Urban Emergency Readiness: Preparedness For Emergencies and Disasters in the Cities or Urban Environments (THE URBAN SURVIVAL SERIES Book 1) by David Holman (3 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

Learning to prepare yourself for emergencies and disasters in an urban environment could save your life or the life of a loved one. There are some Preppers who believe that it is best to "bug out" in the event of an emergency or disaster, but depending on your situation it may be best to "bug in" hunker down... stay where you are. Stockpile supplies and fortify your home. You might not be able to leave for one reason or another, Asses the potential dangers for your area and prepare accordingly. What type of natural disasters are prevalent in your area, what is the crime like, are there predatory animals, reptiles, or insects? How hot does it get, how cold, is there alot of snow and ice? Answering these questions will help your to formulate a plan of action, a course to take. There are the basics to deal with... Food, Water, Shelter, Security, Medicine, Communications..and so much more. But what happens when your supplies run out? What if they get stolen or damaged? Can you protect or hide your supplies if others come to rob you?Where can you find food or water in the city in a pinch? Can you produce your own food or find water in the city if you have to? Do you know how to filter and purify it? If not then you really need this book.

Genre: Science & Math

How to Lie with Charts: Fourth Edition by Gerald Everett Jones (LaPuerta Books and Media) (20 Reviews)    Price verified 51 minutes ago

Don't blame the computers. People are running the show. A Supplementary Courseware Textbook in Graph Design, Business Math, and Marketing PLEASE NOTE: Because of the complexity of graphics in this ebook, it is published as Kindle Textbook in Print Replica format. Its digital pages match the layout of the print edition. This ebook is text-searchable but not reflowable. This is the new edition of the definitive textbook on data visualization. There's added material on fake news and social media disinformation, misinterpretation of metadata, and the uses and abuses of Big Data. If you're using a computer to generate charts for meetings and reports, you don't have to be taught how to lie - you're already doing it. You probably don't know your charts are unreliable, and neither does your audience. So you're getting away with it - until a manager or a sales prospect or an investor makes a bad decision based on the information that you were so helpful to provide. The main focus of How to Lie with Charts is on the principles of persuasive - and undistorted - visual communication. It's about careful thinking and clear expression.

Genre: Science & Math

Frameworks for Life: A Personal Operating System for Balanced and Effective Living by Alan Huang (1 Review)    Price verified 21 minutes ago

Frameworks for Life is the "user's manual for life" that the author wishes he was given. Management consultant and finance professional Alan Huang shows you how to spend your limited time, energy, and money wisely to achieve balance and health in your life. This book discusses a wide range of topics from the practical to the philosophical, including ways to improve your physical and mental health, strengthen your interpersonal relationships, and find meaning in your life. The book's wide range of topics are inspired by Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, the greatest framework for understanding our human motivations and needs (in the author's humble opinion). Each chapter provides an overview of a single topic, distilling the best contemporary thinking, then translates that knowledge into routine habits that can help you live your life more effectively, efficiently, and meaningfully. To build an understanding of each topic, the book takes a first principles approach. First, the topic is defined and a useful goal identified. Next, the topic is explained using frameworks, which are analytical tools that provide an organized holistic overview of a concept, system, or process. Based on that understanding, practical suggestions for improving one's effectiveness are shared. Table of contents: • Introduction • I. Identifying and Pursuing What's Most Important • 1. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: What Are the Components of a Good Life? • 2. Toward a Personal Operating System: How Should You Spend Your Time? • 3. Life as a Balancing Act: What Should You Prioritize? • II. Physiological Needs • 4. Sleep: Why Sleep Now, If You Can Sleep When You're Dead? • 5. Diet, Nutrition, and Body Composition: How Should You Eat? • 6. Physical Fitness: What Exactly Are You Working Out? • 7. Cooking: What Is This Mysterious Kitchen Alchemy? • III. Safety Needs • 8. Personal Finance: What Should You Do with Your Money? • 9. Housekeeping: If You Ignore Your ...

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A Complete Guide to Physical Chemistry Experiments and Conceptual Questions by Neelam Seedher (14 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

Highlights of the book: • A comprehensive text explaining concepts, experimental details and conceptual questions in a clear and concise way. • Useful for Physical and Analytical chemistry students. • Sixteen physical chemistry techniques and 70 related experiments discussed in detail. • Sufficient basic information about forty-five other suggested experiments also included. • The book explains minutest details about the experimental procedures. Mistakes generally committed by students during the performance of the experiments specially highlighted throughout the book. • To help students understand basic concepts and prepare for oral examination, more than 500 conceptual questions posed and answered with detailed explanations. • Part I deals with all the basics of physical chemistry laboratory such as measurement of weight and volume, density of liquids, measurement and control of temperature, accuracy, precision and error analysis, units and dimensions, unit conversions, cleaning and calibration of glassware, preparation and standardization of solutions, plotting a graph, safety in physical chemistry laboratory and writing a lab report. • Part II includes complete details about the experiments such as the principle on which the experiment is based, apparatus and chemicals required, methods used, observations, calculations, result and precautions. Some relevant oral conceptual questions with answers have also been included at the end of each chapter. • Very simple and easy to understand language is used throughout. • The book is first of its kind since it includes not only the concepts and experimental procedures in detail but oral conceptual questions on each topic with answers and detailed explanations as well.

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Intelligent Evolution: An Alternate Theory of Evolution by Claire Quinn Ph.D. (9 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Intelligent design is often depicted as science versus religion but this is not always the case. I have a Ph.D. in molecular biology, don't follow any specific religion, and have come to the conclusion that the complexity of life suggests intelligent design. I believe microbes were designed by an intelligent entity and then released into the cold, vastness of space. Some haphazardly landed on our warm, wet planet and went on to evolve into everything we see here today, including us. This is 'Intelligent Evolution' because we evolved from intelligently designed microbes. Evidence of this and how these microbes took our planet from a barren, wet rock to a thriving, rich ecosystem is outlined in detail, essentially rewriting the entire theory of evolution.

Genre: Science & Math

Cystic Fibrosis & the Brewer's Yeast: A Microbiology Tale by David Wooster (7 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Ben Ketchum is an assistant professor at a small college in Montana with just one year left to secure his tenure or he's going to be out of a job, this at a time when there are already alarming cutbacks going on in science due to Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq War. And as if to complicate his life further, the all important anthrax grant Ben was counting on didn't come through so now he's forced to begin a new project, this one involving a different type of microbe than what he's used to: the brewer's yeast. To learn all he can about the yeast, Ben takes two weeks off and travels first to exotic Egypt where he discovers the yeast's role in building this once-great civilization, including brewing beer, making wine, raising bread as well as the pyramids. He then travels to Germany, a more recent example of a beer culture, where he uncovers the yeast's influence in Western civilization including his own country. Ben's day-to-day concerns with being a mentor, teacher, and scientist while at the same time having to secure his tenure, is a unifying theme. Each story is woven together with interesting facts about ancient history & science so as to give the reader an appreciation for not only what it's like to run a modern research laboratory, but also how our everyday world has been shaped by unseen microbes, often for thousands of years. For example, Ben's search for the brewer's yeast leads him to uncover details about the Bubonic plague & beer steins, wine amphora, Hitler, beer halls, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, whiskey, pretzels, pasteurization and Egyptian mummies. He also teams up with two eccentric microbiologists and develops a love interest while in Egypt: the beautiful young medical doctor Tahany Hassan. This novel is based on a true story... inspired by the author's experiences in graduate school and as a scientist at Children's Hospital Los Angeles California. In this novel you'll also discover diverse facts about: cystic fibrosis & ...

Genre: Science & Math