A concise, authoritative, and illustrated reference on boat batteries and charging, including general boat plumbing systems, freshwater and saltwater systems, hot water systems, galley plumbing, water makers, bilge pumps, shower (gray) water systems, and sewage (black) water and MSD systems.
A concise, authoritative, and illustrated reference on boat batteries and charging, including general information on lithium batteries, lead acid batteries, AGM batteries, gel batteries, battery ratings and selection, safety and maintenance, installation, charging, alternators, and regulators.
This poetic book about songbirds describes the unique voices of thirteen common species, and helpful back matter provides further information on how and why birds sing the way they do.
Based on newly available information, the son of famed U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers presents the facts and dispels misinformation about the Cold War espionage program that turned his father into a Cold War icon..One of the most talked-about events of the Cold War was the downing of the American U-2 spy plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers over the Soviet Union on May 1, 1960. The event was recently depicted in the Steven Spielberg movie Bridge of Spies. Powers was captured by the KGB, subjected to a televised show trial, and imprisoned, all of which created an international incident. Soviet authorities eventually released him in exchange for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. On his return to the United States, Powers was exonerated of any wrongdoing while imprisoned in Russia, yet, due to bad press and the government's unwillingness to heartily defend Powers, a cloud of controversy lingered until his untimely death in 1977. Now his son, Francis Gary Powers Jr. and acclaimed historian Keith Dunnavant have written this new account of Powers's life based on personal files that had never been previously available. Delving into old audio tapes, letters his father wrote and received while imprisoned in the Soviet Union, the transcript of his father's debriefing by the CIA, other recently declassified documents about the U-2 program, and interviews with the spy pilot's contemporaries, Powers and Dunnavant set the record straight. The result is a fascinating piece of Cold War history. This is also a book about a son's journey to understand his father, pursuing justice and a measure of peace.Almost sixty years after the fact, this will be the definitive account of one of the most important events of the Cold War.
In this fascinating and overdue book, author Stanley A. Rice shows readers the Pre-Columbian landscape of America that has been largely forgotten.
What psychologist Susan Newman has learned during her most recent study from only children and their parents will help readers wrestle with concerns, whether they are deciding their family size or parenting one child right now.
A story of desperate immigrates looking for adventure, advancement, love, and most of all, a sense of belonging, in the New World.London, 1763: Gifted musician and medical apprentice Michael Shea is living rough after being blackballed from working as a surgeon's assistant. Not only does Michael lose his gig playing fiddle in a tavern, he also is framed for the murder of a tavern patron visiting from colonial Virginia. Worse, Michael realizes his ladylove wasn't interested in true love. He was just a divertissement.Heartbroken and out of options, Michael and his friend Danny escape the turmoil by shipping out on the misnamed brig The Delight as lowly indentured servants. On board are forty-eight other desperate souls-everyday people risking their lives to immigrate to the wilds of America, hoping for a better life in the New World where they can break free of a rigid class system, prejudice, and poverty. Michael's medical skills prove critical as the passengers endure the ravages of the long trans-Atlantic journey from London to Annapolis: killer storms, accidents, sickness, and Barbary raiders. While attending to the sick, Michael realizes that he has not yet escaped the murder for which he was framed-and that the real killer will do anything to keep his identity a secret.
Adirondack Ghost Stories features tales of hauntings, apparitions, and the hidden lives of spirits that lurk with the towns and mountains of the Adirondacks.
Whether you're an armchair historian or a lover of all things unusual and astonishing, this collection of obscure history shows that life surely is stranger than fiction.
Most cities are teeming with nature if you know where and how to look. Wild in the Streets will teach middle grade readers just that. It will equip children with the perfect tool for visualizing their city's natural side-revealing a world of urban wildlife hidden in plain sight.
Modern health care wreaks havoc on patients with mental disorders. Sadly, only 25 percent of patients with a mental disorder, such as depression or drug abuse, receive any care at all. Worse yet, medical physicians conduct over three-fourths of this care, but it's almost universally characterized as low quality because they have not been trained in mental illnesses. Contrast this to 60 to 80 percent of patients who receive high quality care for their physical diseases, such as diabetes and heart disease, from the same doctors.One fact illustrates the societal impact of compromised mental health care: mental illnesses are the most common health condition in the US. Most don't realize this, but the number of people with mental disorders exceed those of heart disease and cancer combined. And one in four Americans will have a major mental illness in any 12-month period, totaling some 90,000,000 individuals; twice that number, one in two, will suffer over their lifetime. Why Society Should Take Note: Poor mental care reverberates throughout America. The familiar problems of unnecessary prescription overdose deaths and deaths by suicide pale before the more widespread but less-recognized effect on patients with undiagnosed and untreated mental illnesses-depression, anxiety, and substance abuse the most common. The disability from these illnesses harms not only individual patients but also their families, communities, and society; astronomical, unnecessary healthcare costs result, in the range of hundreds of billions, even trillions of dollars, and society picks up the tab.Because medicine fails to recognize the problem, the author recommends that the public and its decision-makers take charge. Politicians and policy makers must exert strong pressure and insist that, via policy and funding leverage, medicine include mental disorders on an equal footing with physical diseases. To operationalize this change, a Presidential Commission, a Congressional Commission, or the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine would analyze present medical education practices to determine how well they adhere to modern scientific understanding. The modern systems view of science is presented in Chapter 6. It integrates patients' mental and social dimensions with their physical illnesses, thus correcting modern medicine's isolated focus on physical disorders. Based on this evaluation, they would make recommendations to policy makers about the necessary changes needed to ensure a new direction in medicine that included training medical students and residents to be competent in mental health care and other psychological and social features of patients. That is, to return humanity to medicine. This high-level review mechanism to induce change was successful in changing medicine over 100 years ago in what was called the Flexner Report of 1910. Hence, the author calls for a "New Flexner Report."
World-renown urban engineering expert Sybil Derrible reveals the behind-the-scenes machinations of the foundational systems that make our societies function. After reading The Infrastructure Book, readers will never look at a city the same way.
Happy relationships are possible-for everyone. Even if you've been married for twenty years and your routine is boring and stressful; although your mom has always been a help-resistant complainer; and despite the fact that your dearest friend moved across the country - all of us can create lasting and joyful connections with the people we care about the most. Using simple tools drawn from the Buddhist tradition, you can cultivate appreciation, set wise expectations, and create meaningful and intimate bonds of mutual support and kindness with your partner, family, and friends.That's because our happiness isn't dependent on everything in our lives being perfect. In fact, we can experience conflict, disagreement, job loss, grief, and boredom and still have appreciation, delight, and gratitude for everyone in our life. We can create happiness by improving the quality of our attention, the depth of our compassion, and our willingness to repair ruptures and let go of resentments.Happy Relationships is designed for all of us who are sometimes challenged by our husbands, wives, kids, parents, and best friends. It's for anyone in happy marriages and close-knit families who want to feel closer and more connected to the most important people in their lives. Happy Relationships is a relatable and useful guide with practical applications to help us stay attuned and cultivate understanding with our dearest people: an inconsiderate partner repeatedly ignoring our requests; repairing the rupture from a conflict with a sibling; celebrating a child's success; or learning to communicate with a difficult parent. Each short chapter honestly describes-in three to four pages-a common shared experience, such as the stress of old resentments, the opportunity of celebrating together mindfully, the nightly routine of a child's bedtime, spending time with old friends-and is followed by a brief practice-a meditation, exercise, or contemplation that readers can use to orient their beautiful qualities of love, kindness, and wisdom to communicate and act in ways that lead to joy. Happy Relationships readers can use these practices alone or with their loved one anytime-during the most mundane daily routine, to the excitement of a big gathering, through the sadness of loss.
Big brands are the gods of today's world, and the algorithm is their gospel. What makes the cult marketing vortex so attractive to otherwise smart people, and how does online manipulation render us victim to the dangerous whims of digital companies, corporations, and conglomerates? Hoodwinked reveals the new world of digital marketing where steady, seductive tactics once used by spiritual charlatans are now applied to sell everything from toothpaste to apps and even political leaders. Companies have discovered that us consumers are lured by sophisticated and deceptive marketing techniques, like sensory marketing, cult branding, influencers, and AI programmed to induce maximum anxiety. Combined with behavior-modifying apps and persuasively designed UX that compels us to buy things we don't need or cannot afford, goods and services like prestige education, fitness trackers, makeup, and those viral leggings from American Eagle seem like must-haves rather than luxury extras. Aided by algorithms and buoyed by the greed of social media CEOs, marketers use the same deceptive and emotionally manipulative tactics that cults do, including scarcity, an all-encompassing ideology, and a charismatic leader. Once indoctrinated, consumer-followers become ensnared in the perfect capitalist loop: anxiety-purchase-anxiety-purchase-anxiety-purchase. Then, social media appearances reinforce the cycle of purchase, performance, and panic.Using memorable real-life cautionary tales, Dr. Einstein narrates how smart, sensible people are sucked into the cult marketing vortex and, importantly, what enables them to get out. Protection comes from understanding the scope of the problem and knowing how to spot the many pervasive tactics used. Combining industry interviews, advertising campaign analysis, and business and scholarly research, Hoodwinked offers an insider's view into how marketers co-opt our emotions in the name of corporate profits. Armed with this information, readers can learn to spot cult-inspired marketing so they can decide how, or if, they should engage with it.
In this reimagined version of "The Twelve Days of Christmas," wildlife is observed during Autumn.
What if the great discoveries of science came in the "wrong" order? The Laws of Thermodynamics were discovered well after the creation of algebra, classical physics, and chemistry, but are perhaps much more important to our basic understanding of the universe. This flawed chronology led to a confusion that has prevented a cross-curricular understanding of the sciences. With the development of Artificial Intelligence, it will soon be possible to solve the philosophical and biological problem of solipsism, the problem that all of our scientific discoveries have been necessarily - and incorrectly - built upon anachronistic foundations. In other words, we've built our fundamental understanding of science out of order. In The New Order: How Artificial Intelligence Restructures Scientific Breakthroughs, author Chris Edwards shows that AI will be able to understand science without needing human analogies, will not be constrained by problems that are inherent in the traditional chronological developments of the sciences. If human scholars are to understand how AI interprets the universe, we will need to understand the scientific narrative in a "new order." Offering the historical narrative of science in the traditional order while explaining core ideas through the lens of thermodynamics, and then moving to the story of how a slew of quantum physicists connect thermodynamics retroactively to scientific history, Edwards provides a "new order" to place thermodynamics in its proper place at the center of our scientific universe. Under this "new order", every other discovery is then connected through those concepts. AI is likely to view the history of the universe through entropy and probability, and with the insights and invention of The New Order, readers can, too.
In celebration of the Canals' 200th anniversary, The Erie Canal Traveler's Guide features more than 200 restaurants, pubs, and attractions for the entire family and the curious traveler alike, all within 'a stone's throw' - or, to be precise, 445 feet and ten inches - of the Canal Path.
Today's teenage boys and young men desperately need encouragement. Ironically, many need both an arm around the shoulder and a proverbial kick in the butt; both affirmation and challenge, and they need it from voices that acknowledge their emotional complexity while not apologizing for their intrinsic maleness.In A Path to Manhood, author Paul Cumbo draws on his two-decades-plus experience of teaching, coaching, and mentoring teenage boys and young men to deliver concise, relatable messages on the pursuit of virtuous living. By eschewing the reductive depictions of masculinity in traditional culture, readers will better learn how to use personal strength for the betterment of themselves and others.With compassion and conviction, Cumbo explores self-knowledge, friendship, education, finance, vocation, health, habits, love, marriage, faith, and fatherhood. While addressed directly to young guys themselves, the book will resonate with their parents, teachers, coaches, and mentors.Combining skilled storytelling, a keen understanding of masculinity, practical spirituality, an inclusive attitude, and good-natured humor, A Path to Manhood invites today's young men to take an honest look at themselves, practice discernment, and make thoughtful decisions and takes readers on a compelling journey of the mind and heart.
46 High Peaks in 18 Hikes: the Complete Guide to Hiking the Adirondack High Peaks takes readers through each of these towering giants mountain by mountain. Equal parts information, entertainment, and storytelling, it offers readers everything they need to know to climb each of these peaks safely and successfully.
In this emotionally layered novel of adventure, friendship, and historical and personal discovery, twin sisters diverge on different paths as Gabby seeks to find her purpose while Lucy's purpose is tested.
In The Year Science Changed Everything, author Mark O'Connell charts the struggles and successes of 1957's International Geophysical Year alongside interviews with today's leading environmental scientists to show that the time is right for another global environmental initiative.
In this fascinating exploration of fear and madness, neuroscientist Dr. Austin Lim recounts psychology's most bizarre and haunting real-life cases alongside famous speculative fiction that stretched that science to the edge.
In this charmingly illustrated book for kids, local author Tori Losey and illustrator Anthony Richichi show how quick-thinking and cooperation can save the day.
Military flag expert Steven W. Hill displays and explains the flags of the regiments who fought in North America in the French and Indian War and the American War of Independence, digging deep to correct old errors and assemble a complete record of flags, drawing from archives and artifacts, to create a reference that will stand the test of time.
Details on planes like the German Stuka, the American Dauntless, the Japanese Aichi D3A1 "Val," the Soviet PE-2, and numerous others. Riveting accounts of aerial combat. Includes maps, diagrams, tables, and photos.
Tanks, amphibian tanks, and amphibian tractors in action in all theaters, from Africa and Europe to the Pacific. How the battalions fought the war, often in the tankers' own words. Crystal-clear maps.
The Finger Lakes Beverage Guide is a comprehensive guidebook to every major winery, brewery, cidery, and distillery in New York State's Finger Lakes region - a world-class wine destination and rising star in beers, ciders, and spirits alike.
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