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  Making Up Your Own Mind -...

  Edward B. Burger

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  How you can become better at solving real-world problems by learning creative puzzle-solving skills
   
  We solve countless problems - big and small - every day. With so much practice, why do we often have trouble making simple decisions - much less arriving at optimal solutions to important questions? Are we doomed to this muddle - or is there a practical way to learn to think more effectively and creatively? In this enlightening, entertaining, and inspiring book, Edward Burger tells us how we can become far better at solving real-world problems by learning creative puzzle-solving skills using simple, effective thinking techniques.
   
  Making Up Your Own Mind teaches these techniques - including how to ask good questions, fail and try again, and change your mind - and then helps you practice them with fun verbal and visual puzzles. The goal is not to quickly solve each challenge but to come up with as many different ways of thinking about it as possible. As you see the puzzles in ever-greater depth, your mind will change, helping you become a more imaginative and creative thinker in daily life. And learning how to be a better thinker pays off in incalculable ways for anyone - including students, businesspeople, professionals, athletes, artists, leaders, and lifelong learners.
   
  A book about changing your mind and creating an even better version of yourself through mental play, Making Up Your Own Mind will delight and reward anyone who wants to learn how to find better solutions to life’s innumerable puzzles.
   
  And the puzzles extend to the thought-provoking format of the book itself. The audiobook is organized by track number, allowing the listener to navigate between puzzles, prompts, and insights. Chapter seven features a special challenge for the listener: It includes a background track of human voices, encouraging active listening skills and deeper engagement.

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  Cyborgian Images - The Moving...

  Lars C. Grabbe, Patrick...

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  One of the big myths and metaphors of the postmodern age is the Cyborg, which includes a large amount of different meanings. The Cyborg often expresses the transformation and extension of the body and exemplifies a postmodern range of technical determinism and human comprehension. In this perspective the Cyborg is no longer a concept of science fiction, technical apocalypse or cyberpunk, but more a construct that highlights the relation of modern media technologies within our every day culture; as well as the body and mind of spectators and users of these media systems.
  We are connected with a variety of poly-sensual media systems, and we use its potential for communication, multiplying knowledge, spatial and temporal orientation or aesthetic experience. Therefore we are a kind of Cyborgs, connected to media by complex multimodal interfaces.
  This volume monitors and discusses the relation of postmodern humans and media technologies and therefore refers to Cyborgs, interfaces and apparatuses within the perspective of an autonomous image science.

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  Florida Manatees - Biology...

  John E. Reynolds

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  A photographic guide that “focuses on the beauty, grace and vulnerability of these herbivores, but it also covers other sea mammals and their habitats” (The Biologist). 
   
  Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title 
   
  In this book, manatee expert John E. Reynolds III and famed photographer Wayne Lynch join forces to reveal the clearest portrait of manatees ever published. Florida Manatees is a song for the manatee, a celebration of the lives of these majestic creatures. Reynolds’s concise, informative text shares what scientists know about manatees, while Lynch’s beautiful photographs instantly demonstrate how special these “potatoes with whiskers” really are. By encouraging an appreciation of manatees, the authors hope to help ensure a future in which Floridians can find ways to coexist with and continue to enjoy these uniquely wonderful sirenian inhabitants of their state. 
   
  Included in this book:How manatees first came to Florida watersHow manatees fit into the ecosystems of FloridaWhat and how much manatees eatHow manatees behave and communicate with one anotherWhy manatees look the way they doWhy manatees have whiskersHow manatee mothers feed their young and much more 
   
  “A lovely book that sounds as though it would appeal primarily to scientists, but which offers inviting color photos and history that make it accessible to lay audiences both within Florida and outside the state.” —Donovan’s Literary Services

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  The Hidden Life of Ice -...

  Marco Tedesco, Alberto Flores...

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  A pioneering researcher's illuminating account of Arctic ice—its secret history and dire futureBarely inhabited, the Arctic is an alien world to most of us. It also holds critical clues about the future of our planet. In The Hidden Life of Ice, Marco Tedesco invites us to Greenland, where he and his fellow scientists are doggedly researching the dramatic changes afoot. Following the arc of his typical day at work, Tedesco unearths the secrets in the ice—from evidence of long-extinct "polar camels" to the fantastically weird microorganisms living at freezing temperatures in cryoconite holes.Tedesco weaves together the bald facts on climate change with poetic reflections on this endangered landscape, the epic deeds of great Arctic explorers, and the legends of the rare local populations. The Hidden Life of Ice is more than a diatribe on climate—it's a moving tribute to a beautiful place that may be gone too soon.

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  Bears Photos and Facts for...

  Isis Gaillard

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  Welcome to the amazing world of Bears Photos and Facts for Everyone! The animal facts in nature book for you to be amazed by Bears. 
  You will find Bears in nature with pictures to include the many Bear species, size, breeding, eating habits, and interesting facts. 
  Bears Photos and Facts for Everyone is Book 1 of the Learn with Facts Series. This book is around a clear concept: The amazing life of Bears with facts and color photos. 
  Be sure to read the other books in the Learn With Facts Series.

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  Public Sector Marketing Pro -...

  Joanne Sweeney

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  Do you need to transform your communications department into a specialist digital and social media team? The newly revised Public Sector Marketing Pro is the definitive guide for government and public sector agencies, politicians, political parties and NGOs on how to successfully reach and engage with the public in the Digital Age. With over 20 years' experience in journalism, digital marketing, and communications, Joanne Sweeney highlights how communication has changed in our post-pandemic world. New and updated chapters include case studies from public health officials on how they modified their tactics as the public demanded more information quicker than ever before. This crash course in digital public engagement will teach you how to: 
  - Transform outdated communications strategy into agile digital plans 
  - Respond to the public in real time on social media-even if you're understaffed 
  - Effectively respond to crises online 
  - Leverage digital communications to meet your organisation's larger objectives 
  - Understand and adapt to the changes that occurred during the pandemic 
  Public Sector Marketing Pro is your ultimate training manual to becoming a skilled leader in your field and online.

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