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In Station Blackout, Chuck Casto, the foremost authority on responding to nuclear disasters, shares his first-hand account of how he led the collaborative team of Japanese and American experts that faced the challenges of Fukushima. A lifetime of working in the nuclear industry prepared him to manage an extreme crisis, lessons that apply to any crisis situation.

Glück ist, sich am Anblick einer Sonnenblume erfreuen zu können. In lockerem Ton erzählt der Psychiater Manfred Spitzer wie Glücksgefühle in unserem Gehirn entstehen, welche Rolle Erziehung und persönliche Einstellung spielen, und er sagt uns, ob man Glück lernen kann.

Wie verarbeitet das menschliche Gehirn Musik? War Mozart wirklich ein musikalisches Genie? Oder wurde "Wolferl" von seinem Vater so lange gedrillt, bis er bereits als Kind meisterhaft musizieren konnte? Wer könnte auf solche Fragen besser antworten, als der wohl bekannteste Hirnforscher Deutschlands und Bestseller-Autor Manfred Spitzer. Mit spielerischer Leichtigkeit und unter Zuhilfenahme einer Gitarre und eines Synthesizers, demonstriert uns Manfred Spitzer, wie und wo das Gehirn Musik verarbeitet, warum wir Liebeslieder als schön empfinden und wie Musik unser Gehirn plastisch formt.

"Wir Menschen haben immerzu Geld im Kopf", sagt der Psychiater Manfred Spitzer. Geld motiviert zu Leistung; wir arbeiten für Geld und erfüllen uns mit Geld unsere Träume. Andererseits weiß der Volksmund zu erzählen: Geld verdirbt den Charakter, und Geld macht nicht glücklich. Was stimmt den nun? Was spielt sich in unserem Gehirn ab, wenn wir an Geld denken: Wenn wir Einkaufen gehen, an den Börsen mit Aktien spekulieren oder weitreichende finanzielle Entscheidungen treffen? Gibt es in unserem Denkapparat eine Art "Geldmodul"?

Author Kurt C. Schlichting tells the story of the Manhattan waterfront as a struggle between public and private control of New York's priceless asset. Nature provided New York with a sheltered harbor but presented the city with a challenge: to find the necessary capital to build and expand the maritime infrastructure. From colonial times until after the Civil War, the city ceded control of the waterfront to private interests, excluding the public entirely and sparking a battle between shipping companies, the railroads, and ferries for access to the waterfront.

USS Nevada (BB-36) was America's first modern battleship. When its keel was laid in 1912, kings and emperors still ruled much of the world. When it finally slipped beneath the waves in 1948, America was the undisputed global superpower.

Tudo que um profissional precisa saber para produzir, narrar, revisar e até mesmo empreender no mercado de audiolivros. Na parte técnica, os princípios de áudio e acústica, os equipamentos mais adequados, os principais plug-ins e programas de edição, além dos caminhos mais fáceis para editar, mixar e finalizar o produto.

Dieses Hörbuch wirft eine revolutionäre, neue Perspektive auf unseren Umgang mit Hunden: Es beleuchtet unser Verhalten im Vergleich zu dem der Hunde! Als Doktorin der Zoologie, Tierverhaltenstherapeutin und Hundetrainerin mit mehr als zwanzig Jahren Praxiserfahrung betrachtet Patricia McConnell uns Menschen augenzwinkernd wie eine interessante Spezies von Säugetieren.

Il ciclista non fa code, non ha problemi di parcheggio. Procede spavaldo, impettito e il suo agile veicolo gli trasmette una tranquilla solennità. Beffardamente sorpassa l'automobilista imbottigliato nel traffico. Nell'illustrare i vantaggi della bici, Trochet non si limita a considerazioni di natura logistica. Bicicletta diventa sinonimo di benessere fisico e spirituale, libertà di movimento e di pensiero.

From Hiroshima to Chernobyl, Fukushima to the growing legacy of lethal radioactive waste, humanity's struggle to conquer atomic energy is rife with secrecy, deceit, human error, blatant disregard for life, short-sighted politics and fear. Fallout is an eye-opening odyssey through the first eight decades of this struggle and the radioactive landscapes it has left behind. We are, he finds, forever torn between technological hubris and all-too-human terror about what we have created.

During his remarkable lifetime, Harold Gatty became one of the world's great navigators (in 1931, he and Wiley Post flew around the world in a record-breaking eight days) and, to the benefit of posterity, recorded in this book much of his accumulated knowledge about pathfinding both on land and at sea. Applying methods used by primitive peoples and early explorers, the author reveals how to determine location, study wind directions and reflections in the sky, even how to use the senses of smell and hearing to find your way in the wilderness, in a desert, in snow-covered areas, and on the ocean.

The recent Hollywood film Hidden Figures presents a portrait of how African American women shaped the US effort in aerospace during the height of Jim Crow. In Storming the Heavens, Gerald Horne presents the necessary back story to this account and goes further to detail the earlier struggle of African Americans to gain the right to fly.

In a short period of time, technology has exploded in the world market to a point where many cannot imagine a life without smartphones, tablets, and computers. With each new upgrade, technology compounds existing technologies to create something better than what was previously used before. Included are speeches from technical innovators, executives in the field of technology, developers, prognosticators, and others.

In this audiobook, David Gunkel offers a provocative attempt to think about what has been previously regarded as unthinkable: whether and to what extent robots and other technological artifacts of our own making can and should have any claim to moral and legal standing.

Jeta kniga predstavljaet soboj podrobnoe rukovodstvo po rabote s iPhone 5s i 5c. Gadzhet rabotaet na novoj versii operacionnoj sistemy- iOS7. Pojetomu jeta kniga budet polezna kak obladateljam poslednih versij smartfona - 5s i 5c, tak i tem,kto uzhe pol'zuetsja drugimi modeljami, no zhelaet perejti na novuju iOS. Krome togo, kniga tochno prigoditsja tem, kto tol'ko nachinaet rabotat' s ustrojstvami kompanii Apple Proslushav jetu knigu,dazhe prodvinutye pol'zovateli otkrojut dlja sebja novye vozmozhnosti svoego smartfona.

MacBook - jeto sovershennye noutbuki, vypuskaemye firmoj Apple. Nazvanie jetot komp'juter poluchil iz-za svoih miniatjurnyh gabaritov. Jeto ochen' legkij i uzkij noutbuk. Ego ne sputaesh' s drugimi komp'juterami. U MacBook aljuminievyj korpus, strogie polosy serebristo-chernogo cveta i zaostrennye formy.

Jeta kniga predstavljaet soboj podrobnoe rukovodstvo po rabote v iOS 7. Tak kak novaja versija operacionnoj sistemy neset v sebe mnozhestvo novovvedenij, ona budet polezna kak tem, kto tol'ko znakomitsja s ustrojstvami kompanii Apple, tak i tem, kto uzhe pol'zuetsja bolee rannimi versijami iOS. Proslushav jetu knigu, dazhe prodvinutye pol'zovateli otkrojut dlja sebja novye vozmozhnosti operacionnoj sistemy iOS 7.

Вы когда-нибудь задумывались о том, что ваш мобильный телефон может из простого средства для совершения звонков превратиться в полноценного личного бизнес-помощника? Прослушайте нашу книгу – и ваш iPhone станет таковым. Мы расскажем вам не только о стандартных возможностях iPhone, о которых, несмотря ни на что, многие не подозревают, но и о том, как с его помощью упростить ведение бухгалтерии, синхронизировать свою работу с коллегами, вести документооборот и многое-многое другое. …

Прогуливаясь по интернет-страницам, вам наверняка не раз приходилось сталкиваться с упоминаниями об iPad. Многих впечатляет, с каким нетерпением люди ждут выхода новых моделей этого легендарного планшета, и наверняка возникает закономерный вопрос: «Так для чего же нужен iPad и что он из себя представляет?». Сейчас, когда мы получили представление о том, что из себя представляет iPad, пора разобраться с тем, зачем нам вообще он так необходим и почему во всем мире находятся миллионы ярых поклонников этого большого, но такого красивого устройства. …

Poslednjaja versija operacionnoj sistemy dlja ustrojstv kompanii Apple stala, po priznaniju ee predstavitelej, samym bol'shim obnovleniem so vremeni vyhoda original'noj iOS. Pojavilos' mnozhestvo novyh funkcij, a znachit, sistema stala eshhe bolee udobnoj i komfortnoj dlja ispol'zovanija. No chtoby v polnoj mere ponjat' i pochuvstvovat' vse pozitivnye izmenenija, nuzhno pravil'no pol'zovat'sja nauchit'sja novoj sistemoj. V jetom vam pomozhet nash samouchitel'. Nadeemsja, chto jeta kniga okazhetsja dlja vas poleznoj.