Seeking Ultimates: An Intuitive Guide to Physics, Second Edition by Peter T. Landsberg, 2020
Takes us on a journey that explores the limits of our scientific knowledge, emphasizing the gaps that are left. The book starts with everyday concepts such as temperature, and proceeds to energy, the Periodic Table, and then to more advanced ideas.
The Art of Cyber Warfare: Strategic and Tactical Approaches for Attack and Defense in the Digital Age by Peter Kestner, 2024
Explores the strategic and tactical approaches for offense and defense in the digital age. Drawing on historical conflicts from Sun Tzu to Carl von Clausewitz, the author illustrates that, despite changed conditions such as time, location, means, and resources it is possible to learn from past actions and reactions.
Mastering Linux Administration - Second Edition: Take Your Sysadmin Skills to the Next Level by Configuring and Maintaining Linux Systems by Alexandru Calcatinge & Julian Balog, 2024
A one-stop Linux administration guide to developing advanced strategies for on-premises and cloud environmentsA one-stop Linux administration guide to developing advanced strategies for on-premises and cloud environments.
To Halt or Not to Halt? That Is the Question by Cristian Calude, 2024
Can mathematics be done by computers only? Can software testing be fully automated? Can you write an anti-virus program which never needs any updates? Can we make the Internet perfectly secure? Your guess is correct: the answer to each question is negative.
The winners of the 2024 Pulitzer Prizes have been announced. The New York Times took three: One for its coverage of the war in Gaza and others in the Features and Investigative categories. The Washington Post tied with wins in Commentary, Editorial Writing and National Reporting. The Fiction Pulitzer went to West Virginia writer Jayne Anne Phillips for her novel, "Night Watch," while the Nonfiction prize went to "A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy," by Nathan Thrall, which tells the story of a Palestinian father living under Israeli occupation of the West Bank. Here's the full list from NPR. This Poynter.org story has links to all the winning pieces of journalism.
Aristotle and Xunzi on Shame, Moral Education, and the Good Life by Jingyi Jenny Zhao, 2024
The first major work that takes two philosophers from the ancient Greek and early Chinese traditions to stimulate discussion of an interdisciplinary nature on the rich and complex topic of the emotions-in particular, of shame.
100 Mistakes in Software Engineering by Luis Cordero
An invaluable list of mistakes to consider on your daily job as a software engineering, that will definitely increase your value as a professional, by giving you situations that you will face, but now with knowledge of what the bests in the industry have done and what they've found to be the wrong paths.
Seeing the Mind: Spectacular Images from Neuroscience, and What They Reveal about Our Neuronal Selves by Stanislas Dehaene, 2023
A lavishly illustrated and accessibly explained deep dive into the major new findings from cognitive neuroscience.
Who are we? To this age-old question, contemporary neuroscience gives a simple answer: we are exquisite neuronal machines.
The Evil Twins of Technocracy and Transhumanism by Patrick Wood, 2022
This is the everyman's introduction to Technocracy and Transhumanism. Both are primary to the World Economic Forum's Great Reset, in partnership with the United Nations, to replace Capitalism with an alternative economic system called Sustainable Development, aka Technocracy.
A SCANDALOUS 1865 DIVORCE case offers a window into New York high society—the defendant was a cousin of Edith Wharton, no less—and the time’s changing attitudes about marriage, women’s rights, and sexuality. Great balance of gossip and context. B PLUS
Did you know #scrivener lets you search your project for images? Neither did I. Check dropdown of the search (magnifying glass), select Images, and search!
Microbiome Modification: The Superorganism for Good Health by Patricia Worby PhD, 2024
This book is designed as a comprehensive guide for healthcare professionals, holistic practitioners, individuals seeking improved health, and anyone interested in a science-based approach to well-being that emphasizes cooperation with nature rather than dominance.
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Terrorism, Second Edition by Gus Martin, Editor, 2011
A thoroughly updated and expanded edition of the original, highly regarded reference work. Nearly 100,000 words of new material were added, along with fully updated original entries, and expanded coverage. New introductory essays explore the impact of terrorism on economics, public health, religion, and even pop culture.
"We need, as we always have, the “YES” of our practices:
constellations of care, where each and every one of our
still-beating hearts, in concert, rebelliously speaks louder
than words, forming unmistakable patterns of different cosmologies, different worlds, life against their death machine."
This is the real story behind the headlines and the soundbites, a complex, page-turning memoir of a scientist, a surfer, a mother, a patriot and an unlikely whistleblower. Ford’s experience shows that when one person steps forward to speak truth to power, she adds to a collective whole, causing "a ripple that might one day become a wave.”
How Much is Enough? Money and the Good Life by Robert Skidelsky, 2012
What constitutes the good life? What is the true value of money? Why do we work such long hours merely to acquire greater wealth? These are some of the questions that many asked themselves when the financial system crashed in 2008. This book tackles such questions head-on.
Heavy Metal: Earth’s Minerals and the Future of Sustainable Societies brings together world-leading experts from across the globe to reimagine the future of mineral exploration and mining in a post-fossil fuel world.
How can we grapple with the environmental, social and geopolitical challenges caused by the extraction and use of these critical resources?
There is a whole lot of #business#AI#IT and #chatgpt idiocy to unpack in this article, not the least is the self satirizing tone of the clueless author, despite the hopeful clickbait headline. If this is what companies are really thinking, it's the #cominglaborapocalypse around the corner. Either that or there will be no people who know how the computers or software works.