New Books

2025 ASHRAE Hanbook : Fundamentals by ASHRAE The 2025 ASHRAE Handbook – Fundamentals covers basic principles and data used in the HVAC&R industry. Its more than 1,100 pages have been extensively updated and cover foundational concepts such as thermodynamics, psychrometrics, and heat transfer, and provide practical guidance on building envelopes, indoor environmental quality, load calculations, duct and piping system design, refrigerants, energy resources, sustainability, climate change, and more.

A CEO for All Seasons : mastering the cycles of leadership by Carolyn Dewar; Scott Keller; Vikram Malhotra; Kurt Strovink From leading global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company comes a compact, insight-packed guide to navigating the distinct phases of leadership that every CEO must pass through on their way to mastery. Whether you're an aspiring leader or a new-to-the-job CEO--or even a board member wanting to better steward your company's performance--this is the compact, hands-on guide you've needed.

The Chicago Manual of Style by The University The University of Chicago Press Editorial Staff The venerable, time-tested guide to style, usage, and grammar--an indispensable reference informing the editorial canon with sound, definitive advice. The eighteenth edition of this classic guide for writers, editors, and publishers has been updated to cover diversity and accessibility, evolving technologies, and well-considered updates to familiar rules, including changes intended to align the Manual's recommendations more closely with real-world usage.

Clinical Trials : A methodologic perspective, 4e by Steven Piantadosi Comprehensive resource presenting methods essential in planning, designing, conducting, analyzing, and interpreting clinical trials The Fourth Edition of Clinical Trials builds on the text's reputation as a straightforward, detailed, and authoritative presentation of quantitative methods for clinical trials, discussing principles of design for various types of clinical trials and elements of planning the experiment, assembling a study cohort, assessing data, and reporting results. Each chapter contains an introduction and summary to reinforce key points. Discussion questions stimulate critical thinking and help readers understand how they can apply their newfound knowledge. Written by a highly qualified author with significant experience in the field, the Fourth Edition of Clinical Trials approaches the topic with: Problems that may arise during a trial, and accompanying common sense solutions Design alternatives for addressing many questions in therapeutic development Statistical principles with new and provocative topics, such as generalizing results, operating characteristics, trial issues during the COVID-19 pandemic, and more Alternative medicine, ethics, middle development, comparative studies, adaptive designs, and clinical trials using point of care data Revamped exercise sets, updated and extensive references, new material on endpoints and the developmental pipeline, and revisions of numerous sections, tables, and figures Standing out due to its accessible and broad coverage of statistical design methods which are the building blocks of clinical trials and medical research, Clinical Trials is an essential learning aid on the subject for undergraduate and graduate clinical trials courses.

Hayek for the 21st Century : essays in political economy by DiLorenzo, Thomas J. (editor). Hayek for the 21st Century is an introduction to Hayek and his ideas, which remain a vital and essential part of the intellectual foundation for a free and prosperous society. These essays impart Hayek's essential teachings on Austrian economics and political economy. Ludwig von Mises was surely right when he said that Hayek would be remembered as one of the greatest economists of all time.

Introduction to Adaptive Trial Designs and Master Protocols by Jay J. H. Park; Edward J. Mills; J. Kyle Wathen This practical high-level guidebook offers an in-depth understanding of the newly emerging clinical trial designs in adaptive trial designs and master protocols. Both concise and readable without shying away from technical discussion, the book introduces the most innovative approaches in clinical trial research such as adaptive trial designs, master protocols, platform trial, basket trial, and umbrella trial designs. Featuring a revisionist history of clinical research before moving on to case-study based discussion and practical considerations from collective experience. The book enables readers to understand the strengths and limitations of these novel designs as well as their application to individual areas of research and clinical practice. Supplemented by real-world examples from the recent developments in medical research efficiency instigated by both personalized medicine and high-profile diseases like COVID-19 and cancer. The first book of its kind, it is the go-to resource for medical students and researchers working in clinical trial research.

Make It Snow : from zero to billions by Denise Persson; Chris Degnan Follow along on the journey of the founding, development, and breakaway success of a multi-billion-dollar tech company. Founding Snowflake CRO, Chris Degnan, and CMO, Denise Persson, have one of the longest executive sales and marketing relationships in history. They each built their teams from the ground up to help catapult Snowflake from a startup to one of the fastest-growing technology companies. Along the way, they evolved, innovated and executed as a single entity to deliver impact, while aligning with Snowflake's number one company value: put customers first. Learn how Chris and Denise united two historically divided teams in Corporate America to achieve long-lasting customer relationships and enduring company success.

The New Age of Sexism : how the AI revolution is reinventing misogyny by Bates, Laura New AI-driven technologies, with misogyny baked into their design, are putting women in danger, their rights and safety sacrificed at the altar of profitability and reckless speed. This book takes us deep into the heart of this rapidly evolving world by exploring the metaverse, confronting deepfake pornography, traveling to cyber brothels, testing chatbots, and hearing from schools in the grip of online sexual abuse. What she finds is a wild west where existing forms of discrimination, inequality and harassment are being coded into the future we will all have little choice about living in - unless we seize this moment to demand change.

Welding Handbook, 9th edition, Volume 3 : Welding Processes pt. 2 by AWS Comprehensive information on solid-state and other welding and cutting processes. The book includes chapters on resistance spot and seam welding, projection welding, flash and upset welding and high-frequency welding. In addition to a chapter on friction welding, a new chapter introduces friction stir welding, the process that has users excited about the significant advantages it offers. The most recent developments in beam technology are discussed in the greatly expanded chapters on laser beam welding and cutting and electron beam welding. A diverse array of processes are presented in chapters on the ultrasonic welding of metals, explosion welding, diffusion welding and diffusion brazing, adhesive bonding and thermal and cold spraying. The last chapter covers various other welding and cutting processes, including modernized water jet cutting.

Welding Handbook, 10th Edition, Volume 1 : Welding and cutting science and technology by American Welding Society (Engineer)

Why Fascists Fear Teachers : public education and the future of democracy by Randi Weingarten A rousing defense of public education as the cornerstone of American democracy, this book tells the story of what teachers do and why those who are afraid of freedom and opportunity try to stop them. Attacks on schools and teachers have long been a hallmark of fascist regimes because teachers foster an educated and empowered population that can see past propaganda and scare tactics. Fascists fear teachers because they teach young people how to think for themselves. Drawing on history, stories from teachers on the front lines, and decades of experience with America's public schools, this book argues that teaching students to think critically is the key to defeating would-be dictators.