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  The Assassination of New York

  Robert Fitch

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  The story of how the richest city in the world became one of the poorest in North America, with a new introduction by Peter Kwong How did New York City come to be a network of steel towers, banks, and nail salons, with chain drugstores on every block—a place where, increasingly, no one can afford to live except the lords of Wall Street and foreign billionaires, and where more and more of the Big Apple’s best-loved businesses have closed their doors? It didn’t start with Michael Bloomberg—or with Robert Moses. As Robert Fitch meticulously demonstrates in this eye-opening book, the planning to assassinate New York began a century ago, as the city’s very richest few—the Morgans, the Mellons, and especially the Rockefellers—looked for ways to maximize the value of their real estate by pushing Gotham’s vibrant and astonishingly varied manufacturing sector out of town, and with it, the city’s working class.The Assassination of New York attacks a Goliath-like enemy: the real-estate developers who maintain a stranglehold on the city’s most valuable commodity. Their efforts to increase land value by replacing low-rent workers and factories with high-rent professionals and office buildings was one of the single most decisive factors in the city’s downturn. In the 1980s the number of real-estate vacancies eclipsed that of the fiscal crisis of the 1970s. In September of 1992 there was a staggering twenty-five million square feet of empty office space. Are the city’s problems fixable? How will the future of New York play out through the twenty-first century? Fitch comes up with solutions, from saving jobs to promoting economic diversity to rebuilding the crumbling infrastructure. But it will take vision and hard work to restore New York to what it once was while creating a new and better home for coming generations.

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  Quantum Physcis for Beginners -...

  Darrell Ason

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  Want to learn about the basics of quantum physics and impress your friends at cocktail parties with some “big brain” trivia about some of history’s greatest scientific minds? Think you could be a theoretical physicist, but you need to brush up on your knowledge of relativity first? Want to carry a book on the subway that will make your fellow passengers think you’re totally sophisticated? Great! Then Quantum Physics for Beginners is the book for you. Explore the field of quantum physics from its infancy through its bright future with topics like: . Special and general relativity. The nature of classical physics v. quantum physics. What the heck is a quantum, anyway? . Discovery of the atom and development of atomic models. Early experiments and research that changed the face of science forever. The photoelectric effect . Wave-particle duality . Schrödinger’s contributions to physics (and his famous cats!). The life and works of Albert Einstein, including his 1905 ‘Miracle Year’. The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle . The Einstein-Bohr debates. Practical applications of quantum physics through the decades. Electromagnetic and gravitational waves. Unified field theory. And much more! Lastly, you’ll take a journey through today’s practical applications of quantum mechanics, chemistry, and physics to look at the future of clean energy, space travel, and medicine. You’ll also be given a peek at the theoretical side of modern quantum physics and learn about the work that scientists are doing to make the impossible possible. Quantum Physics for Beginners will whet your appetite for studying how the world works and jog your brain into thinking about everything around you in a whole new way!Buy now to get started today!

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  Google Cloud Cookbook -...

  Rui Costa, Drew Hodun

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  Get quick hands-on experience with Google Cloud. This cookbook provides a variety of self-contained recipes that show you how to use Google Cloud services for your enterprise application. Whether you're looking for practical ways to apply microservices, AI, analytics, security, or networking solutions, these recipes take you step-by-step through the process and provide discussions that explain how and why the recipes work.Ideal for system engineers and administrators, developers, network and database administrators, and data analysts, this cookbook helps you get started with Google Cloud regardless of your level of experience. Google veterans Rui Costa and Drew Hodun also cover advanced-level Google Cloud services for those who have appreciable experience with the platform.With this book, you'll learn how to get started with Google Cloud; understand the depth of services Google Cloud provides; gain hands-on experience using practical examples and labs; explore topics that include BigQuery, Cloud Run, and Kubernetes; build and run mobile and web applications on Google Cloud; examine ways to build your cloud applications for scale; build a minimum viable product (MVP) app to use in production; and learn data platform and pipeline skills.

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  Secrets Of Hypnosis The - You...

  Empowered Living

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  If you’re finally ready to overcome your chronic health problems… break free from alchohol, tobacco, or illegal drug addictions (without expensive treatment)… lose weight... or simply reduce stress: naturally, without drugs… then hypnosis may be the answer you have been looking for! 
  You Can Experience Freedom From Stress, Anxiety, and Pain and Find The Power To Overcome Destructive Bad Habits. 
  Have you had a problem that was beyond your capacity to fix? Drinking or smoking too much, constant worry and fearful thoughts, or even surprisingly violent or hostile behavior toward others? 
  Don't feel bad, almost everyone has had similar experiences at some point or another. 
  But you don't have to live with "unsolvable problems". 
  Hypnosis holds the key to overcoming your personal obstacles, even if you have tried other remedies that didn't work. 
  Learning how to make your unconscious mind work for you instead of against you is one of the best gifts you could ever give yourself, and if you're willing to spend a little time in learning a few hypnosis secrets, you can learn how to create the life you always wanted in far less time than you ever imagined! 
  By skillfully applying a few simple hypnosis principles, you can find the power to create exactly the life you've always dreamed of and avoid failing like so many times before. 
  With some expert help to guide you, you too can learn the secrets to self improvement with hypnosis. 
  Now's your chance to finally discover everything you want to know about living a healthier, more fulfilling life through hypnosis and radically change your life.

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  Start Your Farm - The...

  Forrest Pritchard, Ellen Polishuk

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  Do you dream of starting your own farm but wonder where to begin? Or do you already have a farm but wish to become more sustainable to compete in today's market? Start Your Farm, the first comprehensive business guide of its kind, covers these essential questions and more:Why be a farmer in the 21st century? Do you have what it takes?What does sustainable really mean, and how can a small (as little as one acre) to midsize farm survive alongside commodity-scale agriculture?How do you access education, land, and other needs with limited capital?How can you reap an actual profit, including a return on land investment?How do you build connections with employees, colleagues, and customers?At the end of the day, how do you measure success? (Hint: Cash your lifestyle paycheck.) 
  More than a practical guide, Start Your Farm is a hopeful call to action for anyone who aspires to grow wholesome, environmentally sustainable food for a living. Take it from Forrest Pritchard and Ellen Polishuk: Making this dream a reality is not for the faint of heart, but it's well within reach—and there's no greater satisfaction under the sun!

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  Down to the Wire - Confronting...

  David W. Orr

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  Down to the Wire is a sober and eloquent assessment of climate destabilization and an urgent call to action. David Orr describes how political negligence, an economy based on the insatiable consumption of trivial goods, and a disdain for the well-being of future generations have brought us to the tipping point that biologist Edward O. Wilson calls "the bottleneck." Due to our refusal to live within natural limits, we now face a long emergency of rising temperatures, rising sea-levels, and a host of other related problems that will increasingly undermine human civilization. Climate destabilization to which we are already committed will change everything, and to those betting on quick technological fixes or minor adjustments to the way we live now, Down to the Wire is a major wake-up call. But this is not a doomsday book. 
  Orr offers a wide range of pragmatic, far-reaching proposals—some of which have already been adopted by the Obama administration—for how we might reconnect public policy with rigorous science, bring our economy into alignment with ecological realities, and begin to regard ourselves as planetary trustees for future generations. He offers inspiring real-life examples of people already responding to the major threat to our future.

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