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  Microscopic Worlds - Unseen...

  Mike Crawford

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  Microscopic Worlds: Unseen Forces of Nature invites readers into the hidden realms of biology where the smallest organisms wield massive influence over life on Earth. This enlightening 3-in-1 volume explores three essential branches of microbiology—Virology, Bacteriology, and Mycology—each revealing a different facet of microscopic life and its impact on ecosystems, health, and the natural world. 
  The first section, Virology, examines the mysterious world of viruses—microscopic agents that exist on the edge of life. Readers will learn how viruses invade cells, replicate, and evolve, as well as how they have shaped human history through pandemics and medical breakthroughs. From bacteriophages to coronaviruses, this section explores the vital role viruses play in both disease and genetic innovation. 
  In Bacteriology, readers delve into the diverse and adaptable world of bacteria. This section unpacks how these single-celled organisms are responsible for everything from infections to fermentation. It also explores the balance bacteria maintain in ecosystems and within the human body, such as in the gut microbiome, and how they are utilized in biotechnology and medicine. 
  The final section, Mycology, focuses on fungi, a unique kingdom of organisms often overlooked due to their microscopic size or hidden nature. Mycology reveals the fascinating roles fungi play in decomposition, nutrient cycling, symbiosis with plants, and even medical therapies. Readers will explore everything from mold and yeast to the complex structures of fungal networks in soil. 
  Together, these three disciplines offer a powerful perspective on the invisible but essential forces that govern life at a microscopic scale. Microscopic Worlds is ideal for science enthusiasts, biology students, or anyone curious about the organisms that shape our lives without ever being seen.

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  Human + Machine Updated and...

  H. James Wilson, Paul R. Daugherty

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  AI—including generative AI—is radically transforming business. Are you ready? Accenture technology leaders Paul Daugherty and Jim Wilson provide crucial insights and advice to help you meet the challenge. 
   
   
   
  In this updated and expanded edition of Human + Machine—including a new chapter on gen AI—Daugherty and Wilson show that the essence of the AI paradigm shift is the transformation of all business processes within an organization, whether related to breakthrough innovation, everyday customer service, or personal productivity habits. As humans and smart machines collaborate ever more closely, work processes become more fluid and adaptive, enabling companies to change them on the fly—or completely reimagine them. 
   
   
   
  Based on the authors' experience and research with fifteen hundred organizations, the book reveals how companies are using the new rules of AI to leap ahead on innovation and profitability and what you can do to achieve similar results. It describes six entirely new types of hybrid human + machine roles that every company must develop, and it includes a "leader's guide" with the five crucial principles required to become an AI-fueled business.

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  Good Grief - On Loving Pets Here...

  E.B. Bartels

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  An unexpected, poignant, and personal account of loving and losing pets, exploring the singular bonds we have with our companion animals, and how to grieve them once they’ve passed. 
  E.B. Bartels has had a lot of pets—dogs, birds, fish, tortoises. As varied a bunch as they are, they’ve taught her one universal truth: to own a pet is to love a pet, and to own a pet is also—with rare exception—to lose that pet in time. 
  But while we have codified traditions to mark the passing of our fellow humans, most cultures don’t have the same for pets. Bartels takes us from Massachusetts to Japan, from ancient Egypt to the modern era, in search of the good pet death. We meet veterinarians, archaeologists, ministers, and more, offering an idiosyncratic, inspiring array of rituals—from the traditional (scattering ashes, commissioning a portrait), to the grand (funereal processions, mausoleums), to the unexpected (taxidermy, cloning). The central lesson: there is no best practice when it comes to mourning your pet, except to care for them in death as you did in life, and find the space to participate in their end as fully as you can. 
  Punctuated by wry, bighearted accounts of Bartels’s own pets and their deaths, Good Grief is a cathartic companion through loving and losing our animal family. 
  Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

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  Reimagining The Divine - A...

  Dara Molloy

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  The globalised belief in one ‘God’ has become a problem. The prayer ‘Our Father in heaven’ presents an image that embodies the values of uniformity, exclusivity, patriarchy, authoritarianism and the absence of a sacred presence in nature. 
    
  Here on earth, the climate and biodiversity emergencies foreshadow an apocalyptic future for humans and all life forms. To confront and resolve these emergencies, we need to apply values contrary to the ‘Father God’ image. The important values today include: diversity, inclusivity, gender justice, democracy and a recognition of the sacredness of nature. 
    
  Can we find new spiritual images and narratives that embody these values? This book suggests we can. 
    
  Reimagining the Divine is a call for diversity in belief. No religion has a monopoly of truth. Everyone’s experience and perspective has merit. 
    
  The Spirituality of Experience is a form of mysticism that incorporates these new values. Practiced historically by Celtic monks, it focuses on one’s personal experience of the sacred, and not on beliefs or a creed. 
  If your vision for the future is 
  ·     The return of humans to harmony with the rest of nature 
  ·     The building of a world community that is tolerant and inclusive 
  ·     Finding a way of living on this planet that corrects the human causes of climate change and biodiversity loss 
  then this book may help you, and all of us, get there.

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  TechnoLeaders: Steps to Enhance...

  Tom Henricksen

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  Leading teams of technology professionals takes a mix of leadership and technical understanding. In this book we will step you through the process of how you can take your technology position and become a leader in your field.

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  Fragmented - A Doctor's Quest to...

  MD Ilana Yurkiewicz

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  There's an unspoken assumption when we go to see a doctor: the doctor knows our medical story and is making decisions based on that story. But reality often falls short. Medical records vanish when we switch doctors. Critical details of life-saving treatment plans get lost in muddled electronic charts. The doctors we see change according to specialty, hospital shifts, or an insurer's whims. 
   
    
   
  In this gripping narrative from medicine's front lines, Ilana Yurkiewicz reveals how a system that doesn't talk to itself puts insupportable burdens on physicians, patients, and caregivers. The stories she tells are at once harrowing and commonplace. A patient narrowly averts an unnecessary, invasive heart procedure by producing a worn rhythm strip he has carried in his pocket for a decade. A man diagnosed with leukemia while visiting from abroad has thirty-one physicians, but no one he can call "his" doctor, with tragic consequences. When Yurkiewicz's own father falls ill, a culture that incentivizes health care providers to react with quick fixes leads to weeks of additional suffering. 
   
   
   
  The system is hanging by a thread, and we need better solutions. Yurkiewicz issues a clear-eyed call for change, naming concrete reforms doctors and policymakers can make, and empowering patients and their loved ones to advocate for themselves in the meantime.

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