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  The 50 Greatest Engineers - The...

  Paul Virr, William Potter

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  Engineering is everywhere, from the Large Hadron Collider to invisibly small circuits on silicon chips. The 50 Greatest Engineers celebrates the great achievements that have been made through the ages, containing profiles of the best-known and most innovative engineers of all time. Chosen from across the globe, they include a diverse range of talent - from the likes of Nikola Tesla, Lillian Moller Gilbreth and Gustave Eiffel to Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Fazlu Rahman Khan and the Wright Brothers.

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  Gender Mosaic - Beyond the Myth...

  PhD Daphna Joel, Luba Vikhanski

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  With profound implications for our most foundational assumptions about gender, Gender Mosaic explains why there is no such thing as a male or female brain.For generations, we've been taught that women and men differ in profound and important ways. Women are more sensitive and emotional, whereas men are more aggressive and sexual, because this or that region in the brains of women is smaller or larger than in men, or because they have more or less of this or that hormone. This story seems to provide us with a neat biological explanation for much of what we encounter in day-to-day life. But is it true? According to neuroscientist Daphna Joel, it's not. And in Gender Mosaic, she sets forth a bold and compelling argument that debunks the notion of female and male brains. Drawing on the latest scientific evidence, including the groundbreaking results of her own studies, Dr. Joel explains that every human brain is a unique mixture -- or mosaic -- of "male" and "female" features, and that these mosaics don't map neatly into two categories. With urgent practical implications for the way we understand ourselves and the world around us, Gender Mosaic is a fascinating look at the science of gender, sex and the brain, and at how freeing ourselves from the gender binary can help us all reach our full human potential.

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  How To Find a Nursing Home -...

  HowExpert, Susan Singleton

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  If you want to learn how to find the right nursing home for your loved one, then get "How To Find a Nursing Home" written by someone with real life experience in this topic. 
  How to Find a Nursing Home is a ‘must read’ for anyone, who is facing the issue of placing a loved one in a nursing home. In this practical guide, an elder law attorney gives you step by step information about how to make the best decisions for your loved one. This guide includes: 
  - an informative overview which explains how individuals, professional caregivers, and geriatric care managers, will benefit from this guide. 
  - An explanation of why it is important to conduct your research and have a plan before your loved one needs care. 
  - a Nursing Home Worksheet which helps you answer the important medical and financial questions about your loved one before you begin researching for your loved one; which will help you to save time and narrow down the available options. 
  - an in depth discussion about finances and how to gauge how long your loved ones’ assets will last. 
  - insightful information about how to choose a nursing home based upon location, cleanliness, state rating, activities, meals, in-facility doctor access, staff to patient ratio and, costs. 
  - specific sources and resources for researching, rating, and comparing nursing home facilities, based upon the types of care your loved one needs. 
  - a step by step process for conducting a site visit of the nursing home facilities you are considering. 
  - information about the types of legal documents your loved one should consider, and discuss with an elder law attorney, before becoming a nursing home resident. 
  - a straightforward discussion about your rights as a loved one, and how to avoid being personally responsible for your loved ones nursing home bills. 
  HowExpert publishes quick 'how to' guides on all topics from A to Z by everyday experts.

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  A Croft in the Hills

  Katharine Stewart, Neil Gunn

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  A Croft in the Hills captures, in simple, moving descriptions, what it was really like trying to make a living out of a hill croft near Loch Ness fifty years ago. A couple and their young daughter, fresh from city life, immerse themselves in the practicalities of looking after sheep, cattle and hens, mending fences, baking bread, and surviving the worst that Scottish winters can throw at them. 
   
   
   
  Their neighbors are few, but among them they find the generosity and community spirit that has survived in the Highlands for generations. Working as a tight family unit, they learn to cope, and in time grow to love their little croft. As Neil Gunn writes in his Foreword, their lives gain extra dimensions that 'give the book its unusual quality, its brightness, and its wisdom'.

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  Corona Virus Guide - What You...

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  Corona virus is a common form of respiratory virus, but in late 2019 and into 2020, it has been making headlines due to its spread, and the rising death toll as more and more cases are reported. 
  This new strain of corona virus, termed 2019-nCoV, began in China, but with travel far more common than it used to be, cases have been reported in an ever-increasing number of countries. In the US, more and more states are reporting people who have caught this infection disease. 
  In this popular guide of health we gives you the essentials on Corona virus: what it is, where it comes from, how people become infected, and how to prevent it, in order to keep you and your family safe. 
  Prevention is the best form of cure. Learn the symptoms of corona virus infection and the best ways to stop it from spreading to the rest of your family, work colleagues and the general public if you do catch it.Discover valuable health resources, important research and findings related to corona virus, the best sources of the latest news on the virus, and much more.Follow this guide now and start taking action against corona-virus.

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  The New Fire - War Peace and...

  Ben Buchanan, Andrew Imbrie

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  Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the modern world. It is ubiquitous—in our homes and offices, in the present and most certainly in the future. Today, we encounter AI as our distant ancestors once encountered fire. If we manage AI well, it will become a force for good, lighting the way to many transformative inventions. If we deploy it thoughtlessly, it will advance beyond our control. If we wield it for destruction, it will fan the flames of a new kind of war, one that holds democracy in the balance. As AI policy experts Ben Buchanan and Andrew Imbrie show in The New Fire, few choices are more urgent—or more fascinating—than how we harness this technology and for what purpose. 
   
   
    
  The new fire has three sparks: data, algorithms, and computing power. These components fuel viral disinformation campaigns, new hacking tools, and military weapons that once seemed like science fiction. To autocrats, AI offers the prospect of centralized control at home and asymmetric advantages in combat. It is easy to assume that democracies, bound by ethical constraints and disjointed in their approach, will be unable to keep up. But such a dystopia is hardly preordained. Combining an incisive understanding of technology with shrewd geopolitical analysis, Buchanan and Imbrie show how AI can work for democracy. With the right approach, technology need not favor tyranny.

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