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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -'A basic understanding of the science and history of nuclear weapons, including attempts to control, limit, and use them, and the prospects for eliminating them completely'--Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 261 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A primer on nuclear weapons, from the science of fission and fusion to the pursuit of mutual assured destruction, the SALT treaties, and the Bomb in pop culture.Although the world s attention has shifted to drone-controlled bombing and cyberwarfare, the threat of nuclear war still exists. There are now fourteen thousand nuclear weapons in the hands of the nine declared nuclear powers. Even though the world survived the Cold War, we need to understand what it means to live with nuclear weapons. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Mark Wolverton offers a primer on nuclear weapons, from the science of fission and fusion to the pursuit of mutual assured destruction, the SALT and START agreements, and the Bomb in pop culture.Wolverton explains the basic scientific facts, offers historical perspective, and provides a nuanced view of the unique political, social, and moral dilemmas posed by nuclear weapons. He describes the birth of the Bomb in 1945 and its use against the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; explains how a nuclear bomb works; recounts episodes when the world came close to waging nuclear war, including the Cuban missile crisis in 1962; discusses nuclear policy and nuclear treaties; and traces the influence of such films as On the Beach, Dr. Strangelove, and The Day After.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -A Fast Company "Most Important Books for Designers to Read Right Now" Discover how the principles of human-centered design can be applied to real-world health challenges in dozens of illustrated examplesfrom drug packaging and cancer detection devices to post-COVID-19 innovations. Written by pioneers in the fieldBon Ku, a physician leader in innovative health design, and Ellen Lupton, an award-winning graphic designerthis book outlines the fundamentals of design thinking and highlights important products, prototypes, and research in health design. This revised and expanded edition describes innovations developed in response to the COVID-19 crisis, including an intensive care unit in a shipping container, a rolling cart with intubation equipment, and a mask brace that gives a surgical mask a tighter seal. Graphics by Lupton bring these ideas to life. The authors also explore the special overlap of health care and the creative process, describing the development of such products and services as a credit cardsized device that allows patients to generate their own electrocardiograms; a mask designed to be worn with a hijab; improved emergency room signage; and a map of racial disparities and COVID-19. Health Design Thinking is an essential volume for health care providers, educators, patients, and designers who seek to create better experiences and improved health outcomes for individuals and communities.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 254 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A concise illustrated introduction to the history and physics of supernovae, the brilliant explosions of stars; with striking color illustrations.Supernovae are the explosions of stars. They are some of the most energetic phenomena in the Universe, rivaling the combined light of billions of stars. Supernovae have been studied for centuries, and they have also made appearances in popular culture: a glimpse of a supernova in a painting provides Sherlock Holmes with a crucial clue, for example. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, astrophysicist Or Graur offers a concise and accessible introduction to these awe-inspiring astronomical phenomena.Graur explains that a deep observational understanding of supernovae why and how they shine and how their brightness changes over time allows us to use them as tools for experiments in astrophysics and physics. A certain type of supernova, for example, brightens and fades in such a predictable manner that we can measure the distances to their host galaxies. We owe our existence to supernovae they give us iron for our blood and calcium for our bones. But supernovae may also have caused a mass extinction event on Earth 2.6 million years ago.Graur shows how observations of supernovae played a role in the transformation of astronomy from astrology to astrophysics; surveys the tools used to study supernovae today; and describes the lives and deaths of stars and the supernova remnants, neutron stars, and black holes they leave behind. Illustrations in both color and black and white, many from Graur s own Hubble Space Telescope data, make this account of supernovae particularly vivid.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A Fast Company Most Important Books for Designers to Read Right Now Discover how the principles of human-centered design can be applied to real-world health challenges in dozens of illustrated examples from drug packaging and cancer detection devices to post-COVID-19 innovations. Written by pioneers in the field Bon Ku, a physician leader in innovative health design, and Ellen Lupton, an award-winning graphic designer this book outlines the fundamentals of design thinking and highlights important products, prototypes, and research in health design. This revised and expanded edition describes innovations developed in response to the COVID-19 crisis, including an intensive care unit in a shipping container, a rolling cart with intubation equipment, and a mask brace that gives a surgical mask a tighter seal. Graphics by Lupton bring these ideas to life. The authors also explore the special overlap of health care and the creative process, describing the development of such products and services as a credit card sized device that allows patients to generate their own electrocardiograms; a mask designed to be worn with a hijab; improved emergency room signage; and a map of racial disparities and COVID-19. Health Design Thinking is an essential volume for health care providers, educators, patients, and designers who seek to create better experiences and improved health outcomes for individuals and communities.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The New York Times bestselling co-author of Nudge explores how more information can make us happy or miserable and why we sometimes avoid it but sometimes seek it out. How much information is too much Do we need to know how many calories are in the giant vat of popcorn that we bought on our way into the movie theater Do we want to know if we are genetically predisposed to a certain disease Can we do anything useful with next week's weather forecast for Paris if we are not in Paris In Too Much Information, Cass Sunstein examines the effects of information on our lives. Policymakers emphasize the right to know, but Sunstein takes a different perspective, arguing that the focus should be on human well-being and what information contributes to it. Government should require companies, employers, hospitals, and others to disclose information not because of a general right to know but when the information in question would significantly improve people's lives. Of course, says Sunstein, we are better off with stop signs, warnings on prescription drugs, and reminders about payment due dates. But sometimes less is more. What we need is more clarity about what information is actually doing or achieving.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'First published by Penguin Random House Australia Pty Ltd.'--Title page verso.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Treacherous Play examines the overlooked games where treachery, deception and duplicity is encouraged and demanded by the game'--.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Garcia lays out tactics for researchers to fully engage in education policy by directly engaging with politicians -- at levels from local to national -- both before and after they are elected'--.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'An in-depth analysis of Amazon as a ubiquitous brand that has decisively shaped retail, both online and off, and normalized monpoly'--.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A comprehensive and rigorous textbook introduction to modern symbolic logic that provides a modular approach to formal deduction from the basic sentential logic through first-order predicate calculus'--.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Using original data and mixed methods, the book offers a comprehensive study on the spread of transnational sustainability certification in China's agri-food supply chains'--.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Zeligowski, Anna (illustrator). Neuware - Consciousness in all its possible human and nonhuman varieties, explored through words and images.What is consciousness, and who (or what) is conscious humans, nonhumans, nonliving beings How did consciousness evolve Picturing the Mind pursues these questions through a series of vistas short, engaging texts by Simona Ginsburg and Eva Jablonka, accompanied by Anna Zeligowski s lively illustrations. Taking an evolutionary perspective, Ginsburg and Jablonka suggest that consciousness can take many forms and is found not only in humans but even in such animals as octopuses (who seem to express emotions by changing color) and bees (who socialize with other bees). They identify the possible evolutionary marker of the transition from nonconscious to conscious animals, and they speculate intriguingly about aliens and artificial intelligence.Each picture and text serves as a starting point for discussion. The authors consider, among other things, what it s like to be a bat (and then later, what it s like to be a bat in virtual reality); ask if the self is like a hole in a doughnut; report that women, children, and nonwhite men were once thought by white men to be less richly conscious; and explore what sets humans apart is it music, toolmaking, cooperative parenting, blushing, sentience, symbolic language In Picturing the Mind, questions suggest answers.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An introduction to cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology; a guide for practitioners and students.Bitcoin and blockchain enable the ownership of virtual property without the need for a central authority. Additionally, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies make up an entirely new class of assets that have the potential for fundamental change in the current financial system. This book offers an introduction to cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology that begins from the perspective of monetary economics. The book first presents a nontechnical discussion of monetary theory, enabling readers to understand how cryptocurrencies are a radical departure from existing monetary instruments, and provides an overview of blockchain technology and the Bitcoin system. It then takes up technical aspects of Bitcoin in more detail, covering such topics as the Bitcoin network, its communications protocol, the mathematics underpinning decentralized validation, transaction types, the data structure of blocks, the proof-of-work consensus mechanism, and game theory. Finally, the book discusses specific issues and applications, including price volatility, regulatory uncertainty, and central bank cryptocurrencies, as well as such alternative applications as decentralized verification and attestation, tokens, and smart contracts. The concluding chapter offers practical advice on getting started with Bitcoin. End-of-chapter exercises allow readers to test their knowledge. Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Cryptoassets is suitable for classroom use and as a reference for practitioners.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'An advanced level textbook on the science of action and movement from one of the most respected researchers in the field'--.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Strategies for building large systems that can be easily adapted for new situations with only minor programming modifications.Time pressures encourage programmers to write code that works well for a narrow purpose, with no room to grow. But the best systems are evolvable; they can be adapted for new situations by adding code, rather than changing the existing code. The authors describe techniques they have found effective--over their combined 100-plus years of programming experience--that will help programmers avoid programming themselves into corners.The authors explore ways to enhance flexibility by:Organizing systems using combinators to compose mix-and-match parts, ranging from small functions to whole arithmetics, with standardized interfaces Augmenting data with independent annotation layers, such as units of measurement or provenance Combining independent pieces of partial information using unification or propagation Separating control structure from problem domain with domain models, rule systems and pattern matching, propagation, and dependency-directed backtracking Extending the programming language, using dynamically extensible evaluators.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A rigorous and comprehensive textbook covering the major approaches to knowledge graphs, an active and interdisciplinary area within artificial intelligence.The field of knowledge graphs, which allows us to model, process, and derive insights from complex real-world data, has emerged as an active and interdisciplinary area of artificial intelligence over the last decade, drawing on such fields as natural language processing, data mining, and the semantic web. Current projects involve predicting cyberattacks, recommending products, and even gleaning insights from thousands of papers on COVID-19. This textbook offers rigorous and comprehensive coverage of the field. It focuses systematically on the major approaches, both those that have stood the test of time and the latest deep learning methods.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Explores the making of regulatory objects as a political and economic operation as relates to the European Union and especially the impacts following Brexit'--.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This textbook offers an overview of techniques stemming from machine learning to train robots to adapt to changes in their environment'--.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Revised edition of Financial modeling, [2014].