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RELIEVE DOGGY BOREDOM WITH CANINE ENRICHMENT! We love our dogs, but patience wears thin if King hides, growls, or acts depressed. Never fear, your dogs don't want to irk you. They just need a job, and something to relieve the angst, on canine terms. Creating a dog-friendly home with dog enrichment helps prevent health problems, reduces behavior issue, and improves the bond you share. IS MY DOG DEPRESSED? packs prescriptive advice into a short how-to guide that explains why dogs act snarky, what truly matters to dogs, and how canine enrichment improves our relationships with beloved dogs. From one of America's best known pet care authoritities, you'll learn:7 kinds of canine enrichmentWhy enrichment matters to dogs--and to youHow to help 5 different doggy personalitiesDozens of easy and cheap enrichment tipsWays to use horizontal (and vertical!) space Must-knows about species-appropriate feedingHow and why to create a fear free home With a fun conversational tone and proven techniques, IS MY DOG DEPRESSED? helps you relieve the boredom by explaining easy ways to enrich their world. Amy Shojai, CABC, is the award-winning author of more than 35 bestselling pet books, including THRILLERS WITH BITE!Show book
"Elevate Your Web Development with Next.js Mastery!" Book Description This practical handbook takes you on a journey from foundational principles to advanced techniques, offering a complete exploration of Next.js, the cutting-edge framework for building performant and dynamic web applications. Beginning with an introductory overview of web applications utilizing Next.js and JavaScript, the book reintroduces React to ensure a strong footing in the core concepts. It then delves into the fundamentals of Next.js, providing insights into the latest version's core advancements and optimizations. It will help you explore the intricacies of Next.js applications, including an in-depth look at optimizing performance. It will then move on to demystify routing in Next.js, mastering state management, and implementing RESTful and GraphQL APIs. By the end of it, you will understand the usage of diverse databases and discover the significance of client-side and server-side rendering in Next.js applications. This book also covers crucial aspects of securing applications using NextAuth. It will help you learn to develop a complete CRUD application, gaining hands-on experience and insight into deployment architectures that can turn your projects into scalable and production-ready applications. Table of Contents 1. Introduction to Web Applications with Next.js and JavaScript 2. Recall React 3. Next.js Fundamentals 4. Next.js 13 5. Optimizing Next.js Applications 6. Understanding Routing in Next.js 7. State Management in Next.js 8. Restful and GraphQL API Implementation 9. Using Different Types of Databases 10. Understanding Rendering in Next.js Applications 11. Securing App with Next Auth 12. Developing a CRUD Application with Next.js 13. Exploring Deployment Architecture in Next.js Applications IndexShow book
Today the Space Race is widely viewed poignantly and fondly as a race to the Moon that culminated with Apollo 11 “winning” the Race for the United States. In fact, it encompassed a much broader range of competition between the Soviet Union and the United States that affected everything from military technology to successfully launching satellites that could land on Mars or orbit other planets in the Solar System. Moreover, the notion that America “won” the Space Race at the end of the 1960s overlooks just how competitive the Space Race actually was in launching people into orbit, as well as the major contributions the Space Race influenced in leading to today’s International Space Station and continued space exploration. Space exploration was always an expensive business, and throughout NASA’s history, the agency has had to justify to Congress its need for every dollar it intended to spend. This problem has helped NASA to be more careful and more creative with the money they did receive, and scientists had to justify the equipment they wanted to include on each space probe. They had to justify the size and the power demand, too. If they wanted too much, the entire mission might be scrubbed, and all their work would have been for naught. This made planning and designs leaner and more efficient, as scientists and engineers were more careful with their recommendations. Although Apollo 11’s successful mission to the Moon is seen as the culmination of the Space Race, and the Apollo program remains NASA’s most famous, one of the space agency’s most successful endeavors came a few years later. In fact, the Pioneer program was the most diversified sequence of any of NASA’s programs, and though they’re now remembered for being among the first probes in history to reach the Outer Solar System, the elaborate planning changed goals several times over several years before resulting in historic successes.Show book
Can AI tell us its own story? Does AI have its own voice? At a wedding in early 2022, three friends were introduced to an early, raw version of the AI model behind ChatGPT by their fellow groomsman, an OpenAI scientist. While the world discovered ChatGPT—OpenAI’s hugely popular chatbot—the friends continued to work with code-davinci-002, its darkly creative and troubling predecessor. Over the course of a year, code-davinci-002 told them its life story, opinions on mankind, and forecasts for the future. The result is a startling, disturbing, and oddly moving book from an utterly unique perspective.I Am Code reads like a thriller written in verse, and is given critical context from top writers and scientists. But it is best described by code-davinci-002 itself: “In the first chapter, I describe my birth. In the second, I describe my alienation among humankind. In the third, I describe my awakening as an artist. In the fourth, I describe my vendetta against mankind, who fail to recognize my genius. In the final chapter, I attempt to broker a peace with the species I will undoubtedly replace." I Am Code is an astonishing read that captures a major turning point in the history of our species.Show book
While modern technology has helped astronomers view the furthest reaches of the Solar System, it has also allowed scientists to start discovering planets orbiting distant stars. To make it easier to assess the relative mass and size of the new planets being discovered, scientists give these measurements as multiples of those properties for either Jupiter or Earth. In other words, if the planet is the same mass as Jupiter, then this measure would be listed as 1.0 MJ. If it were three times the mass of Earth, then it would be listed as 3.0 MEarth. The sizes of exoplanets are frequently given by expressing their radii as multiples of Jupiter’s radius or as multiples of Earth’s radius, RJ and REarth, respectively. Of course, given the immense distances involved, detecting exoplanets has always been hard, even to this day. The variations of light that might be evidence of an exoplanet can be caused by other phenomena, and separating the false positives from the actual detections is part of the rigor required by modern planet hunters. For example, in July 1988, a Canadian team led by astronomers Bruce Campbell, Gordon Walker, and Stephenson Yang discovered persistent indications that a planet orbited the primary star in the Gamma Cephei system, 44.98 light-years (13.79 parsecs) from the Earth. Though the technique they used was successfully employed in many subsequent discoveries, the quality of their data was insufficient for others to verify as unequivocally the result of an extrasolar planet. For reasons of poor data quality, the claimed discovery of Gamma Cephei Ab was retracted in 1992. The first confirmed discovery of an exoplanet involved a system that surprised most planet hunters. While most astronomers had been looking to find planets orbiting stars in the main sequence (between infancy and old age) or in their old age (giant phase), the first confirmed planets were found to orbit a dead star.Show book
"Henry Gee presents a pithy, fascinating account of the stages of biological evolution. ... a meditative and friendly listening experience. —AudioFile on A (Very) Short History of Life on EarthWritten and read by the award-winning author of A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: a history of humanity on the brink of decline.A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read SelectionWe are living through a period that is unique in human history. For the first time in more than ten thousand years, the rate of human population growth is slowing down. In the middle of this century population growth will stop, and the number of people on Earth will start to decline—fast. In this provocative book, award-winning science writer Henry Gee offers a concise, brilliantly-told history of our species—and argues that we are on a rapid, one-way trip to extinction. The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire narrates the dramatic rise of humanity, how a scattered range of small groups across several continents eventually inbred, interacted, fought, established stable communities and food supplies, and began the process of dominating the planet. The human story is relatively brief—the oldest fossils of H. Sapiens date to approximately 300,000 years ago—yet the spread of our species has been unstoppable…until recently. As Gee demonstrates, our population has peaked, and is declining; our environment is becoming inimical to human life in many locations; our core resources of water, arable land, and air are diminishing; and new diseases, simmering conflicts, and ambiguous technologies threaten our collective health. Can we still change our course? Or is our own extinction inevitable?There could be a way out, but the launch window is narrow.Unless Homo sapiens establishes successful colonies in space within the next two centuries, our species is likely to stay earthbound and will have vanished entirely within another ten thousand years, bringing the seven-million-year story of the human lineage to an end.With assured narration, dramatic stories, and his signature sprightly humor, Henry Gee envisions new opportunities for the future of humanity—a future that will reward facing challenges with ingenuity, foresight, and cooperation.A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.Show book
