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At some point, every one of us embarks on a journey to find love. We meet people, date, get into and out of relationships, all with the hope of finding someone with whom we share a deep connection. This seems standard now, but it's wildly different from what people did even just decades ago. Single people today have more romantic options than at any point in human history. With technology, our abilities to connect with and sort through these options...
2) Desk set
Series
Studio classic volume 18
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
A computer expert is brought in to raise the efficiency of a television network research department.
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McGraw-Hill
Language
English
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Examines how new innovations in education are changing the way people learn in the world today, the way business is affected as a result of it, and the way businesses themselves must change in order to stay productive and successful in the future.
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[2015]
Language
English
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"Libraries today are more important than ever. More than just book repositories, libraries can become bulwarks against some of the most crucial challenges of our age: unequal access to education, jobs, and information. In BiblioTech, educator and technology expert John Palfrey argues that anyone seeking to participate in the 21st century needs to understand how to find and use the vast stores of information available online. And libraries, which play...
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Smart Apple Media
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Describes new technologies that are helping make military aviation, land warfare, warships and submarines, intelligence, non-lethal weapons, and space weapons more efficient and discusses the implications these technologies have on current and future warfare"--Provided by publisher.
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Design Studio Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Simon Stålenhag's Tales from the Loop is a wildly successful crowd-funded project that takes viewers on a surprising sci-fi journey through various country and city landscapes--from small towns in Sweden and the deserts of Nevada to the bitter chill of Siberia--where children explore and engage with abandoned robots, vehicles, and machinery large and small, while dinosaurs and other creatures wander our roads and fields. Stålenhag's paintings...
9) Twinsters
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2015].
Language
English
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A remarkable true story of identity and journey into sisterhood. Raised on different continents, with no idea the other existed, and connected 25 years later through social media, Samantha and Anais discover that they are identical twin sisters separated at birth.
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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"In Silicon Valley the phrase "disruptive technology" is tossed around on a casual basis. No one doubts that technology has the power to devastate entire industries and upend various sectors of the job market. But Rise of the Robots asks a bigger question: Can accelerating technology disrupt our entire economic system to the point where a fundamental restructuring is required? Companies like Facebook and YouTube may only need a handful of employees...
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MIT Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
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""Arguments against radical enhancement have too often in the past been characterized by irrationalism and mysticism. Nicholas Agar presents the first cogent case for the rationality of opposing radical enhancement. Moving easily between science and philosophy, he argues for a species-relative conception of valuable experiences, according to which we have a strong reason to remain human. This central claim is bolstered by a host of other arguments,...
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ASHE higher education report volume Volume 40, Number 6
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Routledge
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"Todd Whitaker, Jeffrey Zoul, and Jimmy Casas are widely acclaimed experts on teaching and leading and are pioneers in the education twitterverse, and now they are sharing their best practices! In What Connected Educators Do Differently, they show how being a connected educator - by using social media to connect with peers across the country and even across the globe - will greatly enhance your own learning and your success in a school or classroom....
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Publisher
Design Studio Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Simon Stålenhag is back. In his new artbook Things From The Flood, Stålenhag continues the stories of Tales From the Loop, memories of a Nordic childhood infused with strange machines and weird creatures from other dimensions. In Things From The Flood, Stålenhag moves his focus from the '80s to the '90s, the decade of great change when the outside world truly came to Scandinavia. These are tales of the trials of youth, of schoolyard hazings,...