This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In The Chaos of Creation, In Prose, Jacob A. Eder invites readers on an epic journey through the primordial forces of existence, stretching from the void before time to the cyclicality of the universe's birth, life, death, and inevitable rebirth. With a masterful fusion of astrophysics and evolutionary biology, this work delves deeply into the violent origins of matter and life, the tumultuous dance of chaos and order, and the ...

Practical Micromechanics of Composite Materials provides an accessible treatment of micromechanical theories for the analysis and design of multi-phased composites. Written with both students and practitioners in mind and coupled with a fully functional MATLAB code to enable the solution of technologically relevant micromechanics problems, the book features an array of illustrative example problems and exercises highlighting key concepts and integrating the MATLAB code. The MATLAB scripts ...

The Maoist state’s dominance over Chinese society, achieved through such watersheds as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, is well known. Maoism at the Grassroots reexamines this period of transformation and upheaval from a new perspective, one that challenges the standard state-centered view. Bringing together scholars from China, Europe, North America, and Taiwan, this volume marshals new research to reveal a stunning diversity of individual viewpoints and local ...

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to, and application of, heuristic search methods, specifically the genetic algorithm, for use with mission sets operating in multi-body gravitational systems. Detailed dynamical and mission models, as well as accompanying space-focused scenarios will allow the reader to implement different forms of the genetic algorithm to find Pareto optimal architectures within a multi-objective optimization problem. This book covers the Non-Dominated Sorti...

Inspiration for the TV series Living Biblically streaming now!From the New York Times bestselling author of The Know-It-All comes a fascinating and timely exploration of religion and the Bible. A.J. Jacobs chronicles his hilarious and thoughtful year spent obeying?as literally as possible?the tenets of the Bible.Raised in a secular family but increasingly interested in the relevance of faith in our modern world, A...

#1 New York Times bestselling author A.J. Jacobs undergoes a hilarious, poignant quest to understand what constitutes family—where it begins and how far it goes—in It’s All Relative, a “thought-provoking…delightful, easy-to-read, informative book” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).A.J. Jacobs has received some strange emails over the years, but this note was perhaps the strangest: “You don’t know me, but I’m your eighth cousin. And we have...

The idea was deceptively simple: New York Times bestselling author A.J. Jacobs decided to thank every single person involved in producing his morning cup of coffee. The resulting journey takes him across the globe, transforms his life, and reveals secrets about how gratitude can make us all happier, more generous, and more connected.Author A.J. Jacobs discovers that his coffee—and every other item in our lives—would not be possible without hundreds of peop...

A New York Times bestseller in hardcover, a chronicle of A.J. Jacob’s mission to radically improve every element of his body and mind—from his brain to his fingertips to his abs.From the bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically and The Know-It-All comes the truly hilarious story of one person’s quest to become the healthiest man in the world.Hospitalized with a freak case of tropical pneumonia and ashamed of a middle-ag...

In war, here be dragons.First Magus Brent Rogers has just been transferred from Fort Leavenworth to Afghanistan. His mission: to find out how and why a seemingly indestructible dragon died on an alleged suicide mission.Brent finds out that even dragons have secrets — and those secrets, if known, can kill them. Will Brent be like all the other wizards, and work for the Army, or will he keep the secrets of the dragons?His success — and maybe even his life — could depe...

"Children of the Tenements" is not a specific work by Jacob A. Riis. However, Jacob A. Riis was a pioneering social reformer and journalist known for his work documenting the living conditions of the poor in New York City during the late 19th century. In "How the Other Half Lives," Riis used photography and firsthand accounts to expose the squalid living conditions in the tenements and raise awareness about the plight of the impoverished residents. He focused on the struggles of children a...

The belief that every man’s experience ought to be worth something to the community from which he drew it, no matter what that experience may be, so long as it was gleaned along the line of some decent, honest work, made me begin this book. With the result before him, the reader can judge for himself now whether or not I was right. Right or wrong, the many and exacting duties of a newspaper man’s life would hardly have allowed me to bring it to an end but for frequent friendly lifts given ...

During a brutal space battle, Captain Darnizva of the planet Karysilan's League, decides to flee the front lines with twelve ships in tow by jumping through a vortex based off random coordinates. Half of them crash land on Earth, resulting in a new evolution of mankind when the aliens interbreed with humans.Adding insult to injury, the enemy has tracked them down to finish the fight. Not caring about the impact it may have on Earth. Darnizva is put in an awkward situation to negotia...