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The global history of high speed rail, from the railways' "wisest, most detailed historian" (The Observer) Sleek, comfortable, accessible, and sustainable, high-speed rail is the future. Since Japan’s Bullet Train first sped down the track in the sixties, it has become a global icon, as famous...

Have you ever wondered what the next century bodes for humanity? Then keep listening... As mankind seeks to guide its own evolution and create intelligent machines, we stand at the brink of doing something no other living being has ever done before. The power to prolong life far beyond natural limits and beat back death itself. The ability to control computers and machines with our minds, and even merge with them. We are poised to become gods.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. This is the official ⁠OpenStax Additive Manufacturing Essentials audiobook⁠, produced by ⁠Audileo⁠, a valued OpenStax Technology Partner. Additive Manufacturing Essentials is an introduction to the core principles, technologies, and methods in...

Creativity (Scienific, Artistic, General) and Risk Tolerance Among Engineering and Music Students

Your genome is already shaping your health, your medication responses, and decisions being made about your biological data — right now, whether you know it or not. Most people have no idea what their genetic test results actually mean. Not because the science is hard, but because no one has explained it plainly — until now.

What is life? In this majestic book, Christophe Galfard, celebrated author and former graduate student of Stephen Hawking, takes us on a wonder-filled voyage to answer this question. He guides us from our planet’s birth and the mysterious bacteria that lived billions of years ago, through the extreme evolutionary turns that saw dog-sized sea scorpions and trees covered in scales, to the visionary discoveries of the past two centuries that have allowed us to understand human bodies and imagine alien ones.

In The New Sociology of Science, Boris Kriger delivers a direct challenge to the institutional foundations of modern science. The book argues that truth alone has never been enough — and is not even decisive. What determines whether an idea becomes science is not its correctness, but its ability to pass through fragile, often distorted social channels of persistence. Reinterpreting Auguste Comte, Kriger overturns the classical view: sociology is not the highest science — it is the hidden condition without which no science exists at all. From this follows a disturbing conclusion.

Can nature be read like art? Does God sign his artwork? Do the wavy and weaving lines of tree branches reveal insights about their Artist in the same way that the impasto brushstrokes of a Van Gogh tree do about theirs? (Spoiler alert: The answer to all of the above is, Yes!) These and other unorthodox questions emerge in the mind of Ben Keys, who in the midst of a personal and career crisis, paints his way out of job-induced depression by re-discovering a long-lost childhood dream: becoming an artist.

The in-flight explosion of TWA Flight 800 on July 17, 1996, was one of the deadliest air disasters in American history, triggering one of longest and most confounding investigations. Even today, many people still believe there was a government conspiracy to hide the real cause of the crash. If anyone was covering up the truth about the blast that brought down the jumbo jet as it departed New York for Paris, it was Boeing. For years, the company kept from investigators, vital information about a dangerous design flaw at the heart of the airplane.

Start your first beehive with confidence—even if you’ve never handled bees before. Beekeeping can feel intimidating in the beginning. What equipment do you actually need? Where should you place your hive? How do you avoid losing your colony? When should you inspect the hive? How do you know if your bees are healthy? And how do you harvest honey without making expensive beginner mistakes? The First Hive Method gives new beekeepers a clear, practical path from curiosity to confident hive management.

'Your world will be larger for reading this book' CHLOE DALTON author of Raising Hare 'The most persistent feeling, and one that Martins conveys beautifully, is one of awe at the sheer diversity and inventiveness of the living world' GUARDIAN Welcome to the hidden, squirming world of parasites...

Are we alone in the universe? Mars has always seemed where we were likeliest to find the answer. Yet, since the Viking landers touched down in 1976, no mission has returned to the Martian surface to search directly for life living there now. Instead we’re searching the moons of outer planets...

The Capitalist Space Revolution Has Begun! Elon Musk's SpaceX is laying the groundwork for the largest initial public offering in history. For many, this marks the starting signal of the dawn of a new era in space capitalism. Of 324 global rocket launches last year, SpaceX accounted for 165. If SpaceX were a country, it would be the world's number one spacefaring nation, far ahead of China. In this book, world-renowned economic historian Rainer Zitelmann explores the historical factors underpinning the success of private space exploration and offers insights into its future trajectory.

'An obligatory read for anyone who wants to understand the new forces shaping the future.' Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer-prize winning, New York Times bestselling author of Autocracy, Inc. and Twilight of Democracy. 'Couldn't be more timely. Mixes story-telling and analysis to illuminate the new...

Bloomsbury presents Big Data: Does Size Matter?, written and read by Timandra Harkness What is Big Data, and why should you care? Big data knows where you've been and who your friends are. It knows what you like and what makes you angry. It can predict what you'll buy, where you'll be the victim...

The Conservation Manifesto (also known as The Fight for Conservation) is a 1910 book by Gifford Pinchot, the first chief of the United States Forest Service and one of the principal architects of the American conservation movement. Gifford Pinchot argued that America’s forests, water, minerals...

Bloomsbury presents The Devil’s Garden: The World's Most Sinister Plants and Fungi by Peter Marren, read by Justin Avoth “Peter Marren is a master storyteller … he was destined to write The Devil’s Garden.” Richard Mabey A lively exploration of the poisoners, tricksters, stingers...

One of People's 15 Most Anticipated Books of Summer The Next Big Idea Club's July 2026 Must-Read Books One of the New York Times Nonfiction Everyone Will Be Reading This Summer Sunset Magazine's 15 New Books You Don't Want to Miss From Annie Jacobsen, the author of the bestselling Nuclear War: A...

This volume traces the origins and evolution of the idea of human extinction, from the ancient Presocratics through contemporary work on "existential risks." Many leading intellectuals agree that the risk of human extinction this century may be higher than at any point in our 300,000-year...

Master heating, ventilation, air conditioning, refrigeration, and troubleshooting while commuting, exercising, or doing chores! Step into the world of HVAC, where temperature, pressure, airflow, electricity, and refrigerant work together like a living system. Every compressor, duct, circuit, coil, valve, and vent plays a role in comfort, safety, and efficiency.