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  • Ambition, A History

    From Vice to Virtue

    Is "ambitious" a compliment? It depends: "[A] masterpiece of intellectual and cultural history."—David Brion Davis, author of Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New WorldFrom rags to riches, log house to White House, enslaved to liberator, ghetto to CEO, ambition fuels the American Dream. Yet at the time of the nation's founding, ambition was viewed as a dangerous vice, ... Read more

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  • The Baseless Fabric of this Vision

    A Quantum-Field-Theoretic Model of Consciousness

    The title of this book comes from The Tempest, one of Shakespeare's final plays. In it, the character Prospero remarks on the essence of existence by calling it a "baseless fabric." He goes on to qualify it with the phrase "We are such stuff as dreams are made upon." With this passage, Shakespeare conveys two deep insights. First, that the ground of reality lacks substantiality. That it is formed ... Read more

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  • None a Stranger There

    England and/in Europe on the Early Modern Stage

    Series series Strode Studies in Early Modern Literature and Culture
    A wide-ranging group of scholarly essays that probe the historical nature of English identity, both through self-definition and in relationship to the rest of Europe ... Read more

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    Britain’s War for the Mediterranean provides a definitive study on British warmaking in the Mediterranean during the War of the First Coalition. It traces the origins of foreign and naval policies from the early eighteenth century to describe the duality of British affairs. These contradictions manifested themselves in the War of the First Coalition as Great Britain attempted to build consensus in ... Read more

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    Cybersecurity and Applied Mathematics explores the mathematical concepts necessary for effective cybersecurity research and practice, taking an applied approach for practitioners and students entering the field. This book covers methods of statistical exploratory data analysis and visualization as a type of model for driving decisions, also discussing key topics, such as graph theory, topological ... Read more

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  • The Stress Test Every Business Needs

    A Capital Agenda for Confidently Facing Digital Disruption, Difficult Investors, Recessions and Geopolitical Threats

    Future-proof your business today for stronger performance tomorrowThe Stress Test Every Business Needs: A Capital Agenda for Confidently Facing Digital Disruption, Difficult Investors, Recessions and Geopolitical Threats provides a comprehensive approach to creating value and flexibility in an increasingly volatile business environment that presents both great risks and opportunities every day. ... Read more

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  • Post-anaesthetic Recovery

    A Practical Approach

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Developments in surgery have enabled more ambitious operations to be attempted than ever before, while similar advances in anaesthesia and monitoring have meant that many patients who were previously considered unfit now undergo surgery. It is essential that standards of patient care during surgery are continued post-operatively until the depressant effects of anaesthesia have worn off and it is ... Read more

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  • LEAD Safety

    A Practical Handbook for Frontline Supervisors and Safety Practitioners

    LEAD Safety concentrates on self-development and education in safety leadership. It takes safety leadership in an exciting new direction, with practical tools that will give organisations the skills they need to make a difference in their safety program. The book provides a non-technical overview of safety leadership and outlines the core skills safety managers should demonstrate and practice. ... Read more

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  • Decision and Game Theory for Security

    7th International Conference, GameSec 2016, New York, NY, USA, November 2-4, 2016, Proceedings

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security, GameSec 2016, held in New York, NY, USA, in November 2016.The 18 revised full papers presented together with 8 short papers and 5 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on network security; ... Read more

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    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Bio-Inspired Information and Communications Technologies, held in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, in March 2019. The 13 revised full papers and 2 short papers were selected from 29 submissions. Past iterations of the conference have attracted contributions in Direct Bioinspiration (physical biological materials ... Read more

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  • Blue

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    Blue is a sixteen-year-old with autism and dissociative identity disorder, a nonverbal teen who communicates through AAC and sees the world through soft eyes and simple truths. Daniel is angry, broken, and terrified of himself - a teen carrying the weight of trauma, psychosis, and a mind that never feels safe.Thrown into the sterile walls of a youth psychiatric facility, the two meet - one guarded ... Read more

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  • Missing The Dead

    Dr. Leila Maxwell is a forensic specialist, her expertise is at getting the story behind a murder and she's recognized as one of the best. But she soon meets her match as a serial killer goes on a rampage in San Francisco as numerous prostitutes are found murdered. Her investigation then takes on a whole new sense of urgency when her troubled younger sister is declared missing. ... Read more

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