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John Brock, author of The Brainrot Dictionary (Vol. 1), has no formal qualifications in child psychology — but being chronically online is apparently qualification enough.In Why Does My Child Talk Like the TikTok Algorithm?, Brock delivers a sarcastic, hilarious, and slightly panicked guide for parents trying to decode the chaos of Brainrot internet culture.From "Skibidi Toilet" chants to inexplicable barking fits, this book unpacks the bizarre trends taki...

The Brainrot Dictionary is a comprehensive guide to modern internet culture, memes, and slang. This entertaining reference book breaks down popular terms, phrases, and phenomena that have emerged from social media, gaming, and online communities. Each entry includes detailed explanations of the term's origin, meaning, and cultural significance, making it an essential resource for understanding contemporary digital language and trends.

The only comprehensive SketchUp guide written for builders and contractorsSketchUp is a 3D modeling application used in areas ranging from civil and mechanical engineering to motion picture and video game design. Three-dimensional modeling is of obvious value to the building industry—yet resources for transforming architectural designs into reality is surprisingly limited. SketchUp for Builders is the first comprehensive guide designed specifically for bui...

For two millennia Christians have thought about what human impairment is and how faith communities and society should respond to people with perceived impairments. But never has one volume collected the most significant Christian writings on disability. This book fills that gap.Brian Brock and John Swinton's Disability in the Christian Tradition brings together for the first time key writings by thinkers from all periods of Christian history - including Augustine, Aquinas, ...

The important scholarly achievements of Polish historians remain largely unknown outside Poland. In Nation and History, editors Peter Brock, John Stanley, and Piotr J. Wróbel have brought together twenty-four essays on Polish historians from the Enlightenment to the Second World War, an era of unparalleled changes in every aspect of Polish life.From the late eighteenth century until 1918, the Polish state was partitioned between its three neighbours: Russia, Prussia (Germa...

Stroud's Ice Cream Shop has been a vital part of Howell, Texas, for over forty years. But in 2016, Ted Stroud faces several challenges to keep the family business running, not least the competing gelato food truck that threatens to lure away a sizeable chunk of his customers. Through the severe heatwave that weighs down on Howell during the summer months, the rivals' small-town battles escalate. The Great Ice Cream War of Summer 2016 is about not only the campaign Ted wages agains...

Typical development in the American Southwest often resulted in scraping the desert lands of the ancient living landscape, to be replaced with one that is human-made and dependent on a large consumption of energy and natural resources. This transdisciplinary book explores the natural and built environment of this desert region and introduces development tools for shaping its future in a more sustainable way. It offers valuable insights to help promote ecological balance between nature and ...

This book presents papers from the 12th Cambridge Workshop on Universal Access and Assistive Technology (CWUAAT 2025), to be held in April 2025. This workshop series has hosted the multifaceted dialogue on design for inclusion since 2002, involving disciplines including design, computer science, engineering, architecture, ergonomics and human factors, policy and gerontology. The conference theme for 2025 is New frontiers for inclusion. The major themes dealt with in this collection include...

This book provides insights into how to be a productive clinical researcher via real-life case examples of successful clinical research -- and also clinical research gone awry. Through these examples of success and failure, the book develops a blueprint for building a career in clinical research.Future medical practice depends on the quality of the clinical trials to which drugs, devices, and treatment procedures are subjected today. However, clinical trials are not easy to do, and...

How people make decisions in an era of too much information and fake news.Humans originally evolved in a world of few choices. Prehistoric, preindustrial, and predigital eras required fewer decisions than today's all-access, always-on world of too much information. Economists have largely discarded the idea that agents act rationally and the market follows suit. It seems that no matter how small or innocuous a decision might seem, there's almost no way to guess the...

INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION FOR EVERYDAY LIFEFace the global challenges of the future with this accessible introduction to communication across boundariesCommunication between cultures can be challenging in a number of ways, but it also carries immense potential rewards. In an increasingly connected world, it has never been more important to communicate across a range of differences created by history and circumstance. Contributing to globa...

For two millennia Christians have thought about what human impairment is and how faith communities and society should respond to people with perceived impairments. But never has one volume collected the most significant Christian writings on disability. This book fills that gap.Brian Brock and John Swinton's Disability in the Christian Tradition brings together for the first time key writings by thinkers from all periods of Christian history - including Augustine, Aquinas, ...