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A devastating accident leaves Ellen Birks paralyzed, her husband Jay, a visionary tech executive, refuses to accept the limits of modern medicine. His solution: Flexa, an advanced humanoid designed to care, adapt, and learn. Jay and his team face mounting pressure to prove that Flexa is ready for the real world. If Flexa’s high-stakes demonstrations fail, Jay risks losing not only the investment and his company’s future, but also his credibility, and the chance to prove that Flexa can truly change lives, including Ellen’s. Meanwhile, Flexa is changing. Learning. Responding. Becoming. ...

Conquer the SOA GH 301 FSA Exam in Under 90 Minutes is a focused, audiobook-friendly study guide designed to help actuarial candidates build mastery of health analytics and management. This resource provides a clear, structured review of the core concepts tested on the SOA GH 301 Fellowship exam, with concise explanations tailored for efficient learning. Inside, you will explore advanced data techniques, predictive modeling, health plan performance metrics, provider contracting, utilization analysis, and the latest trends in healthcare analytics. Each chapter emphasizes the actuarial role ...

Artificial intelligence is no longer just a tool—it is becoming infrastructure. As AI systems increasingly shape what we see, how we decide, and what institutions trust, the question shifts from capability to governance. Who should ultimately own and steward planetary intelligence when its influence reaches across economies, democracies, and daily human life? In Owner Without Rivals, Michael Elfellah presents a bold and rigorously reasoned thesis: intelligence powerful enough to function as infrastructure cannot be governed primarily by competitive profit incentives. It must be anchored ...

Unleash the potential to survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic world with your bespoke guide, 'Medical Survival'. This comprehensive eBook reveals the keys to navigating unprecedented medical challenges in a world disrupted by catastrophe. 'Medical Survival' kicks off by placing you in the thick of a meteor impact scenario, a gripping opener that helps understand our new environment a world forever changed. It then guides you effortlessly through adapting to the transformation, focusing on the evolution of medicine post-impact. At its heart, the book offers an extensive dive into ...

Conquer the SOA ILA 201-U FSA Exam in Under 90 Minutes delivers a focused, streamlined review of the advanced topics tested in the Society of Actuaries Life and Annuities (U.S.) course sequence. Designed for candidates pursuing Fellowship, this concise study guide walks through valuation frameworks, product design challenges, risk modeling, solvency considerations, and the management of embedded guarantees. Each chapter distills complex technical material into clear explanations, helping you reinforce your understanding of life and annuity products, regulatory requirements, and U.S. market ...

Prepare for the Society of Actuaries (SOA) Advanced Topics in General Insurance (GIADV) Exam with this comprehensive study guide. Covering essential topics in general insurance, this guide is designed to help candidates thoroughly understand key concepts and effectively prepare for the exam. Topic: Basic Stochastic Reserving Learning Objectives: Understand how to use basic loss development models to estimate the standard deviation of an estimator of unpaid claims. Topic: Development Analysis for Excess Limits and Layers Learning Objectives: Gain insight into the considerations involved in ...

By 1942, Churchill faced a vastly different war than the one he'd inherited from Neville Chamberlain. Britain was no longer alone; the Soviets were now an unlikely ally in the East, and Pearl Harbor had finally pushed America into action. Yet the scale of violence remained unchanged. On average...

Conquer the SOA CP 341 FSA Exam in Under 90 Minutes: Advanced Life Reinsurance – Society of Actuaries Course on Reinsurance and Risk Transfer delivers a concise, high-yield review of advanced reinsurance concepts for actuarial professionals. Covering all four tested domains—reinsurance structures, risk transfer mechanisms, accounting and regulatory standards, and reinsurance administration—this study guide distills complex technical content into clear, audiobook-friendly chapters. It explains the strategic role of reinsurance in capital management, solvency oversight, and enterprise ...

The spent lands cover seventy-five percent of Poo-ponic. Few trees are left. The soil has turned to ash. The air reeks of sulfur and smoke. And the insectoids who destroyed their planet refuse to admit what they've done. President Antilla insists the forests are recovering. His propaganda machine, PIN-point, broadcasts lies while dissidents disappear into toxic webs. Like her long-lost ancestor Anthiery, the activist Gretant and her loyal friend Thunbug know the truth. The atmosphere is collapsing. And no one is coming to save them. As toxic yellow clouds roll in and hundreds suffocate in ...

Declassified is a raw, thought-provoking conversation that dives straight into the questions shaping our future: intelligence and the limits of the Turing Test, ethics by design, surveillance capitalism, social media’s paradoxes, the future of work, AI-powered warfare, climate risk, love in the age of algorithms, the uncanny valley, the road to AGI, and the futures we might build... or fear.

Using information in its everyday, nonspecialized sense, Michael Buckland explores the influence of information on what we know, the role of communication and recorded information in our daily lives, and the difficulty (or ease) of finding information. He shows that all this involves human perception, social behavior, changing technologies, and issues of trust.  

Investigations Of Agent Adams - Episode 3 Mika Soo, a visionary quantum engineer and dedicated stargazer, has spent her life unraveling the mysteries of the cosmos. Armed with her revolutionary invention — the quantum photon reader — she unlocks a hidden universe buried deep within starlight itself. When her discoveries reveal an advanced alien society, Mika’s quiet pursuit of knowledge takes an unexpected turn, drawing the attention of Agent Adams and entangling her in a web of cosmic and terrestrial mysteries. Entangled Vision is a captivating tale of exploration and discovery, ...

Conquer the SOA ILA 201-I FSA Exam in Under 90 Minutes is designed for actuaries preparing for the Society of Actuaries Fellowship track in international life and annuities. This concise study guide delivers a focused review of advanced valuation methods, product risk management techniques, and the regulatory frameworks that shape insurance markets worldwide. Inside, you will find clear coverage of mortality and policyholder behavior risk, product design, solvency and capital standards, and international perspectives on reinsurance and asset-liability management. Each chapter is written in ...

Conquer the SOA GI 301 FSA Exam in Under 90 Minutes is a concise yet comprehensive guide to advanced topics in general insurance. Built around the Society of Actuaries’ GI 301 syllabus, this study guide delivers clear explanations of complex material in a streamlined format designed for efficient learning and audiobook use. From stochastic reserving foundations to catastrophe models, the book emphasizes the connections between technical methods, regulatory requirements, and the broader insurance environment. Readers will find focused chapters on reinsurance structures, loss modeling, ...

In the future, men are forced to bend to the will of women in order to pay for their crimes of the past. Can one short conversation with a man change Rain's world forever? After the Third World War, women seized the opportunity to overcome the surviving men, creating a new nation in part of what used to be the United States ruled by the Motherhood. From that day forward, all women are raised never to question the new order of things where women have all the power and men are used and discarded like animals. Rain knows in the back of her mind that this way is wrong, but she’s been ...