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Pub. Date
[2018]
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x, 418 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence. "Correlation is not causation." This mantra, chanted by scientists for more than a century, has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. Today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, instigated by Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion and established...
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New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell looks at why major changes in our society so often happen suddenly and unexpectedly. Ideas, behavior, messages, and products, he argues, often spread like outbreaks of infectious disease. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a few fare-beaters and graffiti artists fuel a subway crime wave, or a satisfied customer fill the empty tables of a new restaurant. These are social epidemics,...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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xxiii, 263 pages ; 24 cm
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Phillips was already a renowned physician specializing in complex, chronic diseases when he became a patient himself. He experienced firsthand the medical community's ignorance about the pathogens that underlie a deep spectrum of serious conditions-- from fibromyalgia, multiple sclerosis, chronic fatigue syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, and lupus, to depression, anxiety, OCD and neurodegenerative disorders. Parish, too, watched her health spiral after...
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Pub. Date
2012
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xiv, 335 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Written by a physician, this is a work that radically redefines conventional conceptions of health and illness to offer new methods for living a long, healthy life. After considering the discoveries that have led to progress in treating some diseases, the author asked an essential question: Why aren't we better at curing illnesses like cancer? Based on his research and the clinical trials he has conducted at the nation's leading medical centers, he...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 21 cm
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"Readers are invited to physically interact with the pages in this picture book of humorous before-and-after scenarios."--
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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xix, 194 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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"Since the dawn of the human race, medicine men and physicians have wondered about the cause of disease, especially what we call 'contagions,' numerous people ill with similar symptoms, all at the same time. Does humankind suffer these outbreaks at the hands of an angry god or evil spirit? A disturbance in the atmosphere, a miasma? Do we catch the illness from others or from some outside influence? As the restriction of our freedoms continues, more...
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Pub. Date
[2024]
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ix, 323 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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A social scientist dispels people's tidy versions of reality and delves deeply into the theories of random chance and chaos to demonstrate that the world really works through random events that can alter the trajectory of our lives.
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