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  William Stanek's The Living...

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  Denali can dominate the horizon while remaining invisible behind cloud.
  
  That contradiction opens a much larger story. Mountains rose through collision and faulting. Glaciers moved through them. Animals followed old seasonal routes. Indigenous peoples knew a northern landscape that did not begin with a park boundary.
  
  William Stanek's The Living Denali Biography follows mountain, tundra, migration, Native homelands, gold, railroads, wildlife protection, naming, tourism, one extraordinary road, scientific change, and the growing consequences of a warming North.
  
  The mountain is the icon. The biography is everything around it.
  
  This is Denali as a living northern system-vast, mobile, contested, and powerful enough to remain itself even when its most famous summit refuses to appear.

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  Leveling Up - The Role of AI in...

  Chuck Sherman

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  In the ever-evolving landscape of entertainment, a new chapter is being written—one where pixels and algorithms converge to create a realm of unimaginable possibilities. Book takes you on an exhilarating journey into this uncharted territory, where artificial intelligence and gaming fuse to rewrite the rules and redefine the very essence of interactive experiences. 
  Step into a world where the once-static characters become living, breathing entities—thanks to the magic of AI. Discover the secrets behind the intricate dance between players and non-player characters, as AI-driven narratives adapt and evolve in response to every decision made. Dive into the heart of the virtual universe, where landscapes are crafted by algorithms and quests are born from lines of code, painting a canvas of boundless creativity. 
  Competitive arenas come alive with AI companions and foes, challenging the limits of human skill and offering entirely new dimensions to e-sports and multiplayer dynamics. Explore a future where every game is as unique as its player, as AI tailors experiences to personal tastes and preferences, unlocking a realm of endless discovery and engagement. 
  Through the pages of this book witness the evolution of graphics and visuals as AI-generated artistry astonishes the eye and breathes life into even the most intricate details. Delve into the technical marvels driving this revolution, from the silicon synapses of AI hardware to the beating heart of game engines, uncovering the unprecedented power and potential they bring to the medium. 
  In the epilogue, as the credits roll on this captivating exploration, you'll peer beyond the horizon, catching glimpses of AI's forthcoming influence on augmented and virtual realities, as well as the empowerment of players to craft their own AI-driven narratives. 
   

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  Supergrid Super Solution (2nd...

  Eddie O'Connor, Kevin O'Sullivan

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  As we live through an era of polycrisis this book sets out how electricity can get the world off fossil fuels and accelerate to a zero-carbon economy. The essential element in this transformation is a supergrid to transmit vast amounts of cost-competitive, regionally produced power quickly to where it’s most needed.Supergrid – Super Solution outlines:The masterplan by a global leader in developing renewable energy with input from leading energy experts.The creation of an energy revolution using superconductor cables to deliver electricity from offshore wind and solar to areas of peak demand at the heart of Europe through rollout of the supergrid – by deploying already proven technology.The opportunity for Ireland and other peripheral coastal communities to be regenerated as major exporters of green power.The need for courage and collective action by states, the private sector and the public to work together in the best interests of humanity and planet Earth.

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  The Science of Reading -...

  Adrian Johns

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  For the first time, the story of how and why we have plumbed the mysteries of reading, and why it matters today. 
    
  Reading is perhaps the essential practice of modern civilization. For centuries, it has been seen as key to both personal fulfillment and social progress, and millions today depend on it to participate fully in our society. Yet, at its heart, reading is a surprisingly elusive practice. This book tells for the first time the story of how American scientists and others have sought to understand reading, and, by understanding it, to improve how people do it. 
   
  Starting around 1900, researchers—convinced of the urgent need to comprehend a practice central to industrial democracy—began to devise instruments and experiments to investigate what happened to people when they read. They traced how a good reader’s eyes moved across a page of printed characters, and they asked how their mind apprehended meanings as they did so. In schools across the country, millions of Americans learned to read through the application of this science of reading. At the same time, workers fanned out across the land to extend the science of reading into the social realm, mapping the very geography of information for the first time. Their pioneering efforts revealed that the nation’s most pressing problems were rooted in drastic informational inequities, between North and South, city and country, and white and Black—and they suggested ways to tackle those problems. 
   
  Today, much of how we experience our information society reflects the influence of these enterprises. This book explains both how the science of reading shaped our age and why, with so-called reading wars still plaguing schools across the nation, it remains bitterly contested.

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  A Light in the Tower - A New...

  Katie Rose Guest Pryal

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  With evocative storytelling and incisive research, Katie Rose Guest Pryal brings a new eye to the mental health crisis that higher education has faced for decades. Written from the perspective of a bipolar-autistic professor, A Light in the Tower is both a bracing account of the mental health crisis in higher education and a passionate and informed proposal for how to teach with mental health in mind. 
   
   
   
  Pryal contends that higher education's mental health crisis is the result of long-term systemic problems in education that demand nothing short of a revolution. She examines the anxiety that plagues campuses as a result of exploited and overworked contingent faculty and students, the shock events like COVID-19 and campus shootings that traumatize communities, the systemic and institutional burnout that affects higher education at every level, and the market-driven culture of toxic overwork. These are large-scale problems that need large-scale solutions. Addressing the stigma that haunts mental disability on campus, the ableism that hounds our teaching, and the cascade of mental health struggles that far too many faculty and students face, Pryal provides straightforward solutions to these complex challenges.

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  Failure and Fortitude - How...

  Nathaniel Gee

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  In 1976, the Teton Dam collapsed, unleashing a wall of water that ravaged eastern Idaho and shattered the publics trust in American infrastructure. Engineers, historians, and survivors have asked the same question: Why did it fail? For decades, the disaster has been reduced to a cautionary tale, a grim case study, a footnote in engineering textbooks. But what if the real story is more complicated than we have ever been told?Failure and Fortitude is a meticulously researched, vividly written account of the Teton Dams rise and ruin. It reconstructs the hours that changed everything and the decisions behind the failure. Failure and Fortitude also recounts the remarkable story of the communities who refused to be defined by devastation - neighbors who dug each other out, rebuilt from mud and memory, and proved that resilience can be as powerful as any flood. This is not just a story of seepage and soil mechanics, but of faith and ambition, bureaucracy and blind spots, and the razor-thin line between confidence and catastrophe.

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