**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER | BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK**The definitive story of COVID-19 and how global politics shape our health - from a world-leading expert and the pandemic's go-to science communicatorProfessor Devi Sridhar has risen to prominence for her vital roles in communicating science to the public and speaking truth to power. In Preventable she highlights lessons learned ...

Brought to you by Penguin.Preventable uses the spellbinding story of the COVID-19 pandemic to show how global politics shape our health.Professor Devi Sridhar has risen to prominence for her vital roles in communicating science to the public and speaking truth to power. In Preventable she highlights lessons learned from outbreaks past and present in a narrative that traces the COVID-19 pandemic - including...

Million Dollar Dream is your guide to unlocking the power within and designing a success story like no other. This book shatters the myth that there is one path to greatness, showing you how to discover your unique strengths and passions. With heartfelt wisdom and practical guidance, it inspires you to craft a personal formula for success that fuels your dreams and transforms your life. No matter where you start, Million Dollar Dream will empower you to believe, act, and achieve because yo...

S. L. Chenoor has over 15 years of experience in the programming subject, teaching/training fresh graduates and working professionals aspiring to build career in the computer programming field as software developers. He has been Microsoft Certified Professional in Visual Basic Programming and also holds an MCA degree from a reputed Indian university. He has over a decade of development experience, developing web applications in ASP.NET, PHP and successfully cater to needs of the clients in...

Essentials of Orthodontics is a compendium of significant and pertinent information related to Orthodontics, a subject that seems to have evolved over the past 100 years. This book provides a comprehensive overview of all areas of Orthodontics, from Growth and Development to retention and relapse. The book also acts as a refresher to the reader's memory on fundamentals necessary for diagnosis and treatment planning. This book has been accepted well as an indispensable book among dental UGs...

Learn to program the Propeller in Spin and C and how to map the Propeller Assembler (PASM) language from other high-level languages you might know.The overall task you will pursue in the book is to implement a Delta Compression algorithm: first in Spin, then in PASM, then in C. Along the way, you'll review test driven development, a powerful technique for validating code, and conclude with a chapter on hardware manipulations. The book's main goal is to help you extend the capabilit...

Agon: Poetry's Challenge to the Mathematization of Reality narrates the battle for truth-telling authority between poetry and mathematics in the 1920s-1960s. Analysing subversive uses of mathematical metaphors in British and American poetry, it argues that modernism posed the last serious challenge to mathematics, whose authority to determine for all the true nature of reality had grown steadily from Newton to Einstein. The book paints William Blake's defiance of the Enlightenment...

Glaucoma is a neurodegenerative disorder affecting millions of individuals worldwide. In 2013, the prevalence of glaucoma worldwide among people aged 40-80 years was estimated at 64.3 million, increasing to 76.0 million in 2020 and 111.8 million in 2040. Men were more likely to have primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) than women. After adjusting for age, gender, habitation type, response rate, and year of study, people of African ancestry were more likely to have POAG than people of...

In his imaginary odyssey, fiction seemed more palpable than reality.The spring of 1931,Gin Oliver, an enigmatic retired Wing Commander of the Royal Air Force, unites World War veterans in an attempt to assassinate Finn Larsen, the kingpin oforganised crime. Gin plunges into anarchism and gets tangled in several moral conflicts. In the midst of an approaching fascist revolution, Gin and his brave comrades fight to safeguard Imperial Britain’s glory.The summer of 2018,

Social factors have a powerful influence on human health and longevity. Yet the social dimensions of health are often obscured in public discussions due to the overwhelming focus in health policy on medical care, individual-level risk factor research, and changing individual behaviours. Likewise, in philosophical approaches to health and social justice, the debates have largely focused on rationing problems in health care and on personal responsibility. However, a range of events over the ...

This book serves as a hands-on guide to timing constraints in integrated circuit design. Readers will learn to maximize performance of their IC designs, by specifying timing requirements correctly. Coverage includes key aspects of the design flow impacted by timing constraints, including synthesis, static timing analysis and placement and routing. Concepts needed for specifying timing requirements are explained in detail and then applied to specific stages in the design flow, all within th...

"The Stillness Within: Finding Peace in a Chaotic World," is a guide to cultivating inner peace and emotional resilience. The author, Sathyamoorthy Buma Sridhar, drew inspiration from his own personal struggles with feeling overwhelmed and anxious to write the book. It offers practical guidance, insightful reflections, and transformative practices to help readers navigate life's challenges. The book covers a wide range of topics, including embracing mindfulness and solitude, shifting from ...