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Complex Adaptive Systems

An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life

by John H. Miller, Scott Page ...

Series series Princeton Studies in Complexity
This book provides the first clear, comprehensive, and accessible account of complex adaptive social systems, by two of the field's leading authorities. Such systems--whether political parties, stock markets, or ant colonies--present some of the most intriguing theoretical and practical challenges confronting the social sciences. Engagingly written, and balancing technical detail with intuitive ... Read more

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This book provides the first clear, comprehensive, and accessible account of complex adaptive social systems, by two of the field's leading authorities. Such systems--whether political parties, stock markets, or ant colonies--present some of the most intriguing theoretical and practical challenges confronting the social sciences. Engagingly written, and balancing technical detail with intuitive
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Fripp Island

A History

by Page Putnam Miller ...

A small island along the South Carolina coast with a white beach, live oaks, palms, pines, and vast marshes, Fripp Island captivates residents and visitors. The ebb and flow of tides, the fortunes and difficulties of developers and the fluctuations in the residential community have shaped Fripp's history. In the years since 1963 when the bridge to Fripp was built, two constants in the island's ... Read more

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A small island along the South Carolina coast with a white beach, live oaks, palms, pines, and vast marshes, Fripp Island captivates residents and visitors. The ebb and flow of tides, the fortunes and difficulties of developers and the fluctuations in the residential community have shaped Fripp's history. In the years since 1963 when the bridge to Fripp was built, two constants in the island's
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Crystal Man, The

The Scientist Who Erased Himself

by Edward Page Mitchell ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 415 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

36 min

On a dark New York street, a man collides with a stranger who leaves almost no trace behind him. Minutes later that stranger vanishes into thin air, and the mystery refuses to leave the narrator’s mind.The answer arrives in the most astonishing way imaginable. Guided by unseen hands into a hidden room, the narrator meets a man who should not exist—a living scientist whose body has been stripped of ... Read more

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On a dark New York street, a man collides with a stranger who leaves almost no trace behind him. Minutes later that stranger vanishes into thin air, and the mystery refuses to leave the narrator’s mind.The answer arrives in the most astonishing way imaginable. Guided by unseen hands into a hidden room, the narrator meets a man who should not exist—a living scientist whose body has been stripped of
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Landmarks of American Women's History

by Page Putnam Miller ...

Series series American Landmarks
Throughout history, women have often worked in informal ways and in modest conditions, frequently without monuments or grand examples of architecture preserved to commemorate their accomplishments. Landmarks of American Women's History describes the sites that represent a wide variety of women's experiences and accomplishments. As early as the fourteenth century, the women of New Mexico's Taos ... Read more

$21.89 USD

Throughout history, women have often worked in informal ways and in modest conditions, frequently without monuments or grand examples of architecture preserved to commemorate their accomplishments. Landmarks of American Women's History describes the sites that represent a wide variety of women's experiences and accomplishments. As early as the fourteenth century, the women of New Mexico's Taos
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Man Without a Body, The

A Head, A Machine, and A Terrifying Success

by Edward Page Mitchell ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 514 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

22 min

The Man Without a Body is a pioneering science-fiction tale first published in The New York Sun in 1877. The story follows a brilliant but impatient scientist who invents a machine capable of transmitting matter through space — but when he tests it on himself, only his head makes the journey. What begins as a bold experiment quickly becomes a darkly humorous and unsettling lesson in the limits of ... Read more

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The Man Without a Body is a pioneering science-fiction tale first published in The New York Sun in 1877. The story follows a brilliant but impatient scientist who invents a machine capable of transmitting matter through space — but when he tests it on himself, only his head makes the journey. What begins as a bold experiment quickly becomes a darkly humorous and unsettling lesson in the limits of
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Lost Sci-Fi Books 411 thru 415

Ghosts, Time Travelers & Mad Geniuses: Vintage Sci-Fi from 1906 to the Space Age

by Jack London, Arthur C. Clarke, H. P. Lovecraft, H. Bedford–Jones, Edward Page Mitchell ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook box set - Lost Sci-Fi 5 Book Box Sets
Unabridged

3 hours 10 min

Five extraordinary stories take you from bizarre scientific experiments and impossible disappearances to cosmic mysteries, ancient secrets, and an invention that could change the way we see the world.An Adventure of a Professional Corpse: The Artificial Honeymoon — H. Bedford-JonesAn unusual profession leads to an even more unusual assignment in this inventive tale from one of the most prolific ... Read more

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Five extraordinary stories take you from bizarre scientific experiments and impossible disappearances to cosmic mysteries, ancient secrets, and an invention that could change the way we see the world.An Adventure of a Professional Corpse: The Artificial Honeymoon — H. Bedford-JonesAn unusual profession leads to an even more unusual assignment in this inventive tale from one of the most prolific
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South Carolina Women

Their Lives and Times, Volume 3

by Marjorie Julian Spruill, Valinda W. Littlefield, Joan Marie Johnson, Jennifer Black, Carol Botsch, W. Lewis Burke, Fritz P. Hamer, Patricia Hill0, Cherisse Jones-Branch1, Georgette Mayo2, Page Miller3, Constance Myers4, Mary Ogden5, Bakari T. Sellers6, Marcia Synnott7, Melissa Walker Heidari8, John White9, Suzanne Wise0, Kate Porter Young1, Katherine Mellen Charron2 ...

Covering an era from the early twentieth century to the present, this volume features twenty-seven South Carolina women of varied backgrounds whose stories reflect the ever-widening array of activities and occupations in which women were engaged in a transformative era that included depression, world wars, and dramatic changes in the role of women. Some striking revelations emerge from these ... Read more

$69.29 USD

Covering an era from the early twentieth century to the present, this volume features twenty-seven South Carolina women of varied backgrounds whose stories reflect the ever-widening array of activities and occupations in which women were engaged in a transformative era that included depression, world wars, and dramatic changes in the role of women. Some striking revelations emerge from these
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50 Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories 8: More Than 32 Hours of Classic Science Fiction

Legendary Authors. Timeless Stories. Endless Imagination.

by Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Silverberg, Jack London, Arthur C. Clarke, Katherine MacLean, Clyde Beck, Clifford D. Simak, Mack Reynolds, Donald E. Westlake, Harlan Ellison, H. P. Lovecraft, H. G. Wells, Nelson S. Bond, Alfred Coppel, William Tenn, Robert Moore Williams, Francis Stevens, Miriam Allen DeFord, Robert Sheckley, Harry Harrison, Fritz Leiber, Noel Loomis, Charles Dye, Alfred Bester, Henry Kuttner, Michael Shaara, Zenna Henderson, Isaac Asimov, Clark Ashton Smith, Donald A. Wollheim, Randall Garrett, Philip K. Dick, Winston Marks, Frank Belknap Long, G. Peyton Wertenbaker, James Rosenquest, Raymond Z. Gallun, Harl Vincent, Edward Page Mitchell, Lynn Venable ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook box set - Lost Sci-Fi Anthologies
Unabridged

32 hours 9 min

50 Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories 8: More Than 32 Hours of Classic Science FictionStep into a time machine of imagination with 50 Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories 8, an extraordinary collection featuring more than 32 hours of classic science fiction from the pioneers who helped shape the genre we know today.Travel to distant worlds, encounter mysterious alien civilizations, witness astonishing ... Read more

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50 Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories 8: More Than 32 Hours of Classic Science FictionStep into a time machine of imagination with 50 Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories 8, an extraordinary collection featuring more than 32 hours of classic science fiction from the pioneers who helped shape the genre we know today.Travel to distant worlds, encounter mysterious alien civilizations, witness astonishing
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Lost Sci-Fi Books 511 thru 515

Forgotten Encounters from the Early Days of Science Fiction

by Hal K. Wells, Robert Sheckley, Frank Belknap Long, Edward Page Mitchell ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook box set - Lost Sci-Fi 5 Book Box Sets
Unabridged

2 hours 44 min

Step back into the wild imagination of early science fiction. These five rare tales carry listeners across eerie lunar mysteries, strange Martian encounters, unsettling scientific experiments and a voyage that reveals something terrifying hidden deep inside a ship’s cargo hold.Written during the formative decades of the genre, these stories capture the fearless creativity that defined vintage ... Read more

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Step back into the wild imagination of early science fiction. These five rare tales carry listeners across eerie lunar mysteries, strange Martian encounters, unsettling scientific experiments and a voyage that reveals something terrifying hidden deep inside a ship’s cargo hold.Written during the formative decades of the genre, these stories capture the fearless creativity that defined vintage
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Heart of Stone

by M. Hartley ...

Narrated by Vivienne Page, Rich Miller ...

Series series Stone Ranch
Unabridged

12 hours 51 min

For listeners who crave workplace tension, age-gap romance, and fiery chemistry, Heart of Stone is a swoon-worthy story about a fearless PR powerhouse and the grumpy cowboy who can't resist her.Eleanor Stewartt built her public relations empire with razor-sharp wit, relentless drive, and a will that refuses to bend. When she's hired to salvage the reputation of a luxury ranch on the brink of ... Read more

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For listeners who crave workplace tension, age-gap romance, and fiery chemistry, Heart of Stone is a swoon-worthy story about a fearless PR powerhouse and the grumpy cowboy who can't resist her.Eleanor Stewartt built her public relations empire with razor-sharp wit, relentless drive, and a will that refuses to bend. When she's hired to salvage the reputation of a luxury ranch on the brink of
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Diversity and Complexity

by Scott E. Page ...

Series series Primers in Complex Systems
This book provides an introduction to the role of diversity in complex adaptive systems. A complex system--such as an economy or a tropical ecosystem--consists of interacting adaptive entities that produce dynamic patterns and structures. Diversity plays a different role in a complex system than it does in an equilibrium system, where it often merely produces variation around the mean for ... Read more

$23.79 USD

This book provides an introduction to the role of diversity in complex adaptive systems. A complex system--such as an economy or a tropical ecosystem--consists of interacting adaptive entities that produce dynamic patterns and structures. Diversity plays a different role in a complex system than it does in an equilibrium system, where it often merely produces variation around the mean for
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Surfaces and Essences

Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking

by Emmanuel Sander, Douglas R Hofstadter ...

A revelatory foray into cognition and the dynamics of the mind.**“*****Surfaces and Essences *****warrants a place alongside Gödel, Escher, Bach and major recent treatments of human cognition. Analogy is not the endpoint of understanding, but its indispensable beginning.” –**ScienceAnalogy is the core of all thinking.This is the simple but unorthodox premise that Pulitzer ... ... Read more

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A revelatory foray into cognition and the dynamics of the mind.**“*****Surfaces and Essences *****warrants a place alongside Gödel, Escher, Bach and major recent treatments of human cognition. Analogy is not the endpoint of understanding, but its indispensable beginning.” –**ScienceAnalogy is the core of all thinking.This is the simple but unorthodox premise that Pulitzer ...
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