Essential Knowledge

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    • MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Jonathan Haber
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • This book offers a guide for teachers, students, and aspiring critical thinkers everywhere, including advice for educational leaders and policy makers on how to make the teaching and learning of critical thinking an educational priority and practical reality....

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    • MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Panos Louridas
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 20-06-2023
    • Language: English
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    • After discussing what an algorithm does and how its effectiveness can be measured, Louridas covers three of the most fundamental applications areas....

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    • By: Peter J. Denning, Matti Tedre
    • Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
    • Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 23-04-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A few decades into the digital era, scientists discovered that thinking in terms of computation made possible an entirely new way of organizing scientific investigation; eventually, every field had a computational branch....

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    • The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Moheb Costandi
    • Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
    • Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-2016
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Fifty years ago, neuroscientists thought that a mature brain was fixed like a fly in amber, unable to change. Today, we know that our brains and nervous systems change throughout our lifetimes....

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    • MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Jed Brody
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 25-02-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Quantum physics is notable for its brazen defiance of common sense. (Think of Schrödinger's Cat, famously both dead and alive.) An especially rigorous form of quantum contradiction occurs in experiments with entangled particles....

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    • The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Ethem Alpaydi
    • Narrated by: Steven Menasche
    • Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 26-09-2016
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In this audiobook, machine learning expert Ethem Alpaydin offers a concise overview of the subject for the general listener, describing its evolution, explaining important learning algorithms....

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    • The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Jonathan Westphal
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 5 hrs
    • Release date: 12-09-2016
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In this book the philosopher Jonathan Westphal examines the mind-body problem in detail, laying out the reasoning behind the solutions that have been offered in the past....

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    • The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Paul E. Ceruzzi
    • Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
    • Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 30-10-2015
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The history of computing could be told as the story of hardware and software or the story of the Internet or the story of "smart" handheld devices....

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    • MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Mark Coeckelbergh
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Artificial intelligence powers Google's search engine, enables Facebook to target advertising, and allows Alexa and Siri to do their jobs. AI is also behind self-driving cars, predictive policing, and autonomous weapons that can kill without human intervention....

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    • MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Ansgar Allen
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Everyone's a cynic, yet few will admit it. Today's cynics excuse themselves half-heartedly - "I hate to be a cynic, but...." - before making their pronouncements. Narrowly opportunistic, always on the take, contemporary cynicism has nothing positive to contribute....

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    • MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Nolen Gertz
    • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
    • Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • In this addition to the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Gertz traces the history of nihilism in Western philosophy from Socrates through Hannah Arendt and Jean-Paul Sartre....

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    • MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Wade Roush
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, science and technology writer Wade Roush examines one of the great unsolved problems in science: Is there life, intelligent or otherwise, on other planets? Listen to learn more....

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    • Master the Essential Knowledge all Guitarists Need to Know
    • By: James Shipway
    • Narrated by: James Shipway
    • Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 25-03-2022
    • Language: English
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    • No Bull Music Theory for Guitarists is the groundbreaking guitar theory book for guitar players. Now, guitarists of all levels can understand most of the music theory they'll ever need, without the confusion....

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    • MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Shashi Shekhar, Pamela Vold
    • Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-2020
    • Language: English
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    • Billions of people around the globe use various applications of spatial computing daily-by using a ride-sharing app, GPS, the e911 system, social media check-ins, even Pokemon Go....

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    • MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: John D. Kelleher
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, computer scientist John Kelleher offers an accessible and concise but comprehensive introduction to the fundamental technology at the heart of the artificial intelligence revolution....

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    • Essential Knowledge for Healthcare Students, Professionals, and Caregivers Preparing for Nursing Exams, Board Certifications, and Beyond
    • By: Angela Glover
    • Narrated by: Robyn Green
    • Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 23-04-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Are you a healthcare student, professional, or caregiver seeking to deepen your understanding of the human body? Do you want to excel in your nursing exams, board certifications, and beyond?

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    • MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Felipe B. Larrain
    • Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
    • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 17-03-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Macroeconomics takes a broad perspective on the economy of a country or region; it studies economic changes in the aggregate, collecting data on production, unemployment, inflation, consumption, investment, trade, and other aspects of national and international economic life....

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    • The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Samuel Greengard
    • Narrated by: Derek Shetterly
    • Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 22-04-2015
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • The Internet of Things is a networked world of connected devices, objects, and people....

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    • MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: John R. Shook
    • Narrated by: Steve Menasche
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-2023
    • Language: English
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    • In this concise, accessible overview of pragmatism, the most influential school of American philosophical thought, John R. Shook describes pragmatism's origins, concepts, and continuing global relevance and appeal....

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