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  Digital Horizons - Where...

  DemystifyTech

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  Digital Horizons: Where Technology Ends and Humanity Begins 
  Step into a mind-bending journey through tomorrow's technological landscape with "Digital Horizons," a groundbreaking five-part audio series that explores the profound ways emerging technologies are reshaping what it means to be human. Unlike conventional tech podcasts, this series weaves together cutting-edge research, expert insights, and compelling narratives to paint a vivid picture of our possible futures. 
  Each episode blends narrative storytelling with expert interviews, soundscaping, and immersive audio elements to create a rich, multifaceted exploration of our technological future. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, a concerned citizen, or simply curious about where humanity is heading, "Digital Horizons" offers an enlightening and thought-provoking journey into tomorrow's world. 
  Featuring insights from leading researchers, Silicon Valley pioneers, policy makers, and philosophers, this series goes beyond the headlines to ask fundamental questions about technology's role in human evolution. What happens when technology becomes inseparable from human consciousness? How do we preserve human agency in an algorithmic world? Where does authentic experience end and synthetic reality begin? 
  Join us for this extraordinary exploration of humanity's digital horizon, where every episode challenges your assumptions and expands your understanding of what's possible—and what's at stake—in our technological future.

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  The Meaning Of Trees - The...

  Robert Vennell

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  The history and use of New Zealand's native plants 
    
  A guide and gift book in equal measure, this treasure of a book pays homage to New Zealand's native plant species. 
  The Meaning of Trees tells the story of plants and people in Aotearoa New Zealand. Beautifully illustrated with botanical drawings, paintings and photographs, it shows us how a globally unique flora has been used for food, medicine, shelter, spirituality and science. From Jurassic giants to botanical oddballs - these are our wonderful native and endemic plants, in an exquisite hardback edition. 
  Praise for The Meaning of Trees: 
  'Robert Vennell makes wandering through our bush seem like a visit to a giant shopping centre. Over there is the kawakawa store, offering everything from an aphrodisiac to a gonorrhoea cure. Next door is the tutu cafe, where you can enjoy delicious wine or a refreshing laxative (though the seeds are deadly). On the top floor is the matai bar, where the berries aren't to everyone's taste, but the bushman's beer is great. And round the corner is the miro health centre. Every plant has a story and the result is delightfully informative.'  
  Jim Eagles, Canvas  
  HarperCollins Australia 2025

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  On Time - Causality and the...

  Jan Zaanen

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  This text revolves around a new and unusual view on the most fundamental puzzle of physics. It focusses on the key aspect that makes the role of the time dimension fundamentally different: causality. The implicit and intuitive way by which causality is usually taken for granted is just made explicit and less self-evident, shedding a new light on the gravity-quantum conflict. The case is made that gravity is a necessary condition for a causal universe. But upon turning to the "pure" unitary quantum physics explaining the nature of matter one is dealing with the strictly a-causal time expressed through the thermal quantum field theory machinery. When this a-causal microscopic and causal macroscopic world meet, one encounters the wavefunction collapse, that itself may be rooted in the quantum-gravity conflict. Modern ideas are discussed resting on eigenstate thermalization showing how this may lie eventually at the origin of irreversible thermodynamics. The case is anchored in the sophisticated modern mathematical machinery of both general relativity and quantum physics which is normally barely disseminated beyond the theoretical physics floors. 
   
   
   
  The book is unique in the regard that the consequences of this machinery are explained in an original, descriptive language conveying the conceptual consequences while avoiding mathematical technicalities.

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  The Evolution of Software...

  Sophia Wilson

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  "The Evolution of Software Development Methodologies: Navigating the Paths of Creation: An Overview of Software Development Methodologies," gives a comprehensive review of the tactics, procedures, and inventions that have pushed forward software development. This book explores the change in the development of software: from very structured and systematic approaches to flexible and dynamic frameworks characteristic of contemporary software development. This research book focuses on five in-depth chapters, discussing the turning points in this evolution. It starts at the origin of programming, when the fundamental concepts of computation and first coding languages emerged.  
  Then, the birth of structured models is covered with attention to the function of the Waterfall technique, creating methodical, sequential development processes. The discussion then moves on to the transition to Agile practices, where cooperative, iterative techniques transformed teams' approaches toward software projects. Hybrid models such as DevOps are also discussed in meeting some organizational objectives by combining conventional and contemporary methodologies. The new trends include AI-driven techniques and international team collaboration, where there is an extension beyond traditional frameworks.  
  Blending historical analysis, real-world applications, and futuristic viewpoints, this book caters to students, software professionals, and tech enthusiasts alike. It sheds light on the advantages, disadvantages, and breakthroughs of each methodology, thereby emphasizing how flexibility plays a critical role in a fast-changing technological environment. Whether you want to upgrade your know-how in the software development field or understand the challenges of developing software in today's fast-moving world, this book is priceless as a source of learning on the development of methodologies that power digital innovation.

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  The Corfu Trilogy - My Family...

  Gerald Durrell

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  National Bestseller: The complete trilogy that inspired Masterpiece production The Durrells in Corfu in one volume. The tales of a naturalist and his family, who left England for the Greek island of Corfu—where they interacted with fascinating locals of both human and animal varieties—these memoirs have become beloved bestsellers and inspired the delightful series that aired on PBS television.   Included in this three-book collection are:  My Family and Other Animals: Ten-year-old Gerald Durrell arrives on sun-drenched Corfu with this family and pursues his interest in natural history, making friends with the island’s fauna—from toads and tortoises to scorpions and geckos—while reveling in the joyous chaos of growing up in an unconventional household.  Birds, Beasts and Relatives: Written after a boyhood spent studying zoology, this memoir is part nature guide, part coming-of-age tale, and all charmingly funny memoir.  The Garden of the Gods: In the conclusion of the trilogy, Durrell shares more tales of wild animals and his even wilder family, including his mother, Louisa, and his siblings Lawrence, Leslie, and Margo, in the years before World War II.   “[Durrell’s] books have an unfailing charm. . . . It is a tribute to his skill that one never tires of his accounts” (Chicago Tribune).  This ebook features an illustrated biography of Gerald Durrell including rare photos from the author’s estate.  

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  The Atlas of Deadly Plants -...

  Jane Perrone, Dr Sarah E Edwards

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  Poisonous plants have intrigued and beguiled humans throughout history, and this book will take readers on a world tour of 50 of the most toxic and fascinating species of plants and fungi.  
  This book will display intricate illustrations and include information on the toxic effects of each plant, peppered with stories of some of the world’s most high-profile poison cases. Discover how we have harnessed the power of some of the planet’s deadliest plants to create cutting-edge medicines, and how others have been used for centuries for recreational and ritual purposes.  
  This riveting book sheds light on the most infamously poisonous plants our Earth has to offer, and their often detrimental effects. This luxuruiously illustrated volume blends gorgeous artwork and botanical science to reveal the interesting nature of these sinister sproutings. Ideal for curious gardeners and enthusiasts of the radical, natural world The Atlas of Deadly Plants serves as a cautionary guidebook and a clever celebration of the dark side of botany. An absolute must-read for the gardeners and ‘PlantMoms’ alike! 

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