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  Minnie - The remarkable story of...

  Marianne van Velzen

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  The inspiring story of a feisty pioneering woman who sought freedom and adventure in the outback and became the first woman to work as an opal miner in Australia. 
   
  People always asked her if she was ever afraid, living out in the desert alone with all those rough and scruffy men. But Minnie Berrington was not the faint-hearted type, and never had been. Being tough came naturally to her, growing up with three brothers and a family that went from riches to ruins. 
   
  Only a slip of a girl, Minnie could match any man in stamina, perseverance and strength. She arrived in Coober Pedy when camels still brought in essential supplies, and water was so scarce that no-one washed. Together with the other miners, she braved the heat, the flies and the dust. Every day she waited for that special sound the pick made when it cracked opal. 
   
  The first woman to dig her own shafts in the Australian opal fields, Minnie began her working life as a typist in London. But she and her younger brother, Victor, sought freedom and adventure in the 1920s and found plenty of it in the outback. 
   
  'Destined to become an outback classic' LIZ HARFULL, bestselling author of Women of the Land 
   
  'Minnie brings to life a gutsy, independent woman living a remarkable but simple life in the harshest of conditions' JULIET WILLS, author of The Diamond Dakota Mystery

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  The World As We Knew It -...

  Tajja Isen, Amy Brady

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  Nineteen leading literary writers from around the globe offer timely, haunting first-person reflections on how climate change has altered their lives 
   
   
   
  In this riveting anthology, leading literary writers reflect on how climate change has altered their lives, revealing the personal and haunting consequences of this global threat. 
   
   
    
  In the opening essay, National Book Award finalist Lydia Millet mourns the end of the Saguaro cacti in her Arizona backyard due to drought. Later, Omar El Akkad contemplates how the rise of temperatures in the Middle East is destroying his home and the wellspring of his art. Gabrielle Bellot reflects on how a bizarre lionfish invasion devastated the coral reef near her home in the Caribbean—a precursor to even stranger events to come. Traveling through Nebraska, Terese Svoboda witnesses cougars running across highways and showing up in kindergartens. 
   
   
    
  As the stories unfold—from Antarctica to Australia, New Hampshire to New York—an intimate portrait of a climate-changed world emerges, captured by writers whose lives jostle against incongruous memories of familiar places that have been transformed in startling ways.

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  The Book of One - How to Save...

  Carlos B. Relano Jr.

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  In this scholarly odyssey, the author prophetically envisions a utopian future where global poverty is abolished and human potential is fully realized. With philosophical depth and poetic flair, the book traverses the globe from the vibrant energy of Asia to the emergent Middle East, advocating for technological synergy and environmental stewardship. It's a riveting manifesto calling for unified action to weave a new tapestry of prosperity, justice, and peace—a clarion call to reshape the world in harmony with nature and humanity's noblest aspirations.

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  Mirror Matrix - The Missing...

  Ylia Callan

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  What if reality is missing nothing - except the way we look at it? 
   
  Mirror Matrix: The Missing Dimensions of Reality presents a grounded but far-reaching way of understanding the universe as an information system shaped by reflection, interference and feedback. 
   
  Rather than treating light as a passive messenger, this book shows how reality itself is structured by how information reflects and recombines. Through the four fundamental dimensions of light - intensity, frequency, polarisation and phase - finite signals generate an effectively inexhaustible range of patterns. Infinity emerges not from the size of the universe, but from the richness of interaction. 
   
  Moving from physics to perception, from living systems to culture and meaning, Mirror Matrix reveals a consistent logic at work: patterns that align with their environment persist, while others fade. Observation becomes participation. Meaning becomes stabilised pattern. Responsibility becomes unavoidable in a world of accelerating reflection. 
   
  This book explores questions that sit at the boundary of science and philosophy: 
   
  Why does order exist instead of noise? 
   
  How can finite systems produce overwhelming complexity? 
   
  Why do some patterns - atoms organisms, ideas - persist while others disappear? 
   
  What does it mean to act inside a world shaped by feedback and amplification? 
   
  Written in an accessible, down-to-earth tone, Mirror Matrix does not propose a new belief system or speculative cosmology. It offers a missing lens - one that connects light, life, thought and culture through the same underlying process. 
   
  The mirrors are already in place. 
   
  The patterns are already forming. 
   
  What remains open is how deliberately we choose to participate in the dimensions we’ve been missing.

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  All Life is Problem Solving

  Karl Popper

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  All Life is Problem Solving is a stimulating and provocative selection of Popper's writings on his main preoccupations during the last twenty-five years of his life. This collection illuminates Popper's process of working out key formulations in his theory of science, and indicates his view of the state of the world at the end of the Cold War and after the collapse of communism.

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  The Software Engineer's...

  Gergely Orosz

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  In my first few years as a developer I assumed that hard work was all I needed. Then I was passed over for a promotion and my manager couldn’t give me feedback on what areas to improve, so I could get to the senior engineer level. I was frustrated; even bitter: not as much about missing the promotion, but because of the lack of guidance. 
  By the time I became a manager, I was determined to support engineers reporting to me with the kind of feedback and support I wish I would have gotten years earlier. And I did. While my team tripled over the next two years, people became visibly better engineers, and this progression was clear from performance reviews and promotions. 
  This book is a summary of the advice I’ve given to software engineers over the years – and then some more. 
  This book follows the structure of a “typical” career path for a software engineer, from starting out as a fresh-faced software developer, through being a role model senior/lead, all the way to the staff/principle/distinguished level. It summarizes what I’ve learned as a developer and how I’ve approached coaching engineers at different stages of their careers. 
  We cover “soft” skills which become increasingly important as your seniority increases, and the “hard” parts of the job, like software engineering concepts and approaches which help you grow professionally. 
  Praise for the book 
  “From performance reviews to P95 latency, from team dynamics to testing, Gergely demystifies all aspects of a software career. This book is well named: it really does feel like the missing guidebook for the whole industry.” – Tanya Reilly, principal engineer and author of The Staff Engineer's Path 
  "Spanning a huge range of topics from technical to social in a concise manner, this belongs on the desk of any software engineer looking to grow their impact and their career." – James Stanier, Director of Engineering at Shopify

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