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Modeling, Analysis, Control and Removal of Oil and Hydrocarbon Spills (Earth and Environmental Sciences Library)
by Tatiana ChaplinaA large number of scientific works are devoted to the study and modeling of accidental oil spills. However, there is no single approach to the description of processes and a generally accepted system of models. An additional fundamental difficulty is the impossibility of conducting full-fledged full-scale experimental studies, which makes it difficult to verify the adequacy and accuracy of oil spill models. Our book is devoted to the problems of experimental investigation and theoretical description of spills, as well as the practical removal of various petroleum products from the water surface and ice. It provides an overview of the most well-known theoretical models of the process of spreading oil stains on the water surface. Also, in the relevant sections, an original spreading model based on an energy approach is proposed and analyzed. The results of new experimental studies of the dynamics of the process for various hydrocarbons on water, including variations in its temperatureand salinity, are presented. In the following chapters, a theoretical description of oil spreading on the upper and lower surfaces of floating ice is proposed, modeling phenomena in the Arctic and subarctic zones of the world ocean. New experimental data on the spreading of petroleum products on the ice surface are presented. The final part provides a brief overview of the existing most used and promising methods for removing of hydrocarbons from the water surface. New original constructive solutions to this problem are proposed, the technical characteristics of which have received theoretical justification and experimental confirmation.
Indian Seed Sector: Evolution, Technology, Trade and Impact
by Malavika Dadlani Partha R. Das Gupta Narendra K. DadlaniThis book provides an insight into the growth of the Indian seed industry in the past 60 years. It analyzes the socio-economic parameters, complexities, diversities, and need for a strong seed system with appropriate regulatory frameworks in the Indian agrarian economy. The role of rich biological resources and development of a scientific plant breeding system, which laid the strong foundation of the seed sector is discussed. While outlining the growth of a multi-crop and multi-dimensional seed industry, this book examines the role of breeders and seed industry, and rights of farmers, changing regulatory framework governing the seed sector, and impact of inter-governmental conventions, agreements and treaties in regulating the seed sector. Role played by the public and private partners in the establishment of seed sector with science-led technologies and capacity building, and expansion of the domestic seed industry is emphasized. The impact of seed system development with limitations and future prospects is also discussed with a view of a global seed scenario. This book has a wide base of readership including seed industry professionals, policy makers, academicians, researchers and students.
Landscapes and Landforms of Botswana (World Geomorphological Landscapes)
by Frank D. EckardtThis volume contains 22 chapters introducing a wide range of semi-arid and geologic landscapes. Botswana, a thinly populated nation, the size of France, is a Southern African keystone country at the heart of the Kalahari, sharing some of the major sub-continental drainage basins such as the Limpopo, Zambezi, Orange, and Okavango with its neighbouring countries. The extensive Kalahari Sand surface has been sculptured by numerous past processes which have produced subtle but regional landforms consisting of extensive dunes and shorelines. Incipient rifting has created the dynamic Okavango and Makgadikgadi fan-basin systems which produces iconic wetlands with a world heritage status. Geological outcrops in particular to the east expose highly denuded basement lithologies which produces numerous inselbergs that are home to a rich archaeological heritage. The book also examines the geomorphology of mineral and water resources which sustain the economy and population and also features dedicated chapters that cover diamondiferous kimberlites, caves, pans, dams, duricrusts and wildlife.Chapter 6 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Nanoparticles in Modern Neurological Treatment (Nanotechnology in the Life Sciences)
by Bhagavathi Sundaram Sivamaruthi Natarajan Sisubalan Periyanaina Kesika Kokkarachedu Varaprasad“Nanoparticles in Modern Neurological Treatment" provides a comprehensive exploration of the promising field of nanoparticles and their applications in neurology. The book begins with an introduction, laying the foundation by elucidating the properties and applications of nanoparticles in neurological therapies and diagnostics. The introduction provides an overview of nanoparticles, their properties, and their applications in neurological disorders, discussing the rationale behind using nanoparticles in neurological therapies and diagnostics. Subsequent chapters delve into specific areas of nanoparticle utilization, exploring how nanoparticles are utilized to overcome the blood-brain barrier and effectively deliver therapeutics to the brain for treating various neurological disorders. Nanoparticle-based imaging techniques for diagnosis and monitoring of neurological disorders are examined, along with targeted therapies for neurodegenerative diseases and brain tumors. Additionally, the modulation of inflammation and neuroprotection facilitated by nanoparticles, particularly relevant in conditions like multiple sclerosis and stroke, is discussed. The potential of nanoparticles as biomarkers for diagnosing and tracking neurological disorders is also investigated. Advanced applications include neuroregeneration and repair facilitated by nanoparticles and the emerging field of theranostics combining therapy and diagnosis using nanoparticles in neurological disorders. Lastly, the promising realm of nanoparticle-mediated gene therapy is explored for precision treatment of neurological conditions. By consolidating current knowledge and exploring future potentials, this book seeks to contribute to advancements in neurology, ultimately improving patient outcomes and quality of life.
Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation (Diverse Economies and Livable Worlds)
by Maliha Safri Marianna Pavlovskaya Stephen Healy Craig BorowiakMapping the transformative effects of America&’s urban solidarity economies Solidarity economies, characterized by diverse practices of cooperation and mutual support, have long played pivotal but largely invisible roles in fostering shared survival and envisioning alternatives to racial capitalism globally and in the United States. This book maps the thriving existence of these cooperative networks in three differently sized American cities, highlighting their commitment to cooperation, democracy, and inclusion and demonstrating the desire—and the pressing need—to establish alternative foundations for social and economic justice. Collectively authored by four social scientists, Solidarity Cities analyzes the deeply entrenched racial and economic divides from which cooperative networks emerge as they work to provide unmet basic needs, including food security, affordable housing, access to fair credit, and employment opportunities. Examining entities such as community gardens, credit unions, cooperatives, and other forms of economic solidarity, the authors highlight how relatively small yet vital interventions into public life can expand into broader movements that help bolster the overall well-being of their surrounding communities. Bringing together insights from geography, political economy, and political science with mapping and spatial analysis methodologies, surveys, and in-depth interviews, Solidarity Cities illuminates the extensive footprints of solidarity economies and the roles they play in communities. The authors show how these initiatives act as bulwarks against gentrification, exploitation, and economic exclusion, helping readers see them as part of the past, present, and future of more livable and just cities. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.
The Fruits of the Early Globalization: An Iberian Perspective (Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History)
by Rafael Dobado-González Alfredo García-HiernauxThis book presents an unusual view on one of the most influential periods in world economic history: the Early Globalization. By this term, the notion that a process of genuine globalization took place in the Early Modern Era is defended. The authors propose that the canonical globalization—that of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—was preceded by a century-long increasing economic integration between continents that were non-existent before 1492. The economic aspects of the Early Globalization, like market integration, price co-movements and international silver circulation, were very important. Notwithstanding, other dimensions of human life, which were affected by unprecedented intercontinental contacts, including free and forced migrations, changes in tastes and consumption, etc. The Fruits of Globalisation deals with some of the most important issues among the former and the latter. The book combines approaches from different disciplines, including quantitative and non-quantitative economic history, econometrics, international trade and demography. Overall, the vision of the Early Globalisation offered in this book is less pessimistic than in mainstream literature on the period.
Financial Cryptography and Data Security: 28th International Conference, FC 2024, Willemstad, Curaçao, March 4–8, 2024, Revised Selected Papers, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14744)
by Jeremy Clark Elaine ShiThe two-volume set LNCS 14744 + 14745 constitutes the proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, FC 2024, which took place in Willemstad, Curaçao, during March 4–8, 2024. The number of 36 full and 6 short papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 199 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: Consensus; AMMs; fees and rewards; hardware attacks; Part II: Feeling Optimistic; randomness and time; signatures; applied cryptography; PETS; designing for the real world.
REWAS 2025: Circular Economy for the Energy Transition (The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series)
by Adamantia Lazou Christina Meskers Elsa Olivetti Fabian Diaz Mertol GökelmaThe 8th installment of the REWAS conference series held at the TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition focuses on circular economy for the energy transition. The papers in this volume explore the latest technical and societal developments enabling sustainability within our global economy with an emphasis on recycling and waste management. The 2025 collection includes contributions from the following symposia: Automation and Digitalization in Recycling Processes Sustainable End-of-Life Management and Recycling Solutions for Batteries, Wind Turbines, and Photovoltaics Sustainable Practices in Strategic and Critical Raw Materials: Exploring Supply Chain Resilience and Recycling Innovations
Justice-Oriented Science Teaching and Learning: Anchoring Phenomena in Secondary Classrooms (Springer Texts in Education)
by David Steele Alison K. MercierThis textbook provides K-12 science teachers and educators innovative uses of anchoring phenomenon-based teaching approaches from a justice-oriented lens (Morales-Doyle, 2017). It discusses topics such as the use of anchoring phenomenon-based pedagogies, qualities of productive anchoring phenomena and includes examples of unit plans that use anchoring phenomena and social justice science issues to create storylines to foster students’ multiple pathways to knowing and learning in the science classrooms. The book is beneficial to K-12 science teachers and science educators who are interested in facilitating students’ sense-making of a real-world phenomenon and engaging in three-dimensional science instruction (NGSS Lead States, 2013). By providing examples of unit plans based on theoretical groundings of anchoring phenomenon-based instruction and justice-oriented science teaching, this book provides a great resource to students, professionals, teachers, and academics in science education.
Education and Decolonial Futures in the Philippines: Perspectives for Educators and Practitioners (The Cultural and Social Foundations of Education)
by Bea Rodriguez-FransenThis book is a unique and provocative study that weaves personal and historical narratives, diverse theoretical frameworks, and futures thinking. Using critical bricolage methodology and the Indigenous method of pakikipagkuwentuhan (storytelling), Rodriguez-Fransen amplifies the voices of Filipina educators as they interrogate and re-conceptualize colonial mentality as a systemic rather than an individual problem, and bridges the gap between educational theory and practice by creating new teaching and research tools, for scholars and practitioners in various sectors around the world: the Decolonial Portals and Decolonial Design Futures frameworks. This book takes readers on a journey through time, highlighting the interconnectedness and fluidity of past, present, and future stories of our world; it encourages all of us to recognize colonial mentality as a global problem, and calls for transdisciplinary, cross-sector, and cross-country collaborations in order to decolonize education and our futures.
The Modern Construction and Postmodern Deconstruction of Self
by Kire Sharlamanov Mia KostovskaThis book aims to explain the self as understood decades ago and its evolution in the time of postmodernism. Approaching it primarily from a sociological perspective, while incorporating insights from psychology and philosophy, it portrays the modern self as a unitary, coherent, unified subject created in the time of modernity, which during postmodernism has evolved into a fluid, decentralized, and fragmented subject with increasingly independent multiple identities. The creation of the modern self has been influenced by individualization, rationalization, and power. Each factor is explored in a separate chapter, detailing its impact on the development of the modern Cartesian self. The authors draw on the theories of Goffman, Bauman, and Baudrillard to illustrate the changing nature of the self, viewing it as a performer, a fluid entity, and a simulacrum. While Goffman is not strictly a postmodern author, his ideas foreshadow postmodernism, particularly regarding the transformation of the self. Bauman and Baudrillard, as key figures in postmodern thought, provide valuable insights into this transformation of the self in contemporary times. The book uniquely connects two time periods in which the self evolves, arguing that social factors influence its changing characteristics. As these social factors shift over time, so does the self. Key aspects of the self and its evolution are examined through an original, multidimensional approach that spans a longer time interval.
CSR und Künstliche Intelligenz (Management-Reihe Corporate Social Responsibility)
by Reinhard Altenburger René SchmidpeterIn diesem Buch werden neben Impulsen aus der aktuellen wissenschaftlichen Diskussion Good Practice Cases von Unternehmen im Umgang mit den besonderen Herausforderungen durch den Einsatz von Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) vorgestellt.Die vielfältigen Herangehensweisen an die Anforderungen, welche mit dem Einsatz von Künstlicher Intelligenz verbunden sind, sollen Anregungen für Unternehmen und Wissenschaft in diesem häufig sehr kontrovers diskutierten Feld bieten. Ein besonderes Gewicht wird auf die Chancen durch KI für Unternehmen aus unterschiedlichen Branchen gelegt. Die Auseinandersetzung mit dem Spannungsfeld KI und neue Herausforderungen der CSR bietet strategische Möglichkeiten, aber auch Innovationschancen. Die aktive Einbindung von Stakeholdern in den Gestaltungsprozess dient auch dem Aufbau von Vertrauen bei Kunden und der Öffentlichkeit und leistet somit einen Beitrag zu Innovation und Akzeptanz von KI.Der Beitrag Künstliche Intelligenz & die Zukunft von Arbeit wird unter der Creative Commons Namensnennung 4.0 International Lizenz veröffentlicht.
Vegetationsgeschichte der Landschaften in Deutschland
by Ingo Feeser Walter Dörfler Manfred Rösch Susanne Jahns Steffen Wolters Felix BittmannKlima oder Mensch, Wald oder Acker – was prägte die Vegetationsbedeckung der Landschaften in Deutschland seit dem Ende der letzten Eiszeit vor 15.000 Jahren? Wie wandelte sich der Wald in Süddeutschland, als Doggerland in der Nordsee versank? Ab wann gab es Landwirtschaft und welche Folgen hatte sie schon frühzeitig für die Umwelt? Die Untersuchung von fossilem Blütenstaub gibt Antwort auf derartige Fragen. Sie lässt uns die Entwicklung von der Kältesteppe nach dem Abschmelzen der Gletscher zu den dichten Wäldern der Nacheiszeit und vom Beginn des Ackerbaus bis hin zur heutigen Kulturlandschaft nachvollziehen. 65 Autorinnen und Autoren legen in diesem Band den neuesten Kenntnisstand zur Vegetationsgeschichte in 39 Naturräumen von den Alpen über die Mittelgebirge bis in die Tiefebene vor – erstmals auf der Basis von standardisierten Pollendiagrammen mit zeitlicher Vergleichbarkeit. Sie zeigen, dass unterschiedliche Landschaften unter Einfluss des Klimas eine große Vielfalt an Waldformationen hervorbrachten, bis der Mensch sie nach und nach in die typischen Kulturlandschaften, wie wir sie heute kennen, umwandelte. Weiterhin informieren 6 Einleitungskapitel und 23 Exkurse über frühe Formen der Land- und Ressourcennutzung sowie über Naturphänomene und methodische Aspekte. Die Entstehung und die Merkmale naturnaher wie auch menschlich geprägter Ökosysteme wird durch diese historische Perspektive verständlich. Mit diesem Buch erfüllt sich der lang gehegte Wunsch nach einem modernen Standardwerk für an der Geschichte von Vegetation, Klima und Landnutzung interessierte Leserinnen und Leser.
Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success
by null Russ Buettner null Susanne CraigAn Instant New York Times Bestseller • A Washington Post Notable Book • A Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year&“A first-rate financial thriller . . . Lucky Loser is one of those rare Trump books that deserve, even demand, to be read.&” –Alexander Nazaryan, The New York TimesFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters behind the 2018 bombshell New York Times exposé of then-President Trump&’s finances, an explosive investigation into the history of Donald Trump&’s wealth, revealing how one of the country&’s biggest business failures lied his way into the White HouseSoon after announcing his first campaign for the US presidency, Donald J. Trump told a national television audience that life &“has not been easy for me. It has not been easy for me.&” Building on a narrative he had been telling for decades, he spun a hardscrabble fable of how he parlayed a small loan from his father into a multi-billion-dollar business and real estate empire. This feat, he argued, made him singularly qualified to lead the country. Except: None of it was true. Born to a rich father who made him the beneficiary of his own highly lucrative investments, Trump received the equivalent of more than $500 million today via means that required no business expertise whatsoever.Drawing on over twenty years&’ worth of Trump&’s confidential tax information, including the tax returns he tried to conceal, alongside business records and interviews with Trump insiders, New York Times investigative reporters Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig track Trump's financial rise and fall, and rise and fall again. For decades, he squanders his fortunes on money losing businesses, only to be saved yet again by financial serendipity. He tacks his name above the door of every building, while taking out huge loans he&’ll never repay. He obsesses over appearances, while ignoring threats to the bottom line and mounting costly lawsuits against city officials. He tarnishes the value of his name by allowing anyone with a big enough check to use it, and cheats the television producer who not only rescues him from bankruptcy but casts him as a business savant – the public image that will carry him to the White House. A masterpiece of narrative reporting, Lucky Loser is a meticulous examination spanning nearly a century, filled with scoops from Trump Tower, Mar-a-Lago, Atlantic City, and the set of The Apprentice. At a moment when Trump&’s tether to success and power is more precarious than ever, here for the first time is the definitive true accounting of Trump and his money – what he had, what he lost, and what he has left – and the final word on the myth of Trump, the self-made billionaire.
All Fours: A Novel
by null Miranda JulyA NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEARA WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEARONE OF TIME MAGAZINE&’S TOP 10 FICTION BOOKS OF 2024 ONE OF NPR&’S &“BOOKS WE LOVE&” 2024NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY:THE NEW YORKER ● VOGUE ● FINANCIAL TIMES ● OPRAH DAILY ● VULTURE ● VOXThe New York Times bestselling author returns with an irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious and surprising novel about a woman upending her life&“A frank novel about a midlife awakening, which is funnier and more boldly human than you ever quite expect . . . nothing short of riveting.&” —Vogue&“All Fours has spurred a whisper network of women fantasizing about desire and freedom. . . . It&’s the talk of every group text."—The New York Times&“All Fours possessed me. I picked it up and neglected my life until the last page, and then I started begging every woman I know to read it as soon as possible.&” —The CutA semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to NY. Thirty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, checks into a nondescript motel, and immerses herself in an entirely different journey.Miranda July&’s second novel confirms the brilliance of her unique approach to fiction. With July&’s wry voice, perfect comic timing, unabashed curiosity about human intimacy, and palpable delight in pushing boundaries, All Fours tells the story of one woman&’s quest for a new kind of freedom. Part absurd entertainment, part tender reinvention of the sexual, romantic, and domestic life of a forty-five-year-old female artist, All Fours transcends expectation while excavating our beliefs about life lived as a woman. Once again, July hijacks the familiar and turns it into something new and thrillingly, profoundly alive.
Parasol Against the Axe: A Novel
by null Helen OyeyemiONE OF BIBLIOLIFESTYLE&’S &“BEST LITERARY FICTION OF 2024&”"A shape-shifting novel about the power of stories…Helen Oyeyemi is a literary pied piper — her voice is the kind that readers gamely follow into the most bewildering and unnerving of situations." – The New York Times&“A metatextual masterpiece.&” —Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW&“Oyeyemi writes here as an heir to Calvino or Borges…A dizzying, dazzling romp.&” —Kirkus Reviews The prize-winning, bestselling author of Peaces and Gingerbread returns with a novel about competitive friendship, the elastic boundaries of storytelling, and the meddling influence of a city called PragueIn Helen Oyeyemi&’s joyous new novel, the Czech capital is a living thing—one that can let you in or spit you out.For reasons of her own, Hero Tojosoa accepts an invitation she was half expected to decline, and finds herself in Prague on a bachelorette weekend hosted by her estranged friend Sofie. Little does she know she&’s arrived in a city with a penchant for playing tricks on the unsuspecting. A book Hero has brought with her seems to be warping her mind: the text changes depending on when it&’s being read and who&’s doing the reading, revealing startling new stories of fictional Praguers past and present. Uninvited companions appear at bachelorette activities and at city landmarks, offering opinions, humor, and even a taste of treachery. When a third woman from Hero and Sofie&’s past appears unexpectedly, the tensions between the friends&’ different accounts of the past reach a new level.An adventurous, kaleidoscopic novel, Parasol Against the Axe considers the lines between illusion and delusion, fact and interpretation, and weighs the risks of attaching too firmly to the stories of a place, or a person, or a shared history. How much is a tale influenced by its reader, or vice versa? And finally, in a battle between friends, is it better to be the parasol or the axe?
Smart Medicine for Healthier Living: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Natural and Conventional Treatments
by null Janet Zand null James B. LaValleWritten by a medical doctor, a naturopath, and a registered pharmacist, Smart Medicine for Healthier Living is a complete A-to-Z guide to the most common disorders and their treatments, using both alternative care and conventional medicine. Comprehensive and easy-to-follow, Smart Medicine for Healthier Living is divided into three parts. Part one explains the full spectrum of approaches used to effectively treat common health problems. It provides an overview of the history, fundamentals, and uses of conventional medicine, herbal medicine, homeopathy, acupressure, aromatherapy, diet, and nutritional supplements. It also includes a helpful section on home and personal safety. Part two contains a comprehensive A-to-Z listing of various health problems. Each entry clearly explains the problem and offers specific advice using a variety of approaches. Part three provides step-by-step guidance on using the many therapies and procedures suggested for each health problem. Smart Medicine for Healthier Living is a reliable source that you and your family can turn to time and time again, whenever the need arises.
Original Sin: An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery (Adam Dalgliesh Ser.)
by null P. D. JamesAdam Dalgliesh takes on a baffling murder in the rarefied world of London book publishing in this masterful mystery from one of our finest novelists. • Part of the bestselling mystery series that inspired Dalgliesh on Acorn TV&“Complex and compelling.... James is writing in full mastery of her craft.&”—The New York Times Book Review Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are confronted with a puzzle of impenetrable complexity. A murder has taken place in the offices of the Peverell Press, a venerable London publishing house located in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames. The victim is Gerard Etienne, the brilliant but ruthless new managing director, who had vowed to restore the firm's fortunes. Etienne was clearly a man with enemies—a discarded mistress, a rejected and humiliated author, and rebellious colleagues, one of who apparently killed herself a short time earlier. Yet Etienne's death, which occurred under bizarre circumstances, is for Dalgliesh only the beginning of the mystery, as he desperately pursues the search for a killer prepared to strike and strike again.
The Deepest Lake
by null Andromeda Romano-LaxIn this atmospheric thriller set at a luxury memoir-writing workshop on the shores of Lake Atitlán, Guatemala, a grieving mother goes undercover to investigate her daughter&’s mysterious death.Rose, the mother of twentysomething aspiring writer Jules, has waited three months for answers about her daughter&’s death. Why was she swimming alone when she feared the water? Why did she stop texting days before she was last seen? When the official investigation rules the death an accidental drowning, the body possibly lost forever in Central America&’s deepest lake, an unsatisfied Rose travels to the memoir workshop herself. She hopes to draw her own conclusion—and find closure. When Rose arrives, she is swept into the curious world created by her daughter&’s literary hero, the famous writing teacher Eva Marshall, a charismatic woman known for her candid—and controversial—memoirs. As Rose uncovers details about the days leading up to Jules&’s disappearance, she begins to suspect that this glamorous retreat package is hiding ugly truths. Is Lake Atitlán a place where traumatized women come to heal or a place where deeper injury is inflicted?The Deepest Lake is both a sharp look at the sometimes toxic, exclusionary world of high-class writing workshops and an achingly poignant view of a mother&’s grief.
The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
by null Michio Kaku#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The renowned theoretical physicist and national bestselling author of The God Equation tackles the most fascinating and complex object in the known universe: the human brain.&“Compelling…Kaku thinks with great breadth, and the vistas he presents us are worth the trip.&” —The New York Times Book ReviewThe Future of the Mind brings a topic that once belonged solely to the province of science fiction into a startling new reality. This scientific tour de force unveils the astonishing research being done in top laboratories around the world—all based on the latest advancements in neuroscience and physics—including recent experiments in telepathy, mind control, avatars, telekinesis, and recording memories and dreams. The Future of the Mind is an extraordinary, mind-boggling exploration of the frontiers of neuroscience. Dr. Kaku looks toward the day when we may achieve the ability to upload the human brain to a computer, neuron for neuron; project thoughts and emotions around the world on a brain-net; take a &“smart pill&” to enhance cognition; send our consciousness across the universe; and push the very limits of immortality.
The Secret Hours
by null Mick HerronA gripping spy thriller from the bestselling author of Slow Horses, about a disastrous MI5 mission in Cold War Berlin—an absolute must-read for Slough House fans. Set in the MI5 world of Slow Horses, now an Apple Original series from Apple TV+ starring Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott Thomas.Two years ago, a hostile prime minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating &“historical over-reaching&” by the British Secret Service. Monochrome&’s mission was to ferret out any hint of misconduct by any MI5 officer—and allowed Griselda Fleet and Malcolm Kyle, the two civil servants seconded to the project, unfettered access to any and all confidential information in the Service archives in order to do so.But MI5&’s formidable First Desk did not become Britain&’s top spy by accident, and she has successfully thwarted the inquiry at every turn. Now the administration that created Monochrome has been ousted, the investigation is a total bust—and Griselda and Malcolm are stuck watching as their career prospects are washed away by the pounding London rain.Until the eve of Monochrome&’s shuttering, when an MI5 case file appears without explanation. It is the buried history of a classified operation in 1994 Berlin—an operation that ended in tragedy and scandal, whose cover-up has rewritten thirty years of Service history.The Secret Hours is a dazzling entry point into Mick Herron&’s body of work, a standalone spy thriller that is at once unnerving, poignant, and laugh-out-loud funny. It is also the breathtaking secret history that Slough House fans have been waiting for.
Leave the Office Earlier: The Productivity Pro Shows You How to Do More in Less Time...and Feel Great About It
by null Laura StackLong hours. Juggling family and work. Deadlines. High stress levels. Today’s professionals are feeling more overworked and overwhelmed than ever before. Yet you CAN get more done than you ever thought possible—and still get home to your real life sooner. Laura Stack, “The Productivity Pro,”® shows you how.Leave the Office Earlier explores the ten key factors that improve results, lower stress, and save time in today’s workplace. Fun, interactive quizzes speed you to exactly the advice and techniques you need the most. You can tailor this information-loaded book to your own needs by focusing on your problem areas—such as time-wasters, distractions, email overload, or poor organization—and by following the easy-to-implement solutions. With Laura Stack’s help, you’ll work more efficiently and be more productive in every area of your life, so that you can really live according to your priorities. Don’t just work faster. Work better, reduce stress, and leave the office earlier!www.broadwaybooks.com
One Summer: America, 1927 (Bryson Ser. #2)
by null Bill BrysonA Chicago Tribune Noteworthy BookA GoodReads Reader's ChoiceIn One Summer Bill Bryson, one of our greatest and most beloved nonfiction writers, transports readers on a journey back to one amazing season in American life.The summer of 1927 began with one of the signature events of the twentieth century: on May 21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh became the first man to cross the Atlantic by plane nonstop, and when he landed in Le Bourget airfield near Paris, he ignited an explosion of worldwide rapture and instantly became the most famous person on the planet. Meanwhile, the titanically talented Babe Ruth was beginning his assault on the home run record, which would culminate on September 30 with his sixtieth blast, one of the most resonant and durable records in sports history. In between those dates a Queens housewife named Ruth Snyder and her corset-salesman lover garroted her husband, leading to a murder trial that became a huge tabloid sensation. Alvin &“Shipwreck&” Kelly sat atop a flagpole in Newark, New Jersey, for twelve days—a new record. The American South was clobbered by unprecedented rain and by flooding of the Mississippi basin, a great human disaster, the relief efforts for which were guided by the uncannily able and insufferably pompous Herbert Hoover. Calvin Coolidge interrupted an already leisurely presidency for an even more relaxing three-month vacation in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The gangster Al Capone tightened his grip on the illegal booze business through a gaudy and murderous reign of terror and municipal corruption. The first true &“talking picture,&” Al Jolson&’s The Jazz Singer, was filmed and forever changed the motion picture industry. The four most powerful central bankers on earth met in secret session on a Long Island estate and made a fateful decision that virtually guaranteed a future crash and depression. All this and much, much more transpired in that epochal summer of 1927, and Bill Bryson captures its outsized personalities, exciting events, and occasional just plain weirdness with his trademark vividness, eye for telling detail, and delicious humor. In that year America stepped out onto the world stage as the main event, and One Summer transforms it all into narrative nonfiction of the highest order.
Class-29: The Making of U.S. Navy SEALs
by null John Carl Roat"Throughout training I kept having the thought,WELL, ALL THEY CAN DO IS KILL ME.It seemed to help." SEALs are the world's toughest soldiers. Working in squads and platoons that make up SEAL teams, they are trained in everything from underwater demolition to high-altitude parachute drops. Now John Carl Roat, graduate of Class-29, one of the earliest SEAL training classes, has written the only book devoted to the training of that exclusive warrior force. With unflinching honesty, Roat describes the brutal six-month program that took young men well beyond the endurance limits even of gifted athletes and created warriors who could proudly take their places in the teams. It was a program so demanding that by the end of Hell Week, the third week of the course, the original class of one hundred and thirty-four physically fit young men had been sliced to sixty-two.After retelling his own class's experience, Roat visits today's SEAL program and reveals how the program has changed over the last thirty-five years to include more classroom training and better and more sophisticated equipment-- without at all lowering the physical demands. SEAL training is still the best, and the toughest, training in the world.
The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience
by null Kirstin Downey&“Kirstin Downey&’s lively, substantive and—dare I say—inspiring new biography of Perkins . . . not only illuminates Perkins&’ career but also deepens the known contradictions of Roosevelt&’s character.&” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR Fresh Air One of Franklin Delano Roosevelt&’s closest friends and the first female secretary of labor, Perkins capitalized on the president&’s political savvy and popularity to enact most of the Depression-era programs that are today considered essential parts of the country&’s social safety network.