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The Intelligence Trap explores cutting-edge ideas in our understanding of intelligence and expertise, including "strategic ignorance, " "meta-forgetfulness, " and "functional stupidity." David Robson reveals the surprising ways that even the brightest minds and most talented organizations can go wrong-from some of Thomas Edison's worst ideas to failures at NASA-and offers practical advice to avoid mistakes based on the timeless lessons of Benj...

Excerpt from Power Gas Producers: Their Design and Application, With 105 IllustrationsPublic competitive trials, such as those held by the Royal Agricultural Society of England at their Derby meeting in June 1 906, and by the Highland and West of Scotland Society at Glasgow in 1905, to which full references are hereafter made, have likewise been organised for the purpose of demonstrating the suitability of the new gas power for general purpose...

An eye-opening examination of the stupid things smart people do--and how to cultivate skills to protect from error.rror.

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Excerpt from Diseases of the Gall-Bladder and Bile-Ducts, Including Gall-StonesSince the issue of the second edition, so much progress has occurred in the pathology of the diseases of the gall bladder and bile-ducts, and such improvements in the technique of the various operations, that the whole book has had to be recast.This edition is therefore not merely a reproduction of the last, but almost a new work.About the PublisherForgotten Books p...

Excerpt from The Film Answers Back: An Historical Appreciation of the CinemaBette Davis in dark victory (first National), Erich von Stroheim in mademoiselle docteur (united Artists)About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct th...

Excerpt from Fresh Pond Water: Measures Proposed for the Protection of the Purity of the Water-Supply of the City of Cambridge, Report of a Public Hearing Before a Joint Convention of the City Council of CambridgeThey are consumers of it, as we are. They have investigated the borders of Fresh Pond, and I suppose' that their reports, in their own language, speak stronger sentiments than any of us, as citi zens, can express, and. I would present...

Excerpt from Fresh Pond Water: Measures Proposed for the Protection of the Purity of the Water-Supply of the City of Cambridge, Report of a Public Hearing Before a Joint Convention of the City Council of CambridgeThey are consumers of it, as we are. They have investigated the borders of Fresh Pond, and I suppose' that their reports, in their own language, speak stronger sentiments than any of us, as citi zens, can express, and. I would present...

Excerpt from Cancer of the StomachSmall work on Cancer of the Stomach for the Nisbet Modern Clinics Series, I have tried to carry out his wish to make it practical and useful. In doing this it will be noticed that I have omitted much that might have been written on the pathology of the subject, and in other ways have laid myself Open to criticism, but if it proves helpful to the busy practitioner and furthers in any way the early re cognition ...

Excerpt from The Pancreas: Its Surgery and PathologyIn the chapter on histology, and again later under the heading of diabetes, we have discussed the structure and supposed functions of those characteristic groups of cells known as the islands of Langerhans. In doing so we have endeavoured to impartially summarise the evidence for and against the contending views that are held with regard to them, but, as will be gathered from the text, we per...

Excerpt from Cancer and Its Treatment: Being the Bradshaw Lecture, Delivered Before the Royal College of Surgeons of England on December 1, 1904 Until recently our ideas of the infinitely small were limited to the atom, but the atom has been split up', and the bombardments witnessed within a Crookes tube are said to be due to the broken-up particles termed electrons, ' which in size are reputed to present as great a contrast to an ordinary ba...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...