In the year 2035, newlyweds Mark and Helen embark on an extraordinary honeymoon: a journey to the International Space Station. As they float weightlessly among the stars, they encounter a cast of eccentric astronauts, witness breathtaking views of Earth, and confront the challenges of living in such an extreme environment. But when a sudden crisis threatens their mission, Mark and Helen must draw on their love and resilience to survive.

Can the welfare state survive in an economically integrated world? Many have argued that globalization has undermined national policies to raise the living standards and enhance the economic opportunities of the poor. This book, by sixteen of the world's leading authorities in international economics and the welfare state, suggests a surprisingly different set of consequences: Globalization does not preclude social insurance and egalitarian redistribution--but it does change the mix of pol...

Machine Learning with Spark and Python Essential Techniques for Predictive Analytics, Second Edition simplifies ML for practical uses by focusing on two key algorithms. This new second edition improves with the addition of Spark—a ML framework from the Apache foundation. By implementing Spark, machine learning students can easily process much large data sets and call the spark algorithms using ordinary Python code.Machine Learning with Spark and Python focuses on ...

A baby can wake up in so many interesting places! This revamped classic featuring community helpers is back in a bilingual (E/Sp) paperback. In this inaugural title in the Look What I See! Where Can I Be? series, Baby is on the go in the neighborhood, accompanied by her loving family. She finds herself waking up in a different location each day of the week. At first, she focuses on a single detail. Then, turning the page, the entire scene is revealed in vibrant, immersive photographs. Olde...

Tales of an unremarkable engineer and the characters he met on the way at the Royal Radar Establishment Malvern and Pershore, the Royal Aircraft Establishment Farnborough and Bedford, the Aircraft and Armament Evaluation Establishment Boscombe Down, and the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency.

Its Not As Easy As It Looks follows the story of Michael Bowlings many surprise cancer diagnoses from the first day. Each chapter was written and posted usually within hours of the events it describes. All the hope and disappointment, all the strange and unforeseen events, and all the humor that cancer brings are detailed. Michaels friends serve as commentators along the way. As the story progresses, the doctors are often more surprised than the patient. What will happen next? God reveals ...

Where is Baby today? This beloved title that celebrates family, animals, and the excitement of discovery is now available in bilingual (E/Sp) paperback. In this popular book from the Look What I See, Where Can I Be? series, a charming baby dozes each day during her family's outings. Awakened by the sounds and smells of the places where different animals reside, she opens her eyes and sees a lively detail—an eye, an ear, a hoof, a head. Help her solve the mysteries of this part-to-whole gue...

"If you have a myth working in your life (everyone does) and if you can see it, you can actually add to it. Also you can change it; you can banish certain things which have inhibited you," says Bowles. Included are five creation stories from various cultures. Bowles talks about how these stories are relevant to our lives.

"Among all the recent books on medicine, Critical Care stands alone." — Pauline Chen, author of Final Exam"A must read for anyone who wants to understand healthcare. Extraordinary." — Elizabeth Cohen, MPH, CNN Senior Medical CorrespondentCritical Care is the powerful and absorbing memoir of Theresa Brown—a regular contributor to the New York Times blog "Well"—about her experiences during the first year on the job as an oncology nurse; in ...

When I mention that I work in an emergency room, people usually say,Are you a nurse?Wow. That must be really hard.What's it like?This is what it's like to be an emergency doctor.That teenager puking up two liters of vodka and his stomach lining at triage? Yup. Blood pouring out of a terrified pregnant woman? Call me. And, of course, the patient who no longer has a nosebleed screaming at me across the depart...

A riveting exploration of the most difficult and important part of what doctors do, by Yale School of Medicine physician Dr. Lisa Sanders, author of the monthly New York Times Magazine column "Diagnosis," the inspiration for the hit Fox TV series House, M.D."The experience of being ill can be like waking up in a foreign country. Life, as you formerly knew it, is on hold while you travel through this other world as unknown as it is unexpected. When...

"Dramatic, moving, and utterly fascinating." —New York Times Book ReviewWith poignant insight and humor, When the Air Hits Your Brain chronicles one man’s evolution from naïve and ambitious young intern to world-class neurosurgeon. In electrifying detail, Frank Vertosick Jr. describes some of the greatest challenges of his career, including a six-week-old infant with a tumor in her brain, a young man struck down in his prime by paraplegia, and a minister with a .2...