In Praise of Wolves

Science & Math

LAWRENCE, R.D.

Biological Sciences

Henry_Holt

Violence of Our Lives

Politics & Social Sciences

Parker, Tony

Social Sciences

A fascinating exploration of how insights from computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mindAll our lives are constrained by limited space and time, limits that give rise to a particular set of problems. What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifetime? How much messiness should we accept? What balance of new activities and familiar favorites is the most fulfilling? These may seem like uniquely human quandaries, but they are not: computers, too, face the same constraints, so computer scientists have been grappling with their version of such issues for decades. And the solutions they've found have much to teach us. In a dazzlingly interdisciplinary work, acclaimed author Brian Christian and cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths show how the algorithms used by computers can also untangle very human questions. They explain how to have better hunches and when to leave things to chance, how to deal with overwhelming choices and how best to connect with others. From finding a spouse to finding a parking spot, from organizing one's inbox to understanding the workings of memory, Algorithms to Live By transforms the wisdom of computer science into strategies for human living.

Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

Christian, Brian & Tom Griffiths

The Mirror and the Light

MANTEL, HILARY

Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilisation

Tyson, Neil DeGrasse

SIGNED SCARCE AS NEW FIRST EDITION First Printing dust jacket hardcover, with complete number line intact; in protective plastic; jacket is NOT price clipped (FPT $14.95); free tracking number, clean text, solid binding, NO remainders NOT ex-library, smoke free; slight gentle shelfwear / storage-wear; WE SHIP FAST. 201812838 (See also our COLLECTIBLE offerings of Sue Grafton's A, C, D, and J.) SIGNED "For Janet ... yours til the end of crime Sue 5-14-88" Third in Grafton s Kinsey Millhone series of detective novels, and possibly the scarcest. Third in Grafton's dashing trip through the alphabet ("A" is for Alibi, etc.) and probably her best so far. Gutsy, smart, twice-divorced private eye Kinsey Millhone has been hired by super-rich young Bobby Callahan to find out who almost killed him months before in a car crash that his best friend, Rick Bergen, didn't survive. Kinsey starts with Bobby's mixed-up family - cool, deeply devoted mother Glen, not-too-bright stepfather Derek, whose adolescent daughter Kitty is starving and drugging herself to death. Then, there are family friends - pathologist James Fraker and gorgeous wife Nola, surgical nurse Sufi Daniels and Kitty's psychiatrist, Leo Kleinert. Kinsey hasn't a glimmer of light through all this and more when Bobby dies in another car crash. Intensifying efforts to find the killer while managing to rescue her lovable old landlord Henry from the clutches of a seductive lady crook, Kinsey then puts the complex bits and pieces together at las -- finishing up with a tense, near-fatal confrontation with the murderer. The author's style is warm and swift, the plot intrigues even if far-fetched; best of all is Kinsey Millhone-who's got brains and a sense of humor. Carefully packed and quickly sent. Please choose Priority / Expedited shipping for faster delivery. (No shipping to Mexico, Brazil, Argentina or Italy.)

"C" is for Corpse

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

SUE GRAFTON

Mystery

Fourteen-year-old Sarah must reach the center of a dangerous labyrinth within thirteen hours in order to save her little brother, Toby from Jareth, King of the Goblins

Labyrinth

Literature & Fiction

A. C. H. Smith

Genre Fiction

Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze

In the 1920's a Chinese youth from the country comes to Chungking with his mother where the bustling city offers adventure and his apprenticeship to a coppersmith brings good fortune.

Children's Books

Lewis, Elizabeth Foreman (Pearl S. Buck, intro.)

Action & Adventure

Among the first Western journalists accredited in the People's Republic of China, the author lived in China in the Chinese manner, taking a Chinese name and sending his children to Chinese schools, and here reports on his extensive travels across the country

Behind the Forbidden Door: Travels in Unknown China

Travel

Tiziano, Terzani

Asia

The Dogma of Christ

FROMM, ERICH

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