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  Handprints on Hubble - An...

  Kathryn Sullivan

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  The first American woman to walk in space recounts her experience as part of the team that launched, rescued, repaired, and maintained the Hubble Space Telescope. The Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionized our understanding of the universe. It has, among many other achievements, revealed thousands of galaxies in what seemed to be empty patches of sky; transformed our knowledge of black holes; found dwarf planets with moons orbiting other stars; and measured precisely how fast the universe is expanding. In Handprints on Hubble, retired astronaut Kathryn Sullivan describes her work on the NASA team that made all of this possible. Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space, recounts how she and other astronauts, engineers, and scientists launched, rescued, repaired, and maintained Hubble, the most productive observatory ever built. Along the way, Sullivan chronicles her early life as a "Sputnik Baby," her path to NASA through oceanography, and her initiation into the space program as one of "thirty-five new guys." (She was also one of the first six women to join NASA's storied astronaut corps.) She describes in vivid detail what liftoff feels like inside a spacecraft (it's like "being in an earthquake and a fighter jet at the same time"), shows us the view from a spacewalk, and recounts the temporary grounding of the shuttle program after the Challenger disaster. Sullivan explains that "maintainability" was designed into Hubble, and she describes the work of inventing the tools and processes that made on-orbit maintenance possible. Because in-flight repair and upgrade was part of the plan, NASA was able to fix a serious defect in Hubble's mirrors?leaving literal and metaphorical "handprints on Hubble."

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  The Intelligent Universe - AI ET...

  James Gardner

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  What is the ultimate destiny of our universe? That is the striking question addressed by James Gardner in The Intelligent Universe. Traditionally, scientists (and Robert Frost) have offered two bleak answers to this profound issue: fire or ice. In The Intelligent Universe, James Gardner envisions a third dramatic alternative—a final state of the cosmos in which a highly evolved form of group intelligence engineers a cosmic renewal, the birth of a new universe.

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  My Paddle to the Sea - Eleven...

  John Lane

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  “In an age that values faster and faster travel, Lane’s river memoir affirms the great value of floating and observing.”—Booklist    Three months after a family vacation in Costa Rica ends in tragedy when two fellow rafters die on the flooded Rio Reventazón, John Lane sets out with friends from his own backyard in upcountry South Carolina to calm his nerves and to paddle to the sea. Like Huck Finn, Lane sees a river journey as a portal to change, but unlike Twain’s character, Lane isn’t escaping. He’s getting intimate with the river that flows right past his home in the Spartanburg suburbs. Lane’s three-­hundred-mile float trip takes him down the Broad River and into Lake Marion before continuing down the Santee River. Along the way, Lane recounts local history and spars with streamside literary presences such as Mind of the South author W. J. Cash; Henry Savage, author of the Rivers of America Series volume on the Santee; novelist and Pulitzer Prize–winner Julia Peterkin; early explorer John Lawson; and poet and outdoor writer Archibald Rutledge.   Lane ponders the sites of old cotton mills; abandoned locks, canals, and bridges; ghost towns fallen into decay a century before; Indian mounds; American Revolutionary and Civil War battle sites; nuclear power plants; and boat landings. Along the way he encounters a cast of characters Twain himself would envy—perplexed fishermen, catfish clean­ers, river rats, and a trio of drug-addled drifters on a lonely boat dock a day’s paddle from the sea. By the time Lane and his companions finally approach the ocean about forty miles north of Charleston, they have to fight the tide and set a furious pace. Through it all, paddle stroke by paddle stroke, Lane is reminded why life and rivers have always been wedded together.

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  Secrets to Dominating YouTube...

  Elias Northwood

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  Secrets to Dominating YouTube and Cashing In as a Video Influencer 
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  Navigating Cybersecurity and...

  Lily Grayson

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  Do you worry about your digital world's security? Are you concerned about the constantly changing cyber threats that can jeopardize your information, privacy, and mental health? Seek no more! 
  Introducing "Navigating Cybersecurity and Ethical Hacking: The Art of Ethical Hacking - Exploring Cybersecurity from Within." Your path to knowledge about ethical hacking and cybersecurity is this extensive book. It explores the depths of digital security, revealing the nuances and the trade secrets of ethical hacking. 
  Learn about the various kinds of hackers, examine the ethics of hacking, and recognize the crucial difference between malicious and ethical hacking. Discover the significance of cybersecurity in the digital age. Explore the tools and methods that ethical hackers employ, learn about penetration testing—the proactive process of finding vulnerabilities before they can be exploited—and take a closer look at actual cyberattack cases. 
  Take advantage of the chance to strengthen your online defenses and explore the realm of ethical hacking. This book is your resource whether you're an aspiring cybersecurity expert, a business owner looking to safeguard your data, or just a naturally curious person ready to learn. Act now and arm yourself with the expertise to protect your digital environment adequately.

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  Animation Handbook

  Ryan McLeod

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  The Animation Handbook is the guide to best practices for animation in digital product design. This audiobook uncovers the seven principles of bringing motion into user interface design and explains how animation is the bridge to telling better stories and engaging users in more human and intuitive ways.By bringing elements from our real world experiences into the virtual space, we can build greater trust in our products and better relationships with the people who use them. This audiobook includes stories and interviews with Google, Lyft, Headspace, and Zova Fitness, that put principles into practice, and show how motion can enable stronger design systems and more expressive brands. The Animation Handbook will prime you not just to animate but to craft exceptional and more intuitive digital product interfaces for your customers. By Apple Design Award winner Ryan McLeod.This audiobook includes:A brief history of animation for digital experiencesThe seven principles of motion in digital product designA step by step guide to putting principles of motion into practice at workCase study interviews and insights from Google, Lyft, Headspace, and Zova FitnessBest practices for using animation to bring life and humanity to digital products

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