LIBROS DEL AUTOR: shane larson

5 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: shane larson

  • Feeding Rome
    Shane Larson
    There is a hill in Rome made of roughly fifty-three million broken jars. Many of them are labeled.Monte Testaccio stands thirty-five meters high and runs seven hundred meters around, and from base to summit it is nothing but smashed olive-oil amphorae, stacked in engineered courses and dusted with lime against the smell. Painted on the sherds, still legible after eighteen centu...
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  • The Hyksos
    Shane Larson
    'Hyksos' was never the name of a people. It was a title - heka khasut, 'ruler of foreign lands' - held by a handful of kings, garbled into Greek a thousand years after the last of them died, and then mistaken, for two thousand years, for the name of a barbarian horde.The story Egypt told is the one most people still know: in the days of a weak king, invaders out of the east swe...
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  • The Mitanni
    Shane Larson
    Five great powers ruled the Bronze Age, and their kings wrote to each other as brothers. Four of them have libraries. The fifth has never had a book-and its capital city has never been found.In the fourteenth century BC, the kings of Egypt, the Hittite Empire, Babylon, Assyria and Mitanni ran the civilized world by correspondence-clay tablets in Akkadian, carried by messengers ...
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  • Your First Useful AI System
    Shane Larson
    You have experimented with AI. Now build something real.Everyone is playing with ChatGPT. Almost no one has built a system that actually does work. The gap between asking an AI a clever question and building a reliable system that saves you ten hours a week is enormous - and almost nothing exists to help you cross it.This book is that bridge.Your First Useful AI System takes yo...
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  • The Unread Confession
    Shane Larson
    He carried the truth two hundred miles. He never read a word of it.Colorado, 1882. Barnaby Krell has ridden shotgun on the Oakhaven line for eleven years, guarding other men’s paper across country he knows by the feel of it under a wheel. He cannot read a line of any of it. He has never needed to. A locked box is not an insult; it is a locked box.Then a man comes through a coac...
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    16,43 €