Publisher: Charles River Editors
Charles Darwin was an English scientist best known for his contributions to the theory of evolution and his belief in natural selection. Darwin’s writings remain popular and influential in science today. This edition of Geological Observations on South America includes a table of contents.
Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. Updates are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. You may think and then what? Its simplicity is perhaps its charm and twittering is growing at a phenomenal rate. Already in the US 1 in every 10 persons are using the site, including Barack Obama. With a recent $35million investment from private investors Twitter is predicted to soon take over Facebook in its reach. Innovative companies like Apple and Ford have already discovered the instant benefits of using the social media phenomenon to reach consumers directly, build their brand, and increase sales. Dominate your market with Twitter is the first UK book to be published on this growing spectacle. In it digital marketing experts Jon Smith and José Llinares reveal how marketers can use Twitter to their best advantage, creating strategies to build a loyal following among Twitter members and expand awareness for their product or service. It s a straight talking, no-waffle practical pocket guide and the tips inside can be put into practice immediately.Show book
A neuroscientist examines the science behind humanity’s beliefs in the supernatural. The majority of the world’s population is religious or believes in supernatural phenomena. In the United States, nine out of every ten adults believe in God, and a recent Gallup poll found that about three out of four Americans believe in some form of telepathy, déjà vu, ghosts, or past lives. Where does such supernatural thinking come from? Are we indoctrinated by our parents, churches, and media, or do such beliefs originate somewhere else? In SuperSense, award-winning cognitive scientist Bruce M. Hood reveals the science behind our beliefs in the supernatural. Superstitions are common. Many of us cross our fingers, knock on wood, step around black cats, and avoid walking under ladders. John McEnroe refused to step on the white lines of a tennis court between points. Wade Boggs insisted on eating a chicken dinner before every Boston Red Sox game. President Barack Obama played a game of basketball the morning of his victory in the Iowa primary and continued the tradition on every subsequent election day. Supernatural thinking includes loftier beliefs as well, such as the sentimental value we place on photos of loved ones, wedding rings, and teddy bears. It also includes spiritual beliefs and the hope for an afterlife. But in this modern, scientific age, why do we hold on to these behaviors and beliefs? It turns out that belief in things beyond what is rational or natural is common to humans and appears very early in childhood. In fact, according to Hood, this “super sense” is something we're born with to develop and is essential to the way we learn to understand the world. We couldn’t live without it! Our minds are designed from the very start to think there are unseen patterns, forces, and essences inhabiting the world, and it is unlikely that any effort to get rid of supernatural beliefs, or the superstitious behaviors that accompany them, will be successful. These common beliefs and sacred values are essential in binding us together as a society because they help us to see ourselves connected to each other at a deeper level.Show book
Learn How to Make a Passive Income for a Living Using Advanced Trading Strategies.Do you wish to change from your 8-hour job and be your own boss and work from home?Do you aspire to become a profitable trader, quit your job, and gain financial freedom?Then keep reading…Trading has certainly become an increasingly popular business within the reach of unprofessional investors who, thanks to the advent of online trading platforms, venture out on investments based on information gathered from sources that are not well identified. But hearing the wrong advice and information very often could prove fatal.This book will give you the potential to take a small sum of money and turn it into a larger sum of money within the same day! What more could you possibly want? It doesn't get much better than that. After listening to them, it's safe to say that you'll never want to work a normal 40-hour-per-week job ever again. Some people become so consumed by day trading that they end up doing it full time.The whole goal of this book is to help you become a profitable and successful trader.SCROLL UP and START LEARNING about TRADINGShow book
In this volume of adventure the author depicts the lives of certain humble modern heroes whose unconscious courage ordinarily goes unnoticed. Mr. Moffett has chosen unusual and picturesque careers, and has offered dramatic scenes from the lives of the steeple climber, the diver, the balloonist,the pilot, the bridge builder, the fireman, the aerial acrobat, the wild animal trainer, the dynamite worker and lastly the locomotive driver. (Summary by annise)And it has great pictures - ever wondered what the top of a steeple really looked like? Some listeners may find the "Wild Animal Tamer" stories distressing - I did. I would suggest you just don't download that section - the rest is well worth listening to.Show book
When I look around at the world, I see events that are strikingly obvious should not be happening. There are so many crazy people, ideas, concepts and events going on right now all over the world at a time when we have to be rational and objective so that we can take ourselves out of the rush to extinction that all of these crazy people are sending us.I concluded we must, therefore, be in the Bizarro Universe. I started to think about the events in my life that made it change from a perfectly 'Normal' life, to the one I am sharing with all of you and realized that somewhere along the line, probably when I lost the love of my life, through no fault of my own, that this was the turning point and it propelled me into this 'Bizarro Universe'. The more I thought about it, the more the book you are about to read came into focus for me. I had studied lots of Quantum Physics and Astronomy in my life, so I came up with this theory you are about to learn about here.The biggest piece of evidence, was when I realized that in a standard deck of playing cards there are no 'ONES'. They all start from the 'TWOs". Why is that? I pondered and then realized that it's just exactly what you would expect in this Bizarre Universe, the NON RATIONAL ONE, the one we are all forced into by bad events in our lives. This, of course, would mean that there is also another universe out there, where my twin and your twin are living in which everything is correct, happy and the planet is not threatened with Extinction because everyone is doing the right things to reduce their carbon footprint, reduce crime, reduce political unrest, social injustice, etc.This made me realize that there must be bridges between the 'Good Universe', the one we were all meant for, This book is a roadmap for how to get back to your correct life in the opposite universe.Show book
The cow. The most industrious animal in the world. A beast central to human existence since time began, it has played a vital role in our history not only as a source of food, but also as a means of labor, an economic resource, an inspiration for art, and even as a religious icon. Prehistoric people painted it on cave walls; explorers, merchants, and landowners traded it as currency; many cultures worshipped it as a god. So how did it come to occupy the sorry state it does today—more factory product than animal?In Beef, Andrew Rimas and Evan D. G. Fraser answer that question, telling the story of cattle in its entirety. From the powerful auroch, a now extinct beast once revered as a mystical totem, to the dairy cows of seventeenth-century Holland to the frozen meat patties and growth hormones of today, the authors deliver an engaging panoramic view of the cow's long and colorful history.Peppered with lively anecdotes, recipes, and culinary tidbits, Beef tells a story that spans the globe, from ancient Mediterranean bullfighting rings to the rugged grazing grounds of eighteenth-century England, from the quiet farms of Japan's Kobe beef cows to crowded American stockyards to remote villages in East Africa, home of the Masai, a society to which cattle mean everything. Leaving no stone unturned in its exploration of the cow's legacy, the narrative serves not only as a compelling story but as a call to arms, offering practical solutions for confronting the current condition of the wasteful beef and dairy industries. Beef is a captivating history of an animal whose relationship with humanity has shaped the world as we know it, and readers will never look at steak the same way again.Show book
