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  Balance - How It Works and What...

  Paul Thagard

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  Living is a balancing act. Ordinary activities like walking, running, or riding a bike require the brain to keep the body in balance. A dancer’s poised elegance and a tightrope walker’s breathtaking performance are feats of balance. Language abounds with expressions and figures of speech that invoke balance. People fret over work-life balance or try to eat a balanced diet. The concept crops up from politics—checks and balances, the balance of power, balanced budgets—to science, in which ideas of equilibrium are crucial. Why is balance so fundamental, and how do physical and metaphorical balance shed light on each other? 
   
  Paul Thagard explores the physiological workings and metaphorical resonance of balance in the brain, the body, and society. He describes the neural mechanisms that keep bodies balanced and explains why their failures can result in nausea, falls, or vertigo. Thagard connects bodily balance with leading ideas in neuroscience, including the nature of consciousness. He analyzes balance metaphors across science, medicine, economics, the arts, and philosophy, showing why some aid understanding but others are misleading or harmful. Thagard contends that balance is ultimately a matter of making sense of the world. In both literal and metaphorical senses, balance is what enables people to solve the puzzles of life by turning sensory signals or an incongruous comparison into a coherent whole. 
   
  Bridging philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience, Balance shows how an unheralded concept’s many meanings illuminate the human condition.

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  Getting Your Brain and Body Back...

  MD Bradford C. Berk, Martha W....

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  Make the fullest possible recovery after neurological injury with this definitive guide 
   
   
   
  After an accident that left him permanently paralyzed over ten years ago, Dr. Bradford Berk made it his mission to help others recover from acute neurological injury (ANI). As the founder and director of the University of Rochester Neurorestoration Institute, he brings his abundant experience in working with patients and making his own ongoing recovery to Getting Your Brain and Body Back, the most up-to-date guide for survivors of spinal cord injury (SCI), stroke, and traumatic brain injury (TBI). 
   
   
   
  Each of these acute neurological injuries can result in similar physical and psychological challenges and require similar treatments, medications, and assistive devices. Getting Your Brain and Body Back offers comprehensive, reassuring guidance for your every concern: how to deal with grief and trauma in the aftermath of accident or injury—and build resilience as you find your way forward; what adaptive devices—for bathing, dining, mobility, and more—will help you enjoy life to the utmost; how to prevent and treat secondary health problems of every kind, such as heart, skin, and bladder troubles—sexual health included!; and therapeutic approaches from both Western and Eastern medicine to consider for maximum healing and pain relief.

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  Tech Innovations - Breakthroughs...

  Craig Dames

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  Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are at the forefront of technological innovation, transforming nearly every sector and redefining how we live, work, and interact. These technologies, once confined to science fiction, now power tools and systems that many people use daily—from personalized recommendations on streaming platforms to virtual assistants and advanced data analysis in business and healthcare. 
  The rise of generative AI, such as large language models and image synthesis tools, marks a new era in machine intelligence. These systems can create human-like text, generate realistic images, compose music, and even design products. They're not just mimicking human creativity—they're expanding it, offering new ways for people to ideate and innovate across disciplines. Businesses are leveraging generative AI to automate content creation, improve customer service, and enhance productivity. While the creative potential is staggering, it also brings up questions about authorship, originality, and the future of creative professions. 
  AI is also becoming deeply embedded in everyday applications. Smartphones use AI to improve photos, optimize battery life, and enable voice recognition. In healthcare, AI helps doctors diagnose diseases with higher accuracy by analyzing medical images and patient data. Financial institutions use it to detect fraud and make investment decisions. Meanwhile, retailers personalize shopping experiences by analyzing customer behavior. In essence, AI is becoming the silent partner in many human decisions, making systems smarter, faster, and more adaptive.

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  Mountain Madness - Found and...

  Clinton Crockett Peters

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  With Mountain Madness, Clinton Crockett Peters chronicles his travels and personal transformation from a West Texas evangelical to mountain guide-addict to humbled humanist after a near-fatal injury in Japan's Chichibu Mountains. From 2007 to 2010, Peters lived in Kosuge Village (population nine hundred), nestled in central Japan's peaks, where he was the only foreigner in the rugged town. Using these three years as a frame, this essay collection profiles who he was before Japan, why he became obsessed with mountains, and his fallout from mountain obsession, including an essay on Craig Arnold, the poet who disappeared on a Japanese volcano. Ultimately, the collection asks, how can landscape create and end identities?

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  Game Theory - Understanding the...

  Brian Clegg

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  Brian Clegg was always fascinated by Isaac Asimov's classic Foundation series of books, in which the future is predicted using sophisticated mathematical modelling of human psychology and behaviour.
  
  Only much later did he realise that Asimov's 'psychohistory' had a real-world equivalent: game theory.
  
  Originating in the study of probabilistic gambling games that depend on a random source - the throw of a dice or the toss of a coin - game theory soon came to be applied to human interactions: essentially, what was the best strategy to win, whatever you were doing? Its mathematical techniques have been applied, with varying degrees of wisdom, to fields such as economics, evolution, and questions such as how to win a nuclear war.
  
  Clegg delves into game theory's colourful history and significant findings, and shows what we can all learn from this oft-misunderstood field of study.

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  Best Practices in Database...

  Lydia Johnson

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  Effective database management is a key part of any organization's success in today's data-driven world. In "Best Practices in Database Management – Structuring the Digital Realm: A Comprehensive Guide to Database Management," the author goes into great detail about the basics, methods, and new trends in database management that are needed in today's world. 
  This book starts with basic ideas like data modeling, normalization, and schema design and then goes on to teach you everything you need to know to be a database manager. More advanced topics are then talked about, like query optimization, performance tuning, and how to use cloud-based and NoSQL solutions. For each chapter, theoretical insights are combined with real-world examples to make sure that readers gain both knowledge and skills that can be used. 
  One of the most important ideas in this book is how to keep a healthy balance between technological progress and moral responsibility. This document talks about different methods that can be used to make sure that data is safe, that rules are followed, and that trust is built by using strong data management practices. Because it focuses on scalability and adaptability, the book gives readers the information and skills they need to deal with the problems that come up with big data, distributed systems, and real-time analytics.

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