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The International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (COLREGS) are vital for maritime safety. You must be able to identify vessels during the day by their special shapes and at night time by their lights, and understand how they are likely to alter course or speed in a potential collision situation. Melanie Bartlett's audiobook provides a clear and authoritative explanation of each regulation. It will help any seafarer understand their responsibilities, meaning that everybody at sea will be safer.

Entering the world of engineering and STEM isn’t just for “brainiacs". Anyone can succeed in this arena, but it does require dedication and attention to critical skills. In this book about how to start your science and engineering career, author and engineer Jake Ryland shares seven practical steps for good grades and continued success in the world of engineering. Drawing from his own experience as a struggling student, Ryland emphasizes the importance of a proper foundation and avoiding common pitfalls.

Agile Fundamentals: A Comprehensive Guide to Using an Agile Approach breaks down agile in a way that makes it easy to understand and practical to follow. As one of agile's leading practitioners, Mike Griffiths takes complex concepts and not only simplifies them but makes the listening fun and easily relatable. Whether you're new to agile or just looking for an essential desk reference, Agile Fundamentals: A Comprehensive Guide to Using an Agile Approach is the perfect introduction to all things agile.

Das vorliegende essential beschäftigt sich mit der Nutzung des Smartphones und gibt Antworten darauf, warum wir immer mehr Zeit mit diesen Geräten verbringen. Es wird beschrieben, welche Gruppen besonders von einer übermäßigen Smartphone-Nutzung betroffen sind. Zusätzlich wird der Frage nachgegangen, ob digitale Welten tatsächlich unser Gehirn verändern. Außerdem: Wie sieht eine gesunde Smartphone-Nutzung in der Familie und am Arbeitsplatz aus? Das Hörbuch hält Tipps für einen möglichst stressfreien Umgang mit digitalen Welten bereit, damit wir wieder lernen, im Hier und Jetzt zu leben.

In building a railroad, there is only one decisive spot - the end of the track. Nothing like this great work had ever been seen in the world when the last spike, a golden one, was driven in Promontory Peak, Utah, in 1869, as the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific tracks were joined. Ambrose writes with power and eloquence about the brave men - the famous and the unheralded, ordinary men doing the extraordinary - who accomplished the spectacular feat that made the continent into a nation.

This audiobook coins the term "noble automation" as combining intelligent automation technology with the inspired and insightful leadership necessary to help humans become heroes. Doing so stimulates a wave of human innovation and taps into the incredible potential of people working toward inspiring goals. Companies profit, and people thrive. The benefits of implementing noble automation include freeing people to be more human by removing drudgery, providing insights, and allowing us the time and energy to feel, think, empathize, and connect.

The Commercial Driver's License (CDL) exam isn’t easy and is often the place where many aspiring drivers come unstuck. Even if you are a terrible test taker or have trouble studying, this complete beginners guide for taking the CDL test will help you succeed.

Traveling the world from the comfort of your home is something that many people dream about but seldom do. Converting a vehicle into your home allows you to do this and so much more. Creating a vehicle into a tiny home allows you to live more minimally, freely, and inexpensively. This audiobook teaches you step by step on how to convert any vehicle into a tiny home and the best tips to know along the way. Converting a vehicle into a tiny home can be timely and difficult.

This is the second in the Modern Manufacturing Case Studies series of three books. If you have an interest in how things are made, this collection of impactful manufacturing case studies is for you! Take a tour with the author inside more than 30 world-class facilities to experience the most remarkable innovations and highly sophisticated robotics and automation in action. Capture a front-row seat to top-brand, big-budget manufacturing in action with complex machines communicating with other machines. However, you can also learn from small-to-medium size manufacturers.

Weaving together findings from a wide range of disciplines, Power traces how four key elements developed to give humans extraordinary power: Tool making ability, language, social complexity, and the ability to harness energy sources - most significantly, fossil fuels. It asks whether we have, at this point, overpowered natural and social systems, and if we have, what we can do about it. Has Homo sapiens - one species among millions - become powerful enough to threaten a mass extinction and disrupt the Earth's climate?

As an RV owner, I’ve taken many trips and had plenty of opportunities to experience the highs and lows of living in an RV. I want to save other RV owners time and effort by compiling the best and most helpful tips, tricks, and hacks for living in an RV. So whether you are heading out for a short trip or you plan to make the leap to living in your RV full-time, consider the following top tips to truly help make your time easier. You will learn 285 very different and specific tips, tricks, and life hacks for surviving (and thriving) while living in an RV.

Essential Green Roof Construction is a comprehensive, in-depth guide to building simple green roofs for houses and small buildings. Packed with detailed photos, illustrations, case studies, and code compliance advice, it offers clear step-by-step instructions necessary to create your own living roof on a new build or as a retrofit. Where common sense meets beauty—a green roof is a system of layers that work together to support plant life, insulate homes, and make the world a greener place.

The public thinks he’s a motorcycle cop, but he’s a civilian, and an inexperienced rider at that. This new job as a police motorcycle escort for funeral processions is the best job he’s ever had, affording him respect and dignity that has so far eluded him. A colorful cast of characters help and hinder in his struggle to find meaning as they deliver the hearse and the deceased on its final journey to the grave. With constant reflections on mortality and a distinct sense of humor, Edwards tells his story with unflinching honesty and insight.

Are you ready to buy your first car but you’re not sure where to start? Have the changes to the market left your head spinning? This comprehensive guide has everything you need and more to make buying a vehicle easy enough to do in your sleep. Car Buying Guide 2022 will help you navigate the car market. It will equip you with everything you need to know about purchasing the best car for you. It will cover everything, from whether you should purchase a car from a dealership or from a private seller to knowing the best type of engine for you.

Take an inside tour with the author to more than 30 world-class facilities to experience the most remarkable innovations and highly sophisticated robotics and automation in action. Have a front-row seat to top-brand, big-budget manufacturing in action, with complex machines communicating with other machines. However, you can also learn from small-to-medium-sized manufacturers. Discover how some simple tried-and-true, old-school low-budget manufacturing processes can be game changers for the industry.

This audiobook tells a true story exploring the adventurous journey of a young, carefree Pan Am flight attendant who experienced world travel that only a few could ever imagine. The good, the bad, and the ugly truth about what it was like working for one of the largest airlines in the world, Pan Am World Airways, the pioneer of transatlantic flight. Pan Am After the Glamour Fades: Memoirs of a Flight Attendant 1989-1991 is like no other Pan Am book you may have listened to in the past.

Inside these sections are anecdotes from years of experience behind the wheel as a transit operator - which can lead to stable paychecks without suffering a merger, buyout, and having to start all over again with gaps of income between jobs. Take this precious time of peace and quiet and light traffic to reflect on what works, and why being a driver might be a good fresh start with good benefits and stable hours.

This audiobook provides an overview of IT terminology for English speakers working with Japanese-speaking customers, clients, or partners. Core words and phrases appropriate to the IT sector are presented in English and Japanese. Topics covered include common Japanese vocabulary that is not exclusive to the technology field.

Performance Pilot will help you: speed up your flight training progress, prepare and practice more effectively, perform better on flight tests, learn faster and save money on lessons, and improve your flying skills. Plus...control your thoughts while flying, learn to armchair fly...properly! Achieve a peak state to fly better, master the mental game of flying, and improve your concentration and consistency.

Den Collier has a legacy to be a pilot that was handed down to him by his grandfather. When a tragic event in his life teaches him that his time on this earth is too precious to waste, he fulfills his legacy and learns to fly. After two decades away, Den is drawn to flying once again. He buys a plane in California and heads off on a flight back to Michigan. But he has no sooner gotten into the air when his legacy begins to seem more like a curse, and his childhood dream of flying collapses into a nightmare fight for survival.