What does the admissions office at the most selective university in the world REALLY look for in an applicant?That’s the question all our contributors answered. Each of our contributors filed FERPA requests, and copied down the numerical scores and comments Stanford wrote on their applications. For the first time ever, Stanford undergrads bring their essays, and those comments, out for future applicants to see. We’ve compiled together a vast array of diverse studen...

What does the admissions office at the most selective university in the world REALLY look for in an applicant?That’s the question all our contributors answered. Each of our contributors filed FERPA requests, and copied down the numerical scores and comments Stanford wrote on their applications. For the first time ever, Stanford undergrads bring their essays, and those comments, out for future applicants to see. We’ve compiled together a vast array of diverse studen...

Description：We live in an age drowning in answers and starving for real thought. Every day, we're told how to live—by our parents, our industry's "common sense," the experts, the algorithms, the crowd. Most people spend their entire lives on maps other people drew, mistaking the map for reality.First-principles thinking is the intellectual thread that runs from Aristotle to Musk: strip away every borrowed assumption, every inherited analogy, every "it's just how things are"...

Description：Why the Jews?They are 0.2% of the world's population — yet hold 22% of all Nobel Prizes, a quarter of the Forbes 100, seven of the eight original Hollywood studios, and nearly every "too big to fail" name on Wall Street. Expelled from country after country for two thousand years, they kept becoming the richest minority in every land they reached. How?This book skips the magical-realism version of "Jewish wealth" and peels back the legend to look at what's ...

Description：We live in an age of extraordinary capability and extraordinary confusion. We are busier than ever, yet more depleted. More connected, yet more isolated. More informed, yet less certain of what matters. The tools we built to make life easier have, in many ways, made it harder.The answers to this paradox have been waiting for 2,500 years.In The Living Tao, Daniel Wu draws on the Tao Te Ching — one of the most widely read texts in human history — and the bro...

**2023 Next Generation Indie Book Awards FinalistA Buddhist master’s guide to cultivating dignity through meditation to live a meaningful and fulfilling life.**The notion of dignity is crucial to the question of how best to live a meaningful and fulfilling life, particularly for today’s environment in which so many of us experience self-doubt, low self-esteem, and feelings of being trapped by anxiety, dissatisfaction, or even success. How, in such a circumstance, can we gai...

Winner of the 2022 Broadcast Education Association Book AwardOne of the first books to examine the status of broadcasting on its one hundredth anniversary, Radio’s Second Century investigates both vanguard and perennial topics relevant to radio’s past, present, and future. As the radio industry enters its second century of existence, it continues to be a dominant mass medium with almost total listenership saturation despite rapid technological advancements...

Guava (Psidium guajava L.) is an exquisite, nutritionally and economically valuable crop of tropical and subtropical regions of the world. It outshines other tropical fruits in productivity, hardiness, adaptability, nutritional value, and ensures higher economic returns to growers. Guava is commercially grown in over 70 countries, and is gaining in popularity as a 'super fruit' due to its nutritional and health benefits. Notable recent developments include the potential to improve crop yie...

From New York Times bestselling author Lenora Worth…Danger comes to Denver for the holidays…in these thrilling Rocky Mountain K-9 Unit novellas.With veterinarian Sydney Jones being targeted, K-9 Officer Gavin Walker and his furry partner must stand between her and certain death in Lenora Worth’s Hidden Christmas Danger. And the clock is ticking in Silent Night Explosion by Katy Lee—but can Jodie Chen trust the newest K-9 of...

Discover the eye-opening story of the first woman student at MIT—a pioneering environmental chemist sure to inspire the next generation of female trailblazers in science.Ellen Swallow found a friend in nature and a lifelong love of science as a child exploring the woods around her family’s home. She was a voracious learner with an interest in chemistry, and continuing her education at the newly established Massachusetts Institute of Technology seemed a good fit. Bu...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 37th Computer Graphics International Conference, CGI 2020, held in Geneva, Switzerland, in October 2020. The conference was held virtually.The 43 full papers presented together with 3 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 189 submissions. The papers address topics such as: virtual reality; rendering and textures; augmented and mixed reality; video processing; image processing; fluid simulation and control; meshe...

Everybody knows know the classic story of the three little pigs and the big bad wolf. The wolf had no trouble blowing down the houses made from straw and sticks. But wait . . . Why couldn't he blow down the brick house, exactly? The youngest pig retells the classic tale from his point of view. Then he uses the scientific method and multiple experiments to teach his brother and sister the science behind his super-strong house.