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  The World of Laura Ingalls...

  Marta McDowell

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  The universal appeal of Laura Ingalls Wilder springs from a life lived in partnership with the land, on farms she and her family settled across the Northeast and Midwest.In this revealing exploration of Wilder's deep connection with the natural world, Marta McDowell follows the wagon trail of the beloved Little House series. You'll learn details about Wilder's life and inspirations, pinpoint the Ingalls and Wilder homestead claims on authentic archival maps, and learn to grow the plants and vegetables featured in the series. Excerpts from Wilder's books, letters, and diaries bring to light her profound appreciation for the landscapes at the heart of her world.

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  Sailing Yachts & Yarns

  Tom Cunliffe

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  Sailing, Yachts and Yarns is a selection of British sailing legend Tom Cunliffe's most entertaining, outspoken and instructive writing from the pages of Yachting Monthly magazine. Tom's regular column for this leading sailing magazine gives him free reign to explore a wide range of topics. He has a gift for capturing the magic of sail and finding pearls of practical wisdom in the most unlikely nautical adventures. Sailing, Yachts and Yarns is a wonderful miscellany of wit, wisdom and wonder. It will make you laugh and make you think - and make you want to cast off to enjoy the delights of life afloat.

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  Radical Botany - Plants and...

  Antónia Szabari, Natania Meeker

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  “Succeeds beautifully in discovering and entwining an entire tradition of speculative botany that will reshape plant studies and posthumanist theory.” —Stacy Alaimo, author of Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times 
   
  Science Fiction & Technoculture Studies Book Prize Winner 
   
  Radical Botany excavates a tradition in which plants participate in the effort to imagine new worlds and envision new futures. Modernity, the book claims, is defined by the idea of all life as vegetal. Meeker and Szabari argue that the recognition of plants’ liveliness and animation, as a result of scientific discoveries from the seventeenth century to today, has mobilized speculative creation in fiction, cinema, and art. 
   
  Plants complement and challenge notions of human life. Radical Botany traces the implications of the speculative mobilization of plants for feminism, queer studies, and posthumanist thought. If, as Michael Foucault has argued, the notion of the human was born at a particular historical moment and is now nearing its end, Radical Botany reveals that this origin and endpoint are deeply informed by vegetality as a form of pre- and posthuman subjectivity. 
   
  The trajectory of speculative fiction which this book traces offers insights into the human relationship to animate matter and the technological mediations through which we enter into contact with the material world. Plants profoundly shape human experience, from early modern absolutist societies to late capitalism’s manipulations of life and the onset of climate change and attendant mass extinction. 
   
  A major intervention in critical plant studies, Radical Botany reveals the centuries-long history by which science and the arts have combined to posit plants as the model for all animate life and thereby envision a different future for the cosmos.

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  Beasts Before Us - The Untold...

  Elsa Panciroli

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  For most of us, the story of mammal evolution starts after the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs, but over the last twenty years scientists have uncovered new fossils and used new technologies that have upended this story.In Beasts Before Us, paleontologist Elsa Panciroli charts the emergence of the mammal lineage, Synapsida, beginning at their murky split from the reptiles in the Carboniferous period, over three-hundred million years ago. They made the world theirs long before the rise of dinosaurs.Elsa crisscrosses the globe to explore the sites where discoveries are being made and meet the people who make them. In Scotland, she traverses the desert dunes of prehistoric Moray, where quarry workers unearthed the footprints of Permian creatures from before the time of dinosaurs. In South Africa, she introduces us to animals that gave scientists the first hints that our furry kin evolved from a lineage of egg-laying burrowers. In China, new, complete fossilized skeletons reveal mammals that were gliders, shovel-pawed Jurassic moles, and flat-tailed swimmers.This book radically reframes the narrative of our mammalian ancestors and provides a counterpoint to the stereotypes of mighty dinosaur overlords and cowering little mammals. It turns out the earliest mammals weren't just precursors, they were pioneers.

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  Video Games

  PBS NewsHour

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  A Supreme Court case over whether minors should be able to access violent video games in California had the justices debating the definition of violence and the boundaries of the First Amendment. 
  The lawyer for the state of California, who was advocating for a law banning the sale of violent video games to those under 18 years of age, told the court that the law has two goals. First, it’s intended to help parents protect minors from accessing violent video games. And, secondly, he said it’s to protect minors from the harmful effect of using violent video games. 
  The justices responded to his argument by asking how society defines violence and whether the law would apply to violent books, movies and even fairy tales. Analyst Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal says that by seeking this video game law, California is essentially asking the court to make an exception to the First Amendment. 
  The lawyer arguing for the video game industry and against the law said that the law would not address any specific societal problem. He cited studies showing that playing violent video games does not affect a teenager’s behavior later in life.

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  CompTIA A+ Certification Study...

  Richie Miller

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  If you want to become an A+ Technician, this book is for you!BOOK 1: CompTIA A+ CERTIFICATION STUDY GUIDE FOR 220-1101 EXAM - BEGINNERS GUIDE TO MOBILE DEVICES & NETWORKING FUNDAMENTALSBOOK 2: CompTIA A+ CERTIFICATION STUDY GUIDE FOR 220-1101 EXAM - BEGINNERS GUIDE TO HARDWARE, VIRTUALIZATION, CLOUD COMPUTING AND NETWORK TROUBLESHOOTING 
  This book will help you prepare for the latest CompTIA A+ Certification, exam code: 220-1101. 
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  In book 1 you will discover:Expansion Cards and RadiosSystem Board, Storage and MigrationPhysical Privacy and SecurityIPv4 & IPv6 AddressingDHCP, DNS, TCP and UDP ProtocolsCommon Networking HardwareNetwork Types and Internet Connection TypesWi-Fi Standards, Wi-Fi Regulations and ChannelsBluetooth, NFC, & RFIDLegacy Systems & IoT DevicesNetwork Troubleshooting ToolsConfiguring End Devices & Access PointsAdvanced DNS Options 
  In book 2 you will discover:How To Troubleshoot Server Network ProblemHow To Solve Hardware And Storage IssuesHow To Solve Storage And Raid IssuesHow To Configure Raid 5 In WindowsHow To Solve Display And Printing IssuesHow To Solve Mobile Device And Network IssuesHow To Solve Wired Network IssuesHow To Solve Wireless Network Issues and more... 
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