Description：We live in an age drowning in answers and starving for real thought. Every day, we're told how to live—by our parents, our industry's "common sense," the experts, the algorithms, the crowd. Most people spend their entire lives on maps other people drew, mistaking the map for reality.First-principles thinking is the intellectual thread that runs from Aristotle to Musk: strip away every borrowed assumption, every inherited analogy, every "it's just how things are"...

Description：Why the Jews?They are 0.2% of the world's population — yet hold 22% of all Nobel Prizes, a quarter of the Forbes 100, seven of the eight original Hollywood studios, and nearly every "too big to fail" name on Wall Street. Expelled from country after country for two thousand years, they kept becoming the richest minority in every land they reached. How?This book skips the magical-realism version of "Jewish wealth" and peels back the legend to look at what's ...

What does the admissions office at the most selective university in the world REALLY look for in an applicant?That’s the question all our contributors answered. Each of our contributors filed FERPA requests, and copied down the numerical scores and comments Stanford wrote on their applications. For the first time ever, Stanford undergrads bring their essays, and those comments, out for future applicants to see. We’ve compiled together a vast array of diverse studen...

It is said that Jack sold his beloved cow for five magic beans. But were those beans really magic? Jack retells his story and incorporates science to try and verify his tale. Between the huge beanstalk and the scary giant, Jack has a lot to investigate. Thankfully, he can use the scientific method and work through each experiment step by step.

From New York Times bestselling author Lenora Worth…Danger comes to Denver for the holidays…in these thrilling Rocky Mountain K-9 Unit novellas.With veterinarian Sydney Jones being targeted, K-9 Officer Gavin Walker and his furry partner must stand between her and certain death in Lenora Worth’s Hidden Christmas Danger. And the clock is ticking in Silent Night Explosion by Katy Lee—but can Jodie Chen trust the newest K-9 of...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the International Conference for Smart Health, ICSH 2018, held in Wuhan, China, in July 2018.The 14 full papers and 21 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions. They focus on studies on the principles, approaches, models, frameworks, new applications, and effects of using novel information technology to address healthcare problems and improve social welfare. The selec...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 37th Computer Graphics International Conference, CGI 2020, held in Geneva, Switzerland, in October 2020. The conference was held virtually.The 43 full papers presented together with 3 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 189 submissions. The papers address topics such as: virtual reality; rendering and textures; augmented and mixed reality; video processing; image processing; fluid simulation and control; meshe...

Winner of the 2022 Broadcast Education Association Book AwardOne of the first books to examine the status of broadcasting on its one hundredth anniversary, Radio’s Second Century investigates both vanguard and perennial topics relevant to radio’s past, present, and future. As the radio industry enters its second century of existence, it continues to be a dominant mass medium with almost total listenership saturation despite rapid technological advancements...

Description：Most people use AI like a toy. This book shows you how to use it like a tool.You've heard that AI can transform your workday. What nobody tells you is how — beyond a few clever prompts that impress your colleagues and then quietly get forgotten. Claude at Work is the missing manual: a plain-spoken, no-hype playbook for turning Claude from a novelty chatbot into the most productive coworker you've ever had.Written for the people who actually keep organizati...

Description：We live in an age of extraordinary capability and extraordinary confusion. We are busier than ever, yet more depleted. More connected, yet more isolated. More informed, yet less certain of what matters. The tools we built to make life easier have, in many ways, made it harder.The answers to this paradox have been waiting for 2,500 years.In The Living Tao, Daniel Wu draws on the Tao Te Ching — one of the most widely read texts in human history — and the bro...

What does the admissions office at the most selective university in the world REALLY look for in an applicant?That’s the question all our contributors answered. Each of our contributors filed FERPA requests, and copied down the numerical scores and comments Stanford wrote on their applications. For the first time ever, Stanford undergrads bring their essays, and those comments, out for future applicants to see. We’ve compiled together a vast array of diverse studen...

Everybody knows know the classic story of the three little pigs and the big bad wolf. The wolf had no trouble blowing down the houses made from straw and sticks. But wait . . . Why couldn't he blow down the brick house, exactly? The youngest pig retells the classic tale from his point of view. Then he uses the scientific method and multiple experiments to teach his brother and sister the science behind his super-strong house.