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"The Age of Google, built on big data and machine intelligence, has been an awesome era. But it's coming to an end. In Life after Google, George Gilder -- the peerless visionary of technology and culture -- explains why Silicon Valley is suffering a nervous breakdown and what to expect as the post-Google age dawns. Google's astonishing ability to 'search and sort' attracts the entire world to its search engine and countless other goodies -- videos,...
3) Woodworker
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"This book provides a peek into the career of a woodworker. It covers the history behind the career, the process for carving wood, and what experience is needed to become a master of the craft. Aligned with curriculum standards, this book also highlight key 21st Century content including global awareness, business literacy, and learning and innovation skills. Hands-on activities encourage creative and design thinking. Book includes a table of contents,...
5) Samsung
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Examines the origins and growth of the South Korean company Samsung, its founder, Lee Byung-chul, and how the company rose to the top of the market.
6) The fields
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"A breakneck procedural that is beautifully written and masterfully crafted, Erin Young's The Fields is a dynamite debut; crime fiction at its very finest. Some things don't stay buried. It starts with a body -- a young woman found dead in an Iowa cornfield, on one of the few family farms still managing to compete with the giants of Big Agriculture. When Sergeant Riley Fisher, newly promoted to head of investigations for the Black Hawk County Sheriff's...
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"As a new president takes office in 2021, America is deeply divided politically and socially, while the economy seems precariously balanced on increasingly shaky legs. Doom and gloom is the predominant sentiment in America. It has become widely accepted within the investment, political, and media sectors that America is on the decline and that China will drive the global agenda in the 21st century. To which I say, not so fast. This book carefully...
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"Ten thousand years after humans figured out how to stop wandering and plant crops, veteran investigative journalist Mark Schapiro plunges into the struggle already underway for control of seeds, the ground-zero ingredient for our food. Three quarters of the seed varieties on Earth in 1900 had become extinct by 2015. In Seeds of Resistance, Schapiro takes us onto the frontlines of a struggle over the seeds that remain, one that will determine the...
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Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición de certificados de profesionalidad. Manual imprescindible para la formación y la capacitación, que se basa en los principios de la cualificación y dinamización del conocimiento, como premisas para la mejora de la empleabilidad y eficacia para el desempeño del trabajo.
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#1 In 2013, the NBA Draft was filled with prospects that seemed safe enough choices. However, many scouts had doubts about the other talents in the draft.
#2 Miller was the agent for Anthony Bennett, who was selected first by the Cavaliers. Miller had refused to allow any team to meet with his client Noel, as he feared he might slip in the draft if teams were allowed...
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Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición de certificados de profesionalidad. Manual imprescindible para la formación y la capacitación, que se basa en los principios de la cualificación y dinamización del conocimiento, como premisas para la mejora de la empleabilidad y eficacia para el desempeño del trabajo.
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#1 In 1942, a young Chinese scholar named Nan Huai-Chin left Chengdu and began walking to Eyebrow Mountain, a sacred Buddhist site in Sichuan province. He had trained his spirit to the highest level of sharpness, and when attacked, his spirit moved first.
#2 Nan began his quest to sharpen his spirit by traveling from master to master in China, from monastery to...
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#1 The flax plant is a source of linen, a fabric made from flax that is used to make cord and thread. It is grown in the ground and pulled in July when the leaves turn yellow. The inner fibers are then drawn through a hackling comb to remove smaller pieces of tow and woven into fabric.
#2 The first clothes were most likely made of animal skins. Humans began clothing...
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#1 In 2019, I visited the Brayton Point coal-fired power plant in Fall River, Massachusetts. The plant had generated 20 percent of Massachusetts' electricity supply, supported hundreds of well-paying jobs, and provided $4 million in annual tax revenues to the town of Somerset.
#2 The collapse of the towers was extremely dramatic. It took only five seconds for both towers...
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There is a general thinking that the benefits of industrial development have not spread uniformly across the length and breadth of the country. It is in this context that industrialization and territorial development has acquired a significant topic of discussion. It has also influenced various policies decisions of the Government. In India both central and state government have devised policies for territorial development through industrialization...
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Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición de certificados de profesionalidad. Manual imprescindible para la formación y la capacitación, que se basa en los principios de la cualificación y dinamización del conocimiento, como premisas para la mejora de la empleabilidad y eficacia para el desempeño del trabajo.
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#1 The death of the mp3 was announced in a conference room in Erlangen, Germany, in the spring of 1995. The technology had failed to secure a single long-term customer. Its inventors knew it was over. They were running out of state funding, and their corporate sponsors were abandoning them.
#2 The body of research the committee was dismissing went back decades,...
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- Analizar el funcionamiento de las redes de distribución de agua y saneamiento para determinar sus características y elementos relacionados con el montaje de la misma.
- Analizar el funcionamiento de las redes de saneamiento para determinar sus características y elementos relacionados con el montaje de la misma.
- Interpretar proyectos de redes de distribución de agua y saneamiento para realizar operaciones de replanteo y otras relacionadas con...
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Aplicar las técnicas de refinado de los aceites, operando con seguridad los equipos, para conseguir la calidad requerida en la refinería. Identificar las etapas de procesado, las infraestructuras y realizar operaciones de preparación y mantenimiento de primer nivel de los equipos de producción de una refinería para el refinado de aceites de oliva. Reconocer las operaciones de la refinería para asegurar el procesamiento del producto final desde...
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