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  Strategic Heart Failure - The...

  MD Marc Silver

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  Written by one of the country's leading experts on Heart Failure, this completely new book provides a personalized approach, information and advice, guiding you and your family towards getting optimal heart failure care. Heart failure still affects over 6 million Americans, fill our hospitals and consumes enormous healthcare resources in the US and worldwide. Much of the impact of heart failure is lack of process and coordination of care with patients firmly inserted as team members. 
  Dr. Silver says, "Strategic Heart Failure is a distillation of how my team and I helped patients and improved their outcomes for almost 4 decades. I want to share this approach directly with patients; they can help lead their healthcare, understand how decisions are made and improve the entire process of heart failure care." 
  Understanding of a few fundamentals of heart failure care, especially the metrics and language that guideline directed care is crafted from, patients and families can not only join their care team but become the CEO! This Strategic approach moves people with heart failure from patients to partners within a caring, coordinated and engaged teams. 
  Four prior editions of his books, Success with Heart Failure, elevated the understanding of the heart failure syndrome among thousands worldwide. His motivation for Strategic Heart Failure was his realization that his work on clinical trials, research, training other men and women professionals, serving on national guideline committees, being an Editor- in-Chief of a heart failure journal and even being one of the first Board Certified Fellows in Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant was not enough. Even having one of the finest and most dedicated teams was not enough. It is critical for: 
  The patient to be involved 
  The patient to be the team leader 
  The patient to speak the "Heart Failure" language and understand the rationale and process for every life impacting decision.<

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  Breathless: Book Summary & Analysis

  Alexander Pike

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  This content is an independent and unofficial summary created for informational and educational purposes only. It is not affiliated with, authorized, approved, licensed, or endorsed by the original author or publisher. All rights to the original work belong to its respective copyright holders. This summary is not intended to substitute the original book, but to offer a concise overview and interpretation of its main ideas. 
   
  A virus changed the world. This is the story of how we fought back—and what we learned about ourselves. 
  Breathless is a gripping, deeply human chronicle of the COVID-19 pandemic and the scientific race to stop it. From the earliest warnings in Wuhan to the discovery of life-saving vaccines, this powerful narrative takes you behind the scenes with the scientists, doctors, and unsung heroes who worked against the clock to decode the virus, track its mutations, and bring hope to a locked-down world. 
  But this is more than a story of a virus. It’s a mirror reflecting global systems—how we prepare, how we respond, and how we adapt. Through compelling storytelling and real-time insights, Breathless explores the breakthroughs, the failures, and the resilience that emerged from one of the most defining events of our time.

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  Is It Alzheimer's? - 101 Answers...

  MD Peter V. Rabins

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  A renowned medical expert answers your most pressing questions about memory loss, causes of dementia, diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and more. 
    
  Has someone in your family been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease—or are you worried about developing dementia yourself? In this revised second edition of Is It Alzheimer's?, medical expert Dr. Peter V. Rabins educates both new and current readers with updated answers to often-asked questions about memory loss and dementia.  
    
  Written in a conversational, accessible Q&A style, the book is organized into seven unique sections. This new edition includes improved methods of diagnosis and new therapies and pharmaceutical options. A companion to the best-selling The 36-Hour Day, which Dr. Rabins coauthored, this book discusses: 
    
  • how to distinguish aging-associated memory difficulties from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and early dementia 
  • how mild cognitive impairment and dementia are diagnosed 
  • what tests are needed to be eligible for recently approved anti-Alzheimer's drugs 
  • what factors influence the progression of dementia 
  • whether it's possible to lower your risk of developing Alzheimer's disease or dementia 
  • how to improve the quality of life of people with dementia 
  • how to assess long-term care facilities and nursing homes 
  • available treatments, including medication 
  • how to explain the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease and dementia to others 
  • how to provide caregivers with psychological and emotional support 
  • and much more 
    
  Aimed at people worried about their memory, as well as friends and family members of the estimated 5.1 million US adults with dementia, the book offers helpful directions and comfort. Is It Alzheimer's? is a quick, accessible, and essential reference for anyone navigating the confusion of memory loss.

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  Learning DevSecOps - A Practical...

  Steve Suehring

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  How do some organizations maintain 24-7 internet-scale operations? How can organizations integrate security while deploying new features? How do organizations increase security within their DevOps processes? This practical guide helps you answer those questions. Steve Suehring provides unique content to help practitioners and leadership successfully implement DevOps and DevSecOps. Learning DevSecOps emphasizes prerequisites that lead to success through best practices and then takes you through some of the tools and software used by successful DevSecOps-enabled organizations. 
   
   
   
  You'll learn how DevOps and DevSecOps can eliminate the walls that stand between development, operations, and security so that you can tackle the needs of other teams. With this book, you will: 
   
   
   
  ● Learn why DevSecOps is about culture and processes, with tools to support the processes 
   
   
   
  ● Understand why DevSecOps practices are key to deploying software 
   
   
   
  ● Deploy software using a DevSecOps toolchain and create scripts 
   
   
   
  ● Integrate processes from other teams earlier in the software development lifecycle 
   
   
   
  ● Help team members learn the processes important for successful software development

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  Future Presence - How Virtual...

  Anonymous

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  A Wired senior editor and virtual reality expert presents a captivating, candid glimpse into the future ""realities"" of this emerging technology: how we will use it to form previously impossible relationships, explore new frontiers of intimacy, and how it will forever change human connection. 
  Heralded as the most significant technological innovation since the smartphone, virtual reality is poised to transform our very notions of life and humanity. Though this tech is still in its infancy, to those on the inside, it is the future. VR will change how we work, how we experience entertainment, how we feel pleasure and other emotions, how we see ourselves, and most importantly, how we relate to each other in the real world. And we will never be the same. 
  Peter Rubin, senior culture editor for Wired and the industry’s go-to authority on the subject, calls it an ""intimacy engine."" While once we needed another person to feel the sensations of closeness, trust, vulnerability, confidence, and titillation, VR will give us the ability to induce these sensations by ourselves for the first time in human history. This metamorphosis, Rubin argues, is going to have a powerful impact on relationships that will ripple throughout our society and our individual lives. 
  A journey into this uncertain future and a glimpse at the cultural implications and promises of a new reality, Future Presence explores a host of complex questions about what makes us human, what connects us, and what is real. Offering a glimpse into the mind-blowing things happening in universities, labs, and tech companies around the world, Rubin leads readers on an entertaining tour of the weirdest, wildest corners of this fascinating new universe. Describing this book as ""half travelogue and half crystal ball"", Rubin will:Introduce readers to the creators and consumers of VR technologyShow readers what an experience is like inside the current VR devicesExplain how this technology will upend everything we know about human connection in the future 
  At once the incredible, inevitable story of virtual reality’s rise and a look towards the future of our fantasies, Future Presence is a deeply personal examination of what connects us, and an analysis of what relationships, empathy, and sex could look like—sooner than we think.

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  ISO 22301: 2019 - An...

  Alan Calder

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  In an increasingly volatile world, exemplified by the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, organisations are looking at business continuity with a fresh perspective. While most organisations believe they are prepared for disruption, COVID-19 has proved otherwise. The need for business continuity has never been clearer.
  If you were hit by a cyber attack and lost the use of your IT systems, would you be able to carry on? If your business premises were forced to close, what would you do? If you were affected by unexpected staff absence, how could you reassure your customers that you can still offer them the service they expect?
  Being unprepared can lead to financial and reputational damage, which could prove disastrous. You could fail to keep up with customer demand or lose important business, or your customers could go elsewhere. Without a proper risk assessment strategy, your company directors could even face prosecution if a major incident occurs and results in loss or injury.
  An introduction to ISO 22301
  To minimise the impact of a disaster on your business, and to continue to provide essential services to your customers, you need to put in place a BCMS (business continuity management system). This pocket guide will help you understand the basics of business continuity and ISO 22301:2019, the international standard that describes the specification for a BCMS.
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  - What business continuity is;
  - Key terms and definitions;
  - A brief history of business continuity management;
  - The BCMS;
  - ISO 22301 BCMS requirements; and
  - Certification
  ISO 22301:2019 - An introduction to a business continuity management system (BCMS) provides an easy-to-read and straightforward introduction to a BCMS that business continuity managers, compliance managers, C-suites and disaster recovery planners – or any organisation implementing, or considering implementing, an ISO 22301 BCMS – will find valuable.

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