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Valentino Rossi: The Definitive Biography

'STUART BARKER IS TO WRITING WHAT VALENTINO ROSSI IS TO RIDING [...] A MUST-READ FOR ALL BIKE NUTS' - DAILY MIRROR 'At high speed everything becomes more difficult and more beautiful. When you're racing at 180mph, the semi-bends become bends, the little holes become big holes, everything becomes extreme and bigger. And then it becomes beautiful.' Valentino Rossi is an icon: the most successful and most loved motorcycle racer of all time, he has transcended MotoGP to become a symbol of courage, risk and daring. To race for twenty-three years at the very highest level of the world's most dangerous sport is unprecedented. But then, there has never been a motorcycle racer like Valentino Rossi. He is a modern-day gladiator, a man who still risks his life every time he throws a leg over a motorcycle. Yet for all his two-wheel talents, it is Rossi's endearing character that has seen him transcend the sport. His popularity is phenomenal. For Rossi, every race is a home race. He turns MotoGP grandstands across the world a sea of yellow - his traditional lucky colour. In more than two decades of Grand Prix racing, Rossi has seen it all. The deaths of rivals and friends, the glory of his unprecedented success, serious injuries, fabulous wealth, the greatest battles ever seen on two wheels, the infamous on and off-track clashes with his fiercest rivals . . . Using exclusive new interviews with those who have been part of Rossi's story from start to finish, critically-acclaimed and bestselling motorsport author Stuart Barker has produced the most in-depth book ever written about the Italian superstar - a tale of speed, love and loss, told in full for the very first time, in all its adrenalin-charged, high-octane glory.

Stuart Barker (Author), Jonathan Guy Lewis (Narrator)

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Canadarm and Collaboration: How Canada's Astronauts and Space Robots Explore New Worlds

With interviews from Chris Hadfield and Marc Garneau, the tale of Canada's involvement in international space exploration from the 1960s to the present day Canada is a small but mighty power in space exploration. After providing the Canadarm robotic arm for the space shuttle in 1981, Canada received an invitation to start an astronaut program - a program that quickly let its people accumulate skill and prestige. Canadian astronauts have since commanded the International Space Station, flown as co-pilots on spacecraft, and even held senior roles within NASA. This book traces how Canada grew from small beginnings into a major player in international space policy. You will hear about Canada's space program from the words of its astronauts, from Canadian celebrity Chris Hadfield to Liberal cabinet minister Marc Garneau to Governor General Julie Payette. You will experience the excitement and challenges of reporting on a rocket launch in Kazakhstan, as Canada sent its latest astronaut to space in preparation for possible moon missions in the 2020s. And you will learn from the people who work behind the scenes on Canadian space technology and space policy about why we are doing this - and what we plan to do next.

Elizabeth Howell (Author), Tracey Hoyt (Narrator)

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Reinventing Jobs: A 4-Step Approach for Applying Automation to Work

Your organization has made the decision to adopt automation and artificial intelligence technologies. Now, you face difficult and stubborn questions about how to implement that decision: How, when, and where should we apply automation in our organization? Is it a stark choice between humans versus machines? How do we stay on top of these technological trends as work and automation continue to evolve? Work and human capital experts Ravin Jesuthasan and John Boudreau present leaders with a new set of tools to answer these daunting questions. Transcending the endless debate about humans being replaced by machines, Jesuthasan and Boudreau show how smart leaders instead are optimizing human-automation combinations that are not only more efficient but also generate higher returns on improved performance. Based on groundbreaking primary research, Reinventing Jobs provides an original, structured approach of four distinct steps-deconstruct, optimize, automate, and reconfigure-to help leaders reinvent how work gets bundled into jobs and create optimal human-machine combinations. Jesuthasan and Boudreau show leaders how to continuously reexamine what a job really is, and they provide the tools for identifying the pivotal performance value of tasks within jobs and how these tasks should be reconstructed into new, more optimal combinations.

John W. Boudreau, Ravin Jesuthasan (Author), Barry Abrams (Narrator)

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Work in the Future: The Automation Revolution

This short, accessible book seeks to explore the future of work through the views and opinions of a range of expertise, encompassing economic, historical, technological, ethical, and anthropological aspects of the debate. The transition to an automated society brings with it new challenges and a consideration for what has happened in the past; the editors of this book carefully steer the listener through future possibilities and policy outcomes, all the while recognizing that while such a shift to a robotized society will be a gradual process, it is one that requires significant thought and consideration.

Nan Craig (editor), Robert Skidelsky (editor) (Author), Steve Menasche, Teri Schnaubelt (Narrator)

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EMOTIONAL EATING: How To Stop Emotional Eating Naturally And Live A Better Life

If you're eating to help manage your feelings, you might have found that it doesn't work. You may even feel worse when you're done eating. Eating can all too quickly become a tool for dealing with depression, anxiety, loneliness, stress and frustration, and a privilege when it's time to celebrate. By becoming more capable of dissolving negative emotions that induce ease in eating you will: - Stop Binge Eating - Stop Dieting - Stop Emotional Overeating - Reduce Stress The book gives you an easy-to-understand guide that will help you finally end emotional eating, binge eating, and other uncontrollable eating disorders. It's actually quite simple to avoid once you realize why you're struggling, what it means, and how to cope with it slowly. If you're dealing with any of the above, you need to read this book. It comes with all the knowledge you need to learn to start your journey to good health and is presented in a step-by-step process. What you will learn: - Introduction To Emotional Eating - What Is Emotional Eating - Exploring Drives Behind One's Behavior - Learn To Take Control Of Your Appetite And Turn Down The Stress Of Your Life - Put Great Habit Into Your Daily Eating Routine - Why A Negative Habit Is So Harmful And How To Overcome It - The Key To Stress Management And Many More

Stephan Ofthetower (Author), Dms (Narrator)

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Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ‘A stunning book, among the most immediate and thrilling works of history I have ever read’ At 8:15am on August 6th 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. In an instant, the temperature at its core rose to millions of degrees. Sixty-thousand buildings were obliterated. A third of the city’s population died, by heat, by the blast, and by a terrible new weapon in the history of warfare: radiation. In this riveting account, Stephen Walker follows the stories of real people in the extraordinary weeks leading up to the explosion and in its aftermath. From the atomic engineer who armed the bomb in mid-air to the Japanese doctors treating thousands of burnt bodies on the ground. From the flight crews and scientists to world leaders and civilian victims. With intimate testimony and remarkable stories, this is the startling narrative behind the dawn of the atomic age.

Stephen Walker (Author), Colin Mace (Narrator)

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Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity

From our offices and homes to schools, hospitals, and restaurants, the indoor spaces where we work, learn, play, eat, and heal have an outsized impact on our performance and well-being. They affect our creativity, focus, and problem-solving ability and can make us sick-jeopardizing our future and dragging down profits in the process. Joseph Allen and John Macomber make a compelling case in this urgently needed book for why every business and home owner should make certain relatively low-cost investments a top priority. Grounded in exposure and risk science and relevant to anyone newly concerned about how their surroundings impact their health, Healthy Buildings can help you evaluate the impact of small, easily controllable environmental fluctuations on your immediate well-being and long-term reproductive and lung health. Cutting through the jargon to explain complex processes in simple and compelling language, Allen and Macomber show how buildings can both expose you to and protect you from disease. With decades of practice in protecting worker health, they offer a clear way forward right now, and show us what comes next in a post-COVID world.

John D. Macomber, Joseph G. Allen (Author), Adam Lofbomm (Narrator)

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Ham Radio For Beginners: The Ultimate Guide to Amateur Radio, Learn All The iInformation You Need to

Ham Radio For Beginners: The Ultimate Guide to Amateur Radio, Learn All The iInformation You Need to Know to Earn Your License and Become a Radio Amateur Amateur radio or more popularly known as Ham Radio is a fun hobby that has some practical uses as well. If you’re interested in getting one for your home, this audiobook will be an excellent guide on learning how to operate it and how to become a radio amateur. Some people think this hobby is a bit geeky and unfashionable but learning how to operate one can help you stay connected when disaster strikes and can help you be aware of local emergencies as well. This audiobook will discuss the following topics: - What is Ham Radio? - Transmitting Licences - Frequency Allocations and QSOs Equipment - How to become a Radio Amateur This hobby is much more accessible now because it is no longer as expensive as before. This is because of the arrival of many affordable sets from Shenzen and Guanzhou. But being a radio amateur is not as easy as just buying a set because you need to either take a class or do a self-study to learn it and get a license as well. This audiobook is an excellent guide if you want to do self-study. To get started on learning more about amateur radio, scroll up and click “add to cart” now.

Jon Marci (Author), Cyrus Nilo (Narrator)

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Winning the Long Competition

For the first time since the Space Race, the United States is facing a serious competitor with a plan to achieve technological dominance: China. Between China 2025 and the Belt and Road Initiative, it’s become clear that the Chinese government is determined to capture the economic power that new technologies like AI, automation, 5G, and the cloud represent. And with economic power comes military power, and then political power. To win this competition, the US must return to the historical model it used to build the interstate highway system, put a man on the moon, and build the computer and the Internet—but has become an afterthought over the past few decades. In Winning the Long Competition, Alan Pentz lays out a roadmap for increasing our investment and innovation in core areas. He shows government managers where to invest and points innovators to areas where the funding will be plentiful. As we move into the next American century, the only way forward is to harness all the resources and creativity of both our public and private sectors.

Alan Pentz (Author), Ray Galetti, Ray Galletti (Narrator)

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The Domestic Revolution: How the Introduction of Coal into Victorian Homes Changed Everything

'The queen of living history' (Lucy Worsley) returns with an immersive account of how English women sparked a worldwide revolution-from their own kitchens. No single invention epitomizes the Victorian era more than the black cast-iron range. Aware that the twenty-first-century has reduced it to a quaint relic, Ruth Goodman was determined to prove that the hot coal stove provided so much more than morning tea: it might even have kick-started the Industrial Revolution. Wielding the wit and passion seen in How to Be a Victorian, Goodman traces the tectonic shift from wood to coal in the mid-sixteenth century-from sooty trials and errors during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I to the totally smog-clouded reign of Queen Victoria. A pattern of innovation emerges as the women stoking these fires also stoked new global industries: from better soap to clean smudges to new ingredients for cooking. Laced with uproarious anecdotes of Goodman's own experience managing a coal-fired household, this fascinating book shines a hot light on the power of domestic necessity.

Ruth Goodman (Author), Jennifer M. Dixon (Narrator)

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The Tech Whisperer: On Digital Transformation and the Technologies that Enable It

Companies all over the world are being buffeted by new technologies, disruptive business models and start-up innovation. Business leaders know that they need to adopt these new technologies like blockchain, artificial intelligence and Internet of things, and transform their companies using them to keep pace with rapid customer and business environment changes. Therefore, there is an urgent need to understand the basic principles of digital transformation and the technology forces that enable this shift.The Tech Whisperer, as the name suggests, demystifies and simplifies emerging technologies like AI, blockchain, Internet of things, virtual reality, etc. and narrates how companies can employ these to drive their digital transformation.Jaspreet Bindra has been a leading practitioner and thought leader in digital transformation and technology. In his first book, he gives an engaging and forward-looking practitioner's view which can help business leaders, entrepreneurs and anyone looking to understand digital transformation and technology, and leverage them for their future success.

Jaspreet Bindra (Author), Anuj Datta (Narrator)

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Black Mirror and Philosophy: Dark Reflections

Black Mirror-the Emmy-winning Netflix series that holds up a dark, digital mirror of speculative technologies to modern society-shows us a high-tech world where it is all too easy to fall victim to ever-evolving forms of social control. In Black Mirror and Philosophy, original essays written by a diverse group of scholars invite you to peer into the void and explore the philosophical, ethical, and existential dimensions of Charlie Brooker's sinister stories. The collection reflects Black Mirror's anthology structure by pairing a chapter with every episode in the show's five seasons-including an interactive, choose-your-own-adventure analysis of Bandersnatch-and concludes with general essays that explore the series' broader themes. Chapters address questions about artificial intelligence, virtual reality, surveillance, privacy, love, death, criminal behavior, and politics, including: Have we given social media too much power over our lives? Could heaven really, one day, be a place on Earth? Should criminal justice and punishment be crowdsourced? What rights should a 'cookie' have? Immersive, engaging, and experimental, Black Mirror and Philosophy navigates the intellectual landscape of Brooker's morality plays for the modern world, where humanity's greatest innovations and darkest instincts collide.

David Kyle Johnson (editor), William Irwin (editor) (Author), Emily Beresford, Joel Richards (Narrator)

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