Publisher: Larry Slawson
This book explores the top ten deadliest spiders in the world. It examines the traits, characteristics, and overall toxicity of ten well-known species, as well as their overall impact on human health and safety.
Smart homes are here—domestic spaces bristling with networked technologies that appear to enhance work, entertainment, logistics, health, and security. But these technologies may also extract a cost in attention, money, and privacy. In Threshold, communication and technology expert Heather Suzanne Woods applies rhetorical theory to answer the urgent question of how swiftly proliferating smart homes alter those who inhabit them.Building on research into smart homes in the United States, Woods recounts how smart homes arose and predicts the trajectory of their future form. She pulls back the curtain on the technology, probes who is in control, and questions whether a home can be too smart.Woods suggests a dynamic cultural framework for understanding smart homes that takes into account sociotechnical variables through which smart homes shape human life. Woods's framework reveals how smart homes both reflect social norms about technology as well as whet consumer appetites.Written for homeowners, policymakers, technology enthusiasts, and scholars, Threshold interweaves critical analysis with matter-of-fact graphics that map relationships between digital tools and social life.Show book
A galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention - and our personal information — that redefines what we think of as productivity, reconnects us with the environment, and reveals all that we've been too distracted to see about ourselves and our worldNothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity . . . doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance.So argues artist and critic Jenny Odell in this field guide to doing nothing (at least as capitalism defines it). Odell sees our attention as the most precious — and overdrawn — resource we have. Once we can start paying a new kind of attention, she writes, we can undertake bolder forms of political action, reimagine humankind's role in the environment, and arrive at more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress.Far from the simple anti-technology screed, or the back-to-nature meditation we hear so often, How to Do Nothing is an action plan for thinking outside of capitalist narratives of efficiency and techno-determinism. Provocative, timely, and utterly persuasive, this audiobook is a four-course meal in the age of Soylent.Show book
Ball Lightning is a phenomena which definitely exists. One European study counted over 5,000 sightings of these weird balls.It also seems to be similar to old tales of the “Will O the Wisp” and World War Two Foo Fighters.St. Elmos Fire also has similar observations so data on this phenomenon are included too.There are many potential explanations but none are confirmed. Although most seem to appear around thunderstorms this is not always the case.My own belief is that these objects are controlled by some type of intelligence and we will discuss reasons for this later in the book.In this book you will read a lot of background information and sightings stories by persons for the last hundreds of years.This is just another mystery in our strange world which cries out for more investigation.Show book
Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 - December 20, 1996), born in Brooklyn, NY, was an American astronomer and astrophysicist. His best-known scientific contribution was his research on the possibility of extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by exposure to light. He assembled the first physical messages sent into space, the Pioneer plaque and the Voyager Golden Record, which were universal messages that could potentially be understood by any extraterrestrial intelligence that might find them. The following is a lecture Sagan gave in 1977 during which he discussed the place, scale and geometry of earth--the third planet from the Sun, formed 4.5 billion years ago--in our solar system.Show book
Climate is an informative introduction to the subject of climate change. Though climate change is normal in Earth's history, global warming has raised average temperatures to their highest in two millennia, resulting in melting ice caps, shorter winters, changes in the seasonal behaviors of animals, and more extreme weather. And though greenhouse gases are essential for keeping the planet's temperatures comfortable, fossil fuel burning and other human activities are increasing greenhouse gas levels and causing temperatures to rise.While a decade ago many scientists were skeptical that human activities could impact the climate system, their models now show that only human activities can account for the magnitude of changes being seen. Climate is a timely book that discusses the issue of global warming and what we can do to prevent its rise.Written in a clear, accessible manner, this book addresses how people must use energy more efficiently, develop alternative energy sources, and lower emissions technologies. The book is published by Chelsea House Publishers, a leading publisher of educational material.Show book
If You Want to Start Your Own Amazon Private Label Brand, Then This Book Is for You. How do you start an Amazon business if you have limited capital and you don't know anything about e-commerce? How do you build a brand that you can be proud of? In this book, you will discover:6 things to take note of to increase your chances of seller's account approval.The main difference between a product and a brand, and why you should focus on the latter.The one foundational piece of starting an e-commerce business that most beginner sellers ignore at their own peril. PLEASE, DO NOT IGNORE THIS ONE.The 9-point beginner criteria that you should follow when you start your product research.Examples of actual product research and the breakdown and explanation on why they are good products to sell on Amazon.What type of products to avoid if you're just starting out.5 new ways to find suppliers and exactly what to do so you can evaluate whether they're legit or not (Supplier Evaluation Cheat Sheet also included)A step by step instruction on how to ship your products directly to Amazon's warehouse/s.The 2-step process of launching a new product in the market.The basics of Amazon PPC explained: how to set up a campaign, how to test, how to evaluate, and things to do to scale your profit margin. Discover a simple, actionable, and beginner-friendly way of starting an AMAZON FBA business from scratch. GRAB YOUR COPY AND START READING TODAY.Show book
