Humanizing Artificial Touch: Skin, Sensing, and Structures contains recent advances in artificial skin modelling and robotic tactile sensing technologies, integrating these in the structure of an artificial hand mimicking its important features. This book will give special treatment to the relationship between the artificial skin material and embedded tactile sensors, describing how artificial skin and embedded sensors can be designed and constructed using 3D printing technologies with cas...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.She was one of the most recognizable women of the twentieth century.But the world saw the icon. Who was the woman behind it?Audrey Hepburn became synonymous with elegance, cinema, fashion, and timeless beauty. Yet behind the photographs was a far more complex and instructive story of ambition, discipline, resilience, reinvention, and purpose.Audrey Hepburn: Behind the Icon looks ...

Dickson McCunn is an affluent, 55-year-old grocer, who takes an early retirement and ventures out to explore the world. At once he is swept out of his bourgeois rut into bizarre and outlandish adventures, and forced to become a reluctant hero. McCunn is formidable and dangerous partly because he seems unremarkable and ordinary, and friends and enemies alike are taken by surprise when he acts with bold conviction. All 3 novels in this series are included in this MEGAPACK™:HUNTINGTOW...

Sing and dance along with Baby Shark as he gets ready for bed in this playful song and story in e-book format - the follow-up to the bestselling picture book!How does Baby Shark get ready for bed? Brush your teeth! Doo doo doo doo doo doo! Take a bath! Doo doo doo doo doo doo! Read a book! Doo doo doo doo doo doo! Off to sleep! Sing, dance, and read along to this brand-new bedtime song, featuring Baby Shark, Mama Shark, Daddy Shark, and more un...

Elmer's story is relentless in its action, made more exciting by its simple telling. This is not a book that needs hyperbole; the drama is there in his own words.Sean Feast, Author of Carried on the Wind, Heroic Endeavour and Master BombersI started reading your father's book last night and couldn't stop until I had finished it.Don Elliott, "Pappy to the Kriegies"In addition to recording the military exploits of a young, very brave Pathfinder bomber pilot du...

Intensely practical and down to earth, this text covers the breadth of health emergency preparedness, resilience and response topics in the context of inter-disciplinary and whole society responses to a range of threats. It includes public, private and third sector roles in preparation for and in response to natural and man-made events, such as: major incident planning; infectious disease epidemics and pandemics; natural disasters; terrorist threats; and business and service continuity man...

Enormous in scope, this book presents in comprehensive and logical form the sum of our national knowledge about renewable energy resources. It deals with these resources in terms of opportunities and dangers, in terms of current availability and possible expansion, in terms of how natural resources relate to human resources and needs, and in terms of their replacement potential for nonrenewable resources such as fossil fuels. It also puts domestic resources and needs into the context of in...

People come and go in our lives. Over the years I have come to define those who touch our souls as heroes, mentors or friends, but in reality, I believe they are spiritual guides sent to us by a higher power. Once we recognize their inherent divinity and open to their influence, our spirits resonate at a higher level. Some call these special souls angels.This book gives the reader a profound insight into these beings and their miraculous influence on our lives. Heartwarming stories ...

The Silent Signal is about a mysterious signal from deep space. A psalm fragment buried in ancient stone. A voice shaped by worship, but never heard by God.When a forgotten telescope in the Swiss Alps intercepts a signal that mirrors Psalm 77, astrophysicist Leo Adebayo teams up with AI scripture analyst Dr. Zhou An and ex-seminarian linguist Mara Callix. What begins as a strange anomaly becomes something far more unsettling: the signal is not communication, it’s remembrance.

A story of railroading in the "link and pin days" of 1887. It is the story of two men, brakemen on the N. S. & W., and a friendship that suffers when they love the same girl. It is also the story of a young woman, Muriel Chalmers, the daughter of the storekeeper in Middleburg, their home town.Jim was approved by everyone, but as for Sam—well, his father, Ike McGowan, had left him and disappeared when Sam was still a small lad. Jim and Sam were brakemen on the same crew. Constantly t...

Sing and dance along with Baby Shark in this Easter adventure, based on the beloved song.Sing, dance, and read along to this Easter song, featuring Baby Shark and all his friends! Kids and caregivers alike will delight in this silly illustrated story as Baby Shark and his friends go on an underwater Easter egg hunt. Also includes an adorable sheet of stickers that your little one won’t be able to resist. A picture guide at the back of the book helps readers dance a...

Sing and dance along with Baby Shark, in this catchy tune all about hand washing!Sing, dance, and read along to this brand-new song as Baby Shark and the whole shark family washes their fins! A fun tool for kids and caregivers alike, this story will have little ones singing along to the important steps of hand-washing, from squirting soap, lathering up, and drying off. Hand-washing will fly by as you sing along at home or at school, and this catchy tune is sure to ...