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Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Disney and Pixars Cars with a surprise party in Radiator Springs!Return to Radiator Springs for an all-new adventure just in time for the 20th anniversary of the original Cars film! This full-color, paperback storybook is sure to delight fans of all ages as Mater, Sally, Cruz, and their friends throw a surprise party to celebrate their favorite racer on the first annual Lightning McQueen Day.

How to build innovation and industrial ecosystems in the US that support global leadership in priority technologies of the future.A new world order is emerging, and within it, US priorities are shifting. A reconfiguration of global supply chains. The redrawing of geopolitical lines and alliances with increasing threats of conflict. A rise in weather-related disasters. And the emergence of transformative technologies. All these factors are converging to create an environment filled with uncertainty and changebut also possibility.For the country to flourish as well as defend and secure its interests, it must build on its decades of experience in developing frontier technologies and globally competitive industries through investments into priority technologies for the twenty-first century. This volume, edited by Elisabeth Reynolds, presents a high-level introduction to some of the key areas where the United States must excel and lead in the coming decades to ensure both national and economic security. The book provides an overview of six key priority technologiescritical minerals, semiconductors, biomanufacturing, quantum computing, drones, and advanced manufacturingneeded to build the innovation and industrial ecosystems that will keep the US secure and drive shared prosperity.Contributors:Elsa A. Olivetti, Jesus del Alamo, J. Christopher Love, William D. Oliver, Jonathan Ruane, and Fiona E. Murray.

Fernando Alonso is one of the best drivers to ever drive in Formula One; a double World Championship winner, he is admired and loved by millions. Here he tells his incredible journey to motorsport superstardom for the first time.Fernando Alonso: Two-time Formula 1 world champion. Three-time Formula 1 runner-up. World Endurance Champion. Winner of the 24 Hours of Daytona. Participant in the Dakar Rally, the most prestigious of its kind in the world. The youngest racer to achieve pole position and a Grand Prix win. A fighter whose life is a tale of constant overcoming, a succession of challenges that demanded a steady hand behind the wheel.But what is the man like behind this consummate driver, this absolute master of speed, champion of endurance trials and rallies? Who is the real Fernando Alonso? Written amid asphalt, dunes, obstacles, and ever-higher goals, Fernandos first and only autobiography, Racer, is a journey through reflections on his life, his world, his dreams, and everything that really matters to him in ways he never has before. At its heart this is a story about a young boy from Spain who lit up the go-kart circuits precociously and worked hard all his life to become a champion like none other. A career that spans racing against Schumacher to Hamilton, a life on the track like no other, this is the ultimate F1 autobiography by the ultimate F1 racer.

For centuries it was far more efficient to move goods by water than by road. The end of the 18th century saw 2,000 miles of canal built in Britain: the Canal Age had begun.Constructing the canals consisted of a great deal of hard work and manual labour, headlines by individual names but mostly done by tens of thousands of men across Britain called navvies. Initially much like carting on roads, boating on canals grew as canal systems expanded across the country, but still required long hours, hard work and specific skills.This detailed and informative guide tells the story of the boats and their workers. From the professional leggers who walked boats through tunnels to lock keepers to canal children running ahead of the boats, original photographs and artefacts such as tug tickets and timetables show what life was like on the canal.A classic Pitkin guide to immerse readers in the world of canals in Britain, including a list of museums and heritage centres to provide further insight into the history of the canal network.

From Mazdas first experiments with rotary power in the early 1960s, to the supercar-baiting models that dominated automotive pop culture in the early 20th century, this book charts the story of the Mazda RX-7 in all its generations and variations, as well as those involved in its conception and development, and the tuners and race teams that contributed to the models success. The Wankel rotary engine has never quite achieved the prominence its inventor Felix Wankel, nor its adopted family at Mazda, probably expected it to achieve. However, the Japanese carmakers time, investment and dedication to the rotary engine has still been rewarded with millions of sales, and has given us one of the worlds greatest sports cars: the Mazda RX-7. From its launch in 1978 until production ceased three generations later in 2002, the RX-7 was recognised as one of the finest sports cars of its era, with the styling, performance and handling to do what so many other brands have failed to achieve over the years, challenging and even beating the likes of Porsche. Over 24 years and three generations, the Mazda RX-7 secured its place as one of the worlds legendary sports cars. Powered by the Wankel rotary engine, which over the years Mazda has truly made its own, the RX-7 began life as a democratic sports car offering Porsche-eclipsing performance for a fraction of the price, and evolved to become one of Japans most formidable performance cars, offering a thrilling driving experience on the road and track. The cars performance increased considerably over the years, yet Mazdas focus on light weight, driver interaction and consistent improvements to the rotary engine never wavered. This book follows the story of the RX-7 and its many variations, racing endeavours and appearances in popular culture along the way. The RX-7 also established Mazda as a serious player in the market, proving the rotary engine was far more than just a curiosity and demonstrating that its engineers were capable of much more than building worthy, but dull, economy cars. Without the RX-7, and the more than 800,000 cars Mazda sold bearing the nameplate, the company as we know it today may not exist.

Un emocionante viaje por las marcas y los modelos más legendarios del mundoDescubre la apasionante y emocionante historia de la motocicleta, desde los primeros motores hasta las deslumbrantes superbikes actuales.Este libro, que recorre la historia y el encanto de la motocicleta, ilustra su diversa gama, desde los primeros prototipos hasta las motos electricas de la era moderna.Las sencillas scooters ofrecen movilidad al gran publico, las scrambler son versatiles, las de carreras deslumbran a los seguidores y las cruisers pueden recorrer largas distancias.El libro de la motocicleta narra las fascinantes historias detras de los principales fabricantes del mundo, el papel de sus influyentes diseñadores e ingenieros y los modelos mas celebres. Tambien explora el contexto cultural en el que surgieron los distintos modelos y su impacto en la sociedad: como objetos de curiosidad, medios de transporte asequibles o simbolos de rebelion.Completamente actualizado para incluir los modelos mas recientes de todo el mundo y las innovaciones de vanguardia, este libro presenta mas de 1000 maquinas imprescindibles, desde Ace hasta Zundapp.El libro definitivo para los aficionados al motociclismo en todas sus vertientes.

How the human voice must be understood, framed, and transformed to fit the conceptual formats required for artificial intelligence.What does it mean to know a voice, and how is that knowledge troubled through attempts to measure, analyze, and generate it? In Machine Voices, Edward Kang explores the sonic beliefs and practices that orbit voice AI technologies. He resists the paralysis of the increasingly ambiguous term artificial intelligence and examines it as a cultural hypothesis of human capability. Similar to how computer vision models inherit a limited belief of how humans see, or how LLMs employ a narrow proposition about what language is, voice AI systems invoke a thesis of how humans listen and speak.Kang offers the machine voice as a critical frame for understanding how the human voice is made commensurate with the mechanical formats required for artificial intelligence. In so doing, Kang not only presents new analytical frames to understand voice AI technologies and the economic, social, and cultural forces underlying their construction, but also pushes the boundaries of voice and listening in ways with which we have not yet contended.

The origins of the modern peer review system at both scientific journals and funding bodiesand how young peer review as a practice actually is.In Referees We Trust? investigates the origins of the peer review system, a system that is often considered the essential mechanism that protects the trustworthiness of scientific research. Melinda Baldwin traces the first refereeing systems to journals affiliated with scientific societies in the early nineteenth century and follows refereeing as it spread from Britain to the United States. She finds that the refereeing system was not immediately embraced by all scientific journals; many institutions deliberately eschewed refereeing and were not seen as less reliable because of that choice.The book shows that the modern link between peer review and scientific legitimacy was forged during the Cold War, as legislators and other government stakeholders began to question the need for scientists advice on how to award federal grant money. Scientists argued that if grant money was awarded without their expert opinionsin other words, without review by a grant applicants scientific peersthe US government would be violating a core principle of science itself. That argument was so successful that the idea of peer review as a cornerstone of science took hold and spread, elevating peer review from an optional process to a system intended to ensure the quality and trustworthiness of all of science.

From two White House veterans, an urgent case for why democracies must achieve preeminence in AIand a bracing warning about what victory will requireHumanity may soon create AI systems that can outperform humans at virtually every cognitive task. Whoever wields that technology will gain a power unlike any in history. In The Bitter Struggle, Ben Buchanan, who served as the White House Special Advisor for AI, and Tantum Collins, former Director for Technology and National Security, argue that the United States and its democratic allies cannot afford to lose this contest. But how democracies win may matter most of all.Buchanan and Collins take readers into the briefing rooms where AI CEOs gave private warnings about their own creations, into the Situation Room where Cabinet Secretaries debated how to constrain Chinas access to AI technology, and into the Oval Office, where they helped shape President Bidens decisions. From semiconductor factories in Taiwan to city-sized data centers in America, they show why a million chips can matter more than a million troops, why AI progress has been so stunning and yet so predictable, and why the next few years may decide the next few decades. Yet inventing AI is only the first part of the struggle. Democracies must also deploy itand so far, they are failing.The deepest challenge is not the contest with autocracy, but the conflict AI will force within democracies themselves. Every choice pits security against liberty, speed against caution, power against principle. This is the bitter struggle. Democracies have every advantage they need to prevailexcept, perhaps, the conviction to act.

The perfect book for motor enthusiasts, thrill seekers and anyone who loves a good yarn.Fear and I started our long relationship at a very early age, and every time we met, I think we worked together to thicken my skin a little.As a veteran of the famous (some would say infamous) Targa Rally in Tasmania, Philip Blake has had plenty of brushes with death, but even the bravest and most foolhardy of rev heads would be shocked by his record.In short, Philip Blake should not be alive. He has fallen off a mountain, been blown out of bed by an IRA bomb, survived an armed robbery and had far too many close shaves on the road and thats before you even get to the Targa.In this wickedly funny book, this master storyteller races through a life overflowing with thrills.

Wilbur and Orville Wright, inventors of the airplane, are the heroes of this 40th biography in the New York Times bestselling picture book series, for ages 5 to 9.Orville and Wilbur Wright always loved figuring out how things work, and from the day they received a toy wind-up helicopter as kids, they were especially focused on solving the puzzle of flight. Eventually that curiosity, combined with lots of hard work, led to an invention that changed the world: In 1903, the Wright Brothers created the worlds very first successful airplane.This friendly, fun biography series inspired the PBS Kids TV show Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum. One great role model at a time, these books encourage kids to dream big.Included in each book are: A timeline of key events in the heros history Photos that bring the story more fully to life Comic-book-style illustrations that are irresistibly adorable Childhood moments that influenced the heroes Facts that make great conversation-starters A virtue these heroes embody: This book highlights the Wright Brothers determination and perseverance. Youll want to collect each book in this dynamic, informative series!

Silicon Valley just invented time travel. The consequences are rewriting history.Meet the Bleb 1, the worlds first consumer time-travel device. It has the potential to change the world for the betterbut for now, people are using it to steal limited-edition Doritos from the 1990s, or kill their past selves for TikTok clout.Behind the device is Paradox Inc., a start-up prepared to do anything to stay ahead, even as the time-travel bubble threatens to destroy reality itself.As the industry spirals, three people find themselves at the centre of the chaos: an engineer who knows too much, a rival executive trying to impose order, and a journalist uncovering a conspiracy too vast for any tech giant to hide. Together, they confront the truth: the future may still be unwritten, but the past is no longer safe.After all, those who do not understand history are doomed to screw it up.

On the emergence, embodiment, and mediation of voice as skin.How do we build or make a voice together? Can we imagine the voices we make in the form of a skin, a multi-sensory interface that behaves both as a boundary and as a point of connection? What does such a voice capacitate in times of crises and uncertainties? In Building a Voice: Sound, Surface, Skin, Zeynep Bulut explores these questions. She examines the multi-sensory and collective forms of voice making in experimental music, sound and media art in conversation with the use of voice in creative interventions for environmental crisis, experiences of voice hearing, and digital technologies of artificial and tactile speech. Through this conversation, she points to two key terms: plasticity of voice, and non-dialogue. Plasticity of voice indicates both malleable and resistant aspects of voice. Non-dialogue refers to cross-sensory, non-dyadic, and distributed modes of interaction across both humans and nonhumans. The plasticity of voice and the non-dialogue, Bulut argues, encourage us to think about voice in the form of a skin, a surface that both connects and differentiates, without being limited to human body or labels of verbal language. Voice-as-skin, in effect, prompts us to reflect on both individual and collective, concrete and emergent, and uncertain and shared aspects of voice and speech, as well as to pace and revisit our conceptions of communication, intersubjectivity, connectivity, understanding and empathy.

First published in 1937, a Golden Age classic murder mystery set on a cross-country train.A highly ingenious, entertaining and unusual tale Daily HeraldThe luxurious Transcontinental Express, a locomotive journeying coast-to-coast across the United States, is the height of 1930s technology and sophistication. Alongside carriages for dining, drinking and dancing, theres even a swimming pool car. And its there, just one day into the journey, that the corpse of a banker is found.With a killer on the train, the passengers soon begin to turn on one another. Its up to the clever Dr Pons with his sharp wit and knack for impossible puzzles to get to the bottom of the case, even as every new piece of evidence seems to suggest more perplexing possibilities.Ingenious . . . A satisfyingly complex solution to both crimes BooklistExtravagantly brainy, gloriously dated Kirkus

The Untold Story of Steve Jobss Wilderness Yearsand the Creation of a LegendIn 1985, Steve Jobsthe brilliant, volatile founder of Apple Computerwalked out of his companys headquarters, driven from the very corporation he had created. What happened next would transform not only his life and career, but the future of technology itself.For twelve years, from 1985 to 1997, Jobs wandered the business wilderness with his new venture, NeXT. It was a period of spectacular failures, near-bankruptcy, and brutal humiliation. But out of this crucible of defeat emerged the visionary leader who would go on to create the iPod, iPhone, and iPad, transforming Apple into the most valuable company on earth.Drawing on previously unpublished materials and new interviews with the key players, Geoffrey Cain reveals the untold story of Steve Jobss "lost decade"the formative years that shaped the icon we thought we knew. With unprecedented access to unbroadcast footage of Jobs in NeXT meetings, private company documents, and interviews with his closest colleagues, Cain offers the definitive account of how failure transformed a brash wunderkind into a true business genius.This is the story of how Steve Jobs learned to lead, how he discovered the power of discipline, and how a spectacular failure became the foundation for one of the greatest comebacks in business history. It is nothing less than the missing piece in the legend of Steve Jobs.

Discover how the Hindenburgs last flight changed the future of flying in this dynamic graphic novel by author Chris Kindred and Edgar- and Ignatz-nominated illustrator Ru Xu.Presenting Who HQ Graphic Novels: an exciting addition to the #1 New York Times bestselling Who Was? series!A story of technological innovation, multimedia impact, and human survival, this graphic novel gives readers a glimpse into the luxury experience aboard the Hindenburg before it all comes crashing down. Follow the journeys of cabin boy Werner Franz in the air and reporter Herbert Morrison on the ground as the airship flies toward disasterending the era of lighter-than-air travel. This gripping narrative is brought to life by vivid full-color illustrations that will transport readers to this historic day.

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How systems thinking underpinned some of the most significant cultural activity between the mid-1960s and early 1980s in the Americas and Europe.Arts of Control argues that much of the new artistic, critical, and curatorial activity between the mid-1960s and early 1980s was propelled by a fascination with the Cold War sciences of control. Christopher Williams-Wynn reveals the breadth, depth, and variation of cultural encounters with the sciences of controlshorthand for the related disciplines of cybernetics, systems theory, and information theorythat underwrote a widespread turn to systems thinking across institutions and disciplines, from biology to economics. Defining the arts of control as those forms of practice that internalized the metaphors, methods, and models of systems thinking, this book shows that the central problem was the very way in which connections themselves were framed and understood.Drawing on original archival research conducted in six countries, the book is structured around four key concepts from systems theoryboundaries, environments, relations, and elementsand focuses on Argentina, East Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Williams-Wynn closely examines work by Jack Burnham, Stephen Willats, Luis Benedit, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, and others. Working at different scales, each chapter reveals how these artists and critics mobilized systems thinking to reflect on political, technological, and social shifts via a range of media, from prints and sculptures to participatory projects and mail art.

How tech companies, journalists, and policymakers can prevent AI decision-making from going wrong.Our lives are increasingly governed by automated systems influencing everything from medical care to policing to employment opportunities, but researchers and investigative journalists have proven that AI systems regularly get things wrong.Auditing AI is a first-of-its-kind exploration of why and how to audit artificial intelligence systems. It offers a simple roadmap for using AI audits to make product and policy changes that benefit companies and the public alike. The book aims to convince readers that AI systems should be subject to robust audits to protect all of us from the dangers of these systems. Readers will come away with an understanding of what an AI audit is, why AI audits are important, key components of an audit that follows best practices, how to interpret an audit, and the available choices to act on an audits results.The book is organized around canonical examples: from AI-powered drones mistakenly targeting civilians in conflict areas to false arrests triggered by facial recognition systems that misidentified people with dark skin tones to HR hiring software that prefers men. It explains these definitive cases of AI decision-making gone wrong and then highlights specific audits that have led to concrete changes in government policy and corporate practice.The Marquand House Collective: Marc Aidinoff, Lena Armstrong, Esha Bhandari, Ellery Roberts Biddle, Motahhare Eslami, Karrie Karahalios, Nate Matias, Danae Metaxa, Alondra Nelson, Christian Sandvig, and Kristen Vaccaro.

The science behind sounds influence on user perception and emotionand how to design, evaluate, and enhance sound-driven experiences across diverse products and interfaces.Most user experience (UX) research prioritizes what users see and touchbut what about what they hear? Sound is a powerful, often overlooked layer of user experience, shaping perception, emotion, and behavior in ways users may not even realize. In Sonic UX, KC Collins offers UX researchersboth practitioners and academicsa comprehensive introduction to understanding how sound influences a users product perceptions, emotion and cognition.The book delves into sounds role in user experience research as an element of sensory design, exploring the unique challenges posed by sound in product design. Drawing on decades of consulting and research in sound, the book answers what questions UX researchers should be asking when it comes to sound, along with how to approach testing these questionsfrom the importance of testing locations to the technologies and methods used. Backed by the latest scientific studies and sensory research, the book details the many factors influencing the ways sound influences emotional and perceptual responses to software and hardware products, advertising and branding, and even product packaging.