Learning Science

Every year, millions of Americans are overcharged and underserved while the health-care industry makes record profits. We know something is wrong, but the layers of bureaucracy designed to discourage complaints make pushing back seem impossible. Never Pay the First Bill is the guerilla guide to health care the American people and employers need. Drawing on 15 years of investigating the health-care industry, reporter Marshall Allen shows how companies and individuals have managed to force medical providers to play fair and shows how you can, too.

A celebration of the language and culture of Italy, La Bella Lingua is the story of how a language shaped a nation, told against the backdrop of one woman's personal quest to speak fluent Italian. For anyone who has been to Italy, the fantasy of living the Italian life is powerfully seductive. But to truly become Italian, one must learn the language. This is how Dianne Hales began her journey. In La Bella Lingua, she brings the story of her decades-long experience with "the world's most loved and lovable language" together with explorations of Italy's history.

¡Descubre cómo la Inteligencia Artificial puede revolucionar Scrum y potenciar la agilidad de tus equipos! En un mundo donde la agilidad y la inteligencia artificial (IA) convergen, Agilidad Aumentada: Integrando la IA en Scrum se convierte en la guía imprescindible para llevar a tu equipo al siguiente nivel. Este libro responde a la creciente necesidad de integrar la IA en los marcos ágiles, especialmente en Scrum, para maximizar la eficiencia, mejorar la toma de decisiones y estimular la innovación en proyectos de software y más allá. ¿Qué aprenderás con este libro? ✅ Cómo ...

The process of learning new terms requires you to understand their relationship with other terms and concepts. After getting this language in the bones, you will find your understanding of the overall subject matter also increases, leading to fast acquisition of new knowledge. Yet, the biggest problem is the outdated teaching method most professors use to hammer the terms in your brain. With our updated approach, you will memorize the terms twice as fast and more effectively.

Are you looking to expand your skill set to increase your value in the job market? If you have a knack for problem-solving, coding can be a rewarding and fun skill to learn. Coding is one of the most in-demand skills that employers are looking for, and they are willing to pay for it. Monster.com, a popular job search site, reports that jobs requiring coding skills pay an average of $22,000 more per year, compared to other noncoding jobs.

David Bodanis demystifies the world's most famous equation, explaining its science and bringing it to life. He makes clear the astonishing array of discoveries and consequences it made possible and its impact on our daily lives. At last, the masses can understand that Einstein did nothing less than open the door to the inner structure of the universe.

Jonathan Kozol traveled from the most blighted neighborhoods of Chicago to the urban wreckage of Camden, New Jersey; from the ghetto suburbs of Detroit to inner-city San Antonio; East St. Louis, and Washington, D.C. Everywhere, he discovered separate systems of public schools, with the children of America's poor condemned to schools that are underfunded, understaffed, physically crumbling, and imbued with despair.

In Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education (1916), John Dewey contends that the primary facts of the birth and death of each of the members of a social group determine the necessity of education. Dewey viewed the mind and its formation as a communal process, so that the individual is a meaningful concept only when regarded as an inextricable part of their society, whilst the society has no meaning apart from its realization through the lives of individual members.

Are you ready to harness the transformative power of AI in finance? AI Mastery for Finance Professionals is the definitive guide for navigating the AI revolution that is reshaping the financial landscape. This book demystifies complex concepts and equips you with the knowledge and tools to leverage AI for smarter decision-making, improved risk management, and unparalleled innovation. As AI removes traditional constraints on scale, scope, and learning, it is redefining how financial institutions create, capture, share, and deliver value. With AI-driven processes enabling unprecedented ...

Everything you were taught about evolution is wrong. In this shocking book, Berkeley-educated doctor of biology Jonathan Wells lets you in on scientific discoveries you won't learn about from college and high-school textbooks - and reveals a dirty little secret known only to some of his fellow biologists.

Unleash the power of Generative AI in less than 30 days. Turn tech curiosity into a practical skillset even if you're a beginner. Don't let your perception of what's difficult hold you back. This book is designed specifically with simplicity in mind, tailored for those who may be stepping into the world of AI for the first time. It is packed with interactive, up-to-date exercises and real-world applications, that will guide you every step of the way, ensuring that you stay connected to the most relevant and useful topics in AI.

The Fallacy Detective has been the best-selling book for teaching logical fallacies and introduction to logic for over 15 years. What is a fallacy? A fallacy is an error in logic a place where someone has made a mistake in his thinking. “A cloud is 90 percent water. A watermelon is 90 percent water. Therefore, since a plane can fly through a cloud, a plane can fly through a watermelon.” This is an easy book for learning to spot common errors in reasoning. For ages 12 through adult. Fun to use - learn skills you can use right away.

Machine learning systems are both complex and unique. Complex because they consist of many different components and involve many different stakeholders. Unique because they're data dependent, with data varying wildly from one use case to the next. In this book, you'll learn a holistic approach to designing ML systems that are reliable, scalable, maintainable, and adaptive to changing environments and business requirements. Author Chip Huyen, cofounder of Claypot AI, considers each design decision in the context of how it can help your system as a whole achieve its objectives.

Before he became a novelist, Michael Connelly was a crime reporter, covering the detectives who worked the homicide beat in Florida and Los Angeles. In vivid, hard-hitting articles, Connelly leads the reader past the yellow police tape as he follows the investigators, the victims, their families and friends, and, of course, the killers, to tell the real stories of murder and its aftermath.

Fifteen-year-old Diamond stopped going to school the day she was expelled for lashing out at peers who constantly harassed and teased her for something everyone on the staff had missed: she was being trafficked for sex. After months on the run, she was arrested and sent to a detention center for violating a court order to attend school. Just 16 percent of female students, Black girls make up more than one-third of all girls with a school-related arrest.

In this much anticipated follow-up to their groundbreaking book, Shifting the Balance: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Balanced Literacy Classroom, authors Jan Burkins and Kari Yates, together with co-author Katie Cunningham, extend the conversation in Shifting the Balance, Grades 3-5: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Upper Elementary Classroom. This new text is built in mind specifically for grades 3-5 teachers around best practices for the intermediate classroom.

Learn Hacking From Scratch and Start a Career (Practical Application) This is the second edition of our ebook, 'Learn Hacking From Scratch and Start a Career'. This book is actually a practical demonstration of Hacking. What will you learn ? Practical steps of Hacking Roadmap of Ethical Hacking. Kali linux WiFi Hacking Website Hacking Cracking Passwords, RDPs, etc. And more..

In his Introduction, Abraham Kaplan places Dewey's philosophy of art within the context of his pragmatism. Kaplan demonstrates in Dewey's esthetic theory his traditional "movement from a dualism to a monism" and discusses whether Dewey's viewpoint is that of the artist, the respondent, or the critic.

The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you need to know to succeed on the A3 test. The material is accurate, up-to-date, and broken down into bite-sized chapters. There are quizzes and key takeaways sections following each chapter to review questions commonly tested and drive home key points.

Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer. Space exploration is in some ways an exploration of what it means to be human. How much can a person give up? How much weirdness can they take? What happens to you when you can’t walk for a year? Have sex? Smell flowers? What happens if you vomit in your helmet during a space walk? Is it possible for the human body to survive a bailout at 17,000 miles per hour?