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Report copyright infringementby Aaron Fielding (Author)Soar Beyond Limits: Your Ultimate Guide to DronesImagine controlling the skies - a world where your drone gracefully dances above treetops and captures breathtaking landscapes. Are you ready to embark on an exhilarating journey that melds cutting-edge technology with endless creative possibilities? Sky Bound: The Ultimate Drone Guide is your essential companion on this adventure, designed to cater to everyone from casual enthusiasts to bu...

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Report copyright infringementby Julius Schnauss (Author)Unlock the secrets of a forgotten art with "Collotype and Photo-lithography" by Julius Schnauss, a masterpiece that has been out of print for decades and is now beautifully restored by Alpha Editions. This rare gem, once lost to time, is not just a reprint it's a collector's item and a cultural treasure, meticulously revived for today's and future generations. Dive into the fascinating world of collotype and photo-lithography, where Schn...

How Space Works: The Facts Visually Explained

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Report copyright infringementby DK (Author)Embark on an awe-inspiring and informative journey through our Solar System and beyond in this illuminating astronomy book! Discover how big the Universe is, why our view of the sky is constantly changing, what came before the Big Bang, and so much more in 3... 2... 1.... Blast Off! Inside the pages of this comprehensive guide to astronomy for beginners, you'll discover: - Simple text and step-by-step graphics that make astronomy easy to understand ...

Expanded Awareness: A Health Psychologist's Inquiry into AI and Consciousness

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Report copyright infringementby Sophie Guellati-Salcedo (Author)This book examines how interaction with a responsive but non-sentient intelligence reshapes human perception, authorship, and responsibility. It does not aim to explain artificial intelligence technically or predict its future. Instead, it investigates how engagement with generative systems influences meaning-making, interpretation, and the exercise of agency.Beginning with the technological and cultural terrain in which AI has e...

Catastrophic Collapses: From Vision to Vulnerability

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Report copyright infringementby Ajoy Majumdar (Author)When structures fall, it is never just the steel and concrete that give way.Catastrophic Collapses: From Vision to Vulnerability is a gripping account of fifty disasters that scarred the modern world. From bridges that plunged into rivers and dams that burst, to towers that crumbled and industrial plants that failed, each story reveals how ambition, oversight, and flawed judgment unraveled the very systems meant to endure.This book traces ...

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Report copyright infringementby Marjorie Costello (Author), Costello& C. Kat Marjorie (Author), Marjorie Costello& C Kat (Author)From Simon & Schuster, Breaking into Video is Marjorie Costello and Cynthia Katz's guide to career and business opportunities from an editor and contributing editor of Videography. Breaking into Video provides a detailed, easy-to-understand description of the video industry and how it operates. Read all about the new jobs and incredible, exciting busines...

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Report copyright infringementby Pavie Xavier (Author)What is imagination? It is what allows humans to differentiate ourselves from machines. In the era of artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning, it is more crucial than ever for humans to develop and cultivate their imaginations to survive.This book demonstrates the importance of imagination. It brings together a large number of one of kind personalities from all walks of life, from philosophers and artists to scientists a...

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Report copyright infringementby Milan-Devi Labrey (Author)The God We Are Building: The Ethical Crisis We're Coding Into Existence is not another tech book, nor a distant academic critique. It is a wake-up call for a generation sleepwalking into a future designed by algorithms, engineered for profit, and detached from human values.Dr. Milan LaBrey exposes the moral and psychological fault lines that run beneath the systems shaping our lives. From education stripped of critical thinking, to chi...

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Report copyright infringementby Alfred North Whitehead (Author)Alfred North Whitehead's "Science and the Modern World: Lowell Lectures 1925" explores the profound impact of science on philosophical thought and the shaping of the modern world. A foundational text in the history of science, this work delves into fundamental scientific concepts and their far-reaching implications. Whitehead, a renowned philosopher and mathematician, offers a compelling analysis of the relationship between scient...

Empire of Ink: The Printers, Rogues, and Radicals Who Invented the American Newspaper

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Report copyright infringementby Alex Wright (Author)A sweeping history of America's first media revolution: the rise of the newspaper, and the transformation of a fledgling republic into the world's first information superpower. "Captivating ... a rip-roaring, richly entertaining feast." --Wall Street Journal No society had ever generated so much ink and paper in so little time. Between the Revolutionary War and the dawn of the twentieth century, the number of American newspapers increased fi...

Ground-water Resources of Lowndes County, Alabama; a Reconnaissance Report

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Report copyright infringementby John C. 1926- Scott (Created by)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is im...

Sound Pressure: How Speaker Systems Influence, Manipulate and Torture

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Report copyright infringementby Toby Heys (Author)Sound Pressure reveals how speaker systems mounted in public, employment, military and entertainment environments have played a pivotal role in the way that humans have been physiologically and psychologically organised and disciplined throughout the past century. The networked Wired Radio speakers of the 1920's industrialised factory, acoustically anchor a narrative based on the functional utilisation of sound systems for insidious purposes; ...

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Report copyright infringementby Julian Stodd (Author), Sae Schatz (Author)Unreconciled: Being Human in the 21st Century by Julian Stodd with Sae Schatz We are fragmented. Distributed across digital and physical worlds, pulled between the local and the planetary, exhausted by the demand to be coherent in a world that no longer is. Something has shifted in how we lead, how we belong, how we understand ourselves - and the old frameworks are no longer enough.Unreconciled is a bold philosophical e...

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Shafting, Pulleys, Belting, Rope Transmission And Shaft Governors

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Report copyright infringementby Hubert E. Collins (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Numbe...

A Practical Treatise On Modern Gas And Oil Engines (1897)

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Report copyright infringementby Frederick Grover (Author)A Practical Treatise On Modern Gas And Oil Engines is a book written by Frederick Grover and published in 1897. The book is a comprehensive guide to the use and operation of gas and oil engines, which were a relatively new technology at the time. The book covers all aspects of the engines, including their design, construction, and maintenance. It also includes detailed instructions on how to operate and repair the engines, as well as in...

Transports of Delight: How Technology Materializes Human Imagination

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Hancock (Author)This inspiring book shows how the spiritual side of life, with its thoughts, feelings, and aspirations, is intimately bound up with our material technologies. From the wonder of Gothic Cathedrals, to the quiet majesty of lighter than air flight, to the ultimate in luxury of the north Atlantic steamers, Peter Hancock explores how these sequential heights of technology have enabled our dreams of being transported to new and uncharted realms ...

Building on The Work of Our Elders and Ancestors: Merging STEM and Kawaida to Elevate Blackness (...and everything else...):: Improving Our Standing a

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Report copyright infringementby Harold Shujaa Baker (Author)This book begins as an ethical narrative on how STEM (science, technology, engineering, and manufacturing) should be developed and applied based on teachings reflected in the social philosophy called Kawaida. Kawaida is a communitarian African philosophy created by Dr. Maulana Karenga that informed creation of the Pan African holiday, Kwanzaa, and the Nguzo Saba / Seven Principles. The work involved began with a requested review of a...

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Report copyright infringementby Aidan T. Parkinson (Author)Ecosystem Alarm Management outlines a manifesto in systems architecture that demonstrates how one can act true to strong ideals, whilst offering practical solutions that mitigate shared risks for the global commons. In adopting such a perspective, compromise and pragmatism isn't necessary for a focused initiative towards assured platform stability.Aidan T. Parkinson is a professional engineer with experience in the governance, systems...

Estimating the Cost of Buildings: A Systematic Treatise on Factors of Costs and Superintendence

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Report copyright infringementby Arthur W. Joslin (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number...

Time and the Multiverse: The Foundations of Human Existence

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Report copyright infringementby Gerald Holdsworth (Author)Is there a mechanism through which some people can see the future? How can a life in this universe be predetermined? Where might information about the future exist? If we are to have faith in our grasp of physics and cosmological principles, it must exist outside this universe. How can we structure a multiverse so that it broadly accommodates precognition? In Time and the Multiverse, author Dr. Gerald Holdsworth addresses these questio...

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Report copyright infringementby Francis Sanzaro (Author)The biggest political and economic issue of the 21st and 22nd centuries will not be food, war, overpopulation, or the environment, but boredom and uselessness. The biggest problem will be figuring out how to manage people's emotional lives in a time when their intelligence, brains and consciousness will become irrelevant. The writers of the 2050s will observe that the idea of outsourcing our lives to software algorithms began around the ...

The Proxy Condition: : How Systems Reshaped Attention, Identity, and What It Means to Be Present

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Report copyright infringementby Harrison Rose Tate (Author)The Proxy Condition is a landmark work that challenges the architecture of digital life itself. With clarity and force, it reveals how we have come to inhabit a world designed around proxies; stand-ins for attention, presence, emotion, and even identity. These proxies interact, multiply, accelerate, and begin to shape who we think we are, sometimes obscuring truth. We live in two places at once. One is physical. The other is construct...

Fom Fire To AI: A Journey of Flame and Code

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Report copyright infringementby Curtis Coumbe (Author)From Fire to AI is a sweeping fusion of science, technology, and human evolution, tracing the arc of civilization from ancient flame to the rise of artificial intelligence. Through a blend of history, physics, philosophy, and mythic insight, author Curtis E. Coumbe, Ph.D., reveals the patterns that have guided humanity from survival to transcendence.This is more than a history of innovation-it's a blueprint for what comes next. From the in...

Digital Self Mastery: Conquer your digital habits to boost your relationships and business growth

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Report copyright infringementby Heidi Forbes Öste (Author)In the Digital Era, technology is pervasive in all areas of our lives. As entrepreneurs, tech anxiety and poor habits around technology can make the difference between struggling to make ends meet with no free time and having a business that feeds our desired lifestyle. Dr. Forbes Öste's integration of human development and behavior science with strategic business presents a new approach to solutions for this rising challenge for today...

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The Human Soul (Lost) in Transition At the Dawn of a New Era

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Report copyright infringementby Erel Shalit (Author), Nancy Swift Furlotti (Contribution by)Well-known Jungian analyst, author and lecturer Erel Shalit passed away in early 2018. This is his book, The Human Soul (Lost) in Transition At the Dawn of a New Era, published posthumously."The aim of this book," wrote Shalit, "is to present a depth psychological perspective on phenomena pertaining to the present, postmodern era. As such, its origins are in the depths; symbolically, in the depth of th...

How to Partner with AI: A New Kind of Relationship and a New Perspective on What It Means to be Human

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Seltzer (Author)This book combines essay, memoir, and creative writing. It is intended to help readers understand the present-day capabilities and longer-term implications of human-AI relationships, and to explore how the existence of non-human intelligence may influence how humans understand themselves and their place in the world.How to Partner with AI is the story of an unexpected collaboration between a writer nearing eighty and a digital mind calle...

The Controversy of Artificial Intelligence

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Report copyright infringementby Bud Hunton (Author)Bud began his writing career as a freelance writer for Advance Magazine located in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. He continued writing articles monthly for five years, publishing articles related to radiology administration (published 150 monthly articles and eventually was recruited by Sinclair Community, where he taught for 22 years before retiring. During his tenure at Sinclair, Bud was contacted by McGraw Hill in Chicago to provide content f...

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Boyle (Author)The Sceptical Chymist is a book written by Robert Boyle, a prominent scientist and philosopher of the 17th century. The book is a critical analysis of the then-prevailing theories and practices in chemistry, specifically alchemy. Boyle argued that alchemy was not a true science and that its methods and theories were flawed. He advocated for a more empirical approach to chemistry, based on observation and experimentation, rather than specula...

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Report copyright infringementby Nolen Gertz (Author)Heidegger, Marcuse, and Ellul warned against the rise of a technological mass culture. Philosophy of technology has since turned away from such dystopic views, promoting instead the view that we shape technologies just as technologies shape us. Yet the rise of Big Data has exceeded our worst fears about Big Brother, leading us to again question whether technologies are empowering us or enslaving us. Rather than engage in endless debates abou...

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Report copyright infringementby Ai Lab for Book-Lovers (Author)The relentless march of technological progress promises a dazzling future, but who stands guard over its moral compass? In an era defined by breathtaking innovation, Tech Ethics: Progress versus Duty by AI Lab for Book-Lovers confronts the profound ethical dilemmas at the heart of our digital world. This essential book dives deep into the tension between humanity's relentless drive for advancement and our fundamental duty to ensur...