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Report copyright infringementby Nancy Blackwell (Author), Charles Ettinger (Illustrator)Join Andy the Ant as he treks through an exciting adventure inside a beehive with his new friend, Beatrice the Bee. The author weaves a fun and educational story about beekeeping. Although this charming story is designed for elementary children, adult readers may learn a thing or two as well! The book is loaded with fun-filled information about the duties of a beekeeper, the various jobs bees have, how bee...

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Report copyright infringementby Nancy Blackwell (Author), Charles Ettinger (Illustrator)A must have academic resource for the budding young scientists in your life. This informative book takes readers on a journey of the migratory bees. Andy the Ant will help them discover the importance of these special bees that are transported great distances to farms and orchards for pollination. It also shows how commercial beekeepers care for them.Additional learning resources are included through the G...

Digital Exhaustion: Simple Rules for Reclaiming Your Life

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Leonardi (Author)A revelatory examination of why you're feeling so worn out--and practical daily strategies to change your relationship with your devices. Unplugging is not a long-term solution for the stress caused by technology. If you want to keep your job, participate in society, and maintain meaningful relationships, you can't escape your many apps and devices. Paul Leonardi maps out an achievable path to reducing your digital exhaustion, drawing on e...

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Report copyright infringementby Marcin Nazaruk (Author)No incidents. No injuries. Everything looks fine until it isn't. We often ask, "What caused the accident?" But what if we asked: "What was happening before it went wrong?"This book is built around a simple idea: the seeds of failure are often planted in success.It follows John, a senior Safety Director navigating the complex, and all-too-real journey of implementing Learning from Normal Work in a large organization.This isn't a textbook. ...

Animal Health and Welfare in Livestock Production Enterprises

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Skiba (Author)This book provides a comprehensive overview of animal health and welfare practices in livestock production enterprises, focusing on the essential principles that ensure the well-being, productivity, and longevity of animals raised for food and agricultural purposes. It covers critical aspects of livestock management, including the provision of adequate nutrition, proper housing, disease prevention, and effective medical care. The book emph...

Human Factors in Challenging Environments: From Thermal Comfort to G-Force Exposure

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Report copyright infringementby Waldemar Karwowski (Editor), Beata Mrugalska (Editor)In human factors and ergonomics, professionals play a key role in shaping the compatibility between tasks, products, and environments with the needs of individuals. The most successful projects demonstrate a tight integration with the human experience, underscoring the importance of ergonomic design in promoting societal well-being. A human-centered approach to design and evaluation should be championed. This...

In the Herder's Boots: Challenging Life of the Nomadic Cashmere Goat herder in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen Parliament (Author), Yongtao Du (Editor)How are Mongolia's resilient cashmere herders overcoming harsh conditions and economic challenges to thrive?In the Herder's Boots explores the struggles of Mongolia's nomadic cashmere goat herders to survive on the arid Alta Plateau of the Gobi Desert. They face harsh conditions: frigid winters, scorching summers, and scarce grazing. Despite producing the world's finest cashmere, they're trapped in a market domina...

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Report copyright infringementby Caroline Le Bon (Author)Fashion is everywhere! It transcends domains and applies to almost any kind of product (e.g., apparel, cars, digital devices, food, literature, travel, music, house decoration and personal wellness). Fashion greatly influences public interest, media coverage, and product success. The global fashion industry is among the most important in terms of investments, trade, and employment, despite its dependence on unpredictable demand. This boo...

Operationalizing Twenty-First Century Safety: A Humancentric Practical Guide

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Report copyright infringementby Simon Goncharenko (Editor)Unlike most of the existent human factors resources on the market today, which all require some fluency in the concepts and a certain level of pre-understanding, This book presents the material in a simple, easy-to-read language that does not require academic background or prior experience to ensure you can deliver lasting results.Author BiographySimon Goncharenko (PhD, CSP) is Director of HSE at Veriforce Inc. (The Woodlands, TX, USA)...

Managing Environmental Risk Through Insurance

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Report copyright infringementby Paul K. Freeman (Author), Howard Kunreuther (Author)Can insurance be used as a means to obtain compliance with environmental policy? Answering this question requires examination of a broad mosaic of academic issues, including current systems available for providing compensation and deterrence, use of contracts (including insurance) as substitutes for tort law, limitations of regulatory policy-making by government agencies, pre-conditions for creation of insuran...

Inference for Change Point and Post Change Means After a Cusum Test

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Report copyright infringementby Yanhong Wu (Author)The change-point problem has attracted many statistical researchers and practitioners during the last few decades. Here, we only concentrate on the sequential change-point problem. Starting from the Shewhart chart with app- cations to quality control [see Shewhart (1931)], several monitoring procedures have been developed for a quick detection of change. The three most studied monitoring procedures are the CUSUM procedure [Page (1954)], the E...

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Report copyright infringementby Erik Seedhouse (Author)Recent surveys have provided new and updated information into public insights of the nascent space tourism industry. Erik Seedhouse uniquely explores in detail the cutting-edge technologies, spacecraft capabilities, launch vehicles and the training that will define this commercial enterprise and also provides a manual for future suborbital and orbital private space explorers. This overview of the space tourism market is based upon choices...

Sync or Sink: The Automation Mindset for Business Survival

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Report copyright infringementby Taiwo Omisogbon (Author)In Sync or Sink, Taiwo Omisogbon presents a clear and structured approach to automation as a fundamental driver of business efficiency and long-term success. The book challenges the narrow view of automation as merely a technical tool, instead framing it as a necessary mindset for modern operations.Through real-world examples from logistics, manufacturing, digital commerce, and enterprise services, the book explores how outdated workflow...

Specifications for a Bureau of Engraving and Printing for the Chinese Government to be Erected in Peking, China

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Report copyright infringementby Heister &. Co Milburn (Author)This historical document provides detailed specifications for the construction of a Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Peking (now Beijing), China. Prepared by Heister & Co Milburn, likely in the early 20th century, the text offers valuable insights into the engineering and architectural standards of the time, as well as the international business relationships between the United States and China. A fascinating glimpse int...

Deep Learning for Power System Applications: Case Studies Linking Artificial Intelligence and Power Systems

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Report copyright infringementby Fangxing Li (Author), Yan Du (Author)This book provides readers with an in-depth review of deep learning-based techniques and discusses how they can benefit power system applications. Representative case studies of deep learning techniques in power systems are investigated and discussed, including convolutional neural networks (CNN) for power system security screening and cascading failure assessment, deep neural networks (DNN) for demand response management, a...

Lean Enterprise: The Essential Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Lean Business with Six Sigma, Kanban, and 5S Methodologies (Lean Guides

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Report copyright infringementby Greg Caldwell (Author)Are you looking for ways to eliminate wastes in your workflow?Are you having trouble figuring out how everything fits together in your business? Do you want to focus on producing only the best results at every phase of the production line? Perhaps, most importantly, are you thinking of eventually teaming up with like-minded companies to create something that ultimately changes the world for the better?If you've answered yes to all of these...

Precision Medicine, AI and the Science of Personalized Healthcare

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Report copyright infringementby James Wallace (Author)A fascinating combination of patient stories and scientific explanation shedding light on the most promising trend in healthcare today: precision medicine In Precision Medicine, AI and the Science of Personalized Healthcare, senior researcher at Harvard Business School and former CEO of DecisionRx, a pioneering medication therapy optimization company, James Wallace, delivers an eye-opening new discussion of how cutting-edge precision medi...

Sustainable Manufacturing: Challenges, Solutions and Implementation Perspectives

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Report copyright infringementby Rainer Stark (Created by), Günther Seliger (Created by), Jérémy Bonvoisin (Created by)This edited volume presents the research results of the Collaborative Research Center 1026 "Sustainable manufacturing - shaping global value creation". The book aims at providing a reference guide of sustainable manufacturing for researchers, describing methodologies for development of sustainable manufacturing solutions. The volume is structured in four chapters covering the ...

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Report copyright infringementby J. Armand Musey (Author), E. Barlow Keener (Author)This Handbook has three objectives: 1) to serve as a primer for explaining the complex issues around the use of electromagnetic spectrum; 2) to analyze, from both an economic and a legal perspective, the regulatory processes being considered or underway to reallocate or change the use of spectrum bands; and 3) to be a reference source for industry professionals. Part I of the Handbook provides an overview of th...

Fleet Purchasing, Maintenance and Reliability

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Report copyright infringementby Diarmaid Murphy (Author)OverviewFleet Purchasing and Maintenance is a concise, easy to understand guide on vehicle purchasing and fleet maintenance for the benefit of business and maintenance managers at all levels, plus students and academics. Not a textbook full of formulas but a guide containing both detail and insights for the practicing fleet and financial manager.The book first covers all aspects of the vehicle and fleet purchasing process from the perspe...

Developing Effective Engineering Leadership

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Report copyright infringementby Ray Morrison (Author), Carl Ericsson (Author)Engineering companies and other organizations face many serious challenges in the 21st Century. One that is now becoming widely recognized is the loss of corporate knowledge through staff turnover, whether it is natural or forced through downsizing or delayering. A company's store of knowledge and expertise is an asset built up through the learning and experience of its employees. In this book the authors show that s...

Shift: A Practical Guide to Enhanced Service Management

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Report copyright infringementby Nathan Swab (Author), Scott Levesque (Author) Number of Pages: 170 Dimensions: 0.46 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: September 19, 2025

The Investor's DNA - Impacting Biomedical Startups through Venture Capital

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Report copyright infringementby Anand Govindaluri (Author) Number of Pages: 228 Dimensions: 0.69 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: August 23, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Anand Govindaluri (Author) Number of Pages: 226 Dimensions: 0.57 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: August 23, 2025

Shop Management. With an Introd. by Henry R. Towne

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Report copyright infringementby Frederick Winslow 1856-1915 Taylor (Author) Number of Pages: 212 Dimensions: 0.5 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: June 11, 2025

Fast Forward: The Birth of Video Streaming, Media's Wild Child

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Report copyright infringementby Craig Leddy (Author)Long before Netflix, Amazon, and YouTube redefined entertainment, a team of innovators embarked on a groundbreaking mission: to create on-demand movie streaming, interactive shopping, and virtual gaming through the visionary concept of interactive television. Spearheaded by Time Warner CEO Jerry Levin, the ambitious Full Service Network (FSN) sought to outpace media moguls, including cable pioneer John Malone and Microsoft's Bill Gates, in a...

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by Kenneth Field (Author)Winner of the 2019 International Cartographic Conference - Educational Products award A lavishly illustrated reference guide, Cartography. by Kenneth Field is an inspiring and creative companion along the nonlinear journey toward making a great map. This sage compendium for contemporary mapmakers distills the essence of cartography into useful topics, organized for convenience in finding the specific idea or method you need. Unlike books targeted to deep scholarly di...

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Report copyright infringementby Thierry Meyer (Author), Genserik Reniers (Author), Valerio Cozzani (Author)Risk and Safety Management are crucial aspects in chemical industry and academic laboratories. From their rich experience in academic education and industrial practice, the authors present options for professional training addressing engineers and scientists at different career levels. The book informs about existing norms (OHSAS, ISO, etc.) and discusses examples from several countries....

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Report copyright infringementby Harvey Hall (Editor), Richard Funt (Editor)This practical book provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of all aspects of the commercial production of blackberries and their hybrids, covering plant growth and development, cultivar description and selection, propagation, pruning, soil and water management, postharvest management, economics and marketing, and pest identification and management. Cultivated blackberries are a relatively new crop, but with n...

Tech Confidential: The Insider's Playbook for Daring Entrepreneurs

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Report copyright infringementby Denise Koessler Gosnell (Author), Kathryn Erickson (Author)Silicon Valley is not the glossy utopia our promising youth has been sold; it's a modern-day Colosseum where overclocked misfits battle for their shot at unicorn status and glory. Forget the embroidered zip hoodies and free kombucha fantasies--in Tech Confidential, two renegade insiders cut through the buzzwords and bullsh*t. They show that your dreams of changing the world are possible, but success has...

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Report copyright infringementby Guy Collins (Author)This book traces the development of the European space programme from its pre-1970 beginnings to the prospects for European ventures beyond the year 2000. It looks at the failure of the Europa Rocket programme, and the development of the successful Ariane programme. Number of Pages: 235 Dimensions: 0.52 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: January 01, 1990