品的发展过程。 Taxidermy has come in from the cold. Stuffed animals are appearing everywhere from chic apartments to luxury boutiques. Museums have been dusting down their collections to put them back on display, while contemporary artists have rejuvenated the practice. This book reveals the art of taxidermy in all its weird and wonderful glory, from its beginnings as a tool of natural history research, through crazes for anthropomorphic, zoomorphic and fake taxidermy, to its rediscovery by the art, fashion and design worlds of the 21st century.

根据历史记载资料，本书介绍了传说中的日本忍者的方方面面，比如如何成为一名忍者，喜欢忍者的朋友们不要错过。 Based on historical ninja training manuals, this witty and informative volume gives you all the tools you need to enter the secret world of ninjutsu. Ninjas―Japan s famous black-clad spies, saboteurs, and undercover fighters, equipped with superb martial arts skills and an uncanny aptitude for sneakiness―are the stuff of myth and legend. In the present day, movies, comic books, theme parks, and computer games have all been dedicated to the ninja. Folklore and entertaining tales concerning ninjas remain immensely popular as the Ninja has captured a central place in the cultural imagination, both in Japan and in the West. Ninja takes the reader to Japan in 1789, conveying the excitement, danger, and subterfuge of the period. Based on original ninjutsu training manuals, it teaches precisely what is required to become a ninja. Illustr

本书带我们去探索埃及古墓的秘密，在过去的2个世纪里，考古学家们挖掘了一些埃及著名的法老王的墓葬，从吉萨金字塔深到隐藏在国王谷的岩石山丘中的墓葬。然而，还有古墓待我们去发现... A compelling insight into the search for ancient Egypt's lost tombs, providing a completely up-to-date inside story of all the latest theories and discoveries Egypt boasts some of the most spectacular ancient ruins in the world, scattered across the entire country. Tombs remain a central part of the continuing allure of ancient Egypt; over the past two centuries, archaeologists have unearthed the burials of some of Egypt s celebrated pharaohs, from the chambers deep within the famed pyramids at Giza to the tombs hidden away in the rocky hills of the Valley of the Kings. And yet, there is much still to find. Despite the efforts of generations of Egyptologists, who have scoured the royal cemeteries of the pharaonic era, many of the most intr

畅销书人士史蒂芬霍金使用全球畅销书探索宇宙的奥秘，让全世界的读者眼花缭乱。现在，这也许是我们这个时代*杰出的宇宙学家*一次将他的目光转向内心，以揭示他自己的生活和智力发展。 我的简史讲述了史蒂芬霍金不可思议的旅程，从他的战后伦敦少年时代到他多年的国际赞誉和名人。这本简明诙谐而又坦诚的报告用极为出色的照片进行了精彩的介绍，向读者介绍了在以前的书中很少见到的霍金：他的同班同学绰号他的爱因斯坦的好奇男生; 一个曾经和同事赌一个特定黑洞存在的赌徒; 而年轻的丈夫和父亲正努力在物理学和宇宙学领域立足。 霍金用具有谦逊和幽默感的写作方式开启了他21岁后诊断ALS所面临的挑战。通过追踪他作为思想家的发展，他解释了早逝的前景如何通过无数的智力突破促使他前进，并且谈论他的杰作 时间简史 - 二十世纪标志性书籍