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Navy Seals bug in guide : transform your home into a fortress of absolute security / by Reynolds, Mark,author.;

Introduction. The value of bugging in: why staying home is the safest course of action ; Lessons from a Navy Seal: practical survival strategies -- Chapter 1. Prepare your home for any emergency ; Recognize possible dangers ; Conducting a home security assessment ; Formulate a customized bug-in strategy -- Chapter 2. Preserving food for the future ; Foods essential for survival ; Creation and replacement of food supplies ; Advice on appropriate shelf life and storage -- Chapter 3. Ensure access to water security ; Assessment of your home's water needs ; Solutions for safe water conservation ; Filtration and purification methods -- Chapter 4. Creating your own energy ; Energy requirements in case of emergency ; Off-grid power options: generators, wind and solar ; Fuel safety and conservation issues -- Chapter 5. Home defense techniques ; Defense of your home: windows, doors and exterior ; Defense tools and techniques -- Chapter 6. Interactions in times of crisis ; Reliable communication mechanisms put in place ; Digital security, radio and emergency broadcasts ; Keep up to date without internet access -- Chapter 7. Preparation for healthcare and basic first aid ; Keep essential medicines on hand ; Create a complete first aid kit ; Medical knowledge that everyone should have -- Chapter 8. Maintain hygiene and sanitation ; Waste management solutions for extended settlements ; Maintain personal hygiene: keep yourself clean and healthy ; Avoid illnesses in confined spaces -- Chapter 9. Crucial skills for survival ; Light a fire and preserve heat. basic methods of self-defense ; Find your way and send signals for help -- Chapter 10. Psychological resilience ; How to manage stress and isolation ; Develop mental strength ; Keeping spirits high in prolonged crises --Chapter 11. Monitoring and security systems ; Set up and keep an eye on home security cameras ; Alarms, motion sensors and smart home integrations ; Create a neighborhood watch network -- Chapter 12. Sharing resources and community ; Collaborate for mutual help with neighbors ; Create a community of support ; Secure exchange and sharing of resources -- Chapter 13. Superior home defense ; Strengthen the structural integrity of your home ; Bulletproof and explosion-proof protection options ; Creation of a covered safety area -- Chapter 14. Adaptation to changing circumstances ; Adaptation of the strategy to various situations ; Reaction to new dangers and obstacles ; Gain insights from real bug-in incidents -- Conclusion. "In an unpredictable world, where crises can strike without warning, the most reliable way to ensure personal safety often involves staying put. This comprehensive manual, inspired by Navy SEAL tactics, provides you with all the tools and strategies to transform your home into an unbreakable fortress and a hub of self-reliance."--

Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Instructional and educational works.; Informational works.; Security.; Survival.; Survivalism.; Tactics.; Self-reliant living.; Food;

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Running out of time : wildfires and our imperiled forests / by Auchterlonie, David L.,author.; Lehman, Jeffrey A.,author.;

Includes bibliographical references."Of all the natural disasters we face on Earth, a wildfire is the only catastrophe that is controllable, and in many cases, predictable. Costing thousands of lives each year and as much as $300 billion annually in the United States alone, wildfires are fueled by human behavior, environmental factors, and in many cases, the mismanagement, ineptitude, and lack of candor by governmental agencies. Running Out of Time: Wildfires and Our Imperiled Forests is the culmination of more than 10 years of extensive research, expert interviews, and personal experience. It exposes the inexplicable policies, practices, and deception of the federal agencies responsible for the nation's forest oversight, revealing dangerous vulnerabilities in current wildfire suppression systems and forest management practices. Beyond the exhaustive and comprehensive discussion of the root causes and history of wildfires in the U.S., David Auchterlonie and Jeffrey Lehman also provide solutions that can save lives, land, property, and the environment. Both a national and a global threat, the wildfires that make headlines do not exist in isolation, and have drastic consequences for neighboring countries and our collective resources that influence everything from trade to what families eat at night. Despite the challenges ahead, Running Out of Time remains forward-looking and solutions-oriented."--

Subjects: Wildfires.; Natural disasters.; Nature.; Ecology.;

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Liftoff : Elon Musk and the desperate early days that launched SpaceX / by Berger, Eric(Science writer),author.;

Prologue -- Early years -- Merlin -- Kwaj -- Flight one -- Selling rockets -- Flight two -- Texas -- Flight three -- Eight weeks -- Flight four -- Always go to eleven -- Epilogue -- Key SpaceX employees from 2002 to 2008 -- Timeline -- Bulent Altan's Turkish goulash."SpaceX has enjoyed a miraculous decade. Less than 20 years after its founding, it boasts the largest constellation of commercial satellites in orbit, has pioneered reusable rockets, and in 2020 became the first private company to launch human beings into orbit. Half a century after the space race it is private companies, led by SpaceX, standing alongside NASA pushing forward into the cosmos, and laying the foundation for our exploration of other worlds. But before it became one of the most powerful players in the aerospace industry, SpaceX was a fledgling startup, scrambling to develop a single workable rocket before the money ran dry. The engineering challenge was immense; numerous other private companies had failed similar attempts. And even if SpaceX succeeded, they would then have to compete for government contracts with titans such as Lockheed Martin and Boeing, who had tens of thousands of employees and tens of billions of dollars in annual revenue. SpaceX had fewer than 200 employees and the relative pittance of $100 million in the bank. In Liftoff, Eric Berger, senior space editor at Ars Technica, takes readers inside the wild early days that made SpaceX. Focusing on the company's first four launches of the Falcon 1 rocket, he charts the bumpy journey from scrappy underdog to aerospace pioneer. We travel from company headquarters in El Segundo, to the isolated Texas ranchland where they performed engine tests, to Kwajalein, the tiny atoll in the Pacific where SpaceX launched the Falcon 1. Berger has reported on SpaceX for more than a decade, enjoying unparalleled journalistic access to the company's inner workings. Liftoff is the culmination of these efforts, drawing upon exclusive interviews with dozens of former and current engineers, designers, mechanics, and executives, including Elon Musk. The enigmatic Musk, who founded the company with the dream of one day settling Mars, is the fuel that propels the book, with his daring vision for the future of space."-

Subjects: Musk, Elon.; SpaceX (Firm); Space flight; Space launch industry; Launch vehicles (Astronautics);

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Madagascar [videorecording] : the land where evolution ran wild / by Attenborough, David,1926-(CARDINAL)148428; Barri, Amirah.; Britton, Barre.; Flaxstone, Darren.; Glass, Sarah.; Gray, Ian.; Gunton, Michael.(CARDINAL)332992; Mort, Andrew.; Napper, Emma.; Summerill, Mary.; 2 Entertain (Firm)(CARDINAL)326915; Animal Planet (Television network)(CARDINAL)326913; BBC Earth (Firm)(CARDINAL)589309; BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc.(CARDINAL)326912; British Broadcasting Corporation.(CARDINAL)143648; Warner Home Video (Firm)(CARDINAL)218485;

Film editors, Andrew Mort, Darren Flaxstone ; researchers, Emma Napper & Amirah Barri ; executive producer, Michael Gunton ; photography, Barre Britton [and others] ; original music composed by Sarah Glass.Narrator: David Attenborough.For 65 million years, Madagascar was lost to the world, isolated, undiscovered, and untouched by humans. Left to its own devices it became a hotbed of evolution, resulting in the greatest concentration of unique creatures anywhere on the planet. More than 80% of Madagascar's animals and plants are found nowhere else on Earth. Recognized as one of the world's most important biodiversity hotspots. The primates seen include: the indri (Indri indri), the largest lemur, jumping across the land on its hind legs when it moves between trees; the critically endangered reed lemur (Hapalemur alaotrensis), is shown practicing parenting and feeding behavior, as well as it specially-evolved jumping mechanisms needed to navigate the floating reed beds on which it lives; crowned lemurs (Eulemur coronatus) who demonstrate their superior rock-climbing skills; a select group of ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) subsisting on succulent plants on the highest mountaintops on the eastern end of the island; silky sifaka lemurs (Propithecus candidus), one of the most rare nonhuman primates, whose once-a-year mating is caught on camera; all three species of bamboo lemur who coexist in the same area of the rainforest, because of specialized evolved dietary subtleties -- the golden bamboo lemur (Hapalemur aureus) feeds on bamboo leaves that contain cyanide that few other species of animals can tolerate, while the greater bamboo lemur (Prolemur simus) feeds mostly on young bamboo shoots replenished by heavy rains -- the red-ruffed lemurs (Varecia rubra) and white-fronted brown lemurs (Eulemur albifrons) of the Masaola Peninsula; Verreaux's sifakas (Propithecus verreauxi) who survive without in the harsh climate of the southwest with little to no water; and ring-tailed lemurs and tiny mouse lemurs (Microcebus murinus) who exert little energy during the dry season, and mate only during the rainy season. "Madagascar Diaries," included at the end of each episode, provides looks into the filming process behind the documentary. Bonus features include "Lemurs of Madagascar" and "Attenborough and the Giant Egg." In the first program, Charlotte Uhlenbroek follows two new ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta) mothers through the first few weeks of their parenting. In the second program, David Attenborough examines the environmental changes that have taken place on Madagascar since his first trip in 1960. Since discovering the fossilized egg of an elephant bird in 1960, Attenborough has sought out the root causes for animal extinction on the island, including deforestation, hunting, and climate change. Looking back on his footage taken in 1960, Attenborough investigates the status of endangered animals including lemurs, birds, insects, and chameleons.Not rated.DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Dolby digital, Dolby Surround, stereo, aspect ratio 16:9.

Subjects: Documentary television programs.; Nature television programs.; Nonfiction television programs.; Science television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Animals; Documentary television programs.; Lemurs; Plants; Wildlife television programs.;

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Einstein's greatest mistake : a biography / by Bodanis, David,author.;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-270) and index.Victorian childhood -- Coming of age -- Annus mirabilis -- Only the beginning -- Glimpsing a solution -- Time to think -- Sharpening the tools -- The greatest idea -- True or false? -- Totality -- Cracks in the foundation -- Rising tensions -- The queen of hearts is black -- Finally at ease -- Crushing the upstart -- Uncertainty of the modern age -- Arguing with the dane -- Dispersions -- Isolation in Princeton -- The end.A portrait of Albert Einstein shares critical insights into both the genius and hubris of modern physics, linking Einstein's popular downfall through the final decades of his life to the same imagination and self-confidence that ignited his early successes.Widely considered the greatest genius of all time, Albert Einstein revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos with his theory of relativity and helped to lead us into the atomic age. Yet, in the final decades of his life, he was ignored by most working scientists, his ideas opposed by even his closest friends. As writer David Bodanis explains here, this stunning downfall can be traced to Einstein's earliest successes and to personal qualities that were at first his best assets. Einstein's imagination and self-confidence served him well as he sought to reveal the universe's structure, but when it came to newer revelations in the field of quantum mechanics, these same traits undermined his quest for the ultimate truth. Bodanis traces the arc of Einstein's intellectual development across his professional and personal life, showing how his conviction in his own powers of intuition proved to be both his greatest strength and his ultimate undoing. This intimate and enlightening biography of the celebrated physicist reveals how much we owe Einstein today--and how much more he might have achieved if not for his all-too-human flaws.--Adapted from dust jacket.

Subjects: Biographies.; Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.; Physicists;

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Mosby's comprehensive review of practical nursing for the NCLEX-PN examination. by Eyles, Mary O.(CARDINAL)752968;

Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Preparing for the licensure examination. Why review? -- Effective study and use of this text -- Item formats -- Test-taking skills -- The NCLEX-PN examination -- A special note to foreign candidates -- 2. Nursing concepts, the nursing process, and trends in nursing. Health and illness -- Variables influencing health beliefs and practices -- Trends in nursing -- Trends in delivery of health care -- Factors influencing health and illness -- Concepts basic to nursing -- Nursing process -- Measures to meet oxygen needs -- Measures to meet fluid needs -- Measures to meet nutritional needs -- Measures to meet urinary elimination needs -- Measures to meet bowel elimination needs -- Measures to meet rest and sleep needs -- Measures to meet activity and exercise needs -- Measures to meet pain relief needs -- Measures to meet safety and hygiene needs -- Other therapeutic nursing measures -- Measures for eye, ear, and throat disorders -- Measures for gastrointestinal disorders -- Measures for vaginal care -- Measures for patients undergoing surgery -- Measures related to radiation therapy -- Measures concerning patient's departure -- Caring for the dying -- 3. Pharmcology. Pharmacology and the nursing process -- Sources of drugs -- Drug names -- Drug legislation -- Principles of drug action -- Pharmacokinetics -- Administering medications -- Pediatric drug administration -- Central nervous system -- Autonomic nervous system -- Respiratory system -- Cardiovascular system -- Gastrointestinal system -- Endocrine system -- Female reproductive system -- Male reproductive system -- Eye -- Drugs used to control muscle tone -- Diabetes mellitus -- Urinary system -- Immune system -- Neoplastic diseases -- Nutrients, fluids, and electrolytes -- 4. Nutrition. Health promotion -- Definitions commonly used in nutrition -- Abbreviations -- Principles of nutrition -- Nutritional guidelines -- Food management -- Common types of food poisoning -- Nutrition throughout the life cycle -- Diet therapy -- Diets for specific conditions -- 5. Medical-surgical nursing. Anatomy and physiology: an overview -- Musculoskeletal system -- Musculoskeletal conditions and disorders -- Respiratory system -- Respiratory conditions and disorders -- Cardiovascular, peripheral, and hematological systems -- Cardiovascular conditions and disorders -- Peripheral vascular conditions and disorders -- Hematological conditions and disorders -- Gastrointestinal system -- Gastrointestinal conditions and disorders -- Neurological system -- Neurological conditions and disorders -- Endocrine system -- Endocrine system conditions and disorders -- Renal (urinary) system -- Renal (urinary) system conditions and disorders -- Male reproductive system -- Male genitourinary system conditions and disorders -- Female reproductive system -- Female reproductive system conditions and disorders -- Integumentary system -- Integumentary system conditions and disorders -- Sensory systems --6. Mental health nursing. Holism -- Mental health continuum -- Nursing role -- Personality development -- Ego defense mechanisms -- Anxiety disturbances and resources -- Affective disorders -- Eating disorders -- Personality disorders -- Physically based mental disorders -- Death and dying -- Grieving -- Crisis intervention -- Crisis of rape or incest -- Suicide prevention -- Suicide intervention -- Treatment modalities -- Legal and ethical considerations in patient care -- Patients' rights -- Care and treatment of patients -- 7. Maternity nursing. Evolution of modern obstetrics -- Definitions commonly used in obstetrics -- Trends -- Procedures to diagnose maternal and fetal problems -- Anatomy and physiology of reproduction -- Physiology of the fetus -- Normal antepartum (prenatal) -- Abnormal antepartum -- Normal intrapartum (labor and delivery) -- Abnormal intrapartum -- Normal postpartum -- Abnormal postpartum -- Normal newborn -- Abnormal newborn -- Family planning -- 8. Pediatric nursing. Assessment of child and family -- Infancy (ages 4 weeks to 1 year) -- Toddlerhood (ages 1 to 3 years) -- Preschool age (ages 3 to 5 years) -- School age (ages 6 to 12 years) -- Adolescence (ages 13 to 19 years) -- Battered child syndrome -- Poisonings -- Hospitalization and the child -- 9. Nursing care of the aging adult. Government resources for the older adult -- Legislation affecting the older adult -- Nursing roles and the care of the older adult -- Theories of aging -- Role changes -- Alterations in lifestyle -- Social isolation -- Healthy older adult -- Special considerations -- Neurological system (selected disorders) -- Psychological changes (normal aging process) -- Psychological disorders (abnormal) -- Rehabilitation/maintenance of cognitive function -- Bladder retraining: urinary incontinence -- Bowel retraining: fecal incontinence -- 10. Emergency preparedness. Basic life support -- Hemorrhage -- Shock -- Anaphylactic reaction -- Head injuries -- Eye injuries -- Spinal cord injuries -- Soft-tissue neck injuries -- Chest injuries -- Intraabdominal injuries -- Burns -- Wounds -- Musculoskeletal injuries -- Hyperthermia -- Cold injuries -- Poisoning -- Diabetes mellitus and hypoglycemia -- Drowning -- Drug abuse -- Acute alcoholism -- Sexual assault -- Disaster -- Appendices. A. Standards of practice and educational competencies of graduates of practical/vocational nursing programs -- B. Communicable diseases and infections of childhood.

Subjects: Study guides.; Examinations.; National Council Licensure Examination for Practical/Vocational Nurses; Practical nursing;

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Devil's Backbone [videorecording] = El espinazo del diablo / by Almodóvar, Agustin.; Almodóvar, Pedro.(CARDINAL)781644; Garcés, Iñigo.; Luppi, Federico.; Muñoz, David.; Noriega, Eduardo,1973-; Paredes, Marisa,1946-; Tielve, Fernando.; Toro, Guillermo del,1964-(CARDINAL)351807; Trashorras, Antonio.; Visedo, Irene,1978-; Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm)(CARDINAL)332237; Deseo, S.A. (Firm); Producciones Anhelo.; Sony Pictures Classics.; Tequila Gang (Firm);

Director of photography, Guillermo Navarro ; art director, Cesar Macarrón ; editor, Luis de la Madrid ; music, Javier Navarrete ; costume designer, José Vico ; mechanical special effects, Reyes Abades.Marisa Parades, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi, Fernando Tielve, Iñigo Garcés, Irene Visedo.During the Spanish Civil War, young Carlos is abandoned at a completely isolated orphanage. The tensions therein have been building for years, exacerbated by the unexploded bomb resting menacingly in the courtyard. Bullies scheme, tempers flare, and a ghost that visits Carlos's bed seems to be the key to it all.MPAA rating: R.DVD; Dolby Digital 5.1.Gérardmer Film Festival, 2002: International Critics Award (Guillermo del Toro); Special Jury Prize (Guillermo del Toro); Youth Jury Grand Prize (Guillermo del Toro).

Subjects: Foreign films.; Spanish language materials.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Orphanages;

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