The robots are real. They are clumsy, expensive, and already turning up for work.Forget the backflipping showreel. In a BMW plant in Spartanburg, a Figure humanoid spent months doing one real job on a real production line. Apptronik's Apollo is at Mercedes-Benz. Agility's Digit moves totes for GXO and Amazon. Unitree shipped more than 5,500 humanoids in 2025 and cheerfully admitted most went to universities, not factories. This is embodied AI as it actually exists,...

Bumpy Johnson was many things in his life, to many people. He was a stick up man, a burglar, a pimp, a drug dealer, a numbers runner, a bookmaker, a hood and a thug. He was also a husband and a father and a doting grandfather. He was the conduit between Harlem and the Genovese Crime Family. He was a respected friend of Lucky Luciano. He was a man of Harlem, giving to the needy, the hungry, and children. He was a staunch advocate for education, urging neighborhood children to stay in school...

As children we all dream of growing up and becoming someone successful. We are born without fear in the grace of God, and we set forth our discoveries with wonder. Along the journey, we encounter bumps in the road and wake up one day wondering, where all the time has gone, and what about that dream we once had when we were younger of achieving success in life. This book is about overcoming obstacles, identifying what is holding you back, and finding a new encouragement to begin, whether it...

This book is an easy guide to Bangkok’s motorbike taxi’s in Thailand. Compared to other forms of transport, the motorbike taxi is probably the quickest and most dangerous. So, if you’re brave enough to ride one your definitely in for an exhilarating and white-knuckle ride. Just remember to wear a helmet and keep all extremities as close to your body as possible. This way you should survive one of Thailands most hazardous forms of public transport.Also, a guide on how to purchase a ...

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a peer of one of your ancestors? Artie doesnt realize that a prayer is being answered when he is mysteriously transported back in time and becomes a college basketball teammate of his great grandfather. A star player in is own time, Artie has to relearn the game and the ways of the world in order to survive in his new surroundings. Along the way he finds love and learns that one person can make a world of difference.

As bombs rained down on Gaza in October 2023, images of mass death and destruction gripped the world, and openly genocidal statements from Israeli leaders foretold the magnitude of horrors to come. But the United States media was quick to downplay, obscure, and repackage an emerging campaign of extermination into a slick "war on terror" framework.How to Sell a Genocide is a thorough indictment of United States corporate media's role in enabling—and, at times, directly inci...

From Hugo Award-winning author Tim Pratt comes a new, high-concept space opera exploring technology, family, and the price we pay to follow our destiny, perfect for fans of Peter F. Hamilton and Adrian Tchaikovsky.After her grandmother is murdered in a home invasion, Tamsin Culver leaves her cushy programming job in San Francisco and returns to her Midwestern hometown to settle the estate. What she doesn't expect is to find out her grandmother's life-changing secre...

God is a bridge builder. He is connecting people. We should expect that He will give us bridges to cross. If we truly believe that God is sovereign, then we should expect Him to connect us to the people He is calling us to love. And in creating those connections, God uses us as we are and where we are; even in our frailty and weakness. sometimes we stand up as a leader, an example of courage and strength. other times we connect with people who are hurting and in pain, or who feel lost. Som...

Crave adventure? Then plunge into the pages of The Black Cat, January 1896. This thrilling collection of short stories will grip you from the start. Get lost in subterranean peril with "In Solomon's Caverns," or face a heart-stopping rescue in "In Miggles' Alley." Love and suspense intertwine in "An Angel of Tenderfoot Hill," while "The Missing Link" will challenge your sense of justice. Prepare for chills, dares, and hidden truths in "Unchallenged," "Aidu," and "Mrs. Emory's Boarder." So,...

The irrepressible Uncle Wiggily falls ill and Dr. Possum prescribes "an automobile drive before every meal". thus Uncle Wiggly buys an automobile and sets out to be heals. His many adventures are filled with ducks, squirrels, crows and other excited animals so if you have always secretly wished to be one of these, this is you chance to do it.

In the past several years, there has been an explosion in the ability of biologists, molecular biologists and biochemists to collect vast amounts of data on their systems. This volume presents sophisticated methods for estimating the thermodynamic parameters of specific protein-protein, protein-DNA and small molecule interactions. The use of thermodynamics in biological research is used as an "energy book-keeping system. While the structure and function of a molecule is important, it is eq...

Processing, Properties, and Design of Advanced Ceramics and Composites II, Ceramic Transactions Volume 261Narottam P. Bansal, Ricardo H. R. Castro, Michael Jenkins, Amit Bandyopadhyay, Susmita Bose, Amar Bhalla, J.P. Singh, Morsi M. Mahmoud, Gary Pickrell, and Sylvia Johnson; EditorsThis proceedings volume contains a collection of 36 papers (~350 pages) from the following symposia held during the 2016 Materials Science and Technology (MS&T’16) meeting held ...