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  Creative Chemistry

  Edwin E. Slosson

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  Slosson reviews the transformation of alchemistry from an obscure and imprecise practice to the science of chemistry. Along the way, he explains how the modern industrial world now relies on fertilizers, explosives, textile materials, polymers and metals.By exploring the properties of a once undervalued element, the high strength of vanadium steel made the Ford car possible. Another element, cerium, appears in butane lighters and was once seen as a threat to the match industry in France.In his chapter on oils, Slosson reviews the development of hydrogenated oils, especially during WWII, in the search for a way to reuse otherwise discarded components of corn and cottonseed. Through the revolutionary reaction of hydrogenation, waste materials became a stable product that wouldn't spoil when packaged or carried without refrigeration. Once thought of as a miracle, shoppers were once willing to pay more for fully hydrogenated oils than their natural, unsaturated forms. Only in recent years has evidence of health risks checked their popularity and given them the image of cheap, unhealthy fillers. (Summary by LivelyHive)

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  Logotherapy - Principles and...

  Elisabeth Lukas

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  Viktor Emil Frankl, the founder of logotherapy, ranks amongst the twentieth century's most important researchers into the human condition. He developed a form of psychotherapy with an intriguingly dignified concept of human beings and the world which has an impressive track record of rapid success in practical application. Numerous universities around the world
  have honoured Frankl for his achievements.
  The present book provides a structured insight into his work. It explains the anthropological foundation of logotherapy and the healing concepts that are built
  on this foundation.

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  Fostering a blue economy:...

  International Renewable Energy...

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  Offshore renewable energy – including offshore wind and solar power, as well as emerging ocean energy technologies – could support sustainable long-term development and drive a vibrant blue economy. 

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  A Body to Love - Cultivate...

  Angelina Caruso

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  A new conversation about the media and radical self-love, A Body to Love provides lessons on positively navigating body image in a social media saturated world.Forming healthy relationships with the internet. To Angelina Caruso, recovery meant finding her tribe―a community that offered support, encouragement, and zero judgement. But she never imagined finding them online. Now a health and wellness blogger, she narrates the progression of a body image disorder and her unusual path to recovery.

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  Anatomy and Physiology Audio Course

  Centre of Excellence

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  With so many incredible modern day advancements making our lives easier, there is something we frequently take for granted, something that is not new or technologically perfected, something simple yet complex and which we use every day without thought, our bodies.The Anatomy and Physiology Audio Course takes you on a journey through the incredible mass of cells that is your body. From head to toe and everything in-between, you’ll discover the structures, functions, and pathologies of the various systems and organs of the body and how they work independently and as a coherent whole.An incredibly comprehensive study of the human body, the Anatomy and Physiology Audio Course can be used by those going into higher education in the fields of medicine and biology. Similarly, practitioners of complementary and alternative therapies, treatments, and medicines will be able to improve their techniques by increasing their knowledge through studying this course.If you have ever wondered how this tool that you use every day of your life actually functions, this course has the answers. With an overview of each system of the body, in-depth breakdowns of the structures and functions of their component parts, and pathologies of each, you will understand how the body works and the problems that can occur within it.

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  Braiding Sweetgrass - Indigenous...

  Robin Wall Kimmerer

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  As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. 
  In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowing together to reveal what it means to see humans as "the younger brothers of creation". As she explores these themes, she circles toward a central argument: The awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgement and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the world. Once we begin to listen for the languages of other beings, we can begin to understand the innumerable life-giving gifts the world provides us and learn to offer our thanks, our care, and our own gifts in return.

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