Tensions between the superpowers are escalating. A rocket streaks across the sky, carrying the launch codes for ballistic missiles. In a synchronized manner, without human intervention, nuclear warheads are launched against enemy cities. Within minutes, humanity faces its worst nightmare: extinction.In the midst of chaos, Krypton emerges—the city of machines, a metropolis dominated by androids and ruled by a supreme guide. Humans are subjugated, confined, and many ...

Modelling, Estimation and AI Applications for Lithium-Ion Battery Management Systems is a comprehensive guide to the latest advancements in integrating artificial intelligence with lithium-ion battery technology. The book offers an in-depth exploration of fundamental principles, advanced modeling techniques, and state estimation strategies that are vital for enhancing battery performance, safety, and longevity. The book presents systematic coverage of battery operation, performance testing...

Cervantine Futures places the writings of Miguel de Cervantes into conversation with some of the most pressing issues in cultural studies, critical theory, and sociopolitical discourse of the last decade. Assembling a diverse range of prominent and emerging scholars in the field, this volume stakes a claim for Hispanism’s place in the growing scholarly movement to vindicate pre- and early modernity for its incisive and often singular perspective on race, gender, ability, the body,...

Fathom an AI system capable of making utterances like “I think therefore I am”. This inward gaze, arguably a hallmark of conscience, is absent in today’s intelligent machines. Yet, it is essential for the alignment of purpose of machine and human, an imperative that should turn the machine into an ally of human endeavor. Accordingly, this book implements conscience within an AI context, describing how an AI system for neural symbolic reasoning may be endowed with an introspective function....

The CSC exam tests your ability, not your luck.The Cardiac Surgery Certification exam is a rigorous test of clinical judgment across four demanding domains. Most candidates find that comprehensive review and realistic practice are the difference between preparation and hope. This guide is designed to bridge that gap with a complete content review, 720 practice questions, and the tools you need to approach the exam with a clear head.Built for depth, ...

Discover how to use artificial intelligence (AI) in the classroom through practical applications. If you want to learn about the advantages that AI offers to facilitate your work as a teacher, this is the book for you. Aimed at the entire educational community, this title transforms curiosity about AI into concrete tools for improving teaching.From theoretical foundations to teaching proposals with virtual assistants, the author will guide you with clarity, rigor, and pedagogical s...

¿Y Yo También? brings together a diverse range of Latina voices to address the under-representation of Latinx voices in the #MeToo movement and discussions of sexual violence. Through scholarly analysis of literature, media, podcasting, film, art, and testimonio alongside memoir, poetry, a short play, and personal essays, the authors address varied Latina experiences of sexual assault and harassment. These authors grapple with these traumas alongside their intersectional contexts,...

A companion to the best-selling, award-winning Laugh and Grow Bible for Kids, this storybook Bible follows the life of Jesus from His birth through His resurrection and ascension. The Laugh and Grow Bible for Kids: Jesus Stories includes Jesus's teachings, parables, miracles, and more! Each of the 52 stories will help kids get to know Jesus as their Savior and Friend.Key Features:● Includes 52 beautifully illustrated stories from the Gospel...

This edited collection deconstructs and reimagines the major doctrines of the Christian faith from various postcolonial and decolonial perspectives.Across eighteen chapters, Eleazar S. Fernandez and the contributors respond to the need for a postcolonial critique of religion, particularly Christianity. Each essay, through the postcolonial optic, names a salient classical point of Christian doctrine, exposing and deconstructing hegemonic religious ideas and practices...

A witty meditation revealing what our obsession with monsters says about wonder, reality, and narrative itselfWhat does the Loch Ness Monster tell us about belief, tourism, and the stories we need to survive? In this formally innovative essay, award-winning Spanish writer Laura Fernández travels to the Scottish Highlands to investigate the legend of Nessie and develops a perspective on humanity’s perpetual and sometimes destructive need to “discover.” From the 1933 sighting that la...

Elites and the People in Global Power Relations challenges the conventional boundaries of international relations by introducing the differential accumulation of power (DAP) approach. At a time of systemic crisis and eroding democratic legitimacy, this book transcends traditional state-centric and economic paradigms to reveal how the strategic interplay between elite competition and populace mobilisation defines the contemporary global order and its persistent hierarchical structu...

How linear algebra structures the universe and shapes our brain’s perception of reality.Why do distant mountains look tiny while your coffee mug looms large? How does your brain find its way in a dark room? And what does any of this have to do with quantum physics? In The Power of Lines, Oscar Fernandez traces the answers to one startling conclusion: The universe runs on linear algebra.Fernandez builds his case by uncovering the hidden linearity al...