Rick Smith, "The Great Disruption: Competing and Surviving in the Second Wave of the Industrial Revolution"
English | ISBN: 125009142X | 2016 | 240 pages | EPUB | 1226 KB
The Great Disruption reveals how 3D printing manufacturing will transform the world in the same way that Henry Ford's Model T upended transportation or Gutenberg's printing press started an information revolution. It traces both the impact of this disruption as it rapidly spreads around the world and affects every kind of industry imaginable, while detailing specific steps that can and should be taken right now to prepare.
Marilynne Eichinger, "Lives of Museum Junkies: Second Edition"
English | ISBN: 0999892223 | 2020 | 376 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The second edition of "Lives of Museum Junkies" brings stories about the science center movement that started in the 1960s through to 2020. The writing was simplified to make it easier to understand and more pleasant to read. Though museum directors faced many financial and philosophical struggles during the early years, none were as bad as the chaos created by COVID-19. Budgets were cut in half and staff let go while attendance dwindled and in person programs closed. Projections made during the time were that one-third of all museums would close. Covid occurred during a period in America when science mocked by many skeptics. By not paying attention to health professionals, the country suffered. "Lives of Museum Junkies" is especially relevant in the 21st century. The reasons for developing hands-on science centers hold true as our country moves into the Fourth Industrial revolution where artificial intelligence and Biotechnology lead the way to the future. How we educate children will be critical to the country's ability to cope and overcome challenges placed in its way. Increasingly, that means training minds to do sophisticated work, being technically adept, and knowing how to communicate to a broad spectrum of people outside their local community. Showing the relationship between mind, body, and spirit is a challenge science centers faced since their inception. They do it through exhibits and programs that attract people of all ages and backgrounds. COVID is but a bump in the road for these dynamic institutions that know how to make learning fun.Editorial Reviews"What the book does so effectively is not only discuss the appeal and behind-the-scenes activity of interactive science museums but also place them in a larger political and educational context. The best passages of the book focus on the relationship between interactive learning and a more traditional public school education. What Mrs. Eichinger suggests is that these two educational systems can compliment each other, with interactive learning picking up where underfunded and overburdened public schools fall short. Here, Mrs. Eichinger is able to draw from her wealth of experience, and it's in these passages that her informal, anecdotal style works best, relating personal insights that engage the reader in much the same way she's been delighting museum goers for decades." - Manhattan Book Review"Picture a museum in your mind. Did you imagine exhibits, roped-off bits and bobs from history meant to inspire, amaze, and educate, but always out of reach? Even today, this idea of the museum as the look-but-don't-touch institution persists. But there is another way. For decades, hands-on education has sought to break down the barriers between exhibits and visitors, allowing interested minds of all ages the opportunity to interact with exhibits, to learn firsthand by experiencing scientific principles in action. And Lives of Museum Junkies chronicles the long journey behind bringing science and museums to your fingertips.Marilynne Eichinger uses her story - the story of how the Impression 5 Science Center in Lansing, Michigan, was brought to life - as the framework upon which to mount an encouraging, inspiring tale of dedicated people forging their own path and establishing something new and exciting for their community. This is the story of hard-working, generous, driven people starting from scratch and building something unique, valuable, and hands-on. From marketing and sharing one's brand to expanding an idea on a national and international scale, the stories of Eichinger's work at Impression 5 and the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry encompass all aspects of community building, starting a business, and shifting people's perceptions of just what can be accomplished when creativity meets commitment. San Francisco Book Review2016 Great Midwest Book Festival Awards Winner
The Age of Interconnection
by Sperber, Jonathan;
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0190918950 | 817 pages | True PDF EPUB | 109.14 MB
Alex Garcia, Viktor Farcic, "Test-Driven Java Development - Second Edition: Invoke TDD principles for end-to-end application development"
English | 2018 | pages: 314 | ISBN: 1788836111 | PDF | 4,4 mb
This book will teach the concepts of test driven development in Java so you can build clean, maintainable and robust code
Second Language Pronunciation
by Ubiratã Kickhöfel Alves, Jeniffer Imaregna Alcantara de Albuquerque
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3110739518 | 430 pages | True PDF EPUB | 24.66 MB
John Street, "Mass Media, Politics and Democracy: Second Edition"
English | 2010 | pages: 400 | ISBN: 1403947341, 1403947325 | PDF | 1,1 mb
This widely used and popular text provides a broad-ranging analysis of the relationship between the media and politics. Revised and updated throughout, this second edition includes coverage of the mediatization of politics; of E-politics and governance; of the impact of 'reality TV'; and of issues raised by the reporting of war in Iraq.
Communicative Competence in a Second Language: Theory, Method, and Applications
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0367750236 | 241 Pages | PDF (True) | 17 MB
Communicative competence is an essential language skill, the ability to adjust language use according to specific contexts and to employ knowledge and strategies for successful communication.
Lu Fang, "Artificial Intelligence: Second CAAI International Conference, CICAI 2022, Beijing, China, August 27-28, 2022, Revised S"
English | ISBN: 3031204964 | 2022 | 709 pages | PDF | 67 MB
This three-volume set LNCS 13604-13606 constitutes revised selected papers presented at the Second CAAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, held in Beijing, China, in August 2022. CICAI is a summit forum in the field of artificial intelligence and the 2022 forum was hosted by Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI).
Data Visualization and Analysis in Second Language Research (Second Language Acquisition Research Series) By Guilherme D. Garcia
2021 | 286 Pages | ISBN: 0367469642 | PDF | 6 MB
This introduction to visualization techniques and statistical models for second language research focuses on three types of data (continuous, binary, and scalar), helping readers to understand regression models fully and to apply them in their work. Garcia offers advanced coverage of Bayesian analysis, simulated data, exercises, implementable script code, and practical guidance on the latest R software packages. The book, also demonstrating the benefits to the L2 field of this type of statistical work, is a resource for graduate students and researchers in second language acquisition, applied linguistics, and corpus linguistics who are interested in quantitative data analysis.
Second Harmonic Generation: Pathways of Nonlinear Photonics
by Abdel-Baset M. A. Ibrahim;
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1685078885 | 242 pages | True PDF | 12.79 MB