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  Beacon - The Definitive Business...

  Raymond A. Bordogna

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  Many companies start AI projects, but few scale them successfully. Beacon gives CEOs, CIOs, and enterprise leaders the roadmap to move beyond experimentation and embed AI across the organization.

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  Birding Under the Influence -...

  Dorian Anderson

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  At a personal and professional crossroads, a man resets his life and finds sobriety, love, and 618 bird species, cycling his way to a very Big Year. In Birding Under the Influence, Dorian Anderson, a neuroscience researcher on a pressure-filled life trajectory, walks away from the world of elite institutions, research labs, and academic publishing. In doing so, he falls in love and discovers he has freed himself to embrace his lifelong passion for birding. A North American Big Year—a continent-spanning adventure in which a birder attempts to see as many species as possible in twelve months—is a massive undertaking under any circumstances. But doing it on a bike while maintaining sobriety? That’s next level. As Dorian pedals across the country, describing the birds he sees, he confronts the challenges of long-distance cycling: treacherous weather, punctured tires, speeding cars, and injury. He encounters eccentric characters, blistering blacktop, dreary hotel rooms, snarling dogs, and an endless sea of smoking tailpipes. He also confronts his past struggles with alcohol, drugs, and risky behaviors that began in high school and followed him into adulthood. Birding Under the Influence is a candid, honest look at Dorian’s double life of academic accomplishment and addiction. While his journey to recovery is simultaneously poignant and inspiring, it is ultimately his love of birds and nature that provides the scaffolding to build a new and radically different life.

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  Midwife Crisis - From Trust to...

  Kelli Zakharoff

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  This raw and unflinching narrative delves into the inner world of an Australian midwife, her professional journey, recounting genuine experiences of empowering women to make choices and confronting a system that resists change. From homebirth scenes to the shadowy hallways of a metropolitan hospital amid the pandemic, this is a story marked by passion, burnout, peaks and valleys, tears and triumphs. The Midwife Crisis is an unfiltered emotional journey, interwoven tales of birth and loss, encapsulating the joy of bringing life into the world along with the profound love and heartbreak intrinsic to the midwifery profession. 
  Unravelling the challenges and rewards of a life perpetually on call, where the comfort of a warm bed is sacrificed to assist a labouring woman. This modern-day tale invites readers on a rollercoaster journey of achieving success, only for it to vanish in an instant. It's the chronicle of an individual driven by passion and a vision for woman centred care, navigating the complexities of her beloved profession. 
  RIVETING! Kelli lifts the veil on what happens when policy comes before people and vividly exposes the humanitarian crisis currently faced by the Australian birth industry. I was hooked on every word! 
  Jessica Prescott - Author of Life After Birth

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  Immunology - Understanding the...

  Kevin Thorley

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  The immune system is a complex network of cells, tissues, and organs that work together to defend the body against harmful pathogens, such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites. Its primary function is to identify and eliminate foreign invaders while distinguishing them from the body's own healthy cells. This ability to recognize self from non-self is crucial for maintaining overall health and preventing disease. 
    
  At the core of the immune system are two main types of immunity: innate immunity and adaptive immunity. Innate immunity provides the first line of defense and is present from birth. It includes physical barriers such as the skin and mucous membranes, as well as various immune cells, including macrophages and neutrophils, that respond quickly to infections. These components act in a non-specific manner, meaning they respond to a wide range of pathogens without prior exposure. 
    
  In contrast, adaptive immunity is a more specialized response that develops over time. It is characterized by the activation of lymphocytes, which include B cells and T cells. B cells are responsible for producing antibodies that specifically target pathogens, while T cells play a critical role in directly killing infected cells and regulating immune responses. This adaptive response is highly specific and improves upon repeated exposure to the same pathogen, leading to the formation of immunological memory. This memory allows the immune system to respond more rapidly and effectively during subsequent encounters with the same invader, which is the basis for vaccination.

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  Treating Suicidal Clients &...

  PhD Meagan N. Houston

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  The most comprehensive, practical, and user-friendly workbook to help save lives. 
   
   
   
  Developed from years of working with the most challenging suicidal cases, Dr. Meagan N. Houston has created a workbook to prepare you for all the intricacies that affect clients' choices to live or die. 
   
   
   
  Treating Suicidal Clients & Self-Harm Behaviors is filled with proven assessments, unique worksheets and action-based methods to help your clients navigate and survive the turbulent periods of their lives where suicidal and/or self-harm behaviors appear to be their primary options to cope. This complete resource also includes underlying etiology, varying life factors, and mental health concerns that influence suicidal and self-destructive behavior. Inside you will find: assessments, worksheets and guides; therapy approaches for Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI) and suicidal behavior; applying crisis management skills, DBT and CBT to treatment; ethical and legal issues related to working with suicidal behavior; incorporating technology into treatment; case examples; and specific strategies for working with children and adolescents, veterans, military personnel, LGBTQI, and the elderly.

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  The Frontier Below

  Jeff Maynard

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  Triumphs and disasters in the deep sea 
  This is a journey through time and water, to the bottom of the ocean and the future of our planet. 
  We do not see the ocean when we look at the water that blankets more than two thirds of our planet. We only see the entrance to it. Beyond that entrance is a world hostile to humans, yet critical to our survival. The first divers to enter that world held their breath and splashed beneath the surface, often clutching rocks to pull them down. Over centuries, they invented wooden diving bells, clumsy diving suits, and unwieldy contraptions in attempts to go deeper and stay longer. But each advance was fraught with danger, as the intruders had to survive the crushing weight of water, or the deadly physiological effects of breathing compressed air. The vertical odyssey continued when explorers squeezed into heavy steel balls dangling on cables, or slung beneath floats filled with flammable gasoline. Plunging into the narrow trenches between the tectonic plates of the Earth’s crust, they eventually reached the bottom of the ocean in the same decade that men first walked on the moon. 
  Today, as nations scramble to exploit the resources of the ocean floor, The Frontier Below recalls a story of human endeavour that took 2,000 years to travel seven miles, then investigates how we will explore the ocean in the future. 
  Meticulously researched and drawing extensively on unpublished sources and personal interviews, The Frontier Below is the untold story of the pioneers who had the right stuff, but were forgotten because they went in the wrong direction. 
  The Frontier Below by Jeff Maynard is a captivating journey through the history of maritime expeditions, the science of physiology, and the economics of resource extraction. It is a testament to human endeavour and the indomitable spirit of exploration, offering a glimpse into the future of our oceans. 
  For fans of Julian Sancton (Madhouse at the End of the Earth), Buddy Levy (Empire of Ice and Stone), Rachel Lance (In the Waves), James Bradley (Ghost Species), and Helen Czerski (Blue Machine). 
  HarperCollins 2023

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