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Stagtine: Kincentric Rewilding, Science, & A Tale of Letting Go - Paperback

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by Daniel Firth Griffith (Author), Fred Provenza (Foreword by) Number of Pages: 338 Dimensions: 0.76 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: March 20, 2024

Elements of Dimensionality Reduction and Manifold Learning - Hardcover

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by Benyamin Ghojogh (Author), Mark Crowley (Author), Fakhri Karray (Author)Dimensionality reduction, also known as manifold learning, is an area of machine learning used for extracting informative features from data for better representation of data or separation between classes. This book presents a cohesive review of linear and nonlinear dimensionality reduction and manifold learning. Three main aspects of dimensionality reduction are covered: spectral dimensionality reduction, probabilisti...

Artist Management for the Music Business: Manage Your Career in Music: Manage the Music Careers of Others - Paperback

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by Paul Allen (Author)Anyone managing an artist's career needs to be well versed and have a savvy understanding of the moving parts of the music business. Learn how and why those moving parts "move," as well as how to manage and navigate a music-based career.Artist Management for the Music Business gives a comprehensive view of how to generate income through music and how to strategically plan for future growth. The book is full of valuable practical insights. It includes interviews and case ...

Word Search for Kids Ages 6-8: 100 Word Search Puzzles - Paperback

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by Word Adventure Books (Author)Are you looking for a fun way to boost your child's learning while providing hours of screen-free entertainment? This book of word search puzzles is the perfect choice. Brain games are a proven, engaging, and fun way to learn: Reading speed, word association, vocabulary, spelling, and other subjects are improved with word search activities. And using a pen or pencil to complete the puzzles engages certain parts of your child's brain that digital products do no...

Electrical Engineering: Fundamentals - Paperback

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by Viktor Hacker (Author), Christof Sumereder (Author)Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering is an excellent introduction into the areas of electricity, electronic devices and electrochemistry. The book covers aspects of electrical science including Ohm and Kirkoff's laws, P-N junctions, semiconductors, circuit diagrams, magnetic fields, electrochemistry, and devices such as DC motors. This text is useful for students of electrical, chemical, materials, and mechanical engineering.Author Biogr...

Digital Electronic Circuits: Principles and Practices - Paperback

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by Shuqin Lou (Author), Chunling Yang (Author), China Science Publishing &. Media Ltd (Contribution by)This book presents three aspects of digital circuits: digital principles, digital electronics, and digital design. The modern design methods of using electronic design automation (EDA) are also introduced, including the hardware description language (HDL), designs with programmable logic devices and large scale integrated circuit (LSI).The applications of digital devices and integrated c...

Suspension Concentrates: Preparation, Stability and Industrial Applications - Paperback

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by Tharwat F. Tadros (Author)Suspension Concentrates is a survey into the theory of the formulation and stabilization of suspensions, elaborating on the breaking of aggregates and agglomerates and the role of dispersing agents on flocculation and electrostatic and steric stabilization. Practical analysis by rheology is discussed. Suspension Concentrates is ideal for research scientists and Ph.D. students investigating chemistry, chemical engineering and colloidal science. Author BiographyThar...

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by Kazutake Kyuma (Author)This book is an important reference for those concerned with the continuing sustainability of wet rice agriculture, which remains the staple diet for most people throughout Asia. Kazutake Kyuma draws on his extensive experience regarding rice agriculture to explain the interactions between the various human, environmental, biological and chemical factors needed to protect the long-term productivity of rice paddy soils. Number of Pages: 280 Dimen...

Muck and Mind: Encountering Biodynamic Agriculture: An Alchemical Journey - Paperback

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by Jonathan Michael Code (Author)A healthy culture implies a healthy agriculture.Beyond the technology and use of machines, today rapidly developing technology (i.e., "genetic engineering") extends into the realm of life, which we can, and therefore do, manipulate for the ostensibly noble purpose of feeding the people of the world.Life, however, is not mechanical. To begin to comprehend life, something is desperately needed--a fundamental shift in our approach, one that seeks to comprehend ...

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by Nathaniel Rich (Author)From Nathaniel Rich, author of Losing Earth, comes a beautifully told exploration of our post-natural world that points the way to a new mode of ecological writing. We live in a time when scientists race to reanimate extinct beasts, our most essential ecosystems require monumental engineering projects to survive, chicken breasts grow in test tubes, and multinational corporations conspire to poison the blood of every living creature. No rock, leaf, or cubic foot of ai...

Software Defined Radio with Zynq Ultrascale+ RFSoC - Hardcover

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by Louise H. Crockett (Editor), David Northcote (Editor), Robert W. Stewart (Editor)This book introduces Zynq Ultrascale+ RFSoC, a technology that brings real, single-chip, Software Defined Radio (SDR) to the marketplace. RFSoC devices are the first adaptive SoCs (Systems-on-Chip) to monolithically integrate multiple RF signal chains along with Arm application and real-time, multicore processors and programmable logic. By eliminating the need for dozens of discrete devices, RFSoC chips offer ...

Software Defined Radio with Zynq Ultrascale+ RFSoC - Paperback

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Pain-Free Writing for Nurses: A Step-By-Step Guide - Paperback

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by Joseph Perazzo (Author), Robert Topp (Author)This book will make you a more effective and prolific author of scholarshipPain-Free Writing for Nurses is an enjoyable but effective primer on writing and will improve your scholarly contributions to the nursing literature.The tips provided in this book will improve your writing, increase your output, and help you address the stress involved in creating meaningful, professional content.This concise, practical text provides: Strategies to deal ...

La Gestión de Riesgos en las Industrias Alimentarias - Paperback

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by José Rodríguez Pérez (Author), Ma Ángeles Martín Linares (Author)La gestión de riesgos en calidad/seguridad alimentaria es un componente valioso para un marco eficaz de los sistemas de gestión. Puede, por ejemplo, ayudar a guiar el establecimiento de especificaciones y parámetros de proceso para la fabricación de alimentos seguros, a evaluar y mitigar el riesgo de cambiar un proceso o una especificación, y a determinar el alcance de las investigaciones de no conformidades y acciones correc...

Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment - Hardcover

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by Grady Hillhouse (Author)Engineering in Plain Sight is a beautifully illustrated field guide with accessible explanations to nearly every part of the constructed world around us. Author Grady Hillhouse is the creator behind the popular YouTube channel Practical Engineering (over 3 million subscribers!) and this book is essentially 50 new episodes crammed between two covers. Engineering in Plain Sight extends the field guide genre from natural phenomena to human-made structures, making them ...

A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable - Paperback

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by John Steele Gordon (Author)Today, in a world in which news flashes around the globe in an instant, time lags are inconceivable. In the mid-nineteenth century, communication between the United States and Europe -- the center of world affairs -- was only as quick as the fastest ship could cross the Atlantic, making the United States isolated and vulnerable.But in 1866, the Old and New Worlds were united by the successful laying of a cable across the Atlantic. John Steele Gordon's book chroni...

Media Production: A Practical Guide to Radio, TV and Film - Paperback

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by Amanda Willett (Author)Fully revised and updated, this second edition of Media Production provides a comprehensive introductory guide to radio, television and fi lm production techniques.Using a step-by-step structure that takes students through the production process from conception to delivery, this book explores initial brainstorming through to planning, research, recording and editing. Operational procedures are set out in detail, taking into account the context in which students work ...

The History of Human Space Flight - Hardcover

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by Ted Spitzmiller (Author)"A very competent, complete history of manned spacecraft. . . . A strongly recommended resource."-Choice "A fascinating human saga of dedication, competition, sacrifice, and achievement."--Dave Finley, National Radio Astronomy Observatory "An ambitious and thorough history, extending back to the earliest risk takers and innovators who laid the groundwork for the astronauts and cosmonauts who would break the bonds of Earth."--George Leopold, author of Calculated Risk...

World Peace: (And How We Can Achieve It) - Hardcover

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by Alex J. Bellamy (Author)For as long as there has been war, there have been demands for its elimination. The quest for world peace has excited and eluded political leaders, philosophers, religious elders, activists, and artists for millennia. With war on the rise once again, we rarely reflect nowadays on what world peace might look like; much less on how it might be achieved. World Peace aims to change all that and show that world peace is possible. Because the motives, rationales, and impu...

Inviting Disaster: Lessons from the Edge of Technology - Paperback

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by James R. Chiles (Author)Combining captivating storytelling with eye-opening findings, Inviting Disaster delves inside some of history's worst catastrophes in order to show how increasingly "smart" systems leave us wide open to human tragedy.Weaving a dramatic narrative that explains how breakdowns in these systems result in such disasters as the chain reaction crash of the Air France Concorde to the meltdown at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station, Chiles vividly demonstrates how the battle...

Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth - Paperback

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by Andrew Smith (Author)In time for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing comes this edition of journalist Andrew Smith's Moondust, now updated with a new Afterword, that tells the fascinating story of twelve astronauts who ventured to space, and his interviews with nine of the surviving men.The Apollo lunar missions of the 1960s and 1970s have been called the last optimistic acts of the twentieth century. Twelve astronauts made this greatest of all journeys and were indelibly ma...

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time - Paperback

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by Dava Sobel (Author)The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day-and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as ...

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by Byung-Gook Park (Author), Sung Woo Hwang (Author), Young June Park (Author)This book provides readers with the knowledge in fundamentals of nanoelectronic devices. The authors build the principles of nanoelectronic devices based on those of microelectronic devices wherever possible and introduce the inherently nanoelectronic principles gradually. They briefly review quantum mechanics and solid-state physics that can form the basis of semiconductor device physics. The book also covers the b...

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by Martin Malmsten (Editor)This new edition features research from nearly 60 of the profession's most distinguished international authorities. Recognizing emerging developments in biopolymer systems research with fully updated and expanded chapters, the second edition discusses the biopolymer-based multilayer structures and their application in biosensors, the progress made in the understanding of protein behaviour at the air-water interface, experimental findings in ellipsometry and reflecto...

The Psychology of Artificial Intelligence - Paperback

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by Tony Prescott (Author)What is Artificial Intelligence? How will AI impact society? Is AI more powerful than human intelligence?The Psychology of AI explores all aspects of the psychology-AI relationship, asking how closely AI can resemble humans, and whether this means they could have some form of self-awareness. It considers how AI systems have been modelled on human intelligence and the similarities between brains and computers, along with the current limitations of AI and how these coul...

Tribology on the Small Scale: A Modern Textbook on Friction, Lubrication, and Wear - Hardcover

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by C. Mathew Mate (Author), Robert W. Carpick (Author)Friction, lubrication, adhesion, and wear are prevalent physical phenomena in everyday life and in many key technologies. This book incorporates a bottom-up approach to friction, lubrication, and wear into a versatile textbook on tribology. This is done by focusing on how these tribological phenomena occur on the small scale -- the atomic to the micrometer scale -- a field often called nanotribology. The book covers the microscopic origins...

Power of Narrative: Climate Skepticism and the Deconstruction of Science - Paperback

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by Raul P. Lejano (Author), Shondel J. Nero (Author)There is an ideological war of words waging in America, one that speaks to a new fundamentalism rising not just within the American public, but across other ideologically-torn nations around the globe as well. At its heart is climate skepticism, an ideological watershed that has become a core belief for millions of people despite a large scientific consensus supporting the science of anthropogenic climate change. While many scholars have exa...

The Battle Over Hetch Hetchy: America's Most Controversial Dam and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism - Paperback

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by Robert W. Righter (Author)In the wake of the devastating 1906 earthquake and fire, the city of San Francisco desperately needed reliable supplies of water and electricity. Its mayor, James Phelan, pressed for the damming of the Tuolumne River in the newly created Yosemite National Park, setting off a firestorm of protest. For the first time in American history, a significant national opposition arose to defend and preserve nature, led by John Muir and the Sierra Club, who sought to protect...

Gambling with Violence: State Outsourcing of War in Pakistan and India - Paperback

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by Yelena Biberman (Author)In Gambling with Violence, Yelena Biberman tackles a global problem that is particularly consequential for Pakistan and India: state outsourcing of violence to ordinary civilians, criminals, and ex-insurgents. Why would these countries gamble with their own national security by outsourcing violence - arming nonstate actors inside their own borders? Drawing on over 200 interviews, archival research, and fieldwork conducted across Asia, Europe, and North America, Bibe...

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by Robert Pool (Author)We have long recognized technology as a driving force behind much historical and cultural change. The invention of the printing press initiated the Reformation. The development of the compass ushered in the Age of Exploration and the discovery of the New World. The cotton gin created the conditions that led to the Civil War. Now, in Beyond Engineering, science writer Robert Pool turns the question around to examine how society shapes technology. Drawing on such disparat...

Micro- and Nanofabrication for Beginners - Hardcover

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by Eiichi Kondoh (Author)In this book, the fundamentals of micro- and nanofabrication are described on the basis of the concept of "using gases as a fabrication tool." Unlike other books available on the subject, this volume assumes only entry-level mathematics, physics, and chemistry of undergraduates or high-school students in science and engineering courses. Necessary theories are plainly explained to help the reader learn about this new attractive field and enable further reading of speci...

Food Science: Research and Technology - Paperback

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by A. K. Haghi (Editor)Food Science: Research and Technology presents a broad selection of new research in food science and reflects the diversity of recent advances in the field. Chapters include a study on the use of microbial enzymes for flavor and production in food production; studies of various natural foods, including litchi (lychee), pinto beans, and chickpeas; the content and antioxidant activity of dried plants; new applications of galactosidases in food products; a study of the med...