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  Birdland: A Journey Around...

  John Gower

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  A joyous celebration of Britain’s rich bird life 
  In Birdland, journalist and lifelong birder Jon Gower explores our intimate connection with the bird life around us. From the symphonic song of the wren to the clack of a puffin’s beak and from epic migrations to sunset murmurations, birds are commonplace miracles. No wonder they have inspired our artists, writers and songwriters. Whether rare or abundant, Jon Gower visits some of the best places in Britain to watch birds, searching for some species he has always wanted to see such as wryneck, dotterel and barred warbler. 
  But all is not well in Birdland. Gower charts the many changes to Britain’s bird life over the last 50 years, as the countryside has seemingly emptied and in many ways fallen silent. He considers the effects of the climate emergency, the decline in biodiversity and warming oceans on birdlife and looks at work being done to mitigate these developments. But above all it is a celebration of birds and their being, and a call to arms to defend them. As Great Bustards return to our plains and eagles to our mountains, Jon Gower’s book examines the future from a bird’s-eye view. 
  Jon Gower's Birdland is a prize-winning exploration of nature and ecology, focusing on endangered bird species. As a top guide in birdwatching, his memoirs read like a biography of the birds he has encountered, making this non-fiction book a must-read for animal enthusiasts. 
  For fans of Daniel Start (Wild Guide Lake District and Yorkshire Dales), John Lewis-Stempel (England), Mark Rees (The Little Book of Welsh Landmarks), Alice Roberts (The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being), and Darren Chetty (How to Disagree). 
  HarperCollins 2025

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  The Nature Book

  Tom Comitta

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  Part sweeping evocation of Earth's rhythms, part literary archive, part post-human novel, The Nature Book collages descriptions of the natural world into a singular symphonic paean to the planet. 
   
   
   
  What does our nature writing say about us, and more urgently, what would it say without us? Tom Comitta investigates these questions and more in The Nature Book, a "literary supercut" that arranges writing about the natural world from three hundred works of fiction into a provocative re-envisioning of the novel. With fiction's traditional background of flora and fauna brought to the fore, people and their structures disappear, giving center stage to animals, landforms, and weather patterns—honored in their own right rather than for their ambient role in human drama. The Nature Book challenges the confines of anthropocentrism with sublime artistic vision, traversing mountains, forests, oceans, and space to shift our attention toward the magnificently complex and interconnected world around us.

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  Journey Through the Wonders of...

  Eliot Wainwright

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  Journey Through the Wonders of Our Universe  
  ⭐⭐ Simplified Audio Guide ⭐⭐ 
  Are you aiming to expand your cosmic understanding and immerse yourself in the mysteries of the universe? 
  Looking for a comprehensive guide that equips you with all necessary insights to embrace universal knowledge? 
  Your search ends here! 
  This guide serves as your definitive companion for deepening your knowledge, honing your skills, and engaging in intellectual exploration. With this, you're prepared for a transformative journey through space. 
  Updated to include the latest cosmic insights and discoveries. 
  Key features of this enriched guide: 
  - Profound insights about the wonders of our universe 
  - Detailed explanations of essential astronomical concepts 
  - Effective strategies for understanding complex phenomena 
  Our guide distinguishes itself through comprehensive coverage, essential for anyone eager to unlock cosmic mysteries. Concepts aren’t merely skimmed; they are explored with depth and precision. 
  Please note that this guide is not affiliated with any official astronomical organizations and is purely an independent resource for your benefit. 
  Designed with a clear structure and easy-to-understand language, our guide ensures smooth transitions between topics. Say goodbye to dense jargon and welcome clear, precise, and scientifically accurate content. 
  So, why wait? Click the BUY NOW button, secure your guide, and begin your journey to unlock the cosmic mysteries today!

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  Ultimate Web Automation Testing...

  Vitaly Skadorva

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  Elevate Your Web Testing with Practical Insights and Advanced Techniques.
   
  Book Description
  Dive into the world of automated web testing with “Ultimate Web Automation Testing with Cypress.” From foundational concepts to advanced techniques, the book equips professionals with the skills to seamlessly integrate Cypress into their workflow. Starting with setup and basic tests, it progresses to cover end-to-end, component, API, and data-driven testing with practical examples and best practices. Further, it explores advanced topics like custom commands, plugins, Cypress Cloud, Smart Orchestration and Flaky Test Management. The book also unveils the integration with GitHub, GitLab, and Cucumber, and concludes with CI/CD implementation using Docker and Jenkins Pipelines, along with effective reporting techniques.
   
  By the end, you will have a profound understanding of Cypress, empowering you to excel in web application testing and advance your careers in the competitive software testing industry.
   
  Table of Contents
  1. Getting Started with Cypress Testing
  2. Setting Up the Development Environment
  3. Writing Your First Test
  4. End-to-End (E2E) Testing
  5. Component Testing
  6. API Testing
  7. Data-Driven Testing
  8. Advanced Cypress Techniques
  9. Cypress Cloud, Smart Orchestration, and Flaky Test Management
  10. Integrating with GitHub, GitLab, and Cucumber
  11. Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
  12. Reporting and Test Results
  13. Conclusion
  Index

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  Fireside Sleep Sounds 2 in 1 -...

  Sleeptime Publications

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  10 Hours of Pure, Natural Ambience to Calm Your Mind and Soothe Your Soul. 
  Do you find it impossible to fall asleep in silence? Are city noise, stress, or anxiety keeping your mind awake long after your body is begging for rest? Do you wish you could escape to a quiet cabin in the woods during a gentle storm—or fall asleep beside a crackling fireplace without leaving your bed? 
  Fireside Sleep Sounds 2 in 1 combines two of nature’s most comforting soundscapes—rolling thunderstorms and crackling fires—into one powerful audio experience designed to lull you into the deepest sleep of your life. 
  Here’s what you’ll get inside:✅ 5 hours of immersive storm ambience – thunder, rain, and distant skies to melt tension and ease anxiety✅ 5 hours of realistic fireplace sounds – from glowing embers to a lively hearth, with no music or narration✅ Perfect for sleep, reading, meditation, or background atmosphere✅ Natural white noise that masks distracting sounds and promotes uninterrupted rest✅ Two distinct sound environments so you can choose what your body needs each night—cool, cleansing storms or warm, cozy fires 
  You don’t need a stormy night or a cabin in the woods to fall into a peaceful sleep. Whether you're battling insomnia, background noise, or just a racing mind, this 10-hour audio bundle creates the perfect sound cocoon to help you unwind. 
  🎧 Press play, settle in, and let nature do the rest.

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  Creative Evolution

  Henri Bergson

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  Henri Bergson’s highly influential book, ‘Creative Evolution’ (‘Evolution Creatrice’, 1907) established a theory of evolution - called ‘Creative Evolution Theory’ - which gained a considerable following in the first half of the 20th Century. It also helped the author to win the Nobel Prize in 1927 for his work investigating the origins of biological information and divergence in the evolutionary process.  
   
  In this work, Bergson seeks an alternative explanation as to how new forms of life emerge compared to those prevailing at the time. This included both the ‘mechanistic’ or deterministic explanations of biological science on the one hand, and on the other the ‘finalist’ or strictly teleological explanation of those who believed in the hand of a ‘Creator’ or God, coordinating life in a divine plan. 
   
  Creative Evolution proposes a third explanation in what Bergson calls élan vital’ or ‘vital impetus’, a force that infuses all matter and drives it forward into an ever-changing and infinite variety of living forms. This appears as a vital impetus that can also be related to humanity’s own creative life force. Bergson’s book builds on his ‘Theory of Time’ as set forth in works such as ‘Matter and Memory’ and ‘Time and Free Will’.  In these works, and in the present volume, Bergson sees continuous ‘duration’ as real time, as opposed to the way in which time is divided up into measured units by the ‘organising’ mind of science. 
   
  Life, as we really experience it, is subject to constant change and our tendency to explain evolutionary change by looking only at ‘ends’ achieved rather than the processes by which they emerge, divorces us from the life force itself.  
   
  Instead, Bergson feels we need to reengage with our instincts as well as with our intelligence in order to understand the evolutionary process, as both co-exist to some extent within us, all forms of life having a common origin in that instinctual, innate knowledge of simpler life forms. Though these may be unconscious or semi-conscious, they are, in Bergson’s view, much more in touch with the ever-changing nature of real time than the analytical and rational knowledge of our species 
   
  As he writes:  “Our thought, in its purely logical form, is incapable of presenting the true nature of life, the full meaning of the evolutionary movement. Created by life, in definite circumstances, to act on definite things, how can it embrace life, of which it is only an emanation or an aspect?”  
   
  It is to attempt an answer to this question that ‘Creative Evolution’ directs its attention.

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