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  No Walk in the Park - Seeking...

  Michael Engelhard

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  In the footsteps of Desert Solitaire, these essays by an award-winning writer and student of culture sift decades of experience backpacking and boating for a stance that questions the mainstream. More than mere tales of bravado, they offer glimpses into the heart of the places explored, with the Grand Canyon as their center of gravity. Vivid, finely crafted, shot through with humor, self-effacing while deeply opinionated, No Walk in the Park shows what it means to meet nature on nature's terms. Listen at home in an armchair, or at a river camp, or before you go wandering. 
   
   
   
  Join this author on a night hike to the great chasm's bottom; trek forty days in his company below one rim, or snowshoe the other; visit a Hopi mesa for a ceremony; marvel at hidden rock art; sip epic solitude; tag threatened fish; and float next to Glen Canyon's slickrock or below Niagara-size fleeting falls.

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  Airplane Flying Handbook - The...

  James Harrison

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  Airplane Flying Handbook: The Ultimate Pilot Training Guide for Student and Pro Aviators 
  🚀 Master the Skies and Become the Pilot You Were Meant to Be! ✈️ 
  If you’re a student pilot taking your first lesson or a seasoned aviator looking to sharpen your skills, Airplane Flying Handbook: The Ultimate Pilot Training Guide for Student and Pro Aviators is the definitive flight training resource you’ve been searching for. Packed with approved techniques, real-world aviation insights, and expert guidance, this book takes you from the basics of flight to the most advanced piloting maneuvers with clarity, confidence, and precision. 
  📚 Why This Book is a Must-Have for Every Pilot: 
  ✅ Step-by-Step Flight Training – From preflight checklists to smooth landings, master every stage of flight with easy-to-follow lessons. 
  ✅ Flight Explained – Break down complex FAA regulations, airspace classifications, and best flying practices without the confusion. 
  ✅ Master Takeoffs, Landings & Emergency Procedures – Learn how to handle any situation in the cockpit with expert strategies. 
  ✅ VFR & IFR Navigation Simplified – Master airspace, flight planning, and ATC communications like a pro. 
  ✅ Designed for Success – Whether you're training for your Private Pilot License (PPL), Commercial Pilot License (CPL), or Instrument Rating (IFR), this guide helps you ace your checkride and beyond!

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  The Success Habits of Weight...

  Colleen M. Cook

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  Since its first publication The Success Habits of Weight loss Surgery Patients has become a bariatric best seller. The research based principles taught here continue year after year to be a standard for success throughout the bariatric community.The Success Habits Principles are now taught in hundreds of bariatric programs all over the world and are recommended by many Bariatric Centers of Excellence, surgeons and bariatric health professionals. They provide structure, clarity and simplicity for weight loss surgery patients as they reach and maintain a healthy weight. 
  You will find in this edition stories from the lives of Gastric Bypass, Laparoscopic Band, Duodenal Switch, & Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy weight-loss surgery patients. Each one has found success through the surgical treatment of their choice and by making the Success Habits an integral part of their lives. These are not just one year winners but long term losers! Five, ten, fifteen and nearly thirty years post-op. They are well, healthy and grateful for their decision to have weight loss surgery and for the structure and accountability that the Success Habits principles provide.Whether you are investigating weight loss surgery, a new patient, a veteran, a struggling weight loss surgery patient, or a bariatric professional you will find this book both educational and motivational.

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  Dignity for Deeply Forgetful...

  Jade C. Angelica, Stephen G. Post

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  For caregivers of deeply forgetful people: a book that combines new ethics guidelines with an innovative program on how to communicate and connect with people with Alzheimer's. 
   
  How do we approach a "deeply forgetful" loved one so as to notice and affirm their continuing selfidentity? For three decades, Stephen G. Post has worked around the world encouraging caregivers to become more aware of—and find renewed hope in—surprising expressions of selfhood despite the challenges of cognitive decline. 
   
  In this book, Post offers new perspectives on the worth and dignity of people with Alzheimer's and related disorders despite the negative influence of "hypercognitive" values that place an ethically unacceptable emphasis on human dignity as based on linear rationality and strength of memory. This bias, Post argues, is responsible for the abusive exclusion of this population from our shared humanity.  
   
  With vignettes and narratives, he argues for a deeper dignity grounded in consciousness, emotional presence, creativity, interdependence, music, and a self that is not "gone" but "differently abled."  
   
  Post covers key practical topics such as: 
  • understanding the experience of dementia 
  • noticing subtle expressions of continuing selfhood, including "paradoxical lucidity" 
  • perspectives on ethical quandaries from diagnosis to terminal care and everything in between, as gleaned from the voices of caregivers 
  • how to communicate optimally and use language effectively 
  • the value of art, poetry, symbols, personalized music, and nature in revealing self-identity 
  • the value of trained "dementia companion" dogs 
   
  At a time when medical advances to cure these conditions are still out of reach and the most recent drugs have shown limited effectiveness, Post argues that focusing discussion and resources on the relational dignity of these individuals and the respite needs of their caregivers is vital. Grounding ethics  
  on the equal worth of all conscious human beings, he provides a cautionary perspective on preemptive assisted suicide based on cases that he has witnessed. He affirms vulnerability and interdependence as the core of the human condition and celebrates caregivers as advocates seeking social and economic  
  justice in an American system where they and their loved ones receive only leftover scraps. Racially inclusive and grounded in diversity, Dignity for Deeply Forgetful People also includes a workshop appendix focused on communication and connection, "A Caregiver Resilience Program," by Rev. Dr. Jade C. Angelica.

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  Best Practices in Software...

  Benjamin Miller

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  Project managers, developers, and organizations trying to chart their journey in the dynamic world of software development will find "Best Practices in Software Development Methodologies: Crafting Excellence: A Comprehensive Guide to Modern Software Development Practices," to be an absolutely necessary book. Practical insight into helping teams achieve project excellence; this book explores broad frameworks, emerging trends, and guiding principles that characterize most contemporary approaches to development. It evaluates well-known approaches in Agile, Scrum, DevOps, and Lean as it breaks down their concepts, resources, and application.  
  It does so with each chapter's focus on effectiveness, flexibility, and teamwork within the mastery process of understanding the concepts. The book represents these approaches through case studies and real-world examples and has been applied successfully in various sectors, starting from small-sized start-ups to large corporations. This book delves into cutting-edge trends influencing directions in software development and well-established procedures. Some of the subjects include domain-specific adaptations, remote-first strategies, hybrid approaches, and artificial intelligence-posing creative tactics teams use to retain competitiveness under a very rapidly changing market.

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  Man Cattle and Veld

  Johann Zietsman

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  THE book for Profitable Ranching. A Real Ranching Revolution. Cattle Breeding. Grazing Management. 
  Much like nature, this book is both simple and complex. The author has taken great care to create both a simple technical guide as well as a philosophic declaration about complex human and environmental nuances, all in one volume. 
  Those persons who see and shape the future often say that the future is already here, it just isn't evenly distributed. I am confident that, several years from now many will look back upon this book, as well as the rest of Johann Zietsman's works, as foundational to the restoration of—and relationships between—man, cattle, and veld. 
  Zietsman puts forth a much-needed critique of man and his actions over the past century as well as personal stories as contra-example to the narratives we that have dominated the ranching world. 
  Achieving the ranch goal of maximum sustainable profit per hectare depends on breeding and feeding cattle (and all grazing species) as the grazers that they are. Efforts should be directed at raising cattle that are more efficient converters of forage, not on trying to make forage-reliant species into grain-efficient machines. Forces of nature created the animals we have, and their genetic potential will be brought out through non-selective grazing and proper supplementation. 
  Non-selective, time-controlled grazing, in which 80 to 95 percent of the mass of all grasses and forbs are utilized, thus pruning plants back to their crowns, is the process by which grasslands are improved in both plant vigor and species composition. I cannot overemphasize the importance of this last point—plant species diversity is promoted by time-controlled severe grazing events, whereas selective, take half leave half grazing is much more limited in improving species diversity, even leading to species narrowing in some circumstances.

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