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pdf, epub | 3.87 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B0B23W8RSQ | Author: Tanya Machin, Charlotte Brownlow, Susan Abel, John Gilmour | Year: 2022

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This book explores social media and technology across the lifespan. The authors argue that those of different ages and life stages have very diverse experiences with these types of media and demonstrate the importance of analysing the entire lifespan in the context of technology use. They acknowledge and celebrate social media for the positives that it can bring to our lives but also recognise that there may be challenges for particular developmental stages.

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pdf | 36.51 MB | English | Isbn:‎ 1399093290 | Author: Manousos E Kambouris; | Year: 2022

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Manousos Kambouris revisits the epic events of the first Greco- War and the invasion of Greece. He gives excellent detail on the perspective and sets the war in the context of the rise of Achaemenid Persia as the superpower of the day and the expansion of their empire into Europe. After relating the earlier campaigns in Europe the author shows how the Ionian Revolt, by the Greeks of Asia Minor already under rule, was instrumental. Darius I, the King of Kings ordered the invasion of Greece ostensibly to punish the Greeks, and more specifically the Athenians, for their support of the Revolt and to contain further insurgencies but in truth to achieve god-ordained world dominance.

Describing the invasion in great detail, the author analyses the king's immense (even if occasionally exaggerated) army, considering its composition and logistical constraints. The campaign leading to Marathon and the decisive battle itself are then clearly narrated. Manousos Kambouris' meticulous research brings fresh insights to this timeless tale of defiance of the odds and victory for the underdog.

Category:Ancient Military History, Ancient Greek History, Ancient Greek History

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pdf | 55.82 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B095YXQVS1 | Author: Pim Martens | Year: 2021

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The Earth System may be the most complex entity that ever emerged in our galaxy and the contemporary process of 'globalisation' may be the most intricate dynamics that will ever pervade that entity: it is the interactive co-evolution of millions of technological, cultural, economic, social and environmental trends at all conceivable spatiotemporal scales that brings about the present fundamental transformation of humanity's way of life. In this text the authors make the heroic effort to tame the complexity of modern planetary development by the intellectual concept of 'transition'. In this work, four major issues are discussed that are of global importance: developments related to two of our key natural resources; water and biodiversity; the health of human populations; and the developments related to global tourism.

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epub | 11.81 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B0B3665QJB | Author: Richard White | Year: 2022

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A premier historian penetrates the fog of corruption and cover-up still surrounding the murder of a Stanford University founder to establish who did it, how, and why. In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son. After her husband's death in 1893, Jane Stanford, a devoted spiritualist who expected the university to inculcate her values, steered Stanford into eccentricity and public controversy for more than a decade. In 1905 she was murdered in Hawaii, a victim, according to the Honolulu coroner's jury, of strychnine poisoning. With her vast fortune the university's lifeline, the Stanford president and his allies quickly sought to foreclose challenges to her bequests by constructing a story of death by natural causes. The cover-up gained traction in the murky labyrinths of power, wealth, and corruption of Gilded Age San Francisco. The murderer walked. Deftly sifting the scattered evidence and...

Category:Book Notes, Study Guides, Study Guides

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azw | 9.25 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B07RJYTKZK | Author: John J. Navin | Year: 2019

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"The compelling story of a colony besieged by meteorological, epidemiological, economic, and manmade catastrophes only to arise like the phoenix." -Orville Vernon Burton, author of The Age of Lincoln

During South Carolina's settlement, a cadre of men rose to political and economic prominence, while ordinary colonists, enslaved Africans, and indigenous groups became trapped in a web of violence and oppression. John J. Navin explains how eight English aristats, the Lords Proprietors, came to possess the vast Carolina grant and then enacted elaborate plans to recruit and control colonists as part of a grand moneymaking scheme. But those plans went awry, and the mainstays of the economy became hog and cattle ranching, lumber products, naval stores, deerskin exports, and the calamitous Indian slave trade. The settlers' relentless pursuit of wealth set the colony on a path toward prosperity but also toward a fatal dependency on slave labor. Rice would produce immense fortunes in South Carolina, but not during the colony's first fifty years. Religious and political turmoil instigated by settlers from Barbados eventually led to a total rejection of proprietary authority.

Using a variety of primary sources, Navin describes challenges that colonists faced, setbacks they experienced, and the effects of policies and practices initiated by elites and proprietors. Storms, fires, epidemics, and armed conflicts destroyed property, lives, and dreams. Threatened by the Native Americans they exploited, by the Africans they enslaved, and by their French and Spanish rivals, South Carolinians lived in continual fear. For some it was the price they paid for financial success. But for most there were no riches, and the possibility of a sudden, violent death was overshadowed by the misery of their day-to-day existence.

Category:History of U.S. Immigration, Emigration & Immigration, Colonial Period History of the U.S.

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pdf | 8.24 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B09NC5XJ6D | Author: Adi Wijaya | Year: 2022

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Build and deploy your own data pipelines on GCP, make key architectural decisions, and gain the confidence to boost your career as a data engineer

Key Features
[*] Understand data engineering concepts, the role of a data engineer, and the benefits of using GCP for building your solution[*] Learn how to use the various GCP products to ingest, consume, and transform data and orchestrate pipelines[*] Discover tips to prepare for and pass the Professional Data Engineer exam

Book Description
With this book, you'll understand how the highly scalable Google Cloud Platform (GCP) enables data engineers to create end-to-end data pipelines right from storing and processing data and workflow orchestration to presenting data through visualization dashboards.
Starting with a quick overview of the fundamental concepts of data engineering, you'll learn the various responsibilities of a data engineer and how GCP plays a vital role in fulfilling those responsibilities. As you progress through the chapters, you'll be able to leverage GCP products to build a sample data warehouse using Cloud Storage and BigQuery and a data lake using Dataproc. The book gradually takes you through operations such as data ingestion, data cleansing, transformation, and integrating data with other sources. You'll learn how to design IAM for data governance, deploy ML pipelines with the Vertex AI, leverage pre-built GCP models as a service, and visualize data with Google Data Studio to build compelling reports. Finally, you'll find tips on how to boost your career as a data engineer, take the Professional Data Engineer certification exam, and get ready to become an expert in data engineering with GCP.
By the end of this data engineering book, you'll have developed the skills to perform core data engineering tasks and build efficient ETL data pipelines with GCP.

What you will learn
[*] Load data into BigQuery and materialize its output for downstream consumption[*] Build data pipeline orchestration using Cloud Composer[*] Develop Airflow jobs to orchestrate and automate a data warehouse[*] Build a Hadoop data lake, create ephemeral clusters, and run jobs on the Dataproc cluster[*] Leverage Pub/Sub for messaging and ingestion for event-driven systems[*] Use Dataflow to perform ETL on streaming data[*] Unlock the power of your data with Data Studio[*] Calculate the GCP cost estimation for your end-to-end data solutions

Who this book is for
This book is for data engineers, data analysts, and anyone looking to design and manage data processing pipelines using GCP. You'll find this book useful if you are preparing to take Google's Professional Data Engineer exam. Beginner-level understanding of data science, the Python programming language, and Linux commands is necessary. A basic understanding of data processing and cloud computing, in general, will help you make the most out of this book.

Table of Contents
[*] Fundamentals of Data Engineering[*] Big Data Capabilities on GCP[*] Building a Data Warehouse in BigQuery[*] Building Orchestration for Batch Data Loading Using Cloud Composer[*] Building a Data Lake Using Dataproc[*] Processing Streaming Data with Pub/Sub and Dataflow[*] Visualizing Data for Making Data-Driven Decisions with Data Studio[*] Building Machine Learning Solutions on Google Cloud Platform[*] User and Project Management in GCP[*] Cost Strategy in GCP[*] CI/CD on Google Cloud Platform for Data Engineers[*] Boosting Your Confidence as a Data Engineer

Category:Data Modeling & Design, Data Mining, Data Modeling & Design

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pdf | 16.03 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B08NCJ1VRP | Author: Gareth R. Williams | Year: 2020

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Biomedical Applications of Magnetic Particles discusses fundamental magnetic nanoparticle physics and chemistry and explores important biomedical applications and future challenges.

The first section presents the fundamentals of the field by explaining the theory of magnetism, describing techniques to synthesize magnetic particles, detailing methods to characterize magnetic particles, and quantitatively describing the applied magnetic forces, torques, and the resultant particle motions. The second section describes the wide range of biomedical applications, including chemical sensors, cellular actuators, drug delivery, magnetic hyperthermia, magnetic resonance imaging contrast enhancement, and toxicity.

Additional key features include:
[*] Covers both introduction to physics and characterization of magnetic nanoparticles and the state of the art in biomedical applications
[*] Authoritative reference for scientists and engineers for all new or old to the field
[*] Describes how the size of magnetic nanoparticles affects their magnetic properties, colloidal properties, and biological properties.

Written by a team of internationally respected experts, this book provides an up-to-date authoritative reference for scientists and engineers.

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pdf | 71.91 MB | English | Isbn:‎ 978-3031791710 | Author: Edward B. Saff Arthur David Snider | Year: 2022

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This book introduces complex analysis and is appropriate for a first course in the subject at typically the third-year University level. It introduces the exponential function very early but does so rigorously. It covers the usual topics of functions, differentiation, analyticity, contour integration, the theorems of Cauchy and their many consequences, Taylor and Laurent series, residue theory, the computation of certain improper real integrals, and a brief introduction to conformal mapping. Throughout the text an emphasis is placed on geometric properties of complex numbers and visualization of complex mappings.

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epub | 532.2 KB | English | Isbn:‎ B0925DXNV1 | Author: Jodi Picoult | Year: 2021

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Contains an exclusive short story from Jodi Picoult featuring the main character, Diana, available in the first print run only. Pre-order now to guarantee your copy!
Diana O'Toole's life is going perfectly to plan. At twenty-nine, she's up for promotion to her dream job as an art specialist at Sotheby's and she's about to fly to the Gal?pagos where she's convinced her surgeon boyfriend, Finn, is going to propose.
But then the virus hits New York City and Finn breaks the news: the hospital needs him, he has to stay. But you should still go , he insists. And reluctantly, she agrees.
Once she's in the Gal?pagos, the world shuts down around her, leaving Diana stranded - albeit in paradise. Completely isolated, with only intermittent news from the outside world, Diana finds herself examining everything that has brought her to this point and wondering if there's a better way to live.
But not everything is as it seems . . .

Category:Literary Sagas, Family Saga Fiction, Women's Sagas

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epub | 2.74 MB | English | Isbn:‎ 1787333485 | Author: Anthony Horowitz | Year: 2022

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Internationally bestselling author Anthony Horowitz's third James Bond novel, after Forever and a Day.
It is M's funeral. One man is missing from the graveside: the traitor who pulled the trigger and who is now in custody, accused of M's murder - James Bond.
Behind the Iron Curtain, a group of former Smersh agents want to use the British spy in an operation that will change the balance of world power. Bond is smuggled into the lion's den - but whose orders is he following, and will he obey them when the moment of truth arrives?
In a mission where treachery is all around and one false move means death, Bond must grapple with the darkest questions about himself. But not even he knows what has happened to the man he used to be.

Category:Assassination Thrillers, Assassination Thrillers, Espionage Thrillers

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