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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A safety claim about an AI system is only as credible as the measurement that backs it. Everything else in this book follows from that sentence. If a developer says a model is "safe enough to deploy," a regulator says it is "low-risk," or a buyer says it is "fit for purpose," each of those statements is a load-bearing claim about behavior under conditions that have not yet happened. Without a measurement program - without tests that were specified before the system was built, executed by people who can be honest about the results, and reported in a form that outsiders can interrogate - those claims are aspirations dressed up as findings. This book is about how to tell the difference. AI governance discussions in 2026 are crowded with rules, principles, and voluntary commitments. The substance of those commitments, however, almost always reduces to a claim about what an AI system will or will not do. "We will not deploy a model that meaningfully uplifts the creation of biological weapons." "Our system does not exhibit unacceptable bias in hiring contexts." "The model refuses to generate child sexual abuse material." Each of these claims is a measurement claim. Each requires that someone - the developer, an independent lab, a government body - define what the dangerous behavior looks like, design a probe that can elicit it if it is present, run that probe under conditions representative of real use, and report the result. The NIST AI Risk Management Framework treats this measurement function as one of four continuous functions - Govern, Map, Measure, and Manage (National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2023). The framework does not tell organizations what to measure; it tells them that measurement is a precondition for trustworthy AI rather than a downstream activity. The 2024 Generative AI Profile sharpened this for foundation-model systems, calling out evaluation, documentation, and disclosure controls that have to be in place before generative systems are deployed at scale (National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2024). The framework's posture, read carefully, is that without measurement infrastructure there is no risk management - only assertion. The case for treating measurement as infrastructure, not as ornament, has three parts. First, the systems themselves are now too capable and too widely deployed for narrative assurance to substitute for evidence. External evaluators including METR and its ARC Evals predecessor program have published public materials on frontier capability evaluation and dangerous-capability framing (METR, 2023; METR, 2025); the existence of those public evaluation efforts, whatever one thinks of their methodology, implies that the relevant questions cannot be answered by inspection alone. Second, governments have started to build state evaluation capacity - most visibly the UK AI Security Institute, which has positioned itself as a public-facing evaluation body for advanced AI safety and security (UK AI Security Institute, 2025). Third, the academic and open-source community has produced standing benchmark infrastructure, with Stanford's Holistic Evaluation of Language Models (HELM) project running multi-dimensional evaluations across many models and a broad range of scenarios on a continuing basis (Stanford Center for Research on Foundation Models, 2025). Each of these efforts is partial. Each is contested. Together they constitute the first generation of what it would mean to have actual measurement infrastructure for AI - and they make visible how far that infrastructure still has to go. A safety claim about an AI system is only as credible as the measurement that backs it. Everything else in this book follows from that sentence. If a developer says a model is "safe enough to deploy," a regulator says it is "low-risk," or a buyer says it is "fit for purpose," each of those s Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Meridian CNA Exam Prep is an independent, source-grounded study guide for candidates preparing for the certified nursing assistant knowledge and skills exam. It explains the CNA role, resident rights, safety, infection control, basic nursing skills, activities of daily living, communication, and skills-test reasoning in plain exam-focused language. The guide is built around federal nurse-aide training requirements, current CDC and OSHA safety guidance, and public candidate-handbook patterns from major testing providers, while repeatedly directing readers to verify the current rules for their own state and vendor. Practice questions, answer explanations, checklists, quick-reference tables, a glossary, and a study schedule help candidates rehearse decisions without claiming to replace state-approved training, supervised clinical practice, or official testing materials. The book is organized for realistic exam preparation: first, it clarifies what the aide may and may not do; next, it rehearses resident-centered safety and infection-control choices; then it moves through daily-care tasks, observation and reporting, privacy, dignity, mobility, nutrition, elimination, communication, and end-of-shift judgment. Skills-test sections emphasize sequence, hand hygiene, privacy, verbalization, measurement accuracy, and the habit of correcting small mistakes before they become unsafe performance errors. The practice material is written to develop reasoning rather than rote guessing: each answer explanation asks what risk is present, who must be told, what falls inside the aide role, and what the official handbook or instructor controls. Because CNA testing is administered state by state, the guide avoids state-specific promises about item counts, skills lists, passing scores, allowed attempts, identification rules, or retest timing. It tells readers to download the current candidate handbook for their state and contracted testing provider and to treat that handbook as controlling if any procedural detail differs. Clinical passages are likewise framed as study support for approved training, not as independent authorization to perform care. Readers get a compact but commercially complete preparation package: domain chapters, review questions, two practice-exam blocks, answer keys, practical checklists, a glossary, and a study schedule that keeps official training and supervised clinical practice at the center. The tone is firm but conservative: it teaches candidates to slow down, protect the resident first, keep privacy visible, report changes promptly, use standard precautions, and avoid doing work that belongs to licensed nurses. The reference apparatus supports library, bookstore, and instructor review by making the source boundary clear: federal rules, testing-provider handbooks, infection-control guidance, workplace-safety guidance, and cautious exam-prep synthesis are kept separate. That makes the book suitable for adult learners, career-switching students, aides returning to the field, and training programs that want a supplemental review text with transparent disclaimers rather than an overconfident shortcut. This is a preparation companion for understanding and rehearsal, not a credential, not legal advice, not medical advice, and not a substitute for the reader's official program. This book is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, licensed by, or connected to Credentia, Prometric, NCSBN, CMS, CDC, OSHA, any state board of nursing, or any state department of health or testing provider. Meridian CNA Exam Prep is an independent, source-grounded study guide for candidates preparing for the certified nursing assistant knowledge and skills exam. It explains the CNA role, resident rights, safety, infection control, basic nursing skills, activities of daily living, communication, and skills-test reasoning in plain exam-foc Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. This book is what happens when you take a serious diplomatic event and notice that it was also a months-long house party with consequences. The Congress of Vienna, convened in late 1814 and concluded with its Final Act on 9 June 1815, redrew the map of Europe after twenty-three years of revolutionary and Napoleonic warfare (The Avalon Project at Yale Law School 1815; Encyclopaedia Britannica 2025). It is one of the most consequential gatherings in modern history. It is also a gathering at which monarchs, foreign ministers, and their entourages spent more hours at dinners, balls, hunts, and salons than in any formal plenary session, in part because the Congress as such almost never met in plenary session at all (Zamoyski 2007). That double character - formal treaty process on one face, hospitality machine on the other - is the subject of this book. The argument is not that the diplomacy was unserious. It is that the seriousness was distributed across two surfaces that we usually study apart: the engrossed parchment of treaty articles, and the seating chart of a state dinner. To understand Vienna, you have to keep both surfaces in view at once. This book was produced by a human-directed publishing pipeline that uses large language models for drafting, structuring, and editorial assistance, under the explicit standards Nimble Books applies to all of its AI-assisted titles. Every substantive factual claim in the running text is tied to a source listed in the bibliography. Source selection, citation plan, and adjudication of contested points were performed against a curated research packet consisting of primary treaty text (The Avalon Project at Yale Law School 1815), an authoritative reference baseline (Encyclopaedia Britannica 2025), and three serious modern works of diplomatic history covering, respectively, the post-1815 international system (Schroeder 1994), the diplomatic legacy of the Congress (Jarrett 2013), and the social and ceremonial texture of the meeting itself (Zamoyski 2007). Where the book extends beyond what those sources directly attest - for example, when it draws an analogy between a state dinner and a modern multilateral negotiation, or when it treats the placement of guests at a Habsburg banquet as a piece of political signaling - those passages are flagged in the text as editorial inference grounded in named evidence, not as documented historical fact. The book does not invent quotations, dates, treaty articles, or attributed acts by any named historical figure. Where the historical record is contested or thin, the text says so. This disclosure is mandated under the EU AI Act, Article 50, and is offered here regardless of jurisdiction as a matter of publisher policy. The Congress of Vienna is usually taught as a map exercise. Napoleon falls, the great powers meet, the borders of Europe are redrawn, and a balance of power lasts, more or less, until the Crimean War or until 1914, depending on which textbook you are reading (Schroeder 1994; Jarrett 2013). All of that is true and important. It also misses, almost entirely, how the work was done. The Congress was an extended residence in Vienna by an unusually large fraction of Europe's reigning monarchs and their senior foreign-policy staffs, hosted by the Emperor Francis I of Austria and managed politically by his foreign minister, Klemens von Metternich (Encyclopaedia Britannica 2025; Zamoyski 2007). For roughly nine months, the city was a working capital of a Europe that did not yet exist as a formal organization. Decisions were taken in committee rooms, but they were prepared, contested, and ratified in salons, opera boxes, hunting parties, and at the dinner table This book is what happens when you take a serious diplomatic event and notice that it was also a months-long house party with consequences. The Congress of Vienna, convened in late 1814 and Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Meridian CSM Exam Prep is a Meridian Certification Press study guide built for candidates who need a structured, print-friendly path from orientation to final review. The book emphasizes exam-domain coverage, practical vocabulary, scenario recognition, and disciplined self-assessment rather than unsupported promises of certification success. Readers get a coherent sequence of review chapters, exam-style explanations, checklists, recall cues, and practice-oriented summaries designed to make weak areas visible before test day. The guide is intended for independent learners, workplace training cohorts, instructors assembling a review sequence, and professionals returning to a subject after time away. It explains concepts in plain language, then asks the reader to connect those concepts to operational choices, compliance expectations, workflow constraints, and common distractors. Where the certification domain depends on official vendor or sponsor guidance, the text tells readers to treat the current official exam outline and candidate handbook as controlling. This edition is designed as a durable paperback or hardback reference: enough white space for notes, a review cadence that supports repeated passes, and end-of-section material that can be used for quick refresh sessions. The editorial goal is not to imitate a proprietary exam bank, but to help the candidate understand the body of knowledge, notice recurring patterns, and build a defensible plan for study. Use it first as a map, then as a workbook, then as a final checklist. The strongest readers will mark uncertain terms, revisit the domain summaries, and compare their answers against the explanations instead of memorizing isolated fragments. The guide is especially useful when a candidate has practical experience but needs to translate that experience into exam language, or when a classroom learner needs a compact bridge from theory to applied scenarios. No book can guarantee a passing score, and certification programs can revise objectives, eligibility rules, fees, and testing procedures. For that reason, this book keeps its claims modest: it supports preparation, review, and confidence-building while directing readers back to the official source for final procedural details. Its value is in organization, repetition, and clarity: a candidate can see what to study, why it matters, how it is likely to be framed, and which topics deserve another pass before scheduling the exam. The result is a practical review companion for serious candidates who want a calm, methodical preparation route and a single volume they can keep beside their notes throughout the study cycle. The review sequence also supports a practical rhythm: survey the domain, mark unfamiliar terms, study worked explanations, then return to the checklist before attempting a practice pass. Candidates can use the book to build a study calendar, compare strengths and weaknesses, and decide which official references deserve closer attention. The examples are written to reinforce judgment, not rote guessing: a reader is asked to notice context, eliminate attractive wrong answers, and explain why the remaining answer fits the governing concept. For teams and instructors, the volume can serve as a common spine for discussion, homework, office-hour review, or a final boot-camp session. The tone is deliberately steady and practical, because high-stakes exam preparation works best when the learner can see progress without being rushed into false confidence. Meridian CSM Exam Prep is an independent study guide for candidates preparing for Certified ScrumMaster-style reasoning questions. It focuses on Scrum theory, empiricism, accountabilities, events, artifacts, commitments, Scrum values, and scenario traps, with practice questions and answer explanations designed to make candidates explain why an o. This item is p Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. Mastering Space War: The Advanced Strategies, Technologies, and Tactics. Book.

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