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  The 50 Greatest Engineers - The...

  Paul Virr, William Potter

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  Engineering is everywhere, from the Large Hadron Collider to invisibly small circuits on silicon chips. The 50 Greatest Engineers celebrates the great achievements that have been made through the ages, containing profiles of the best-known and most innovative engineers of all time. Chosen from across the globe, they include a diverse range of talent - from the likes of Nikola Tesla, Lillian Moller Gilbreth and Gustave Eiffel to Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Fazlu Rahman Khan and the Wright Brothers.

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  Ballistic - The New Science of...

  Henry Abbott

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  Blending cutting-edge science with gripping storytelling, award-winning data journalist and competitive amateur athlete Henry Abbott reveals that we are on the cusp of a new era in sports medicine, built around the science of ballistic movements—leaping and landing—and the unique fingerprint of your body's physics. 
   
   
   
  Abbott's inspiring narrative tells the story of sports scientist Dr. Marcus Elliott and the Peak Performance Project (P3), who use technology to study how athletes move and why they get hurt. Applying machine learning and lessons from biomechanics, medicine, and physiology, doctors at P3 can now detect elevated risk of an ACL tear or a pulled hamstring like an echocardiogram can see warning signs of a heart attack. 
   
   
   
  Through riveting stories of elite athletes overcoming injuries and pushing themselves to the limit, Abbott presents an evidence-based case for intervening early to protect our bodies. And he suggests that we can all harness the science of ballistic movement not just to run fast or jump high but to move with joy and lead fulfilling athletic lives.

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  Lightworker Healing course...

  Love, And, Bloom

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  You come to earth to speed your lights and wisdom. You have special instincts and needs. However, it is easy to get hurt misunderstood and feel isolated. Your empathetic qualities may not be easily acknowledged. Dealing with childhood wounds is essentials in your path 
  Besides healing, you also need to learn to protect yourself. In this duallity world, protection and healthy boundary are essential. There is always darkness in the light and vice versa. We need to balance our energies so that we can give and receive at the same time. 
  In this course, we will do deep healing sessions from childhood. We dig into the root cause. We do protection and draw the healthy boundary. We deeply accept ourselves in all aspects of our lives so that we can shine and dare to be who we truly are. 
  In this course, we willHealing childhood traumaFinding out the root causeTrust your instinctsProtect your psychic powerDraw healthy boundaryDeeply love & accept every aspectDaring to be who you areShine your light as a lightworkerTrue to yourselfAnd much more

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  Welfare of Future Children The:...

  Rebecca Bennett

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  Narrated by Rebecca Bennett, this open access practical guide to reproductive ethics navigates the complex subject of the policy around IVF treatment and disability screening based on the concerns around the welfare of future children. It focuses on 3 questions in order to examine these often complex philosophical issues: 
  · Should we allow prospective parents using IVF to implant an embryo with a condition considered to be a disability? 
  · Is routine screening for Down syndrome in pregnancy ethically acceptable, even if there is evidence that individuals may feel pressure to accept this screening? 
  · Are we justified in attempting to evaluate the potential parenting ability of those trying to access fertility treatment (e.g. disabled people or individuals with past criminal convictions) and prevent access in some cases? 
  Rebecca Bennett walks the listener through different answers to these questions, exploring issues such as whether it is ever morally wrong to reproduce, whether we have a moral obligation to try and bring the ‘best’ children we can into existence and how we can assess the quality of future lives.There is, of course, no consensus about what the ‘right’ answers are to these questions, however answers are needed. 
  This area of policy and regulation is one that, Bennett argues, is heavily influenced by intuition, social norms and bias. The Welfare of Future Children invites us to question these norms and to come to a position on these issues that emphasises reason, transparency and accountability. 
  The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Manchester, UK.

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  Dying Green - A Journey through...

  Christine Vatovec

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  The slow violence being inflicted on our environment—through everything from carbon emissions to plastic pollution—also represents an impending public health catastrophe. Yet standard health care practices are more concerned with short-term outcomes than long-term sustainability. Every resource used to deliver medical care, from IV tubes to antibiotics to electricity, has a significant environmental impact. This raises an urgent ethical dilemma: in striving to improve the health outcomes of individual patients, are we damaging human health on a global scale? 
   
   
    
  In Dying Green, award-winning educator Christine Vatovec offers an engaging study that asks us to consider the broader environmental sustainability of health care. Through a comparative analysis of the care provided to terminally ill patients in a conventional cancer ward, a palliative care unit, and an acute-care hospice facility, she shows how decisions made at a patient's bedside govern the environmental footprint of the healthcare industry. Likewise, Dying Green offers insights on the many opportunities that exist for reducing the ecological impacts of medical practices in general, while also enhancing care for the dying in particular. By envisioning a more sustainable approach to care, this book offers a way forward that is better for both patients and the planet.

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  Pitch Sketch Launch - What...

  John Krewson

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  Software development is no laughing matter. But it should be. 
  Backward management practices have hobbled what was once the world’s most innovative industry. The result? Wasted time and resources. Sinking morale. Dissatisfied customers. 
  Regaining software development’s groundbreaking spirit requires the type of bold, madcap thinking that originally defined it—and in Pitch, Sketch, Launch John Krewson presents a remarkable, proven template for revival. 
  Pitch, Sketch, Launch extracts the techniques used to create today’s most beloved comedy shows and applies them to revitalizing software development. It shines a spotlight on the sketch comedy world’s ethos of feedback-driven product deliveries and its playful search for original solutions. Insightful interviews, best practices, and case studies demonstrate how creating comedy applies to designing top-tier software. 
  Rethink what makes your creative team effective. Transform meetings into electrifying idea incubators. Rediscover the exhilaration of software innovation. Let Pitch, Sketch, Launch help you set the stage for producing your most adventurous work yet.

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