Books with author Jonathan Bailor

Every time your heart beats, an electrical current has been sent from certain cells to the rest of the heart muscle tissue, triggering your heart to contract and push blood through your body. When these signals go awry, major health issues such as heart attacks can occur. Enter the pacemaker, a small implanted device that keeps your heart beating. Did you know, implantable pacemakers were invented by accident? This volume explores the history, struggles, and the accidental invention of the pacemaker, a device that beats hundreds of thousands of times each year to save people's lives.

Every time your heart beats, an electrical current has been sent from certain cells to the rest of the heart muscle tissue, triggering your heart to contract and push blood through your body. When these signals go awry, major health issues such as heart attacks can occur. Enter the pacemaker, a small implanted device that keeps your heart beating. Did you know, implantable pacemakers were invented by accident? This volume explores the history, struggles, and the accidental invention of the pacemaker, a device that beats hundreds of thousands of times each year to save people's lives.

Computers are playing a larger role in our lives every day, which means the teams behind these devices are becoming more and more important. In this book, students receive an inside look at the collaboration that goes into developing the technology that powers our lives. Readers will learn about the different teams that tackle each step of a computer science project, from programmers and software engineers to testers and debuggers. STEM concepts from the Next Generation Science Standards are covered. Fact boxes and sidebars provide additional opportunities for students to learn about collaboration in computer science.

“One man in his time plays many parts,His acts being seven ages.”In this illuminating, innovative biography, Jonathan Bate, one of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, has found a fascinating new way to tell the story of the great dramatist. Using the Bard’s own immortal list of a man’s seven ages in As You Like It, Bate deduces the crucial events of Shakespeare’s life and connects them to his world and work as never before.Here is the author as an infant, born into a world of plague and syphillis, diseases with which he became closely familiar; as a schoolboy, a position he portrayed in The Merry Wives of Windsor, in which a clever, cheeky lad named William learns Latin grammar; as a lover, married at eighteen to an older woman already pregnant, perhaps presaging Bassanio, who in The Merchant of Venice won a wife who could save him from financial ruin. Here, too, is Shakespeare as a soldier, writing Henry the Fifth’s St. Crispin’s Day speech, with a nod to his own monarch Elizabeth I’s passionate addresses; as a justice, revealing his possible legal training in his precise use of the law in plays from Hamlet to Macbeth; and as a pantaloon, an early retiree because of, Bate postulates, either illness or a scandal. Finally, Shakespeare enters oblivion, with sonnets that suggest he actively sought immortality through his art and secretly helped shape his posthumous image more than anyone ever knew.Equal parts masterly detective story, brilliant literary analysis, and insightful world history, Soul of the Age is more than a superb new recounting of Shakespeare’s experiences; it is a bold and entertaining work of scholarship and speculation, one that shifts from past to present, reality to the imagination, to reveal how this unsurpassed artist came to be.From the Hardcover edition.

Now available as a separate book to Welcome To Being Human (All-In-One Edition).Imagine a story written for adults, but told through 3 separate children’s stories. One bedtime story for parents to read to a child. One story for a child learning to read. One story for children to read to parents.This is just what is included in the Children’s Edition of Welcome to Being Human – the highly acclaimed book that has gripped adults young and old alike.How many times have you heard, “Life doesn’t come with an instruction book?”But what if it did? And what if you wrote that instruction book before arriving on Earth so that one day, in your human form, you would find it and be able to look upon your life with an entirely different perspective?Ever since humans arrived on Earth, they have – for better or worse – bounced around the planet without any sense of direction. It would be almost comical if it wasn’t reality. I mean, how many times have you asked a question and heard an answer like, “I don’t know why, but that is what it says?” Or even better... “That’s just the way it is.” After all, the greatest minds on planet Earth have only a small understanding of something much, much greater than can be explained through science, math, and history.This is why Welcome to Being Human will find the rhythm to your heart. For the first time, one book answers the great questions about life that have gone unanswered for so long! It is a story humorously written by you, for you, to help you remember all that’s been forgotten... an instruction book to being human.Welcome to being human!NOTE: To preserve the images and layout, this book is a FIXED WIDTH ebook.

Now available as a separate book to Welcome To Being Human (All-In-One Edition).Imagine a story written for adults, but told through 3 separate children's stories. One bedtime story for parents to read to a child. One story for a child learning to read. One story for children to read to parents. This is just what is included in the Children's Edition of Welcome to Being Human - the highly acclaimed book that has gripped adults young and old alike. How many times have you heard, "Life doesn't come with an instruction book?" But what if it did? And what if you wrote that instruction book before arriving on Earth so that one day, in your human form, you would find it and be able to look upon your life with an entirely different perspective? Ever since humans arrived on Earth, they have - for better or worse - bounced around the planet without any sense of direction. It would be almost comical if it wasn't reality. I mean, how many times have you asked a question and heard an answer like, "I don't know why, but that is what it says?" Or even better... "That's just the way it is." After all, the greatest minds on planet Earth have only a small understanding of something much, much greater than can be explained through science, math, and history. This is why Welcome to Being Human will find the rhythm to your heart. For the first time, one book answers the great questions about life that have gone unanswered for so long! It is a story humorously written by you, for you, to help you remember all that's been forgotten... an instruction book to being human. Welcome to being human!

For people outside the tech industry, data mining and data analysis are often misunderstood processes. They're more involved than simply retrieving data from a database and sorting through it. Readers will learn how and where data is stored, how we're able to find patterns within this data, and how these patterns help us make predictions. The accessible text is supplemented with full-color images and helpful diagrams to help students understand how data mining and analysis work. STEM concepts from the Next Generation Science Standards are also covered throughout.

For people outside the tech industry, data mining and data analysis are often misunderstood processes. They're more involved than simply retrieving data from a database and sorting through it. Readers will learn how and where data is stored, how we're able to find patterns within this data, and how these patterns help us make predictions. The accessible text is supplemented with full-color images and helpful diagrams to help students understand how data mining and analysis work. STEM concepts from the Next Generation Science Standards are also covered throughout.

Computers are playing a larger role in our lives every day, which means the teams behind these devices are becoming more and more important. In this book, students receive an inside look at the collaboration that goes into developing the technology that powers our lives. Readers will learn about the different teams that tackle each step of a computer science project, from programmers and software engineers to testers and debuggers. STEM concepts from the Next Generation Science Standards are covered. Fact boxes and sidebars provide additional opportunities for students to learn about collaboration in computer science.