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  Quick Start Kubernetes

  Nigel Poulton

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  Do you need to figure out what Kubernetes is all about? Do you like learning hands-on? 
  If yes, this is the book for you! 
  Quick Start Kubernetes, brought to you by best-selling author Nigel Poulton, assumes zero prior experience and gets you to the point you can hold your own in a conversation with an expert, and deploy simple applications. 
  You'll learn:What Kubernetes is.Why we have Kubernetes.The role Kubernetes will play in the future of infrastructure and applications. 
  You'll also perform the following hands-on tasks:Build a Kubernetes cluster.Containerize an app.Deploy the app to Kubernetes.Break the app and watch it self-heal.Scale the appPerform a rolling update. 
  Along the way, Nigel explains everything as clearly as possible and busts every piece of jargon. When you're done, you'll be in love with Kubernetes and ready to take your journey to the next level.

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  Biocivilisations - A New Look at...

  Predrag B. Slijepcevic, Vandana...

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  Biocivilisations is an important, original rethinking of the mystery of life and its deep uncertainty, exploring the complex civilisations that existed on Earth long before humans.  
  What is life? Many scientists believe life can be reduced to ‘mechanistic’ factors, such as genes and information codes. Yet there is a growing army of scientists, philosophers and artists who reject this view. The gene metaphor is not only too simplistic but deeply misleading. If there is a way to reduce life to a single principle, that principle must acknowledge the creativity of life, turning genetic determinism on its head.  
  The term biocivilisations is the acknowledgement of this uncertainty of life, as opposed to a quasi-certainty of the human position governed by a narrow time window of the scientific revolution. Life existed without humans for more than 99.99 percent of the Earth’s existence. Life will also continue without humans long after our inevitable extinction.  
  In Biocivilisations, Dr Predrag Slijep?evi? shows how bacteria, amoebas, plants, insects, birds, whales, elephants and countless other species not only preceded human beings but demonstrate elements of how we celebrate human civilisation – complex communication, agriculture, science, art, medicine and more.  
  Humans must try to adopt this wisdom from other biocivilisations that have long preceded our own. By rethinking the current scientific paradigm, Dr Slijep?evi? makes clear that a transformation – from a naïve young species into a more mature species in tune with its surroundings – will save us from our own violence and the violence we inflict on the rest of our living planet.

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  Tiny Transit - Cut Carbon...

  Susan Engelking

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  A transportation expert shares how you can cut carbon emissions in your city, improve health and safety, and promote sustainability.Tiny Transit is a how-to guide for cities, mayors, and local governments searching for practical ways to cut carbon emissions. Susan Engelking, founder of Tiny Transit Strategies™ and executive director of the Institute for Community MicroMobility, describes an innovative, proven solution: protected networks for small, low speed, low cost, low emission vehicles. In Tiny Transit, city leaders, government employees, and activists learn:·      Why LEAN Networks (Low Emission Alternative Networks) are the future·      Lessons from early adopters·      How to build LEAN Lanes with the crumbs of major transportation projects·      Why the prime directive is “safety, safety, safety”·      How to introduce this game changer to their cities—and the quickest way to build a groundswell of popular supportTiny Transit illustrates safe, low speed, low cost, low stress, low emission, climate-conscious mobility for this generation and those to come. For cities, this concept is a game changer. For the nation, this new transportation alternative is a step toward economic resilience, reduced carbon emissions, and energy independence.

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  Lindbergh's Artificial Heart -...

  Steve Silverman

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  An all-new compendium of strange-but-true history and science facts from the author of Einstein’s Refrigerator. When high school teacher Steve Silverman started posting fascinating facts on the internet, what began as a Web site for his students became an internationally sensation. He then compiled the silliest, most peculiar stories into the book Einstein's Refrigerator. Now comes silliness squared with Lindbergh's Artificial Heart, Silverman's second collection of offbeat and often hilarious stories that are absolutely true, yet not often taught in school.  Fascinating entries include:  The exploding whale: What did the Oregon Department of Transportation do with a dead whale that washed up on one of its beaches? Suffice it to say their decision to blow it up was quite the blubber blunder.  Nose picking: Delve into the humorous findings of a study of this bad habit conducted by one of our institutions of higher learning.  The fastest charcoal lighter ever: Using liquid oxygen at your family barbecue may speed up the cooking, but it does have its drawbacks . . . such as vaporizing your grill.

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  Academic Culture: An Analytical...

  Kazumi Okamoto

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  That we live in a world ruled and confused by cultural diversities has become common sense. It was the social sciences that gave birth to a new theoretical paradigm, the creation of cultural theories. Since then, social science theorizing applies to any social phenomenon across the world exploring cultural diversities in any social practice—except in regard to the social sciences and how they practice the creation of knowledge. How academics in the social sciences across the world create knowledge is no topic for cultural theories. Social science theorizing seemingly assumes that creating knowledge does not know such diversities. 
  
  Kazumi Okamoto presents the development of an analytical instrument that helps study ‘academic culture’, analyze ‘academic practices’ of how social sciences create and distribute knowledge, and the influence the ‘academic environment’ has on their knowledge productions. Applying this theoretical tool to the academe in Japan, she further presents a case study about how social scientists in Japan interpret academic practices and how they are affected by their academic environment. Studying the academic culture in the case of Japan, she reveals that not only the academic practices and the academic environment of the academe in Japan show much less diversities than cultural theories tend to presuppose, but that the assumption that creating social science knowledge does not know cultural diversities is an error as well.

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  Summary of Siddhartha...

  Falcon Press

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  Summary of Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Gene describes the history of genetic research, the impact of genetic inheritance on his family, and the potential for future applications of gene science. Mukherjee’s father and uncles struggled with disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, both of which are linked to genetic mutations.

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