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  A Book of Noises - Notes on...

  Caspar Henderson

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  Sound shapes our world in invisible but profound ways, and here Caspar Henderson brings his characteristic curiosity, knowledge and sense of wonder to the subject to take us on an exhilarating journey through the heard universe. 
  A Book of Noises gathers together sounds from the cosmos, the natural world, the human world, and the invented world, and contains quiet pockets of silence. From the vast sound of sand in the desert to the tuneful warble of a songbird, to the meditative resonance of a temple bell and the improvisational melodies of jazz, this is a celebration of all things auricular. 
  The preface is read by Cerys Matthews, and the rest of the book by the author

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  CLIMATE - How Wladimir Koppen...

  Darcy Pattison

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  2026 Best STEM Book – NSTA/CBC 
  2026 NSSTA Notable Social Studies Book 
  “A visually evocative and mentally stimulating introduction to a climatologist.” Kirkus Reviews 
    
  Before kids can understand climate change—first, they need to understand climate. 
    
  As a teenager, Wladimir Köppen became interested how the landscape changed as he traveled south from St. Petersburg on the Baltic Sea in northern Russia to Crimea on the Black Sea. Explaining that changing landscape became his life’s work. 
    
  In late 1800s, weather and climates were poorly understood. They needed someone to study it carefully over a long period of time. Köppen moved to Hamburg, Germany as head weatherman at the Deutsche Seewarte, the German Marine Observatory on the Baltic Sea. His job was to start one of the world’s first daily weather reports. He helped set up weather stations on the North Sea and train its staff. From around the world, he gathered other weather data. 
    
  The World’s First Climate Map 
  Slowly, that childhood problem of changing landscapes came into focus as he developed the world’s first climate map. They set out the five climate classifications Köppen identified (tropical, arid, temperate, continental, and polar). Köppen’s maps are still used today to help us understand the world’s ecosystems and plan for the future. 
   

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  Pickaxe Principles - Thriving in...

  Simon Moritz

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  
  Feeling lost in the AI Gold Rush? You’re not alone—and you're not too late. 
  That feeling cuts across every role—from entrepreneurs and executives to intrapreneurs and parents guiding the next generation. The good news? We don’t have to chase every shiny tool. We can dig deeper, together. 
  Pickaxe Principles is an essential toolkit for courageous, value-driven leadership in the age of AI and the Fourth Industrial Revolution. 
  Written by innovation architect Simon Moritz—who helped launch Sweden’s first autonomous 5G bus and co-architected the national Drive Sweden Innovation Cloud, bringing together industry, government, and academia to shape the future—this book blends real-world experience with timeless truths. It’s an invitation to ask the big questions together: 
  How do we create real value in an AI-driven world? 
  How do we stay relevant—without losing our humanity? 
  Where do we begin when everything is constantly changing? 
  Packed with real stories, collaborative strategies, and 24 Karat Takeaways, this book delivers golden insights to guide our next steps. 
  Complete with diagrams, tools, and leadership frameworks, it offers a clear starting point—no matter our role or industry. 
  Inside, we’ll explore how to: 
  Discover the signals in the noise 
  Build ecosystems that bridge silos and spark trust 
  Turn complexity into collaboration 
  Lead with courage and long-term vision 
  Unearth the gold in people and teams 
  This isn’t just about keeping up. 
  It’s about digging deep—together. 
  There’s gold in people. 
  There’s gold in you. 
  The pickaxe is our mindset. 
  And the best time to dig is now. 
  Grab your pickaxe—let’s create a future worth striving for.

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  Why AI Undermines Democracy and...

  Mark Coeckelbergh

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  Across the world, AI is used as a tool for political manipulation and totalitarian repression. Stories about AI are often stories of polarization, discrimination, surveillance, and oppression. Is democracy in danger? And can we do anything about it? 
   
     
   
  In this compelling and balanced book, Mark Coeckelbergh reveals the key risks posed by AI for democracy. He argues that AI, as currently used and developed, undermines fundamental principles on which liberal democracies are founded, such as freedom and equality. How can we make democracy more resilient in the face of AI? And, more positively, what can AI do for democracy? Coeckelbergh advocates not only for more democratic technologies, but also for new political institutions and a renewal of education to ensure that AI promotes, rather than hinders, the common good for the twenty-first century. 
   
    
   
  Why AI Undermines Democracy and What to Do About It is a must-listen for anyone who is concerned about the fate of democracy.

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  The Palestine Laboratory - How...

  Antony Loewenstein

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  ** Winner of the 2023 Walkley Book Award for Non-fiction Journalism ** 
  ** Shortlisted for the 2023 Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing ** 
  Israel’s military industrial complex uses the occupied, Palestinian territories as a testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technology that they then export around the world to despots and democracies. For more than 50 years, occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has given the Israeli state invaluable experience in controlling an “enemy” population, the Palestinians. It’s here that they have perfected the architecture of control. 
   
  Best-selling journalist Antony Loewenstein, author of Disaster Capitalism, uncovers this largely hidden world in a global investigation with secret documents, revealing interviews and on-the-ground reporting. This book shows in-depth, for the first time, how Palestine has become the perfect laboratory for the Israeli military-techno complex: surveillance, home demolitions, indefinite incarceration and brutality to the hi-tech tools that drive the 'Start-up Nation'. From the Pegasus software that hacked Jeff Bezos' and Jamal Khashoggi’s phones, the weapons sold to the Myanmar army that has murdered thousands of Rohingyas and drones used by the European Union to monitor refugees in the Mediterranean who are left to drown.  
  Israel has become a global leader in spying technology and defence hardware that fuels the globe’s most brutal conflicts. As ethno-nationalism grows in the 21st century, Israel has built the ultimate model. 
  “A sad and sordid record of how "the light unto the nations" became the purveyor of the means of violence and brutal repression from Guatemala to Myanmar and wherever else the opportunity arose.” - Noam Chomsky 
  “A sharp exposé of how Israel's suppression of Palestine has translated into lucrative anti-terrorist systems that the Israeli government exports globally...[An] eye-opening delineation of the alarming ramifications of Israel's status as an 'ethnonationalist state.” - Kirkus Reviews

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  The Wolverine Way

  Douglas H. Chadwick, Rick Ridgeway

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  Glutton, demon of destruction, symbol of slaughter, mightiest of wilderness villains . . . The wolverine comes marked with a reputation based on myth and fancy. Yet this enigmatic animal is more complex than the legends that surround it. With a shrinking wilderness and global warming, the future of the wolverine is uncertain. The Wolverine Way reveals the natural history of this species and the forces that threaten its future, engagingly told by Douglas Chadwick, who volunteered with the Glacier Wolverine Project. This five-year study in Glacier National Park—which involved dealing with blizzards, grizzlies, sheer mountain walls, and other daily challenges to survival—uncovered key missing information about the wolverine's habitat, social structure, and reproduction habits. Wolverines, according to Chadwick, are the land equivalent of polar bears in regard to the impacts of global warming. The plight of wolverines adds to the call for wildlife corridors that connect existing habitat that is proposed by the Freedom to Roam coalition.

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