It's not age. It's a fault. And faults can be fixed.That catch in your knee on the stairs. The shoulder that won't reach the top shelf any more. The back that's always on your mind. You've been told it's your age, that you should be careful, that you should expect a little less every year.This book says otherwise.Most of the aches that get blamed on getting older aren't wear you're stuck with. They're faults, small faults in the way a joint moves, a...

The isolation of graphene in 2004 by two scientists at the University of Manchester—a breakthrough later recognised by the Nobel Prize for physics—revealed to the world a brand new ‘wonder material’ which had been ‘completely hidden from science’. Graphene, the world’s first two-dimensional material, promises huge opportunities for a range of sectors, from aerospace to energy to biomedical. But how can the UK be known for ‘Made in Britain’ as well as discovered in Britain? As an answer, th...

The future of humanity can go one of three ways:We annihilate ourselves and go extinctWe continue to muddle alongWe learn to live forever and fix everythingThis is a book about option three. It is based on science we have today and numbers that work. It contains a vision of how we make a future in which today's global problems get solved. You will visit a future that is possible in the next several decades. We will...

For years, James B. Baker ran a small press publishing company known as ProMart Publishing. From there he launched the careers of many science fiction and fantasy authors, but Jim was much more than an editor and a publisher. He was also an author and a poet.Now, Nomadic Delirium Press has gathered together all of the works of his that we can find. You will find his novels, Goatherds & Gods and The Poet, as well as his collection of poems, stories and essays, J...

This book explores English single sheet satirical prints published from 1780-1820, the people who made those prints, and the businesses that sold them. It examines how these objects were made, how they were sold, and how both the complexity of the production process and the necessity to sell shaped and constrained the satiric content these objects contained. It argues that production, sale, and environment are crucial to understanding late-Georgian satirical prints. A majority of these pri...

Plymouth is known world-wide because of the Pilgrim story and its considerable significance for the history of the United States. Visitors have made their own pilgrimages to Plymouth for hundreds of years to "see where it all began," gaze at Plymouth Rock, and visit Pilgrim Hall and Plimoth Plantation. However, Plymouth isn't just the Pilgrims. It is a living community where residents still live on the site of the 1620 settlement as well as throughout the entire 103-square-mile township. T...

Nationally acclaimed poet, photographer, filmmaker, and novelist James Baker Hall has long been regarded as one of Kentucky's most profound artists. Hall's growing body of work is an essential part of Kentucky's literary tradition, and yet his poetry in particular transcends the borders of the Commonwealth.The Total Light Process collects poems spanning Hall's celebrated career as well as new poems that have never before been published. The subjects of Hall's poems range f...

James Baker Hall's blackly comic coming-of-age novel has been denied, by unfortunate circumstances surrounding its original 1964 publication, its rightful place alongside classics such as Catcher in the Rye and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in the canon of essential late-twentieth-century American fiction.Set in Lexington, Kentucky, the story unfolds through the eyes of thirteen-year-old Yates Paul. He becomes consumed with revelations about his inattentive fath...

The United States faces the realistic and indefinite threat of terrorist attack with nuclear weapons. Whether the United States is successful in preventing such an attack will depend on whether we effectively wield the instruments of security. It will also depend on whether we effectively manage national security processes and apply the law in a manner that both enhances security and upholds our core values. As a result, lawyers, not just presidents, generals, and spies, will decide the ou...

In Plymouth, the reader will find the elm-shaded streets, mill villages, modest shops, and rustic cottages that generations of residents and visitors have loved. Plymouth is best known as the Pilgrim landing place, but history did not stop when the dishes were cleared away from the first Thanksgiving. Plymouth's intriguing past is not altogether lost. A prosperous fishing village before the War of 1812, Plymouth developed mills and factories to line its modest brooks during the Industrial ...

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Artificial intelligence has fundamentally changed how software and knowledge work gets delivered. Code that once took weeks to write now takes hours. Features that required entire sprints to build can be generated in an afternoon. Yet most organizations are celebrating faster output while quietly accumulating a crisis they have not yet named. When AI eliminates the development bottleneck, a new one emerges in its place. Validation complexity, governance requirements, and integration challe...