Oasis Earth confirms that we are destroying the biosphere of our Home Planet. We know the causes, consequences, and solutions to this existential crisis, yet we've failed to correct it. We are out of time: this decade is our last best chance to save a habitable Earth. Rich with insights from those who have viewed our planet from space and evocative images from the U.N. Environment Program's international photographic competitions, NASA, Greenpeace and others, Oasis Earth weaves a journey t...

RETIREMENT ISN’T JUST ABOUT MONEY: Retire with confidence and ease using 6 fundamental building blocks that will help you create a post-work life filled with meaning and purpose.Retirement is more than the absence of work—it’s a different way of life requiring new vision, new purpose, and new life perspectives. Retirement is too important to leave to luck or circumstance; we have to plan and make them happen—our way.Your bridge to the “oth...

The 22nd International Conference on Systems Engineering Research (CSER 2024) pushes the boundaries of systems engineering research and responds to new challenges for systems engineering.CSER was founded in 2003 by Stevens Institute of Technology and the University of Southern California. In 2024 the conference was hosted by the University of Arizona, home to the first-ever established Department of Systems Engineering.The following foundational research topics are included...

A Practical Guide to SysML, Third Edition, fully updated for SysML version 1.4, provides a comprehensive and practical guide for modeling systems with SysML. With their unique perspective as leading contributors to the language, Friedenthal, Moore, and Steiner provide a full description of the language along with a quick reference guide and practical examples to help you use SysML. The book begins with guidance on the most commonly used features to help you get started quickly. Part 1 expl...

A Practical Guide to SysML: The Systems Modeling Language is a comprehensive guide for understanding and applying SysML to model systems. The Object Management Group's OMG SysML is a general-purpose graphical modeling language for representing systems that may include combinations of hardware, software, data, people, facilities, and natural objects. SysML supports the practice of model-based systems engineering (MBSE) used to develop system solutions in response to complex and often techno...

A Practical Guide to SysML: The Systems Modeling Language is a comprehensive guide to SysML for systems and software engineers. It provides an advanced and practical resource for modeling systems with SysML. The source describes the modeling language and offers information about employing SysML in transitioning an organization or project to model-based systems engineering. The book also presents various examples to help readers understand the OMG Systems Modeling Professional (OCSMP) Certi...

It’s time to take control of your overthinking and discover a more peaceful and focused mind.Overthinking creates unproductive, repetitive thoughts, often leading to anxiety, stress, and depression. Combined with social norms dictating that men stay “strong and silent” in the face of their internal struggles, overthinking can have other consequences for men as well, including irritability, aggression, impulsivity, and risk-taking behaviors. In this guidebook, autho...

Break the Procrastination Habit, Accelerate Your Productivity, and Take Control of Your Life Today.Are you living in chaos because you constantly put off critical tasks until the last minute? Do you feel disorganized both at home and at work? Do you experience feelings of anxiety, frustration, and helplessness with all your incomplete projects?If so, it's time to beat analysis paralysis, boost productivity, and implement a proven system to enhance ...

Create happier, healthier relationships by using three simple steps to replace negative emotions and toxic patterns with love, forgiveness, compassion, and joy!The desire to love and be loved and feel valued is universal. Seems easy enough, but for most people it is a constant, and often silent, struggle. Toxic emotions such as fear, resentment, guilt, and shame drain your energy, deflate the spirit, and make you feel stuck. Without attentive care and healing, it's...

Smoke and cure everything from store-bought meats to freshly harvested fish and game!Drawing on more than forty years of experience smoking everything from succulent salmon to whole hogs, award-winning outdoor writer and photographer Monte Burch presents this practical handbook for anyone who wants to make their own smoked or cured products.The Complete Guide to Smoking and Salt Curing introduces beginners to the ancient art of preserving meat, fis...

Overwhelmed with unnecessary stress and piles of useless stuff? Discover how to ditch society’s expectations and live by your own rules.Exhausted from chasing ill-fitting definitions of success? Struggling to manage your daily to-dos while failing to make progress on what truly matters? Author and digital nomad Gary Collins has thrived since walking away from a stable, unfulfilling job to build a joyful, debt-free, and off-the-grid lifestyle. After teaching thousan...

All around us, older women flourish in industry, entertainment, and politics. Do they know something that we don’t, or are we all just trying to figure it out? For so many of us, our hearts and minds still feel that we are twenty-something young women who can take on the world. But in our bodies, the flexibility and strength that were once taken for granted are far from how we remember them. Every day we have to rise above the creaky joints and achy knees to earn the opportunity of moving ...