Science Communication

This book is a resource for building your own solar PV supply for remote cameras, LED lighting systems, communication, sensors, and remote cabin and home power systems with solar PV power system examples. The solar energy resource varies with time of day, season, and local climate. Solar PV panels, sized properly, produce reliable and predictable energy production, despite daily variations, when calculated properly for each month.

Good friends and healthy friendships are crucial to women's well-being at every stage of life. But what happens when a friendship turns toxic? When a friend becomes hurtful or mistreats another? When a friend abandons another in a time of need? Here, Suzanne Degges-White and Judy Pochel Van Tieghem explore such toxic friendships and how women navigate the ups and downs as well as how broken friendships can be mended and bad friendships ended.

Discover the incredible potential of AI language models with this comprehensive guide to understanding, using, and shaping the future of AI communication technologies. Dive into the captivating world of ChatGPT and learn how it's revolutionizing the way we interact with machines and each other.

In this provocative yet practical book, renowned speaking coach and communication expert Nick Morgan highlights recent research that shows how humans are programmed to respond to the nonverbal cues of others--subtle gestures, sounds, and signals--that elicit emotion. He then provides a clear, useful framework of seven "power cues" that will be essential for any leader in business, the public sector, or almost any context. You'll learn crucial skills, from measuring nonverbal signs of confidence to the art and practice of gestures and vocal tones.

The first book written about diplomacy in over 50 years, since Richard Sharp's The Game of Diplomacy, with an homage to that critical work, to Allan B. Calhamer - the game's designer - and so many other legends of the hobby, to bring a new concise look at strategy, tactics, and negotiation.

The truly cultivated person is not the one who has read a book but the one who understands the book's place in our culture. Using examples from authors and movies, Bayard examines the many kinds of "non-reading" and urges us to consider what reading means and how we absorb books as a part of ourselves.

From the former secretary of defense and author of the acclaimed #1 best-selling memoir Duty, a characteristically direct, informed, and urgent assessment of why big institutions are failing us and how smart, committed leadership can effect real improvement regardless of scale.

Step into the future of communication with "Building an Interactive AI Video Clone." In this comprehensive guide, TJ Walker takes you on an inspiring journey to create your very own AI that embodies your unique voice, style, and personality. Imagine having a Video twin that can engage your audience, respond to inquiries, and provide personalized experiences—all while reflecting your authentic self.

Você sabia que o carisma não é um dom ou um favor divino, como acreditavam os gregos? Apesar de ter sido usado para descrever os "dons carismáticos" do Espírito Santo, a ciência contemporânea prova que este poder de atrair e influenciar é, na verdade, aprendido e pode ser desenvolvido por qualquer pessoa.

If you do a quick online search of toxic or narcissistic persons, the overwhelming advice you’ll find is to cut these people out of your life. But that’s easier said than done, especially if these people are family, colleagues, or other people with whom we live or work closely. We’ve all been around those people who can leave us feeling drained or a bit "off" after an encounter with them.

The Trump Card is based on the idea that Dr. Ross has added a new card to the Rorschach Ink Blot Test: The Trump Card. He psychoanalyzes projections onto the Trump Card, just as psychologists do when administering the Rorschach. The audiobook is not so much about President Trump as it is about attitudes and reactions to him. The Trump Card is an equal-opportunity political satire and does not discriminate on the basis of political affiliation. Dr. Ross critiques both the left and the right.

Globalization means that we need to be prepared to interact with people from a wide range of cultures. But it's impossible to learn the particular customs and traits of every culture you might regularly come into contact with. Cultural Intelligence teaches techniques that will allow you to function effectively in any culture. Instead of providing a laundry list of culturally specific dos and don'ts, Thomas and Inkson show how to pay attention in a mindful and creative way to cues in cross-cultural situations.

With artificial intelligence on the rise, the way we run our organisations will change - and drastically. But what exactly will that future look like? And who will take the leading role: Machines or people? In this compelling new audiobook, leading management guru David De Cremer identifies the key areas where algorithms will collide with human skills, and assesses the likely outcomes. The author presents fascinating insights into the challenges that an automated work environment poses for organisations of the future.

How often do you walk away from a conversation feeling really heard? That it moved the people in it forward in some important way? You’re not alone. In his practice as a designer, Fred Dust began to approach conversations differently. After years of trying to broker communication between colleagues and clients, he came to believe there had to a way to design the art of conversation itself with intention and purpose, but still artful and playful.

Many people today are so dazzled by the long-term potential for artificial intelligence that they overlook the much clearer and more immediate potential for a new form of "collective intelligence": the intelligence of groups of people and computers working together. In Superminds, Thomas Malone explains what we need to do to take advantage of this potential. Groundbreaking and utterly fascinating, Superminds will change the way you work - both with others and with computers - for the better.

Niccolò Machiavelli famously wrote, "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things." That's what this book is about - innovation far more audacious than a new way to find a restaurant or a smart phone you can wear on your wrist. Harvard professor Amy Edmondson and journalist Susan Salter Reynolds explore how to bring into being systems that transform human experience and make the world more livable and sustainable.

Years of experience as a magician taught Tim David that real magic is all about words, and the way they influence the minds of the audience. What sets a professional magician apart from an amateur are people skills like communication, influence, and engagement - skills that are also effective in the workplace. By applying seven "magic" words in a business setting, David offers tools for effective and persuasive communication.

Are you interested in 100 percent scientific and proven ways to make friends quickly, negotiate anything you want, turn enemies into friends, gain trust, and just be flat-out likable? How about step-by-step, methodical, literally foolproof approaches to make people want you around more? In The Science of Likability, that's exactly what you'll get. I've taken 16 of the most influential, famous, and effective psychological studies and broken them down to see exactly how you can use their findings to your advantage.

From the best-selling author of Law of Attraction comes an easy-to-follow audiobook on creating ideal personal and professional relationships using the techniques of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Are there certain people in your life who you have difficulty communicating with - at home, at work, or in your community? Now, in Law of Connection, Michael J. Losier gives you the tools you need to foster greater understanding in every aspect of your life. With tips, tools, exercises, and scripts to guide you.

The Science of Reading People isn't a book that tells you about crossed arms, eye contact, and eyerolls. That type of information is so basic, it can be hidden. No, this book is about deep behavioral psychology, and how it affects all of our actions and behaviors.