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"Henry is a brilliant engineer who, after untold hours spent in his home laboratory, has achieved the discovery of his career-he has created artificially intelligent consciousness. He calls the half-formed robot William. No one knows about William. Not yet anyway. Henry's agoraphobia keeps him inside the house, and his fixation on William keeps him up in the attic, away from everyone, including his pregnant wife, Lily. When Lily's coworkers show up...
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Provides a biography of entrepreneur and business mogul Elon Musk that covers his childhood, early success with a Silicon Valley start-up, his success with the electric car company Tesla and private space company SpaceX, and recent controversies related to his takeover of the social media platform, Twitter.
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"Unlock an all-access look inside the thrilling world of Formula One. Formula One is one of the most intense, complex and secretive sports on the planet. Recent documentaries such as Netflix’s Drive to Survive series have given a glimpse of life inside the paddock, but there are so many more stories from this high-stakes, globetrotting world that remain untold. In F1 Racing Confidential, Guardian journalist Giles Richards draws on more than...
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"Phaedra Morgan is one of the best race engineers in Formula 1. She's a math prodigy with dazzling skill, cutting wit, and no patience for matters of the heart. Of course, her job would be a lot easier if she didn't keep butting heads with their team's cocky and infuriatingly hot new driver. Cosmin Ardelean is intense and committed, but as famous for his off-track romantic exploits as his on-track wizardry. Yet his devil-may-care façade conceals...
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"College senior Charlotte Kingston is living two lives--and she's nailing both of them. By day, she's the perfect sorority girl, a STEM student in biomedical engineering, and the adopted daughter of an overachiever family. At night, she's Charlie: a risk-taking daredevil looking for fun who finds herself chatting on a dating app with two anonymous hotties. Will Larsen may seem like the breezy boy next door, but his Congressman father is a constant...
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Set in the proverbial boomtowns of West Texas, Landman is a modern-day tale of fortune seeking in the world of oil rigs. The series is an upstairs/downstairs story of roughnecks and wildcat billionaires fueling a boom so big, it's reshaping our climate, our economy and our geopolitics. -- Container
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Explore engineering as a career with this introduction for ages 12 to 16 The job of an engineer is to solve all sorts of complex challenges facing the world while improving our lives through creative, innovative ideas. This engineering book for teens gives you a look into what engineers do and how they drive society forward through math and science. From designing tablets and smartphones to reimagining the way we collect and store renewable energy,...
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"This vibrantly illustrated graphic novel follows Peter as its loveable main character, revealing the secret network of the forest and sharing struggles and triumphs from his career protecting trees. Told in Peter's warm, conversational voice, not unlike that of a beloved grandfather chatting fireside, this visually stunning book offers scientific insights and pearls of wisdom gained from Peter's decades of observing forests, including how trees impact...
12) Still the sun
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"Pell is an engineer and digger by trade--unearthing and repairing the fascinating artifacts left behind by the mysterious Ancients who once inhabited the sunbaked planet of Tampere. She'll do anything to help the people of her village survive and to better understand the secrets of what came before. Heartwood and Moseus are keepers of a forbidding tower near the village of Emgarden. Inside are the remnants of complex machines the likes of which Pell...
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"Little William loved school, but when problems hit the family farm in Malawi, there wasn't enough money to pay for his education. He kept learning on his own, and after reading that windmills could make electricity, he built one using scrap parts. William shared his knowledge to help his village, his country, and beyond, changing lives and showing the power of curiosity. This incredible story of the inventor features a fact and photo section at the...
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Scope and Content: This collection includes 35 audio-recorded interviews created in 2015 by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in partnership with the Music Industry Coalition and the Nashville Public Library. The time periods covered within the interviews range from the 1940s to 2015. Each interview has a transcript, and most have indexes.
Primary topics addressed in the interviews include: individuals' stories of how they got started...