Senses In The Natural World by Janet Walmsley Price verified 5 hours ago

In Senses In The Natural World, discover a world where animals perceive their environment through senses that defy human understanding. This compelling book unveils the remarkable sensory adaptations of creatures that detect electric fields, sense magnetic directions, and communicate through infrasound and ultrasound. Marvel at the echolocation prowess of bats and dolphins, the thermal imaging of snakes, and the tactile sophistication of rodents and elephants. Each chapter delves into the evolutionary marvels that allow these animals to thrive in their unique habitats. Senses In The Natural World invites readers to expand their perception and appreciate the vast diversity of life's sensory experiences.

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Beekeeping for Beginners: Your Essential Guide to Getting Started, Nurturing Hives, and Harvesting Honey as a Beginner by Andrew John (4 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Begin Your Beekeeping Adventure with Beekeeping for Beginners Are you fascinated by the idea of beekeeping but unsure where to start? "Beekeeping for Beginners: Your Essential Guide to Getting Started, Nurturing Hives, and Harvesting Honey as a Beginner" is the perfect book to ignite your passion and set you on the path to becoming a successful beekeeper.Imagine the Possibilities Imagine stepping into your backyard, greeted by the gentle hum of bees, and knowing you're playing a crucial role in nurturing nature. This beekeeping book for beginners offers a comprehensive guide that makes beginning beekeeping accessible and enjoyable for anyone, regardless of experience.Unearth the Secrets of the Beehive Step-by-Step Instructions Unearth the secrets of the beehive with detailed, step-by-step instructions designed to help you create a thriving hive.Essential Equipment Guide From selecting the right equipment to understanding bee behavior and hive management, you'll gain all the knowledge to start and maintain a healthy colony. • Step-by-step instructions for setting up your first hive • Essential equipment guide for beginning beekeepers • Comprehensive insights into bee behavior and hive management Start Your Journey Today Take the first step towards your beekeeping journey. This book is more than just a guide; it's a practical tool that will be by your side as you venture into backyard beekeeping. Embrace this fulfilling hobby and start reaping the sweet rewards of your labor.The Beekeeper's Bible Often referred to as the beekeeper's bible, this essential guide is packed with expert tips and advice. Whether you're just curious or ready to dive in, it provides a solid foundation for all your beekeeping endeavors. • Expert tips from seasoned beekeepers • Troubleshooting advice for common beekeeping challenges • Practical tips for hive maintenance and honey harvesting A Trusted Companion You'll find yourself reaching for this honey and hive book time ...

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Space Facts: To Make your Surprise by Neeraj Kumar (3 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

Space is amazing. The sheer vastness of it, along with the trillions upon trillions of objects in the many billion galaxies of the universe is almost incomprehensible to the human brain. This Book is a continuously updated list of the most incredible, awe-inspiring and unbelievable facts about space. Whether it's for kids looking to learn more about space, or you're looking for incredible facts for an article, or even if you just love space facts for no real reason, this is for you.

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Trail Dogs and Firefighters: A Memoir from the Burning West by Robert Roller (13 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Trail Dogs and Firefighters: A Memoir from the Burning West is an engaging story about Robert J. (Bob) Roller's unexpected plunge into the intense world of trail "dogging" and wildland firefighting. The story brings to life the beauty of the American West, the community of interesting people who seek the danger of this lifestyle, and the bonds forged in this environment that only someone who lived these experiences can describe. Trail Dogs and Firefighters captures the dangerous early season efforts to clear isolated routes high in the Wyoming mountains, and it climaxes with a series of intense wildfires fought across the intermountain west. This is the perfect book for anyone interested in the real lives of wildland firefighters or anyone who simply enjoys reading about people who rise to meet impossibly challenging situations by relying on their training, luck, and faith in each other.

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Foraging: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO WILD FOOD by Tabitha Jessica (1 Review)    Price verified 10 hours ago

Learn how to find, identify, gather, cook, and store wild plants that you can eat without leaving your home country. First of all, you should know that Medical Herbalism has been used for a very long time, just like modern medicine. Many studies have shown that it works and is very good at getting rid of common illnesses, just like modern medicine, but in a 100% natural and healthier way. FORAGING: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO WILD FOOD is a book for people who live in natural settings and want to use what Mother Nature gives them in a responsible way. It is also for people who want to live a healthy and sustainable life without using toxic industrial products. This book serves as a guide to 100 "weeds" and mushrooms that are safe to consume. Additionally, and perhaps more crucially, you never know what you'll find in nature. In Britain, there are over 400 edible wild plants and mushrooms, but many of them taste awful, and it's unlikely that you'll run into a Silky Volvaria while out for a walk. Furthermore, some plants, like the cowslip, are now too scarce to be harvested. This book is primarily about what to do with your foragings, which parts of the plant to use, how to cook meals and drinks from them, and how to preserve them. There is guidance on recognition in the following chapters because you really don't want to impersonate Lucrezia Borgia and poison everyone. This very useful book and the information in it will teach you about the art of foraging. It will show you how to improve your life and health by using only natural, easy-to-find ingredients, so... Yes it's FORAGING FOR BEGINNERS What's holding you back? Scroll to the top of the page and click the "BUY NOW" button to learn everything about the wonderful art of Foraging!

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Human-Nature Interactions: Exploring Nature’s Values Across Landscapes by Ieva Misiune (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This edited volume aims to widen the discussion about the diversity of human-nature relationships and valuation methods and to stimulate new perspective that are needed to build a more sustainable future, especially in face of ongoing socio-environmental changes. Conceptual and empirical approaches, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methodologies have been used to highlight the importance of an integrative understanding of socio-ecological systems, where healthy ecosystems underpin the quality of life and societal activities largely drive environmental changes. Readers will obtain a comprehensive overview of the many and diverse ways the relationships between people and nature can be characterized. This includes understanding how people assign values to nature, discuss how human-nature interactions are shaped and provide examples of how these values and interactions can be systematically assessed across different land systems in Europe and beyond. This open access book is produced by internationally recognized scientists in the field but written in an accessible format to be of interest to a large audience, including prospective students, lecturers, young professionals and scientists embarking to the interdisciplinary field of socio-ecological research and environmental valuation.

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The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort (213 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This fascinating chronicle of unexplained phenomena is a foundational work of paranormal science In the early passages of The Book of the Damned, Charles Fort explains: "by the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded." Drawing upon countless articles, newspaper clippings, and arcane books, Fort assembles hundreds of real-life tales of the bizarre -- from unidentified flying objects falling from the sky to the disappearance of several hundred people during the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 to rumors of poltergeists. Rendered in the unique style that established Fort as a legend in the world of the paranormal, The Book of the Damned is an underground classic. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

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Ecological Civilization by Jon Sawyer (3 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

On June 16, 2015, academics, journalists, scientists, government, religious and business leaders from China, the U.S., and other countries came together for the first time to discuss the environmental challenges facing China and the world -- and the increasingly important role of religion and traditional cultures in finding sustainable solutions to the challenges we face. Ecological Civilization is a compendium of the talks and proceedings of the International Conference on Ecological Environment. It took place at the Yale Center Beijing and was o-sponsored by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, Communication University of China, and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. This e-book begins with an introductory essay by Jon Sawyer, founding director of the Pulitzer Center, and features presentations by Dean Liu Chang, director of the School of Journalism at Communication University of China, and by Mary Evelyn Tucker, co-director of the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology. Ecological Civilization includes photos and videos by Pulitzer Center grantees Sean Gallagher, Sim Chi Yin, Shi Lihong, and Gary Marcuse.

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The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw (6 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

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Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Electrical Engineering Systems (AITEES 2022) (Atlantis ... by Valentina E. Balas (Atlantis Press) Price verified 10 hours ago

This is an open access book. The focus of the conference is to provide a unique platform for exchange of ideas and synergy among researchers, academicians and industrial experts across the globe belonging to emerging electrical engineering domains. It also provides a premier platform for the people to present and discuss the most recent innovations and solutions in solving complex and challenging problems related to intelligent electrical engineering systems. Such a blend of various research-oriented minds will lead to productive results and further advancements in electrical engineering research. The book invites submission of novel, recent area of innovation and previously unpublished research work/idea in the field of modern applications of artificial intelligence techniques to electrical engineering systems. The applications of artificial intelligence related to various fields of electrical engineering are mentioned in the conference tracks. The conference is meant to discuss the challenges and applications of latest evolutionary computing techniques, neural networks, fuzzy logic, machine learning and data analytics in the fields of power systems, power electronics, robotics, automation, instrumentation, control systems, mechatronics and photonics. It provides a platform to the students, researchers, scientists, faculty members, professionals and practitioners to interact, present and get innovative ideas in the field of electrical engineering. As a part of AITEES-2022, many keynote sessions are planned to enhance the research and innovation skills of participants. Eminent professors from academic institutions and world renowned industrial experts from India and abroad will deliver keynote sessions.

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The Future of Being Human and Other Essays by Sylvia Engdahl (3 Reviews)    Price verified 10 hours ago

What will humans be like in the future? According to science fiction author Sylvia Engdahl, they will be no different from what they're like now. There will be many innovations in technology and ways of daily life, but people are people, wherever and whenever they happen to live, and that's not going to change. In this book Engdahl departs from the theme of space colonization on which her past essays (available in her book From This Green Earth) have focused, and discusses such topics as artificial intelligence, "paranormal" psi powers, healthcare policy, and the coming loss of personal privacy. Her controversial views on these subjects will inspire thought about what the future is likely to bring.

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Cow Dung - A Down-To-Earth Solution To Global Warming And Climate Change by Dr. Sahadeva dasa (Soul Science University Press) (42 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Environmental crisis is for real and it's coming around faster than you think. It's not a brainchild of some conspiracy theorist but a tangible, perceivable fact, proven by the catastrophic events all over the world. But for most of us, caught up in the daily grind, it's hardly a subject worth pondering over. Common man in the streets of London, New York or Delhi has very little time to worry about some ozone layer up there or some damn iceberg in the North Pole. At best, it is a snow bear's problem. But the scientific fraternity and many political leaders don't think so. They are waking up to the horrors of global warming and climatic change. Hectic efforts are on to contain the damage but with very little success. This book provides a simple solution to this grave crisis which has the potential to wipe out life altogether. This is a calamity of unprecedented proportions coming our way and a point of no return for the industrial civilization. One of the arguments sceptics throw back at you is that the climate has always changed, and that is absolutely right. It's the rate of change that is the problem right now. It's changing so quickly that it exceeds our adaptive capacity. We are in a hole and it's time to stop digging.

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Proceedings of the International Conference of Fluid Power and Mechatronic Control Engineering (ICFPMCE 2022) (Atlantis Highlights in Engineering ... by Liang Yan (Atlantis Press) Price verified 10 hours ago

This is an open access book. Since 1985, held 22 times in different cities all over China, ICFPMCE has now been listed in annual academic activities (non-profit) of the Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (CSTAM), which has become one of the significant conferences in the field of fluid power and mechatronic control engineering. Under the theme of 'Green Intelligence, Innovative Development', ICFPMCE 2022 aims to provide a platform for the participants who have been working in the fields of Fluid mechanics, hydraulic and electrical engineering. In addition to keynote speeches and technical sessions to be hosted by famous experts over the world, the conference will organize a number of mini-symposia with themes of sharing the experiences of applying for the National Natural Science Foundation of China, dialogues between editors-in-chief of the journals and young scholars, experts and entrepreneurs, as well as innovative technology exhibition etc., in order to highlight the significant subjects and trends in the field.

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Library of Congress Workshop on Etexts by Library of Congress Price verified 8 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

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On The Human Species: A Philosophy on Reason and the Emergence of Civilized Humanity by Anthony Pellegrino (14 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

On the Human Species is a philosophical and psychological discourse that charts the origin and evolution of our species. The book is an inspired combination of science and philosophy, a brilliant canvas of intellectual thought and discerning anthropology. In this work, Mr. Pellegrino delves within the origin of our species from the conception of reason to the creation of religion. The book also explains human emotions, the origin of vice, and an illusory morality that manifests itself as accountability, but also differentiates our species from the remainder of the animal kingdom.

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The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 — Volume 1 by Roald Amundsen (8 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

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The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 — Volume 2 by Roald Amundsen (4 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

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The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-12 — Volume 1 and Volume 2 by Roald Amundsen (64 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

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The Story of Eclipses by George F. (George Frederick) Chambers (12 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

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Control: A History of Behavioral Psychology (Qualitative Studies in Psychology Book 14) by John A. Mills (NYU Press) (4 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

Behaviorism has been the dominant force in the creation of modern American psychology. However, the unquestioned and unquestioning nature of this dominance has obfuscated the complexity of behaviorism. Control serves as an antidote to this historical myopia, providing the most comprehensive history of behaviorism yet written. Mills successfully balances the investigation of individual theorists and their contributions with analysis of the structures of assumption which underlie all behaviorist psychology, and with behaviorism's role as both creator and creature of larger American intellectual patterns, practices, and values. Furthermore, Mills provides a cogent critique of behaviorists' narrow attitudes toward human motivation, exploring how their positivism cripples their ability to account for the unobservable, inner factors that control behavior. Control's blend of history and criticism advances our understanding not only of behaviorism, but also the development of social science and positivism in twentieth-century America.

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Clarity, Cut, and Culture: The Many Meanings of Diamonds by Susan Falls (NYU Press) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

What our obsession with diamonds reveals about our material culture Images of diamonds appear everywhere in American culture. And everyone who has a diamond has a story to tell about it. Our stories about diamonds not only reveal what we do with these tiny stones, but also suggest how we create value, meaning, and identity through our interactions with material culture in general. Things become meaningful through our interactions with them, but how do people go about making meaning? What can we learn from an ethnography about the production of identity, creation of kinship, and use of diamonds in understanding selves and social relationships? By what means do people positioned within a globalized political-economy and a compelling universe of advertising interact locally with these tiny polished rocks? This book draws on 12 months of fieldwork with diamond consumers in New York City as well as an analysis of the iconic De Beers campaign that promised romance, status, and glamour to anyone who bought a diamond to show that this thematic pool is just one resource among many that diamond owners draw upon to engage with their own stones. The volume highlights the important roles that memory, context, and circumstance also play in shaping how people interpret and then use objects in making personal worlds. It shows that besides operating as subjects in an ad-burdened universe, consumers are highly creative, idiosyncratic, and theatrical agents.

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Lessons from Systems Thinkers: Problem-Solving and Analytical Thinking Methods from the Greatest Innovative Minds (The Systems Thinker Series Book 7) by Albert Rutherford (29 Reviews)    Price verified 19 minutes ago

How did the world's greatest systems thinkers handled crises, invented revolutionary ideas, and solved complex problems? How did the field of systems thinking develop? Who were the pioneers in the field? Learn about the answers in Lessons from Systems Thinkers. • Norbert Wiener's pioneering contribution on positive and negative feedback. • Warren McCulloch's research on feedback mechanisms in neurology. • The 14 points of quality management by Edward Deming. • Gregory Bateson's double bind and how it affects family relationships. • Margaret Mead's systems approach to cultural anthropology. Find optimal solutions to your problems. Information is the most precious asset these days. Evaluating information correctly is almost priceless. Systems thinkers are some of the bests in collecting and assessing data, as well as creating impactful solutions in any context. Systems thinking helps you to find not only differences but also similarities in seemingly unrelated factors. This bi-directional analyzing ability will give you a more complex worldview, a more profound understanding of problems, and leads you to better solutions. Change your thinking, change your results. Albert Rutherford is an internationally bestselling author and a retired corporate executive. His books draw on various sources, from corporate system building, organizational behavior analysis, scientific research, and his life experience. He has been building and improving systems his whole adult life and brings his proven strategies to you.

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Urban Living Lab for Local Regeneration: Beyond Participation in Large-scale Social Housing Estates (The Urban Book Series) by Nele Aernouts (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This open access book provides an integrated overview of the challenges and resources of large-scale social housing estates in Europe and outlines possible interdisciplinary approaches and tools to promote their regeneration. It especially focuses on the tool of urban living labs, as promising in promoting new and more effective local governance and in including the different actors into the planning process. The book combines theory and practice, since it is the result of action-research conducted in different social housing estates all over Europe. Building on the results of the SoHoLab project (2017-2020), the book benefits from a multidisciplinary perspective, since the researchers involved belong to the fields of anthropology, urban planning, architecture, urban sociology. The project combined theoretical reflections with the installation and/or the consolidation of Urban Living Labs, run by universities, in large social housing estates in three European cities: Brussels, Milan and Paris.

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Beyond Cutting Edge with Bob Lazar: From Frozen Candle to Disintegrated Circuits by Alexandre Kassiantchouk (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

If you have read a previous edition, then start reading with chapter 78.

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The Legibility of Serif and Sans Serif Typefaces: Reading from Paper and Reading from Screens (SpringerBriefs in Education) by John T. E. Richardson (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 7 hours ago

This open access book provides a detailed and up-to-date account of the relevant literature on the legibility of different kinds of typefaces, which goes back over 140 years in the case of reading from paper and more than 50 years in the case of reading from screens. It describes the origins of serif and sans serif styles in ancient inscriptions, their adoption in modern printing techniques, and their legibility in different situations and in different populations of readers. It also examines recent research on the legibility of serif and sans serif typefaces when used with internet browsers, smartphones and other hand-held devices. The book investigates the difference in the legibility of serif typefaces and sans serif typefaces when they are used to produce printed material or when they are used to present material on computer monitors or other screens and it explores the differences in readers' preferences among typefaces. The book's main focus is on the psychology of reading, but there are clear implications for education and publishing. Indeed, the book can be read with benefit by anyone concerned with communicating with others through written text, whether it is printed on paper or displayed on computer screens.

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Handbook of Computational Social Science for Policy by Eleonora Bertoni (Springer) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 10 hours ago

This open access handbook describes foundational issues, methodological approaches and examples on how to analyse and model data using Computational Social Science (CSS) for policy support. Up to now, CSS studies have mostly developed on a small, proof-of concept, scale that prevented from unleashing its potential to provide systematic impact to the policy cycle, as well as from improving the understanding of societal problems to the definition, assessment, evaluation, and monitoring of policies. The aim of this handbook is to fill this gap by exploring ways to analyse and model data for policy support, and to advocate the adoption of CSS solutions for policy by raising awareness of existing implementations of CSS in policy-relevant fields. To this end, the book explores applications of computational methods and approaches like big data, machine learning, statistical learning, sentiment analysis, text mining, systems modelling, and network analysis to different problems in the social sciences. The book is structured into three Parts: the first chapters on foundational issues open with an exposition and description of key policymaking areas where CSS can provide insights and information. In detail, the chapters cover public policy, governance, data justice and other ethical issues. Part two consists of chapters on methodological aspects dealing with issues such as the modelling of complexity, natural language processing, validity and lack of data, and innovation in official statistics. Finally, Part three describes the application of computational methods, challenges and opportunities in various social science areas, including economics, sociology, demography, migration, climate change, epidemiology, geography, and disaster management. The target audience of the book spans from the scientific community engaged in CSS research to policymakers interested in evidence-informed policy interventions, but also includes private companies holdingdata that can be used to ...

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A Naturalist Guide to the Galápagos Islands - 2nd Edition by Steve Rosenberg (121 Reviews)    Price verified 49 minutes ago

"A Naturalist's Guide to the Galápagos Islands, the 2nd Edition" is an informative book by Steve Rosenberg with detailed descriptions of all of the most popular visitation sites in Galápagos as well as lots of practical advice for planning a trip to the Galápagos. This is a must have for anyone who is planning to travel to the Galápagos and for those who already have. The First Edition was published in June 2014. This Second Edition is AVAILABLE September 6, 2014.

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Age of Union: Igniting the Changemaker by Dax Dasilva (Anteism Books) (292 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

Age of Union is a compelling guide for igniting today's changemaker -- those ready to take action for our planet and its inhabitants. We have seen growing divisions between people on either side of gender, religious, political and cultural borders for too long. Meanwhile, global health crises, environmental degradation, and human-accelerated climate change pose immense challenges to our future that we must now face quickly and cooperatively. Separation has to be confronted head-on. We can do this each and every day with meaningful, impactful acts of union. There is a greater need for unity than ever before. Dax Dasilva presents a guide to take simple measures to promote our collective well-being and union. Grounded in four pillars -- leadership, culture, spirituality, and nature -- the book advocates that the time for change is now and that our choices are the catalyst. We are all in this together, so let us move toward an Age of Union. May it strengthen your resolve to start building a kinder, greener and more livable world where everyone and everything can thrive. You are the changemaker. - - - About the Author Dax Dasilva, a leading tech CEO, arts entrepreneur and LGBTQ ambassador, shares his experience and present observations to ignite a movement of union across all people, cultures, and living things. Helping entrepreneurs become leaders in their communities through Lightspeed's technology and elevating artists through his work at Never Apart are fundamental to Dasilva's philosophy. He fosters cultures of innovation, promotes diverse leadership, and values different viewpoints. For more information visit www.ageofunion.com - - - Quotes "A compassionate call for the cultural revolution needed to take care of each other and our planet." -- Marika Anthony-Shaw, Founder & CEO of Plus1.org "Humans are finally evolving and are becoming more aware of the fact that saving the world is a priority for everyone today.' -- Carmen Busquets, WWF Council ...

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SOCIETY AND THE MACHINE: NAVIGATING ETHICS IN THE AGE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE by Ashish K Saxena (2 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Artificial Intelligence is reshaping our world, from social media to healthcare, education to governance, transforming how we live, work, and think. As we step into an era where AI doesn't just support decision-making but makes the decisions, the urgent question arises: Are we shaping AI, or is AI shaping our morality? Society and the Machine: Navigating Ethics in the Age of Artificial Intelligence delves deep into the ethical debates surrounding AI's power, inviting you to join a critical conversation on the future of technology and ethics. This book explores AI's role in modernizing ethics and its influence on our news, politics, healthcare, and environment, tackling issues of bias, privacy, job displacement, and fundamental human rights with real-world examples. It aims to illuminate the basic premises and functions of AI, providing a theoretical foundation needed to harness this technology responsibly while avoiding its potential ethical pitfalls. Why You Need to Read This Book: We're at a pivotal moment in history where the decisions we make about AI will echo through generations. This book is not just a guide to understanding these decisions; it's an invitation to reflect on your views and participate in shaping a responsible and sustainable AI-integrated future, backed with knowledge, information, and a deeper understanding of this hot-button topic. With the goal of empowering readers to control how this emerging technology evolves, it addresses AI's societal and ethical significance and its potential to forever change governance, criminal justice, business, and media for the better. So get your copy now and be part of shaping the future with a vision of opportunity.

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Dinosaurs With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections by William Diller Matthew (47 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

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Time Matters: 7th edition by Alexandre Kassiantchouk (1 Review)    Price verified 7 hours ago

8th edition available at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CW2WLHRW Two years ago, I started this book by explaining why the ancient Universe is red (or infrared), and how spiral galaxies counter centrifugal force from breaking them. Now I finish it with an explanation of how galaxies appeared from nothing but space and time, and where antimatter is. In the preface below you will find a list of long-standing problems solved in this book. Physicists, please read chapter 61 first: there I explain physics of observations for electrons, atoms, and "Black Holes". Astronomers, please read chapter 62 first, where 80-year-long problem of vanishing stars solved. I hope you enjoy reading my book, as I enjoyed writing it.

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Mom’s Favorite Reads eMagazine March 2021 by Goylake Publishing (Goylake Publishing) (25 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

The March 2021 issue of Mom's Favorite Reads. In this issue... A seasonal blend of articles including Mad as a March Hare, Dr Seuss, Reiki, World Wildlife Day, International Day of Forests, plus short stories, recipes, puzzles, humour, photographs and so much more!

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Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Social Knowledge Sciences and Education (ICSKSE 2022) (Advances in Social Science, Education and ... by Sumarmi Sumarmi Price verified 9 hours ago

This is an open access book. Each country in Southeast Asia has experienced numerous adversities, from pandemic and disasters, to inequalities and threats to democracy. Adding to these challenges, are our common experience of colonialism where its legacies still resonate in the present. Despite these challenges, Southeast Asia continue to participate in global commitments geared towards realizing sustainable development, democracy, and countervailing the imbalance global power relation. Furthermore, Southeast Asia has been the center of studies that critically examined the global power of knowledge production. Categories of 'developing, undeveloped, or third world' have been largely questioned, as these categories created more segregation and reflected Orientalist notion rather than acknowledging countries of Southeast Asia and others as a distinct entity. Under this backdrop, the conference will explore these important questions: what makes Southeast Asia resilient? Why? What brought Southeast Asia together as 'Southeast Asia'? What are the challenges for Southeast Asia today? How do we overcome them? How does Southeast Asia contest and cooperate with global powers within the international network? This conference will bring together academics, educators, activists, or even policy makers who work on Southeast Asia to discuss those questions. Experts within and outside the countries of Southeast Asia are welcome to share their research and knowledge on various issues about the region.

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Gardening Indoors and Under Glass A Practical Guide to the Planting, Care and Propagation of House Plants, and to the Construction and Management of ... by F. F. (Frederick Frye) Rockwell (88 Reviews)    Price verified 10 hours ago

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Diseases of Tropical Tree Crops by Dominique Mariau (2 Reviews)    Price verified 10 hours ago

This work gives details of some fifty diseases of tropical tree crops which cause very significant yield losses hence compromising or even preventing cultivation. Breeding resistant planting material is currently the most widely used control method. Research is also under way on the rational use of chemical pesticides, the adoption of appropriate crop techniques and on reducing populations of insect vectors of viral and fungal diseases, phytoplasms and Phytomonas.

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Creating Resilient Futures: Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction, Sustainable Development Goals and Climate Change Adaptation Agendas by Stephen Flood (Palgrave Macmillan) Price verified 3 hours ago

This open access edited volume critically examines a coherence building opportunity between Climate Change Adaptation, the Sustainable Development Goals and Disaster Risk Reduction agendas through presenting best practice approaches, and supporting Irish and international case studies. The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted existing global inequalities and demonstrated the scope and scale of cascading socio-ecological impacts. The impacts of climate change on our global communities will likely dwarf the disruption brought on by the pandemic, and moreover, these impacts will be more diffuse and pervasive over a longer timeframe. This edited volume considers opportunities to address global challenges in the context of developing resilience as an integrated development continuum instead of through independent and siloed agendas.

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Master's/Ph.D. Thesis: A Step-by-Step Writing Guide (Scientific Writing for Beginners) by Mitchell P. Jones (1 Review)    Price verified 6 hours ago

Definitive advice and recommendations on thesis writing can be hard to come by and even harder to understand. Look no further for step-by-step support to guide you through the thesis writing process with concrete instructions and examples. Mitchell P. Jones' Master's/Ph.D. Thesis: A Step-by-Step Writing Guide is a must-have for anyone about to culminate their master's or doctoral studies. In clear, concise and precise language, Jones lays out the essential steps for compiling a highly scoped and impactful master's or Ph.D. thesis. Comprehensive and firmly instructional, this guide features step-by-step directions, content and structure suggestions for all thesis chapters in both monograph and publication-based theses with useful examples, tips on how to set up and caption effective tables, graphs and schematics, and equation and unit formatting principles. Featuring an easy-to-navigate approach, shortcuts for efficient referencing, titling and editing are also provided in addition to insight on what students can expect during the thesis examination process. With no assumed knowledge required it caters to all levels of experience and is the type of investment every advanced science student should make to maximise their chances of success. This guide is specifically formatted for students writing a master's or Ph.D. thesis. Guides for bachelor's theses, journal articles, conference papers and book chapters are also available as part of the Scientific Writing for Beginners series.

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Breaking into the Lab: Engineering Progress for Women in Science by Sue V. Rosser (NYU Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 9 hours ago

Why are there so few women in science? In Breaking into the Lab, Sue Rosser uses the experiences of successful women scientists and engineers to answer the question of why elite institutions have so few women scientists and engineers tenured on their faculties. Women are highly qualified, motivated students, and yet they have drastically higher rates of attrition, and they are shying away from the fields with the greatest demand for workers and the biggest economic payoffs, such as engineering, computer sciences, and the physical sciences. Rosser shows that these continuing trends are not only disappointing, they are urgent: the U.S. can no longer afford to lose the talents of the women scientists and engineers, because it is quickly losing its lead in science and technology. Ultimately, these biases and barriers may lock women out of the new scientific frontiers of innovation and technology transfer, resulting in loss of useful inventions and products to society.

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Feeling Mediated: A History of Media Technology and Emotion in America (Critical Cultural Communication Book 31) by Brenton J. Malin (NYU Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 8 hours ago

New technologies, whether text message or telegraph, inevitably raise questions about emotion. New forms of communication bring with them both fear and hope, on one hand allowing us deeper emotional connections and the ability to forge global communities, while on the other prompting anxieties about isolation and over-stimulation. Feeling Mediated investigates the larger context of such concerns, considering both how media technologies intersect with our emotional lives and how our ideas about these intersections influence how we think about and experience emotion and technology themselves. Drawing on extensive archival research, Brenton J. Malin explores the historical roots of much of our recent understanding of mediated feelings, showing how earlier ideas about the telegraph, phonograph, radio, motion pictures, and other once-new technologies continue to inform our contemporary thinking. With insightful analysis, Feeling Mediated explores a series of fascinating arguments about technology and emotion that became especially heated during the early 20th century. These debates, which carried forward and transformed earlier discussions of technology and emotion, culminated in a set of ideas that became institutionalized in the structures of American media production, advertising, social research, and policy, leaving a lasting impact on our everyday lives.

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Agricultural robotics: part of the new deal? FIRA 2020 conclusions: With 27 agricultural robot information sheets by Roland Lenain (1 Review)    Price verified 4 minutes ago

The farming and agricultural robotics industries are inextricably linked. This connection is reinforced every year at the FIRA International Forum of Agricultural Robots, where, inevitably, there are new players and new problems, bigger goals and better solutions. This book is a journey into the state of the art of the industry in 2020, followed by 27 agricultural robot information sheets.

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Letters of a Traveller Or, Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America by William Cullen Bryant (3 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

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Architect of Amritpath by Viral Desai (8 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

True successors of Rishimuni's Our primary responsibility as humans is: to hand over the planet earth we have inherited to our next generation in a better way. We are all children of nature, nature always protects us, but we do not take care of it!Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose personal favourite subject is climate change and has himself written a book on it like Scientific Studies and the Confluence of Indian Heritage, is determined to set a new benchmark of green energy at the international level. Then, this interesting book is a tribute to one remarkable Gujarat written by another Gujarati Viral Desai, who is also very known for his accomplishments and can light the flame of awareness in the public mind.Viral Desai 'Veer' is fighting a different battle. For making the environment more pleasant and making the earth more green. For that, despite the fact that CSR is not applicable in his industry, he has accepted the moral responsibility of humanity, spending his money like water and has raised as many trees - urban forests that his efforts were recognised and he has received many top honours of the country and on global platforms. He continues to receive the ultimate happiness and satisfaction that his never-ending 'Green Yagna' gives him. Such a flourishing person, Viral Desai 'Veer' is the true successor of the sages who lived an auspicious life in the forest and devoted their lives to the service of humanity. With the thought-provoking journey through the pages that he has openned, one will get an opportunity to get closer to Almighty with the help of nature.- Jay Vasavada

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Green Voices: Defending Nature and the Environment in American Civic Discourse (SUNY Press Open Access) by Richard D. Besel (SUNY Press) Price verified 14 minutes ago

The written works of nature's leading advocates -- from Charles Sumner and John Muir to Rachel Carson and President Jimmy Carter, to name a few -- have been the subject of many texts, but their speeches remain relatively unknown or unexamined. Green Voices aims to redress this situation. After all, when it comes to the leaders, heroes, and activists of the environmental movement, their speeches formed part of the fertile earth from which uniquely American environmental expectations, assumptions, and norms germinated and grew. Despite having in common a definitively rhetorical focus, the contributions in this book reflect a variety of methods and approaches. Some concentrate on a single speaker and a single speech. Others look at several speeches. Some are historical in orientation, while others are more theoretical. In other words, this collection examines the broad sweep of US environmental history from the perspective of our most famous and influential environmental figures. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to Knowledge Unlatched -- an initiative that provides libraries and institutions with a centralized platform to support OA collections and from leading publishing houses and OA initiatives. Learn more at the Knowledge Unlatched website at: https://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/, and access the book online at the SUNY Open Access Repository at http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/7126.

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Evolving the Common Agricultural Policy for Tomorrow's Challenges by Cécile Détang-Dessendre (Quae) (1 Review)    Price verified 10 hours ago

As in other parts of the world, agriculture in Europe is not sustainable. The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) must foster its necessary evolution. This book draws the contours of an ambitious CAP that would facilitate the agro-ecological transition of agricultural systems in the European Union.

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Ecology of Angola: Terrestrial Biomes and Ecoregions by Brian John Huntley (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 49 minutes ago

This open access book richly illustrates the first, and comprehensive, account of the country's biomes and ecoregions, the driving forces that account for their diversity and vulnerability, and the ecological principles that provide an understanding of the patterns and processes that have shaped landscapes, ecoregions, and ecosystems. Angola encompasses the greatest diversity of terrestrial biomes and is the second richest in terms of ecoregions, of any African country. Yet its biodiversity and the structure and functioning of its ecosystems are largely undocumented. The author draws on personal field observations from over 50 years of involvement in ecological and conservation studies in Angola and across Southern Africa. The vast recent literature published by researchers in neighboring, better resourced countries provides depth to the accounts of ecological principles and processes relevant to Angola and thus contributing to the understanding and sustainable management of its natural resources.

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A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by C. Tadulinga Mudaliyar (1 Review)    Price verified 6 hours ago

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Knowing the Salween River: Resource Politics of a Contested Transboundary River (The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science Book 27) by Carl Middleton (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 7 hours ago

This open access book focuses on the Salween River, shared by China, Myanmar, and Thailand, that is increasingly at the heart of pressing regional development debates. The basin supports the livelihoods of over 10 million people, and within it there is great socio-economic, cultural and political diversity. The basin is witnessing intensifying dynamics of resource extraction, alongside large dam construction, conservation and development intervention, that is unfolding within a complex terrain of local, national and transnational governance. With a focus on the contested politics of water and associated resources in the Salween basin, this book offers a collection of empirical case studies that highlights local knowledge and perspectives. Given the paucity of grounded social science studies in this contested basin, this book provides conceptual insights at the intersection of resource governance, development, and politics of knowledge relevant to researchers, policy-makers and practitioners at a time when rapid change is underway. - Fills a significant knowledge gap on a major river in Southeast Asia, with empirical and conceptual contributions - Inter-disciplinary perspective and by a range of writers, including academics, policy-makers and civil society researchers, the majority from within Southeast Asia - New policy insights on a river at the cross-roads of a major political and development transition

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The Aeroplane Speaks Fifth Edition by H. (Horatio) Barber (1 Review)    Price verified 9 hours ago

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Reichenbach’s Paradise: Constructing the Realm of Probabilstic Common “Causes” by Leszek Wronski (De Gruyter Open Poland) (7 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Since its introduction by Hans Reichenbach, many philosophers have claimed to refute the idea - known as the common cause principle - that any surprising correlation between any two factors that do not directly influence one another is due to some common cause. For example, falsity of the principle is frequently inferred from falsifiability of Bell's inequalities. The author demonstrates, however, that the situation is not so straightforward. There is more than one version of the principle formulated with the use of different variants of Reichenbach-inspired notions; their falsity still remains an open question. The book traces different formulations of the principle and provides proofs of a few pertinent theorems, settling the relevant questions in various probability spaces. In exploring mathematical and philosophical issues surrounding the principle, the book offers both philosophical insight and mathematical rigor.

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Colorado Marijuana Real Estate: Work from Home by Jay Hidoshi (25 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

"Colorado Marijuana Real Estate" is a how to guide for the entrepreneur and the blue-collar guy. This book provides a blueprint for starting a medical marijuana business plan. Colorado real estate is a great investment. Anyone that lived through the .com/tech boom/real estate boom, should try to borrow some money to buy Colorado real estate. This book explains the evolution of legal marijuana in Colorado from 2001 to 2014. It's for all who are interested in how it became Colorado Law. This book gives insight on Colorado marijuana real estate, both commercial and residential. The author of this book was the owner of a medical marijuana dispensary in Denver, Colorado of seven years. It sold seven years later for almost 300% more than purchase price. This book will reveal things other marijuana books will not. The author is a 24 year resident of Colorado. This book provides current counties in Colorado that are most marijuana friendly based on experience. Equally important, this book provides inside growing secrets of the dispensary. Download the FREE chapters for this book on the website for this book.

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Lola or, The Thought and Speech of Animals by Henny Kindermann (1 Review)    Price verified 10 hours ago

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Biomineralization: From Molecular and Nano-structural Analyses to Environmental Science by Kazuyoshi Endo (Springer) (10 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

This open access book is the proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Biomineralization (BIOMIN XIV) held in 2017 at Tsukuba. Over the past 45 years, biomineralization research has unveiled details of the characteristics of the nano-structure of various biominerals; the formation mechanism of this nano-structure, including the initial stage of crystallization; and the function of organic matrices in biominerals, and this knowledge has been applied to dental, medical, pharmaceutical, materials, agricultural and environmental sciences and paleontology. As such, biomineralization is an important interdisciplinary research area, and further advances are expected in both fundamental and applied research.

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"Cap" Cornish, Indiana Pilot: Navigating the Century of Flight by Ruth Ann Ingraham (Purdue University Press) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Clarence "Cap" Cornish was an Indiana pilot whose life spanned all but five years of the Century of Flight. Born in Canada in 1898, Cornish grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He began flying at the age of nineteen, piloting a "Jenny" aircraft during World War I, and continued to fly for the next seventy-eight years. In 1995, at the age of ninety-seven, he was recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest actively flying pilot. The mid-1920s to the mid-1950s were Cornish's most active years in aviation. During that period, sod runways gave way to asphalt and concrete; navigation evolved from the iron rail compass to radar; runways that once had been outlined at night with cans of oil topped off with flaming gasoline now shimmered with multicolored electric lights; instead of being crammed next to mailbags in open-air cockpits, passengers sat comfortably in streamlined, pressurized cabins. In the early phase of that era, Cornish performed aerobatics and won air races. He went on to run a full-service flying business, served as chief pilot for the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel, managed the city's municipal airport, helped monitor and maintain safe skies above the continental United States during World War II, and directed Indiana's first Aeronautics Commission. Dedicating his life to flight and its many ramifications, Cornish helped guide the sensible development of aviation as it grew from infancy to maturity. Through his many personal experiences, the story of flight nationally is played out.

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Responsible Innovation: Business Opportunities and Strategies for Implementation (SpringerBriefs in Research and Innovation Governance) by Katharina Jarmai (Springer) (10 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

This Open Access book, Responsible innovation provides benefits for society, for instance more sustainable products, more engagement with consumers and less anxiety about emerging technologies. As a governance tool it is mostly driven by research funders, including the European Commission, under the term "responsible research and innovation" (RRI). To achieve uptake in private industry is a challenge. This book provides successful case studies for the implementation of responsible innovation in businesses. The importance of social innovations is emphasized as a link between benefits for society and profits for businesses, especially SMEs. For corporate industry it is shown how responsible innovation can offer a competitive advantage to adopters. The book is based on the latest insights from theory and practice and combines conceptual work with first-hand experience. It is of interest to innovation managers, entrepreneurs and academics. For academics, the book will provide a combination of analysis and discussion, and present recent learnings from first-hand interaction with entrepreneurs. For innovation managers and entrepreneurs, it will provide inspiration and better ideas about what responsible innovation can look like in practice, why others have "done it" and what the potential benefits might be. The book will thus serve the purposes of spreading the word about the responsible innovation concept among different audiences whilst making it more accessible to innovation managers and entrepreneurs.

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A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2 by Otto von Kotzebue (2 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

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Cats and Conservationists: The Debate Over Who Owns the Outdoors (New Directions in the Human-Animal Bond) by Dara M. Wald (3 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Cats and Conservationists is the first multidisciplinary analysis of the heated debate about free-roaming cats. The debate pits conservationists against cat lovers, who disagree both on the ecological damage caused by the cats and the best way to manage them. An impassioned and spirited conflict, it also sheds light on larger questions about how we interpret science, incorporate diverse perspectives, and balance competing values in order to encourage constructive dialogue on contentious social and environmental issues. On one side of the cat debate stand many environmentalists, especially birders and conservation organizations, who believe that outdoor cats seriously threaten native wildlife. On the other side are many animal welfare advocates, who believe that outdoor cats generally do not pose a major ecological threat and that it is possible for cats and wildlife to coexist. They believe that it is possible, mainly through trap-neuter-return projects (TNR), to keep free-roaming cat populations in check without killing large numbers of cats. Careful analysis suggests that there remain important questions about the science on both cat predation and TNR effectiveness. Yet both sides of the conflict insist that the evidence is clear-cut. This false certainty contributes to conflict between conservationists and cat lovers, and obscures common goals that could generate constructive discussions and collaborative efforts among scientists, policymakers, conservationists, and animal welfare advocates. Cats and Conservationists aims to facilitate such collaboration in order to manage outdoor cats and minimize the damage they cause. It also offers models for constructive debates about the public role of science in other polarized public conflicts over science and environmental topics.

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Food Security, Farming, and Climate Change to 2050 by Claudia Ringler (6 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

As the global population grows and incomes in poor countries rise, so too, will the demand for food, placing additional pressure on sustainable food production. Climate change adds a further challenge, as changes in temperature and precipitation threaten agricultural productivity and the capacity to feed the world's population. This study assesses how serious the danger to food security might be and suggests some steps policymakers can take to remedy the situation. Using various modeling techniques, the authors project 15 different future scenarios for food security through 2050. Each scenario involves an alternative combination of potential population and income growth and climate change. The authors also examine the specific test case of a hypothetical extended drought in South Asia, to demonstrate the possible effects of increased climate variability on a particular world region. They conclude that the negative effects of climate change on food security can be counteracted by broad-based economic growth -- particularly improved agricultural productivity -- and robust international trade in agricultural products to offset regional shortages. In pursuit of these goals, policymakers should increase public investment in land, water, and nutrient use and maintain relatively free international trade. This inquiry into the future of food security should be of use to policymakers and others concerned with the impact of climate change on international development.

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Agroecology: research for the transition of agri-food systems and territories by Thierry Caquet (Quae) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

Agroecology was chosen by INRAE as one of the interdisciplinary foresight projects aimed at identifying research fronts in response to major societal challenges. Eighty researchers drew up an assessment and proposed research avenues for agroecology. This book summarizes their main conclusions.

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Transforming Education for Sustainability: Discourses on Justice, Inclusion, and Authenticity (Environmental Discourses in Science Education Book 7) by María S. Rivera Maulucci (Springer) Price verified 10 hours ago

This book investigates how educators and researchers in the sciences, social sciences, and the arts, connect concepts of sustainability to work in their fields of study and in the classrooms where they teach the next generation. Sustainability, with a focus on justice, authenticity and inclusivity, can be integrated into many different courses or disciplines even if it is beyond their historical focus. The narratives describe sustainability education in the classroom, the laboratory, and the field (broadly defined) and how the authors navigate the complexities of particular sustainability issues, such as climate change, water quality, soil health, biodiversity, resource use, and education in authentic ways that convey their complexity, the sociopolitical context, and their hopes for the future. The chapters explore how faculty engage students in learning about sustainability and the ways in which working at the edge of what we know about sustainability can be a significant source of engagement, motivation, and challenge. The authors discuss how they create learning experiences that foster democratic practices in which students are not just following protocols, but have a stake in creative decision-making, collecting and analysing data, and posing authentic questions. They also describe what happens when students are not just passively receiving information, but actively analysing, debating, dialoguing, arguing from evidence, and constructing nuanced understandings of complex socioscientific sustainability issues. The narratives include undergraduate student perspectives on what it means to engage in sustainability research and learning, how students navigate the complexities and contradictions inherent in sustainability issues, what makes for authentic, empowering learning experiences, and how students are encouraged to persevere in the field. This is an open access book.

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The Meaning of Life by Vimal Sehgal B.Tech. IIT Delhi (48 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

Love is divine and Divinity is love personified. The author explains that divine love is the meaning of life and shows the reader how everyone can attain peace, love, immortality and happiness by the easy method of mantra meditation. The book elaborately describes love as the ultimate reality, love is divine, reincarnation and its significance, immortality and bliss, law of karma, mind and meditation, bhakti yoga and the art of dying. The book also presents a synthesis of science and religion by explaining the fundamentals of life and consciousness and by giving the characteristics of life and matter. Included are some fascinating tales from ancient Vedic scriptures which illustrate the philosophy with the medium of real life drama. Love is the highest value. From our experience we can surmise that the feeling of love is the most pleasing and gives us ecstasy and pleasure. The feeling of love is cherished by all and the exchange of feelings of love is remembered fondly within our hearts. Love nourishes us and really love is our life. Without love life is meaningless. Indeed the meaning of life is love. Our present education system does not teach students the meaning of life. The tragedy of life is that, consequently, a person may go through life without ever knowing the meaning of life or why he came to this world in the first place. Topics covered include: ?The Meaning of Life ?Love is divine ?Immortality and bliss ?Meditation and bhakti yoga ?Reincarnation and its significance ?Laws of karma ?Proof of God's existence + Location of soul ?Life is but a dream ?The art of dying About the author: The author is a disciple of the late Swami Mangal Maharaj, secretary Shri Chaitanya Gaudiya Ashram in India. Previously he worked as a systems analyst with Govt. of Canada after graduating in electrical engineering and computer sciences from IIT Delhi and University of Ottawa respectively. EXCERPTS FROM THE BOOK: What is the meaning of life? The answer to this all ...

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The Aeroplane Speaks by H. (Horatio) Barber (2 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

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Bobcats of Big Cat Rescue: Learn about bobcats and see lots of bobcat photos. by Carole Baskin (Big Cat Rescue) (16 Reviews)    Price verified 14 minutes ago

Meet the bobcats that call Big Cat Rescue in Tampa, Florida home. Read their rescue stories and learn about their personalities. Learn about bobcats in general as well as other bobcat related subjects. Enjoy dozens of color photographs and videos.

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The Mental Life of Monkeys and Apes A Study of Ideational Behavior by Robert M. Yerkes (1 Review)    Price verified 9 hours ago

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The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by A. E. (Adolf Erik) Nordenskiöld (2 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

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Mom’s Favorite Reads eMagazine December 2022 by Goylake Publishing (Goylake Publishing) (1 Review)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Welcome to our 106 page bumper Christmas and fiftieth issue! In this month's issue of our #1 ranked magazine... Interview with Orna Ross, founder of ALLI. Plus, Author Features, Health, Nature, Photography, Poetry, Short Stories, Young Writers, Nature Photography Day, and so much more!

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Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission by Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission (1 Review)    Price verified 2 hours ago

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Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science,Mechanics, Chemistry, and ... by Various (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

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The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 6 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed by William Curtis (1 Review)    Price verified 7 hours ago

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Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, ... by Various (1 Review)    Price verified 2 hours ago

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Second Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea Basin (Regional Climate Studies) by The BACC II Author Team (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 10 hours ago

?This book is an update of the first BACC assessment, published in 2008. It offers new and updated scientific findings in regional climate research for the Baltic Sea basin. These include climate changes since the last glaciation (approx. 12,000 years ago), changes in the recent past (the last 200 years), climate projections up until 2100 using state-of-the-art regional climate models and an assessment of climate-change impacts on terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems. There are dedicated new chapters on sea-level rise, coastal erosion and impacts on urban areas. A new set of chapters deals with possible causes of regional climate change along with the global effects of increased greenhouse gas concentrations, namely atmospheric aerosols and land-cover change. The evidence collected and presented in this book shows that the regional climate has already started to change and this is expected to continue. Projections of potential future climates show that the region will probably become considerably warmer and wetter in some parts, but dryer in others. Terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems have already shown adjustments to increased temperatures and are expected to undergo further changes in the near future. The BACC II Author Team consists of 141 scientists from 12 countries, covering various disciplines related to climate research and related impacts. BACC II is a project of the Baltic Earth research network and contributes to the World Climate Research Programme.

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Towards a Sustainable Future - Life Cycle Management: Challenges and Prospects by Zbigniew Stanislaw Klos (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 9 hours ago

This open access book includes a selection of contributions from the Life Cycle Management 2019 Conference (LCM) held in Pozna?, Poland, and presents different examples of scientific and practical contributions, showing an incorporation of life cycle approach into the decision processes on strategic and operational level. Special attention is drawn to applications of LCM to target, organize, analyze and manage product-related information and activities towards continuous improvement, along the different products life cycle. The selection of case studies presents LCM as a business management approach that can be used by all types of businesses and organizations in order to improve their sustainability performance. This book provides a cross-sectoral, current picture of LCM issues. The structure of the book is based on five-theme lines. The themes represent different objects that are focused on sustainability and LCM practices mainly related to: products, technologies, organizations, markets and policy issues as well as methodological solutions. The book brings together presentations from the world of science and the world of enterprises as well as institutions supporting economic development.

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Time Matters: 5th edition by Alexandre Kassiantchouk (2 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

7th edition available: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CQR92W6D , and it is free! This book solves many long-standing problems in physics and cosmology, and provides you with a new, more realistic, perspective on our world: • Spacetime is regular Space filled with Time, and not 4-dimensional surrogate • Time is Quantum Fluctuations, like Temperature is Brownian Motion • Gravity is Time Pressure • Milky Way and Bob Lazar's craft use the same propulsion • There was no Big Bang • Galaxies were materialized by burning time, with shooting-star-like fireworks of matter, with such events randomly scattered in space and in time (check chapter 51 on how). • Matter/antimatter imbalance is local to a galaxy, but balanced in the Universe. If you do not see new chapters 51 and 52, then go to https://www.amazon.com/hz/mycd/digital-console/contentlist/booksAll/dateDsc/ and click on "Update Available" next to the book title.

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UFO Frightening Encounters by Tom Lyons (Tom Lyons Books) (213 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Following the release of his best selling series, Bigfoot Frightening Encounters, author Tom Lyons was contacted by Max Sanders, an individual who was eager to discuss his encounter with extraterrestrial life. Together, Tom and Max decided they'd put the story into writing so that others could enjoy it. To add to the content, Tom and Max compiled this volume with the help of other brave folks who were kind enough to share their life-altering stories. Get it now.

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Speciesism in Biology and Culture: How Human Exceptionalism is Pushing Planetary Boundaries by Brian Swartz (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This open access book explores a wide-ranging discussion about the sociopolitical, cultural, and scientific ramifications of speciesism and world views that derive from it. In this light, it integrates subjects across the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. The 21st-century western world is anthropocentric to an extreme; we adopt unreasonably self-centered and self-serving ideas and lifestyles. Americans consume more energy resources per person than most other nations on Earth and have little concept of how human ecology and population biology interface with global sustainability. We draw upon religion, popular culture, politics, and technology to justify our views and actions, yet remain self-centered because our considerations rarely extend beyond our immediate interests. Stepping upward on the hierarchy from "racism," "speciesism" likewise refers to the view that unique natural kinds (species) exist and are an important structural element of biodiversity. This ideology manifests in the cultural idea that humans are distinct from and intrinsically superior to other forms of life. It further carries a plurality of implications for how we perceive ourselves in relation to nature, how we view Judeo-Christian religions and their tenets, how we respond to scientific data about social problems such as climate change, and how willing we are to change our actions in the face of evidence.

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Special Topics in Information Technology (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology) by Luigi Piroddi (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 7 hours ago

This open access book presents thirteen outstanding doctoral dissertations in Information Technology from the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Information Technology has always been highly interdisciplinary, as many aspects have to be considered in IT systems. The doctoral studies program in IT at Politecnico di Milano emphasizes this interdisciplinary nature, which is becoming more and more important in recent technological advances, in collaborative projects, and in the education of young researchers. Accordingly, the focus of advanced research is on pursuing a rigorous approach to specific research topics starting from a broad background in various areas of Information Technology, especially Computer Science and Engineering, Electronics, Systems and Control, and Telecommunications. Each year, more than 50 PhDs graduate from the program. This book gathers the outcomes of the thirteen best theses defended in 2020-21 andselected for the IT PhD Award. Each of the authors provides a chapter summarizing his/her findings, including an introduction, description of methods, main achievements and future work on the topic. Hence, the book provides a cutting-edge overview of the latest research trends in Information Technology at Politecnico di Milano, presented in an easy-to-read format that will also appeal to non-specialists.

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Climate-Smart Forestry in Mountain Regions (Managing Forest Ecosystems Book 40) by Roberto Tognetti (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 9 hours ago

This open access book offers a cross-sectoral reference for both managers and scientists interested in climate-smart forestry, focusing on mountain regions. It provides a comprehensive analysis on forest issues, facilitating the implementation of climate objectives. This book includes structured summaries of each chapter. Funded by the EU's Horizon 2020 programme, CLIMO has brought together scientists and experts in continental and regional focus assessments through a cross-sectoral approach, facilitating the implementation of climate objectives. CLIMO has provided scientific analysis on issues including criteria and indicators, growth dynamics, management prescriptions, long-term perspectives, monitoring technologies, economic impacts, and governance tools.

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Artificialized land and land take: Drivers, impacts and potential responses by Maylis Desrousseaux (Quae) (1 Review)    Price verified 6 hours ago

This work identifies the decisive economic and social factors in land take and its impact on the environment and agriculture. It carries out a summary of the state of knowledge - as complete as possible - of the determinants and impacts related to land take in France and attempts to identify policy tools through a multidisciplinary approach combining life sciences and economic sciences. It highlights the specific problems associated with this phenomenon.

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Aventures d'un jeune naturaliste. English by Lucien Biart (1 Review)    Price verified 29 minutes ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Genre: Science & Math

Bioimage Data Analysis Workflows ‒ Advanced Components and Methods (Learning Materials in Biosciences) by Kota Miura (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This open access textbook aims at providing detailed explanations on how to design and construct image analysis workflows to successfully conduct bioimage analysis. Addressing the main challenges in image data analysis, where acquisition by powerful imaging devices results in very large amounts of collected image data, the book discusses techniques relying on batch and GPU programming, as well as on powerful deep learning-based algorithms. In addition, downstream data processing techniques are introduced, such as Python libraries for data organization, plotting, and visualizations. Finally, by studying the way individual unique ideas are implemented in the workflows, readers are carefully guided through how the parameters driving biological systems are revealed by analyzing image data. These studies include segmentation of plant tissue epidermis, analysis of the spatial pattern of the eye development in fruit flies, and the analysis of collective cell migration dynamics. The presented content extends the Bioimage Data Analysis Workflows textbook (Miura, Sladoje, 2020), published in this same series, with new contributions and advanced material, while preserving the well-appreciated pedagogical approach adopted and promoted during the training schools for bioimage analysis organized within NEUBIAS - the Network of European Bioimage Analysts. This textbook is intended for advanced students in various fields of the life sciences and biomedicine, as well as staff scientists and faculty members who conduct regular quantitative analyses of microscopy images.

Genre: Science & Math

Meaning-Making for Living: The Emergence of the Presentational Self in Children’s Everyday Dialogues (SpringerBriefs in Psychology) by Koji Komatsu (Springer) (8 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This Open Access Brief analyzes the dynamics in which children's selves emerge through their everyday activities of meaning construction, both in their relationships with family and within school education. It begins with a discussion of new psychological inquiries into children's selves and builds upon the innovative theoretical notion of the Presentational Self, developed by the author over the last decade. The book illustrates how the observation of children's meaning construction in their everyday lives becomes a starting point for theoretical and empirical inquiries into child development and gives a framework that promotes new inquiries in this area. The book describes the Presentational Self Theory as a sense of how the notion of the Self is being worked upon in everyday life encounters. Chapters feature in-depth analyses of exchanges between adults and children in the Japanese cultural context. Meaning-Making for Living will be of interest to researchers and graduate students in the fields of cognitive, social, developmental, educational, and cultural psychology.

Genre: Science & Math