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  Of Ice and Men - How We've Used...

  Fred Hogge

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  An exploration of humanity’s relationship with ice since the dawn of civilization, Of Ice and Men reminds us that only by understanding this unique substance can we save the ice on our planet—and perhaps ourselves. 
   
  Ice tells a story. It writes it in rock. It lays it down, snowfall by snowfall at the ends of the earth where we may read it like the rings on a tree. It tells our planet’s geological and climatological tale. 
   
  Ice tells another story too: a story about us. It is a tale packed with swash-buckling adventure and improbable invention, peopled with driven, eccentric, often brilliant characters. It tells how our species has used ice to reshape the world according to our needs and our desires: how we have survived it, harvested it, traded it, bent science to our will to make it—and how in doing so we have created globe-spanning infrastructures that are entirely dependent upon it. 
   
  And even after we have done all that, we take ice so much for granted that we barely notice it. 
   
  Ice has supercharged the modern world. It has allowed us to feed ourselves and cure ourselves in ways unimaginable two hundred years ago. It has enabled the global population to rise from less than 1 billion to nearly 7½ billion—which just happens to cover the same period of time as humanity has harvested, manufactured, and distributed ice on an industrial scale. 
   
  And yet the roots of our fascination with ice and its properties run much deeper than the recent past.

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  Tenacious Beasts - Wildlife...

  Christopher J. Preston

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  The news about wildlife is dire—more than 900 species have been wiped off the planet since industrialization. Against this bleak backdrop, however, there are also glimmers of hope and crucial lessons to be learned from animals that have defied global trends toward extinction: bears in Italy, bison in North America, whales in the Atlantic. These populations are back from the brink, some of them in numbers unimaginable in a century. How has this happened? What shifts in thinking did it demand? In crisp, transporting prose, Christopher Preston reveals the mysteries and challenges at the heart of these resurgences. 
   
   
   
  Drawing on compelling personal stories from the researchers, Indigenous people, and activists who know the creatures best, Preston weaves together a gripping narrative of how some species are taking back vital, ecological roles. Each section of the book offers a philosophical shift in how humans ought to think about animals, passionately advocating for the changes in attitude necessary for wildlife recovery. 
   
   
   
  Tenacious Beasts is quintessential nature writing for the Anthropocene, touching on different facets of ecological restoration from Indigenous knowledge to rewilding practices. More important, perhaps, the book offers a road map—and a measure of hope—for a future in which humans and animals can once again coexist.

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  Package Price Profit - The...

  Nigel Moore

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  Working out what to include and exclude in an MSP offering as well as how to bundle, package and price your plans is one of the toughest things most MSPs face when building and growing their business.  
  In this short but impactful read, Nigel demystifies the process, answers the tough questions and provides examples to help you build an MSP offering that not only appeals to your clients but also allows you to scale. 
  Inside these pages, you will discover: 
  -- Why your pricing model might be sending you out of business. 
  -- How the fastest growing MSPs are scaling their business. 
  -- How to structure your plans without unnecessary complexity. 
  -- How to price your Agreements 
  -- And much, much more!

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  Agile Product Management -...

  Alexa Campbell

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  Everything you need to know about Agile product management. 
  Have you always wondered what you can do to improve the team you work with? 
  Do you wonder if there is a way to ensure the product is updated periodically to ensure the final product has all the features the stakeholder wants? 
  If you answered yes, then this is the book for you. 
  Most project managers and organizations throw the word Agile around a lot when working on software development. Little do they know that this project management methodology can be used to develop almost any product and used by any team with a deliverable. 
  In this book, you will: 
  ●      Understand what project management is 
  ●      Learn everything about Agile 
  ●      Understand the benefits of the Agile project management methodology 
  ●      Gain insight to the different frameworks used to implement Agile, including Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming, and Lean 
  ●      How to determine if Agile is right for your team 
  ●      Know what mistakes to avoid and more! 
  You will also learn what you can do to overcome any issues you may come across when you implement this methodology. 
  So, what are you waiting for? Grab a copy of this book and learn everything you can about Agile.

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  Younger Dryas Period The: The...

  Editors Charles River

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  From about 12,900 to 11,700 before present (BP), near Ice Age conditions returned to the Northern Hemisphere of the planet. It was a sudden shift from the warm temperatures that had prevailed for nearly 2,000 years. This period is referred to by archaeologists, geologists, and earth scientists as the Greenland Stadial, but it is more commonly known as the Younger Dryas. The Younger Dryas marked the end of the last glacial period, the end of the Pleistocene Era, and the beginning of the Holocene Era, which is the current era. It was a period of great change, when climate change happened quite quickly, directly affecting the flora, fauna, and humans of the Northern Hemisphere in the process. The impact on the human populations was perhaps most important because, in some places, it virtually destroyed emerging cultures, while in other places, it might have propelled humans to develop new survival traits and technologies later used to move humanity into the Neolithic era. Although scholars now know quite a bit about the Younger Dryas, many elements of it are still debated. Other aspects serve as a predictor of what humans can expect in the future. 
  	There is, however, still plenty of information about the Younger Dryas that remains unknown or open to debate. Not all scholars agree on the dates of the Younger Dryas or how long it lasted. Even more controversial are the alternate theories about what caused the Younger Dryas and the effect it had on the Northern Hemisphere’s bio-populations. This book examines the background of the Younger Dryas, its effects on bio-populations, and how it contributed to the emergence of the Neolithic Era. Alternative theories will be examined and compared to more standard ideas currently prevailing in academia.

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  Cobol - Cobol Database Interaction

  Andy Vickler

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  Are you interested in getting a better understanding of the COBOL programming language? 
  Do you seek to know how COBOL interacts with other database management systems? 
  Would you like to expand your knowledge base of database systems? 
  COBOL Database Interaction is a set of techniques that allow us to interact with databases. COBOL Database Interaction is used to retrieve, store, and modify specific records in a database table. It is done by modifying row values. This feature of COBOL allows us to perform everyday tasks such as deleting or updating records in a database table while restoring the original state of the data after the updated records have been deleted. 
  COBOL Database Interaction is used to update records in a database table selectively. It is done by modifying row values without affecting other records in the same table. COBOL Database Interaction allows us to perform tasks such as deleting or updating specific, preexisting records, and also provides us with a mechanism by which we can create new, empty records (without having to create them manually) before saving them to their original data tables. 
  Why is it necessary to understand COBOL database interaction? 
  Understanding the basics of COBOL database interaction is essential in the technology field because COBOL has been used in many industries and is still in use today. In addition, this knowledge can be applied to many software applications and programs.

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