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The Plastics Paradox is the first and only book to reveal the science surrounding all aspects of plastics and the environment. Based on over 400 scientific articles, the book dispels the myths that the public believe today. We are told that plastics are not green when in fact, they are usually the greenest choice. We are told that plastics create a waste problem when the science shows that plastics have substantially reduced waste production. Everything...
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"Many have hailed the widespread use of generic drugs as one of the most important public-health developments of the twenty-first century. Today, almost 90 percent of our pharmaceutical market is comprised of generics, the majority of which are manufactured overseas. We have been reassured by our doctors, our pharmacists and our regulators that generic drugs are identical to their brand-name counterparts, just less expensive. But is this really true?...
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Describes how the inception of the iPhone has transformed society and skyrocketed Apple to the most valuable company in the world, detailing how the most current technological advances have become inseparable from everyday life.
"Odds are that as you read this, an iPhone is within your reach. But before Steve Jobs introduced us to 'the one device, ' as he called it, a cell phone was merely what you used to make calls on the go. Now, a decade after...
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"System Error" exposes the root of our current predicament: how big tech's relentless focus on optimization is driving a future that reinforces discrimination, erodes privacy, displaces workers, and pollutes the information we get. Armed with an understanding of how technologists think and exercise their power, three Stanford professors share their provocative insights and concrete solutions to help everyone understand what is happening, what is at...
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER.
It's the biggest revolution you've never heard of, and it's hiding in plain sight. Over the past decade, Silicon Valley executives like Eric Schmidt and Elon Musk, Special Operators like the Navy SEALs and the Green Berets, and maverick scientists like Sasha Shulgin and Amy Cuddy have turned everything we thought we knew about high performance upside down. Instead of grit, better habits, or 10,000 hours, these trailblazers have...
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The image of modern corporations has been shaped by a focus on profits over people and the environment, but this approach to capitalism is no longer viable. We are at an inflection point where business must take the lead in healing the crises of our time. The Healing Organization shows how corporations can become healing forces.
Conscious Capitalism pioneer Raj Sisodia and organizational innovation expert Michael J. Gelb were inspired to write The...
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Get the Summary of Brian Christian's “The Alignment Problem” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Today's "machine-learning" systems, trained by data, are so effective that we've invited them to see and hear for us-and to make decisions on our behalf. But alarm bells are ringing. Recent years have seen an eruption of concern as the field of machine learning advances. When the systems...
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BP - Where did it all go wrong? is a quick-read business biography; it is a history and current breakdown of British Petroleum. The book introduces the reader to BP, how the company was formed, the chequered past it has, and discusses the recent disaster of one of the biggest oil spills in history. The book is skillfully written by Paul Andrews, who interprets many of the more advanced technological points, and explains them to the reader in more...
12) When Oil Peaked
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In two earlier books, Hubbert's Peak (2001) and Beyond Oil (2005), the geologist Kenneth S. Deffeyes laid out his rationale for concluding that world oil production would continue to follow a bell-shaped curve, with the smoothed-out peak somewhere in the middle of the first decade of this millennium-in keeping with the projections of his former colleague, the pioneering petroleum geologist M. King Hubbert.
Deffeyes sees no reason to deviate from...
13) Liftoff
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The dramatic inside story of the first four historic flights that launched SpaceX—and Elon Musk—from a shaky startup into the world's leading edge rocket company.
In 2006, SpaceX—a brand-new venture with fewer than 200 employees—rolled its first, single-engine rocket onto a launch pad at Kwajalein Atoll. After a groundbreaking launch from the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the Falcon 1 rocket designed by Elon Musk’s engineers rose in the...
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Heinz von Foerster was the inventor of second-order cybernetics, which recognizes the investigator as part of the system he is investigating. The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name provides an accessible, nonmathematical, and comprehensive overview of von Foerster's cybernetic ideas and of the philosophy latent within them. It distills concepts scattered across the lifework of this scientific polymath and influential inter-disciplinarian. At...
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One of Asia's best-respected writers on business and economy, Hong Kong-based author Mark L. Clifford provides a behind-the-scenes look at what companies in China, India, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, South Korea, Singapore, and Thailand are doing to build businesses that will lessen the environmental impact of Asia's extraordinary economic growth. Dirty air, foul water, and hellishly overcrowded cities are threatening to choke the region's impressive...
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Get the Summary of Cathy O'Neil's “Weapons of Math Destruction” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly the decisions that affect our lives-where we go to school, whether we get a car loan, how much we pay for health insurance-are being made not by humans but by mathematical models. In theory this should lead to greater fairness: Everyone...
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In this sequel to An Unstable System, Matt and Juliette's experiments take them and their team from Geneva to Bodø, Norway, where Brant and Biotree seem to have infinite money to spend on research.
How much of the Cyclone experiment should be revealed?
Can its secret successor experiment be relied upon?
Can mysterious voices be trusted?
Who is running things?
This mind-bending novel bridges from the time of The Triangle and Christina Nott, through...
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Stop fearing math - tips and tricks to ditch the calculator and never make embarrassing errors again.
Mental math is not as hard as you think it is. Well, the way you've been doing it is probably pretty difficult, but there's a better, simpler way.
Easily calculate: tax, tips, discounts, weights, conversions, and meaurements.
Painless Mental Math is a shortcut to understanding how math really works - far differently from your childhood textbooks....
19) Algae Revolution
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Can algae save the world? Do they really produce ten times faster than corn? Is it only about omega 3 oils or essential amino acids, or can we use it as alternative fuel to fossil fuel? Can algae address 'peak oil'? Can we address 'peak phosphorous' Can we make serious money with algae?
'Algae Revolution?' is the first of a series in which you can find the answers to these and other vital questions. In this first issue you can read about two key...
20) The Energy Wise Workplace: Practical and Cost-Effective Ideas for a Sustainable and Green Workplace
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Most people spend a good deal of time and a little more than half of their energy, money and resources in an effort to make their homes more efficient, for both themselves and the planet. But five days a week nearly all of America goes to work, and some spend almost as much time at their place of work as they do at home. With more than 30 million of these workplaces are small businesses, and 18,500 firms of 500 employees or more, the workplace is...
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