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  Asset Operations - The Future of...

  Ryan Chan

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  In today’s world, the majority of asset-intensive organizations are still stuck with complex, rigid, and sometimes antiquated technology solutions that simply cannot step up to evolving challenges and an ever-changing market. Why do the world’s most important industries—ones that billions of people rely on for essential human needs—operate with approaches that run the risk of making them extremely inefficient and brittle? 
  What if it didn’t have to be that way? 
  Imagine a world where companies can move successfully into the future, where these brittle solutions are replaced with a flexible, simple approach that also delivers enterprise-grade capabilities. This book introduces asset operations management (AOM), an operating principle founded on the belief that asset-intensive organizations have much to gain by adopting new approaches to data, collaboration, and communication—all supported by modern, consumer-grade technology experiences. 
  The best-of-breed organizations in asset-intensive industries have been changing the way their businesses run for years, and they’re reaping the rewards. The rest of the pack is struggling to keep up in the new paradigm—one where asset operations is central to operating efficiency and organizational resilience. 
  ***All proceeds from this book are donated to fund industry association memberships and certifications for Maintenance and Reliability professionals to help up-level their careers and thus our industries as a whole.***

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  How Software Fails - The Hidden...

  Engin Yöyen

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  How Software Fails: A Field Guide to Understanding Complex System Disasters 
  Software failures aren't accidents, they're inevitabilities. In a universe governed by probability rather than certainty, even cosmic rays from distant stars can flip bits in computer memory, causing election machines to miscount votes or video game characters to jump impossibly high. But cosmic interference is just the beginning of how our most critical systems fail in spectacular and unpredictable ways. 
   
  Through gripping real-world case studies, this field guide reveals the hidden laws governing complex system disasters. Discover how Knight Capital lost $460 million in 45 minutes due to a single misplaced software flag. Learn why the Therac-25 radiation machine killed patients despite passing every safety test.Understand how a 40-kilobyte configuration file crashed 8.5 million computers worldwide, grounding flights and shuttering hospitals across the globe. 
   
  What You'll Learn 
  Based on complexity theorist Richard Cook's groundbreaking principles, you'll discover: 
  - Why testing can never guarantee perfection, and what to do instead 
  - How "reasonable" decisions combine to create unreasonable disasters 
  - Why complex systems always run in degraded mode, and why that's actually normal 
  - How scale transforms rare impossibilities into daily certainties 
  - Why the search for "root causes" consistently leads us astray 
   
  But this isn't just about understanding failure, it's about building resilience. Explore practical strategies from organizations that have learned to thrive in chaos: 
  - NASA's Mars rovers that adapt and learn from component failures, operating decades beyond their planned lifetimes 
  - The internet's routing protocols that automatically heal themselves when damaged 
  - Netflix's chaos engineering that deliberately breaks their own servers to build antifragile systems 
  - The ethical frameworks for deciding what level of failure is acceptable when lives are at stake

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  Find More Birds - 111 Surprising...

  Heather Wolf

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  A trove of 111 ingenious tips for seeing more birds wherever you are—from crowd favorites (hummingbirds, owls, eagles) to species you've never spotted before 
   
   
   
  Seeing more birds than you ever imagined and witnessing exciting avian drama is possible—whether you're on the go or in your own neighborhood, local park, or backyard. As Heather Wolf explains, it all comes down to how you tune in to the show happening around you, the one in which birds—highly skilled at staying under the radar—are the stars. In Find More Birds, Heather shares her very best tactics. 
   
   
   
  ● Look for birds at their favorite "restaurants"—from leaf litter to berry bushes, and ball fields to small patches of mud. 
   
   
   
  ● Watch for "tree bark" that moves . . . you may find it has feathers. 
   
   
   
  ● Try simply sitting on the ground for a revealing new perspective. 
   
   
   
  Plus, special tips point the way to crowd favorites such as hummingbirds, owls, and eagles—and can't-miss bird behaviors. As your senses sharpen and "noticing" becomes second nature, Find More Birds will turn your daily routines into bird-finding adventures. Whether you're strolling down the block or parking your car, you never know what will surprise you next!

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  Waters of Life - Fighting for...

  Tom Bowser

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  'From the moment that these waters were given back their beavers, I knew that I would never wish to return to the time when they were without them . . .'
  In November 2021, in a major moment in Scotland's history, a family of beavers was spared a death sentence and relocated to a Perthshire farm. Their arrival at Argaty, Tom Bowser's home, paved the way for a new era in human–beaver relations.
  In this deeply personal account, Tom tells of his attempts to save these incredible animals, of the support and opposition received and of the unimaginable gains that beavers ultimately brought to his home. He also explores the wider themes of rewilding and nature conservation in Scotland, meeting some of the leading lights of this exciting movement, highlighting the work they do, the challenges they face and showing why ecological restoration is so important for the future of our planet.

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  James Webb Space Telescope...

  Martin K. Ettington

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  The James Webb Space Telescope or JWST was launched on Christmas in 2021 to provide the most sensitive telescopic views of the Universe. 
  It has already revolutionized our real world views of the early Universe and these observations question our current theories of the creation of the Universe. 
  This book gets into the history of the JWST, the instruments it carries, new observations, and ideas of what these anomalies mean. 
  We review some of the most important observations made to date, and finally, some theories of how to explain these incredible views of the early reality of the Universe. 
  There are also some other anomalies in Space which are mentioned which were known before the JWST existed which also question the current Big Bang paradigm. 
  We are living in a revolutionary period of Astronomy much like the questions which occurred to Astronomers and Physicists in the early 20th Century which led to the theories we have today on Universe creation. 
  I’m sure that new paradigms will be the result of the current confusion which will contribute to new theories and better understandings of the world we live in.

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  Poisonous Plants and Fatal Fungi...

  Sandra Kynes

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  Explore humanity's fascination with death through sixty poisonous plants and how they have affected history, magic, warfare, art, and more. 
   
  Dispatching people with poisonous plants isn't just an Agatha Christie plot—it began thousands of years ago and continues to this day. Deadly Fascination presents sixty profiles divided into five themes, from classic killers to frightful fungi. Each profile includes the plant's history, folklore, and medicinal uses, as well as how it may or may not be used today. 
   
  Though we fear death, we are also drawn to its mysteries. Sandra Kynes feeds our curiosity and dispels common myths, investigating witches and indigenous healers, poisons in popular media, the murky roots of toxicology, and much more. From aconite to poppy to death cap, poisonous plants can attract you like a moth to a flame . . . but don't get too close.

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