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  Deforestation - The Silent...

  Marcus Klein

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  Forests are among the Earth’s most precious resources, spanning vast landscapes and serving as critical lifelines for countless species, including humanity. Their towering trees and dense undergrowth form a complex ecosystem that sustains biodiversity, provides essential resources, and regulates the natural processes that make life possible. Yet, beneath this quiet resilience, forests face an ongoing crisis. The relentless clearing of these vital ecosystems, known as deforestation, has become one of the greatest threats to our planet’s delicate balance.  
    
  Deforestation is the systematic removal of forested areas for purposes such as agriculture, logging, mining, and urban development. While forests have been cleared throughout history to make way for human settlements and progress, the scale of destruction in modern times far surpasses anything seen before. Once regarded as boundless, forests are now disappearing at a rate that defies imagination. Landscapes that took centuries to form can be leveled in days, leaving behind scars that may take generations to heal—if they ever do.  
    
  Forests are far more than clusters of trees; they are intricate systems where every plant, animal, and microorganism plays a role in sustaining life. When a forest is lost, its inhabitants—many of which are found nowhere else on Earth—are left without refuge. Fragile ecosystems collapse, species are driven toward extinction, and the harmony that once thrived among living organisms begins to unravel. But the consequences extend far beyond the forest’s borders. Rivers dry up as watersheds lose their protective canopies, soils erode without the roots that once anchored them, and communities dependent on forests for food, medicine, and shelter face an uncertain future. 

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  AI Money Manager - How to Use...

  Andrew Miller

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Most people know they should budget, save, and invest. What stops them is not willpower—it is not having a system that actually works for their specific numbers and their specific life. 
   
  AI Money Manager is the practical guide to using ChatGPT as a personal finance partner for budgeting, saving, debt elimination, and smarter investing—without paying for a financial advisor, without complicated spreadsheets, and without the generic advice that never quite fits your situation. This audiobook shows you how to turn one of the most accessible AI tools in the world into a custom financial system built around your actual income, expenses, and goals. 
  Inside this audiobook you will learn how to use ChatGPT to build a personalized budget that reflects your real spending patterns and stops the leaks that drain your account every month, how to create an AI-powered savings strategy with specific targets, timelines, and automatic checkpoints that keep you on track, how to use ChatGPT to build a debt payoff plan that accounts for your interest rates, minimum payments, and available cash flow, how to ask ChatGPT the right questions about investing so you can make informed decisions about index funds, retirement accounts, and portfolio allocation, how to use AI to analyze your financial data, identify patterns, and surface opportunities you would never spot manually, how to set up a monthly financial review system with ChatGPT that keeps your plan current as your life changes, and how to use AI prompts to prepare for major financial decisions including large purchases, job changes, and retirement planning. 
   
  Your money does not need a miracle. It needs a system. This audiobook gives you one.

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  Data Science on AWS - Leveraging...

  Saimon Carrie

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  "Data Science on AWS: Leveraging AWS for Advanced Data Science Solutions" is an essential guide for data scientists, analysts, and IT professionals looking to harness the robust capabilities of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to elevate their data science projects. This comprehensive resource dives deep into the intricacies of deploying and managing scalable data science applications, ensuring readers are equipped to fully leverage the power of AWS. 
  In this book, you will explore the vast array of services AWS offers to support every phase of a data science project, from data ingestion and storage with services like Amazon S3 and DynamoDB, to advanced analytics with Amazon SageMaker. Each chapter provides detailed explanations of these services, coupled with practical examples and tutorials that guide you through integrating these tools into your own projects. 
  Key features of the book include:An in-depth look at AWS's infrastructure, exploring how it can be customized to suit unique data science needs and workflows.Practical tutorials on using Amazon SageMaker for building, training, and deploying machine learning models more efficiently.Strategies for managing and scaling data science applications without the overhead of managing infrastructure.Insights into achieving cost efficiency through AWS’s pay-as-you-go pricing model.Discussions on ensuring data security and compliance with AWS's robust security framework. 
  Whether you're a beginner looking to get a running start in the world of cloud-based data science, or an experienced practitioner aiming to optimize your workflows, "Data Science on AWS" provides the expertise and real-world advice you need to innovate and excel in developing cutting-edge data solutions. Join the ranks of data professionals who are transforming the industry by leveraging the unmatched speed, scalability, and flexibility of AWS. 
   

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  Online Harms and Cybertrauma -...

  Catherine Knibbs

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  This vital, sensitive guide explains the serious issues children face online and how they are impacted by them on a developmental, neurological, social, mental health, and well-being level. Covering technologies used by children aged two through to adulthood, it offers parents and professionals clear, evidence-based information about online harms and their effects and what they can do to support their child. 
   
   
   
  Catherine Knibbs, specialist advisor in the field, explains the issues involved when using online platforms and devices in family, social and educational settings. Examined in as non-traumatizing a way as possible, the book covers key topics, including cyberbullying; cyberstalking; pornography; online grooming; sexting; live streaming; vigilantism; suicide and self-harm; trolling and e-harassment; bantz, doxing, and social media hacking; dares, trends, and life-threatening activities; information and misinformation; and psychological games. 
   
   
   
  Online Harms and Cybertrauma will equip professionals and parents with the knowledge to support their work and direct conversations about the online harms that young people face. It is essential for those training and working with children in psychological, educational, and social work contexts, as well as parents, policy makers, and those involved in development of online technologies.

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  Bitten - The Secret History of...

  Kris Newby

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  A riveting thriller reminiscent of The Hot Zone, this true story dives into the mystery surrounding one of the most controversial and misdiagnosed conditions of our time—Lyme disease—and of Willy Burgdorfer, the man who discovered the microbe behind it, revealing his secret role in developing bug-borne biological weapons, and raising terrifying questions about the genesis of the epidemic of tick-borne diseases affecting millions of Americans today. 
   
  While on vacation on Martha’s Vineyard, Kris Newby was bitten by an unseen tick. That one bite changed her life forever, pulling her into the abyss of a devastating illness that took ten doctors to diagnose and years to recover: Newby had become one of the 300,000 Americans who are afflicted with Lyme disease each year. 
  As a science writer, she was driven to understand why this disease is so misunderstood, and its patients so mistreated. This quest led her to Willy Burgdorfer, the Lyme microbe’s discoverer, who revealed that he had developed bug-borne bioweapons during the Cold War, and believed that the Lyme epidemic was started by a military experiment gone wrong. 
  In a superb, meticulous work of narrative journalism, Bitten takes readers on a journey to investigate these claims, from biological weapons facilities to interviews with biosecurity experts and microbiologists doing cutting-edge research, all the while uncovering darker truths about Willy. It also leads her to uncomfortable questions about why Lyme can be so difficult to both diagnose and treat, and why the government is so reluctant to classify chronic Lyme as a disease. 
  A gripping, infectious page-turner, Bitten will shed a terrifying new light on an epidemic that is exacting an incalculable toll on us, upending much of what we believe we know about it.

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  IGNOU PGDCA First Semester...

  Manish Soni

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  The Book has been carefully curated to serve as an essential resource for students enrolled in the Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications (PGDCA) program at IGNOU. This book is a comprehensive compilation of previous years' theory papers for all Semester 1 subjects, designed to offer students a practical and thorough preparation tool for their exams. 
  The PGDCA program is known for its rigorous curriculum, covering fundamental and advanced topics in computer science, programming, software development, and applications. With the growing demand for skilled professionals in the field of information technology, this diploma equips students with the knowledge and skills required to excel in the industry. However, mastering the concepts and successfully navigating through the examinations is no easy feat, and that is where this book aims to assist. The primary goal of this book is to help students gain a deeper understanding of the core subjects taught in Semester 1 of the PGDCA program. By providing access to unsolved theory papers from previous years, this book serves as a valuable tool for students to practice and refine their problem-solving skills, improve their understanding of key concepts, and become familiar with the format and structure of the IGNOU examinations.

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