**“After reading Mitchell’s guide, you’ll know what you don’t know and what other people don’t know, even though they claim to know it. And that’s invaluable.” —The New York TimesA leading computer scientist brings human sense to the AI bubble.**No 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 scie...

What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as consciousness? In this remarkably clear and companionable book, leading complex systems scientist Melanie Mitchell provides an intimate tour of the sciences of complexity, a broad set of efforts that seek to explain how large-scale complex, organized, and adaptive behavior can emerge from simple interactions among ...

What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as consciousness? In this remarkably clear and companionable book, leading complex systems scientist Melanie Mitchell provides an intimate tour of the sciences of complexity, a broad set of efforts that seek to explain how large-scale complex, organized, and adaptive behavior can emerge from simple interactions among ...

What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of individual neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as consciousness? What is it that guides self-organizing structures like the immune system, the World Wide Web, the global economy, and the human genome? These are just a few of the fascinating and elusive questions that the science of complexity seeks to answer. In this remarkably accessible and companio...

A nurse far from home encounters a danger she can't understand and a military man willing to risk his life—and heart—for her . . .Claire Olsen has been in Seoul, South Korea, for only one month. She doesn't know anyone—aside from her roommate and her colleagues at the medical center—and she certainly doesn't know why someone would attack her. Desperate to forget about the violent mugging, Claire tries to focus on her nursing, but one man won't let her hide from the ...

A WORLD AWAYShe never imagined she'd have the courage to leave everything behind and travel to Africa. Then, touched by tragedy, Leslie Carpenter finds herself devastated and alone. The health clinic in rural Kenya needs her expertise and gives her a reason to live again. Because she knows she'll never love again.Leslie didn't count on being dependent on a man like Ben Murphy, the rugged bush pilot who shuttles her between villages. Ben scares her. She can see that he's in a ...

A danger she can't understandClaire Olsen has been in Seoul, South Korea, for only one month. She doesn't know anyone–aside from her roommate and her colleagues at the medical center–and she certainly doesn't know why someone would attack her. Desperate to forget about the violent mugging, Claire tries to focus on her nursing, but one man won't let her hide from the truth.Naval intelligence officer Luke Llewellyn is determined to keep Claire safe, ...

Once touched…Marisa Somerville has changed. Now a confident, groomed, successful businesswoman, she’s nothing like the scared wife of an abusive husband that Rafe Peveril survived a plane crash with six years ago.Never forgotten…She has a different name, but he’d know those siren green eyes, and lush lips anywhere. Yet she insists they’ve never met and Rafe wants to know why. She might deny knowing him but she can’t deny how she res...

Before the first gold record, before the first concert tour, before the Monkees racked up four number-one albums in a single year and outsold the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, THE MONKEES was a half-hour TV show, airing Monday nights on NBC. Join a nostalgic viewer as she rediscovers the magical series of her childhood, exploring the episodes with a warm heart, a critical eye and a sentimental sensibility. From teeny bopper bubblegum to psychedelic experimentation, from matching blue eig...

How do trees make sweet maple syrup? Follow each step in the food production cycle—from planting sugar maple trees to pouring syrup on pancakes—in this fascinating book!

From the trunk of a maple tree to the syrup on a stack of pancakes, discover how this sweet treat is made through leveled text and detailed photos.

Take charge of SEO in your organization: do what it takes to get outstanding search results that translate into improved business performance! World-renowned search strategist Melanie Mitchell covers everything you need to know to build a rock-solid foundation for search success in your organization. Named several times as a "top in-house SEO" by Natural Search Blog, Mitchell draws on her immense experience to help you tame the organizational and political challenges you'll face i...