Systems Science

Permaculture makes the most use of what nature provides for us by using specific design strategies to maximize nature’s gifts, such as food, energy, and shelter. A counter to heavy industrial farming, permaculture is all about conscious planning that caters to the human needs while also respecting and healing the natural environment. At its core, it involves drawing inspiration from nature to build an ecosystem that thrives just like any other. If you want to start practicing permaculture and reap all its benefits, then you need to listen to this audiobook today!

In the years following her role as the lead author of the international best seller, Limits to Growth - the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet - Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001. Thinking in Systems is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem-solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute's Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world....

Gary doesn’t have all that much going for him. He’s a teenage boy who lives in a Tier-3 town that’s barely hanging on, and his family’s just a rung above dirt poor. Which is why he’s taken the very dangerous step of becoming an errand boy for the savage Underdogs gang. He doesn’t like what they do, but if he tries to get out, he’s pretty sure he’ll get very dead.

In the future: A united Earth, to deal with the problem of population control, divides its population into classes of citizen and non-gratis. To be born a non-gratis means a life of little freedoms and the constant possibility of being assigned to work on a colony. Lacking citizenship, every aspect of their life is controlled from where they live down to marriage and childbearing regulations. The only possible escape from life as a non-gratis is to qualify for one of the limited slots available for entrance into the military.

What if humanity’s next stage of evolution wasn’t discovered…But engineered? Elliot Voss spent decades pursuing a singular vision. Until he found a way to rewrite the rules of life itself.

Ominous obelisks land on Earth with a single message: Join the games to give humanity a fighting chance to survive... Or roll over and die. Too bad for them, Warren isn't the rolling-over type. Cancer may be kicking Warren's a$$, but he's not about to let aliens destroy his home and everything he loves (which is mostly just his dog, Buck). Besides, what does he have to lose? Better to die with sword in hand, bleeding out from a head wound than in some hospital bed...

Quinn can barely handle her own life. When the Library of Everywhere discovers her compatible magical signature, suddenly, she is the sole existing potential librarian. Now, it's not only the weight of her world on her shoulders—Quinn must connect with the library system before the universe itself disintegrates. Once she's settled, it should be quiet, peaceful work—just as soon as she battles a few engorged bookworms, repairs hundreds of years of damage, and figures out why there's been no librarian for the last several centuries.

Since she arrived in the alternate dimension of Luliv, Alice Verianna's scientific exploration of its magical properties has yielded fascinating results. She has uncovered many secrets behind the mysterious construct—known as the System—that connects all of Luliv, and her own abilities to harness this magic have flourished in unexpected ways. But the System is failing. And as Alice desperately races to get to the bottom of why, she's finding more questions than answers while its people go mad and monster attacks become more frequent and deadlier than ever.

Yoon Jian finds himself in a cultivation world where strength is decided at birth and he has none. No spiritual root. No talent. No future. Taken in by the beautiful yet notoriously lazy elder Su Lian, he becomes nothing more than a convenient excuse for her to claim discipleship resources… without ever intending to teach him a thing. To everyone else, he’s a joke. A mortal playing at cultivation. But Yoon Jian brought something with him from Earth. A system. Moksha—an all-knowing intelligence containing the sum of human knowledge and a mind trained to question everything. Where ...

Jay Luckrun has many interests: street dancing, anime, action movies, comedy, and dashing across rooftops to the point where his bullies nicknamed him Rooftop Weirdo. After struggling to confront his untouchable high school crush at her seventeenth birthday party, Jay adds another interest to his list—Dungeon Crawling in the face of the apocalypse. Jay meets a divine creature who chooses him to become a Champion. Someone with a leveling System, stats, skills, access to other dimensions containing dungeons filled with supernatural loot, and magical powers that’ll alter reality as they know it.

Operating Systems Demystified A Student-Friendly Guide to Concepts, Internals & Case Studies Operating systems often feel like a cryptic force running behind the scenes, managing everything yet staying invisible to the untrained eye. To a student new to computer science or information technology, the term alone may evoke a mix of awe and anxiety. The core machinery of a computer, orchestrated by the operating system, appears daunting when presented through dense textbooks filled with technical jargon and theoretical abstraction. It was with this very struggle in mind that this book, ...

Transform Your Health with the Power of an Anti-Inflammatory Diet: Simple Recipes and a 30-Day Plan for Lasting Results! —Including Full-Color Images to Inspire Your Cooking! Are you tired of living with the discomfort and health challenges caused by chronic inflammation? What if you could ease your pain, boost your energy, and improve your overall well-being—all by making simple changes to your diet? With "Anti-Inflammatory Diet for Beginners," you’ll learn how to fight inflammation naturally while enjoying delicious, easy-to-prepare meals. Why This Book is Perfect for You: Easy-to-...

When Brad Mendoza comes face to face with crack mercenary Billy Firebrand, his supposedly fictional boyhood hero, the results are nearly disastrous. Add in a duplictous princess, a case of blackmail, a kidnapped president, and yet another suicide mission, and it just isn't Brad's day. But hey, at least the ship has a hot tub!

Discover the fascinating science behind unpredictability, complexity, and the hidden order within chaos. Understanding Chaos Theory is the definitive beginner’s guide to one of the most mind-bending concepts in modern science. From weather systems and traffic patterns to heart rhythms and financial markets, chaos theory reveals how small changes can produce massive effects—and why true predictability is often an illusion. Written in clear, accessible language, this book walks you through the origins, principles, and real-world applications of chaos theory without requiring a background ...

The World is Dead. The Hunt Has Begun. It started as a calculated attack—terrorist squads infected with a deadly virus unleashed on the U.S. and Europe. But no one predicted what came next. The virus mutated, spreading like wildfire, consuming entire nations. Millions died. The unlucky ones came back. Mindless. Rabid. Driven by a single, relentless instinct—to hunt and kill the few who remain. Hunter, a battle-hardened Iraq War veteran, was ready to leave violence behind. But when civilization collapses overnight, he finds himself back in the fight of his life. Teaming up with a band of...

Systems Thinking and Complexity Explained: How Feedback Loops, Emergence, and Nonlinear Dynamics Shape the Modern World is a clear, in depth guide to understanding why the world behaves the way it does when simple cause and effect explanations fall short. From global challenges like climate change and economic instability to everyday issues in organizations, technology, and personal decision making, this book shows how complex systems generate surprising outcomes through interaction, feedback, and adaptation. Written for curious readers with no technical background required, it offers a ...

Herbert A. Simon Explained: Bounded Rationality, Decision-Making, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Psychology, Organizational Theory, Problem Solving, and the Science of Human Behavior in Complex Systems Discover the groundbreaking ideas of Herbert A. Simon, one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, whose work reshaped economics, psychology, artificial intelligence, and organizational theory. In this clear and engaging guide, you will explore the concept of bounded rationality, the limits of human decision-making, and the powerful idea of satisficing that challenges ...

To continue his path toward immortality, Su Fang must return to the Western Wastes, the brutal frontier where his path first began. The Su Clan should be his home, but corruption festers in its halls, smothering every spark of talent that doesn't serve the powerful. But beneath the decay lie talents worth nurturing and futures worth protecting.

To stop an S-ranked invasion, the Omega must be forged. Two Singularities remain: the Metaphysical, trapped in the Underworld, and the Spectral, corrupted by Chaos at Terminus' lunar base. Terry leads a desperate raid to the moon to find a way to purge the Spectral. Instead, he is engaged in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse as corrupted beings hunt him through vacuum and steel. He may not be the hero Earth asked for, but he might be the one it needs.

Three stats. Four party members. Every evolution is permanent. Ethan Cole awakened as a Tactician yesterday. The city's only Tactician died three days ago. The nearest dungeon breaks in five. Without a Tactician, nobody can enter the Rift, nobody gets their stats allocated, and nobody evolves. He has to recruit a party from whoever's left, clear three floors, and learn his class in real time. A post-apocalyptic party-management LitRPG with permanent evolution choices and tactical combat you can follow. The recruitment board has nine cards. What remains: a construction worker with a daughter...