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Automobiles have evolved in many ways over the years, with increasing fuel economy, reliability, handling, and comfort. However, automobile manufacturing is in a new era, focusing on safety while incorporating impressive new technologies into our transportation needs. With a growing population, there are subsequently more people driving and more automobiles on the road. With more congestion and traffic, the likelihood of accidents seems imminent....
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Is your kitchen out to get you? This video shows the kitchen as a workplace filled with potential danger from scalding water and sizzling oil to whirring blades and natural gas. It shows how to handle knives, prevent shocks, childproof a kitchen, avoid burns, and prevent e-coli contamination.
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Regardless of age, every child can benefit from learning about gun safety. Whether you want to introduce your child to firearms for hunting or sport – or simply ensure that he or she knows how to be safe around firearms – this is the book for you!
This straightforward teaching aid can help you understand the unique issues associated with kids and firearms:
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Still regarded as "the bible" for both new and experienced kayakers after more than thirty years in print, Sea Kayaking covers the basics of equipment and technique, including types of paddles and strokes, as well as such essential skills as how to read the weather and the water, how to navigate with and without GPS and how to travel with a group. Drawing on his many years of experience paddling in all climates, John Dowd presents practical advice...
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A series of demonstrations by Andrew Yung, of equipment commonly used in nursing, and the concepts behind their operation. Topics include: radioactive substances; suction & drainage; fluid flow & hydrostatic pressure; siphonage; pressure - volume of gas; sound; nerve & muscle function; application of Bernoulli's Principle; pressure & suction; pressure in heart & lungs; electricity; static electricity; light.
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Casting Light on the Dark Web: A Guide for Safe Exploration is an easy-to-read and comprehensive guide to understanding how the dark web works and why you should be using it! Readers will be led on a tour of this elusive technology, from how to download the platform for personal or public use to how it can best be used for finding information. This guide busts myths and informs readers while remaining entertaining. Casting Light on the Dark Web is...
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"The internet is powerful, but it is not safe. As "smart" devices proliferate the risks will get worse, unless we act now. From driverless cars to smart thermostats, from autonomous stock-trading systems to drones equipped with their own behavioral algorithms, the internet now has direct effects on the physical world. While this computerized future, often called the Internet of Things, carries enormous potential, best-selling author Bruce Schneier...
11) Water safety
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Explains the importance of being safe around pools, lakes, and oceans, whether swimming or in a boat, and points out specific things one can do to remain safe in the water.
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"For parents who didn't grow up with smartphones but can't let go of them now, expert advice on raising kids in our constantly connected world Most kids get their first smartphone at the same time that they're experiencing major developmental changes. Making mistakes has always been a part of growing up, but how do parents help their kids navigate childhood and adolescence at a time when social media has the potential to magnify the consequences of...
14) Bicycle safety
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Explains the importance of being safe on a bicycle, whether alone or in a group, on the street or in a park, and points out specific things one can do to remain safe while cycling.
17) The truth about COVID-19: exposing the great reset, lockdowns, vaccine passports, and the new normal
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"Since early 2020, the world has experienced a series of catastrophic events-a global pandemic caused by what appears to be an engineered coronavirus; international lockdowns and border closings causing widespread business closures, economic collapse, and massive unemployment; and an unprecedented curtailment of civil liberties and freedoms in the name of keeping people safe by locking them up in their homes. We are now living in a world that is increasingly...
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