This illustrated companion to the popular podcast and National Geographic Channel show is an eye-opening journey for anyone curious about our universe, space, astronomy and the complexities of the cosmos.For decades, beloved astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has interpreted science with a combination of brainpower and charm that resonates with fans everywhere. This pioneering, provocative book brings together the best of StarTalk, his beloved podcast and television show devoted to ...

No struggle. No chaos. No witnesses.When seventeen-year-old Sarah Jenkins is found dead near Cypress Creek, the scene doesn't look like a murder.It looks... perfect.Her clothes are clean.Her body is carefully placed.Her face is calm-almost peaceful.But Detective Linc Hayes knows better.This wasn't random.It was designed.As Hayes and his partner, Angela Carver, dig deeper, they uncover a chilling pattern buried in years...

For decades, beloved astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has interpreted science with a combination of brainpower and charm that resonates with fans everywhere.This pioneering, provocative audiobook brings together the best of StarTalk, his beloved podcast and television show devoted to solving the most confounding mysteries of Earth, space, and what it means to be human. Filled with brilliant sidebars and unforgettable quotes from Tyson and his brilliant c...

Pediatric Otolaryngology remains the definitive, comprehensive reference text for the subspecialty. This fifth edition has been fully updated with 29 new chapters and 144 new authors, and new color clinical photographs and photomicrographs. Charles D. Bluestone, of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, editor of the previous four editions, is joined by two new editors: Jeffrey Simons also of UPSM and Gerald Healy of Harvard Medical School. Together with...

No choice is still a choice.You did not arrive at your current life all at once.You arrived through what you delayed.What you avoided.What you tolerated.What you kept repeating long after you knew better.In The Life You Keep Choosing, Jeffrey Simmons delivers a blunt, practical guide to the hidden forces shaping your life every day. This is not a book about empty motivation or soft excuses. It is a wake-up call for anyone who feels stuck, fru...

Kierkegaardian Phenomenologies, edited by J. Aaron Simmons, Jeffrey Hanson, and Wojciech Kaftanski, offers a substantive, diverse, and timely consideration of phenomenological engagements within the thought of Søren Kierkegaard. Featuring original essays from a distinguished collection of established and emerging global scholars representing different schools of thought, this volume explains how the interest in a phenomenological reading of Kierkegaard is not only vital, but conti...

Stop Falling in Love Wrong isn't another feel-good dating book-it's a reality check.If you keep ending up in relationships that start strong but fall apart...If you've ever said, "This time feels different," only to be proven wrong...If you're tired of wasting months-or years-on the wrong person...This book will change how you choose-forever.Most people don't fail in love because of bad luck.They fail because they're using the wrong ...

Advances in the Study of Behavior, Volume 49 provides users with the latest insights in this ever-evolving field. Users will find new information on a variety of species, including social behaviors in reptiles, the behavioral evidence of felt emotions, a section on developmental plasticity, a chapter on covetable corpses and plastic beetles and the socioecological behavior of burying beetles, and a section on the mechanisms of communication and cognition in chickadees. This volume makes an...

In 2011, political protests sprang up across the world. In the Middle East, Europe, Latin America, the United States unlikely people sparked or led massive protest campaigns from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street. These protests were made up of educated and precariously employed young people who challenged the legitimacy of their political leaders, exposed a failure of representation, and expressed their dissatisfaction with their place in the aftermath of financial and economic crisis...

"My greatest teacher has been my cancer," says the author in his story of faith as he faces death.But the author never goes too far in the direction of becoming "touchy-feely" with his illness. In fact, he refers to his cancer as being of the devil, yet he never dwells too long in this application either. There is humor but never too much. There is some "preaching" about people with grudges against God but never too much. Instead he tells us, step by step, how he learned of his can...

In 2020 San Diego, Max and her friends live in a wired world where information is a commodity, everyone has a price, and safety is an illusion sold to rubes and noobs. But cyberspace is also an equalizer, allowing Max and her tribe to transcend society’s limits and become who they want to be. Until now, Max’s biggest hassle was being a 15-year-old girl gamer in a world where that made you a target for misogynistic trolls – or worse. But when Max’s dad, a computer science professor at UCSD,...

Data analytics has become an integral part of materials science. This book provides the practical tools and fundamentals needed for researchers in materials science to understand how to analyze large datasets using statistical methods, especially inverse methods applied to microstructure characterization. It contains valuable guidance on essential topics such as denoising and data modeling. Additionally, the analysis and applications section addresses compressed sensing methods, stochastic...