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Bourbon Empire: The Past and Future of America's Whiskey

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Report copyright infringementby Reid Mitenbuler (Author)"Pulls aside the curtain of puffery to show . . . the business of liquor to be every bit as fascinating as the fictions in which the distillers love to swaddle themselves." --Wayne Curtis, The Wall Street Journal Walk into a well-stocked liquor store and you'll see countless whiskey brands, each boasting an inspiring story of independence and heritage. And yet, more than 95% of the nation's whiskey comes from a small handful of giant co...

Digital Wellbeing: Empowering Connection with Wonder and Imagination in the Age of AI

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Report copyright infringementby Caitlin Krause (Author)"Digital Wellbeing masterfully explores the intersection of technology and human potential. This book is a must-read for those who want to leverage the power of AI to unlock their creativity and imagination and ultimately invent new means of expression that will go way beyond human language, art, and science of today." --Ray Kurzweil, inventor, futurist, and author of New York Times bestseller The Singularity Is Nearer Elevate your digita...

Viking Age Brew: The Craft of Brewing Sahti Farmhouse Ale

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Report copyright infringementby Mika Laitinen (Author), Randy Mosher (Foreword by)Bringing beer history to life, Viking Age Brew takes readers on a lavishly illustrated tour of rustic brewhouses fueled by wood and passion. Sahti is a Nordic farmhouse ale that is still crafted in accordance with ancient traditions dating back to the Viking Age. It is often thought of as an oddity among beer styles, but this book demonstrates that a thousand years ago such ales were the norm in northern Europe,...

Story Mode: The Creative Writer's Guide to Narrative Video Game Design

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Report copyright infringementby Julialicia Case (Author), Eric Freeze (Author), Salvatore Pane (Author)Against the backdrop of a hyper-competitive AAA industry and the perception that it is a world reserved for top programmers and hard-core 'gamers', Story Mode offers an accessible entry-point for all into writing and designing complex and emotionally affecting narrative video games. The first textbook to combine game design with creative writing techniques, this much-needed resource makes th...

Manufacturing Planning and Control for Supply Chain Management: The Cpim Reference, Third Edition

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Report copyright infringementby F. Robert Jacobs (Author), William Lee Berry (Author), D. Clay Whybark (Author)Your definitive guide to MPC as it relates to supply chains--fully updated for the latest version of the CPIM exam Maximize supply chain efficiency, productivity, and profitability--as well as customer satisfaction--using the hands-on information contained in this thoroughly revised resource. Written by a team of recognized experts, the book contains new coverage of Cloud-based syst...

Mapping the Adirondacks: Colvin, Blake, and the First True Survey of the Great Adirondack Wilderness

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Report copyright infringementby Thatcher Hogan (Author)New York State's famous Adirondack landscape is immense, spanning over six million acres of public forests, lakes, rivers, mountains, and private lands. In full color featuring hundreds of detailed maps and photos, Mapping the Adirondacks celebrates it all with the first clear account of the original surveyor who explored and fully comprehended it--Verplanck Colvin. "Everywhere below," Colvin wrote, "were lakes and mountains so different ...

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Report copyright infringementby Travis Goodspeed (Author)Microcontroller Exploits is a deep dive into advanced hardware hacking with detailed examples of real-world techniques and a comprehensive survey of vulnerabilities. In this advanced guide to hardware hacking, you'll learn how to read the software out of single chip computers, especially when they are configured not to allow the firmware to be extracted. This book documents a very wide variety of microchip hacking techniques; it's not a...

Physics of Elasticity and Crystal Defects: 2nd Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Adrian P. Sutton (Author)Properties of crystalline materials are almost always governed by the defects within them. The ability to shape metals and alloys into girders, furniture, automobiles and medical prostheses stems from the generation, motion and interaction of these defects. Crystal defects are also the agents of chemical changes within crystals, enabling mass transport by diffusion and changes of phase. The distortion of the crystal created by a defect ...

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Report copyright infringementby David Reed (Author)Here it is, everything you always wanted to know about Ford farm toys! This colorful book contains detailed information on Ford toys from the early 1900s through the present day, manufactured by companies in the United States as well as abroad including names like Fordson, Ertl, Arcade, Tootsie Toy, and New Holland among others. Here are miniature Ford tractors, industrial equipment, lawn and garden equipment, farm sets and dealer trucks most...

The Rising: The Twenty-Year Battle to Rebuild the World Trade Center

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Report copyright infringementby Larry Silverstein (Author)The never-before-told inside story of the rebuilding of the World Trade Center -- an epic tale of business, politics, and engineering by the man who spent two decades working to make it happen After the terrorist attacks of 9/11 destroyed the World Trade Center, New Yorkers and Americans faced a critical set of questions: What should be done with the site? Could the towers be replaced? And how best to memorialize those lost on that day...

Eyes in the Sky: Space Telescopes from Hubble to Webb

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew May (Author), Brian Clegg (Editor) Over 50 years ago, astronomers launched the world's first orbiting telescope. This allowed them to gaze further into outer space and examine anything that appears in the sky above our heads, from comets and planets to galaxy clusters and stars. Since then, almost 100 space telescopes have been launched from Earth and are orbiting our planet, with 26 still active and relaying information back to us. As a result of these...

Advanced Python Scripting for ArcGIS Pro

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Report copyright infringementby Paul A. Zandbergen (Author)Tackle complex spatial data tasks effortlessly with this easy-to-follow guide to writing specialized Python scripts and developing tools for spatial data in ArcGIS Pro.Back JacketTackle complex spatial data tasks effortlessly with this easy-to-follow guide to writing specialized Python scripts and developing tools for spatial data in ArcGIS(R) Pro.Intended for users who have a good foundation in Python, this book explores how to devel...

Last Words: Large Language Models and the AI Apocalypse

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Kockelman (Author)What kind of meaning can machines make--and why does it matter that it's not the same as ours?Anthropologist Paul Kockelman's Last Words offers a rigorous but accessible account of how large language models actually work--and why the meaning they produce is fundamentally different from human meaning-making. Drawing on the semiotics of C.S. Peirce, Kockelman's witty and insightful pamphlet shows how LLMs are trained to predict word-word re...

Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure

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Report copyright infringementby Vaclav Smil (Author)Tour the history of human invention--and its attendant breakthroughs and busts--in this history book from the New York Times-bestselling author of How the World Really Works. A BILL GATES RECOMMENDED BOOK: "Every Smil book that I own is marked up with lots of notes that I take while reading. Invention and Innovation is no exception." The world is never finished catching up with Vaclav Smil, author of New York Times bestsellers How the World ...

Mapping the Deep: Innovation, Exploration, and the Dive of a Lifetime

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Report copyright infringementby Dawn J. Wright (Author), Kathryn D. Sullivan (Foreword by)Embark on an extraordinary journey into the depths of the ocean.Oceanographer Dawn Wright made history in 2022 when she became the first Black person to visit Challenger Deep, the deepest and most unexplored place on Earth--a trip that took her over 10,000 meters beneath the Pacific Ocean's surface. We know less about the ocean floor than we do about the surface of the moon. To date, barely one-fifth of ...

Casting Homeward: An Angler and Naturalist's Journey to America's Legendary Rivers

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Report copyright infringementby Steve Ramirez (Author), Richard Louv (Foreword by), Bob White (Illustrator)In Casting Homeward, writer, naturalist, and educator Steve Ramirez takes the reader on a physical and philosophical journey to some of the most legendary rivers and wild landscapes in America. Imbued with fly-fishing throughout, this journey will seek to explore what makes certain places feel magical and meaningful. How do we define "iconic" when considering wild places that have seemin...

Smart Mobility in Practice: Good Car, Bad Car, No Car - Is This the End of Nurturing Our Mobility Dna?

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Report copyright infringementby Barbara Flügge (Editor)This non-fictional, yet storytelling, book questions the role of cars and their impact, both for now and in the future. It is not enough to just consider autonomous driving, driving bans in Europe, and combustion engines. Our future and the future of our cities and country living depend on how we can coordinate different needs and different means. Finally, we ask ourselves: What is the status of the car today and in the future? Are we liv...

The Last Logging Show: A Forestry Family at the End of an Era

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Report copyright infringementby Aaron Williams (Author)A third-generation Pacific Northwest logger returns to the forests of Haida Gwaii, to witness a way of life in the grip of change. By the time Aaron Williams began learning how to fall a tree, his family had been making clear cuts on BC hillsides for nearly a century. During his father's generation, the industry started to crumble, and by the time Williams arrived, he knew his future lay elsewhere. But his father continued in the trade, h...

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Sansom (Author)No natural resource issue has greater significance for the future of Texas than water. The state's demand for water for municipal, industrial, agricultural, and recreational uses continues to grow exponentially, while the supply from rivers, lakes, aquifers, and reservoirs is limited. To help Texans manage their water resources today and plan for future needs, one of Texas's top water experts has compiled this authoritative overview of wat...

The Beauty of Time: The Watches of A. Lange & Söhne

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Report copyright infringementby Harry Niemann (Author), Jonee Tiedemann (Translator)With more than 200 photographs and specifications for 32 watches, this book provides a comprehensive history of one of Germany's finest watchmakers and its timepieces. Since its founding in 1845, A. Lange and Sohne has been at the core of fine watchmaking. Wanting to create perfectly timed watches that did not require remachining, innovative watchmaker Ferdinand Adolph Lange established a tradition of precise ...

Artificial Intelligence: An Illustrated History: From Medieval Robots to Neural Networks

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Report copyright infringementby Clifford a. Pickover (Author)A History of the Future that's Happening Right Now Artificial Intelligence: An Illustrated History explores the historic origins and current applications of AI in such diverse fields as computing, medicine, popular culture, mythology, and philosophy. Through more than 100 entries, award-winning author Clifford A. Pickover, offers a granular, yet accessible, glimpse into the world of AI--from medieval robots and Boolean algebra to fa...

How Drones Fight: How Small Drones Are Revolutionizing Warfare

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Report copyright infringementby Lars Celander (Author)"... it is clear that drones or unmanned aircraft will be ever-present on the battlefield. Military practitioners will therefore find value in reading about these types of systems and capabilities. As a technical overview of this developing and rapidly proliferating technology, How Drones Fight is worth the read and hits the mark." - Cory Hollon in Aether: A Journal of Strategic Airpower & SpacepowerAn in-depth analysis of how drones h...

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Report copyright infringementby Gary B. Xavier (Author)Math for HVACR provides a review of basic math within a framework of HVACR applications, helping students gain confidence and achieve success in math-based HVACR tasks. Serving as an excellent supplement in introductory HVACR and other mechanical trades courses, the text covers whole numbers, common fractions, decimal fractions, percentages, systems of measurement, electrical calculations, and algebraic, geometric, and trigonometric funct...

Love for the Land: Lessons from Farmers Who Persist in Place

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Report copyright infringementby Brooks Lamb (Author)A moving exploration of presence and place told through the stories of small-scale farmers who, despite intense adversity, continue caring for their landLove for the Land explores the power and potential of people-place relationships. Through clear and compelling prose, it elevates the virtues of imagination, affection, and fidelity--concepts promoted by farmer-writer Wendell Berry--and shows how they motivate small- and mid-scale farmers to...

New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI

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Report copyright infringementby Frank Pasquale (Author)"Essential reading for all who have a vested interest in the rise of AI." --Daryl Li, AI & Society "Thought-provoking...Explores how we can best try to ensure that robots work for us, rather than against us, and proposes a new set of laws to provide a conceptual framework for our thinking on the subject." --Financial Times "Pasquale calls for a society-wide reengineering of policy, politics, economics, and labor relations to set tec...

The Power of Where: A Geographic Approach to the World's Greatest Challenges

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Report copyright infringementby Jack Dangermond (Author)The Power of Where presents the visionary concepts of Jack Dangermond, cofounder of Esri(R), the world's leading mapping software company. With a foreword by bestselling author and writer for The Atlantic, James Fallows, it's filled with the latest web maps, illustrations, and real-life stories from a vibrant global community of geographic information systems (GIS) users. If you've never heard of GIS, this is the book for you, and if you...

Reboot: Reclaiming Your Life in a Tech-Obsessed World

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Report copyright infringementby Elaine Kasket (Author)Technology affects every interaction, shapes our identities and constantly hijacks our attention. So how can we reclaim our power and feel less helpless at every stage of our lives? In a world full of algorithms, addictive apps and data-driven adverts, it often feels as if the digital environment is determining our behaviour. We trace our steps, track our kids and share our lives online, without really knowing whether this technology is se...

The Radio Phonics Laboratory: Telecommunications, Speech Synthesis and the Birth of Electronic Music

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Report copyright infringementby Justin Patrick Moore (Author)The Radio Phonics Laboratory explores the intersection of technology and creativity that shaped the sonic landscape of the 20th century. This fascinating story unravels the intricate threads of telecommunications, from the invention of the telephone to the advent of global communication networks. At the heart of the narrative is the evolution of speech synthesis, a groundbreaking innovation that not only revolutionized telecommunica...

Nuclear Is Not the Solution: The Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of Climate Change

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Report copyright infringementby M. V. Ramana (Author)NUCLEAR POWER WILL SLOW OUR RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE AND INCREASE THE RISK OF WEAPONS PROLIFERATION AND CATASTROPHE THE CLIMATE CRISIS has propelled nuclear energy back into fashion. Its proponents argue we already have the technology of the future and that it only needs perfection and deployment. Nuclear Is Not the Solution demonstrates why this sort of thinking is not only naïve but dangerous. Even beyond the horrific implications of me...

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Report copyright infringementby J. H. Haynes (Author)Each Haynes manual is written for the do-it-yourselfer and provides step-by-step instructions based on a complete disassembly of the vehicle. This hands-on experience provides the reader with specific and detailed instructions for performing everything from basic maintenance and troubleshooting to a complete engine overhaul. The models and model years covered in this title are as follows: Isuzu Amigo 1989 - 1994 Isuzu Amigo 1998 - 2000 I...

The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI

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Report copyright infringementby Ray Kurzweil (Author)AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF TIME'S 100 MOST INFLUENTUAL PEOPLE IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE The noted inventor and futurist's successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explores how technology will transform the human race in the decades to come Since it was first published in 2005, Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity Is Near and its vision of an exponential future have spawned a worldwide movement. Kurzweil's predictio...

Ground Control: An Argument for the End of Human Space Exploration

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Report copyright infringementby Savannah Mandel (Author)In the 1960s and '70s, America spent $24 billion (around $150 billion in today's dollars) to land humans on the moon and "win" the space race. And while humans took their first steps on an extraterrestrial landscape, protesters at Cape Canaveral asked: Why waste money on space when there are so many issues here on Earth? More than 50 years later, an oligopoly of commercial space companies--SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Virgin Galactic--has b...