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  A Pocket Guide to Pigeon...

  Rosemary Mosco

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  Part field guide, part history, part ornithology primer, and altogether fun. 
   
   
   
  Fact: Pigeons are amazing, and until recently, humans adored them. We've kept them as pets, held pigeon beauty contests, raced them, used them to carry messages over battlefields, harvested their poop to fertilize our crops—and cooked them in gourmet dishes. Now, with A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching, listeners can rediscover the wonder. Equal parts field guide and quirky history, it covers behavior: Why they coo; how they flock; how they preen, kiss, and mate (monogamously); and how they raise their young (on chunky pigeon milk). Anatomy and identification, from Birmingham Roller to the American Giant Runt to the Scandaroon. Birder issues, like what to do if you find a baby pigeon stranded in the park. And our lively shared story together, including all the things we've taught them—Ping-Pong, for example. "Rats with wings?" Think again. 
   
   
   
  Pigeons coo, peck and nest all over the world, yet most of us treat them with indifference or disdain. So Rosemary Mosco, a bird-lover, science communicator, writer, and cartoonist, is here to give the pigeon's image a makeover, and to help every town- and city-dweller get closer to nature by discovering the joys of birding through pigeon-watching.

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  Ballistic - The New Science of...

  Henry Abbott

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  Blending cutting-edge science with gripping storytelling, award-winning data journalist and competitive amateur athlete Henry Abbott reveals that we are on the cusp of a new era in sports medicine, built around the science of ballistic movements—leaping and landing—and the unique fingerprint of your body's physics. 
   
   
   
  Abbott's inspiring narrative tells the story of sports scientist Dr. Marcus Elliott and the Peak Performance Project (P3), who use technology to study how athletes move and why they get hurt. Applying machine learning and lessons from biomechanics, medicine, and physiology, doctors at P3 can now detect elevated risk of an ACL tear or a pulled hamstring like an echocardiogram can see warning signs of a heart attack. 
   
   
   
  Through riveting stories of elite athletes overcoming injuries and pushing themselves to the limit, Abbott presents an evidence-based case for intervening early to protect our bodies. And he suggests that we can all harness the science of ballistic movement not just to run fast or jump high but to move with joy and lead fulfilling athletic lives.

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  Rethinking Time Consciousness...

  Ylia Callan

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  Rethinking Time, Consciousness, and Creation Across Planes of Reality challenges everything we think we know about the universe. From the death of the Big Bang to the living nature of atoms, stars, and minds, this groundbreaking work explores time, consciousness, and creation as intertwined phenomena spanning multiple planes of reality. 
  Journey through nested ontologies, the hidden role of information, and the echoes of ancient wisdom as the book revisits panpsychism and questions the limits of modern science. With a careful balance of rigorous analysis and visionary thinking, it offers bold new perspectives on causality, ethics, and the future of scientific inquiry. Whether you are a seeker, a scientist, or a philosopher, this audiobook invites you to imagine a universe alive with intelligence, where every level of reality is interconnected, and the boundaries of knowledge are only the beginning of discovery.

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  Weird Geography Facts That Will...

  Melanie Roach

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  Drift into deep sleep with weird geography facts designed to soothe insomnia through low-stimulation learning.
   
  Transform your nightly wind-down into a peaceful escape where the only requirement is to let go. Designed for those moments when waking interest battles drowsy detachment, this audio experience uses a monotonous, soothing narration style to quiet a racing mind. It is the ideal companion for anyone seeking relief from stress or struggling to find a comfortable space for rest.
   
  Travel across soft landscapes, bending borders, and silent rivers without the pressure to memorize a single detail. The continuous narrative creates a loose blanket of mild curiosity, allowing your thoughts to wander lazily over the planet’s surface. By smoothing every transition and slowing the pace, the text eliminates urgency and invites a state of meditative relaxation.
   
  What you will encounter on this slow-moving journey:
  
  Gentle Global Wandering: Absorb faintly surreal details about invisible lines, shifting lands, and remote islands without friction.
  Calming Motifs: Experience the measured passing of seasons and the steady lines of coasts as a rhythmic sleep aid.
  Background Education: Engage with small peculiarities and geographical oddities meant to fade into white noise as you drift off.
  
   
  Let the reassurance of the earth’s quiet rotation guide you toward slumber.

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  Squirrel - How a Backyard...

  Nancy F. Castaldo

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  Squirrels are a common sight, seemingly everywhere in wild and urban nature. But squirrels are more than amusing backyard entertainers, and few of us know much about them or fully appreciate their role in keeping the environment healthy. As stress on the natural world intensifies, should we be paying more attention to the plight of squirrels?In Squirrel, Nancy Castaldo shines new light on this familiar backyard mammal, exploring their staggering diversity and the many surprising ways they shape our world, our communities, and our cultures. Each chapter explores an aspect of squirrels and their close and sometimes fraught association with humans: their importance to myriad ecosystems through sophisticated food-caching strategies; their introduction to nineteenth-century urban parks as adorable ambassadors for nature; their complicated global status as both invasive and endangered; their role as celebrated cultural icons and social media memes; and ultimately, why we must prevent population declines and protect their well-being while we can. Like other wildlife species, squirrels are increasingly stressed by climate change, and their speculative fate may foreshadow our own. The book includes a detailed bibliography, an exhaustive list of squirrel species and their status, and tips for coexisting peaceably with squirrels in our yards and neighborhoods.

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  Forgotten By Design - The Silent...

  Hardik Goel

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  Ever opened a tab and forgotten why? 
  Mid-scroll, mid-thought… and poof—it’s gone? 
  No, it’s not just you. And no, it’s not early-onset anything, 
  You’ve simply been Forgotten. By. Design. 
  In Forgotten by Design: The Silent Epidemic of Digital Dementia, tech meets soul in this genre-bending, mind-bending manifesto on how your memory, focus, and very sense of time are being subtly stolen—and sold back to you. 
  This isn’t another “digital detox” guilt trip. 
  This is a call to remember who you were before 
  the algorithm got your number. 
  ◆ Neuroscience meets Vedic rituals. 
  ◆ Ancient myths collide with dopamine loops. 
  ◆ Real-life stories, surreal insights, and soul-searching questions. 
  Meet the yogi hidden in your nervous system, 
  Decode the ghost data shaping your identity. 
  And answer the only question that matters now: 
  If your mind’s been outsourced to machines… 
  what’s left of you? 
  This is not self-help. This is self-awakening. 
  (Warning: Once remembered, you can’t go back.) 
  ABOUT THE AUTHOR 
  Hardik Goel has spent over a decade wrangling data by day and words by caffeine-fueled night. By trade, he’s a data engineer and scientist, by temperament. a writer, editor, and part-time overthinker with an eye for patterns—whether in code, conversation, or comic coincidence. 
  This book is what happens when spreadsheets meet Sanskrit, and logic makes a late-night deal with mythology.

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