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The Power of One: How I Found the Strength to Tell the Truth and Why I Blew the Whistle on Facebook
Par Frances Haugen. 2023
The inside story of one woman’s quest to bring transparency and accountability to Big Tech, by the Facebook whistleblower who…
is determined to help us all retake control of our lives. In 2021, when news outlets feasted on “the Facebook Files,” Frances Haugen went public as the former employee who blew the whistle on the company by copying tens of thousands of pages of documents. She testified to Congress and spoke to the media. She was hailed at President Biden’s first State of the Union Address. She made sure everyone understood exactly what the documents revealed: Facebook knew it had accidentally changed its algorithm to reward extremism and refused to fix it; it knew that its customers were using the platform to foment violence, to spread falsehoods, to diminish the self-esteem of young women, and more. But how was it that Haugen was the only employee at the company who dared to step forward? The answer to that question is an inspiring tale of one young woman’s life and the choices she made. From an isolated childhood in Iowa to an unaccredited college, to one among the few women at Google in its heyday, Frances Haugen learned how to focus on what mattered, and to ignore her critics. To harness the strength of standing in the truth. The Power of One is equally inspiring—the story of a woman who went against the grain, again and again, and changed the world—and horrifying, as the culture and practices of Facebook are brought into the bright light of day, for the first time.Becoming Bionic and Other Ways Science Is Making Us Super
Par Heather Camlot, Victor Wong. 2023
Brown's Boundary Control and Legal Principles
Par Walter G. Robillard, Donald A. Wilson, Charles A. Nettleman III. 2024
BROWN'S BOUNDARY CONTROL AND LEGAL PRINCIPLES The latest edition of the industry-leading reference to boundary law for property surveying In…
the newly revised eighth edition of Brown’s Boundary Control and Legal Principles, a team of distinguished surveying professionals delivers an updated and expanded treatment of the latest in surveying technology and surveying caselaw. This classic reference to boundary law principles for property surveying continues to evolve, covering all relevant and necessary information related to the complex area of boundary law. The book offers a wealth of case studies on federal and state rectangular and non-sectionalized land surveys demonstrating real-world examples. It provides numerous illustrations highlighting the concepts discussed within, and is an essential reference tool for professionals and students in the area, providing: A thorough introduction to the foundational principles of boundary surveying and property rights Comprehensive explorations of decision-making in professional boundary surveying Practical discussions of the legal principles governing land surveying, land boundaries, and land rights A holistic combination of law and surveying that’s ideal as a reference tool and as a learning tool Perfect for practicing surveyors and those studying for the Fundamentals of Surveying (FS) licensing exam, Brown’s Boundary Control and Legal Principles will also benefit undergraduate and graduate students of surveying programs, as well as lawyers who practice in the areas of real estate, land, and property law.Heat Transfer Basics: A Concise Approach to Problem Solving
Par Jamil Ghojel. 2024
HEAT TRANSFER BASICS Concise introduction to heat transfer, with a focus on worked example problems to aid in reader comprehension…
and student learning Heat Transfer Basics covers the essential topics of heat transfer in a focused manner, starting with an introduction to heat transfer that explains its relationship to thermodynamics and fluid mechanics and continuing on to key topics such as free convection, boiling and condensation, radiation, heat exchangers, and more, for an accessible and reader-friendly yet comprehensive treatment of the subject. Each chapter features multiple worked out example problems, including derivations of key governing equations and comparisons of worked solutions with computer modeled results, which helps students become familiar with the types of problems they will encounter in the field. Throughout the book, figures and diagrams liberally illustrate the concepts discussed, and practice problems allow students to test their understanding of the content. The text is accompanied by an online instructor’s manual. Heat Transfer Basics includes information on: One-dimensional, steady-state conduction, covering the plane wall, the composite wall, solid and hollow cylinders and sphere, conduction with and without internal energy generation, and conduction with constant and temperature-dependent thermal conductivity Heat transfer from extended surfaces, fins of uniform and variable cross-sectional area, fin performance, and overall fin efficiency Transient conduction, covering general lumped capacitance solution method, one- and multi-dimensional transient conduction, and the finite-difference method for solving transient problems Free and forced convection, covering hydrodynamic and thermal considerations, the energy balance, and thermal analysis and convection correlations More advanced than introductory textbooks yet not as overwhelming as textbooks targeted at specialists, Heat Transfer Basics is ideal for students in introductory and advanced heat transfer courses who do not intend to specialize in heat transfer, and is a helpful reference for advanced students and practicing engineers.The book presents the most relevant research of the participants of the VII International Conference of Young Scientists "Complex Investigation…
of the World Ocean" (CIWO-2023). This conference was held at Saint Petersburg State University in May 15-19, 2023 (Saint Petersburg, Russia). It covers a wide range of fundamental and applied marine and limnology studies combined in eight sections: Ocean Physics, Ocean Biology, Ocean Chemistry, Marine Geology, Marine Geophysics, Marine Ecology and Environmental Management, Physical and Biological interactions (interdisciplinary section), Oceanological Technology and Instrumentation. The aim of this book is to show the relevance of the marine research due to the crucial role of the World Ocean in determining climate change on Earth, huge resources (fish resources, oil, gas and ore deposits, etc.) and intensive development of infrastructure in coastal and offshore zones. All these topics were marked within the framework of realization of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030). The studies presented in the book covers the wide spectrum of different the most important marine and limnology issues: thermohaline structure of water body and interactions between ocean and atmosphere, dynamic of the ocean, marine ice in polar regions, biodiversity of the marine ecosystems, adaptation of marine life to climate changes, geological and geophysical investigations in oil and gas regions, sedimentation, paleooceanology and biostratigraphy, hydrochemistry of estuary regions and carbon fluxes, microplastic pollution of the ocean, eutrophication and etc.Handbook of Evolutionary Machine Learning (Genetic and Evolutionary Computation)
Par Penousal Machado, Mengjie Zhang, Wolfgang Banzhaf. 2024
This book, written by leading international researchers of evolutionary approaches to machine learning, explores various ways evolution can address machine…
learning problems and improve current methods of machine learning. Topics in this book are organized into five parts. The first part introduces some fundamental concepts and overviews of evolutionary approaches to the three different classes of learning employed in machine learning. The second addresses the use of evolutionary computation as a machine learning technique describing methodologic improvements for evolutionary clustering, classification, regression, and ensemble learning. The third part explores the connection between evolution and neural networks, in particular the connection to deep learning, generative and adversarial models as well as the exciting potential of evolution with large language models. The fourth part focuses on the use of evolutionary computation for supporting machine learning methods. This includes methodological developments for evolutionary data preparation, model parametrization, design, and validation. The final part covers several chapters on applications in medicine, robotics, science, finance, and other disciplines. Readers find reviews of application areas and can discover large-scale, real-world applications of evolutionary machine learning to a variety of problem domains. This book will serve as an essential reference for researchers, postgraduate students, practitioners in industry and all those interested in evolutionary approaches to machine learning.Freedom From Anxiety
Par Paul McKenna. 2023
Do you want to stop worrying? Do you want to feel calm whenever you want? Do you want to turn…
off fear and turn on peace? Do you want to relax deeply and feel happy? Then let Paul McKenna help you!Over more than three decades, Paul McKenna has helped millions of people to improve their lives with hypnosis, NLP and Havening. Using the latest psychological techniques, Paul will help train your mind and body, step-by-step, to control feelings of anxiety and experience deep peace within yourself. You will quickly learn to no longer feel overwhelmed by stress, worry, fear and panic, so you can live a more joyful life.This book comes with 18 audio techniques that you can download, so Paul will be there for you 24 hours a day to help you find calm. Anxiety is controlled by the subconscious mind, so it requires a subconscious re-programming solution. The hypnotic trance that comes with this book will re-wire your subconscious mind to relax you, so you can think clearly and feel good in all the various situations in life, without anxiety and panic-free.So, rather than dreading the future, you can look forward to every day feeling in control and happy.Freedom From Anxiety
Par Paul McKenna. 2023
Do you want to stop worrying?Do you want to feel calm whenever you want?Do you want to turn off fear…
and turn on peace?Do you want to relax deeply and feel happy?Then let Paul McKenna help you!Over more than three decades, Paul McKenna has helped millions of people to improve their lives with hypnosis, NLP and Havening. Using the latest psychological techniques, Paul will help train your mind and body, step-by-step, to control feelings of anxiety and experience deep peace within yourself. You will quickly learn to no longer feel overwhelmed by stress, worry, fear and panic, so you can live a more joyful life.This book comes with 18 audio techniques that you can download, so Paul will be there for you 24 hours a day to help you find calm. Anxiety is controlled by the subconscious mind, so it requires a subconscious re-programming solution. The hypnotic trance that comes with this book will re-wire your subconscious mind to relax you, so you can think clearly and feel good in all the various situations in life, without anxiety and panic-free.So, rather than dreading the future, you can look forward to every day feeling in control and happy.Cloud-Based Remote Sensing with Google Earth Engine: Fundamentals and Applications
Par Jeffrey A. Cardille, Morgan A. Crowley, David Saah, Nicholas E. Clinton. 2024
This book guides its audience—which can range from novice users to experts— though a 55-chapter tour of Google Earth Engine.…
A sequenced and diverse set of lab materials, this is the product of more than a year of effort from more than a hundred individuals, collecting new exercises from professors, undergraduates, master’s students, PhD students, postdocs, and independent consultants. Cloud Based Remote Sensing with Google Earth Engine is broadly organized into two halves. The first half, Fundamentals, is a set of 31 labs designed to take the reader from being a complete Earth Engine novice to being a quite advanced user. The second half, Applications, presents a tour of the world of Earth Engine across 24 chapters, showing how it is used in a very wide variety of settings that rely on remote-sensing data This is an open access book.Quasi- und nichtlineare Kirchhoff-Netzwerke: Dimensionierung, Analyse und Synthese
Par Reiner Thiele. 2023
Das Buch vermittelt neuartige Analyse- und Syntheseverfahren für quasi- und nichtlineare Kirchhoff-Netzwerke. Hierzu verwendet der Autor als Unternetzwerke gewöhnliche Widerstände,…
Kondensatoren, Spulen, Übertrager, Transistoren oder Dioden sowie die sogenannten pathologischen Unternetzwerke Nullator und Norator. Zur Analyse oder Synthese erfolgt eine Zerlegung der Gleichungen zur Beschreibung des Klemmenverhaltens in die u-i-Relationen realisierbarer Unternetzwerke sowie in Strukturgleichungen nach Kirchhoff. Dazu kreiert Reiner Thiele neue nichtlineare Transistor- bzw. Dioden-Modelle. Außerdem zeigt er, wie durch die Applikation von Klemmen-Äquivalenzen praxisrelevante elektrische oder elektronische Schaltungen entstehen.The Selfish Romantic: How to date without feeling bad about yourself
Par Michelle Elman. 2023
• How many people are walking through the world convinced that they have to settle? • How many people are…
being treated badly because they think they don't tick desirable boxes? • What would happen if you didn't limit yourself by seeing yourself as a bunch of labels, and instead saw yourself as a catch? • How fun would it be to be single without questioning your loveability, to date without taking rejection personally, and to have sex without hating your body?Nearly every question life coach and queen of boundaries Michelle Elman is asked relates to one subject: dating.Including unravelling myths about single life, changing your dating mindset, dealing with ghosting, text etiquette and taking relationships offline, The Selfish Romantic will teach you how to empower your love life like never before.Combining Michelle's expertise in boundaries and body positivity, this is your guide to navigating the modern dating landscape.Meltdown: Stories of nuclear disaster and the human cost of going critical
Par Joel Levy. 2020
Meltdown investigates and recreates the dramatic events behind the most notorious nuclear accidents in history, as well as those shrouded…
in secrecy. Combining human tragedy with intriguing science, each account reveals new aspects of humanity's complex relationship with nuclear power and the ongoing struggle to harness and control it. From the pioneers of Los Alamos who got up close and personal with the cores of atomic bombs, to the hapless engineers in Soviet fuel-processing plants who unwittingly mixed up a disaster in a bucket, and from the terrifying impact of a tsunami at Fukushima to the mystery of the recent Russian incident, Meltdown explores the past and future of this extraordinary and potentially lethal source of infinite power.Snowflake: Breaking Through Mental Health Stereotypes and Stigma
Par Lucy Nichol. 2023
'Sensitively and seriously explores mental health stereotypes' StylistThis is NOT a book of rules or statistics.It will NOT tell you…
what you can and can’t say to someone with a mental health problem – or to anyone for that matter.It WILL increase your understanding and empower you to stop stigma in its tracks.Take a deep-dive into some of the most harmful mental health stereotypes with mental health advocate and author Lucy Nichol.Lucy exposes 10 of the most harmful mental health stereotypes and explores the impact of social media, the power of the press and how mental health is represented in popular culture.With the help of experts and the voices of those affected by these harmful perspectives, Lucy makes a case for how we can dismantle stigma once and for all.Foreword by Sue Baker OBE. Contributors include: Natasha Devon MBE, Jonny Benjamin MBE, Hope Virgo, Cara Lisette and Dr Craig Malkin.The Hidden World: How Insects Sustain Life on Earth Today and Will Shape Our Lives Tomorrow
Par George McGavin. 2023
Insects conquered the Earth long before we did and will remain here long after we're gone.They outnumber us in the…
billions and are essential to many of the natural processes that keep us alive and that we take for granted.Yet, despite this, very few of us know much about the hidden world of insects.In this fascinating new book, entomologist and broadcaster George McGavin takes a deep dive to reveal the unknown truths about the most successful and enduring animal group the world has ever seen, and to show the unseen effects this vast population has on our planet, if only we care to look.McGavin explores not only the incredible traits that insects have evolved to possess, such as dragonflies that can fly across oceans without resting or beetles that lay their eggs exclusively in corpses, but also the vital lessons we have learnt from them, including how therapy using maggots can save lives and how bees can help grow rich tomato yields.The Hidden World reveals the wonderful complexity of our relationship with insects, how they have changed the course of our history and how, if we continue to learn from them, they could even be the key to our future and survival.The Hidden World: How Insects Sustain Life on Earth Today and Will Shape Our Lives Tomorrow
Par George McGavin. 2023
Insects conquered the Earth long before we did and will remain here long after we’re gone.They outnumber us in the…
billions and are essential to many of the natural processes that keep us alive and that we take for granted.Yet, despite this, very few of us know much about the hidden world of insects.In this fascinating new book, entomologist and broadcaster George McGavin takes a deep dive to reveal the unknown truths about the most successful and enduring animal group the world has ever seen, and to show the unseen effects this vast population has on our planet, if only we care to look.McGavin explores not only the incredible traits that insects have evolved to possess, such as dragonflies that can fly across oceans without resting or beetles that lay their eggs exclusively in corpses, but also the vital lessons we have learnt from them, including how therapy using maggots can save lives and how bees can help grow rich tomato yields. The Hidden World reveals the wonderful complexity of our relationship with insects, how they have changed the course of our history and how, if we continue to learn from them, they could even be the key to our future and survival.The Joy of Being Selfish: Why You Need Boundaries and How to Set Them
Par Michelle Elman. 2021
'A practical guide that will reclaim your time, energy and self-belief' —Stylist '[A] smart guide to setting boundaries…While the wise…
counsel will be tough love for some, those willing to put in the work will get much out of this.'—Publishers Weekly Do you frequently say 'yes' to people and events to keep those around you happy? Do you often find yourself emotionally exhausted and physically drained? Do people describe you as a pushover or 'too nice'? It's time to discover the joy of being selfish and reclaim your life through the art of boundaries! Life coach and influencer @scarrednotscared Michelle Elman is here to teach you the practical side of self-love. Creating and upholding strong boundaries will teach others how to treat you, rid your life of drama and toxic relationships and allow you to love yourself and others in the best way you can.Grundlagen der Rechnerarchitektur: Von der Schaltung zum Prozessor
Par Michael Glaß, Frank Slomka. 2023
Das Buch führt in die Grundlagen der technischen Informatik ein und richtet sich generell an Studierende der MINT-Fächer in den…
ersten Semestern. Ausgehend von den mathematischen Grundlagen zur Beschreibung und Berechnung logischer Schaltungen wird der komplette Entwurf digitaler Rechenmaschinen beschrieben. Aufbauend auf der Halbleitertechnik und deren Schaltungen führt das Buch in die Grundbegriffe der Rechnerarchitektur anhand einfacher und selbst aufbaubarer Beispiele ein.The Happy Dog Owner: Finding Health and Happiness with the Help of Your Dog
Par Carri Westgarth. 2021
'Carri Westgarth's unique combination of scholarship and practical experience with dogs will make this the go-to book for every enquiring…
dog owner' – Dr John Bradshaw, bestselling author of In Defence of DogsWhat if your dog could teach you a few new tricks for living a happier, healthier life?Drawing on her many years of research on human-animal interaction, Dr Carri Westgarth will help you to gain a new understanding of your dog's needs and how to be the best owner you can be. Learn to harness the power of your special bond with your pet and train your dog to be a canine alarm clock, cuddle on command and get you out and about more than ever before.Improve your pet's wellbeing with a wealth of science-led techniques and easy-to-learn tips – because a contented, well-behaved dog leads to a relaxed, healthy owner.You really can train your dog to train YOU to live a better life.The Selfish Romantic: How to date without feeling bad about yourself
Par Michelle Elman. 2023
• How many people are walking through the world convinced that they have to settle? • How many people are…
being treated badly because they think they don't tick desirable boxes? • What would happen if you didn't limit yourself by seeing yourself as a bunch of labels, and instead saw yourself as a catch? • How fun would it be to be single without questioning your loveability, to date without taking rejection personally, and to have sex without hating your body?Nearly every question life coach and queen of boundaries Michelle Elman is asked relates to one subject: dating.Including unravelling myths about single life, changing your dating mindset, dealing with ghosting, text etiquette and taking relationships offline, The Selfish Romantic will teach you how to empower your love life like never before.Combining Michelle's expertise in boundaries and body positivity, this is your guide to navigating the modern dating landscape.Rewild Your Mind: Use nature as your guide to a happier, healthier life
Par Nick Goldsmith. 2023
Rewild Your Mind shows you how to connect with nature to be happier, healthier and more at peace with the…
world around you. Packed with wilderness skills and traditional crafts – from fixing a hammock in the woods and foraging for hedgerow medicine to finding moments of 'wild' in the everyday – this unique book enables readers to boost their wellbeing through getting outside. It is an invitation to reset, recharge and 'rewild' yourself. Weaved through the book is Nick Goldsmith's personal story of using nature to aid his recovery from PTSD. After several tours serving as a Royal Marine Commando in Afghanistan, Nick was left in a dark and desperate place. He tried conventional therapies but found true solace amongst nature, and now enables others to do the same.