Environment Systems

Who controls an AI agent when it starts making decisions, executing transactions and operating inside financial reporting? THE AI CONTROL ENVIRONMENT: COSO, SOX and Internal Control for Autonomous Systems examines one of the most important governance problems facing modern organisations: how to preserve accountability when artificial intelligence moves from analytical support into operational authority. AI models and autonomous agents increasingly classify transactions, analyse contracts, prepare journal entries, monitor controls, identify anomalies, support accounting estimates, draft ...

Did you know that in the United States alone, an estimated 345 billion gallons of water are used daily? This shouldn’t be surprising–we live in a world of consumerism, and unfortunately, this even correlates to how we use natural resources like electricity and water. But what are you supposed to do? It’s not like you can just go without water.

Learn a road map to healthy soil and revitalized food systems for powerfully addressing these times of challenge. This audiobook equips producers with knowledge, skills, and insights to regenerate ecosystem health and grow farm/ranch profits. Globally recognized soil advocate and agroecologist Nicole Masters delivers the solution to rewind the clock on this increasingly critical soil crisis in her first book For the Love of Soil. She argues we can no longer treat soil like dirt.

HVAC in Critical Environments In today’s fast-evolving world, critical environments play a pivotal role in safeguarding human health, advancing technology, and ensuring the continuity of essential operations. Whether it’s a cleanroom supporting the production of life-saving pharmaceuticals, a data center powering global communication, or an operating room where lives are on the line, the functionality and reliability of HVAC systems in these settings cannot be overstated. This book is born from the growing need to understand the intricate requirements and challenges associated with HVAC...

"If I could have one wish it is that every eater in America would read this book." —Ruth Reichl From a pioneer of the regenerative agriculture movement, a memoir-meets-manifesto on betting the farm on a better future for our food, animals, land, local communities, and our climate Raised as a...

Maintaining Mission Critical Systems in a 24/7 Environment provides in-depth coverage of operating, managing, and maintaining power quality and emergency power systems in mission critical facilities. This extensively revised third edition provides invaluable insight into the mission critical environment, helping professionals and students alike understand how to sustain continuous functionality, minimize the occurrence of costly unexpected downtime, and guard against power disturbances.

The gripping, definitive account of how the Romans lost their Republic. “An incisive history … The parallels to the present day are striking.” —New Yorker In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why...

Digital transformation has reshaped the industrial landscape. Control systems that operated in isolated environments for decades now coexist with IP networks, cloud services, remote access, and converged IT/OT architectures. This evolution has exponentially increased the attack surface and turned industrial infrastructures into strategic targets. Fundamentals of OT Cybersecurity provides a rigorous and structured perspective on the principles that must underpin the protection of industrial automation and control systems. Rather than simply transferring purely IT-based models into ...

Every effect an agent has on the world should go through one door — and the door should keep the book. Atlas, Meridian Supply Co.'s customer-operations agent, could plan, remember, and reason by Book 3. It reached the world through function calls scattered across three books of code, and on a Tuesday a regression suite logged ninety-eight tickets in a real CRM because the mock covered the model and not the world. Nobody had a list of the places Atlas could touch the world; the whiteboard was wrong twice. This book builds the action boundary as one system, wall by wall, each justified by ...

This program is read by the authors. Raj Patel, the New York Times bestselling author of The Value of Nothing, teams up with physician, activist, and co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition Rupa Marya to reveal the links between health and structural injustices--and to offer a new deep medicine...

Architectural and Governance Framework for Industrial Cybersecurity provides a rigorous and executive-level perspective on how to design, lead, and sustain cybersecurity in complex industrial environments. In an era defined by digital transformation, IT/OT convergence, and expanding attack surfaces, industrial organizations can no longer treat cybersecurity as a purely technical function. This book explores how secure architecture and effective governance of automation systems become strategic pillars for operational resilience, regulatory compliance, and business continuity. Through a ...

In this extraordinary book, an award-winning author tells the story of how humans invented history, from the Stone Age to the Virtual Age “Terrific… Tamim Ansary explores the underappreciated ways that empires, nations, and smaller sets of people have responded to their surroundings...

Tired of "try harder" productivity advice that completely ignores how your brain actually runs? If you have ADHD, you have probably mastered the art of starting strong, only to get derailed by distractions, delays, or decision overload. It's time for a daily workflow built for your interest-based nervous system, not against it. Traditional productivity plans assume a standard executive function baseline. But for the neurodivergent mind, boring tasks feel physically heavy—not because of laziness, but because your dopamine levels require biological validation to engage. In The ADHD ...

DISCOVER ADHD-FRIENDLY SYSTEMS THAT TURN DAILY CHAOS INTO “MOSTLY TOGETHER”—NO PERFECTION REQUIRED This book is for ADHDers who are tired of picture-perfect planners and one-size-fits-all advice—and just want systems that feel doable. ● Do you start every Monday with big plans—and end the week in chaos? ● Are you constantly reinventing your routines because nothing ever sticks? ● Have you tried every planner, app, and color-coded system... only to end up overwhelmed? You're not lazy. You're not broken. And you're definitely not alone. If you’ve ever felt like traditional ...

Bogs form from an overabundance of death, organic matter breaking down to form layer upon layer of peat. That peat gives rise to lifeforms that challenge our understanding of biology itself: amphibian-eating plants and acid-flinging mosses, plant clones that span thousands of square miles and...

From the activist who coined the term comes a primer on intersectional environmentalism for the next generation of activists looking to create meaningful, inclusive, and sustainable change. The Intersectional Environmentalist examines the inextricable link between environmentalism, racism, and...

Your strategic plan was perfect. So why did it fail? Most strategy failures aren’t execution problems—they’re causal modeling failures. Organizations intervene on visible events instead of structural causes. In complex, interconnected systems, linear planning collapses under feedback, delay, and emergence. From Planning to Causal Intervention A Strategist’s Guide to Causality in Complex Systems provides a rigorous reasoning framework for strategists operating in environments where prediction is unreliable and control is partial. Rather than offering formulas or playbooks, it teaches...

Discover how people grow, adapt, and thrive within the networks of relationships and environments that surround them. Growing Minds, Shaping Worlds: Understanding and Applying Ecological Systems Theory explores Urie Bronfenbrenner’s groundbreaking model of human development and reveals how family, school, community, culture, and history all interact to shape our lives. This accessible yet comprehensive book offers a clear guide to understanding the five systems—microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem, and chronosystem—and shows why development can never be explained by ...

This book offers a structured guide to designing, evaluating, and operating frequency-agile RF systems in environments where spectrum conditions can change quickly and unpredictably. It brings together RF architecture, spectrum sensing, control logic, and adaptive signal processing into one practical framework for engineers, researchers, and advanced students. Rather than focusing on a single technique, the material builds a complete view of dynamic frequency management, from understanding interference and propagation effects to selecting waveforms, switching RF front ends, and enforcing ...

When most people hear the term “day trader”, they imagine the stock market floor packed with people yelling "buy" and "sell" - or someone who went for broke and ended up just that. These days, investing isn’t just for the brilliant or the desperate - it’s a smart and necessary move to ensure financial well-being. To the newcomer, day trading can be a confusing process: where do you begin, and how can you approach trading in a careful yet effective way?