When the woman he loved was diagnosed with a metastatic cancer, science writer George Johnson embarked on a journey to learn everything he could about the disease and the people who dedicate their lives to understanding and combating it. What he discovered is a revolution under way—an explosion of new ideas about what cancer really is and where it comes from. In a provocative and intellectually vibrant exploration, he takes us on an adventure through the history and recent advances of canc...

In this remarkably illustrative and thoroughly accessible look at one of the most intriguing frontiers in science and computers, award-winning New York Times writer George Johnson reveals the fascinating world of quantum computing—the holy grail of super computers where the computing power of single atoms is harnassed to create machines capable of almost unimaginable calculations in the blink of an eye.As computer chips continue to shrink in size, scientists anticipate the...

Machinery of Mind is a full-scale, indispensable examination of the history, content, politics, and philosophy of Artificial Intelligence. In detail, consecutively but with a keen awareness of the interdisciplinary nature of the field, Johnson traces the history of the burgeoning science from its earliest practitioners to corporation-funded engineers and experts: Roger Schank, Terry Winograd, Doug Lenat and others who are struggling to create machines that can actually think indep...

This program is read by the author.In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson's All Boys Aren't Blue explores their childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia.A New York Times Bestseller!Good Morning America, NBC Nightly News, Today Show, and MSNBC feature storiesFrom the memories of getting his tee...

What if the hardest moments of your life weren't there to break you, but to rewire you?Street Therapy pulls you into a world where survival is a condition. This is street psychology built on lived experience rather than theory. It explores what happens to the human mind when pressure is constant, when choices carry weight, and when adapting isn't optional. In these environments, a survival mindset is forced into existence.This urban survival book moves beyo...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Betrayal is the powerful memoir of a Black veteran who survived the brutal reality of Military Sexual Trauma (MST), highlighting the systemic failures that allow violence to thrive within military culture. George Cortez Johnson, a young recruit seeking escape from poverty and racial violence, finds himself instead subjected to the horrors of sexual abuse and betrayal by the very institution he trusted.For years, his tra...

Johnson, born at Blackheath, Kent, was younger son of William Johnson, proprietor successively of the Vauxhall distillery, of the Coalbrookdale china-works, and of salt-works at Heybridge in Essex.At Heybridge Johnson and his elder brother, Cuthbert William Johnson, first found employment, and carried out experiments in the application of salt as manure, which they recounted in An Essay on the Uses of Salt for Agriculture. One of their discoveries was an economical method of separa...

Are you looking to grow your branding through social media powerhouses like Instagram? Would you like to be able to make the most of it by finding a niche and using relative and targeted ads to be able to deliver the best services and products to your customers? Then you’ve found the right book! This guide will teach you the essentials of marketing on Instagram that you can use time and time again. Marketing and campaigning through Instagram is another avenue for reaching people and turnin...

Juan Alberto Salazar raised his glass of whiskey and gulped it down. The taste of the whiskey was hot in his throat, and it felt good as his head began to buzz slightly."Ah yes! That is what I am talking about! This is good stuff, gentlemen. You should try some. Oh, I forgot, it's too expensive for you."The men around him said nothing to parry his snide remark. They had worked closely with Salazar all this time, and were used to such remarks from El Patron. They took it in ...

This guide is the most complete and updated collection available on bodyweight exercise. This is a scientific text, the result of 10 months of work, selected, built and assembled by 3 of our best trainers with more than 12 years of experience in Calisthenics. It contains not only the best and most updated pieces of information in 2020, but it’s the result of practical experience of training. This book is powerful because it’s honest: “Training Journal” doesn’t want to sell to you a new rev...

This starts early and we, as mature adults and parents, have the responsibility to keep them safe. Therefore, we will start with you, the parent. We aim to provide relevant tips on this voyage called life to keep our children safe from harm and danger and end with the productour young ones. Our young ones must listen and hear the second talk. This is the conversation after the sex talk, which leads to the all-important talk to keep our most precious loved ones safe and ensure that they ret...

From two renowned scholars, an "enjoyable and intellectually stimulating" look at how metaphors shape our perceptions and actions ( Language).The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless other subje...