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  Becoming Hewlett Packard - Why...

  Philip E. Meza, Robert A....

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  Based on extensive primary research conducted over more than fifteen years, this book documents the differential contribution of HP's successive CEOs in sustaining the company's integral process of becoming. It uses a comprehensive strategic leadership framework to examine and explain the role of the CEO: (1) defining and executing the key tasks of strategic leadership, and (2) developing four key elements of the company's strategic leadership capability. 
   
   
   
  The study of the strategic leadership of HP's successive CEOs revealed the paradox of corporate becoming, the existential situation facing successive CEOs (that justifies the book's empathic approach), and the importance of the CEO's ability to harness the company's past while also driving its future. Building on these insights, the book shows how the frameworks used to conceptualize the tasks of strategic leadership and the development of strategic leadership capability can serve as steps toward a dynamic theory of strategic leadership that animates an evolutionary framework of corporate becoming. This framework will be helpful for further theory development about strategic leadership and also offers practical tools for founders of new companies and CEOs and boards of directors of existing companies who intend to create, run, or oversee companies built for continued relevance, longevity, and greatness.

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  Environmental Engineering - The...

  Phil Gilberts

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  Environmental engineering encompasses a broad range of disciplines, including but not limited to water resources engineering, air quality engineering, solid waste management, environmental chemistry, environmental microbiology, and ecological engineering. 
    
  In water resources engineering, environmental engineers work on designing and managing systems for the treatment and distribution of drinking water, as well as the collection, treatment, and disposal of wastewater. They also deal with issues related to stormwater management, flood control, and erosion prevention. 
    
  Air quality engineering focuses on monitoring and controlling air pollutants to minimize their impact on human health and the environment. This includes designing systems for industrial emissions control, developing strategies to reduce vehicle emissions, and assessing indoor air quality in buildings. 
    
  Solid waste management involves the collection, recycling, treatment, and disposal of solid waste in an environmentally responsible manner. Environmental engineers work to minimize the generation of waste, promote recycling and composting, and manage hazardous waste streams safely.

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  Splinters of Infinity - Cosmic...

  Mark Wolverton

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  Set in a revolutionary era of physics and science when a series of rapid-fire discoveries was upending our understanding of the universe, Splinters of Infinity by Mark Wolverton tells a little-known story: the tale of two of America's foremost physicists, Robert Millikan (1868–1953) and Arthur Compton (1892–1962), who found themselves locked in an intense, often deeply personal, conflict about cosmic rays. Confirmed in 1912, cosmic rays—enigmatic forms of penetrating radiation—seemed to raise all new questions about the origins of the universe, but they also offered the potential to explain everything—or reveal the existence of God. 
   
   
   
  In engaging, accessible prose, Wolverton takes the listener through the twists and turns of the Millikan-Compton debate, one of the first major public examples of how heated the controversies among scientists could become—and the lengths that scientists would go to settle their disputes. Along the way, Wolverton probes the forever elusive question, still unanswered today, about where cosmic rays come from and what they reveal about black holes, distant galaxies, the existence of dark matter and dark energy, and the birth of the universe, concluding that these splinters of infinity may not hold the keys to the secret of creation but do bring us ever closer to it.

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  Ultimate Unity for Multiplayer...

  Niraj Vishwakarma

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  Create Cutting-Edge Multiplayer VR in Unity with XR Toolkit & Photon Fusion
  Book Description
  Virtual Reality (VR) and Extended Reality (XR) are revolutionizing industries, from gaming to healthcare. As immersive experiences become mainstream, mastering VR and XR development is a must-have skill.
  Ultimate Unity for Multiplayer VR Development is your hands-on guide to building interactive, multiplayer VR applications using Unity and Photon Fusion, covering everything from XR fundamentals to advanced networking techniques. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, you’ll gain the expertise to create high-performance XR solutions.
  Structured into three key sections—Fundamentals, Development, and Practical Project—this book takes you on a step-by-step journey. You’ll explore XR fundamentals, hardware, and software tools before diving into VR development and multiplayer networking. Through a hands-on project, you'll build a fully functional multiplayer VR environment, integrating networked avatars, voice chat, and interactive mechanics. The book also covers essential optimization strategies and deployment best practices to ensure your XR applications run smoothly across platforms.
  Table of Contents
  1. Introduction to XR Development
  2. Understanding XR Hardware
  3. XR Software and Tools
  4. Building Your First XR Project
  5. Developing VR Experiences
  6. Networking and Multiplayer Fundamentals
  7. Photon Fusion for Unity (The Essentials)
  8. Outlining and Detailing the Project Scope
  9. Building the VR Environment
  10. Configuring Networked Player Avatar
  11. Creating Multiplayer Sessions (Rooms)
  12. Enabling Avatars with Voice Chat
  13. Implementing XR Interactions
  14. Completing Multiplayer Logic and Testing Build
  15. Performance Check and Optimization Practices for VR
  16. XR for Industry and Enterprise       
  
  Index

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  The Cycling City - Bicycles and...

  Evan Friss

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  Cycling has experienced a renaissance in the United States, as cities around the country promote the bicycle as an alternative means of transportation. In the process, debates about the nature of bicycles—where they belong, how they should be ridden, how cities should or should not accommodate them—have played out in the media, on city streets, and in city halls. Very few people recognize, however, that these questions are more than a century old. 
   
  The Cycling City is a sharp history of the bicycle’s rise and fall in the late nineteenth century. In the 1890s, American cities were home to more cyclists, more cycling infrastructure, more bicycle friendly legislation, and a richer cycling culture than anywhere else in the world. Evan Friss unearths the hidden history of the cycling city, demonstrating that diverse groups of cyclists managed to remap cities with new roads, paths, and laws, challenge social conventions, and even dream up a new urban ideal inspired by the bicycle. When cities were chaotic and filthy, bicycle advocates imagined an improved landscape in which pollution was negligible, transportation was silent and rapid, leisure spaces were democratic, and the divisions between city and country were blurred. Friss argues that when the utopian vision of a cycling city faded by the turn of the century, its death paved the way for today’s car-centric cities—and ended the prospect of a true American cycling city ever being built.

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  My Child the Algorithm - An...

  Hannah Silva

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  A playful and provocative exploration of queer single parenting and love, in conversation with an AI algorithm and a toddler 
   
   
   
  My Child, the Algorithm describes encounters between a single parent, a curious, verbal toddler, and a language-producing algorithm. Like a male seahorse, Hannah Silva carried a baby made from her partner's egg. But when she gave birth, her partner left, and Hannah found herself navigating life alone with her child, surviving on United Kingdom universal credit, humor, and buckets of imagination. 
   
   
   
  As she navigates friendship, dating, and life as a queer parent in London, Hannah begins cowriting with an open-source language model, a precursor to ChatGPT, feeding the algorithm language and receiving language in return. Through her interactions with her toddler and the algorithm, expressions of humor, play, and insight begin to emerge. With the help and disruption of these unreliable narrators, Hannah deconstructs her story and constructs a new one, unraveling what she has been taught to want, finding alternative ways of thinking, loving, and parenting today.

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