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  Gentle Ocean Waves - For Yoga...

  Greg Cetus

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  These gentle Ocean Waves were recorded in lush golden sandy beaches in small islands near African coast. A perfect combination of sand, small pebble and gentle wind created this unique ambient music to help with relaxation, yoga or medication.

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  Mapping the Great Game -...

  Riaz Dean

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  In the 19th century, the British and Russian empires were engaged in bitter rivalry for the acquisition of Southern Asian. Although India was the ultimate prize, most of the intrigue and action took place along its northern frontier in Afghanistan, Turkestan, and Tibet. Mapping the region and gaining knowledge of the enemy were crucial to the interests of both sides.The Great Trigonometrical Survey of India began in the eighteenth century with the aim of creating a detailed map of the subcontinent. Under the leadership of George Everest—whose name was later bestowed to the world's tallest mountain—it mapped the Great Arc running from the country's southern tip to the Himalayas. Much of the work was done by Indian explorers known as Pundits. They were the first to reveal the mysteries of the forbidden city of Lhasa, and discover the true course of Tibet's mighty Tsangpo River.These explorers performed essential information gathering for the British Empire and filled in large portions of the map of Asia. Their adventurous exploits are vividly recounted in Mapping the Great Game.

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  The Wandering Mind - What the...

  Michael Corballis

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  Rooted in neuroscience, psychology and evolutionary biology, this study explores what happens when we stop paying attention and the effect on our behavior. 
   
  If we’ve done our job well—and, let’s be honest, if we’re lucky—you’ll read to the end of this description. Most likely, however, you won’t. Somewhere in the middle of the next paragraph, your mind will wander off. Minds wander. That’s just how it is. 
   
  That may be bad news for me, but is it bad news for people in general? Does the fact that as much as fifty percent of our waking hours find us failing to focus on the task at hand represent a problem? Michael Corballis doesn’t think so. With The Wandering Mind, he shows us why, rehabilitating woolgathering and revealing its incredibly useful effects. Drawing on the latest research from cognitive science and evolutionary biology, Corballis shows us how mind-wandering not only frees us from moment-to-moment drudgery, but also from the limitations of our immediate selves. Mind-wandering strengthens our imagination, fueling the flights of invention, storytelling, and empathy that underlie our shared humanity; furthermore, he explains, our tendency to wander back and forth through the timeline of our lives is fundamental to our very sense of ourselves as coherent, continuing personalities. 
   
  Full of unusual examples and surprising discoveries, The Wandering Mind mounts a vigorous defense of inattention—even as it never fails to hold the reader’s. 
   
  Praise for The Wandering Mind 
   
  “[A] conversational, sincere and amusing book about the tendency of our minds to stray from whatever it is we are actually supposed to be focusing on. . . . [An] engaging exploration of the subject.” —Times Higher Education, Book of the Week 
   
  “Michael Corballis, the scientist, takes you by the hand and weaves through an avalanche of information from psychology, literature, history, and more to elucidate my favorite mental state—mind wandering. His high capacity for erudition, lucidity, and warmth have never shined more brightly.” —Michael S. Gazzaniga 
   
  “The Wandering Mind is a pleasure to read—a lively book that will appeal to a broad spectrum of readers.” —Thomas Suddendorf, author of The Gap

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  The Past is Present

  Ph.D. Rupert Sheldrake

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  Sheldrake’s theory of “morphic resonance,” challenges some fundamental assumptions of established science. He offers a revolutionary alternative to the mechanistic worldview and points toward a new understanding of the nature of life, matter and mind.  He suggests that the brain may be more like a tuning system than a recording device.

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  Historical Research Using...

  Denise Bates

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  Thanks to digitisation, newspapers from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century have become an indispensable and accessible source for researchers. Through their pages, historians with a passion for a person or a place or a time or a topic can rediscover forgotten details and gain new insights into the society and values of bygone ages.Historical Research Using British Newspapers provides plenty of practical advice for anyone intending to use old newspapers by: * outlining the strengths of newspapers as source material * revealing the drawbacks of newspapers as sources and giving ways to guard against them * tracing the development of the British newspaper industry * showing the type of information that can be found in newspapers and how it can be used * identifying the best newspapers to start with when researching a particular topic * suggesting methods to locate the most relevant articles available * demonstrating techniques for collating, analysing and interpreting information * showing how to place newspaper reports in their wider contextIn addition nine case studies are included, showing how researchers have already made productive use of newspapers to gain insights that were not available from elsewhere.

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  Entrepreneurs Blueprint - Think...

  Paul de Sousa

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  WARNING: The contents of this book can dramatically help you start your business, grow your sales, create enduring scale, and change your life forever. 
  If you want serious results, and are sick and tired of trying, and banging your head on an immovable wall, then this book is a must read. 
  Learn the pro-tips, strategies, tactics, and resources of the incredibly successful entrepreneurs, founders, innovators, managers, and business on the planet for faster and more reliable revenue to help you realize undreamed-of success! 
  With resources like a 10 000 investors and funders detailed database, free accounting software, a list of ninety plus free template and so much more within the resource took kit. 
  These pro-tips, strategies, tactics and resources, and a clear blueprint to how to Think it, Built it, Fund it, and Sell it! 
  Here's a little of what you'll learn:Learn the how to and vital importance of canvas modelling your idea.Learn how to sell more and drive more hot traffic through not only normal channels like Facebook, but even more effective alternatives.Learn how to build a loyal fan base for your brand that can generate epic sales.How to build a highly scale-able business with access to financial and distribution resourcesLearn the basics of financials and get a list of key financial numbers you got to know if you want to grow, scale and exitCritical sales tools for eCommerce and brick and mortar to a possible 8 figure revenueand so much more. 
  In this book there are summary stories from top entrepreneurs, founders, and start-ups who had major breakouts. 
  So, if you're a serious entrepreneur who wants the right tools to take it to the next level then the Entrepreneur`s Blueprint is a must have essential resource tool!

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