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No running water, no car, no electricity or any of the things it powers: the internet, phone, washing machine, radio, or light bulb. Just a wooden cabin, on a smallholding, by the edge of a stand of spruce. The Way Home is a modern-day Walden - an honest and lyrical account of a remarkable life lived in nature without modern technology. Mark Boyle, author of The Moneyless Man, explores the hard-won joys of building a home with his bare hands, learning to make fire, collecting water from the stream, foraging, and fishing.

On the night of April 25, 1986, a group of engineers at a Soviet nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine began a routine safety test on a reactor they had been told was impossible to break. Within seconds of pressing the emergency shutdown button — the one action that was supposed to save them — the reactor's power surged to a hundred times its intended output, and the thousand-ton steel lid of the reactor vessel blew through the roof of the building. What followed was not just the worst nuclear disaster in history but the unraveling of every lie the Soviet state had told about its ...

What if every relationship followed the same simple structure—and you just never learned how to see it? In The CATR Theory™: The 4 Legs of Successful Personal and Professional Relationships. It’s NOT Rocket Science! (CATR: pronounced “cater”), Laurie Thibert introduces a framework that quietly explains why some relationships thrive while others fracture.

Step into a new era of project management education with this comprehensive, audio-first study guide built for the PMBOK Guide 8th edition, the global standard shaping how project work is understood and applied in practice. This edition brings clearer principles, practical focus areas, and an integrated performance domain structure designed for real-world delivery across predictive, agile, and hybrid environments.

Master the complexities of project management with "PMP PMBOK 7 Edition" from Davidson's Audiobooks. Designed for professionals aspiring to excel in the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, this study guide is the quintessential companion for your preparation, structured around the latest PMBOK Guide – Seventh Edition.

A Practical Guide for Beginners, Professionals & Business Leaders Unlock the Power of Technology in Your Career and Business In today’s fast-paced digital world, understanding technology isn’t optional—it’s essential. Whether you're a complete beginner, a working professional, or a business leader, Mastering Information Technology is your all-in-one guide to building confidence and competence in tech. From the basics of computing and networking to cutting-edge AI and digital transformation strategies, this book offers practical, real-world knowledge you can apply immediately—no ...

Engineering isn’t broken because people stopped caring. It’s broken because product thinking got lost. In a world where shipping is fast but impact is rare, Product Driven offers a new model for engineering leadership. One built on outcomes, not output. If you’ve ever led a software team and wondered why the work feels disconnected, why your best engineers start coasting, or why everything still flows through you no matter how senior your team gets, this book is your roadmap out.

Running a small business in 2025 isn’t about working harder — it’s about working smarter. Artificial Intelligence has become the ultimate competitive advantage for entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, and local businesses ready to scale efficiently. This book gives you a step-by-step roadmap to transform your business using ChatGPT, Canva, Zapier, and other AI-powered tools — no coding or technical background required.

What if a book could save your company thousands to millions in wasted cybersecurity spending? That’s not hype, it’s the reality when you stop treating spending dollars like a bottomless pit and start treating it like a business strategy. Most executives assume the more money they throw at cybersecurity, the safer they’ll be. Wrong. In fact, the bigger your budget, the more likely you’re bleeding cash on shelfware, pointless meetings, and “solutions” that solve nothing. This book flips the script: it shows you how to slash costs, cut risk, and still move faster than your ...

In an era where strategic agility is paramount, the ability to master portfolio management has become not just an asset but a necessity for organizations striving for success. "Mastering Portfolio Management: A Practical Guide to Strategy Execution and Value Realization" delves into the intricacies of aligning project portfolios with overarching business strategies, providing readers with actionable insights that can transform their approach to value delivery. This book addresses a critical gap in the literature by offering a pragmatic framework for navigating the complexities of strategy ...

Artificial Intelligence is transforming how we work, create, and communicate - but the secret to harnessing its full potential lies in one skill: prompt and context engineering.

At four o'clock in the morning on March 28, 1979, a maintenance malfunction in a water purification system triggered a cascade of failures that would bring the United States to the brink of a nuclear catastrophe. Within hours, half the reactor core at Three Mile Island Unit 2 had melted, a hydrogen bubble threatened to explode inside the reactor vessel, and 140,000 people were fleeing their homes across central Pennsylvania. The most technologically advanced nation on earth discovered, in real time and on live television, that its experts did not understand their own machines, its ...

A global tour of energy--the builder of human civilization and also its greatest threat. Energy is humanity's single most important resource. In fact, as energy expert Michael E. Webber argues in Power Trip, the story of how societies rise can be told largely as the story of how they manage...

Whether you are a scientist or a poet, pro-nuclear energy or staunch opponent, conspiracy theorist or pragmatist, James Mahaffey's books have served to open up the world of nuclear science like never before. With clear explanations of some of the most complex scientific endeavors in history, Mahaffey's new book looks back at the atom's wild, secretive past and then toward its potentially bright future.

A Soul of the New Machine for our time, a gripping account of invention, commerce, and duplicity in the age of technology A worldwide race is on to perfect the next engine of economic growth, the advanced lithium-ion battery. It will power the electric car, relieve global warming, and catapult...

Unlock Your PMP Certification Excellence with the Updated PMP Exam Prep 2025-2026 New Edition!Are you ready to conquer the PMP exam and elevate your project management career to new heights? Looking for a comprehensive and up-to-date roadmap to ensure your success in the PMP certification? Designed for aspiring project management professionals, this is your ultimate guide to achieve certification excellence. This meticulously crafted resource equips you with the essential tools, strategies, test simulations, and tips necessary to pass the PMP exam on your first time with fluency. Whether ...

Every time you flip a light switch, you connect to a machine spanning thousands of miles, synchronizing the rotation of generators from Florida to Manitoba within fractions of a second. The North American power grid is the largest machine ever built, yet most people have no idea how it came to exist or how close it comes to catastrophic failure more often than anyone wants to admit. This is the story of how a continent was wired, from Benjamin Franklin's kite to the Russian hackers who spent years hiding inside American utility control systems undetected. The grid was built by visionaries ...

Atoms and Ashes recounts the dramatic history of nuclear accidents that have dogged the industry in its military and civil incarnations since the 1950s. Through the stories of six terrifying major incidents—Bikini Atoll, Kyshtym, Windscale, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima—Cold War expert Serhii Plokhy explores the risks of nuclear power, both for military and peaceful purposes, while offering a vivid account of how individuals and governments make decisions under extraordinary circumstances.

The transition to clean energy is moving far too slowly. Trapped by a century of fossil fuel investments and politicians that struggle to plan beyond the next election, the “Big Grid” that powers our modern world is outdated and in dire need of an upgrade. Freeing Energy offers a new and faster path towards a clean energy future — one that is more reliable, more equitable, and cheaper.

Ripples in Spacetime is an engaging account of the international effort to complete Einstein's project, capture his elusive ripples, and launch an era of gravitational-wave astronomy that promises to explain, more vividly than ever before, our universe's structure and origin. The quest for gravitational waves involved years of risky research and many personal and professional struggles that threatened to derail one of the world's largest scientific endeavors.