LIFE SENTENCE Desperate to escape conviction, the head of a powerful crime family orders the kidnapping of a federal prosecutor's young daughter. If the mobster isn't freed by the end of the week--if anyone contacts the authorities--the girl will be killed. Backed into a corner, her father must rely on the one man who can help: Mack Bolan. Finding the girl won't be easy; the mob has tight security and their network is vast. Plus, with an innocent life at stake, going in guns blazing is a risk Bolan can't afford to take. His only choice is to create a distraction by pitting the crime syndicate against their rivals. The mob is about to get a visit from the Executioner. And this time he's handing out death penalties.

Finalist for the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism From a New York Times investigative reporter, this “authoritative and devastating account of the impacts of social media” (New York Times Book Review) tracks the high-stakes inside story of how Big Tech’s breakneck race to drive engagement—and profits—at all costs fractured the world. The Chaos Machine is “an essential book for our times” (Ezra Klein). We all have a vague sense that social media is bad for our minds, for our children, and for our democracies. But the truth is that its reach and impact run far deeper than we have understood. Building on years of international reporting, Max Fisher tells the gripping and galling inside story of how Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social network preyed on psychological frailties to create the algorithms that drive everyday users to extreme opinions and, increasingly, extreme actions. As Fisher demonstrates, the companies’ founding tenets, combined with a blinkered focus on maximizing engagement, have led to a destabilized world for everyone. Traversing the planet, Fisher tracks the ubiquity of hate speech and its spillover into violence, ills that first festered in far-off locales, to their dark culmination in America during the pandemic, the 2020 election, and the Capitol Insurrection. Through it all, the social-media giants refused to intervene in any meaningful way, claiming to champion free speech when in fact what they most prized were limitless profits. The result, as Fisher shows, is a cultural shift toward a world in which people are polarized not by beliefs based on facts, but by misinformation, outrage, and fear. His narrative is about more than the villains, however. Fisher also weaves together the stories of the heroic outsiders and Silicon Valley defectors who raised the alarm and revealed what was happening behind the closed doors of Big Tech. Both panoramic and intimate, The Chaos Machine is the definitive account of the meteoric rise and troubled legacy of the tech titans, as well as a rousing and hopeful call to arrest the havoc wreaked on our minds and our world before it’s too late.

In the Litany of Knowledge, like a continuous recitation on which Arthur Frame bruised an eternal and symmetrical symbol, throbbing to the eye, it resembles a great library with its shelves inside hexagons and octagons, in each of which time behaves like space. , of the same number and numen, of those volumes, I would stay with only one, which influences the rest of the stories of said books in the style of fiat lux, capable of the modification in the permutation that Georg Philipp Cantorun announced so much, in his hypothetical works on specular time and the permutation of ideas and sets. All this evil represents a large group of people, some like books, others like paper, and a silent wait in search of the apotheosis of the Geometer.

This volume puts together several important lectures on the Hamiltonian Systems and Celestial Mechanics to form a comprehensive and authoritative collection of works on the subject. Their relationship to several aspects of topology, mechanics and dynamical systems in general are also emphasized. The papers presented are an outgrowth of the lectures that took place during the “International Symposium on Hamiltonian Systems and Celestial Mechanics ”, which was held at Cocoyoc (Morelos, México) from September 13 to 17, 1994.

Experience all of the Borderlands zaniness in the Dungeons and Dragons setting. The guide for Tiny Tina's Wonderlands features all of the collectibles in the game, as well as information on all of the classes, including some builds to help you along. - Information on all classes - Builds for the classes - Locations of every collectible - In-depth analysis on Weapons and Armor - Breakdown of the Chaos Chamber - Locations of the more prolific Legendaries

Synthetic Aperture Radar Automatic Detection Algorithms (SARADA) for Oil Spills conveys the pivotal tool required to fully comprehend the advanced algorithms in radar monitoring and detection of oil spills, particularly quantum computing and algorithms as a keystone to comprehending theories and algorithms behind radar imaging and detection of marine pollution. Bridging the gap between modern quantum mechanics and computing detection algorithms of oil spills, this book contains precise theories and techniques for automatic identification of oil spills from SAR measurements. Based on modern quantum physics, the book also includes the novel theory on radar imaging mechanism of oil spills. With the use of precise quantum simulation of trajectory movements of oil spills using a sequence of radar images, this book demonstrates the use of SARADA for contamination by oil spills as a promising novel technique. Key Features: Introduces basic concepts of a radar remote sensing. Fills a gap in the knowledge base of quantum theory and microwave remote sensing. Discusses the important aspects of oil spill imaging in radar data in relation to the quantum theory. Provides recent developments and progresses of automatic detection algorithms of oil spill from radar data. Presents 2-D oil spill radar data in 4-D images.

Unit-I : Thermodynamics -I (A) Recapitulation of thermodynamic terms : System, surrounding types of system (closed, open & isolated), Thermodynamic, variables, intensive & extensive properties, thermodynamic processes (isothermal, adiabatic, isobaric, cyclic, reversible & irreversible) State function & path functions, properties of state functions (exact differential, cyclic rule), integrating factor, concept of heat & work. [3L] (B) Statements of first law of thermodynamics : Definition of internal energy & enthalpy, heat capacity at constant volume & at constant pressure, Joule-Thomson experiment, Joule Thomson coefficient & Inversion temperature, calculations of W,Q,ΔE & ΔH for expansion of gases for isothermal & adiabatic conditions for reversible process, carnot's cycle & its efficiency, thermodynamic scale of temperature. [5L] (C) Thermochemistry : Heat of reaction, standard states, relation between heat of reaction at constant volume & at constant pressure, Hess's law of constant heat of summation & its applications, bond dissociation energy & its calculations from thermochemical data, variation of heat of reaction with temperature (Kirchoff's equation). [4L] Unit-II : Thermodynamics-II (A) Second law of thermodynamics : Need for second law of thermodynamics, statements of second law of thermodynamics, concept of entropy, entropy as a state function of V & T, P&T, entropy change in phase change for ideal gas, entropy as criteria of spontaneity & equilibrium. [4L] (B) Free energy functions : Helmholtz free energy (A) & Gibb's free energy (G) & their properties, standard free energies, effect of temperature on free energy (Gibb's-Helmholtz equation) & its applications, A&G as criteria for thermodynamic equilibrium. [4L] (C) System of variable composition : Partial molar quantities, chemical potential, Van't-Hoff's reaction isotherm, relation between standard free energy change & equilibrium constant (thermodynamic derivation of law of mass action), effect of temperature on equilibrium constant (reaction isochore) [4L] Unit-III : Phase Equilibria (A) Phase rule : Statement of phase rule, definition of phase, component and degree of freedom, derivation of phase rule, Clapeyron equation & its application in deciding slopes of line for two phase equilibria, applications of phase rule to two phase equilibria of i) water system, ii) sulphur system & iii) Pb-Ag system. [6L] (B) Liquid-Liquid mixtures : Ideal liquid mixtures, Raoults law of ideal solutions, Henry's law, non-ideal systems, azeotropes: HCl -H2O & ethanol-water system. Partial miscible liquids : Phenol-water system, trimethylamine-water, nicotine-water system, lower & upper consolute temperature, effect of impurity. Immiscible liquids : Steam distillation, Nernst distribution law, Limitations, deviations & applications. [6L] Unit-IV : Solid State Laws of crystallography : (i) Law of constancy of interfacial angles, (ii) Law of rationality of indices, (iii) Law of symmetry, symmetry of elements in crystals. Unit cell, space lattice, orientation of lattice plane (Miller indices). Bravais lattices, crystal systems, X-ray diffraction by crystal, derivation of Braggs' equation.