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"What does it mean to 'be-in-kind' with a nonhuman animal? Or in Dr. Sean Kell-Luddon’s case, to be in-kind with one of the last remaining wild wolves? Using a neurological interface to translate her animal subject’s perception through her own mind, Sean intends to chase both her scientific curiosity and her secret, lifelong desire to experience the intimacy and freedom of wolfishness. To see the world through animal eyes; smell the forest, thick...
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"Questions on the origins and meaning of dreams are as old as humankind, and persist to this day to excite and confound us. When Brains Dream addresses the core questions about dreams while illuminating the most up-to-date science in the field. Written by two world-renowned sleep and dream researchers, it debunks many myths about dreams while acknowledging the mysteries that continue to surround both the science and experience of dreaming. What's...
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"Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay tremendous costs for this bias, in time, money, and often with their lives. Celebrated...
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"A celebration of dogs, the scientists who've lived alongside them, and how canines have been key to advancements in science for the betterment of all species. Almost everywhere there are humans on planet Earth, there are dogs. But what do dogs know and understand of the world? Do their emotions feel like our own? Do they love like we do? What do they think of us? Since our alliance first began on the hunt and on the farm, our relationship with dogs...
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Get the Summary of Frances Mayes's A Place in the World in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "A Place in the World" by Frances Mayes is a rich tapestry of personal reflections on home, history, and the deep connections to place. Mayes recounts her experiences with Chatwood, a farmhouse in North Carolina, and its transformation over time. She delves into the history of the land, the surrounding community of Hillsborough,...
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"Meet Ham, Minnie, Enos, Roscoe, Tiger, and Rocky. When the United States was scrambling to catch up to the Soviets after their successful launch of Sputnik, they didn’t turn to Mercury Seven astronauts Alan Shepard and John Glenn. Rather, they began bringing chimpanzees to Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico for a top-secret program. The goal? To do everything America needed to make space travel safe for humans and beat the Soviets. Based on...
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"The gripping story of a chemical weapons catastrophe, its cover-up, and how one army doctor's discovery led to the development of chemotherapy. On the night of December 2, 1943, the Luftwaffe bombed a critical Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking seventeen ships and killing over a thousand servicemen and hundreds of civilians. Caught in the surprise air raid was the John Harvey, an American Liberty ship carrying a top-secret cargo of 2,000 mustard...
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"Amos Abernathy lives for history. Literally. He’s been a historical reenactor nearly all his life. But when a cute new volunteer arrives at his Living History Park, Amos finds himself wondering if there’s something missing from history: someone like the two of them. Amos is sure there must have been LGBTQ+ people in nineteenth-century Illinois. His search turns up Albert D. J. Cashier, a Civil War soldier who might have identified as a trans...
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"When she discovers a famed emerald necklace while interning at a struggling Parisian magazine, she is plunged into a glittering world of diamonds and emeralds, courtesans and spies, and the long-buried secrets surrounding the necklace and its glamorous former owners. When Alice realizes the mysterious Honeybee Emeralds could be her chance to save the magazine, she recruits her friends Lily and Daphne to form the 'Fellowship of the Necklace.' Together,...
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In interviews with brilliant and controversial medical researchers and practitioners, David Jay Brown reveals "proposed solutions for what's wrong with modern medicine, ideas about reversing the aging process and suggestions that can lead to a future in which all diseases are easily curable." Interviews with Andrew Weil, Jonathan Wright, Barry Sears, Garry Gordon, Jacob Teitelbaum, Marios Kyriazis, Peter Duesberg, Kary Mullis, Durk Pearson & Sandy...
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In the remote regions of Australias Northern Territory Indigenous Australians experience extreme disadvantagein health, income, employment, education and access to the conditions for a good life. This book is about their plight, and how governments can deliver strategies to prevent the continuation of their disadvantage. Governments and institutions like the World Health Organisation have expressed intentions to close the gaps that are represented...
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La muerte de un hijo o hija sin importar la forma ni la edad, es algo insuperable en lo que vamos a tener que aprender como madre o como padre a vivir sin ellos.
Este libro, lo escribi pensando en poder ayudar a superar y reconstruir nuestro corazon tanto fisica, como emocional y espiritualmente con la ayuda de Jesus.
Cuando nos toco vivirlo me hubiera gustado tener este tipo de ayuda para aligerar el dolor, es por eso que el anhelo de mi corazon...
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This book is the first in a series. It focuses on how people can fulfil their responsibility to live as fully as possible the values that give their lives and work meaning and purpose, and that contribute to the flourishing of humanity and their own development. The importance of researching one's own practice to improve it is highlighted in terms of sharing and creating the individual s values based explanations for their educational influences in...
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“Narratives In Research” is specially written to encourage emerging researchers. This book covers the experiences of the author as a researcher over many years. The book carefully discusses some key considerations for formulating a research topic. Furthermore, it offers some pieces of advice on how to skillfully place research within the appropriate context. Problem statement, research questions, objectives and hypotheses of a study are also explained...
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My book generally incorporates the basic features of the quantum world which was previously thought to be tiresome and hectic to the reader. This first volume considers the Vedic interpretation of quantum world and the consciousness consideration of the quantum world. Overall, it can be considered one of the most beautiful piece of work to start with if you are eagerly waiting to start the learning process.
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#1 Lex Greensill was a young man who grew up on a farm in Queensland, Australia. He had a difficult childhood, but eventually his farm tripled in size within twenty years. He was skilled in law, wireless applications, international trade, insurance, capital raising, sales and marketing, public speaking, written communications, corporate governance, training, organization...
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#1 The Vikings had discovered Greenland in the search for more land, and turned its stock of walrus and narwhals into a global enterprise. They had then launched even farther west, and discovered sailing routes from Europe to North America five hundred years before Columbus.
#2 The story of Iceland begins with exile. Like many people, I used to romanticize stormy ocean...
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You weren't invited by the King when the world was created on Day One, at the dawn of history. Nor this idea was present, too. So why did you fall prey to it? ========================= I began to observe carefully. To look more closely at this concept of retirement. To read every story and write down notes. During this journey, one idea kept surfacing repeatedly, and this idea became flesh and blood with this ebook. You may call me a dreamer, but...
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Este volumen reúne 23 ensayos (uno introductorio general y 22 temáticos) escritos por 30 autores que abordan desde distintas perspectivas y en diversos registros textuales (desde el ensayo libre hasta un formato próximo al artículo académico) problemas centrales de la educación peruana contemporánea con un propósito común: sugerir vías para introducir modificaciones sustantivas que permitan, por un lado, sostener las mejoras observadas en...
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