Title : THE PURSUIT OF IMMORTALITY : MASTERPIECES FROM THE SCHER COLLECTION OF PORTRAIT MEDALS
Author : AIMEE NG
ISBN/ISSN : 9781911282068
Item Location : PERPUSTAKAAN KOMUNITI PJ
Description :
THIS BOOK IS PUBLISHED IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EXHIBITION THE PURSUIT OF IMMORTALITY: MASTERPIECES FROM THE SCHER COLLECTION OF PORTRAIT MEDALS ON VIEW AT THE FRICK COLLECTION FROM MAY 9 THROUGH SEPT 3, 2017.

Title : THE NEW SCIENCE OF RADICAL INNOVATION THE SIX COMPETENCIES LEADERS NEED TO WIN IN A COMPLEX WORLD
Author : SUNNIE GILES
ISBN/ISSN : 9781946885029
Item Location : PERPUSTAKAAN KOMUNITI PJ
Description :
THIS BOOK PROVIDES A CLEAR THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK TO UNDERSTAND THE SEEMINGLY IDIOSYNERATIC BUSINESS PRACTICES OF SUCCESSFUL SILICON VALLEY HIGH-TECH COMPONIES AND ACTUAL PRACTICES COMPONIES MUST MASTER TO WIN IN THIS NEW WORLD.

Title : THE BOOK OF WHY : THE NEW SCIENCE OF CAUSE AND EFFECT
Author : JUDEA PEARL AND DANA MACKENZIE
ISBN/ISSN : 9780465097609
Item Location : PERPUSTAKAAN KOMUNITI PJ
Description :
EVERYONE HAS HEARD THE CLAIM, "CORRELATION DOES NOT IMPLY CAUSATION." WHAT MIGHT SOUND LIKE A REASONABLE DICTUM METASTASIZED IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY INTO ONE OF SCIENCE'S BIGGEST OBSTACLES, AS A LEGION OF RESEARCHERS BECAME UNWILLING TO MAKE THE CLAIM THAT ONE THING COULD CAUSE ANOTHER. EVEN TWO DECADES AGO, ASKING A STATISTICIAN A QUESTION LIKE "WAS IT THE ASPIRIN THAT STOPPED MY HEADACHE?" WOULD HAVE BEEN LIKE ASKING IF HE BELIEVED IN VOODOO, OR AT BEST A TOPIC FOR CONVERSATION AT A COCKTAIL PARTY RATHER THAN A LEGITIMATE TARGET OF SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY. SCIENTISTS WERE ALLOWED TO POSIT ONLY THAT THE PROBABILITY THAT ONE THING WAS ASSOCIATED WITH ANOTHER. THIS ALL CHANGED WITH JUDEA PEARL, WHOSE WORK ON CAUSALITY WAS NOT JUST A VICTORY FOR COMMON SENSE, BUT A REVOLUTION IN THE STUDY OF THE WORLD

Title : THE THREE LITTLE ALIENS AND THE BIG BAD ROBOT
Author : MARGARET MCNAMARA AND MARK FEARING
ISBN/ISSN : 9780525578857
Item Location : PERPUSTAKAAN KOMUNITI PJ
Description :
THREE ALIENS SET OFF TO FIND A NEW PLANET FOR THEMSELVES BUT SOON BORK AND GORK HAVE FORGOTTEN ALL OF THEIR MOTHER'S GOOD ADVICE AND ONLY NKLXWCYZ BUILDS A HOME SAFE ENOUGH TO WITHSTAND THE BIG BAD ROBOT IN THIS STORY REMINISCENT OF "THE THREE LITTLE PIGS."

Title : THE RABBIT HUNTER
Author : LARS KEPLER AND NEILSON VOYNE SMITH
ISBN/ISSN : 9780008205911
Item Location : PERPUSTAKAAN KOMUNITI PJ
Description :
A STRANGER WEARING A MASK STANDS IN THE SHADOW OF A GARDEN. HE'S WATCHING HIS FIRST VICTIM THROUGH THE WINDOW. HE WILL KILL HIM SLOWLY, MAKE IT LAST PLAY HIM A NURSERY RHYME MAKE HIM PAY. THERE'S ONLY ONE PERSON THE POLICE CAN TURN TO EX-DETECTIVE JOONA LINNA BUT HE'S SERVING TIME IN A HIGH-SECURITY PRISON. SO THEY OFFER HIM A CHANCE TO SECURE HIS FREEDOM: HELP SUPERINTENDENT SAGA BAUER TRACK DOWN THE VICIOUS KILLER KNOWN AS THE RABBIT HUNTER, BEFORE HE STRIKES AGAIN.. SOON ANOTHER THREE VICTIMS HAVE BEEN MURDERED AND STOCKHOLM IS IN THE GRIP OF TERROR. JOONA LINNA MUST CATCH A DISTURBED PREDATOR, WHOSE TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION LEADS BACK TO ONE HORRIFIC NIGHT OF VIOLENCE WITH CONSEQUENCES MORE TERRIFYING THAN ANYONE COULD HAVE IMAGINED