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It's not age. It's a fault. And faults can be fixed.That catch in your knee on the stairs. The shoulder that won't reach the top shelf any more. The back that's always on your mind. You've been told it's your age, that you should be careful, that you should expect a little less every year.This book says otherwise.Most of the aches that get blamed on getting older aren't wear you're stuck with. They're faults, small faults in the way a joint moves, a...

For years, James B. Baker ran a small press publishing company known as ProMart Publishing. From there he launched the careers of many science fiction and fantasy authors, but Jim was much more than an editor and a publisher. He was also an author and a poet.Now, Nomadic Delirium Press has gathered together all of the works of his that we can find. You will find his novels, Goatherds & Gods and The Poet, as well as his collection of poems, stories and essays, J...

Artificial intelligence has fundamentally changed how software and knowledge work gets delivered. Code that once took weeks to write now takes hours. Features that required entire sprints to build can be generated in an afternoon. Yet most organizations are celebrating faster output while quietly accumulating a crisis they have not yet named. When AI eliminates the development bottleneck, a new one emerges in its place. Validation complexity, governance requirements, and integration challe...

Thomas Merton, known in religion as Father Louis, was born in France, in his words "under the sign of the waterbearer," in 1915. He studied at Cambridge in England and at Columbia in New York. As a student he lived what his friends have described as a bawdy life but turned from it to become a devout Roman Catholic. As America entered World War II he entered the abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani in Kentucky, and for 27 years he was a Trappist monk, in the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Ob...

The future of humanity can go one of three ways:We annihilate ourselves and go extinctWe continue to muddle alongWe learn to live forever and fix everythingThis is a book about option three. It is based on science we have today and numbers that work. It contains a vision of how we make a future in which today's global problems get solved. You will visit a future that is possible in the next several decades. We will...

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This book explores English single sheet satirical prints published from 1780-1820, the people who made those prints, and the businesses that sold them. It examines how these objects were made, how they were sold, and how both the complexity of the production process and the necessity to sell shaped and constrained the satiric content these objects contained. It argues that production, sale, and environment are crucial to understanding late-Georgian satirical prints. A majority of these pri...

In "Education and Life: Papers and Addresses," James H. Baker presents a compelling compilation of essays that explore the intricate relationship between education and the human experience. Written in a reflective and accessible style, Baker thoughtfully navigates various educational theories and practices while situating them within the broader socio-cultural context of his time. Drawing on his extensive experience in educational settings, he illuminates issues such as the role of critica...

Plymouth is known world-wide because of the Pilgrim story and its considerable significance for the history of the United States. Visitors have made their own pilgrimages to Plymouth for hundreds of years to "see where it all began," gaze at Plymouth Rock, and visit Pilgrim Hall and Plimoth Plantation. However, Plymouth isn't just the Pilgrims. It is a living community where residents still live on the site of the 1620 settlement as well as throughout the entire 103-square-mile township. T...

Told in the form of interviews with those who knew and hated him, this hilarious and irreverent mockumentary recounts the rise and fall of notorious Hollywood producer Shark Trager. As a young man, Shark had dreams of directing artistic movies, but when his film school project is savaged by a snobby French critic, Shark turns instead to producing exploitative trash, the more shocking and outrageous the better. Fueled by a nonstop supply of sex and drugs, Shark's life and work become increa...

Assessing the legal and practical questions posed by the use of artificial intelligence in national security mattersThe increasing use of artificial intelligence poses challenges and opportunities for nearly all aspects of society, including the military and other elements of the national security establishment. This book addresses how national security law can and should be applied to artificial intelligence, which enables a wide range of decisions and actions not ...

The United States faces the realistic and indefinite threat of terrorist attack with nuclear weapons. Whether the United States is successful in preventing such an attack will depend on whether we effectively wield the instruments of security. It will also depend on whether we effectively manage national security processes and apply the law in a manner that both enhances security and upholds our core values. As a result, lawyers, not just presidents, generals, and spies, will decide the ou...