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  IFR Flight Theory

  Facundo Conforti

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Carrying out a successful instrument flight not only requires the technical and operational skills to maneuver an aircraft in conditions of reduced visibility or adverse weather, but also requires a set of theoretical knowledge and flight techniques that help minimize the margin of error and try to ensure the success of an instrumental flight. 
   
  In this new book of the most successful Aeronautical Library in America, we will try to cover all the theoretical and operational technical content to provide each reader with the necessary tools with which they can develop a safe and efficient instrumental flight. 
   
  Flight physiology, basic and operational theoretical concepts of instrumental flights, basic regulatory concepts and a whole series of recommended techniques to carry out this type of flight without losing sight of the main objective, to operate the aircraft safely. 
   
  Instrument flight theory is one of the main subjects of the commercial pilot career since it forms one of the most solid pillars that a pilot in training must have.

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  Life in Sync - The Science of...

  Philippa Gander

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  Why we need to reconnect with nature’s biological rhythms—and rediscover the benefits of a good night’s sleep 
   
  All of life is profoundly shaped by the daily, monthly, and yearly cycles of our planet, and all creatures have internal timekeeping systems that rely on cues from the surrounding environment. With modern technology, we are changing our environments—and by proxy, the ecosystems around us—to override these innate rhythms of life. But at what cost? Life in Sync reveals how Earth’s rotations shape our biology, what human sleep cycles looked like before the advent of artificial light, and why technology can’t free us from the constraints of our circadian clocks. 
   
  Philippa Gander explores the science behind the biological rhythms that animate us and our world, blending captivating storytelling with illuminating examples ranging from migratory birds and hibernating squirrels to jet-lagged pilots and astronauts in space. She shows how genetic circadian clocks are an ancient evolutionary adaptation that we share with all life on the planet, and how our rapidly expanding use of artificial light at night disrupts the time cues for entire ecosystems. Gander explains why cutting back on sleep adversely affects our well-being, safety, and longevity, and how breakthroughs in sleep science offer solutions to bring our lives more in harmony with nature’s rhythms. 
   
  An astonishing journey of scientific discovery, Life in Sync unlocks the mysteries of biological time—and offers new perspectives for anyone who has ever given up a good night’s sleep for the sake of their hectic waking hours.

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  Starved for Light - The Long...

  Christian Warren

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  A wide-ranging history of rickets tracks the disease’s emergence, evolution, and eventual treatment—and exposes the backstory behind contemporary worries about vitamin D deficiency. Rickets, a childhood disorder that causes soft and misshapen bones, transformed from an ancient but infrequent threat to a common scourge during the Industrial Revolution. Factories, mills, and urban growth transformed the landscape. Malnutrition and insufficient exposure to sunlight led to severe cases of rickets across Europe and the United States, affecting children in a variety of settings: dim British cities and American slave labor camps, moneyed households and impoverished ones. By the late 1800s, it was one of the most common pediatric diseases, seemingly an intractable consequence of modern life. Starved for Light offers the first comprehensive history of this disorder. Tracing the efforts to understand, prevent, and treat rickets—first with the traditional remedy of cod liver oil, then with the application of a breakthrough corrective, industrially produced vitamin D supplements—Christian Warren places the disease at the center of a riveting medical history, one alert to the ways society shapes our views on illness. 
   
  
  Sweeping and engaging, Starved for Light illuminates the social conditions underpinning our cures and our choices, helping us to see history’s echoes in contemporary prescriptions.

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  C# Generics - Performance And...

  Richie Miller

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  If you want to discover how to become a software developer using C#, this book is for you!  
  Generics allow you to define the specification of the data type of programming elements in a class or a method, until it is actually used in the program. In this book, you will learn the basics about generics and their advantages, such as type safety and code reuse. 
   
  GET THIS BOOK NOW AND GET START CODING TODAY! 
    
  In this book you will discover: 
  How to Implement Stack Class for Doubles 
  Building SimpleStack instance 
  How to Create Generic Stack Class 
  Advantages of Generics 
  How to Create .NET Console Application 
  How to Implement Generic Class 
  How to Work with Class Constraint 
  How to Use the New() Constraint 
  How to Work with Generic Interfaces 
  How to Create Generic Interface 
  Covariance Basics 
  Contravariance Fundamentals 
  How to Work with Interface Inheritance 
  How to Create Generic Methods and Delegates 
  How to Write Generic Method with Return Value 
  Variance with Generic Delegates 
  Special Cases with Ge

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  Pillars of Creation - Hold our Hand

  Mike Blake

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  Pillars of Creation:Is a poem based around the rekindling of interest in them from the the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995.The magnificent photograph from Hubb's which has been adapted for this poem on the front cover.The new 'scope James Webb Space Telescope, is now reaching through the vastness of space, to give new insights to the Cosmos.

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  Care and Cure - An Introduction...

  Jacob Stegenga

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  The philosophy of medicine has become a vibrant and complex intellectual landscape, and Care and Cure is the first extended attempt to map it. In pursuing the interdependent aims of caring and curing, medicine relies on concepts, theories, inferences, and policies that are often complicated and controversial. Bringing much-needed clarity to the interplay of these diverse problems, Jacob Stegenga describes the core philosophical controversies underlying medicine in this unrivaled introduction to the field.The fourteen chapters in Care and Cure present and discuss conceptual, metaphysical, epistemological, and political questions that arise in medicine, buttressed with lively illustrative examples ranging from debates over the true nature of disease to the effectiveness of medical interventions and homeopathy. Poised to be the standard sourcebook for anyone seeking a comprehensive overview of the canonical concepts, current state, and cutting edge of this vital field, this concise introduction will be an indispensable resource for students and scholars of medicine and philosophy.

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