18 books like The second self

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The New Hacker's Dictionary Eric S. Raymond · 1991 · 508p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Shares Ordinateurs, Electronic data processing, Computers with this book.
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Computerdenken Roger Penrose · 1989 · ★ 3.7 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Advances the theory that despite burgeoning computer technologies, there will remain facets of human thinking that cannot be emulated by a machine. Shares Ordinateurs, Denken, Computers
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The Denial of Death Ernest Becker · 1973 · ★ 4.0 · 315p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares Aspect psychologique, Psychological aspects with this book.
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Artemis Fowl and the Eternity Code Eoin Colfer · 2003 · ★ 4.1 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate After Artemis uses stolen fairy technology to create a powerful microcomputer and it is snatched by a dangerous American businessman, Artemis, Juliet, Mulch, and the fairies join forces to try to retrieve it. Shares Ordinateurs, Computers
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The Psychology of Everyday Things Donald A. Norman · 1988 · ★ 4.1 · 257p · ≈ 8h · Moderate The Design of Everyday Things is a best-selling book by cognitive scientist and usability engineer Donald Norman about how design serves as the communication between object and user, and how to optimize that conduit of communication in order to make the experience of using the object pleasurable. One of the main premises of the book is that although people are often keen to blame themselves when… Shares Aspect psychologique, Psychological aspects
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Why we kill Nancy Loucks · 2009 · 221p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Shares Aspect psychologique, Psychological aspects with this book.
The Psychology of Selling
The Psychology of Selling Brian Tracy · 1986 · ★ 4.4 · 220p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Ben shu nei rong bao kuo:xiao shou de nei zai bo yi,She li bing shi xian quan bu xiao shou mu biao,Ren men yin he er gou mai,Chuang yi xiao shou,Yue jian geng duo de ke hu,Cheng gong xiao shou de shi da guan jian deng. Shares Aspect psychologique, Psychological aspects
iOS 26 App Development Essentials - SwiftUI Edition
iOS 26 App Development Essentials - SwiftUI Edition Neil Smyth · 2025 Shares Computers with this book.
AI Superpowers
AI Superpowers Kai-Fu Lee · 2018 · ★ 4.0 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate The United States has long been the leader in Artificial Intelligence. But Dr. Kai-Fu Lee--one of the world's most respected experts on AI--reveals that China has caught up to the US at an astonishingly rapid pace. As Sino-American competition in AI heats up, Lee envisions China and the US forming a powerful duopoly in AI. He outlines the upheaval of traditional jobs, how the suddenly unemployed… Shares Künstliche Intelligenz, Computers
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Mining the Social Web Matthew A. Russell · 2011 · ★ 4.5 · 440p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Shares Electronic data processing with this book.
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What computers still can't do Hubert L. Dreyfus · 1972 · ★ 4.2 · 354p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares Künstliche Intelligenz, Computers with this book.
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Goals! How to Get Everything You Want--Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible Brian Tracy · 2003 · ★ 3.7 · 290p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Shares Aspect psychologique, Psychological aspects with this book.
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Nonstop Inertia Ivor Southwood · 2011 · 97p · ≈ 3h · Light In our culture of short-term work, mobile communications an rolling media it seems we are always on the move; but are w really getting anywhere? Non-Stop Inertia argues that this appearance of restless activity conceals and indeed maintains a deep paralysis of thought and action, and that rather than being unquestionable or inevitable, the environment of personal flexibility and perpetual crisis… Shares Psychological aspects
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Superintelligence Nick Bostrom · 2014 · ★ 4.0 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer brains. If machine brains one day come to surpass human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become very powerful. As the fate of… Shares Computers and civilization, Computers
Still Here
Still Here Bunty Avieson · 2019 · 270p · ≈ 9h · Moderate "Still Here . . . investigates the role and practices in contemporary culture of memoir focusing on illness, death, loss and other experiences of trauma; writing as cure, therapy, or healing narrative. Editors, Sue Joseph, Bunty Avieson and Fiona Giles have brought together this collection of scholarly essays that provide an overview of the areas which trauma memoir has tended to cover, for… Shares Aspect psychologique, Psychological aspects
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Gödel, Escher, Bach Douglas R. Hofstadter · 1979 · ★ 4.3 · 777p · ≈ 25h · Challenging Winner of the Pulitzer Prize A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of "maps" or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transcends the system that supports it. If life can grow out of the formal chemical substrate of… Shares Künstliche Intelligenz
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Artificial Intelligence Stuart J. Russell · 1994 · ★ 4.2 · 1207p · ≈ 40h · Challenging A comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the theory and practice of artificial intelligence. Shares Künstliche Intelligenz, Computers
Cover of Positive Pedagogy for Sport Coaching
Positive Pedagogy for Sport Coaching Richard Light · 2016 · 168p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Aspect psychologique, Psychological aspects with this book.

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