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  The Olmsted Parks of Louisville...

  Patricia Dalton Haragan

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  “A quality tribute to America’s greatest landscape architect, these parks he created, and especially the plants that thrive there.” —Plant Science Bulletin 
   
  Frederick Law Olmsted, popularly known as the “Father of American Landscape Architecture,” is famous for designing New York City’s Central Park, the US Capitol grounds, and the campuses of institutions such as Stanford University and the University of Chicago. His celebrated projects in Boston, Buffalo, Detroit, Milwaukee, and other cities led to a commission from the city of Louisville, Kentucky, in 1891. There, he partnered with community leaders to design a network of scenic parks, tree-lined parkways, elegant neighborhoods, and beautifully landscaped estate gardens that thousands of visitors still enjoy today. 
   
  The Olmsted Parks of Louisville is the first authoritative manual on the 380 species of trees, herbaceous plants, shrubs, and vines populating the nearly 1,900 acres that comprise Cherokee, Seneca, Iroquois, Shawnee, and Chickasaw Parks. Designed for easy reference, this handy field guide includes detailed photos and maps as well as ecological and historical information about each park. Patricia Dalton Haragan also includes sections detailing the many species of invasive plants in the parks and discusses the native flora that they displaced. 
   
  This guide provides a key to Olmsted’s vision, revealing how various plant species were arranged to emphasize the beauty and grandeur of nature. It’s an essential resource for students, nature enthusiasts, and visitors from near and far.

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  Wordpress Websites for Business...

  Michael Cordova

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  A website development pioneer gives business owners—from tech savvy to beginner—the tools, knowledge, and tactics to succeed in today’s online economy. 
   
  If your company is building a new website, you’re certainly thinking about content and design. But don’t forget performance, especially if you need your website to generate business leads and sales. Wordpress Websites for Business guides you through the process of building a website that will sustain and grow your company. Using the techniques detailed in this book I am currently bringing in more than one million dollars’ worth of leads a month for one of my clients. 
   
  I have used most of the top content management systems and built many custom CMS systems myself. From my experience, I can say that Wordpress is the most effective tool available to build your company’s website and bring in leads and sales for your business. However, if used incorrectly, it can actually hurt your company. I’ve seen it happen, and the effects can be devastating. The good news is that there’s a better way. In an easy-to-follow, step-by-step program, this book will tell you what you need to do to avoid the pitfalls while ensuring maximum exposure, search engine rankings, and conversions (sales)! 
   
  This powerful book features: game changing checklists and resources; simple settings that only take a few minutes, but can make a huge difference in website performance; the best Wordpress plugins and services to optimize your site and maximize leads; the best Wordpress themes that enable you to build an up-to-date website that performs for you; content creation hacks such as how to map your business goals directly to your content; Wordpress best practices simplified, such as why and how to create a child theme; the tools and techniques that drop your page load times to less than two seconds; and much more . . . 
   
  The strategies and tactics I present in Wordpress Websites for Business will result in more leads and sales for your company, and that’s what it’s all about.

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  Python ML - Clear Step-by-Step...

  Alex Campbell

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  Are you interested in machine learning? Do you want to know how it all works and what it involves? Then you've chosen the right guide. 
  Machine learning is a subset of computer science and Artificial Intelligence. There's no getting away from the fact that it is here to stay, and it is already changing how many businesses work and target their customers. It's a complex subject, but this guide will give you a concise overview of the steps required in every machine learning project. 
  Here's what you will learn: 
  ·     How to install Python on Windows and Mac 
  ·     A short look at the common Python machine learning libraries and packages 
  ·     How to collect data for a machine learning project 
  ·     How to prepare the data 
  ·     How to choose the right machine learning model 
  ·     How to train your model 
  ·     How to evaluate your model 
  ·     What parameter tuning involves 
  ·     How to make predictions using your trained model 
  Then you'll get a walkthrough on how to implement all those steps, with some code examples. 
  What you won't get is a guide on how to use Python. It is expected that you will have some knowledge of this popular programming language before you start or will want to learn it when you have read the guide. 
  For now, if you want to get inside machine learning with Python, scroll up, click on Buy Now and start a new chapter in your life. 

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  Get Motivated

  Amy Applebaum

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  A guided meditation designed to help you become unstoppable. The secret to motivation isn’t bludgeoning your brain with daily affirmations trying to convince yourself that you are motivated when you are not.  The key to motivation is a MIND game.Want access to unlimited motivation? You’ll need to shift your mindset.In this guided meditation, we will find your motivation, the often forgotten but essential success ingredient.When you are motivated, you are a veritable powerhouse.But motivation can easily be undermined by self-sabotaging behaviors and beliefs. Get Motivated has been designed carefully to sweep away your fears of failure and feelings of unworthiness so that you can access the motivation that will make you unstoppable.This guided meditation comes with two valuable ‘extras’:1.	2 different endings. Besides the actual guided meditation itself, you will receive a choice of a ‘sleep’ or ‘wake’ ending depending on whether you are listening in the morning or evening.2.	A deep sleep music track. If you choose a sleep ending, this track will help deepen your sleep after you have completed your meditation session. Hi:) I’m Amy Applebaum. And I’m really glad you are here!As a business owner who has made millions and a Life Success coach who has coached dozens of ambitious women (and some men), I believe very strongly that success is just as much about ‘how you think’ as it is ‘what you do’.Success is first and foremost an Inside Job.I have seen it in my own life.I’ve seen it with the entrepreneurs and industry leaders I have worked with whose lives have been wildly transformed just by changing their thoughts and then taking actions on those new beliefs.Let’s face it. We have a lot on our plate. And those of us who are running our own businesses even more so.We are giving so much to the world around us.But things won’t shift until we get those birds on our shoulders to stop the negative chitchat.And the best fastest way to cut the self-doubt in its tracks is through meditation.And I make doing meditation dead easy.My MOVE collections are guided meditations.You don’t have to learn the ‘ins and outs ’of meditation. All you need to do is throw those earbuds in and drift off to sleep!Downloaded over 500,000 times on places like iTunes and Audible, my MOVE meditations don’t just ‘relax’ and destress, they are specifically designed to help you get MOVING and unstuck.So that you can finally live the life you have always wanted!“I must say I am so impressed with how well this is working for me. I use it every morning before I start my day and I have found I am more motivated than I have been in a very long time. I am no longer procrastinating on things that I don’t want to do. Rather, approaching them with a whole new mindset. It feels great to accomplish those tasks and as a result, I have more confidence in my daily life. Thank you!” ~Zeph22Isn’t it time? Isn’t it time to set aside the roadblocks that are impeding you from being the most motivated version of you?And it’s so easy.Just put the earbuds in and listen.Nothing simpler.All you need to do to open the door to motivated living the EASY wayis waiting for you here.

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  The Science of Consciousness -...

  Christina Rasmussen

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  Christina Rasmussen has a way of putting us in direct contact with the multi-dimensional universe, one in which we can meet with those who have died through what she calls Temple Journeys. She has taught thousands to experience these journeys and says they are not guided meditations or visualizations.

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  Bowland Beth: The Life of an...

  David Cobham

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  ‘An outstanding book’ Spectator 
  The story of the short life and tragic death of Bowland Beth – an English Hen Harrier – which dramatically highlights the major issues in UK conservation. 
  ‘The sun was blood red as it broke the horizon and lit the communal roost where the female hen harrier had spent the night. She watched the other harriers as they left to go foraging for food out on the moor. She didn’t join them, for she had felt a quickening in her body, an urge to move to Mallowdale Pike, a rocky crag from where she had fledged nine months ago. After preening, she lifted off from the roost and soared up over the fell.’ 
  David Cobham enters Beth’s world to show what being a hen harrier today is like. He immerses himself not only in the day-to-day regimen of her life, the hours of hunting, bathing, keeping her plumage in order and roosting, but also the fear of living in an environment run to provide packs of driven grouse for a few wealthy sportsmen to shoot. 
  The hen harrier is seen as a totemic species in the battle between the conservationists and ruralists, and as one of the key players in this emotive debate, David Cobham is uniquely placed to reflect on Beth’s story. In this powerful narrative, he provides us with a profound tale which helps to illuminate the larger implications of the species’ decline, highlighting the urgent need for conservation efforts to reverse this. 
  Cobham's Bowland Beth is a stirring exploration of the natural history of the hen harrier, a bird at the heart of environmental and conservation debates. The book is a testament to the author's profound understanding of science and nature, and his passionate plea for the protection of these animals. 
  For fans of Lee Schofield (Wild Fell), Benedict Macdonald (Rebirding), Stephen Littlewood (Wild Mull), Tim Birkhead (Birds and Us), and Nick Acheson (The Meaning of Geese).

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