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  Expressly Human - Decoding The...

  Mark Changizi, Tim Barber

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  Over billions of years of evolution, animals have become increasingly sophisticated and increasingly sentient. In the process, they evolved emotions, which helped improve their odds of survival in complex situations. These emotions were, at first, purely internal. But at some point, social animals began expressing their emotions, in increasingly dramatic ways. These emotional expressions could accurately reflect internal emotions (smiling to express happiness)—or they could be quite different (smiling to cover up that you're actually furious, but can't tell your boss that). Why did once-stone-faced animals evolve to be so emotionally expressive—to be us? The answer, as evolutionary neurobiologist Mark Changizi and mathematician Tim Barber reveal, is that emotional expressions are our first and most important language—one that allows us, as social animals, to engage in highly sophisticated communications and negotiations. Expressly Human introduces an original theory that explains, from first principles, how the broad range of emotional expressions evolved, and provides a Rosetta Stone for human communication. It will revolutionize the way you see every social interaction, from deciding who gets the last slice of pizza to multimillion-dollar business negotiations, and change your definition of what makes us human.

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  Assembling the Dinosaur

  Lukas Rieppel

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  Although dinosaur fossils were first found in England, a series of dramatic discoveries during the late 1800s turned North America into a world center for vertebrate paleontology. At the same time, the United States emerged as the world’s largest industrial economy, and creatures like tyrannosaurus, brontosaurus, and triceratops became emblems of American capitalism. Large, fierce, and spectacular, American dinosaurs dominated the popular imagination, making front-page headlines and appearing in feature films. Assembling the Dinosaur follows dinosaur fossils from the field to the museum and into the commercial culture of North America’s Gilded Age. Business tycoons like Andrew Carnegie and J. P. Morgan made common cause with vertebrate paleontologists to capitalize on the widespread appeal of dinosaurs, using them to project American exceptionalism back into prehistory. Learning from the show-stopping techniques of P. T. Barnum, museums exhibited dinosaurs to attract, entertain, and educate the public. By assembling the skeletons of dinosaurs into eye-catching displays, wealthy industrialists sought to cement their own reputations as generous benefactors of science, showing that modern capitalism could produce public goods in addition to profits. Behind the scenes, museums adopted corporate management practices to control the movement of dinosaur bones, restricting their circulation to influence their meaning and value in popular culture.

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  The Voyage of the Beagle

  Charles Darwin

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  Charles Darwin was just twenty-two when he went on his first voyage around the world in 1831. Darwin's father at first refused to allow his young son to go on the voyage. Fortunately, his father relented, and Darwin's journal is now considered by many to be the greatest scientific travel narrative ever written. Revised by the author in 1860, this is an account of his experiences on the HMS Beagle, a ship that was mapping the coast of South America. What was set to be a two- or three-year voyage stretched out to a five-year adventure. Darwin took copious notes during the voyage, notes that would later lead to his formulation of the theory of evolution. He was able to observe coral reefs, fossil-filled rocks, earthquakes, and more, firsthand, and then make his own deductions.

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  Stop Micromanaging - How To...

  Chayla Cooper

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  Do your employees hide when you walk in the room? 
  Do you take on more than you can chew because you're the only one that can do it right the first time? 
  Do you immerse yourself into the tiny details instead of looking at the big picture? 
  You may be a micromanager.  
  After being tormented by two micromanagers within her career, Chayla Cooper, author of 5 Keys To Job Promotion: Through The Eyes Of David And Goliath and 5 Keys To Leadership: Through The Eyes Of Moses, takes a dive into the mind of what it means to be a micromanager. These Type A individuals who love to take control of every situation, rely only on their own experience, and slightly intimidate their way to the top are not actually all big and bad as they seem.  
   Stop Micromanaging will demonstrate:What micromanaging really says about your personality (it's not all bad)What to do before you delegate tasksHow to retain your best employeesThe one trick to lowering your anxiety  
  If you want to become a better manager for your team, or if you wish to learn how to take the sting out of the micromanager in your life, then scroll up and listen today!

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  The Complete Language of Flowers...

  S. Theresa Dietz

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  A comprehensive encyclopedia providing the meanings, powers, facts, and folklore for over 1,001 flower species. 
   
  For centuries, artists and lovers have used the secret language of flowers, or floriography, to discreetly send overt messages of their desires and emotions. A simple flower could reveal a variety of hidden meanings, from a flirtatious “I like you” to a serious declaration of everlasting love. For example:A sweet pea reported a friendly “I’m thinking of you”A lavender rose screamed “Love at first sight”Geraniums signified “friendship”Hibiscus wished “Peace and happiness” 
   
  S. Thereesa Dietz has meticulously compiled over 1,001 of your favorite flowers into this beautifully updated and definitive guide, complete with full-color illustrations. Organized by both scientific and common names, each species contains fascinating and forgotten symbolic flower meanings from ancient Greek and Roman times to today. Whether used as a reference to create beautifully bespoke wedding bouquets or as a flower companion to plan stunning garden combinations, this comprehensive edition is perfect for every flower lover. 
   
  “Flower lovers will marvel at S. Theresa Dietz’s The Complete Language of Flowers, an A to Z of flowers and plants listing symbolic meanings, possible powers, folklore and facts.” —BookPage

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  Cosmic Impact - Understanding...

  Andrew May

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  As end-of-the-world scenarios go, an apocalyptic collision with an
  
  asteroid or comet is the new kid on the block, gaining respectability only in
  
  the last decade of the 20th century with the realisation that the dinosaurs had
  
  been wiped out by just such an impact.
  
   
  
  Now the science community is making up for lost time, with
  
  worldwide efforts to track the thousands of potentially hazardous near-Earth
  
  objects, and plans for high-tech hardware that could deflect an incoming object
  
  from a collision course – a procedure depicted, with little regard for
  
  scientific accuracy, in several Hollywood movies.
  
   
  
  Astrophysicist and science writer Andrew May disentangles
  
  fact from fiction in this fast-moving and entertaining account, covering the
  
  nature and history of comets and asteroids, the reason why some orbits are more
  
  hazardous than others, the devastating local and global effects that an impact
  
  event would produce, and – more optimistically – the way future space missions
  
  could avert a catastrophe.

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