"An Analysis of Generative Artificial Intelligence" takes a high-level overview of General Artificial Intelligence, also known as G.A.I. Despite its potential, G.A.I. also poses challenges, particularly in ethical domains. Issues like deepfakes, intellectual property concerns, and the potential for misuse in misinformation campaigns are critical considerations. G.A.I. is a rapidly evolving field that focuses on creating new, original content from learned data. Its potential applications ar...

"Weaves together thoughts, stories, and quotes from top performers in music, business, and sports to help you achieve excellence" (Jeff Janssen, founder and president of the Janssen Sports Leadership Center).Does excellence relentlessly drive you? Does mediocrity constantly bother you? In Working Toward Excellence, Clemson University professor Paul Buyer identifies eight values for achieving excellence in work and life including hunger, effort, process, qu...

Everything in life has a positive and a negative. The premise of this book is that pleasure negates happiness. It is meant to make you think about the sole desire of pleasure as our problem and not our solution, and to define the differences between pleasure and happiness as two distinct opposite states of mind.When a desire for pleasure is the goal, those decisions can result in stress, anxiety, despair (SAD) and a fear of loss. For all pleasures last but a short time because of h...

Nine-year-old Savannah(Savi)Paris and her family recently migrated to America. Her father, a senior government minister, was exiled from the caribbean island, Imaune. Uprooted from a life of privilege, family and friends, Savi is devastated. She finds her new environment, new classmates, new life demeaning. Her arrogance puts her in jeopardy with classmate, Jerrell Thomas. He becomes responsible for her stolen heirloom. When the heirloom is found and returned by the same children she disli...

This is a multipurpose bookfour stories drawn from life show children having fun working with their parents or relatives, promoting family unity. Each story has its own list of definitions for words that may be unfamiliar and a list of questions to encourage discussions. At the end of the book is a craft project designed to prompt the reader to build a model of a milk wagon. The illustrations and paper on which the book is printed are chosen to allow the readers to copy and color the drawi...

As a young college student in the early 1970s, Laurie Wagner had never camped out, never gone hiking, and never lived without electricity or indoor plumbing. Yet she walked away from these comforts and headed for the wildest reaches of Montana to live with a man she had not met in person.When I Came West is Laurie Wagner Buyer’s account of her terrifying and exhilarating years in Montana as she changes from a girl too squeamish to touch a dead mouse to a toughened frontier...

**Barrels sent to the Caribbean island of Grenada aren’t just full of presents. Families share love, hope, and say “I miss you” through this special tradition.This colorful picture book explores Grenada’s barrel tradition, introducing young readers to Caribbean culture, emigration, and how families stay connected across oceans.**In the culture of the Caribbean island of Grenada, a wonderful tradition exists among those who have emigrated overseas: packing barrels to send ba...

Resurrection Lily shares a story of inheritance and intuition, of what can surface in the body and the spirit when linked by DNA. As Amy Byer Shainman discovers she has inherited a BRCA gene mutation that puts her at high risk of developing certain cancers, she struggles to come to terms with preventively removing her breasts when she does not have a breast cancer diagnosis. Through her experience making decisions about her health, Amy becomes invigorated with purpose and establishes herse...

"In Eight Septembers, Jane Buyers masterfully captures the breathless chaos of 9/11 and the slow-motion ruin of the 2008 collapse with the steady eye of a Wall Street insider and the soul of a survivor. It's a sharp, moving testament to our capacity for resilience. I highly recommend it."–Kevin Powers, author of The Yellow Birds, National Book Award finalist

They fought for us. Now it’s our turn to fight for them.When our nation’s Guardians return home, their mission should be over—but for too many, the battle is just beginning. Traumatic Brain Injuries, Post-Traumatic Stress, and systemic barriers keep them from the care, community, and the promised future they’ve earned.In Guarding Our Guardians, physician and veteran advocate Chrisanne Gordon, MD, exposes the hidden crisis affecting America’s return...

What if you were never meant to be tamed? To take up less space?You've spent years trying to shrink, fit, and fix yourself-convinced that happiness lies on the other side of better. But what if the real answer isn't in changing who you are, but in returning to the truth of your body, your power, and your deepest self?In Six Pillars of Body Love, Cera Byer offers a radical framework for healing your relationship with your body-one that go...

A hilarious and inspiring guide to being a #brave, bikini-wearing badass, from the actress, comedian, and podcaster extraordinaire.If you've ever seen a fat person post a bikini shot on social media, you already know that they are #verybrave, because apparently existing in a fat body in public is #brave. I, Nicole Byer, wrote this book to 1. share my impressive bikini collection and my hot body with the world and 2. help other people feel #brave by embracing their b...