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  An Explorer's Notebook - Essays...

  Tim Flannery

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  An invaluable collection of think pieces from a climate change expert and the author of the #1 international bestseller The Weather Makers.   Tim Flannery is one of the world’s most influential scientists, a foremost expert on climate change credited with discovering more species than Charles Darwin. But Flannery didn’t come to his knowledge overnight. With its selection of exhilarating essays and articles written over the past twenty-five years, An Explorer’s Notebook charts the evolution of a young scientist doing fieldwork in remote locations to the major thinker who has changed the way we think about global warming.   In over thirty pieces, Flannery writes about his journeys in the jungles of New Guinea and Indonesia, about the extraordinary people he met and the species he discovered. He writes about matters as wide-ranging as love, insects, population, water, and the stresses we put on the environment. He shows us how we can better predict our future by understanding the profound history of life on Earth. And he chronicles the seismic shift in the world’s attitude toward climate change. An Explorer’s Notebook is classic Flannery—wide-ranging, eye-opening science, conveyed with richly detailed storytelling.   “Tim Flannery is in the league of all-time great explorers like Dr. David Livingstone.” —Sir David Attenborough

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  The Impatient Dr Lange - One...

  Seema Yasmin

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  A powerful tribute to one of the greatest scientists, activists, humanitarians, and social entrepreneurs in the world of HIV/AIDS. 
   
  When Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by pro-Russian rebels in July 2014, the world wondered if a cure for HIV had disappeared. Seated in the plane’s business-class cabin was Joseph Lange, better known as Joep, a shrewd Dutch doctor who had revolutionized the world of HIV and AIDS and was working on a cure. 
   
  Dr. Lange graduated from medical school in 1981, right as a new plague swept across the globe. He studied ways to battle HIV and prevent its spread from mother to child. Fighting the injustices of poverty, Lange advocated for better access to health care for the poor and the vulnerable. He championed the drug cocktail that finally helped rein in the disease and was a vocal proponent of prophylactic treatment for those most at risk of contracting HIV. 
   
  The Impatient Dr. Lange is the story of one man’s struggle against a global pandemic—and the tragic attack that may have slowed down the search for a cure. Seema Yasmin draws on written records, medical journals, recorded discussions, expert testimony, and extensive interviews with Lange’s family, friends, and colleagues around the globe—including the people he spoke to in the days before he died. She faithfully reconstructs key scenes from Lange’s life and the history of the AIDS epidemic, revealing how Lange became a global leader in the fight against AIDS. 
   
  “A thrilling history of the investigation of one of the greatest plagues in human history.” —Lawrence Wright, Pulitzer Prize-winning author

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  Bioenergy for the Energy...

  Irena International Renewable...

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  This report provides an overview of the challenges and related policy measures required to scale up the deployment of key bioenergy applications.

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  What Do Bees Think About?

  Mathieu Lihoreau

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  Explore the mind of a bee and learn what drives its behavior.Have you ever observed a bee up close and wondered what was going on inside its head? Like ours, insects' brains take up most of the space in their heads, but their brains are smaller than a grain of rice, only 0.0002% as large as ours. But what purpose does the insect brain serve, and how does that drive their creativity, morality, and emotions?Bees in particular exhibit unexpected and fascinating cognitive skills. In What Do Bees Think About? animal cognition researcher Mathieu Lihoreau examines a century of research into insect evolution and behavior. He explains recent scientific discoveries, recounts researchers' anecdotes, and reflects on the cognition of these fascinating creatures. Lihoreau's and other scientists' research on insects reinforces the importance of protecting and preserving insects such as bees: after all, our survival on the planet is deeply dependent on theirs. This book provides an eye-opening window into the world of insect cognition and echoes an important ecological message about bees—they are intelligent creatures sharing the same fragile ecosystem as us.

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  Maladies & Medicine - Exploring...

  Sara Read, Jennifer Evans

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  Maladies and Medicine offers a lively exploration of health and medical cures in early modern England. The introduction sets out the background in which the body was understood, covering the theory of the four humors and the ways that male and female bodies were conceptualized. It also explains the hierarchy of healers from university trained physicians, to the itinerant women healers who traveled the country offering cures based on inherited knowledge of homemade remedies. It covers the print explosion of medical health guides, which began to appear in the sixteenth century from more academic medical text books to cheap almanacs.The book has twenty chapters covering attitudes towards, and explanations of some of, the most common diseases and medical conditions in the period and the ways people understood them, along with the steps people took to get better. It explores the body from head to toe, from migraines to gout. It was an era when tooth cavities were thought to be caused by tiny worms and smallpox by an inflammation of the blood, and cures ranged from herbal potions, cooling cordials, blistering the skin, and of course letting blood. Case studies and personal anecdotes taken from doctors notes, personal journals, diaries, letters and even court records show the reactions of individuals to their illnesses and treatments, bringing the reader into close proximity with people who lived around 400 years ago. This fascinating and richly illustrated study will appeal to anyone curious about the history of the body and the way our ancestors lived.

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  Fishing - Bass Trout and Fly...

  Charissa Felts

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  This is it! You arrived at the right place. You are going to be taken through the steps and be shown the tricks of bass fishing. Catching an extensive bass is an excellent accomplishment, and an enjoyable thing to do (a thing you want to take a picture of and post it on the internet, definitely). The masters have the experience. You have the desire to find out more. It's time to get informed before you lose your valuable time waiting on fish that won't wish to be caught. For instance, you will learn: 
  All about fly-rodding, worms, avoiding, and wandering. 
  Devices strategies, interesting facts, and experts’ remarks. 
  Three sort of reeling and the most effectual ways to pick bait for the fish. 
  Angling techniques, scheduling storms, and info on selecting the best type of rod. 
  Remarks about wading, analyzing the prey, and avoiding snags. 
  The most appropriate equipment to start. 
  Cleaning and keeping your line. 
  Diverse sorts of salmon and ways to catch them. 
  Abilities to master and gear to use when catching trout. 
  Targeting, tempting, and figuring out the very best site of the bass fish. 
  Taking the weather and the area into account before you set out on a fishing trip. 
  Unusual methods that will help you be more efficient at catching bass. 
  The best places in California, Texas, or Florida to capture bass. 
  Mexican and Canadian reports of bass being captured. 
  Precise tips and tricks to catching bass. 
  Systems and bait for the ones who wish to master catching bass. 
  Great ideas on discovering trout and the very best areas to go to. 
  Simple and progressive strategies to take your fly fishing to the next level. 
  And far more! 
  All of these things are packed into this extensive guide. Do yourself a favor and take a look at it!

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