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  Grand Central Terminal -...

  Kurt C. Schlichting

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  “Looks behind the facade to see the hidden engineering marvels . . . will deepen anyone’s appreciation for New York’s most magnificent interior space.” —The New York Times Book Review 
   
  Winner of the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Award in Architecture from the Association of American Publishers 
   
  Grand Central Terminal, one of New York City’s preeminent buildings, stands as a magnificent Beaux-Arts monument to America’s Railway Age, and it remains a vital part of city life today. Completed in 1913 after ten years of construction, the terminal became the city’s most important transportation hub, linking long-distance and commuter trains to New York’s network of subways, elevated trains, and streetcars. Its soaring Grand Concourse still offers passengers a majestic gateway to the wonders beyond 42nd Street. 
   
  In Grand Central Terminal, Kurt C. Schlichting traces the history of this spectacular building, detailing the colorful personalities, bitter conflicts, and Herculean feats of engineering that lie behind its construction. Schlichting begins with Cornelius Vanderbilt—“The Commodore”—whose railroad empire demanded an appropriately palatial passenger terminal in the heart of New York City. Completed in 1871, the first Grand Central was the largest rail facility in the world and yet—cramped and overburdened—soon proved thoroughly inadequate for the needs of this rapidly expanding city. William Wilgus, chief engineer of the New York Central Railroad, conceived of a new Grand Central Terminal, one that would fully meet the needs of the New York Central line. Grand Central became a monument to the creativity and daring of a remarkable age. 
   
  More than a history of a train station, this book is the story of a city and an age as reflected in a building aptly described as a secular cathedral.

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  Love Your Gut - An...

  Megan Rossi

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  If you ask Dr. Megan Rossi about the best investment you can make in your future, she’ll tell you: Look after your gut. Seventy million Americans suffer from gut-related issues, diagnosed or otherwise. But it’s not just about gut symptoms: Whatever our wellness goals are—weight management, improved fitness, healthier skin, stronger immunity, or even happiness—gut microbes can be our best allies. Dr. Rossi opens Love Your Gut with easy-to-follow questionnaires that will help listeners discern their current health status and craft a personal action plan. She follows with evidence-based strategies on everything from sleep to yoga; expert advice on dealing with IBS, food intolerance, and other challenges; and over fifty delicious meal ideas: from Banana, Fig, and Zucchini Breakfast Loaf to Creamy Pistachio Pesto Pasta. (Did you know your gut microbes crave variety? Ideally thirty different plant-based foods each week!) Love Your Gut makes it fun and easy to supercharge your digestive health and transform your well-being—from the inside out.

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  The Cosmic Serpent - DNA and the...

  Jeremy Narby

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  This adventure in science and imagination, which the Medical Tribune said might herald "a Copernican revolution for the life sciences," leads the listener through unexplored jungles and uncharted aspects of mind to the heart of knowledge. In a first-person narrative of scientific discovery that opens new perspectives on biology, anthropology, and the limits of rationalism, The Cosmic Serpent reveals how startlingly different the world around us appears when we open our minds to it.

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  Touchpad Prime Ver 21 Class 2

  Bhawna Sharma

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  Computer Science Textbook Designed for Joyful Learning 
  
  KEY FEATURES 
  - National Education Policy 2020 
  - QR Code: Scan the QR Code given on each chapter to start chapter animation. 
  - Fun Fact!: This presents a fact about the topic. 
  - Computer Ethics: This section describes the best computer practices to develop conscious thinking. 
  - Group Task: This section focuses on peer learning to improve coordination. 
  - Soft Hint: This section provides technology specific knowledge to students, keeping them up to date. 
  - Digital Resources 
  
  DESCRIPTION 
  Touchpad Prime (Version 2.1) is based on Windows 10 and MS Office 2016. The books have been designed in such a way that teachers can use them as tools to integrate computer science with other subjects and skills. The chapters introduce the concepts in a simple and easy to understand language that helps the students to learn the concepts easily. 
  
  The content has been developed using a conversational style for the young generation to make it an interesting read. There are three characters found in the chapters discussing various topics to make the learning process more interactive for the student. 
  
  In order to emphasize on the use of concepts in this book, "Mind Drill" has been added to challenge students and encourage learning. Mind drill contains different sections to engage the students in meaningful learning process, such as Rapid Fire, Evaluation Time, Activity Time, Hands-On, Find Out, Group Task and In the Lab. This book also incorporates elements like Warm Up, Fun Fact, Soft Hint, Word Bank, Let’s Revisit, Computer Ethics as important tools to enhance teaching-learning process. 
  
  WHAT WILL YOU LEARN 
  You will learn about: 
  - Fundamentals of computers 
  - ICT Tools 
  - Computational Thinking 
  - Operating a Computer 
  - Parts of a Computer 
  - Tux Paint 
  - Paint 
  
  WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR 
  Grade - 2 
  
  TABLE OF CONTENTS 
  1. Discover Computers 
  2. Parts of a Computer 
  3. Operating a Computer 
  4. Working of a Computer 
  5. Fun with Keyboard 
  6. Fun with Tux Paint 
  7. More on Paint 
  8. Project 
  9. OGO Cyber Sample Questions

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  The Desert Further Studies in...

  John Charles Van Dyke

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  The Desert by John Charles Van Dyke, published in 1901, is a lush, poetic description of the natural beauty of the American Southwest. "What land can equal the desert with its wide plains, its grim mountains, and its expanding canopy of sky!" Van Dyke, a cultivated art historian, saw "sublimity" in the desert's "lonely desolation," which previous generations had perceived only as a wasteland, and his book has a conservationist flavor which seems distinctly modern. "The deserts should never be reclaimed," he writes. "They are the breathing spaces of the west and should be preserved for ever." The changing colors of the sky, hills, and sand impress Van Dyke, as do the mirages. He celebrates the "long overlooked commonplace things of nature"-- cactus and grease wood, desert animals, and "winged life," the birds and insects. His writing has a philosophical undertone. "Not in vain these wastes of sand ... simply because they are beautiful in themselves and good to look upon whether they be life or death." Anyone who views with equal awe fiery sunrises and weeds growing out of pavement cracks will enjoy this reading of Van Dyke's The Desert.(Summary by Sue Anderson)

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  Robotics

  IntroBooks Team

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  The robotics is the term used for the study of the science robots. The robots were developed by the humans as a measure to create a helping hand for themselves that would make the work easy and would require less time for its completion with great accuracy and precision. As a result, keeping in mind all the benefits that it provides, the emergence of robots was first seen in the mid twentieth century.  
  A robot is manufactured with expertise in fields of science, physics, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, structural engineering, mathematics, computing as well as biology, chemistry and medicine in the rarest cases. Therefore, the construction of robots is considered to be a multidisciplinary approach. 
  Artificial Intelligence also known as the machine intelligence. The designed robots are engineered with Artificial Intelligence which gives them the ability to exhibit human-like behaviour. The main aim of the artificial intelligence was to recreate the human intelligence. Currently through use face recognition and voice assistant, artificial intelligence is being utilised.  
  With all the benefits that they provide and keeping in mind their capability, the robots are considered to be one of the greatest inventions on earth by man. 

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