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  Deep Listening to Nature

  Andrew Skeoch

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  Deep Listening to Nature is an invitation to open our ears to the natural world.  
   
  Beginning by tuning in to the sounds of creatures around us, Andrew discusses how to identify species by call, interpret their communications and find empathy for their sentience.  
   
  Listening more broadly, on an ecosystem level, Andrew then asks the question: What does listening reveal about how living systems function, and why do birds in particular negotiate their interactions in such lyrical and extraordinary ways?  
   
  From this he suggests we not only listen to learn about nature but learn from nature.  
   
  In our current crises – both social and environmental – he asks how we may mimic what the biosphere has achieved in sustaining life as we move toward an ecological future, and in doing so, form a deeper cultural and personal connection to Country.  
   
  Andrew encourages us to be still and listen. Extend our senses. Let nature get to know us and in its own way, to welcome us.

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  Into the Darién - A Survival...

  E.B. Harding

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  Into the Darién 
  A Survival Thriller 
   
  One crash. 
   
  Four survivors. 
   
  Hundreds of miles of jungle. 
   
  The Darién Gap doesn’t forgive mistakes. 
   
  The Darién Gap is one of the last great wildernesses on Earth—a place where roads disappear, rivers flood without warning, and the jungle has claimed countless lives. 
   
  When a charter flight crashes deep beneath its canopy, pilot Lena Ward and her son Noah are left stranded with two strangers: Alex, a charismatic biotech entrepreneur searching for a legendary ghost orchid, and Amaia, a quiet Emberá woman determined to return to her family’s remote farm. 
   
  With no way to call for help, they begin a desperate trek through unforgiving rainforest where every day brings new dangers. Flash floods, venomous wildlife, exhaustion, hunger, and armed smugglers turn every mile into a fight for survival. As hope fades and trust begins to fracture, one reckless decision will change everything. 
   
  To escape the Darién, they must rely on each other. 
   
  If the jungle lets them. 
   
  Into the Darién is a gripping survival thriller filled with relentless suspense, unforgettable landscapes, and the raw struggle to stay alive when nature becomes the deadliest enemy of all.

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  Where is My F***N Leg?!

  David Mackintosh

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  Scalpels, Egos, Libidos. Is anybody in this hospital under control? 
  In surgery, every cut changes a body forever. But what do you really know about the person holding the knife? Are their bodies betraying them and their desires distracting them? Does doubt haunt them and pride destroy them? 
  This is the story of the surgeons who stole a leg and saved a life. They are  the ones falling apart in the tearoom afterwards. The aging consultant who can feel his hands betraying him. The single mother questioning every 
  cut she's ever made. The brilliant surgeon whose ego writes cheques 
  his marriage can't cash. The trainee left holding the blame when a surgeon decides his reputation matters more than the truth. Two women torn apart by a lascivious outsider. And a woman who holds them all together. 
  Set in tropical North Queensland; Where is My F***N Leg?! is about the tribes we belong to in operating theatres, in marriages, in the quiet hours when there's nothing left to hide behind. 
  It's funny. It's searing. It's painful. 
  A blisteringly honest account of loss, lust, trust, betrayal and the uncomfortable truth that the people cutting you open are just as breakable as the rest of us.

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  Reaching the Moon: The History...

  Editors Charles River

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  The Apollo Program is the most famous and celebrated in American history, but the first successful landing of men on the Moon during Apollo 11 had complicated roots dating back over a decade, and it also involved one of NASA’s most infamous tragedies. From 1959-1963, the United States worked toward putting satellites and humans into orbit via the Mercury program, but Eisenhower’s administration was already designing plans for the Apollo program by 1960, a year before the first Russian orbited the Earth and two years before John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth. 
  At the same time, America would begin missions to the Moon as early as 1958. On March 27, 1958, Secretary of Defense Neil McElroy announced a lunar project for the International Geophysical Year, consisting of three Air Force launches followed by two Army launches of a JPL-designed lunar probe. ARPA directed the Air Force to launch its probes "as soon as possible consistent with the requirement that a minimal amount of useful data concerning the Moon be obtained." 
  Throughout the 1960s, NASA would spend tens of billions on missions to the Moon, the most expensive peacetime program in American history to that point, and Apollo was only made possible by the tests conducted through earlier missions, including the historic Ranger Program. Conceived as an early part of the attempt to land a man on the Moon, Ranger was designed to photograph the lunar surface in preparation for future landings. Until Ranger, images of the Moon were only available through Earth-based telescopes, which lacked the detail necessary to determine safe sites for landing a spacecraft. Ranger aimed to fill in that gap of knowledge, and like many of NASA’s missions during the 1960s, the program exemplified both the successes and the failures of the agency’s early years.

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  A Woman Among Wolves - My...

  Diane K. Boyd, Douglas H. Chadwick

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  Called the Jane Goodall of wolves, world-renowned wildlife biologist Diane Boyd has spent four decades studying and advocating for wolves in the wilds of Montana near Glacier National Park. When she started in the 1970s, she was the only female biologist in the United States researching and radio-collaring wild wolves. With her two dogs for company, she faced the rigors of the Montana winter in an isolated cabin. 
   
   
   
  Boyd fearlessly forded icy rivers, strapped on skis to navigate thick stands of lodgepole pine, and monitored packs from the air in a tiny bush plane so she could count wolves and see what they were feeding on. She faced down grizzly bears, mountain lions, wolverines—and the occasional trapper—as she stalked her quarry: a handful of wolves that were making their way south from Canada into Montana. She devised her own trapping methods and negotiated with locals as wolf populations grew from the first natural colonizer to more than 3,000 wolves in the West today. 
   
   
   
  Boyd takes the listener on a wild ride from the early days of wolf research to the present-day challenges of wolf management across the globe, highlighting her interactions with an apex predator that captured her heart and her undying admiration. Her writing resonates with her indomitable spirit as she explores the intricate balance of human and wolf coexistence.

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  Taming Silicon Valley - How We...

  Gary Marcus

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  On balance, will AI help humanity or harm it? AI could revolutionize science, medicine, and technology, and deliver us a world of abundance and better health. Or it could be a disaster, leading to the downfall of democracy, or even our extinction. In Taming Silicon Valley, Gary Marcus, one of the most trusted voices in AI, explains that we still have a choice. And that the decisions we make now about AI will shape our next century. In this powerful manifesto, Marcus explains how Big Tech is taking advantage of us, how AI could make things much worse, and, most importantly, what we can do to safeguard our democracy, our society, and our future. 
   
   
   
  Marcus explains the potential—and potential risks—of AI in the clearest possible terms and how Big Tech has effectively captured policymakers. He begins by laying out what is lacking in current AI, what the greatest risks of AI are, and how Big Tech has been playing both the public and the government, before digging into why the US government has thus far been ineffective at reining in Big Tech. He then offers real tools, including eight suggestions for what a coherent AI policy should look like—from data rights to layered AI oversight to meaningful tax reform—and closes with how ordinary citizens can push for what is so desperately needed. Taming Silicon Valley is a must-listen for every concerned citizen.

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