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  Love Drugs - The Chemical Future...

  Brian D. Earp, Julian Savulescu

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  “A fascinating, game-changing scientific argument for the use of unconventional medicines by those struggling with matters of the heart.” ―Helen Fisher, author of Anatomy of Love Is there a pill for love? What about an “anti-love drug”, to help us get over an ex? This book argues that certain psychoactive substances, including MDMA—the active ingredient in Ecstasy—may help ordinary couples work through relationship difficulties and strengthen their connection. Others may help sever an emotional connection during a breakup. This book builds a case for conducting research into “love drugs” and “anti-love drugs” and explores the ethical implications for individuals and society. Western medicine ignores the interpersonal effects of drug-based interventions. Why are we still in the dark about the effects of these drugs on romantic partnerships? And how can we overhaul scientific research norms to take relationships more fully into account?    Ethicists Brian D. Earp and Julian Savulescu say that the time to think through such questions is now. Our most intimate connections are already being influenced by drugs we ingest for other purposes. Controlled studies are underway to see whether artificial brain chemicals can enhance couples therapy. Love Drugs arms us with the latest scientific knowledge and ethical tools that we can use to decide if these sorts of medications should be a part of our society. Or whether a chemical romance will be right for us. “A fascinating account of a future that is starting to unfold right now.” ―Peter Singer, author of Ethics in the Real World “Earp and Savulescu show . . . how the drugs we have developed are expanding our capacities for connecting with each other” ―Clancy Martin, author of Love and Lies

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  Day Trading - The Secrets of...

  Edward G. Woodby

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  If you want to learn the secrets of day trading, this book is for you.Trading is one of the most effective ways to earn a monthly income, right from your home. 
  But most people are afraid of starting out. 
  And they are right: day trading is very risky, if you don’t know what to do. 
  Trading by Edward G. Woodby is your complete guide to start trading profitably with scientific, proven strategies and techniques. 
  In this book you will discover: 
  - What you need to know before you start trading 
  - Which financial instruments are usually traded 
  - The basic law of trading 
  - The role of brokers, and which one to use when starting 
  - How to check if a broker is safe or not 
  - The basics of Technical Analysis 
  - Dow’s theory 
  - The step-by-step day trading guide 
  - What are market indicators and how to understand them 
  - How to develop your own trading system 
  - Use trading systems to automate your trading strategy

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  Religion and Science from...

  John Charlton Hardwick

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  This remarkable philosophical and investigational effort focuses on giving the listener a historical sense of the fascinating relationship between the development of science and religious thought. Though by today's standard it is of course a bit embryonic (science has moved on so much since Galileo, and even since Einstein) it is still captivating and essential listening for those interested in both the spiritual and the scientific.

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  Elephants & Kings - An...

  Thomas R. Trautmann

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  Because of their enormous size, elephants have long been irresistible for kings as symbols of their eminence. In early civilizations—such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus Civilization, and China—kings used elephants for royal sacrifice, spectacular hunts, public display of live captives, or the conspicuous consumption of ivory—all of them tending toward the elephant’s extinction. The kings of India, however, as Thomas R. Trautmann shows in this study, found a use for elephants that actually helped preserve their habitat and numbers in the wild: war.             Trautmann traces the history of the war elephant in India and the spread of the institution to the west—where elephants took part in some of the greatest wars of antiquity—and Southeast Asia (but not China, significantly), a history that spans 3,000 years and a considerable part of the globe, from Spain to Java. He shows that because elephants eat such massive quantities of food, it was uneconomic to raise them from birth. Rather, in a unique form of domestication, Indian kings captured wild adults and trained them, one by one, through millennia. Kings were thus compelled to protect wild elephants from hunters and elephant forests from being cut down. By taking a wide-angle view of human-elephant relations, Trautmann throws into relief the structure of India’s environmental history and the reasons for the persistence of wild elephants in its forests. 

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  The Aliens Are Coming! - The...

  Ben Miller

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  The actor and author “celebrates the human fascination with the search for extraterrestrial life and grounds it with equally fascinating science” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). 
   
  For millennia, we have looked up at the stars and wondered whether we are alone in the universe, but in the last few years—as our probes begin to escape the solar system, and our telescopes reveal thousands of Earthlike planets—scientists have taken huge leaps toward an answer. “Forget science fiction,” author Ben Miller writes. “We are living through one of the most extraordinary revolutions in the history of science: the emergent belief of a generation of physicists, biologists, and chemists that we are not alone.” 
   
    
   
  The Aliens Are Coming! is a refreshingly clear, hugely entertaining guide to the search for alien life. Miller looks everywhere for insight, from the Big Bang’s sea of energy that somehow became living matter, to the equations that tell us Earth is not so rare, to the clues bacteria hold to how life started. And he makes the case that our growing understanding of life itself will help us predict whether it exists elsewhere, what it might look like, and when we might find it. 
   
  “An eclectic and entertaining story, weaving together space exploration, the evolution of life on Earth, the Drake Equation and Egyptian hieroglyphs. That’s nontrivial, as we say in physics, but Ben Miller manages it!” —Brian Cox, author of Why Does E=mc2? 
   
  “Whether it’s an objective look at UFO encounters, detailing the challenges of contacting aliens or explaining how life on Earth can inform our search, his snappy, conversational style will keep you turning the pages.” —Discover

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  Secret Life of the City - How...

  Hanna Hagen Bjørgaas

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  Come along on an informative, whirlwind tour of urban species and discover that you are surrounded by wild nature, even in your own backyard.When biologist Hanna Bjørgaas spots a fairy cup lichen in Antarctica, she is surprised to recognize it from her own backyard in Oslo. When she returns home, she embarks on a journey into urban nature, visiting city parks, cemeteries, and concrete rooftops to investigate the species that live in urban spaces. Along the way, she meets corvids, songbirds, ants, pigeons, bats, sparrows, fungi, and linden trees—and the experts who study their surprising abilities to survive, and thrive, in the city.As Bjørgaas discovers, urban nature—and its unique mixture of species that have never lived together before in Earth's history—is valuable. More than half of the world's human population lives in densely populated areas—and plants and animals have followed us into cities. Secret Life of the City invites us to pay more attention to the sounds, sights, and smells of urban nature right outside our door.A treasure trove of fascinating flora and fauna, this wonderful book offers a plea to save our city plants, animals, and fungi before we lose them, too.

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