Epic Measures

Author : Jeremy N. Smith
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062237521

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Epic Measures by Jeremy N. Smith Pdf

Moneyball meets medicine in this remarkable chronicle of one of the greatest scientific quests of our time and the visionary mastermind behind it. Medical doctor and economist Christopher Murray began the Global Burden of Disease study to gain a truer understanding of how we live and how we die. While it is one of the largest scientific projects ever attempted—as breathtaking as the first moon landing or the Human Genome Project—the questions it answers are meaningful for every one of us: What are the world's health problems? Who do they hurt? How much? Where? Why? Murray argues that the ideal existence isn't simply the longest, but the one lived well and with the least illness. Until we can accurately measure global health issues, we cannot understand what makes us sick or do much to improve it. Challenging the accepted wisdom of the WHO and the UN, the charismatic and controversial health maverick has made enemies—as well as some influential friends, including Bill Gates who gave Murray a $100 million grant. Told with novelistic verve by acclaimed journalist Jeremy N. Smith, the story of Murray's lifelong determination to understand how we live and die encompasses wars and famines, presidents and activists, billionaires and billions of people worldwide living in poverty. It shows the human side of scientific revolutions and of revolutionary scientists—their breakthroughs and setbacks, their genius and their flaws, their champions and their critics—as they strive to bring the news of their findings to the world. This transformational effort is far from over, but the story of its genesis and impact is already an epic tale.

Author : Julia Vogel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08
Category : Clocks and watches
ISBN : 1614732825

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Measuring Time by Julia Vogel Pdf

Explains how to keep track of the parts of the day with a clock; describes the development of the sundial, the hourglass, and the clock; and discusses minutes and seconds, telling time, analog and digital timepieces, and ways to express the time.

Author : Mattia Cerato
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780823435890

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Drew the Screw by Mattia Cerato Pdf

Every tool has a job—but what can Drew the Screw do? Find out in this Level E reader, perfect for Kindergarten and first-grade readers. The pencil draws lines. The saw can cut. But unlike everyone else in the toolshed, Drew the screw has no job. He watches as one by one the tools show off their skills . . . and then he finds his own hidden talent, holding up a Home, Sweet Home sign in a newly-built treehouse. Bright digital drawings of cartoonish tools happily going about their jobs are paired with a very simple text, appropriate for children just beginning to read on their own. Explore all the different things tools can do—and the joy of finding your own special talents!—with Drew. The award-winning I Like to Read® series focuses on guided reading levels A through G, based upon Fountas and Pinnell standards. Acclaimed author-illustrators--including winners of Caldecott, Theodor Seuss Geisel, and Coretta Scott King honors—create original, high quality illustrations that support comprehension of simple text and are fun for kids to read with parents, teachers, or on their own! Level E stories feature a distinct beginning, middle, and end, with kid-friendly illustrations offering clues for more challenging sentences. Varied punctuation and simple contractions may be included. Level E books are suitable for early first graders. When Level E is mastered, follow up with Level F.

Author : Beth Bence Reinke
Publisher : Cherry Lake Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1624316522

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Measuring Weight by Beth Bence Reinke Pdf

Real-world examples and engaging activities guide readers in learning about measuring weight. Readers practice selecting appropriate measuring tools and units of measurement, converting between units, and solving problems by measuring.

Author : Jeremy N. Smith
Publisher : Eamon Dolan Books
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780544903210

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Breaking and Entering by Jeremy N. Smith Pdf

This taut, true thriller dives into a dark world that touches us all, as seen through the brilliant, breakneck career of an extraordinary hacker--a woman known only as Alien. When she arrived at MIT in the 1990s, Alien was quickly drawn to the school's tradition of high‑risk physical trespassing: the original "hacking." Within a year, one of her hallmates was dead and two others were arraigned. Alien's adventures were only just beginning. After a stint at the storied, secretive Los Alamos National Laboratory, Alien was recruited by a top cybersecurity firm where she deployed her cache of virtual weapons--and the trespassing and social engineering talents she had developed while "hacking" at MIT. The company tested its clients' security by every means possible--not just coding, but donning disguises and sneaking past guards and secretaries into the C‑suite. Alien now runs a boutique hacking outfit that caters to some of the world's biggest and most vulnerable institutions--banks, retailers, government agencies. Her work combines devilish charm, old‑school deception, and next generation spycraft. In Breaking and Entering, cybersecurity finally gets the rich, character‑driven, fast-paced treatment it deserves.

Author : Grace Hansen
Publisher : Capstone Classroom
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08
Category : Tornadoes
ISBN : 9781496610461

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Tornadoes by Grace Hansen Pdf

Provide young readers with a better understanding of what causes these weather events and how to stay safe should a dangerous situation arise. With simple text and large, outstanding photos, readers will not only be informed, but also gain an appreciation of these awesome phenomenons.

Author : Nikki Erlick
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780063204225

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The Measure by Nikki Erlick Pdf

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! "A story of love and hope as interweaving characters display: how all moments, big and small, can measure a life. If you want joy, love, romance, and hope—read with us." —Jenna Bush Hager A luminous, spirit-lifting blockbuster for readers of The Midnight Library. Eight ordinary people. One extraordinary choice. It seems like any other day. You wake up, pour a cup of coffee, and head out. But today, when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. This box holds your fate inside: the answer to the exact number of years you will live. From suburban doorsteps to desert tents, every person on every continent receives the same box. In an instant, the world is thrust into a collective frenzy. Where did these boxes come from? What do they mean? Is there truth to what they promise? As society comes together and pulls apart, everyone faces the same shocking choice: Do they wish to know how long they’ll live? And, if so, what will they do with that knowledge? The Measure charts the dawn of this new world through an unforgettable cast of characters whose decisions and fates interweave with one another: best friends whose dreams are forever entwined, pen pals finding refuge in the unknown, a couple who thought they didn’t have to rush, a doctor who cannot save himself, and a politician whose box becomes the powder keg that ultimately changes everything. Enchanting and deeply uplifting, The Measure is a sweeping, ambitious, and invigorating story about family, friendship, hope, and destiny that encourages us to live life to the fullest.

Author : Beth Bence Reinke
Publisher : Cherry Lake Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1624316514

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Measuring Volume by Beth Bence Reinke Pdf

Real-world examples and engaging activities guide readers in learning about measuring volume. Readers practice selecting appropriate measuring tools and units of measurement, converting between units, and solving problems by measuring.

Author : Jack Wang,Holman Wang
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781452147055

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Star Wars Epic Yarns: Return of the Jedi by Jack Wang,Holman Wang Pdf

Using handcrafted felt puppets, the authors recreate, in staged scenes and twelve words, the final chapter of the original trilogy, as Luke and Leia rescue Han, the rebel forces attack the second Death Star, and Luke confronts his heritage.

Author : Alexei Lyapustin,Alexander Marshak,Gregory Schuster
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832500750

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DSCOVR EPIC/NISTAR: 5 years of observing earth from the first lagrangian point by Alexei Lyapustin,Alexander Marshak,Gregory Schuster Pdf

Author : Nadia Higgins
Publisher : Math It!
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1620314096

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Measure It! by Nadia Higgins Pdf

"In Measure It!, early fluent readers learn about the importance of exact measurements by exploring a variety of real-world examples using both the imperial and the metric systems. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text encourage young readers to look around them for opportunities to practice measuring.Infographics illustrate key concepts, and an activity offers kids an opportunity to extend discovery. Children can learn more about measuring using our safe search engine that provides relevant, age-appropriate websites. Measure It! also features reading tips for teachers and parents, a table of contents, a glossary, and an index.Measure It! is part of Jump!'s Math It! series."

Author : Jon Meacham
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812972825

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Franklin and Winston by Jon Meacham Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The most complete portrait ever drawn of the complex emotional connection between two of history’s towering leaders Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of “the Greatest Generation.” In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two men who piloted the free world to victory in World War II. It was a crucial friendship, and a unique one—a president and a prime minister spending enormous amounts of time together (113 days during the war) and exchanging nearly two thousand messages. Amid cocktails, cigarettes, and cigars, they met, often secretly, in places as far-flung as Washington, Hyde Park, Casablanca, and Teheran, talking to each other of war, politics, the burden of command, their health, their wives, and their children. Born in the nineteenth century and molders of the twentieth and twenty-first, Roosevelt and Churchill had much in common. Sons of the elite, students of history, politicians of the first rank, they savored power. In their own time both men were underestimated, dismissed as arrogant, and faced skeptics and haters in their own nations—yet both magnificently rose to the central challenges of the twentieth century. Theirs was a kind of love story, with an emotional Churchill courting an elusive Roosevelt. The British prime minister, who rallied his nation in its darkest hour, standing alone against Adolf Hitler, was always somewhat insecure about his place in FDR’s affections—which was the way Roosevelt wanted it. A man of secrets, FDR liked to keep people off balance, including his wife, Eleanor, his White House aides—and Winston Churchill. Confronting tyranny and terror, Roosevelt and Churchill built a victorious alliance amid cataclysmic events and occasionally conflicting interests. Franklin and Winston is also the story of their marriages and their families, two clans caught up in the most sweeping global conflict in history. Meacham’s new sources—including unpublished letters of FDR’ s great secret love, Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, the papers of Pamela Churchill Harriman, and interviews with the few surviving people who were in FDR and Churchill’s joint company—shed fresh light on the characters of both men as he engagingly chronicles the hours in which they decided the course of the struggle. Hitler brought them together; later in the war, they drifted apart, but even in the autumn of their alliance, the pull of affection was always there. Charting the personal drama behind the discussions of strategy and statecraft, Meacham has written the definitive account of the most remarkable friendship of the modern age.

Author : Julie Yip-Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780525511359

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The Unwinding of the Miracle by Julie Yip-Williams Pdf

Born blind in Vietnam, Julie Yip-Williams narrowly escaped euthanasia by her grandmother, and then fled the political upheaval of the late 1970s with her family. She made it to Hong Kong and, ultimately, America, where a surgeon at UCLA gave her partial sight. Against all odds, she became a Harvard-educated lawyer with a husband and two children. At age thirty-seven, Julie was diagnosed with terminal metastatic colon cancer. This book grew out of a blog Julie kept through the past four years of her life.

Author : Lesley Alderman
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780062074195

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The Book of Times by Lesley Alderman Pdf

“Clever and entertaining . . . contains everything you’d want to know about the ticking away of seconds, minutes, hours, days, years, decades and centuries.” —Time.com Our relationship to time is complex and paradoxical: Time stands still. Time also flies. Tomorrow is another day. Yet there’s no time like the present. We want to do more in less time, but wish we could slow the clock. And despite all our time-saving devices—smart phones, AI, high-speed trains—Americans feel that they have less leisure time than ever. In an era when our time feels fractured and imperiled, The Book of Times encourages readers to ponder time used and time spent. How long does it take to find a new mate, digest a hamburger, or compose a symphony? How much time do we spend daydreaming, texting, and getting ready for work? The book challenges our beliefs and urges us to consider how, and why, some things get faster, some things slow down, and some things never change (the need for seven to eight hours of sleep). Packed with compelling charts, lists, and quizzes, as well as new and intriguing research, The Book of Times is an addictive, browsable, and provocative look at the idea of time from every direction. “Alderman’s greatest achievement is the continual delivery of quirky knowledge that our collective curiosities crave.” —Forbes “Fascinated by how we spend—and waste—our most precious commodity, journalist Lesley Alderman gathered the sometimes-surprising stats for her debut, The Book of Times.” —People “A fascinating foray into familiar terrain and a revealing look at how we really spend our lives.” —Mental Floss

Author : Vasudevan Sundararajan
Publisher : Blue Rose Publishers
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789358191141

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Longitudinal Models in Marketing by Vasudevan Sundararajan Pdf

Longitudinal models play a very important role in marketing model building, and there are some occasions when market research is conducted every day of the year. These longitudinal models can be useful to marketing managers to make many informed and important decisions for optimal allocation of resources to marketing mix variables. In particular, we cover three major applications of these principles adhering to Advertising tracking monitors, Brand Equity monitors, and sales promotion monitors. We introduce the reader to the basic principles and theory of econometrics in model building for analyzing sales and market share variables about marketing spending. Different functional forms are discussed in the book. And the readers are encouraged to use these functional forms to model the three monitors mentioned above. This book is targeted towards second-year MBA students and marketing/brand managers in companies to derive insights about the markets and competitors. This is followed up with different tools for forecasting companies' sales and market share. This book is useful for managers in durables and fast-moving consumer goods industries. This book addresses the need for when and where to make insights about marketing mix variables through econometric models. The author has 32 years of industry experience and is an expert in marketing models. The author has a Ph.D. in marketing from Purdue University. The book elucidates these theories without using complicated mathematical equations in simple-to-understand verbal models of complicated equations.