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  When the Ice is Gone - What a...

  Paul Bierman

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  In 2018, lumps of frozen soil, collected from the bottom of the world's first deep ice core and lost for decades, reappeared in Denmark. When geologist Paul Bierman and his team first melted a piece of this unique material, they were shocked to find perfectly preserved leaves, twigs, and moss. That observation led them to a startling discovery: Greenland's ice sheet had melted naturally before, about 400,000 years ago. 
   
   
   
  In When the Ice Is Gone, Bierman traces the story of this extraordinary finding, revealing how it radically changes our understanding of the Earth and its climate. A longtime researcher in Greenland, he begins with a brief history of the island, both human and geological. For the origins of ice coring, Bierman brings us to Camp Century, a US military base built inside Greenland's ice sheet, where engineers first drilled through mile-thick ice and into the frozen soil beneath. Decades later, a few feet of that long-frozen earth would reveal its secrets—ancient warmth and melted ice. 
   
   
   
  Changes in Greenland reverberate around the world, with ice melting high in the arctic affecting people everywhere. Bierman explores how losing Greenland's ice will catalyze devastating events if we don't change course and address climate change now.

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  Weather Science - How...

  Brian Clegg

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  Everyone has an interest in the weather, whether it's to check the prospects for a day out or to know when best to harvest a crop. The Earth's weather systems also provide some of the most dramatic forces of nature, from the vast release of energy in a lightning flash to the devastating impact of tornadoes and hurricanes. 
   
  For centuries, our only real guide to future weather was folklore, but with the introduction of the first weather forecasts and maps in Victorian times, attempts were made to give some warning of the weather to come. Until relatively recently, these forecasts could be wildly inaccurate - think of Michael Fish's denial that there was a storm on the way the night before the UK's great storm of 1987. This was due to the mathematically chaotic nature of weather systems, first discovered in the 1960s, the understanding of which would transform forecasting from the 1990s and mean that meteorologists became some of the foremost users of supercomputers. 
   
  From the crystalline perfection of the snowflake to the transfer of energy from the Sun, science lies at the heart of the weather and our understanding of it. In recent years, weather science has moved to the leading edge with advanced modelling, versatile use of satellite data and a better understanding of mathematical chaos. This is a true example of hot science at work.

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  Sleep Yourself Smart And Wakeup...

  Byron Caldwell

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  Absorb the mysteries of modern physics and cosmology through a meditative narrative designed to lull you into deep rest.
   
  Transform your nightly bedtime routine into an intellectual escape that quiets the mind. As you lie in the dark, let the soothing cadence of scientific storytelling replace daily stress with cosmic wonder. This experience is the ideal companion for unwinding, turning the onset of sleep into a gateway for learning about the deepest structures of reality.
   
  Travel from the familiar flow of time to the abstract edge of the quantum vacuum. The journey navigates the hidden grammar of the universe, blending precise science with a gentle, poetic delivery. Explore the strange relationship between entropy and the fourth dimension without the mental strain of a classroom setting.
   
  Drift through the cosmos and discover:
  
  The geometry of spacetime and the heavy silence of black holes.
  The shimmering Higgs field and the fundamental building blocks of matter.
  The mathematics of the multiverse and string theory as you drift off.
  The laws of thermodynamics and the dark matter binding galaxies together.
  
   
  Embrace a unique form of relaxation where intellect meets tranquility. By drifting on the currents of entangled particles and event horizons, you engage with existence's biggest questions before fading into dreams. Awake with a sharper mind and a profound sense of connection to the universe.

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  Ultimate Monorepo and Bazel for...

  Javier Antoniucci

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  Unlock Next-Level Scalable App Development with Monorepo and Bazel
  Book Description
  “Ultimate Scalable Monorepo Apps with Bazel" is the go-to guide for developers and engineers looking to maximize the potential of Bazel within a monorepo setup.
  It explores the intricacies of building large-scale applications, contrasting the monorepo approach with polyrepo setups and highlighting benefits like streamlined dependency management and improved collaboration. Through practical examples and real-world case studies, you'll learn how to harness Bazel's features for faster build times and consistent results across environments.
  Structured to cover all aspects of Bazel and monorepo development, from initial setup to advanced topics like custom rule creation and dependency management, this book provides actionable insights to enhance your development workflow.
  By the end, readers will be equipped to efficiently manage large codebases, leverage Bazel’s capabilities to speed up build and test processes, and ultimately, contribute to more robust, scalable, and maintainable software projects.
  Table of Contents
  1. Introduction
  2. Getting Started with Bazel
  3. Bazel Build Rules and Configuration
  4. Testing Strategies in a Monorepo
  5. Dependency Management and Versioning
  6. Hello-World Using Other Languages and Platforms
  7. Streamlining Development Workflow
  8. Structuring Monorepos for Success
  9. Managing Large Codebases and Scale
  10. Building and Deploying Services
  11. Monitoring and Debugging Bazel
  12. Advanced Bazel Concepts
  13. Case Studies and Real-World Examples
  14. Future Trends and Considerations     
  APPENDIX A Bazel Cheat Sheet      
  APPENDIX B Additional Resources     
  Index

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  Free Creations of the Human Mind...

  Diana Kormos Buchwald, Michael...

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  A nuanced portrait of Albert Einstein, a world citizen pivotally engaged in politics, humanitarianism, and science. 
    
  Albert Einstein (1879–1955) was the most influential scientist of the twentieth century, and his influence shows little sign of abating. His work comprises of much of today's understanding of the structure of the microphysical and cosmic universes. Einstein was a man of the modern world, faced with intellectual and existential challenges of extraordinary magnitude, a working scientist immersed in epochal theories of special relativity, the quantum theory, but also in organizational activities and teaching at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study. More than any other past scientist, Einstein still pervades popular iconography and has come to symbolize genius, creativity, and innovation infused with humanism, wisdom, and humor. His life is interconnected with so many of the important political and intellectual movements of his era—Zionism, pacifism, Nazism, nuclear weapons, philosophy, civil rights, McCarthyism, the League of Nations, and more—that his views shaped the world he lived in while his persona acquired a formidable patina deposited by generations of apocryphal mythmaking, both during and after his lifetime. 
    
  Free Creations of the Human Mind: The Worlds of Albert Einstein presents a concise and nuanced account of Einstein's life and work embedded in his intellectual and social contexts, based on the substantial discoveries made through the study of his tremendous personal archive and several generations of assiduous scholarship. By disentangling the public persona from the private man, the rhetorical statement from the heartfelt conviction, this book shows Einstein as a man of the modern world, faced with intellectual and existential challenges of extraordinary magnitude, whose life was framed by turbulent, violent historical events. 
    
  "Albert Einstein lived a life of soaring scientific creativity. He also witnessed, and responded to, some of the most searing developments of modern times: world wars, the rise of Nazism, and the nuclear age. This remarkable book traces how the efforts of Einstein's life hung together."—David Kaiser, Germeshausen Professor of Physics and the History of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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  The Two-Headed Whale - Life Loss...

  Sandy Winterbottom

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  An elegant blend of "polemic, industrial history, nautical writing, elegy, and ecology" (The Scotsman), The Two-Headed Whale charts the tragic history of the post-war whaling industry alongside the author's thrilling memoir of sailing the Antarctic. 
   
   
   
  In 2016, Sandy Winterbottom embarked on an epic six-week tall-ship voyage from Uruguay to Antarctica. At the mid-way stop in South Georgia, her pristine image of the Antarctic was shattered when she discovered the dark legacy of twentieth century industrial-scale whaling. Enraged by what she found, she was quick to blame the men who undertook this whole scale slaughter, but then she stumbled upon the grave of an eighteen-year-old whaler from Edinburgh who she could not allow to bear the brunt of blame. There are two sides to every story. 
   
   
   
  The Two-Headed Whale vividly brings to life the spectacular scenery and wildlife of the vast Southern Oceans, set alongside the true-life story of Anthony Ford, the boy in the grave, as he sailed the same seas and toiled in an industry where profits outranked human life. Drawing together threads of nature and travel writing with an unflinching narrative of life aboard a whaling factory ship and the legacy it left behind, The Two-Headed Whale leaves us questioning our troubled relationship with the extraordinary abundance of this planet.

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