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  Our Senses - An Immersive...

  Rob DeSalle

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  Over the past decade neuroscience has uncovered a wealth of new information about our senses and how they serve as our gateway to the world. This splendidly accessible book explores the most intriguing findings of this research. With infectious enthusiasm, Rob DeSalle illuminates not only how we see, hear, smell, touch, taste, maintain balance, feel pain, and rely on other less familiar senses, but also how these senses shape our perception of the world aesthetically, artistically, and musically. 
  DeSalle first examines the question of how perception and consciousness are formed in the brain, setting human senses in an evolutionary context. He then investigates such varied themes as supersenses and diminished senses, synesthesia and other cross-sensory phenomena, hemispheric specialization, diseases, anomalies induced by brain injuries, and hallucinations. Focusing on what is revealed about our senses through the extraordinary, he provides unparalleled insights into the unique wonders of the human brain.

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  PreCalculus Cheat Sheet: Formula...

  Jonathan David

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  Note: PDF-eBook is included with audiobook purchase. 
  "The Ultimate Cheat Sheet for Math and Physics" is a comprehensive guide written by renowned mathematician and physicist gone fiction author, Jonathan David. This indispensable resource is designed to equip students with a powerful arsenal of tips, tricks, and essential knowledge needed to excel in mathematics and physics. Whether you're studying algebra, trigonometry, precalculus, or diving into the intricacies of differential calculus (Calc 1), integral calculus (Calc 2), several variable calculus (Calc 3), multivariable and vector calculus, linear algebra, differential equations, or physics, this book has got you covered. 
  Inside these pages, you'll find an extensive collection of formulas, theorems, definitions, and equations meticulously curated and organized for easy reference. Jonathan David's expertise shines through as he presents complex mathematical and physical concepts in a clear and accessible manner, making even the most challenging subjects approachable. 
  But "The Ultimate Cheat Sheet for Math and Physics" goes beyond simply providing formulas and theorems. Recognizing that success in college and beyond requires more than raw knowledge, the book also includes a comprehensive guide on how to study effectively. With valuable insights and practical tips, Jonathan David shares his wisdom on time management, note-taking techniques, problem-solving strategies, and exam preparation. You'll learn how to harness your full potential as a college student, honing the skills necessary to thrive in the real world.

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  The Human City - Urbanism for...

  Joel Kotkin

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  The author of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism and The New Class Conflict challenges conventions of urban planning. Around the globe, most new urban development has adhered to similar tenets: tall structures, small units, and high density. In The Human City, Joel Kotkin―called “America’s uber-geographer” by David Brooks of the New York Times―questions these nearly ubiquitous practices, suggesting that they do not consider the needs and desires of the vast majority of people. Built environments, Kotkin argues, must reflect the preferences of most people―even if that means lower-density development. The Human City ponders the purpose of the city and investigates the factors that drive most urban development today. Armed with his own astute research, a deep-seated knowledge of urban history, and a sound grasp of economic, political, and social trends, Kotkin pokes holes in what he calls the “retro-urbanist” ideology and offers a refreshing case for dispersion centered on human values. This book is not anti-urban, but it does advocate a greater range of options for people to live the way they want at all stages of their lives.Praise for The Human City “Kotkin . . . presents the most cogent, evidence-based and clear-headed exposition of the pro-suburban argument . . . . In pithy, readable sections, each addressing a single issue, he debunks one attack on the suburbs after another. But he does more than that. He weaves an impressive array of original observations about cities into his arguments, enriching our understanding of what cities are about and what they can and must become.” —Shlomo Angel, Wall Street Journal “The most eloquent expression of urbanism since Jane Jacobs’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Kotkin writes with a strong sense of place; he recognizes that the geography and traditions of a city create the contours of its urbanity.” —Ronnie Wachter, Chicago Tribune

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  Hypnosis for Public Speaking -...

  James Mesmer

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  It's time! To once and for all eliminate your fear of public speaking! 
  The secret to addressing the public's fears and anxieties is creating true confidence. 
  So many times have you been delayed by the fear of speaking? What chances have you missed? And how does that make you feel like that? Pretty poor I might imagine. 
  The fear of speaking in public is very popular. Simply put, you're not alone! You're perfectly fine. And this isn't your fault. It's possible that anything happened when you were young. It may have been as innocent as being laughed at in college. Who says that? All we do know, though, is that something has happened. 
  People who have glossophobia, fear of speaking publicly, may need some time to understand that they have a genuine phobia. It may take multiple trials and unsuccessful attempts to make an effective speech to make them know that they have a real problem. Typically, when the panic arises, the individual feels so dishearted by his abilities that his confidence is diminished and that he is convinced that he is worthless, or only "no good" when speaking openly. Through this way of thinking, the individual will then avoid being compelled to talk publicly at all costs and, when cleverly or luckily prevented, they will feel immense relief.What You Will Learn In This BookPublic Speaking And AnxietyHow Is Hypnosis Beneficial?Use Hypnosis In Public To Overcome AnxietyCan Hypnosis Cure Fear Of Public Speaking?Anxiety And Depression Hypnosis-Better Than Drugs?Public Speaking— How Self Hypnosis Cds Can SupportHypnosis For Charisma, Pain Attack, And TrustAnd Many More!

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  The Murder Business - How the...

  Mark Fuhrman

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  Media and law enforcement work at cross-purposes. Law enforcement wants to solve a case as fast as possible and put the guilty behind bars. The media wants a case to drag on as long as humanly possible and do all they can to extricate every last bit of drama—drop by bloody drop—in order to hold the attention of the millions of viewers who have gotten hooked. Law enforcement must abide by rules. The media make their own rules, or break them, or find loopholes to work around them. If people knew how it's done—how the media seduce, buy, bribe, and corrupt, like an inevitable, malignant cancer on a murder investigation—they might be too sickened to buy the next ticket to the carnival. But as Mark Fuhrman relates in The Murder Business, a heinous crime can produce many victims, and high-profile murders can hurt innocent people who get burned by the spotlight, whether or not they sought it out themselves. This searing indictment of the media shows how the criminal justice system can be manipulated by money, power, politics, fame—and all too often, ratings.

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  White Hot Light - Twenty-Five...

  Frank Huyler

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  Another “pitch-perfect book of short essays” (New York Times Book Review) from the acclaimed author of Blood of Strangers, this one exploring the contemporary practice of medicine from the perspective of a doctor with 25 years of experience in the ER. 
   
  In the late 1990s, a young physician in Albuquerque, New Mexico, published a stunning memoir of his experiences in the highly charged world of the ER. Presented in a series of powerful, poetic vignettes, The Blood of Strangers became an instant classic.  
  Now, over two decades later, Dr. Frank Huyler delivers another dispatch from the trenches—this time from the perspective of middle age. In portraits visceral, haunting, sometimes surreal, Huyler reveals the gritty reality of medicine practiced on the razor’s edge between life and death.  
  From the doomed, like the Iraq vet with a brain full of shrapnel, to the self-destructive, like the young woman who inserts a sewing needle into her heart, to the transcendent, like the homeless Navajo artist whose sketches charm the nurses, Huyler assembles a profound mosaic of human suffering and grace, complemented by episodes from his personal life: the hail that fell the night his wife gave birth, his drive through a snowstorm to see his father in a Colorado ER, the beautiful wedding of his childhood friend with terminal cancer. Melding hard-earned wisdom with a poet’s crystalline vision, Huyler evokes the awesome burden of responsibility, the exhaustion, the relief of a costume disco nurse party, and those rare occasions when the confluence of luck and science yield, in the author’s words, “moments of breathtaking greatness.”   
  White Hot Light offers an unforgettable portrait of a field that illuminates society at its most vulnerable, and its most elemental.

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