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  The Book of Being Chimp

  Adrian Cale

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  The Book of Being Chimp is Adrian Cale’s entertaining celebration of the chimpanzee. Written with fact-filled, often witty reverence and featuring over 100 of the author’s beautiful photographs, it is a fun and informative step-by-step guide to chimpanzee life. The captivating pictures are accompanied by a simple, humorous and engaging text which tells you all about the contrasting lives of chimps in the wild and those being rehabilitated at rescue centres. 
  Part 1 - Being a Chimp – details their life in the wild - from birth, through growth and development stages, to what makes them tick, what they eat, how they communicate and more. 
  Part 2 - Being helped to be a Chimp - covers the vastly different life of rehabilitating chimps at rescue centres and what they go through learning to be chimps all over again.

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  Cave Sleep Sounds - 4 Hours of...

  Sleeptime Publications

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  Sink into the earth and let silence do what sleep apps never could. 
  Do you lie awake at night, unable to quiet your mind no matter how exhausted you feel? Are you tired of artificial white noise that feels more distracting than calming? 
  Cave Sleep Sounds offers a different kind of escape—one that feels ancient, grounding, and deeply real. This 4-hour immersive audio experience surrounds you with the echoes of underground streams, the soft drip of water in vast stone chambers, and the subtle breath of wind through glacial crevices. Designed to slow your thoughts and anchor your body in stillness, these natural, rhythmic sounds help you let go of tension, anxiety, and mental noise—so you can drift off naturally and stay asleep through the night. 
  Inside, you’ll get:🌌 4 Unique Cave-Inspired Soundscapes – Featuring dripping stone, echoing water, glacial wind, and deep hollow stillness🧘 Mindful Narration Every 15 Minutes – Gentle spoken reflections that guide you deeper into relaxation🌙 Designed for Deep Sleep or Meditation – Perfect for insomnia relief, nap routines, or calming nighttime anxiety🎧 4 Hours of Seamless Audio – No looping, no abrupt cuts—just one continuous, grounding sound journey🌑 Rooted in Earth-Based Calm – Inspired by the primal comfort of enclosed, silent spaces 
  This isn’t just background noise—it’s a sensory descent into stillness. You don’t need to follow a meditation or practice mindfulness perfectly. All you have to do is press play, lie back, and let the sounds of the earth cradle you to sleep. Whether you’re dealing with chronic restlessness or just want a more peaceful night, Cave Sleep Sounds is your invitation to finally rest. 
  Listen now and let the earth carry you into deep, uninterrupted sleep.

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  The Observant Walker - Wild Food...

  John Wright

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  When we go for a walk, whether in the countryside or city, we pass through landscapes full of natural beauty and curiosities both visible and invisible - but though we might admire the view, or wonder idly about the name of a flower, we rarely have the knowledge to fully engage with what we see. When we do, our sense of place is expanded, our understanding deepened and we can discover richness in even the most everyday stroll. 
   
  John Wright has been leading forays around Britain for decades. As an expert forager, he shows people how to identify the edible species that abound - but he also reveals the natural history, stories and science behind our surroundings. Here, he takes us with him on eight walks: from verdant forests to wild coastlines, via city pavements, fields and rolling hills, he illuminates what can be found on a walk across any British terrain, and how you might observe and truly understand them, for yourself.

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  Splinters of Infinity - Cosmic...

  Mark Wolverton

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  Set in a revolutionary era of physics and science when a series of rapid-fire discoveries was upending our understanding of the universe, Splinters of Infinity by Mark Wolverton tells a little-known story: the tale of two of America's foremost physicists, Robert Millikan (1868–1953) and Arthur Compton (1892–1962), who found themselves locked in an intense, often deeply personal, conflict about cosmic rays. Confirmed in 1912, cosmic rays—enigmatic forms of penetrating radiation—seemed to raise all new questions about the origins of the universe, but they also offered the potential to explain everything—or reveal the existence of God. 
   
   
   
  In engaging, accessible prose, Wolverton takes the listener through the twists and turns of the Millikan-Compton debate, one of the first major public examples of how heated the controversies among scientists could become—and the lengths that scientists would go to settle their disputes. Along the way, Wolverton probes the forever elusive question, still unanswered today, about where cosmic rays come from and what they reveal about black holes, distant galaxies, the existence of dark matter and dark energy, and the birth of the universe, concluding that these splinters of infinity may not hold the keys to the secret of creation but do bring us ever closer to it.

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  We Are All Whalers - The Plight...

  Michael J. Moore

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  Relating his experiences caring for endangered whales, a veterinarian and marine scientist shows we can all share in the salvation of these imperiled animals. 
  The image most of us have of whalers includes harpoons and intentional trauma. Yet eating commercially caught seafood leads to whales’ entanglement and slow death in rope and nets, and the global shipping routes that bring us readily available goods often lead to death by collision. We—all of us—are whalers, marine scientist and veterinarian Michael J. Moore contends. But we do not have to be. 
  Drawing on over forty years of fieldwork with humpback, pilot, fin, and, in particular, North Atlantic right whales—a species whose population has declined more than 20 percent since 2017—Moore takes us with him as he performs whale necropsies on animals stranded on beaches, in his independent research alongside whalers using explosive harpoons, and as he tracks injured whales to deliver sedatives. The whales’ plight is a complex, confounding, and disturbing one. We learn of existing but poorly enforced conservation laws and of perennial (and often failed) efforts to balance the push for fisheries profit versus the protection of endangered species caught by accident. 
  But despite these challenges, Moore’s tale is an optimistic one. He shows us how technologies for ropeless fishing and the acoustic tracking of whale migrations make a dramatic difference. And he looks ahead with hope as our growing understanding of these extraordinary creatures fuels an ever-stronger drive for change. 
  For more information on Moore’s book and research, please visit his webpage at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

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  The Curious History of the Heart...

  Vincent M. Figueredo

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  For much of recorded history, people considered the heart to be the most important organ in the body. In cultures around the world, the heart—not the brain—was believed to be the location of intelligence, memory, emotion, and the soul. Over time, views on the purpose of the heart have transformed. Modern medicine and science dismissed what was once the king of the organs as a mere blood pump subservient to the brain, yet the heart remains a potent symbol of love and health and an important part of our cultural iconography. 
   
   
   
  This book traces the evolution of our understanding of the heart from the dawn of civilization to the present. Vincent M. Figueredo—an accomplished cardiologist and expert on the history of the human heart—explores the role and significance of the heart in art, culture, religion, philosophy, and science across time and place. He examines how the heart really works, its many meanings in our emotional and daily lives, and what cutting-edge science is teaching us about this remarkable organ. Figueredo considers the science of heart disease, recent advancements in heart therapies, and what the future may hold. He highlights the emerging field of neurocardiology, which has found evidence of a "heart-brain connection" in mental and physical health, suggesting that ancient views hold more truth than moderns suspect.

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