"A highly dramatic but lucid introduction to the murky world of cryptocurrency." – Kirkus Reviews"Five out of Five Stars. Reading this book was nothing short of thrilling." – Manhattan Book ReviewAt the start of this riveting memoir, Dan Conway is a brash executive in a vast corporation, slogging his way up the ladder while struggling with depression and an addiction he thought he had defeated long ago. As he begins to realize that the mix of nightmarish bureaucracy...

This book explores robust multimodal cognitive load measurement with physiological and behavioural modalities, which involve the eye, Galvanic Skin Response, speech, language, pen input, mouse movement and multimodality fusions. Factors including stress, trust, and environmental factors such as illumination are discussed regarding their implications for cognitive load measurement. Furthermore, dynamic workload adjustment and real-time cognitive load measurement with data streaming are pres...

Ready to find your soulmate?The blueprint to how to find your soulmate, even if your current dating life sucks or died years ago, lays just a click away- so keep reading..."According to eharmony, a new study found that the chance of finding love on a given day is just 1 in 562 if you leave it entirely to fate."Leaving love to fate is what most people do, and they never find love. They spend the last years of their lives a...

Want to Know Why Love is Important, Even if at Times Painful? (CHAPTER 0 from the 'Find Love or Die Trying' series)Love is more profound than romance. Giving and receiving love is equally important. When you are "pent" up with love, you need to channel it somewhere. This is why you need a soulmate.Maya Angelou, American poet, actress, and credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years, once said:"Love is like ...

Finding Your Soulmate + Bonus Audiobook (Long Distance Love)If you spend money on books that preach that you can manifest love by merely "thinking" better thoughts, according to eharmony, you have a 1 in 562 chance of finding love. In 'Finding Your Soulmate,' I give you the blueprint to find your soulmate.At last, you will have a step-by-step plan to follow daily to find loveYour life will be full of dating options because several...

*warning*This book may contain graphic materials that some may not find suitable. Read at your own risk.This short story anthology is all about one item that is cursed for its original owner. The items do not affect anyone else but the original owner. These stories are twisted! A must read for anyone's collection!

“As a man, I'm flesh and blood, I can be ignored, I can be destroyed; but as a symbol... as a symbol I can be incorruptible, I can be everlasting”. In the 2005 reboot of the Batman film franchise, Batman Begins, Bruce Wayne articulates how the figure of the superhero can serve as a transcendent icon.It is hard to imagine a time when superheroes have been more pervasive in our culture. Today, superheroes are intellectual property jealously guarded by media conglomerates, ic...

How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel, create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all these non-material mental states, including consciousness itself? An answer to this central question of our existence is emerging at the busy intersection of neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence, and robotics. In this groundbreaking work, philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark explores exc...

Experiments that require the use of human participants are time consuming and costly: it is important to get the process right the first time. Planning and preparation are key to success. This practical book takes the human-computer interaction researcher through the complete experimental process, from identifying a research question to designing and conducting an experiment, and then to analysing and reporting the results. The advice offered in this book draws on the author's twenty years...

In recent years, multimedia learning, or learning from words and images, has developed into a coherent discipline with a significant research base. The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning is unique in offering a comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of research and theory in the field, with a focus on computer-based learning. Since the first edition appeared in 2005, it has shaped the field and become the primary reference work for multimedia learning. Multimedia environments, including...

In Emergence, Mind, and Consciousness, author Gary A. Lucas does something that many consider impossible: he bridges the gap between a bottom-up description of brain mechanisms and the top-down emergence of mental processes. The result is a comprehensive yet readily understandable explanation of how consciousness emerges.Lucas, however, strives to do more. He seeks to design an artificial agent with all the essential properties of the human mind consciousness, declarative ...

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has become the most popular method for imaging brain function. Handbook of Functional MRI Data Analysis provides a comprehensive and practical introduction to the methods used for fMRI data analysis. Using minimal jargon, this book explains the concepts behind processing fMRI data, focusing on the techniques that are most commonly used in the field. This book provides background about the methods employed by common data analysis packages includi...