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Psychopathy
Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work is a book by industrial psychologist Paul Babiak, Ph.D. and psychopathy expert Dr Robert D. Hare, Ph.D. published in 2006. It covers the nature of psychopaths in the context of employment and explains how psychopaths manipulate their way into work and get promoted, the effects of their…
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Google Books Library Project
What’s the goal of this project? The Library Project’s aim is simple: make it easier for people to find relevant books – specifically, books they wouldn’t find any other way such as those that are out of print – while carefully respecting authors’ and publishers’ copyrights. Our ultimate goal is to work with publishers and…
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The Body Canvas
Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors.” Who would have known about the distinction I had thought only myself could bare the artistic rendition of a thought processes that had unfurled in my own expressive way many others had expressed. Yes I had seen students of science with qualitative formulas tattooed over their…
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Novum Organum
The frontispiece of Novum Organum by Francis Bacon The Novum Organum is a philosophical work by Francis Bacon published in 1620. The title translates as “new instrument”. This is a reference to Aristotle‘s work Organon, which was his treatise on logic and syllogism. In Novum Organum, Bacon details a new system of logic he believes…
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John Maynard Smith
John Maynard Smith Born 6 January 1920(1920-01-06)London, England Died 19 April 2004(2004-04-19) (aged 84)Lewes, East Sussex, England Nationality British Fields Evolutionary biologist and geneticist Institutions University of Sussex Alma mater University of Cambridge and University College London Doctoral advisor J.B.S. Haldane Doctoral students Andrew PomiankowskiSean Nee Known for Game theoryEvolution of sexSignalling theory Notable awards Balzan Prize…
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The Last Question by Isaac Asimov
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First Principles by Howard Burton
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Galileo Galilei’s Balance
Let proportion be found not only in numbers, but also in sounds, weights, times and positions, and whatever force there is.Leonardo Da Vinci Can it be said that measure has ever left the mind of those whose age has come and gone, and what appears as “no traces left behind” might indeed be the passage…
