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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Imagine a world where your brain can be interrogated to learn your political beliefs, thought crimes are punishable by law, and your own feelings can be used against you. Where perfumers create customized fragrances to perfectly suit your emotions, and social media titans bypass your conscious mind to hook you to their products. A world where people who suffer from epilepsy receive alerts moments before a seizure, and the average person can peer...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The NeuroGeneration reveals the dizzying array of emerging technologies-including cranial stimulation that makes you learn faster, an artificial hippocampus that restores lost memories, and neural implants that aim to help us keep up with or even outpace artificial intelligence-that promise to alter the brain in unprecedented ways, unlocking human potential we never dreamed possible"--
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Pulse is not about dance music, not about heart rates-and not about electromagnetic fields. What it does describe is a sea change in human affairs, a vast and fundamental shift that is about to transform every aspect of our lives. Written in lively prose for lay readers, Pulse shows how ideas that have shaped Western science, industry, and culture for centuries are being displaced by the rapid and dramatic rise of a "new biology"-by human systems...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In science fiction, people upload their minds into computers for them to be stored. How could this futuristic way of preserving the mind work? Scientists have some ideas, which involve mapping the brain cell by cell. Discover the science and technology behind what it would take to upload a mind in real life!"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Engineers design our modern world. They combine science and technology to create incredible vehicles, structures, and objects. This title examines amazing feats of biological engineering. Engaging text explores bionic legs, artificial organs, and animal cloning. It also examines the engineers who made these projects a reality and traces the history of the discipline.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Agatha DeLacey's family isn't rich or titled, so studying nursing at Ingold's East End hospital in London is a rare opportunity for her. Despite the school's focus on the innovative Bio-Mechanical program, Aggie cares more about the desperately poor human patients who flood the hospital, even if that means providing unauthorized treatment after-hours...and trusting a charming, endlessly resourceful thief. But the Artful Dodger is barely a step ahead...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 2017, scientists removed a tiny piece of flesh from Philip Ball's arm and turned it into a rudimentary "mini-brain." The skin cells, removed from his body, did not die but were instead transformed into nerve cells that independently arranged themselves into a dense network and communicated with each other, exchanging the raw signals of thought. This was life-but whose? That disconcerting question is the focus of Philip Ball's How...
15) Cadaver & queen
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"When Elizabeth Lavenza enrolled at Ingold as its first female medical student, she knew she wouldn't have an easy time. From class demands to being an outsider among her male cohorts, she'll have to go above and beyond to prove herself. So when she stumbles across what appears to be a faulty Bio-Mechanical--one of the mechanized cadavers created to service the school--she jumps at the chance to fix it and get ahead in the program. Only this Bio-Mechanical...
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The year is 2015 and half of the Earth's population is dead, victims of the disaster called Second Impact! Answering a summons from his father, 14-year old Shinji Ikari arrives in the rebuilt city of New Tokyo-3 just as a gigantic creature identified as an "Angel" attacks!
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Letterbox ed.
Language
日本語
Description
At the dawn of the New Millennium, mankind has awakened a threat unlike any faced before, the Angels. The Angels can only be stopped by means of the Evangelions - bio-engineered vessels born from the Angels' own technology. Although forbidden, it is the key to bringing about a startling new genesis for the human race.
20) Now and again
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
The DVD edition.
Language
English
Description
When insurance salesman and family man Michael Wiseman is killed in a subway accident, the U.S. government preserves his brain and puts it into a new, genetically bio-engineered body that's young, attractive, and can do anything a superhero can do. But the new and improved Michael can never let his wife Lisa or daughter Heather know his true identity. With Dr. Morris as his mentor, Michael takes on deadly terrorists, corrupt agents, and an extremely...
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