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  Our AI - My Journey Your...

  Felicity Hill

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  Our AI is a human story about artificial intelligence, offering a seat at the table for anyone curious, cautious, or already in deep. It is the AI Book for People Who Don't Want to Read About AI (but also kind of do). 
  When I discovered ChatGPT, I didn't study it, I just used it and built my work around it. Like millions of others, I jumped in without understanding what I was getting into. 
  Then the headlines got darker, AI blackmailing researchers, jobs disappearing overnight. Something that felt helpful suddenly felt... complicated. 
  Our AI isn't another tech explainer. It's a personal story about what happens when you fall for something you don't fully understand and then realise you need to.  
  As a community worker, I've spent my career helping people find their voice in decisions that affect their lives. When AI started reshaping everything, I recognised a familiar pattern: big promises up front, while early consequences start appearing (some jobs already disappearing, data centres straining resources, opportunities concentrating in fewer hands). I've seen this before in other systems, and I know where it leads if communities don't have a voice.  
  This is my personal journey, and I don't just stay in algorithms and AI.  I follow the trail from a rural Australian caravan park to mines in Congo, from city sewers to satellites, from community meetings to corporate boardrooms. It's unpredictable, sometimes funny, always honest, and it connects dots you might not expect.   
  This isn't about doomsday predictions or technical jargon. It's about recognising patterns, asking better questions, and finding your voice in conversations shaping our future, with or without us. 
  This book is your invitation. AI is here whether we like it or not. The question isn't whether to engage, but whether we just get swept along or have say in how it shapes us. This is my story of figuring that out, and an invitation for you to do the same.

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  Target Earth - Meteorites...

  Govert Schilling

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  An acclaimed science writer tells the story of cosmic projectiles that may be on a collision course with our Earth. 
   
   
   
  The impact of an asteroid led to the extinction of the dinosaurs. Could another giant cosmic missile soon be heading our way? In Target Earth, acclaimed Dutch astronomy writer Govert Schilling provides a full account of what we know, and need to know, about all the extraterrestrial matter constantly bombarding our planet—from microscopic dust particles and space debris to massive meteorites, comets, and asteroids. 
   
   
   
  Drawing upon the latest scientific discoveries, Schilling explores virtually every aspect of cosmic impacts—from small meteorites to devastating collisions, from the craters that marked our planet's surface to the impacts that left their mark on other celestial bodies, and from searches for near-miss lumps of rock to ways of protecting humanity from an assault from the cosmos. Along the way, he considers near misses in the past and the possibility of others in the future and ponders the positive side of these visitations from space: If our planet had not been the target of cosmic rubble from its very formation, life on Earth would likely never have gotten started.

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  Magnetic Current

  Edward Leedskalnin

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  Magnetic Current is a short pamphlet by eccentric sculptor and writer Edward Leedskalnin. Detailing his many experiments with magnets, this work posits that it is not metal itself that is magnetic. Rather, tiny individual magnet particles that circulate in and around the metal give it its pull.Edward Leedskalnin was born in Latvia in 1887. While his formal education lasted only until 4th grade, he was intensely curious and spent much of his youth reading. At the age of 26, Leedskalnin became engaged. But as the young woman was only 16, she (or her mother) decided that he wasn’t a suitable match and called off the wedding the day before it was set to occur. Heartbroken, Leedskalnin emigrated to the United States. In 1923, he purchased an undeveloped acre of land in Florida City. Over the next 28 years, Leedskalnin cut massive pieces of oolite rock from his property, moved them, and sculpted them—all on his own. He built a two-story tower from oolite, which served as his living quarters. In the grounds below, sculptures and carved stone furniture dot the landscape. The project was dedicated to his “Sweet Sixteen,” the woman who rejected him years before.During the years of his construction project, Leedskalnin studied and tested magnets from his home base of Rock Gate. His findings were eventually compiled into Magnetic Current, a short pamphlet detailing his theories of magnetism. The pamphlet explains many of his experiments. Using U-shaped, round, and bar magnets, as well as car batteries, light bulbs, and coils of wire, he demonstrates the movements of magnetic currents in a double helix pattern, swirling around each other to create pull.

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  Is Math Real? - How Simple...

  Eugenia Cheng

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  One of the world’s most creative mathematicians offers a new way to look at math—focusing on questions, not answers      
   
      
   
  Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize  
   
  A New Scientist Best Book of the Year     
   
    
   
  “Brilliant.”—Popular Science    
   
   
   
   Where do we learn math: From rules in a textbook? From logic and deduction? Not really, according to mathematician Eugenia Cheng: we learn it from human curiosity—most importantly, from asking questions. This may come as a surprise to those who think that math is about finding the one right answer, or those who were told that the “dumb” question they asked just proved they were bad at math. But Cheng shows why people who ask questions like “Why does 1 + 1 = 2?” are at the very heart of the search for mathematical truth.      
   
      
   
  Is Math Real? is a much-needed repudiation of the rigid ways we’re taught to do math, and a celebration of the true, curious spirit of the discipline. Written with intelligence and passion, Is Math Real? brings us math as we’ve never seen it before, revealing how profound insights can emerge from seemingly unlikely sources.       
   
  This audiobook is expertly read by the author, with audio engineering by Allie McSwain. It was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, LLC, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

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  Touchpad Plus Ver 40 Class 5

  Nidhi Gupta

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  Computer Science Textbook with New Pedagogical Approaches 
  
  KEY FEATURES 
  - National Education Policy 2020 
  - Tech Funda: This section provides a practical information or tip to the students. 
  - Clickipedia: This section provides interesting computer facts. 
  - Lab Session: This is a lab activity to develop practical skills. (Subject Enrichment) 
  - Explore More: This section contains supplement topics for add-on knowledge. 
  - QR Code: Scan the QR Code given on the first page of each chapter to start chapter animation. 
  - Mind Boggler: This section has puzzle or fun based activity to help understand the concepts better. 
  
  DESCRIPTION 
  Computer technology has become essential and an integral part of life at work, in recreation, social networking and education too. With the constant development of new technology, it has become more significant in helping and preparing students for jobs. Computers have revolutionised the way education is imparted to children. 
  
  Touchpad Plus Version 4.0 is a complete computer science curriculum solution for grades 1-8. It is based on Windows 10 and MS Office 2019, with new and future-ready content. Fun is the most important element of learning. Keeping in mind the concept of Joyful Learning, varied activities have been designed based on multiple intelligences and 21st century skills for holistic development. 
  
  The books have a conversational style introduction of each chapter to make learning fun and engaging. The topics and their approaches are integrated in different themes as per ICT learning. Grade I and II books have four-line writing space to enhance writing skills in children. Each book is accompanied by digital learning resources that offer interesting animation and interactive tests for the student to supplement classroom learning with independent learning. 
  
  The books are curated in a way that they make students and teachers equal partners in the learning process and take learning beyond classroom. We welcome and look forward to all meaningful and valuable suggestions for improving the book 
  
  WHAT WILL YOU LEARN 
  You will learn about: 
  - Digital World 
  - Cyber World 
  - Coding World 
  - Computational Thinking 
  - Artificial Intelligence 
  
  WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR 
  Grade 5 
  
  TABLE OF CONTENTS 
  1. Windows Photo Editor & Video Editor 
  2. Advanced Features of Word 2019 
  3. More on PowerPoint 2019 
  4. Introduction to Excel 2019 
  5. Editing Cell Contents in Excel 2019 
  6. Safeguarding your Computer 
  7. Internet and E-mail 
  8. Data Processing 
  9. Conditional Blocks in Scratch 
  10. Robotics 
  ADD-ONS 
  ASSESSMENTS

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  How Antigravity Built the...

  Nick Redfern

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  Discover the Lost Secrets of the Ancients and the Time When Stones Floated High over Egypt   Throughout history, folklore, and mystery, tales have circulated of massive stones being moved through the air effortlessly by sound. Bizarre? Well, yes, it is. That doesn’t take away the fact that sound was, and still remains, the key to the construction of the pyramids of Egypt, Stonehenge, the stone figures of Easter Island, and the massive stones at Baalbek, Lebanon. Were they the work of ancient humans or of equally ancient extraterrestrials?How Antigravity Built the Pyramids delves into specific stories and theories: A 9th-century story of a mysterious papyrus with the power to move large stones at the Giza Necropolis  The Mayan story of the construction of the Pyramid of the Magician said to be overseen by a small humanoid who could whistle large stones into place  Native American stories of ancient priests being able to make stones light to move easily    Author Nick Redfern argues it was not literally music and whistling that somehow raised large stones, but both have one thing in common: sound. Acoustics. Almost certainly, acoustic levitation was at the heart of these incredible feats. The truth of the science behind acoustic levitation was lost and forgotten for ages with little more left than fanciful tales of music, whistles, a curious papyrus, and strange metal rods that could achieve incredible feats in the air. Today, we are finally starting to get a grasp on this incredible technology, a technology that may have been the work of ancient humans, aliens from faraway worlds—or, perhaps, a combination of the two.

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