James Barrat
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Artificial Intelligence helps choose what books you buy, what movies you see, and even who you date. It puts the "smart" in your smart phone, it has the run of your house, and soon it will drive your car. It makes most of the trades on Wall Street, and controls vital energy, water, and transportation infrastructure. But Artificial Intelligence can also threaten our existence. Though primitive today, 'intelligent' computer systems double in speed...
Author
Publisher
Avery, Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Suicide in America has become a public health crisis. Now this insightful book sheds much needed light on the many risk factors that combine to drive suicide forward so that we can try to identify and stop them. On average about 45,000 people in America die by suicide each year, a death toll higher than car accidents or homicides. For every person who dies there were are about 10 ten unsuccessful attempts. And every day some 15 million Americans...
3) Egypt
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Who built the pyramids? What were the secrets of mummification? Which treasures were selected for the afterlife and why? For centuries, Egypt's pharaohs have kept these secrets to themselves, until now.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The Kushites were a little-known African civilization that rose up and overthrew the Ancient Egyptians. Egypt, and early archaeologists, wanted history to forget them, but National Geographic is finally revealing the truth about the mysterious Black Pharaohs.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Investigate the rise of spillover viruses like Zika, Ebola and Nipah that can make the leap from animals to humans. Find out how human behaviors spread diseases and what science can do to anticipate and prevent epidemics around the world.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Follow Dr. Kenny Broad as he dives into blue holes, the underwater caves that formed during the last ice age when sea level was nearly 400 feet below what it is today. With an interdisciplinary team of climatologists, paleontologists, and anthropologists, Broad investigates the hidden history of Earth's climate as revealed by finds in this spectacularly beautiful 'alternate universe.'
Publisher
National Geographic Video
Pub. Date
[2008, 1998]
Language
Español
Description
"¿Qué pasaría si Hitler tuviera la bomba atómica? ¿Por que el ataque del submarino japonés a Pearl Harbor fracaso? ¿Ahora estas y otras irresistibles historias sobre los secretos de las armas, las tácticas despiadadas y el heroísmo remarcado de la Segunda Guerra Mundial son reveladas. Presenciar los audaces intentos de la resistencia clandestina noruega para destruir el programa de bombas de los Nazis ..."--Container.
Publisher
Televisa Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
One of the most hated men in history Judas Iscariot, the apostle who betrayed Jesus. For centuries, his name meant treachery and deceit.
A National Geographic y a un grupo de detectives Bíblicos para determinar la autenticidad de este antiguo documento, uniendo pieza por pieza sus delicadas páginas antes de que se conviertan en polvo.