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  Oil Beach - How Toxic...

  Christina Dunbar-Hester

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  Can the stories of bananas, whales, sea birds, and otters teach us to reconsider the seaport as a place of ecological violence, tied to oil, capital, and trade? 
    
  San Pedro Bay, which contains the contiguous Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, is a significant site for petroleum shipping and refining as well as one of the largest container shipping ports in the world—some forty percent of containerized imports to the United States pass through this so-called America’s Port. It is also ecologically rich. Built atop a land- and waterscape of vital importance to wildlife, the heavily industrialized Los Angeles Harbor contains estuarial wetlands, the LA River mouth, and a marine ecology where colder and warmer Pacific Ocean waters meet. In this compelling interdisciplinary investigation, award-winning author Christina Dunbar-Hester explores the complex relationships among commerce, empire, environment, and the nonhuman life forms of San Pedro Bay over the last fifty years—a period coinciding with the era of modern environmental regulation in the United States. The LA port complex is not simply a local site, Dunbar-Hester argues, but a node in a network that enables the continued expansion of capitalism, propelling trade as it drives the extraction of natural resources, labor violations, pollution, and other harms. Focusing specifically on cetaceans, bananas, sea birds, and otters whose lives are intertwined with the vitality of the port complex itself, Oil Beach reveals how logistics infrastructure threatens ecologies as it circulates goods and capital—and helps us to consider a future where the accumulation of life and the accumulation of capital are not in violent tension.

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  Life Over Cancer

  Hector Fausta

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  Life Over Cancer: A Guide to Navigating and Understanding Different Cancer TreatmentsCancer is a devastating disease that affects millions of people worldwide every year. While conventional treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation have been effective in treating many forms of cancer, they often come with unpleasant side effects and can weaken the body's natural defenses. This is where integrative cancer treatment comes in, offering patients a way to complement their conventional treatments with alternative therapies that can help improve their quality of life, reduce side effects, and enhance the body's ability to fight the disease.This audiobook provides a comprehensive guide to integrative cancer treatment, exploring the various alternative therapies that can be used alongside conventional treatments.This audiobook will cover the following topics:- Understanding Conventional Cancer Treatments: Chemotherapy, Radiation, and Surgery- How Chemotherapy Works: Targeting Cancer Cells with Drugs- Radiation Therapy: Using High-Energy Rays to Kill Cancer Cells- The Benefits and Risks of Surgery for Cancer Treatment- Managing Side Effects of Conventional Cancer Treatments- Exploring Alternative Cancer Therapies: Acupuncture, Herbal Medicine, and Nutrition- The Power of Mind-Body Medicine: Meditation, Yoga, and Stress Reduction- Enhancing the Immune System: Supplements, Detoxification, and Lifestyle Changes- The Role of Spirituality in Integrative Cancer Treatment- Integrating Alternative Therapies into Your Conventional Treatment Plan- Navigating the Healthcare System and Making Informed Decisions about Your Cancer Care- And many more!If you want to learn more, scroll up and click “add to cart” now!

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  Recurrent Neural Networks -...

  Saimon Carrie

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  In an era where user experience is paramount, the ability to deliver dynamic, responsive, and personalized web applications is a game-changer. "Recurrent Neural Networks: Harnessing the Power of Sequential Data for Dynamic Web Applications" is your comprehensive guide to mastering the technology that drives these innovations. 
  Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are at the forefront of artificial intelligence, enabling developers to process and learn from sequential data, making them ideal for web applications that require real-time updates, user interaction, and personalized content. This book delves deep into the world of RNNs, providing you with the tools and knowledge to transform your web applications. 
  "Recurrent Neural Networks: Harnessing the Power of Sequential Data for Dynamic Web Applications" equips you with the knowledge and skills to elevate your web development projects to new heights. Embrace the future of web applications with RNNs and create experiences that are fast, reliable, and engaging. 
   

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  The Forgotten Sense - The New...

  Jonas Olofsson

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  A New York Public Library "Best Book of the Year" “The Forgotten Sense leaves us with the hope of new discoveries and new recoveries—so that we may once again revel in the glorious, fragrant world around us.”—Wall Street Journal 
  By one of the world’s leading researchers into the science of smell, a fascinating exploration of our most essential yet least understood sense—enabling us to appreciate food and drink, warning us of dangers, and even influencing who we fall in love with 
  Our sense of smell guides our lives far more than our screen-heavy, sight-privileged era would suggest. It animates our experience of food and drink, helps us access memories, and strengthens our intimacy with each other. But, long considered our most “beastly” sense, the inner workings of smell have stumped scientists for centuries. 
  Now, cognitive scientist and leading smell researcher Jonas Olofsson uncovers the sophisticated processes that drive our olfactory system, with profound implications for how we perceive the world around us. Drawing from cutting-edge original research, Olofsson shows that not only is our sense of smell extraordinarily sensitive, its process of chemical exchange shaped human evolution on its most fundamental level. 
  From the pheromones, environmental signals, and emotions we process with each breath, olfaction makes us the individuals we are. Moreover, smelling is an intellectual exercise, Olofsson argues, one that we have the remarkable capacity to strengthen and, with some effort, even regain after illness. 
  With infectious curiosity and a host of applications—from emotional health and gastronomy to literature and even politics—The Forgotten Sense is a wide-ranging and entertaining look at this most understudied function of human life.

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  The Geometry of Change

  Santiago Machain

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  The Geometry of Change is a field guide to building models that are both honest about complexity and useful in practice. It connects three pillars—how systems work (mechanisms), how we encode them (models), and how we learn from the world (measurement)—into a coherent workflow for decision-making. Beginning with why we model at all, it explores growth patterns and limits, stochasticity and structure, interactions and spread, spatial and metapopulation thinking, and the challenges of fitting parameters from real data. It then turns to interpreting signals—trends, cycles, and regimes—showing how to separate what persists from what repeats and what truly changes the rules. Throughout, it emphasizes calibration, uncertainty, fairness, and governance, translating technical craft into operational playbooks and ethics-aware practices. The result is a practical, human-centered approach to turning data into insight, and insight into action, across ecological, urban, digital, and organizational systems.

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  Mendeleyev's Dream - The Quest...

  Paul Strathern

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  One of Bill Gates's Top Five Book RecommendationsThe wondrous and illuminating story of humankind's quest to discover the fundamentals of chemistry, culminating in Mendeleyev's dream of the Periodic Table.In 1869 Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleyev was puzzling over a way to bring order to the fledgling science of chemistry. Wearied by the effort, he fell asleep at his desk. What he dreamed would fundamentally change the way we see the world. Framing this history is the life story of the nineteenth-century Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleyev, who fell asleep at his desk and awoke after conceiving the periodic table in a dream-the template upon which modern chemistry is founded and the formulation of which marked chemistry's coming of age as a science. From ancient philosophy through medieval alchemy to the splitting of the atom, this is the true story of the birth of chemistry and the role of one man's dream. In this elegant, erudite, and entertaining book, Paul Strathern unravels the quixotic history of chemistry through the quest for the elements.

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