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  Plato’s Revenge - The New...

  David Klinghoffer

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  First there was the genetic revolution—the discovery that physical structures in the cell, including DNA and RNA, shape every organism. Now, says evolutionary biologist Richard Sternberg, we are overdue for another and more profound revolution. 
  Recent findings reveal that genetic and even epigenetic sources alone cannot account for the rich dynamism of life—not even close. Some other informational source is required. 
  The idea was anticipated 2,400 years ago in Plato’s Timaeus and periodically revisited in the ensuing centuries. Sidelined by scientific materialism, it is now reasserting itself on the strength of cutting-edge molecular biology, higher mathematics, and commonsense reasoning. 
  In Plato’s Revenge, science writer David Klinghoffer takes Sternberg’s profound explorations and weaves them into a lively and accessible account of a most remarkable realization: At every moment, we owe our lives to a genome that is more than matter and to an informational source that is immaterial, transcomputational, and beyond space and time.

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  Sustainability Environment...

  Leonardo Flach

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  Why do our best-laid plans for a sustainable future so often fall short? What is the invisible thread connecting a city's design to social justice, and environmental policy to the very ground beneath our feet? 
  Sustainability, Environment, Territory, and Society unravels the critical, often overlooked, links between the world's greatest challenges. Guided by the expert analysis of Dr. Leonardo Flach, this audiobook moves beyond the headlines to offer a foundational understanding of the systems that shape our world. 
  You will discover:How geographical territories are not just maps, but arenas of power that dictate environmental outcomes.The surprising ways social structures and inequalities can accelerate or halt ecological collapse.A clear, interdisciplinary framework to analyze and solve complex environmental and social problems. 
  For students, policymakers, activists, and any engaged citizen striving to build a more equitable and sustainable future, this audiobook is not just essential listening - it is the key to understanding how these powerful forces are profoundly interconnected. Stop seeing the problems in isolation and start seeing the whole picture.

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  How Your Reality Might Be an...

  Juliane Hayes

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  
  Explore the unsettling philosophical and scientific evidence suggesting that your experienced reality may be fundamentally different from actual existence. This mind-bending audiobook examines perception research, quantum physics interpretations, simulation theory, and philosophical arguments challenging naive assumptions about the nature of what you perceive. Learn how your brain constructs reality from limited sensory data using predictive models that frequently generate experiences mismatching external conditions. The narrator presents neuroscience research showing that consciousness is a user interface rather than a direct window to reality, evolved for survival rather than truth. Discover why physicists increasingly question whether matter exists independently of observation and what quantum measurement problems suggest about the relationship between mind and reality. Understand the simulation hypothesis gaining serious consideration among scientists and philosophers who calculate we are statistically more likely to be simulated than base reality inhabitants. This audiobook explores multiple theories about reality's true nature without claiming definitive answers while demonstrating that certainty about reality requires unjustified assumptions. Learn what mystics, philosophers, and scientists across traditions have discovered about the limitations of ordinary perception. Perfect for curious minds comfortable with uncertainty and willing to question fundamental assumptions about existence that most people never examine.

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  Tackle Football and Traumatic...

  Daniel S. Goldberg, Christopher...

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  American tackle football is an industry like any other. And like many industries, it sells a product that is dangerous to those who use it—or, in this case, those who play it. Daniel S. Goldberg explores the connections among traumatic brain injury, collision sports, and the industry's continuing efforts to manufacture doubt. Focusing especially on youths and adolescents—the most vulnerable population that comprises over 99% of tackle football players in the US—Goldberg addresses the ethical and social implications of their participation in tackle football. 
   
   
   
  As the tackle football industry has consistently worked to mask the health hazards, it has used a particular tool that has proved highly effective in achieving this subterfuge: the manufacture of doubt. Goldberg advocates for using public health laws as a tool for countering these efforts at obfuscation, and he outlines specific policy proposals intended to address the population health and ethical problems presented by tackle football. 
   
   
   
  The book draws on public health ethics, public health law, and the histories of occupational and public health to assess the limits of parental choice to expose their children to risks of injury. Chris Nowinski, former Harvard football player and WWE wrestler, provides a timely and insider's perspective on these critical issues in the foreword.

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  Where the Waters Flow - The...

  Eithne Massey

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  'In the stories which follow I hope that the rivers will speak to you.'
  Flowing from source to sea, our rivers are the life-blood of Ireland. They have shaped the landscape, history, folkore and mythology of the island. And have inspired legends, tales, songs and poetry.
  Beginning with the Liffey in the east and travelling clockwise around the country to end with the Boyne, Where the Waters Flow tells the histories, tales and legends of fifteen of Ireland's best-known rivers.
  Richly illustrated with historic engravings, wildlife drawings and photographs, old and new.

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  The Knowledge

  Victor Steffensen

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  Learning from ancestral wisdom to save our challenging global environment. 
   
  In this follow-up to his bestselling Fire Country, Victor Steffensen offers a positive pathway for healing the planet based on traditional Indigenous knowledge systems. 
   
  Catastrophic wildfires have overwhelmed countries around the world from Australia, Canada and the United States to Greece and Brazil. Despite our growing climate crisis, changes to Western environmental approaches have been scant and many land management practices continue to destroy the land. It's time for a 'new' way of thinking. The solutions lie in the cultures of First Peoples, if only we're willing to listen. 
   
  As a Tagalaka man from Australia, Victor Steffensen spends his days educating people around the world about Aboriginal fire and land management knowledge. Applying the practices passed onto him by his mentors, Victor is on a mission to teach others the value of this knowledge. 
   
  In The Knowledge, Victor shares the simple yet core belief underlying Indigenous knowledge systems: that humans are part of the natural world. The land is not something to be dominated and exploited. Rather, we are nature and the way forward is to realign ourselves with the Earth, recognising our responsibility to care for the planet environmentally and socially. Filled with stories of Victor's work applying Indigenous solutions, The Knowledge will transform the way you think about our responses to bushfires, floods and the climate crisis. 
   
  Never has the call to change our global environmental approach been so strong or so clear. Destined to become a seminal work, The Knowledge is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future of our planet. 
   
   
  'Indigenous knowledge must lead us out of the emergency of climate change and species extinction. Buy this book.' DAVID SUZUKI

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