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  The Olive Route - A Personal...

  Carol Drinkwater

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  The author of acclaimed memoirs about life on a French olive farm explores the larger history and culture of the Mediterranean delicacy. Carol Drinkwater has a passion for olive trees and the fruit they bear—“bitter berries” that are transformed into savory delights and pressed into precious oil. Already intimately familiar with the fruit thanks to her olive farm in the South of France, she decided to travel throughout the Mediterranean basin—from Marseille to Malta, Israel to Tunisia—in a quest to learn about their ancient history, their spread throughout the world, and the tastes and traditions they represent. A culinary travelogue and a celebration of a humble, healthful food that inspires devotion among so many, The Olive Route is filled with unusual characters and fascinating anecdotes from “a storyteller of great economy and deftness” (The Telegraph). “Drinkwater has a sharp eye for character, and the people who populate The Olive Route will not disappoint her fans.” —The Independent

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  The Long Descent - A User's...

  John Michael Greer

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  The author of Dark Age America shares a harrowing vision of the future and what you can do to take action and make change. 
   
  Americans are expressing deep concern about US dependence on petroleum, rising energy prices and the threat of climate change. Unlike the energy crisis of the 1970s, however, there is a lurking fear that, now, the times are different, and the crisis may not easily be resolved. 
   
  The Long Descent examines the basis of such fear through three core themes:Industrial society is following the same well-worn path that has led other civilizations into decline, a path involving a much slower and more complex transformation than the sudden catastrophes imagined by so many social critics today.The roots of the crisis lie in the cultural stories that shape the way we understand the world. Since problems cannot be solved with the same thinking that created them, these ways of thinking need to be replaced with others better suited to the needs of our time.It is too late for massive programs for top-down change; the change must come from individuals. 
   
  Hope exists in actions that range from taking up a handicraft or adopting an “obsolete” technology, through planting an organic vegetable garden, taking charge of your own health care or spirituality, and building community. 
   
  Focusing eloquently on constructive adaptation to massive change, this book will have wide appeal. 
   
  Praise for The Long Descent 
   
  “At once erudite and entertaining, Greer’s exploration of the dynamics of societal collapse couldn’t be more timely.” —Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow, Post Carbon Institute, and author of The Party’s Over and Peak Everything 
   
  “Candidates for public office, and the voters who elect them, should be required to read [Greer’s] accurate diagnosis of the terminal illness our fossil-energy subsidized industrial civilization has too long denied. He shows how stubborn belief in perpetual progress blinded us to the abyss toward which we were speeding and thus impeded wise preparation for our unavoidable descent into a deindustrial age. We must hope that the array of mitigating tools he prescribes may yet render that descent down the back side of Hubbert’s peak less devastating than it will be if we insistently claim a right to be prodigal in using this finite Earth.” —Willam R. Catton, Jr., author of Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change

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  ContamiNation - My Quest to...

  McKay Jenkins

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  A few years ago, journalism professor McKay Jenkins went in for a routine medical exam. What doctors found was not routine at all: a tumor, the size of a navel orange, was lurking in his abdomen. When Jenkins returned to the hospital to have the tumor removed, he was visited by a couple of researchers with clipboards. They had some questions for him. Odd questions like, how much exposure had he had to toxic chemicals and other contaminants? Asbestos dust? Vinyl chlorine? Pesticides?From the moment he left the hospital, Jenkins resolved to discover the truth about chemicals and the "healthy" levels of exposure we encounter each day as Americans. He spent the next two years digging, exploring five frontiers of toxic exposure-the body, the home, the drinking water, the lawn, and the local box store-and asking how we allowed ourselves to get to this point. Most important, though, Jenkins wanted to know what we can do to turn things around. Though toxins may be present in products we all use every day, there are ways to lessen our exposure. ContamiNation is an eye-opening report from the front lines of consumer advocacy.

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  Invention and Innovation - A...

  Vaclav Smil

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  The world is never finished catching up with Vaclav Smil. In his latest and perhaps most readable book, Invention and Innovation, the prolific author—a favorite of Bill Gates—pens an insightful and fact-filled jaunt through the history of invention. Impatient with the hype that so often accompanies innovation, Smil offers in this book a clear-eyed corrective to the overpromises of new inventions—from cures for diseases to AI. He reminds us that even after we go quite far along the invention-development-application trajectory, we may never get anything real to deploy. Or worse, even after we have succeeded by introducing an invention, its future may be marked by underperformance, disappointment, demise, or outright harm.Drawing on his vast breadth of scientific and historical knowledge, Smil explains the difference between invention and innovation, and looks not only at inventions that failed to dominate as promised (such as the airship, nuclear fission, and supersonic flight) but also at those that turned disastrous (leaded gasoline, DDT, and chlorofluorocarbons). And finally, he offers a “wish list” of inventions that we most urgently need to confront the staggering challenges of the twenty-first century.Filled with engaging examples and pragmatic approaches, this book is a sobering account of the folly that so often attends human ingenuity—and how we can, and must, better align our expectations with reality.

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  CISSP Exam Study Guide For...

  HUGO HOFFMAN

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  2 AUDIOBOOKS IN 1 DEAL!BOOK 1 - INCIDENT MANAGEMENT HANDBOOK: BEGINNERS GUIDE TO INCIDENT MANAGEMENT PROCESSES AND PROCEDURES FOR OPERATIONSBOOK 2 - SECURITY MANAGEMENT ETHICS HANDBOOK: BEGINNERS GUIDE TO CYBERSECURITY FRAMEWORK AND SECURITY MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONS 
  In book 1 you will discover:DEFINING INCIDENT RESPONSESBUSINESS CONTINUITY PLANPLANNING FOR DISASTER RECOVERYHOW TO CREATE AN INCIDENT RESPONSE TEAMIR TEAM ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIESWHAT SKILLSET THE RESPONSE TEAM MUST HAVEHOW TO COMMUNICATE WITH IR STAKEHOLDERSHOW TO COMMUNICATE INCIDENT RESPONSESHOW TO MONITOR INCIDENT RESPONSE PERFORMANCEHOW TO ESCALATE AN INCIDENT 
  In book 2 you will discover:SECURITY MANAGEMENT ETHICSDEFENSE IN DEPTHSECURITY CONTROL FUNCTIONS FUNDAMENTALSHOW TO ESTABLISH ORGANIZATIONAL GOVERNANCESECURITY STRATEGY & GOVERNANCE SCENARIO BASICSBUSINESS COMPLIANCE FUNDAMENTALSMANAGEMENT ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIESHOW TO CREATE & STRUCTURE A SECURITY MANAGEMENT PROGRAMHOW TO DECRYPT THE RISK MANAGEMENT PROGRAMRISK STRATEGY & RISK MANAGEMENT SCENARIOHOW TO CONDUCT RISK ASSESSMENTS & HOW TO ASSESS RISKHOW TO RESPOND & MONITOR RISKRESILIENCY & BUSINESS IMPACT ANALYSISINCIDENT RESPONSE FUNDAMENTALSDISASTER RECOVERY & BUSINESS CONTINUITY 
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  Visiting the Somme & Ypres...

  Gareth Hughes

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  This splendid and timely book will be invaluable to those visiting the battlefields, sites, museums, memorials and cemeteries of France and Belgium. It is intended for those planning and leading school groups and similar parties but is also ideal for individual/family visitors.Rather than list every site etc it provides realistic itineraries to the best places in the two major areas of the Somme and Ypres. Even these are flexible to allow party leaders suitable discretion.The author provides helpful information for each site such as its context in the War, visitor orientation, the 'spiel' (the essential facts to engage, inform and entertain), suggested activity and relevant photos and maps.This combines to make every visit of maximum benefit and interest and yet reduce the workload of the party leaders.There are also valuable tips for lunch breaks, free time ideas and other helpful pointers.

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