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  How Algorithms Secretly Run Your...

  Felix Crane

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  
  Reveal the invisible algorithmic systems making crucial decisions about your life without your knowledge, input, or ability to appeal their judgments. This essential audiobook exposes how automated decision-making determines what information you see, what opportunities you receive, what prices you pay, and how institutions treat you based on calculations you never see. Learn how credit algorithms, hiring software, insurance models, and content recommendation systems shape your life trajectory more than personal choices while remaining completely opaque. The narrator reveals the biases embedded in algorithmic systems that perpetuate discrimination while appearing objective and the accountability voids that prevent challenging automated decisions affecting your life. Discover how tech companies optimize engagement algorithms knowing they promote misinformation, outrage, and addiction while presenting themselves as neutral platforms. Understand why algorithmic transparency remains impossible to achieve given corporate secrecy, technical complexity, and regulatory failure that leaves citizens subject to systems they cannot examine. This audiobook draws from computer scientists, investigative journalists, and algorithm researchers documenting hidden systems that govern modern life. Learn strategies for recognizing algorithmic influence, minimizing harmful exposure, and advocating for accountability in automated decision-making. Essential listening for anyone living in the digital age who wants to understand the invisible forces shaping their reality and what limited options exist for reclaiming agency from automated systems.

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  The American Chestnut - An...

  Donald Edward Davis

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  Before 1910 the American chestnut was one of the most common trees in the eastern United States. An important natural resource, chestnut wood was preferred for woodworking, fencing, and building construction, as it was rot resistant and straight grained. The hearty and delicious nuts also fed wildlife, people, and livestock. 
   
   
   
  Ironically, the tree that most piqued the emotions of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Americans has virtually disappeared from the eastern United States. After a blight fungus was introduced into the United States during the late nineteenth century, the American chestnut became functionally extinct. Although the virtual eradication of the species caused one of the greatest ecological catastrophes since the last ice age, considerable folklore about the American chestnut remains. 
   
   
   
  The American Chestnut tells the story of the American chestnut from Native American prehistory through the Civil War and the Great Depression. Davis documents the tree's impact on nineteenth-and early twentieth-century American life, including the decorative and culinary arts. The author also evaluates efforts to restore the American chestnut to its former place in the eastern deciduous forest, including modern attempts to genetically modify the species.

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  Foundations of Terrestrial...

  Santiago Machain

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  Explore the intricate tapestry of life that thrives on land in Foundations of Terrestrial Ecosystems. This first installment in The Earth's Web series takes readers on a journey to understand the core principles of terrestrial ecosystems, revealing how organisms interact with their environment to create dynamic, living landscapes. Beginning with an introduction to what terrestrial ecosystems are, the book delves into the building blocks of life, including soil, climate, and biodiversity. It investigates the unique features of forests, grasslands, deserts, tundras, and mountains, shedding light on the remarkable adaptations of the life forms that inhabit them. With engaging explanations, vivid illustrations, and human-centered storytelling, Foundations of Terrestrial Ecosystems serves as an accessible gateway for readers to grasp the beauty and complexity of the natural world. 
  Whether you're an aspiring ecologist, a nature enthusiast, or simply curious about the planet's terrestrial landscapes, this book offers foundational insights that set the stage for deeper exploration in subsequent volumes.

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  Receive Your Healing (English)

  Gabriel Agbo

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  This audiobook is about how to receive divine healing. Can God still heal? Yes! Can we live in good and perfect health today? Yes! Our God is the same yesterday, today, and forevermore. Expect your healing as you listen. Here, you will read some incredible testimonies that will instantly increase your faith in God and his unlimited ability and wiliness to intervene even in worst situations. For example, God still cures incurable and terminal diseases. He still raises the dead. Have you read about a man who was raised from death after staying two days in the mortuary?Now, if God can do that, why do you think nothing can be done about that your condition? There are many other incredible testimonies here. There are 10 powerful, illuminating chapters in this book: "All Things Are Possible", "Healing Is Your Right", "Origin of Sickness", "Word of God", "Name of Jesus", "Holy Spirit", "Power of Faith", "Retaining Your Healing".You will also learn about the roles of prayer, anointing oil, laying of hands, compassion (love), obedience, angels, praise, and worship, etc., in our quest to receive and retain our healing. This audiobook is designed for you to receive your healing as you go through it, and it's very practical.

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  Ketogenic Diet With Intermittent...

  Greenleatherr

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  This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to perform the 8:16 intermittent fasting diet properly and successfully. It also guide you to maintain the ketogenic way of eating and enjoy your favorite sweet treats sans the guilt.  
   Have you ever seen Hugh Jackman’s impressive physique in Wolverine? Will you believe me if I tell you that you can have Wolverine-like body, too? 
  This diet will help you achieve the body you want without making yourself feel extremely hungry for days. You can achieve steady weight loss with intermittent fasting and still have enough energy to perform the things you love and enjoy life. 
  Intermittent fasting is not an entirely modern invention. Our ancestors have been doing this. We have been performing this unknowingly. We have done IF at some point in our lives but we are unaware of it. 
  This book will give you all there is to know about IF. Moreover, you will also learn how to perform the 8:16 IF diet properly to achieve your best form and healthiest status. 
  This book will show you that even though the keto diet involves controlling the amount of carbohydrates you consume, it does not mean having to give up your beloved cakes and other sweet treats. 
  In this detox book, you will find strategies on how to use apple cider vinegar for health and beauty the natural way. In this book, you will find:Recipes for detox and weight lossRecipes for better skin healthHow to make apple cider vinegar at home 
  This book will also teach you how this wonderful vinegar can help make you healthier, look younger and feel better. From now on, you will no longer throw your apple peels and cores as you can turn them into something wonderful and important.

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  Black Faces White Spaces -...

  Carolyn Finney

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  Why are African Americans so underrepresented when it comes to interest in nature, outdoor recreation, and environmentalism? In this thought-provoking study, Carolyn Finney looks beyond the discourse of the environmental justice movement to examine how the natural environment has been understood, commodified, and represented by both white and black Americans. Bridging the fields of environmental history, cultural studies, critical race studies, and geography, Finney argues that the legacies of slavery, Jim Crow, and racial violence have shaped cultural understandings of the “great outdoors” and determined who should and can have access to natural spaces. 
   
  Drawing on a variety of sources from film, literature, and popular culture, and analyzing different historical moments, including the establishment of the Wilderness Act in 1964 and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Finney reveals the perceived and real ways in which nature and the environment are racialized in America. Looking toward the future, she also highlights the work of African Americans who are opening doors to greater participation in environmental and conservation concerns.

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