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  The Fabric of Civilization - How...

  Virginia I. Postrel

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  From Paleolithic flax to 3D knitting, explore the global history of textiles and the world they weave together in this enthralling and educational guide. 
  The story of humanity is the story of textiles -- as old as civilization itself. Since the first thread was spun, the need for textiles has driven technology, business, politics, and culture. 
  In The Fabric of Civilization, Virginia Postrel synthesizes groundbreaking research from archaeology, economics, and science to reveal a surprising history. From Minoans exporting wool colored with precious purple dye to Egypt, to Romans arrayed in costly Chinese silk, the cloth trade paved the crossroads of the ancient world. Textiles funded the Renaissance and the Mughal Empire; they gave us banks and bookkeeping, Michelangelo's David and the Taj Mahal. The cloth business spread the alphabet and arithmetic, propelled chemical research, and taught people to think in binary code. 
  Assiduously researched and deftly narrated, The Fabric of Civilization tells the story of the world's most influential commodity.

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  Women in Science - Then and Now

  Vivian Gornick

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  "Gornick's portraits demonstrate the driving force behind science."—The Philadelphia Inquirer"Women in science stir the contemporary imagination. In their hyphenated identity is captured the pain and excitement of a culture struggling to mature."—The Washington PostIn this revised twenty-fifth anniversary edition, acclaimed writer and journalist Vivian Gornick interviews famous and lesser-known scientists, compares their experiences then and now, and shows that, although not much has changed in the world of science, what is different is women's expectations that they can and will succeed.Everything from the disparaging comments by Harvard's then-president to government reports and media coverage has focused on the ways in which women supposedly can't do science. Gornick's original interviews show how deep and severe discrimination against women was back then in all scientific fields. Her new interviews, with some of the same women she spoke to twenty-five years ago, provide a fresh description of the hard times and great successes these women have experienced.

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  Admissions - Life as a Brain...

  Henry Marsh

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  The International Bestseller 
   
  Henry Marsh has spent a lifetime operating on the surgical frontline. There have been exhilarating highs and devastating lows, but his love for the practice of neurosurgery has never wavered.  
  Following the publication of his celebrated New York Times bestseller Do No Harm, Marsh retired from his full-time job in England to work pro bono in Ukraine and Nepal. In Admissions he describes the difficulties of working in these troubled, impoverished countries and the further insights it has given him into the practice of medicine.  
  Marsh also faces up to the burden of responsibility that can come with trying to reduce human suffering. Unearthing memories of his early days as a medical student, and the experiences that shaped him as a young surgeon, he explores the difficulties of a profession that deals in probabilities rather than certainties, and where the overwhelming urge to prolong life can come at a tragic cost for patients and those who love them.  
  Reflecting on what forty years of handling the human brain has taught him, Marsh finds a different purpose in life as he approaches the end of his professional career and a fresh understanding of what matters to us all in the end.

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  Quantum Computers

  IntroBooks Team

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  Scientists from Australia have found the smallest of the transistors recently. It is made by deliberately placing two atoms so closely. Then the university of Cambridge invention of the entangled LEDs is another revolutionary finding in the recent times. These two inventions are sure to back up with the efforts to build the quantum computers by and large. The research process is already on, since so many years now. The success is sure as it is expected by the scholars with the findings of the Entangles light emitting diodes and the world’s first ever smallest transistors. Computing power will be increasing indefinitely in the upcoming years and that can be met out to precision only with the launch of the quantum computers in the market.

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  The Scientific American Healthy...

  Judith Horstman, Scientific...

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  Every issue of Scientific American and Scientific  American Mind has breaking news about how the brain works--and  how it can stay healthy longer.       Neurologists and psychologists are finding  the brain  at midlife--from 40 to 65 and even beyond--is much more elastic and  more supple than anyone ever realized. Far from disintegrating,  healthy maturing brains fade quite slowly-- and even in old old  age, continue to make new connections and bring new cognitive  systems on line. Short-term memory may not be what it was,  but we manage information and parse meanings in new--and  often more effective-ways than we did in youth. What's more,  temperament changes to suit those new skills, as research shows we  actually grow happier as we age, more comfortable with ambiguity  and less susceptible to frustration or irritation. This book shows  how to optimize your aging brain, how we can achieve a new level of  perspective and involvement while retaining mental skills and  productivity in our later years--and what neuroscience is finding  about keeping our brains healthy. Current and future interventions  are documented to enhance our mental powers.

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  Let Go of Anger

  Amy Applebaum

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  A guided meditation designed to help you achieve a happy, peaceful, fulfilled life.The key to letting go of anger is all in your MIND.Want access to happiness? You’ll need to shift your mindset. Period.To attract positive relationships; to be happy and healthy; and to feel good about yourself, others and life, you have to let go of anger. This guided meditation has been carefully designed to help you do just that. You will move past the anger and the mindset that has held you back and you’ll decide to never again allow anyone or any situation rob you of the happiness, peace and health you deserve. Let Go of Anger 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 distress, they are specifically designed to help you get MOVING and unstuck.So that you can finally live the life you have always wanted!“I wanted to thank you for providing me with so much guidance and support in my life. When I was struggling and going through a very difficult time, the “Letting Go of Anger” meditation album gave me perspective and guidance on how to move forward. You have an incredible power to help other people, and have inspired me to move forward in my life. Thank you!” ~ Kayla StacyIsn’t it time? Isn’t it time to set aside the roadblocks that are impeding you from being the happiest possible 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 joyful living the EASY wayis waiting for you here.

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