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Driven : the race to create the autonomous car / by Davies, Alex,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The origin story of the revolutionary driverless car, from concept to its present status, told through the stories of the key innovators by the Wired reporter who has covered this story for the past five years"--
Subjects: Automated vehicles; Automobile industry and trade; Competition.;
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Sharpe's assassin : Richard Sharpe and the occupation of Paris, 1815 / by Cornwell, Bernard,author.;
Lieutenant-Colonel Sharpe is a man with a reputation. Born in the gutter, raised a foundling, he joined the army twenty-one years ago, and it's been his home ever since. He's a loose cannon, but his unconventional methods make him a valuable weapon. So when, the dust still settling after the Battle of Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington needs a favour, he turns to Sharpe. For Wellington knows that the end of one war is only the beginning of another. Napoleon's army may be defeated, but another enemy lies waiting in the shadows - a secretive group of fanatical revolutionaries hell-bent on revenge. Sharpe is dispatched to a new battleground: the maze of Paris streets where lines blur between friend and foe. And in search of a spy, he will have to defeat a lethal assassin determined to kill his target or die trying ...
Subjects: Historical fiction.; War fiction.; Sharpe, Richard (Fictitious character); Assassins; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815; Revolutionaries; Soldiers;
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The square and the tower : networks and power, from the Freemasons to Facebook / by Ferguson, Niall,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 436-536) and index.A reevaluation of history's turning points as collisions between old power hierarchies and new social networks explains how networks have always existed and have been responsible for key innovations and revolutionary ideas.
Subjects: Social networks;
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The Yank : the true story of a former US Marine in the Irish Republican Army / by Crawley, John,author.;
"1975: A young Irish-American man joins an elite US Marine unit to get the most intensive military training possible - then joins the Irish Republican Army, during the days of some of the bloodiest fighting ever in the Irish-British conflict ... The Irish "Troubles" were at a murderous fever pitch when John Crawley volunteered for the IRA. Bloody Friday, Bloody Sunday, the bombing of the British Houses of Parliament, and other deadly incidents had recently unfolded or were about to ... Civilian casualties were common as British soldiers, Republican militants (who wanted the UK out of Northern Ireland) and Unionist police and militants (who wanted to remain in the UK), engaged in gun battles and car bombing throughout Northern Ireland. The death toll numbered over 1,000. The IRA split over how to react between the old-line IRA, and the new Provisional IRA - the Provos, mostly impassioned young men who were not hesitant to resort to violence. In a powerful, brutally honest, no-holds-barred recounting of his experience, John Crawley details, first, the grueling challenges of his Marine Corps training, then how he put his hard-earned munitions and demolitions skills to use back in Ireland in service of the Provos. It is a story that will see him running guns with notorious American mobster - and secret IRA fundraiser - Whitey Bulger; running, under cover of night, from safe house to safe house in the Irish countryside, one step ahead of British troops; being captured, imprisoned, and being part of a mass escape attempt; fending off a recruitment offer from the CIA; and being one of the masterminds behind a campaign to take out London's electrical system. Along the way, Crawley is blisteringly candid about the memorable people he worked with, including behind-the-scenes portrayals of revered IRA leader Martin McGuinness, and of the psychopathic Whitey Bulger, as well as others in the Boston IRA support network. There are vivid portraits of colleagues and enemies, and Crawley is unflinching in his commentary on IRA leadership and their tactics, both military and political. Through it all comes the steadfast voice of a man on a mission, providing an evocative, detailed, and passionate recounting of where that mission led him and why - as well as why, to this day, he remains ready to serve"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Crawley, John,.; United States. Marine Corps; Irish Republican Army; Illegal arms transfers; Marines; Revolutionaries; Terrorists;
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The agitators : three friends who fought for abolition and women's rights / by Wickenden, Dorothy,author.;
Chronicles the revolutionary activities of Harriet Tubman, Frances Seward, and Martha Wright--friends and neighbors in Auburn, New York--discussing their vital roles in the Underground Railroad, abolition, and the early women's rights movement.
Subjects: Biographies.; Tubman, Harriet, 1822-1913.; Wright, Martha Coffin, 1806-1875.; Seward, Frances.; Women abolitionists; Underground Railroad; Antislavery movements; Women's rights;
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I Told You So! : Scientists Who Were Ridiculed, Exiled, and Imprisoned for Being Right. by Kaplan, Matt.;
'I Told You So' is an energetic and impassioned work of popular science about scientists who have had to fight for their revolutionary ideas to be accepted - from Darwin to Pasteur to modern day Nobel Prize winners.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: SCIENCE / Ethics; SCIENCE / General; SCIENCE / History;
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Your time to thrive : end burnout, increase well-being, and unlock your full potential with the new science of microsteps / by Khidekel, Marina,author.; Huffington, Arianna Stassinopoulos,1950-writer of foreword.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From Arianna Huffington's Thrive Global, the "Thrive bible": a revolutionary guide to living and working based on the growing science of microsteps--tiny, science-backed changes that are "too-small-to fail"--
Subjects: Burn out (Psychology); Stress (Psychology); Well-being.; Work-life balance.;
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The second mountain : the quest for a moral life / by Brooks, David,1961-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.David Brooks, the author of 'Bobos in Paradise', has produced one of his most personal and revolutionary books yet. 'The Committed Life' is a thought-provoking exploration of the four major commitments in life that fundamentally shape our identities.
Subjects: Social interaction.; Caring.; Conduct of life.; Relationism.;
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How to keep house while drowning : a gentle approach to cleaning and organizing / by Davis, KC,author.;
"For anyone tired of staring at the same mess every day but struggling to find the time and willpower to fix it, popular therapist and Tiktok star KC Davis presents a revolutionary method of cleaning to end the stress-mess cycle"--
Subjects: House cleaning.; Housekeeping; Orderliness.;
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Fair play : a game-changing solution for when you have too much to do (and more life to live) / by Rodsky, Eve,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A revolutionary, real-world solution to the problem of unpaid, invisible work that women have shouldered for too long--from a woman tapped by Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine as the expert on this topic for a new generation of women"--
Subjects: Child rearing.; Dual-career families.; Housekeeping.; Work and family.; Working mothers.;
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