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  Behavioral AI - Unleash Decision...

  Rogayeh Tabrizi

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  In Behavioral AI: Unleash Decision Making with Data, behavioral economist Dr. Rogayeh Tabrizi delivers an intuitive roadmap to help organizations disentangle the complexity of their data to create tangible and lasting value. The book explains how to balance the multiple disciplines that power AI and behavioral economics using a combination of the right questions and insightful problem solving. 
   
   
   
  You'll learn why intellectual diversity and combining subject matter experts in psychology, behavior, economics, physics, computer science, and engineering is essential to creating advanced AI solutions. You'll also discover how behavioral economics principles influence data models and governance architectures and make digital transformation processes more efficient and effective; discussions of the most important barriers to value in typical big data and AI projects and how to bring them down; and the most effective methodology to help shorten the long, wasteful process of "boiling the ocean of data." 
   
   
   
  An exciting and essential resource for managers, executives, board members, and other business leaders engaged or interested in harnessing the power of artificial intelligence and big data, Behavioral AI will also benefit data and machine learning professionals.

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  Invisible Illness - A History...

  Emily Mendenhall

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  A moving cultural history of disability—and a powerful call to action to change how our medical system and society supports those with complex chronic conditions 
    
  From lupus to Lyme, invisible illness is often dismissed by everyone but the sufferers. Why does the medical establishment continually insist that, when symptoms are hard to explain, they are probably just in your head? 
    
  Inspired by her work with long COVID patients, medical anthropologist Emily Mendenhall traces the story of complex chronic conditions to show why both research and practice fail so many. Mendenhall points out disconnects between the reality of chronic disease—which typically involves multiple intersecting problems resulting in unique, individualized illness—and the assumptions of medical providers, who behave as though chronic diseases have uniform effects for everyone. And while invisible illnesses have historically been associated with white middle-class women, being believed that you are sick is even more difficult for patients whose social identities and lived experiences may not align with dominant medical thought. Weaving together cultural history with intimate interviews, Invisible Illness upholds the experiences of those living with complex illness to expose the failures of the American healthcare system—and how we can do better. 
    
  "This book challenges us to address discrimination in clinical care for people with complex chronic conditions like long Covid, questioning why some are believed while others aren't—a persistent disparity in US healthcare."—Oni Blackstock, primary care and HIV physician and founder of Health Justice

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  Blight - Fungi and the Coming...

  Emily Monosson

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  Fungi are everywhere. Most are harmless; some are helpful. A few are killers. Collectively, infectious fungi are the most devastating agents of disease on earth, and a fungus that can persist in the environment without its host is here to stay. In Blight, Emily Monosson documents how trade, travel, and a changing climate are making us all more vulnerable to invasion. Populations of bats, frogs, and salamanders face extinction. In the Northwest, America's beloved national parks are covered with the spindly corpses of whitebark pines. Food crops are under siege, threatening our coffee, bananas, and wheat—and, more broadly, our global food security. Candida auris, drug-resistant and resilient, infects hospital patients and those with weakened immune systems. Coccidioides, which lives in drier dusty regions, may cause infection in apparently healthy people. 
   
   
   
  Yet prevention is not impossible. Tracing the history of fungal spread and the most recent discoveries in the field, Monosson meets scientists who are working tirelessly to protect species under threat, and whose innovative approaches to fungal invasion have the potential to save human lives. Blight serves as a wake-up call, a reminder of the delicate interconnectedness of the natural world, and a lesson in seeing life on our planet with renewed humility and awe.

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  Birdland: A Journey Around...

  Jon Gower

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  A joyous celebration of Britain’s rich bird life 
  In Birdland, journalist and lifelong birder Jon Gower explores our intimate connection with the bird life around us. From the symphonic song of the wren to the clack of a puffin’s beak and from epic migrations to sunset murmurations, birds are commonplace miracles. No wonder they have inspired our artists, writers and songwriters. Whether rare or abundant, Jon Gower visits some of the best places in Britain to watch birds, searching for some species he has always wanted to see such as wryneck, dotterel and barred warbler. 
  But all is not well in Birdland. Gower charts the many changes to Britain’s bird life over the last 50 years, as the countryside has seemingly emptied and in many ways fallen silent. He considers the effects of the climate emergency, the decline in biodiversity and warming oceans on birdlife and looks at work being done to mitigate these developments. But above all it is a celebration of birds and their being, and a call to arms to defend them. As Great Bustards return to our plains and eagles to our mountains, Jon Gower’s book examines the future from a bird’s-eye view. 
  Rooted in nature and written as immersive non-fiction, Birdland invites readers into birdwatching as a way of understanding ecology and the wider world of animals. As more birds slip toward endangered status, Gower’s journey becomes an urgent reminder that wonder and responsibility belong side by side. 
  For fans of Robert Macfarlane (Is a River Alive?), Hamza Yassin (Be a Birder), John Lewis-Stempel (England), Daniel Start (Wild Guide Lake District and Yorkshire Dales), and Mark Rees (The Little Book of Welsh Landmarks). 
  HarperCollins 2025

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  Preventing Nuclear Annihilation...

  Ronald Reagan

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  On March 23, 1983, President Ronald Reagan gave an address to the nation from the Oval Office challenging “the scientific community … to turn their great talents … to the cause of mankind and world peace, [and] to give us the means of rendering … nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.” Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative to protect America from nuclear annihilation was derided by critics as an unworkable Star Wars program, and the Clinton Administration ended the Strategic Defense Initiative in 1993. There is no effective system in place today to protect the American population from incoming missiles from an expanding list of countries with nuclear capabilities. 
  On April 13, 2024, Iran launched, according to Wikipedia, “around 170 drones, over 30 cruise missiles, and more than 120 ballistic missiles toward Israel”. Israel and a coalition of partners, again according to Wikipedia, “destroyed 99 percent of the incoming weapons, most before they reached Israeli airspace.” Damage from the attack was minor. While Israel is protected by an Iron Dome, the United States has no such protection. 
  This audiobook includes 4 speeches by President Reagan: His address introducing the Strategic Defense Initiative in 1983, his address to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France in 1985, his address on national security in 1986, and his address on the Soviet-U.S. Summit in 1987.  
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  A Journey Into the Abyss -...

  MIRANDA GREENHALGH, EMILY...

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  A Journey Into the Abyss: Exploring Earth's Deepest Ocean Trench 
  Introducing "Exploring the Mariana Trench: A Deep-Sea Adventure." Dive into the heart of the ocean, where the pressure is immense and the darkness is all-encompassing: 
  🌊 Oceanic Odyssey: Journey through the depths of the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the world's oceans, where few have dared to venture. 
  🐙 Mysterious Marine Life: Encounter the bizarre and unknown creatures that inhabit these extreme depths, adapted to survive in a world without sunlight. 
  🌐 Geological Wonders: Discover the seismic activity and unique geological formations that define the trench, offering clues to Earth's tumultuous past. 
  🔬 Cutting-Edge Technology: Experience the thrill of deep-sea exploration through the eyes of pioneering scientists and their advanced submersibles, pushing the limits of human discovery. 
  Each chapter delves deeper into the abyss, revealing the secrets of this unexplored world—to educate, to inspire, and to ignite a sense of wonder about the vast and mysterious ocean that surrounds us. 
  Are you ready to embark on a journey to a place where no sunlight reaches? To encounter life forms beyond imagination? To witness the might and mystery of the Mariana Trench? 
  Dive into the "Exploring the Mariana Trench" and let the allure of the deep sea transport you to a world of discovery and awe. 📚🌊🐙

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