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  CLIMATE - How Wladimir Koppen...

  Darcy Pattison

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  2026 Best STEM Book – NSTA/CBC 
  2026 NSSTA Notable Social Studies Book 
  “A visually evocative and mentally stimulating introduction to a climatologist.” Kirkus Reviews 
    
  Before kids can understand climate change—first, they need to understand climate. 
    
  As a teenager, Wladimir Köppen became interested how the landscape changed as he traveled south from St. Petersburg on the Baltic Sea in northern Russia to Crimea on the Black Sea. Explaining that changing landscape became his life’s work. 
    
  In late 1800s, weather and climates were poorly understood. They needed someone to study it carefully over a long period of time. Köppen moved to Hamburg, Germany as head weatherman at the Deutsche Seewarte, the German Marine Observatory on the Baltic Sea. His job was to start one of the world’s first daily weather reports. He helped set up weather stations on the North Sea and train its staff. From around the world, he gathered other weather data. 
    
  The World’s First Climate Map 
  Slowly, that childhood problem of changing landscapes came into focus as he developed the world’s first climate map. They set out the five climate classifications Köppen identified (tropical, arid, temperate, continental, and polar). Köppen’s maps are still used today to help us understand the world’s ecosystems and plan for the future. 
   

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  Software Engineering - A Manual...

  Phil Gilberts

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  Software Engineering encompasses a methodical approach to developing and maintaining software systems. It involves several key phases, each crucial to ensuring the success of the project. 
    
  During the Requirements Analysis phase, software engineers collaborate with stakeholders to understand and document the system's needs and constraints. This ensures a clear understanding of what the software should accomplish. 
    
  In the Design phase, software architects and designers create a detailed blueprint for the system, defining its structure, components, interfaces, and interactions. Design decisions made here lay the groundwork for the implementation phase. 
    
  Implementation involves translating the design specifications into executable code using programming languages, frameworks, and libraries. Developers adhere to coding standards and best practices to ensure code quality and maintainability.

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  Why Your Phone Knows You Better...

  Felix Crane

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  
  Discover how your smartphone has become the most intimate surveillance device in history, collecting data that reveals more about you than you know about yourself. This unsettling audiobook examines how mobile devices track every location, communication, search, purchase, and app interaction to construct psychological profiles of unprecedented accuracy. Learn why tech companies understand your habits, desires, vulnerabilities, and intentions better than people who have known you for years based solely on phone usage patterns. The narrator reveals specific data collection practices that transform innocent-seeming activities into psychological intelligence that predicts your behavior with disturbing accuracy. Discover how phone data reveals health conditions, financial status, relationship problems, and mental states you have shared with no one through patterns invisible to you but obvious to algorithms. Understand why you willingly carry the ultimate surveillance device everywhere, granting access to your life that no previous authoritarian regime could have imagined. This audiobook examines the business models that incentivize maximum data extraction, the psychological manipulation techniques that keep you engaged despite harm, and the impossibility of informed consent for data practices too complex for anyone to understand. Learn practical strategies for reducing phone surveillance and reclaiming privacy within the constraints of digital dependence. Essential listening for anyone carrying a smartphone who wants to understand what they are actually carrying.

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  Saving Ourselves from Big Car

  David Obst

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  Cars are killing people and making the planet uninhabitable. Crashes take the lives of more than a million people each year. Air pollution linked to motor vehicles contributes to even more untimely deaths. Highways and unsafe streets have devastated cities, yet traffic congestion still swallows up countless hours. And carbon emissions from transportation are a key driver of climate change, which threatens to make the world unlivable. Why do we still worship at the altar of the car? How can we find alternatives that are healthier for the planet and ourselves? 
    
  This book exposes how "Big Car"—the complex of companies in the automobile, oil, insurance, media, and concrete industries that promote and entrench car dependence—has pursued profit at the expense of the common good. David Obst explores how Big Car gained almost immeasurable influence over our lives, weighing the benefits and the costs of reliance on private automobiles. He details how industry covered up the harms of lead additives, fought against seatbelts, and continues to fund climate-change denialism. Obst considers the future of mobility, surveying how cities are experimenting with forms of transportation that offer alternatives to the dominance of cars. Provocative and comprehensive, Saving Ourselves from Big Car is a wake-up call for us to change how we use cars before it's too late.

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  The Leading Edge - Ocean racing...

  Sandy Weld

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  This is a book about ocean racing – a personal view of the events and an account of one of the most successful individual records ever made by a designer and skipper. In 1965 Dick Carter was a good skipper, but an unknown designer. His first design was Rabbit, which Sandy Weld helped launch, tune and race. They won the Fastnet Race in its first season and Dick Carter grew an international reputation. The Leading Edge depicts the intense competition of crews dedicated to winning and the camaraderie and enthusiasm of those who participate in this demanding sport. It is an appreciation of Dick Carter's designs and his skill as a skipper. It is also the story of the extraordinary success of his first design, Rabbit, and the next three designs he skippered: Tina, Rabbit II and Red Rooster – the latter which also won the Fastnet Race and the Admiral's Cup. Weld's racing experience provides a fascinating account that will be of considerable use to the sailor and of absorbing interest to those who follow the sport.

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  Artificial Intelligence - Ai...

  Christian Farsley

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  AI systems are designed and programmed to mimic human thought and behavior, making artificial intelligence an integral part of our daily lives. This technology impacts a wide range of services and experiences. 
    
  For many, the most visible benefits of AI are seen in new gadgets and features, such as voice-activated assistants and facial recognition for unlocking devices. However, AI is also set to revolutionize other areas, such as healthcare. For example, hospitals in India are testing software that analyzes retinal images to detect diabetic retinopathy, a condition that is often diagnosed too late to prevent vision loss. In autonomous driving, AI helps vehicles understand and navigate their environments. AI is already embedded in many applications, from search algorithms to bionic limbs for the disabled.

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