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  Eat the Beetles! - An...

  David Waltner-Toews

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  pbiWill eating insects change the world for the better?​/i/b/p
  pMeet the beetles: there are millions and millions of them and many fewer of the rest of us — mammals, birds, and reptiles. Since before recorded history, humans have eaten insects. While many get squeamish at the idea, entomophagy — people eating insects — is a possible way to ensure a sustainable and secure food supply for the eight billion of us on the planet./p
  pOnce seen as the great enemy of human civilization, destroying our crops and spreading plagues, we now see insects as marvellous pollinators of our food crops and a potential source of commercial food supply. From upscale restaurants where black ants garnish raw salmon to grubs as pub snacks in Paris and Tokyo, from backyard cricket farming to high-tech businesses, iEat the Beetles!/i weaves these cultural, ecological, and evolutionary narratives to provide an accessible and humorous exploration of entomophagy./p

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  Game Theory and Strategy for...

  Can Akdeniz, Introbooks Team

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  Do you feel as if your work life is not quite as productive as it could be? You go to work every day, but you feel like your business is absolutely not booming? Trust me, I know how that feels, and I know that this is the book that will change your career for the better! In this book, I talk about game theory for business, a proven strategic method that really works. You can use game theory to boost your work life permanently, and learn how to make good decisions that will benefit you—something that everyone should know how to do. In this book, you’ll learn: - An introduction to the basic concepts of game theory - A brief history of game theory - Nash equilibrium for business strategies - Competitive games - Noncompetitive games - Practical application of game theory - And lots more! No more procrastinating. Read this book!

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  Vital Conversations - Improving...

  Dennis Rosen

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  “Engaging . . . provides patients tools they can use to improve dialogue with their doctors and, ultimately, improve their ultimate medical outcomes.”—The Times of Israel   The health-care system in the United States is by far the most expensive in the world, yet its outcomes are decidedly mediocre in comparison with those of other countries. Poor communication between doctors and patients, Dennis Rosen argues, is at the heart of this disparity, a pervasive problem that damages the well-being of the patient and the integrity of the health-care system and society.  Drawing upon research in biomedicine, sociology, and anthropology and integrating personal stories from his medical practice in three different countries (and as a patient), Rosen shows how important good communication between physicians and patients is to high-quality—and less-expensive—care. Without it, treatment adherence and preventive services decline, and the rates of medical complications, hospital readmissions, and unnecessary testing and procedures rise. Rosen illustrates the consequences of these problems from both the caregiver and patient perspectives and explores the socioeconomic and cultural factors that cause important information to be literally lost in translation. He concludes with a prescriptive chapter aimed at building the cultural competencies and communication skills necessary for higher-quality, less-expensive care, making it more satisfying for all involved.   “An excellent source of ideas on how to enhance treatment.”—Joseph Shrand, Instructor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School   “[Dr. Rosen] delivers much of his advice through anecdotes that take readers on a journey through a career filled with both positive and negative instances of doctor-patient communication.”—Health Affairs

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  Etsy Business Mastery

  Cindy Drivers

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  Etsy Business Mastery: The Definitive Guide to Succeeding on Etsy. Maximize Your Profits with Proven Techniques for Selling on EtsyStarting a successful Etsy business is an exciting and creative venture that allows you to turn your passions and skills into a profitable enterprise. Etsy has become a global platform for handmade and vintage goods, connecting millions of buyers and sellers from around the world. With a growing community of artisans, crafters, and entrepreneurs, the opportunity to build a thriving Etsy business is greater than ever before.In this audiobook, you will learn the ins and outs of starting and growing a successful Etsy business. From setting up your shop, to finding your niche, creating eye-catching products, and building relationships with customers, we will cover all the essential components of starting and running a successful Etsy business. You will also learn about the business side of Etsy, including taxes, legalities, and Etsy fees, and how to stay ahead of the competitionThis audiobook will cover the following topics:- Getting to Know the Etsy Platform- How to Create and Sell Digital Prints- How to Do Market Research and Pick the Right Niche for You- Mastering Etsy SEO for Maximum Visibility- Optimizing Your Product Listings for Maximum Visibility- And many more!Starting and growing a successful Etsy business is a journey that requires patience, effort, and dedication. If you want to learn more, scroll up and click “add to cart” now!

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  The Origin of Species

  Charles Darwin

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  The Origin of Species (or, more completely, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life), published on 24 November 1859, is a work of scientific literature by Charles Darwin which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. Darwin's book introduced the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection. The book presented a body of evidence that the diversity of life arose by common descent through a branching pattern of evolution. Darwin included evidence that he had collected on the Beagle expedition in the 1830s and his subsequent findings from research, correspondence, and experimentation.Various evolutionary ideas had already been proposed to explain new findings in biology. There was growing support for such ideas among dissident anatomists and the general public, but during the first half of the 19th century the English scientific establishment was closely tied to the Church of England, while science was part of natural theology. Ideas about the transmutation of species were controversial as they conflicted with the beliefs that species were unchanging parts of a designed hierarchy and that humans were unique, unrelated to other animals. The political and theological implications were intensely debated, but transmutation was not accepted by the scientific mainstream.The book was written for non-specialist readers and attracted widespread interest upon its publication. As Darwin was an eminent scientist, his findings were taken seriously and the evidence he presented generated scientific, philosophical, and religious discussion. The debate over the book contributed to the campaign by T. H. Huxley and his fellow members of the X Club to secularise science by promoting scientific naturalism. Within two decades there was widespread scientific agreement that evolution, with a branching pattern of common descent, had occurred, but scientists were slow to give natural selection the significance that Darwin thought appropriate. During the eclipse of Darwinism from the 1880s to the 1930s, various other mechanisms of evolution were given more credit. With the development of the modern evolutionary synthesis in the 1930s and 1940s, Darwin's concept of evolutionary adaptation through natural selection became central to modern evolutionary theory, and it has now become the unifying concept of the life sciences.

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  The Climate Swerve - Reflections...

  Robert Jay Lifton

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  Over his long career as witness to an extreme twentieth century, National Book Award-winning psychiatrist, historian, and public intellectual Robert Jay Lifton has grappled with the profound effects of nuclear war, terrorism, and genocide. Now he shifts to climate change, which, Lifton writes, "presents us with what may be the most demanding and unique psychological task ever required of humankind," what he describes as the task of mobilizing our imaginative resources toward climate sanity. 
  Thanks to the power of corporate-funded climate denialists and the fact that "with its slower, incremental sequence, [climate change] lends itself less to the apocalyptic drama," a large swathe of humanity has numbed themselves to the reality of climate change. Yet Lifton draws a message of hope from the Paris climate meeting of 2015 where representatives of virtually all nations joined in the recognition that we are a single species in deep trouble. 
  Here, Lifton suggests in this lucid and moving book that recalls Rachel Carson and Jonathan Schell, was evidence of how we might call upon the human mind—"our greatest evolutionary asset"—to translate a growing species awareness—or "climate swerve"—into action to sustain our habitat and civilization.

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