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Deserts, the Arctic, outer space—these extreme environments are often seen as inhospitable places at the edges of our maps. But from the 1940s through the 1960s, spurred by the diverse and unfamiliar regions the US military had navigated during World War II, the United States defense...

Deborah Lawrie didn't just break the glass ceiling - she flew right through it. They told her women couldn't fly commercial airliners. They told her women weren't welcome in the cockpit. They told her women couldn't work and have a family. She told them she'd see them in court. In an era when...

The incredible true story of the boy from Doonside who became a Bathurst king. Mark Winterbottom's story is unlike any other in motorsport. It's not about privilege or million-dollar sponsors - it's the tale of a working-class kid with a dream so big it defied the odds. Mark's family couldn't...

Why are we drawn to the ocean each summer? Why does being near water set our minds and bodies at ease? In Blue Mind, Wallace J. Nichols revolutionizes how we think about these questions, revealing the remarkable truth about the benefits of being in, on, under, or simply near water.

Algo novo entrou em nosso mundo de novembro de 2022 - a primeira IA de uso geral que poderia se passar por um ser humano e realizar o tipo de trabalho criativo e inovador que somente os humanos poderiam fazer anteriormente. O professor de Wharton, Ethan Mollick, entendeu imediatamente o que o ChatGPT fez: depois de milhões de anos sozinhos, os humanos desenvolveram um tipo de cointeligência que poderia aumentar, ou mesmo substituir, o pensamento humano.

Ein österreichischer Rennfahrer, der Formel 1-Geschichte schrieb. Immer ein rotes Kapperl auf dem Kopf und nie um eine schnelle Antwort verlegen: So haben die meisten Niki Lauda in Erinnerung. Herbert Völker, ehemaliger Herausgeber und Chefredakteur der "Autorevue", kannte den berühmten Rennfahrer auch abseits des Ruhms: Die beiden waren schon befreundet, bevor dem Champion der Sprung in die Formel 1 gelang. Aus dieser jahrzehntelangen Freundschaft ist ein großer Schatz an Erinnerungen hervorgegangen – an gemeinsame Ausfahrten, an lange Gespräche, an denkwürdige Momente.

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Buying a manufactured or modular home? Get the numbers, the financing rules, and the resale reality—before you sign anything. Most buyers walk into this process with outdated assumptions and an incomplete cost picture—and it costs them. Buying Smart is a clear, no-nonsense guide to what manufactured and modular homes actually cost from factory to foundation, how financing really works when a home isn't classified like a traditional house, what land and zoning decisions do to your long-term value, and what separates a home that holds its value from one that becomes a financial regret.

If every major decision routes through you, every problem lands on your desk, and every vacation creates anxiety, you are not running a business, it’s running you. And it’s hurting your business value. The classic problems have not changed. Businesses still plateau from lack of delegation, systems, and scalability, but the stakes have changed. In every industry, AI is accelerating the gap between businesses that run on systems and those that run on their owner. The old frameworks that built successful businesses years ago were written before AI changed the rules.

The National Road is the first narrative history of the federal project—begun decades before the nation itself was born and ranging through the 1830s—that connected the United States across the Alleghenies and into the western frontier. Starting with a young Washington's dream of uniting the...

2016 marks the twentieth anniversary of Damon Hill's coronation as Formula One World Champion. For the first time ever he tells the story of his journey through the last golden era of the sport when he took on the greats including Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher and emerged victorious as...

SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER BLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH The extraordinary story of how the Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, was found in the most hostile sea on Earth in 2022 On 21 November 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship, Endurance, finally succumbed to the crushing ice...

This audiobook is masterfully read by the author, Mo Gawdat. One of The Sunday Times' Business Books of the Year Technology is putting our humanity at risk to an unprecedented degree. This book is not for engineers who write the code or the policy makers who claim they can regulate it. This is a...

The problem of online disinformation is only getting worse. Social media may well play a role in the the US 2020 presidential election and other major political events. But that doesn't even begin to describe what future propaganda will look like. We may not be able to alter how the internet was used to challenge democracy in years past, but we can follow the signals to prevent manipulation in the future - and to use these powerful new tools not to control people but to empower them. 

Will Castro, star of Velocity Channel's Unique Rides and one of the most popular car customizers in America, has achieved the American Dream, finding great success doing something he loves. He has worked with marquee names in entertainment, and Unique Hustle is packed with anecdotes of some of the biggest names in sports, music, film, and television.  

The dramatic inside story of the first four historic flights that launched SpaceX—and Elon Musk—from a shaky startup into the world's leading edge rocket company. In 2006, SpaceX—a brand-new venture with fewer than 200 employees—rolled its first, single-engine rocket onto a launch pad at...

As the 100th anniversary of the fateful night approaches, Palmer follows up innumerable conflicting stories and theories that still, to this day, surround the doomed liner. Charles Herbert Lightoller, Palmer’s great uncle, was the highest-ranking surviving officer from the disaster. It was only after the great man’s death in 1952 that his sister, Gertrude, Palmer’s eccentric grandmother, began to hint to her young grandson of the contradictory accounts of both her brother’s supposed heroism and his suspect testimonies at the investigations into the sinking.

Take a tour with the author inside more than 30 world-class facilities to experience the most remarkable innovations and highly sophisticated robotics and automation in action. Capture a front-row seat to top-brand, big-budget manufacturing in action with complex machines communicating with other machines. However, you can also learn from small-to-medium size manufacturers. Discover how some simple, tried-and-true, old-school, low-budget manufacturing processes can be game changers for industry.

Outrageously irresponsible and undeniably liberating, Simon Gandolfi's OLD MAN ON A BIKE will fire the imaginations of every traveller, young or old. At 73 years old, Simon Gandolfi sets off from Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico to embark on a five and a half month journey culminating at 'the end...

Este é um pacote de três livros, que aborda vários subtópicos, incluindo, entre outros: Livro 1: Neste guia, você aprenderá sobre todos os conceitos básicos da inteligência artificial. Você aprenderá o que é, como funciona e de onde veio (ou, em outras palavras, como tudo começou). Por último, mas não menos importante, os problemas de segurança e privacidade serão trazidos à tona, pois a era de hoje é cheia de hackers, espionagem e roubo. Portanto, é obrigatório que esses dispositivos e sistemas sejam mantidos em segurança.